TRIP FOR THREE

"MAMA BOSS, PAPA BOSS, you're not going back to the empire?" Neoma asked, surprised by her parents' decision. "But the Goddess of Life assured us that she'll stay here. The Cosmic Tree will return, too. You don't need to stay here just to guard the Garden of Life."

Tara was a problem, but…

[I want to give her the benefit of the doubt. As long as Lewis has the right to succeed the Spirit World, I don't think she'd do something that she might regret later.]

"We're planning to return to the palace to check on Nero," Mama Boss said. "But we're going to return here as soon as the construction is done."

"I will leave my Soul Beasts here to rebuild the villa that burned down," Papa Boss added. "But we'll be waiting for you here, Neoma."

"Why?"

"Because we want to train here," her father said. "The Spirit World is ideal for Mona and I to train since we both use Spirits. And this world is full of them."

Oh, right.

But…