Return

Akasan and Naozumi ran to catch back up with Hanami, Jin, and Gida.

"Is it over?" Hanami asked.

"Yeah." Akasan replied.

Jin looked back. "Where are we going?"

"There's this village I came from. We're going back there, but it'll be twelve days walking."

Naozumi frowned. "Yeah forget that. I'm not walking that long. What direction is it in?"

Akasan pointed. "Ten o'clock."

Naozumi told everyone to stop. He clapped his hands together. "Magic Art: Directional Movement." A blue magic circle appeared under everyone.

voosh!

The entire group started phasing through space at hypersonic speed.

In seconds they came within a few minutes' walk of the village.

"Woah." Gida said, overwhelmed.

"Whoo! That was fast." Akasan said. He started walking back to the village.

The man in worn-down clothes that welcomed him last time was there again. "Oh Akasan! You've returned!"

"Yup. Can we stay here?"

"Of course."

Akasan led his group into the village.