21 Chapter 21

Due to the sudden intrusion of the newcomers, the trio lost their mood to continue their talk.

The newcomers were none other than the female members of the Hero's party.

"Tch! It's those annoying guys..." Eleanor clicked her tongue.

Meanwhile, Alice called out to them.

"Kyouka-san!" She waved her hands in their direction.

The person who got called out was a beautiful black-haired girl that was shorter than Alice. Upon hearing her name called by a familiar voice, she turned around with a happy expression.

"Alice-san!" Kyouka yelled out in surprise and rushed to hug her friend.

On the other hand, her maid, Kaya, smiled and walked over to Elenor.

Unlike the other females, Kyouka and Kaya were some of the few people from the group who they didn't dislike.

"How are you?" Kyouka asked while hugging Alice.

"I'm good. How about you, Kyouka-san?" Alice said while burying Kyouka's face into her chest that had two big balls of soft meat.

"I'm... good...I-i can't breathe!" Kyouka said while trying not to suffocate in Alice's bosom.

Meanwhile, Elenor was happily chatting with Kay.

"Kaya, it's been a while since I've seen you." Elenor smiled at her close friend.

"You too, Elenor."

Instead of being expressionless like she usually was, Kaya now had a smile on her face when talking to Elenor. And unlike Alice and Kyouka, they didn't use honorifics when calling each other names as they were much closer.

While they were talking, the other female members of the Hero of Light's Party approached them.

"What are you guys talking about?" A girl with blue hair asked.

"What are you doing here, Kaya?" Yukina asked and ignored the girl with blue hair.

"Hey! Stop ignoring me!"

"Shut up," Elenor coldly said to the blue hair girl.

"..." Hearing the harsh and cold voice made the blue hair girl shut her mouth.

"Elenor, please stop being mean to Shirone," Kaya said.

"Stop? Then can you tell her to stop her boyfriend from ogling at my mother and sister's body?" Elenor retorted with a sneer.

"H-hey! Rei-kun isn't that kind of person!" This time, another girl spoke up. She was the childhood friend and lover of the Hero of Light, Reiji. Her name was Yoshino Sahoko.

"How ignorant." Elenor snorted at the girl named Sahoko.

"U-um... I'm sorry for my brother's actions." Kyouka broke free from Alice's hold and apologized as even she felt uncomfortable when her brother stared at her newly made friends. In the first place, they weren't even interested in him.

"It's not your fault, Kyouka-chan," Yukina said while stroking Kyouka's head.

"It should be their fault," Elenor pointed at Shirone, Sahoko, Rino, and Naomi. All 3 of them were the lovers of the Hero of Light, Reiji.

"They don't even try to stop their lover from looking at other women." Elenor continued while feeling disgusted toward the Hero of Light and his lovers.

"Speaking of which, where's Chiyuki-chan?" Yukina asked Kyouka.

"She said she didn't want to come to the hot spring today and instead went to the library to study more about magic," Kyouka replied while scratching her head.

"Oh, tell her to come next time. I want to chat with her." Elenor said disappointedly. She had hoped to discuss some things related to magic with Chiyuki in the hot spring, but it seems that it wasn't going to happen.

With that, the trio chatted with Kaya and Kyouka while ignoring the other three female members of the Hero's Party.

After a while, the group of women decided to soak in the hot spring instead of standing.

"Nee Alice-san, is it true that you have a brother?" Kyouka asked curiously.

"It's true!" Alice answered.

"Where is he?"

"Well... He's not here." Alice said in a sad voice.

"O-oh, I'm sorry for your loss." What Alice said and along with her sad voice, made Kyouka misunderstood what she meant.

"N-no! He's not dead!" Alice hurriedly clarified the moment she noticed Kyouka misunderstanding.

'Right, big brother? You're not dead, right...?' Alice thought in her mind.

"Alice..." As if knowing what she was thinking, Elenor and Yukina went to comfort her.

Ever since getting brought to this unknown world, they did not stop looking for Seal; it was their top and foremost priority. However, after looking for a month, they did not find a single clue about his whereabouts. Nevertheless, that did not stop them from continuing their search.

"Seal, are you alright out there...?" Elenor thought in her heart while watching the sky. All three of them thought the same thing in their heart.

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<Great Reisen Labyrinth>

"We want just your Liberator Ring and Ancient Magic. Nothing more, nothing less." Seal said to the beaten-up Miledi Reisen.

"Fine, here you go. It seems like you and the two girls there are capable of learning my Ancient Magic." Miledi Reisen said while pointing toward the three of them.

After receiving the Gravity Magic from Miledi, they left the labyrinth through Miledi's 'unique' water drain way. Her way brought them to a big lake inside a forest.

A few seconds later, they surfaced from the lake.

"Where are we?" Shea asked.

"I have no idea," Yue answered while looking around.

"I think this is a forest of a nearby town if I'm not mistaken." She continued.

"Yep, you're right. Shall we go there right now?" Seal said.

"How?"

"We've been there before, so we can just teleport there."

Seal upgraded his Space-and-Time magic to level 8. He unlocked an ability called [Recall] that enabled him to teleport to places he had been.

"Let's go then?" Seal said as he stretched both of his hands out to them.

"Yes," Yue replied while taking Seal's right hand.

"Yeah!" Unlike Yue, who responded in a plain voice, Shea responded while happily taking his left hand. It was the first time she could hold Seal's hand.

With that, Seal invoked the spell [Recall] and disappeared from the lake with Yue and Shea. But what they didn't know was that there was a pleasant surprise awaiting them in the town.