The Coffee Shop in a Different World Station

Ten Big News and Summer Desserts (Part I)

"Good evening again. How have you been?

The final flight arrives and Takumi returns to the coffee shop 'Tsubame' after completing the final inspection of the station building. Towards the early summer the day is completely longer and the sky still remains the brightness of day. The 'swordfish', which is usually completely quiet, were welcoming customers specially today.

"Mr. Sophia, we're out of time. We live safely thanks to you."

"It's been a while! In the meantime, you brought your coffee!

Along with Takumi, Nyachi, who brought the coffee, also speaks up. Sophia, sitting in her seat near the counter, thanked Nyarch and received her coffee. Putting the cup closer to his mouth. First, he enjoyed the fragrance. Then, after a stiff sip, he continued his breath for a long time.

"I knew the coffee here was delicious... and it wasn't if you were calm. It's quick... could there have been a newspaper here?

"Yeah, of course there is. When do you need one?

"Then could you bring me today's share?

"I don't know! Nyarch's gonna get it!

Nyarch rushes to the counter with his right hand on his forehead in a salute position. The coffee shop, Swallow, puts newspapers and magazines on the rack by the counter so that customers can read them. Nyarch, when he took the newspaper out of the rack, returned to a glance and handed it to Sofia.

"It's today's newspaper!

"Thank you, Nyarch. Uh... yeah, this is it."

When Sophia spreads the newspaper she receives from Nyarch onto the table, she turns perky and searches out one article. Takumi peeks into that article and says, 'Mark City Exposition, coming soon!' It said.

"You also support my place at this Mark City Expo, and you have the right to have it exhibited. So, if you're going to exhibit anyway, I want to surprise everyone. So, I'm not sure I can do that because I'm going to be able to put a certain thing into practice in time. So, there's a prototype of it in here..."

Sophia points her finger at a crate large enough to hold it in with both hands placed at her feet. When the train arrived, Takumi kept it and brought it in. When Takumi opened the lid by removing the nail that had been struck on the lid of the crate, there was a lot of crumb-like powder inside. Takumi asks Sophia with her neck clenched.

"Do you mean this powder?

Sophia pretends in front of her face that she is not, and returns the words.

"It's in there, put your hands in it and explore it."

Takumi nods her hand in the powder placed in the box, as Sofia tells her. The powder in the box was perfectly wet and the cold feeling in my hands came through my hands. It's unexplainable cold just because it's wet. Takumi thought it might be… and when he stuck his hand in the crumb at once, he removed a large white mass from the inside.

"Isn't this ice!

Unexpectedly, Takumi shouts a surprise. Indeed, when I gently paid the powder on the chunk I had removed, it was a lump of ice as clear as glass. Takumi can't stand the cold in her hand and inadvertently places ice on the powder in the box. Sophia, who saw Takumi's astonished expression, affirms with great pleasure.

"That's right. Seriously, it's a block of ice? Are you surprised?

"Yeah, I was surprised. But ice…………………"

Takumi, everywhere clear, had slightly melted surfaces and her skin was blinded by wet ice. To the best of Takumi's knowledge, ice was very difficult and valuable in this world. The area, including Harpertown, is rarely as snowy or icy as it is in the winter, especially in the city grounds, due to its warm climate. Therefore, in order to obtain ice, it was necessary to cut it out of the mountains and transport it to the city area during the coldest winter months, and to keep it in a dedicated ice room. Given the cost of cutting it out of the mountains and preparing an ice chamber for storage, only a very small number of people really could get ice in hot summers. It was my first experience since Takumi came to this world to see ice chunks like this.

Nyarch, who was lined up next to Takumi, also stares at the ice with his ears freshly peaned and intriguing.

"Wow, it's beautiful. Hey, can I touch it? Can I touch it?? Can I ask you something??

Takumi hastily appeases to Nyachi's unusual free speech.

"No, you can't. Not until you've taken Sophia's word for it, right? And you shouldn't."

Nyarch mouths his dissatisfaction with Nyarch and an unfortunate voice. Takumi lacked some leeway when she saw something so precious, although she knew it was the usual light mouth. Still, Takumi, who regained a little calm in a series of interactions, gives Nyarch instructions.

"In the meantime, I want you to go to the kitchen and get me a big bat"

Nyarch left a cheerful reply saying that he might be, and ran to the kitchen. Takumi, who dropped it off, turns Sofia again and raises simple questions.

"But by exhibiting this ice at the exposition, what do you mean? It is certainly expensive and unusual…"

Sophia puts her hands on her hips, puts her chest up and answers Takumi's questions instantly, just saying she was waiting.

"What are you hiding, that ice, you just made it today and you're a hoya!

"What, then, is this...?

"Yes, this is a machine made ice using a steam engine. The ice making machine at the steam engine that I was making my investment in is finally complete. With this machine, you can get ice even in the hot summer months."

And Sophia starts explaining to Takumi how the machine works. In Takumi's understanding, it seemed to have the same general principle as "how refrigerators read in learning mandarin in small places”. The only difference was that the power of the apparatus for compressing refrigerants was the steam engine, not the electric motor, and the steam engine, therefore, a very large installation.

Takumi, hearing a full explanation, took Sophia's hand, which was kneeling at the table and assembling on her chest.

"If ice is available even in the summer, I, of course, am all very helpful! It's really great!

Takumi gives Sophia honest thoughts as she waves her hand a boom, trying to get a little excited. Sophia was surprised by Takumi's more than imagined reaction and her cheeks were accidentally dyed red. Oh, I knew he was a good man, and for a moment Sophia thought, a voice sounded from the kitchen that somehow contained the icy cold in front of her, even though she was full of cheer as usual.

"Ugh, my hands are slipping. You shouldn't have avoided it, right?

When Takumi turned around, Nyarch back from the kitchen ”slipped his hand” the bat nearly flew in looking for Takumi. And at the next moment, a slightly tall collision sound called Gakian echoed through the hall of "The Swarm".

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"But hey, the truth is, you don't know how to appeal to me."

Sophia snaps as she stares at the ice placed over the slightly indented bat.

"Funya? Really?

As in tune with Nyarch's question mark, Takumi also pinched his neck while suppressing the back of his head. Sophia goes on with the words.

"Sure, it's a precious item that's hard to come by because it's icy, but in the end I only use it enough to make cold desserts like Ellard (ice cream) and Sorbete (sorbet). Sorbete is delicious in the coming hot weather, but it's not even something to eat that much every day..."

That's how Sophia sighs. Takumi, however, was impatient to open up the intentions of Sofia's words. If ice is easily available, how helpful will it be to preserve ingredients in the coming period......, Takumi hits Sofia with those thoughts.

"Hmmm...... but if you have ice, you will be able to cool and store damaged meat, fish, and dairy products too, so I think it would be very helpful......"

"Huh? What do you mean?

Now Sophia got a question mark. Why is the preservation of ingredients linked to ice? Sophia couldn't swallow Takumi's words and began to roam.

Takumi, who saw how it was, noticed a certain fact all the time. In this world, ice is an unavailable commodity, or 'hobby'. Ice was used by a very limited number of bourgeoisies and upperclassmen for 'One Summer Fun', and its use was very limited. For Takumi, it was common sense, of course, to keep it cold, but for people in "this world”, including Sofia, "using ice to preserve food" was a natural thing, even if it was unexpected.

Takumi, who thought so, began to explain to Sofia, choosing words one by one to make them as easy to understand as possible.

"Eh, it's getting hotter and hotter these days, but meat, fish, and dairy products are going to be really hurtful in the coming period, right?

"Yeah, right. But what's wrong with that?

"One cause of those foods hurting - they rot - is in 'temperatures'. For example, milk can smell tough in the evening even with fresh milk squeezed in the morning in the coming period, but keeping it at high temperatures also means it starts to hurt."

Sophia is listening to Takumi explain, nodding with a serious face. Nyarch, too, was standing side by side with me to hear the explanation. Takumi keeps explaining to the two of them.

"But the cold weather in winter, etc. doesn't make milk smell tough the next day, does it? Temperatures are having a huge impact on these phenomena. So where we used to be, it was common to use ice… or cold air to cool and store ingredients. If you use cold, you can keep it 'raw' for some time."

Sophia nods loudly at Takumi's explanation, I see... Next to it, he raised his voice as if Nyarch had flashed something.

"I knew it! Your husband's talking about the fridge! Your husband, he's always around."

Takumi strokes Nyarch's head pompously with a bitter laugh at Nyarch's words. Then he turned again to Sofia and continued the conversation.

"Well, Nyarch is right. If you're going to exhibit ice, why not appeal to what you can use for this' storage of ingredients'? Refrigerator… I mean, make a box or something like furniture that can be stored using ice cold air, and if you introduce it together, I think you'll all be happy. Sure, I think it was shaped like this when it was the type of refrigerator that uses ice..."

Takumi takes out a piece of paper and writes a square with salad to explain the shape of the refrigerator. Unfortunately, however, Takumi was decidedly poorly painted. Nyarch, who sensed signs that he was going to be able to do a painting that looked like some sort of strange sorcery painting, took the paper from the side.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... I didn't explain it to you because Nyarch draws it!

Takumi leaves it to Nyarch to paint while Batu writes his head badly. Sophia, who was watching the interaction between the two, laughed and watched over Couscous. Nyarch painted it like a footed cabinet imagined slightly higher than the height of his hips. On the top was a small door about a quarter of the height, on the underside of which was a large door.

"In my memory, I think the iced refrigerator was such an upper and lower two-step wooden box. I was wondering if the top and bottom compartments were metal plates or nets, with ice in the top steps and a structure to cool the ingredients in the bottom steps. And I think the inside was covered with a plate of metal like tongue"

Sophia receives from Nyarch a piece of paper with a fridge painting on it, and stares at it. Hmm.

"I see. You don't put it directly on ice, you take advantage of the cold air that ice produces. My craftsman said," The cold air goes downstairs. "

But, Nyarch, you're a good painter. It's very easy to understand. "

Nyarch, thank God! and respond to Sofia in such a way as to be good at it. Takumi coughed lightly before continuing the conversation.

"And then, if the ice melts, the water will come out, so you should need a mechanism to drain it. Nevertheless, I don't remember until how it was happening..."

Sophia gives Takumi an OK sign with her thumbs up.

"How to drain water. I think we can work something out around there. If the convenience of the refrigerator is conveyed so that everyone can store the ingredients in the refrigerator, we'll need a lot of ice, and it looks very interesting as a business."

Takumi takes a sigh of relief that her story has been properly understood.

"As soon as the refrigerator is complete, we would like to adopt it as well. I'd love to."

"Absolutely. Reservation number one accepted. It's just..."

"But?"

Takumi overhears Sofia's reaction.

"Hmm, I don't know, I think it's a great thing, and I'm sure everyone would be happy if the fridge would be the“ eyeball ”of the expo... hey..."

Sophia's point was the best. No matter how good the refrigerator was, it's a kind of vault, something that you can try and experience for the first time. Even if I simply put the meat and fish in side by side, I would put it on the 'look' fun. In other words, the “spectacle” of the exposition lacks impact. Takumi, who understands Sophia's intentions in pointing out, bows her head.

"Really...... No, I'm sorry, I didn't get that far."

To such a takumi, Sofia urges him to look up in haste.

"No, that's perfectly fine. Now that this looks very interesting as a business, I'll let you consider it properly. I got a really good tip."

Takumi takes another breath of relief

"That's more than anything. Well, we'll definitely look forward to it."

and returned the words. Sophia also responds with a smile to Takumi's words.

There is a moment, and Sophia remembers the point. Sophia stared at the newspaper at hand and snapped.

"Um, but then you're shaken out. Is there anything that has an impact for Exposition?

Before waiting for Sophia's words, Takumi also thought of this as she looked up at the ceiling. But before an answer could be given, Nyarch raised his energetic weather voice.

"Not so much this ice, can I eat it before it melts?

Takumi suddenly

"Nyarch, it's not that way now, is it? And ice is a precious commodity. I shouldn't have to."

and appetite.

But Nyarch hasn't lost either. I rebutted this by swelling my cheeks in disgust.

"But you're gonna melt like this anyway. Then I'd like to eat."

No, bear with me, Takumi is thirsty again. Sophia called out to the two of them smiling at how they were doing.

"It's something that melts anyway, and it's hard to take home, so I'll give this to Takumi and Nyarch. I was going to give it to you."

Takumi, sorry for that, once he refuses to accept such a precious thing, but Sophia also offers to "just melt it if you leave it like this, and because of this, take it" again. Takumi also decided it would be rude to refuse any more, and decided to gratefully receive it.

"I'm really afraid. Now, thank you and let me use it dearly. See, Nyarch, thank you too."

"Thank you, Sophia! I love it!

Takumi bowed in gratitude and tried to make Nyarch bow his head down as well, but Nyarch jumped onto Sofia and hugged him as he slipped through his hand. Sophia is a little surprised, but slaps Pompom and Nyarch on the back. Takumi grabbed a cat at Nyarch's neck and pulled.

It's a corner, so let's treat you to something iced... Takumi just thought of it that way, and, uh, reminded Sofia that she needed one confirmation.

"By the way, is this ice water frozen what it is?

"Yeah, yeah, I'm definitely freezing the well water as it is. But what's wrong with that?

To Sophia's answer, which is half as expected, Takumi thinks. At first I even tried to serve ice coffee, but I had to decide that in this ice, where the raw water was frozen as it was, it was unfortunately not suitable for use that would be directly mouthed. Takumi explains to Sofia the reasons for her earlier question.

"I knew it was. As a matter of fact, in the case of water as it is just drawn, some circumstances can cause it to break your stomach. The water around here is clean, so I'm sure it's okay as long as it's not around, but if you're going to ice it and put it directly in your mouth, it's probably safer to use boiled water once."

"Heh, that's happening. Then does this mean I can't use this ice...?

Sophia peeks anxiously into Takumi. Nyarch, who was listening beside him,

"Er, you know..."

and raised a weak voice, his ears soaking. To both of them, Takumi spoke gently.

"If you don't keep the ice in your mouth, you'll be fine. In other words, there is no problem with the use of“ chill ”applications. Because I received something valuable, I would like to thank you for having a dessert made with this ice, is your time still okay?

"Yeah, I'm just going to the inn today, so it's perfectly fine."

Sophia nodded dusty and replied to Takumi's suggestion. Takumi grins as calmly as usual.

"Thank you. Okay, we'll take a moment to make dessert. Can you help me, too, Nyarch?

"It's so aiming! So, Mr. Sophia, wait a minute."

Sophia also smiles at how Nyarch is always the same.

"Yeah, I'm looking forward to it."

Takumi and Nyarch thanked Sophia for her words and took a tray with a little melted ice to the kitchen.

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"Now, will Nyarch have his coffee brewed? No cinnamon, darker, please."

"I don't know!

When Takumi gives Nyarch instructions, she quickly prepares herself. The ingredients I prepared were milk and eggs, sugar, salt and simple that arrived this morning.

(Exactly no vanilla, so let's go nostalgic for today.

Takumi pours the milk into a metal bowl and gently inserts the egg yolks cleverly divided into it using the egg shell. Then mix with a foam to crush the yolk.

(For extra egg whites, make it a meringue cookie again.

Where egg yolks and milk have become familiar and the whole thing has become custard color, add a little bit of sugar. After thoroughly stirring and thoroughly dissolving the sugar, check the taste.

(Hmm, is this what this is all about? Well, it's hard from here...

Takumi keeps the bowl aside and prepares the ice she received from Sofia earlier. Cover the surface scraps in a large pan after careful payment, once with a clean cloth. And as I slapped the gong with the knife patterned buttocks and peaks, it gradually smashed into smaller pieces, albeit in varying sizes.

(Phew, I managed to crack it well. Sure, you had to put plenty of salt in it.

After fighting the ice for a while, the broken ice was transferred to a large wooden barrel. Takumi pours just a little water into an ice bucket and stirs in an even more immiscible amount of salt. Then, stronger cold air came up out of the barrel than earlier. Takumi softly place a metal bowl containing the custard-colored liquid that she had just stirred and set aside on top of the salted ice water placed in the bucket, using a foam maker to foam and stir.

(All the time, we have to be careful not to get water in.

Stirring the liquid in the bowl for a while creates a little air bubble. As I made a lot of bubbles and kept stirring for a few minutes, the liquid in the bowl cooled and began to solidify slightly on the edge of the bowl. Takumi, once the bowl is removed from the barrel, switches the foam to Hera and peels off the chunks that are sticking to the edges of the bowl to match them thoroughly with the liquid. The liquid mixed with the cold mass became slightly creamy and stiff.

(All you have to do is repeat this.

Takumi repeats the task of removing the bowl from the bucket and mixing the chunks stuck to the edge of the bowl with hera when stirring the bowl back onto a bucket with salted ice water. Then, after several repetitions of this work, the liquid earlier turned into a fluffy, pale custard-colored ice cream. Takumi stirred the ice cream she could with a hella just a little bit, checked the hardness and flavor, and finally stirred it big again to make the whole thing look good.

"Your coffee is ready!

"Copy that. So, can you pour it into a small eye coffee cup and carry it with this plate? I'll carry it with me."

Takumi takes three slightly deeper ceramic plates out of the shelves and instructs Nyarch to carry them with the coffee. Takumi herself then gently lifted the bowl with the ice cream she could, each barrel of wood, shaking it and carefully transporting it under Sofia so that the ice water would not spill.

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"Thank you for waiting. Custard style ice cream… it is an error. Let me take it from here."

Takumi places a wooden barrel with a bowl floating on top of the ice water in the middle of the table to separate the ice cream from the bowl inside. Sophia stared intriguingly at Ellard in the bowl. Air moisture was frozen on the edge of a metal bowl chilled by salted ice.

"Thanks, this is how Ellard can do it. I've never known that before."

Sophia, who received instructions from Takumi on how to make the elard while she was taking it apart, takes a serious look inside the received vessel. In a bright white vessel, the yellowish soft custard color ice cream showed well. The freshly made, very soft ice cream melted slightly from the served edges, wetting the surroundings like a white sauce.

"Coffee, please. But don't eat it before it melts."

Nyarch offered Sofia the coffee while saying this. Sophia thanked him and then offered a short, pre-meal prayer.

Sophia carries a spoonful of the elard into her mouth. The mouthfeel of the custard-flavoured elard is very soft with plenty of air, and the fluffy, comfortable coolness is gentle over the tongue. At the same time, the sweet, rich taste of milk, egg yolks and sugar was spread all over the mouth. Sophia tells Takumi how touched she is with the best expression, inadvertently leaking her sigh.

"It's delicious. I've had Ellard a few times, but today's is extraordinary again. Was it some kind of secret?

Takumi answers Sofia's question after giving her a round of thanks.

"It's not as ingenious as it sounds, but today I tried using egg yolks to make it custard-style. For that matter, I think it has a rich taste. Would you have liked to have it?

"Absolutely! It has a gentle taste. It feels like Mr. Takumi."

Takumi bows her head again to Sophia's words. And I put a spoon in my elard and indulged in the cold sweetness for the first time in a long time.

"Because of this, I would also like to recommend another way to eat, is that okay?

Takumi called out, anticipating a fit when Sophia's vessel was empty. Sophia snorted, please. Then he raised his energetic voice to Nyarch, who was indulging in his errands beside him, and to Nyarch.

Takumi took up the error again when she received the two empty vessels. The edge of the elard seems to be starting to melt slower than the first glass because the vessel got a little colder. Takumi accompanied Sofia with words as she gave her vessel containing a second cup of elard.

"Now try to have half the coffee over the elard next time"

"Can I have this coffee...?

pointing to the coffee cup at hand as Sophia clenches her neck. Takumi nodded with a smile, as usual. Nyarch raises his voice in good health.

"Uh, yeah, asshole. Something!

"Asshole, I'm starting to figure it out, Afoguard, right? It's a bit of a strange way to eat, but you personally like this, too. This is a great opportunity to try."

"Yeah, yeah......, I get it"

Though Sophia was honestly half-hearted, because it was a good suggestion... she poured a warm cup of coffee into the cold errands. Then, in the amber of the coffee, the whites of the melting errands mix. Sophia worried that it would dissolve in no time, but there was still enough lump of elard to take it off.

Sophia takes a spoonful of the half-melt elard and puts it in her mouth. Then, the rich sweetness of the elard was accompanied by the bitterness of the coffee, which gave it a complex flavour. Sophia couldn't hide her surprise at a new flavor she'd never experienced before.

"This is delicious! I didn't know there was such a way to eat. You might like this one better than eating it as it is."

"Coffee with melted elards is delicious! It's a cold cafe!

Nyarch quickly ate his second cup of ice cream and also had a cup of coffee with a bowl on his mouth and the ice cream blended in. Sophia, who saw how it was, was a little bit behaving...... and hesitated slightly, but was caught by Nyarch's happy smile and tried to drink the same. A coffee cooled in ice cream had a moderate blend of custard-flavoured elards to give it a completely different flavour than the coffee I usually swallow. Sophia was completely captivated by the cold, sweet and soft taste.

Sophia, who had also completely finished eating the second cup of elard, thanked Takumi and Nyarch.

"It was really delicious. I knew this was what you'd do if you were to exhibit anyway. This is the most intense thing you can do."

Takumi is more than happy to thank Sofia.

"But this also takes a lot of manpower when it comes to making it by hand, doesn't it? Making quantities can be tough."

Sophia nods and agrees.

"And I knew this wasn't 'ice' either. I'd like to wind up showing the ice directly if possible..."

Sophia, who has switched back to work mode, sighs. Knowing or not the depth of that concern, Nyarch began to speak swallowingly.

"Then I knew it would be best to make ice and have it eaten!

Takumi gives, um, a troubled look and returns the words to Nyarch.

"Well, once it's boiled, I don't think it's a problem to eat the ice itself, but it doesn't taste good as it is, so wouldn't it please you too much?

Sophia, too, snorts and syncs. But Nyarch's thoughts seemed to be in a different place.

"No, it's not that ice, it's the" coffee shop ice ”! It's a summer poem! I've been wanting ice for a while now!

Takumi was much more noticed by the words of Nyachi, who felt a little excited. Where Takumi was before she was flown to "this world," she did provide ”ice” in a summer coffee shop. I completely forgot what was at stake.

Takumi finally understood what Nyarch intended, and this one didn't hide the excitement, and one person started to say bumps.

"Right, that” ice ”? But there's a machine to make arr... And the syrup... yeah, okay. I think I can handle it. Uh, Mr. Sophia!

"Ha, ha!?

Sophia, suddenly called out by Takumi, who was crushing on her own, accidentally startles me and makes a strange voice. I was surprised by that voice myself, and Sophia's cheeks stained just a little red.

"I came up with a dessert that was going to make you all happy at the exposition, to eat“ ice ”deliciously. I just can't show you today because you're going to need a dedicated tool to make it. So I have a favor to ask..."

Takumi tells Sofia every two favors. The first is that I want a respite for a period of about 10 days once, in order to ask the Mechanic Guild to provide me with special tools. And the other thing was that I wanted you to provide 'boiled hot and cold ice' because I wouldn't mind one every couple of days to prototype if I could do the dessert I thought.

Takumi's serious eye request was also sufficiently trustworthy for Sofia, who, as a banker, repeatedly discerns the sincerity of his opponents from day to day. Sophia nodded, after a moment, as if to show confidence in Takumi.

"Okay, I'm not sure what it is, but that's about as cheap as it gets. Then I wonder if you can show me that achievement in 10 days?

"Thank you, I hope you will come back in 10 days. With the help of the Alliance, we will make it look successful."

Takumi takes a seat and bows her head deeply to Sofia. Behind him, Nyarch was dancing a little stranger. Sophia understood Takumi's offer, laughing dullly and softly at the contrast between serious Takumi and her grumpy Nyarch.

"As soon as the ice is ready, I will send it daily, not one every couple of days. Forgive me, however, for so far I only have enough hands in a box with plenty of crumbs to carry it away from melting."

To the words, Takumi responds with a smile to Sofia with a confident look.

"Of course it is. Talk to your guild if you can't even come up with a box to carry ice. Come back in 10 days."

Sophia, after all, was glad to be here today… again. When I visited this store the other day, I felt that Takumi had something. And I was able to have a wonderful experience today as I expected. This would surely surprise me, even when I revisited it 10 days later, to get a useful idea, most importantly... Sophia was so sure.

Whenever outside the day was leaning heavily and the store was getting darker. Sophia takes a crushing seat, saying she's stayed a long time.

"Well, please, I'll be looking forward to it in 10 days."

"Nice to meet you again"

"Thank you very much! Please come back!

Dropped off by Takumi's polite greetings and Nyarch's energetic voice, Sofia turned to the door, wondering what emotion awaited 10 days later......, Sofia could not wait to visit this place again now.