Morning has arrived. The sunlight passes through the glass rooftop of the greenhouse as it showers the only tree in it, letting its vibrant leaves to shine like little stars.
When he came to the [No Name]'s greenhouse, he immediately turned it into his personal home as it reminds him the environment of his old home which is sleeping on the branches. He knew there's enough bed for everyone, but he prefer this rather than a bed.
Kyo was sleeping on one of the branches, enjoying bathing the warmth of the sunlight. He looks peaceful as he quite enjoys the scent of mother nature, it sooths his mind allowing him to have a peaceful sleep.
His sleep was interrupted as the sound of the door opens, he yawned and stretches his arms and legs. He looked down and noticed it was Asuka, Izayoi, Yō, Lily, a girl with fox ears and Jin for some reasons has a bruise on his face.
"Kyo-kun! We need to talk now!" Asuka demanded.
Kyo sighed and jumped down from the tree. He landed in front of them.
"Okay, what is it now?" Kyo asked as Asuka just handed the letter to him. He read the letter which started to intrigue him as he unconsciously stroking his chin.
"Is there anything else I need to know?"
"There is a big festival going on there." Izayoi answered his question.
"At the North District." Yō added on.
"The North district. Huh." Kyo eyes flashes dangerously red as he smiled. He looked at them and already understand the problem children's thinking while Jin and Lily just sweat dropped knowing him that he won't stopped them.
"Sounds like fun. I'm in." He agreed with them.
The rustling of sand could be heard.
Kuro Usagi and Leticia were standing on the white ground that had now fallen into disuse.
Leticia who was wearing the maid uniform with a specially created ribbon that is tied onto her beautiful blonde hair, shook her head with sorrow and was crouching down on the once beautiful ground.
"... How miserable, and to think that this was once called the plantation district. Now there's only rock and gravel."
The fertile soil from 3 years ago was non-existent now. They asked Kyo whether he could do revive the soil but he couldn't due to the lack of sources. He was only lucky enough to grow the Star Tree with the remaining resources
Both Leticia and Kuro Usagi sullenly lowered their heads.
"Kuro Usagi is very sorry. We only managed to solve the problem with the food and water supply, even the children are slowly tending it."
"Eh? Ahhh, that's not it, I'm not scolding you. After all this problem can't be resolved that easily by humans." Leticia panickily waved both her hands. She then picked up some of the soil by her side confirming the situation.
"This can't be helped, the land has already lost all vitality. Even if there's water, animals would not want to stay here. If we want to focus on bringing back the land, we will have to waste a lot of time."
"... Yeah."
Both of them started sighing.
They knew what the land was like when it was fertile, it was definitely unbearable to see this sight happening to the land that lost its vitality. The land that once bore colourful and bright fruits, surrounded by a swaying sea of gold coloured rice, had already ceased to exist. A burst of injury channelled through their hearts.
The worst kind of tragedy the communities of little garden would face was the [Maou]. The scars created would be huge, not only does it take away companions and arrogance the community might have, even their future was also stripped away.
Leticia stood up, patting away the gravel left on her maid uniform, she grimly said.
"... What a tremendous power. I have been living for quite a long time, to meet Maous that had this much power, would only be a handful of times."
With a serious expression, Kuro Usagi and Leticia started evaluating the Maous' power.
No matter the district area or countryside, both sides had met with ruins of their own, experiencing this for a long time.
Since it's like that, the reason was as clear as day. Kuro Usagi, with a worried face, reached a conclusion.
"For this land to be perished in such a short period of time, and with such huge destruction, the only capable ones are the [Star-Class] and above, it can even dominate the celestial body to some degree, right?"
"If a star-class demon were to have this much power, it would only be Shiroyasha... Or the Golden Maou Star-class monster."
Both of them revealed bitter expressions. The heavy silence highlighted the undeniable dangerous power of the Maou.
"Soooo... It's the work of the [Strongest Class] Maou right?"
"It can only be that... What a poor joke."
Kuro Usagi and Leticia looked at each other, managing a powerless laughter.
In the little garden, where gods and others gather, there were the 3 strongest classes.
Natural gods were [Divine] Class.
Ghosts or spirits, monsters or others that had the largest position was [Star] Class.
The Eudemons that stems from the original dragon seed [Pure Breed] Class.
Known throughout the little garden as the strongest class, it was nearly suicidal to be their opponents.
These classes that had the most powerful class, even the outside world did not even have a chance to glimpse upon them. To change the perspective, if a community had been observed by those monsters, could it be counted as honourable? Even when Leticia was being referred as a Maou, she would keep her distance from these classes.
Leticia who flung her ribbon, looked at the wilderness, suddenly thinking of something.
"Hmmm, to get things right, since the opposition had this much power, at least the community's name was heard of, right?"
"Even if we consult Shiroyasha-sama, we would only know that it was not a community from the north side."
"Hmmm, since Shiroyasha said so, it must be true."
Leticia leaked out a bitter smile while slightly shivering due the unknown assailant of this place.
Even when facing such a dire threat, Kuro Usagi, who did not lose her will to fight, merely produced a strong-willed smile.
"Plea... Please don't be too worried! Be.. Because in our community, we have 4 strong gift users! If everyone starts cooperating, Kuro Usagi believes that restoring this land would not be a difficult task!"
Kuro Usagi held up her fist, and even Leticia started nodding while smiling.
"Unn, If it's them, they could solve this predicament while laughing."
From a place away from the little garden came 4 new members. They managed to save the captive Leticia from the Maou, they also fought for the community. If it was them, no matter what kind of challenge, they would overcome them right?
They were no longer the community that could not do anything in the past. In this little garden where divine beings gather, if they want to have a miracle, they would have to win it themselves.
Kuro Usagi raised her finger, busily moving her rabbit eats, continued saying, "The most ideal condition for us is, we must establish a life hoop in this community. If we manage to do this, we can be capable of accumulating food reserves, and increase our organization's strength!"
"Unn! The urgent priority is to allow the land to be reborn, the Southern District harvest festival is our immediate goal."
"YES! Now is the time everyone must work together to bring back our land!"
"However, what are you going to do about the festival in the Northern district? There's still some time before it happens. If they knew about it, they would be very happy right?"
Kuro Usagi suddenly made an "Ugh" sound, changing to an embarrassed expression, she did not say anything else.
"What is it? You didn't tell them? That is the largest festival sponsored by the northern and southern floor masters right? Even if the 7 digit is the lowest gate, it would still be a gorgeous festival. Master should be able to obtain good results..."
"No... It is... We are lacking in travel fees. In our current state, we don't have much money we can use to travel through the dimensional gate. No matter how much we struggle and struggle, one trip will be our limit..."
Hearing Kuro Usagi's apologetic speech, Leticia was also speechless, sighing while managing a bitter smile.
"Lacking in money sure is tough, eh?"
"How... However we just need to be patient for a little longer. Kuro Usagi believes that Izayoi-san and the rest will get good gifts during the Southern District Harvest Festival!"
"Kuro... Kuro Usagi-nee~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~! Not... Not good ~ ~ ~ ~ ~!" They turned to face the direction was coming from, wearing a Japanese style apron, the young fox girl called Lily appeared, carrying an expression like she was going to cry.
"Lily? What happened?"
"Asu... Asuka-san brought Izayoi-san, Kyo-san and Yō-san...Ah, thi...This! The letter she left behind!"
Lily, who was frantically flinging her two fox tails around, passed the letter to Kuro Usagi.
To Kuro-Usagi:
We are going to participate in the festival held by the Northern district 4000000 outer gate and southern district 3999999 outer gate. You must also come. Also, Leticia-san has to come as well. As the punishment of you concealing the contents of the letter to us, if you are unable to catch us by today, the four of us will leave the community. Better start running to find us, we will give you our utmost support!
p.s. We also took Jin as our tour guide.
"..."
"...?"
"...!"
The silence continued until 30 seconds has passed.
Kuro Usagi started trembling while holding the letter and issued a wail like cry, "Whuh... WHAT ARE THOSE PROBLEMATIC CHILDREN SAYING!! AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The shrill cry emitted by Kuro Usagi resounded. [Leaving] was no small statement.
Because she expected too much, Kuro Usagi forgot something important. The four new members with great strength. Were actually their world's most problematic children.
After leaving the letter to Lily, the quintet group consisting of Izayoi, Asuka, Kasukabe, Kyo and Jin left the residential area of [No Name, heading towards the fountain plaza located at the outer gate of 2105380. A bunch of pedestrians were already at the cafe with the [Six Scars] flag that early in the morning, located at Peribed Avenue.
"When I'm this close to the plaza, I always wanted to ask... The landscape design here in the No.2105380 outer gate is simply tasteless, who is the person in charge of this place?"
Asuka unhappily set her sight on No.2105380 outer gate.
The pillars that linked up the inner walls between the Outer gate and Little garden, was a giant lion statue and what was engraved on it was the flag of the community that disappeared...[Fores Garo].
While sighing, Jin explained to Asuka, "As long as the district's hierarchies can crack the gift games provided by the floor master, he will earn the right to govern the outer gate. It also can be served as a function for the community's advertisement."
"Is that so...That's why the vestige of that demon remains here." Asuka snorted, unhappily adjusting her hair.
After changing back from her unhappy mood, she turned her body to face the coffee table.
"Okay, so how are we going to get to the Northern district?" Asuka asked Jin, while changing the posture of her legs that were covered by the long hems of her skirt.
Kasukabe Yō, who was sitting next to Asuka, replied while tilting her head.
"Ermmmmm ... Since we know it is going to be held in the Northern district, won't we reach there if we keep moving North? " After hearing the seemingly thoughtless suggestion that Kasukabe gave out, everyone started to laugh bitterly.
"True, but still we don't know how far is it?" Kyo said his own opinion.
Izayoi, who was sitting beside Kasukabe, questioned Jin. "So, does our leader have any great plan?"
Jin sighed heavily.
"Although I had predicted this... Like Kyo said, you guys really don't know how far is it from here to the Northern district wall boundary?"
"I really don't know, is it really that far?" Izayoi responded with a surprised expression. Suffering from a serious headache, Jin depressingly covered his face with both hands.
"...You guys really headed out without knowing the circumstances... Then let me ask everyone first, did you know that the Little Garden has a surface area of a star?"
"...? Huh? Star ? " Asuka was so shocked that her tone of voice changed. Even though
Kasukabe's expression did not change, she still hurriedly blinked her eyes three times.
Izayoi nodded his head in acknowledgement, he then proceeded to question Jin with wrinkled eyebrows.
"Kuro Usagi mentioned this to me before. However, I also heard that nearly all the land in this world are thrown away as waste. Although the scale of the wastelands varies in size, but besides the Little Garden city, they are still other places right?"
"Indeed there are other cities. But the Little garden would always be the largest city in the world even if you remove some of its cities. Talking about the ratio of the surface area of Little Garden, other cities can't even compare to this place."
"Ratio?" Kyo asked.
When Jin explained in such a serious tone, Asuka and the rest felt like they were having that idiotic atmosphere.
Basically, they wouldn't use the peculiar method of using [Planet's surface area ratio] to compare the sizes of cities.
Even though he used [Surface area of star] to try explain the size, there would still be all sorts of measurements. But if the Little garden world's surface area is the same as the sun, it would be 13000 times the size of Earth.
The math would be so huge that it would look strange. Izayoi, his heart on alert, enquired with a shocked expression.
"Are you inferring... [this city occupies about one percent of a star's total surface area, this kind of messy statement?"
"Tha...That is just too exaggerative already, although it's indeed about ratio, but the math is still quite small."
"So...So it's like that, eh? Then, from here to the Northern district boundary wall, how far will it be?" Asuka urged Jin for the right answer. Jin lifted his head up to think for a
while, eventually he replied.
"Because we are already close to the north, if I had to throw in a number...I guess it would be about 98000 kilometres."
"WOW!"
The four replied at the same time with different tones: overjoyed, speechless, shocked and calm.
The actions of Kuro Usagi and Leticia were very fast and rapid. After reading the contents of the letter, they left the old plantation site and went to check if Izayoi and the rest were still in the vicinity of the community. Lastly, Kuro Usagi took the treasure key to the basement,
undoing the luxurious doors and the enchantment casted on it.
The door leading to the treasure room opened, accompanying it was the sound of heavy metal scraping the floor. The inside of the room was hollow, it was practically empty except for the centre of the room, where a lonely bag stood.
After ending their search, the team lead by Leticia and Lily returned, reporting their findings.
"Not in the cafeteria!"
"Not in the greenhouse!"
"The hall, the rooms and the VIP suite have all been checked!"
"They are not near the water tank either!"
"I'm hungry..."
"Please wait a while more longer... Then, what about the situation in the treasury?"
"It doesn't look like the community's money has been taken. And it's unlikely that they have enough money by themselves to use the Astral gate. If we are efficient, we can catch them near the Outer gate."
"Kuro Usagi, you should head to the Outer gate, if you can't find them, using your status as a [Little Garden Aristocrat, you can use the Astral gate for free. I will head to the [Thousand eyes] branch shop. Since Shiroyasha sent the invitation letter, she might take them to the Northern district boundary wall for free."
After confirming the initiatives they ought to take, Kuro Usagi and Leticia firmly nodded their head.
The dangerous spark from Kuro Usagi's eyes could be represented as the embodiment of her anger.
"Those problematic children...! This time, this time! Kuro Usagi will...WILL NEVER FORGIVE THEM!"
Kuro Usagi's hair turned into pink from all the anger, after positioning herself, she scattered the sand while dashing out of the place.
"That is just too far already!"
Asuka couldn't resist banging the coffee table in protest, after hearing that ridiculous number.
Izayoi turned to Kyo. "Kyo. Do you have anything that can help us to get there?"
Kyo shook his head, "No, I got anything. Even if I uses [Form Released: Ptera, it might take us two days to get there."
The four were shocked. They never expected he could fly over there within two days, but the three problem children looks turned to disappointment due to the time limit, so relying on Kyo is out of the questions as well.
Jin, without showing any sign of weakness, remarked, "RIGHT! It is indeed very far! Because in the Little Garden city, they will make people believe that what looks small is very small when it is actually huge, so the distance you perceive will be close when in actual fact it is very far. If we look towards the cities elsewhere, it may look close, but the distance will be several times further than what you believe. That's why I had been warning everyone about this!" Jin shouted out.
Sitting beside him was Izayoi, who was calmly researching about the Little Garden.
"...Really? So when we arrived in this world, we could see the horizon of the Little Garden because someone deliberately tried to trick us into believing that this world is small?"
That's right. When they arrived in this world, after looking at the scale of Little Garden, they, for some reason, thought that the city was very huge. Although everyone thinks that the Little Garden city had a huge exterior, but upon closer inspection, they would find out that it was actually an even bigger city.
Asuka embarrassingly closed her mouth, but after changing a different approach, she asked again.
"Right, that can't be help. I only hope that it was like last time when we travelled from an outer gate to another outer gate to challenge the community [Perseus]."
"...By that you mean, you wish to use the [Astral gate]?" Jin replied with a bitter expression.
[Astral Gate, because of the inconvenience to travel in the Little Garden city, it was set up by linking an outer gate to another outer gate. The reason why those in power in the district wanted the rights to maintain the outer gate was because regardless of peddlers, performances, those participating or hosting gift games, the outer gate was always a frequent point to use as a transportation point.
If they wanted to advertise their community's name, nothing was more effective as that.
Jin showed a sullen face upon that suggestion.
"If Asuka-san wants to use the [Astral Gate, I would have to completely reject it! In order to operate the [Astral Gate, an astonishing amount of expenditure is needed! Everyone would need to hand over one gold coin distributed by the [Thousand Eyes]! Five people means five gold coins! That is literally the whole of our community's assets"
'Is everyone thinking of starving the kids to death~!'
Kuro Usagi would be extremely angry.
Under Jin's strict rejection, Asuka went into silence, showing a bitter expression.
"...98000 Kilometers? Indeed that is quite far, eh?" Izayoi brought out a flirty smile, looking like even he had no idea.
He wanted to prevent unnecessary wastage on one hand, on the other, even if it's them, they couldn't possibly walk the distance of 25 Earths.
Jin was lacking oxygen due to continuous roaring, after taking one huge breath, he used a peaceful tone to convince everyone.
"So now, we could treat this whole matter as a joke... We should head back right?"
"Strongly rejected."
"Agreed with the right."
"Agreed with both."
"Agreed with them."
Jin disappointingly slouched his shoulders. After leaving them with such a provoking letter, they couldn't find the chance to get out of the embarrassing situation anymore. The four of them abruptly got up, grabbing Jin by his gown and started running.
"We already left the message to Kuro Usagi already, how could we retreat! You three, let's go!"
"Right! Since it's like this, we will have to struggle till the end! Discuss this with [Thousand Eyes]!"
"Let's advance!"
"Advance."
Izayoi and Asuka started laughing heartily, exerting themselves, Kyo started to grin like a mad man who's determine to get what he want, and Kasukabe, in order to accordance with the atmosphere, also cried out.
As for the one wearing a loosely fitted gown called Jin, the only thing he could do was get dragged around by those four.
Heading past the Fountain plaza on Peribed Avenue, the five of them stopped in front of the [Thousand Eyes] branch shop. The store was located on a street filled with cherry blossom trees. Wearing a Japanese-styled apron, while holding onto a bamboo broom, the shop assistant politely addressed to everyone.
"Please leave."
"We haven't even said anything yet."
They were chased out even before entering the shop. Looks like that lady really hated the problematic children.
They would always have the habit of encountering this lady when they needed to sell precious gifts obtained from gift games to this shop. Most likely, the shop assistant hated them because of this reason.
Adjusting her hair, Asuka started arguing in protest, "We can be counted as regulars, could you be more friendly towards us? "
"The so-called regulars are customers who ACTUALLY shopped here. Those who come here every time to exchange things for cash aren't customers, they are simply called businessmen."
"Ahhhhh, what you said is indeed correct. Then pardon us for the intrusion." Asuka might as well agree, she then attempted to enter into the shop quickly.
Facing with rowdy people that attempted to enter the shop, the shop assistant displayed a [Big] word, blocking the path.
Holding the bamboo broom in one hand, she exposed her cat teeth and shouted towards Izayoi and the rest, "So! This shop politely refuse [No Name] Community! Even the shop owner has no problem, so now..."
"YAHOOO! You kids are finally here ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Unaware of where the sound was coming from, there was a white-haired kimono-wearing maiden falling from the sky.
Her tone was full of joy, as she performed acrobatic movements before having a rough landing on the ground.
"Paaaaam!" Followed by it was aftershocks, sending dust everywhere. The sound, as well as the person debutting, was without a doubt the white-hair kimono-wearing maiden called Shiroyasha. In fact, the person who sent the invitation letter was no other than her.
While sweeping the dirt off his uniform, Izayoi disapprovingly spoke to the shop assistant.
"Does the act of the shop owner rushing here means she is dissatisfied with us?"
"..."
The shop assistant was busy dealing with her sudden headache, she couldn't retort to that statement.
Kasukabe gave the invitation letter to Shiroyasha instead of Asuka, who was coughing non-stop due to the scattering dust.
"Thank you for the invitation, but we don't know how to go to the Northern district..."
"Un Un, I totally understand. Please come into the shop first, if you agree to my conditions, I will be glad to pay off your transportation fee... And I also have something to discuss with you all in private." Shiroyasha squinted her eyes, but the last sentence she spoke was quite solemn.
The four of then looked at one another, revealing naughty smiles.
"Is it something interesting?"
"Regarding that, counted as interesting? That has to depend on you guys." After that, the four of them happily entered the shop while dragging Jin along.
The four of them didn't enter the interior of the shop as there was business going on, they passed through the courtyard to reach Shiroyasha's room. It was well known that [Thousand Eyes] was created by a bunch of communities that gathered together, they handled all kinds of goods, they also bought gifts won from gift games for money, the money was used for the community's essentials. They could also accept huge orders if the receiving party was a large community.
After looking at the shop interior which was quite crowded, Kasukabe murmured, "Does this shop sell gifts? "
"Of course they do. Even Leticia bought one before. However, they can only use the gold coins issued by us to buy the gifts."
"Oh? Why? "
Izayoi asked, brimming with excitement.
Shiroyasha sat down comfortably onto the mat, "Kong!" Knocking the ash off the Japanese-style cigarette pipe, she replied, "Basically, when issuing out currency in the Little Garden city, the coins must be of the same size. If it was something other than gifts, we would gladly accept the currency issued out by other communities, but when we are paying we would use our own currency. In other words, we can demonstrate out that we [Thousand eyes] can use currency to sell this so called gifts. Handing the gifts to us would make us exchange even more currency, have a deeper faith and trust with the communities, naturally this is the right choice right?"
So it was like that. Izayoi nodded his head in agreement.
As the opposition's high levels were all Shura deities, they wouldn't be interested in gold and silver items.
"...Un ? Since it's like this, why did you have to specially issue out your community's currency during transactions?"
"Hehe, actually we are having a certain currency circulation war with other currency-issuing communities that involves a valuable gift game, that's why the currency was engraved with our flag."
"Whoa...So that's how it is, as all the monetary value of the coins remain the same, those coins that are used more times means that the community gets more support... Then what about the gift game? Is it worthy of a huge commercial advertisement for the community, since the current thought pattern of all the communities are the same."
Izayoi let out an envy-filled laughter.
In Little Garden city, the currency value isn't determined by gold or silver coins.
Only the flag engraved on the currency can determine its worth.
"But I understand why you had rejected the [No Name] already. In order for the circulation to occur no obstruction should happen, that's why you also choose your customers."
"Un...Yeah, that's how it is."
Shiroyasha gave an ambiguous response, ending this discussion. She must have wanted to start on the main topic already.
Izayoi sat on the tatami mat, fully aware of the reason for the end of discussion.
Shiroyasha's child-like face revealed a serious expression, "Kong", sending the soot into the red coloured soot cylinder, she asked.
"Before heading towards the main topic, I'd like to inquire about something first. After you fought with [Fores Garo, there seems to be a rumour that you people want to get involved with the Maous...Is that true?"
"Oh, that thing? Yup, it's true. " Asuka expressed her certainty while maintaining her sitting posture.
Shiroyasha turned her head to face Jin.
"Jin-dono, As one of the tops of the community, do you agree to the said rumour?"
"Yes, as our name and flag was forcefully taken away, in order for us to make our community well-known, I believe this is the best plan."
Shiroyasha, with a sharp expression, responded to Jin's answer.
"Do you know the dangers of that? This sort of message would attract the Maous."
"I'm already prepared for that. But even if we want to restore our former glory, in our current situation, we can't even advance to the next digit. Since we won't ever have the chance to duel, we just have to attract them to attack us."
"Even if you fought with Maous that had nothing to do with this, will this be alright?"
Shiroyasha moved her body closer, inquiring another question. In response to this question, Izayoi, who was sitting beside Jin, replied while having a maniacal laugh.
"That I have to agree. Claiming to [Fight the Maous, after beating a Maou, proceeding to challenge a community with an even stronger Maou. How is it? Even if we are in a world filled with Gods and supernatural beings, we wouldn't find any other community that has this much courage right?"
"...Fuuu."
Izayoi laughed jokingly but his eyes displayed seriousness. Even though this boy made others to believe that he wasn't putting any serious thought into this, Shiroyasha still thought he possesses the capability to oppose Libra's strength.
Shiroyasha closed her eyes, having a deep thought about both people's viewpoint towards this matter.
After thinking for a while, she revealed a forced smile, apparently she had no other idea.
"Since you people put up this much consideration then it's fine already. If I continue to pry into this matter, I would be minding other people's businesses."
"Un...Thats right, Is that...that, what exactly is the main topic today ? "
"Fuu, actually the Eastern Floor Master would like to officially commission the community that wishes to [Fight Maous]. So how is it, Jin-dono?"
"Ye...Yes! I will greatly accept it!" Shiroyasha no longer used the caring tone for the children, but changed it to the tone befitting for a community's leader.
After gaining the approval, she allowed Jin to carry a carefree expression.
"Okay. Where should I start speaking..."
"Kong!" After Shiroyasha knocked the ash out of the smoke pipe, she paused. Allowing her gaze to wander into the courtyard, after looking at something, she suddenly recalled something, she then started speaking.
"Ahh, Oh yeah, did you know that there will be a new Northern Floor master?"
"Eh?"
"I heard that the current floor master retired because of an illness. She must have fallen ill due to old age, as an asian dragon, she had lived for quite a long time already. The big festival this time is to inaugurate the new [Fire Dragon] Northern floor master."
"Dragon?"
Both Izayoi and Kasukabe had light shining out of their eyes while Kyo is interested hearing it. Shiroyasha continued speaking while carrying a bitter smile.
"The community [Salamandra] located at the 54545 outer gate, is none other than the Northern Floor master. To get back to the topic, how much do you know about the Floor masters?"
"I know exactly nothing."
"Me too."
"I know a bit. It is those guys that are in charge of protecting the lower digits communities from Maou's attacks right?"
Izayoi explained while raising up his right hand, while Asuka and Kasukabe silently listened to his explanation.
[Floor Master] are the protectors of Little garden, they also serve to promote or watch the communities grow. They had numerous responsibilities, the main assignment was that they are in charge of the land in the Little Garden City; they also host games, measure if the lower digits communities could be promoted to a higher digit etc.
When a Maou appears to disrupt the peace and cause disasters to happen, the Floor masters have to take the initiative to lead and fight against them. As a result, they are given huge rights and has the highest privilege [Host permissions].
"So basically there are the head of security of the Maous?" Kyo summarized which Shiroyasha nodded.
"However, the Northern district contains a lot of spirits, ghosts, possessing a huge amount of strength, the land there was acknowledge as a place where demons co-exist with one another. Therefore the Public security isn't that stable..."
After explaining clearly, Jin slouched down, appearing to be disheartened. "However...It was originally like that. We used to have a pretty good relationship with [Salamandra] in the past...but I didn't know that the position of head has already been pass down. Currently, who is the head? Is it the firstborn Sarah-sama as expected? Or is it Mandora-dono?"
"Nope. The current head who acquired the name of fire dragon is Sandora, the one who is of the same age as you."
"Eh?" Jin tilted his head, blinking his eyes twice.
After a moment, the shocked Jin let out an astonished cry, even his whole body shifted forward.
"Yo-You said Sandora right? Eh...Wait...Wait a moment ! She's only 11 years old !"
"Aiya? But Jin-chan is our leader even though you are also 11 years old."
"Yes...That is correct...! But, but..."
"What is it? Is the other person Chibi-chan's girlfriend?"
"No...Not...It's not like that! Please don't say such an offending statement!"
Izayoi and Asuka were happily teasing Jin, while Jin angrily replied. Kasukabe, who was not involved in the conversation, and Kyo wanted to know more about it, urged Shiroyasha to continue speaking.
"So, what do you want us to do for you?"
"Please don't be so worried. Actually for this rise of the dragon festival, simultaneously it is also Northern District time for Sandora public tribute. As she is still young, so, as the Eastern district floor master, I would collaborate this conference with her."
"Aiyo. This is such a strange behaviour. There are others that are in power in the Northern district right? Why can't they request the other communities to host the festival together?"
"...Un. Yeah. It is indeed that case..." Izayoi suddenly started coughing out.
She scratched her head revealing a confused expression, at this time, Izayoi explained the reason, "Some communities do not appreciate someone so young with that much power right?"
"Un...Yeah, that's about it."
Asuka became unhappy once she heard that. She did not expect that corruption was involved in this implication. Her eyes were filled with anger and also a disappointed look.
"...Is that so. Even in this world, the leaders would also have the mindset like us humans ?"
"KuKu, such a harsh assessment, but it is just like you said. Therefore [Salamandra] invited me as an Eastern district leader to conduct the festival together, also because someone would be having concealed thoughts."
Shiroyasha sullenly lowered her head with a bitter expression. Just when the solemn Shiroyasha was about to continue talking, Kasukabe Yō showed an expression as if she remembered something, she proceeded to stop her movements, then she asked.
"Wait a moment. How long is this going to last?"
"EH? hmmm, I guess about another 1 hour at least?"
"This would be unpleasant...We would get caught by Kuro Usagi." Kyo said.
"!!!"
Jin, as well as the other two problematic children also realised this point. If they continue to happily waste 1 hour in the [Thousand Eyes] Shop, they would, without a doubt, get discovered by Kuro Usagi and the rest.
Currently, there were a bunch of people playing hide and seek with Kuro Usagi. After realising this point, Jin abruptly stood up.
"Shi...Shiroyasha-sama! Please continue talking like this..."
"Jin-chan, You are not allowed to talk!"
"KAA!" Jin's chin was forcefully closed. Looks like Asuka used her gift to perform that result.
Izayoi, not missing the chance, urged Shiroyasha.
"Shiroyasha! Take us to the Northern District now!"
"Eh? Eh? I'm fine with it, but do you have anything urgent going on? Wait, it should be, are you accepting the conditions without listening to it?"
"It doesn't matter! Quick! We can discuss the particulars later, most importantly. This is much more interesting ! I guarantee it!"
After hearing Izayoi out, Shiroyasha widened her eyes, she then started laughing while nodding her head.
"Really? Is it that interesting? Aiyah Aiyah, this is important! Because entertainment is what I need to survive ! Although I feel sorry for Jin. However, since this is more interesting this way, I guess there is no choice !"
"...?..."
Looking at Shiroyasha's naughty expression, Jin tried to utter words but to no avail. Everything was too late by then.
Izayoi and the rest happily suppressed the struggling Jin. After Shiroyasha tossed them to one side, she raised up both her hands and clapped a few times.
"--Okay, That's about it. In accordance with everyone's wishes, we have arrived in the Northern District."
"...HUH?"
The four of them, who were busy tying up Jin, leaked out fantastic sounds. Of course that reaction was as expected.
They overcome the unimaginable 98000 kilometres in just that short amount of time.
After that all those suspicions disappeared without a trace, a moment later, the four of them left the shop filled with expectations.
The four of them left the shop as the warm air swept past their cheeks.
They unexpectedly moved the [Thousand Eyes] Branch shop located on a high platform, overlooking the city. The scenery that they saw did not belong to the sight they were used to seeing.
Asuka took in a deep breath, letting out a sigh that clearly states that she was satisfied.
"The red wall, the flames, as well as... A city made out of glass?"
That's right, right now there is an erected giant red wall that soared through the sky, separating the Northern and Southern district, it was clearly the Boundary wall.
They could clearly see the carvings on the ore that was a momentum on the boundary wall, as well as the 2 outer doors that merged together to form a huge and triumphant-looking wall.
Even though it was far, they could clearly see the brightly coloured glass that was engraved to look like a decorative on the corridors, Asuka was so excited that both her eyes were shining.
Even though there was still daylight, the whole city appeared to look like it was already dusk. Not only because of the decorations on the city, but there were also many huge chandeliers that produced red and warm fires to illuminate the shadows cast by the boundary walls.
Looking at the scene where candlesticks that has two legs walking about, Izayoi happily said,
"Whoa...It proved itself to be separated by 98000 kilometres from us, the cultural differences it has with us are really different. Never thought I would see the unusual sight of candlesticks walking around!"
"Fufufu. The differences between them and us are not limited to culture only. If you go behind the outer gate there would be snow everyway. It's because of the Little Garden city's enchantment and the numerous lighting, that this scenery would always be autumn."
Shiroyasha proudly patted on her flat chest. Izayoi nodded his head while continuing to admire the city.
"Whoa. So it was because of the harsh environment that the city was developed this way right? haha, it sounds more interesting than the Eastern district!"
"...Oh? I can't totally agree to what you said, kid. The eastern district has a lot of great things too! It's because of the outer gate you live in is specially desolate!" Shiroyasha said with a proud feeling.
The Outer Gate of 2105380 in the Eastern District was directly facing the [Edge of the world, so the resources they could get was limited, therefore the communities did not have enough strength to develop as they suffered the restrictions.
Her heart feeling sentimental, Asuka exciting pointed at the beautiful street view, suggesting to everyone.
"We should go there right now! I want to visit the streets filled with glass! We can right, Shiroyasha?"
"Yup, No problem at all. What I want to say can wait till night time. If you kids are free, you can participate in this gift game."
Shiroyasha pulled out an advertisement leaflet from the long sleeves of her kimono. Just when the four of them was about to look at the contents of the leaflet.
"I have finally found you. MUAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHH!"
To follow the loud and coarse voice produced, there was something like a bomb, rocking the earth when it landed.
A bunch of people were startled because of the sound. The one who created the large sound was no other than everyone's comrade, Kuro Usagi.
Kuro Usagi let out a large cry, using all her strength to jump, she arrived in front of everyone in a moment.
"He...Hehe...Hehehehehehe...Finally caught up with you guys, you problematic children!"
Kuro Usagi's pink coloured hair appeared when she was extremely agitated or angry, her whole body was continuously emitting out killing intent.
After the four problematic children realized that their very own lives were in danger, Izayoi immediately made his move.
"Quickly run away!"
"Don't you dare run !"
"Eh? Wait a moment...?" Izayoi carried Asuka in his hands, jumped down from the platform.
Kasukabe blew out a whirlwind to try and escape into the air and Kyo was about to jumped and summon his Gift, but they were slow by a few steps. Kuro Usagi used her strength to run grabbing Kyo by his shoulder and she jumped, catching Kasukabe by her boots.
"Wah...Wah...!"
"Yō-san, Kyo-san, Kuro Usagi has caught you! Kuro Usagi will never let you escape again!" The smile on Kuro Usagi was very suspicious.
Kuro Usagi pulled Kasukabe back down and brought Kyo back up, hugged both of them tightly, then whispered softly to them.
"Tonight, there will be looooooong lecture with Kuro Usagi. Fufufu, Please thoroughly prepare yourself ."
"Un...Understood."
"Al- Alright."
Hearing a non-rejectable tone from Kuro Usagi, both of them could only surrender, because their wild intuition told themselves that Kuro Usagi was much more frantic than usual. After that, Kuro Usagi threw Kasukabe and Kyo to Shiroyasha, which Kyo managed to carry her in bridal style but sadly crashed onto Shiroyasha who let out a miserable cry.
"AGHH!" Kyo get up from her as Shiroyasha manged to recover easily.
"Whoaa! Oi...Oi! Kuro Usagi! Haven't you been quite rude lately! What's more, I'm the Eastern District Floor master!"
"I shall leave them in your care then! Kuro Usagi needs to catch the other problematic children!"
Kuro Usagi shouted while ignoring Shiroyasha's words, Shiroyasha obediently nodded her head, defeated under Kuro Usagi's imposing force.
"Oh...Is...Is that so, although I don't know what happened, but good luck, Kuro Usagi."
"Good!"
Kuro Usagi jumped down from the platform. Kyo and Shiroyasha just looked at her from their current position, as for Yō, she felt comfortable in Kyo's arms as her face is tinted in red. For some reasons, she felt like wanting to stay in her arms forever. Now that she think about, her blush grew.
Shiroyasha sighed and looked at the capture problem children, she smirked.
"My, my. Never expected you to be so bold, Boy." She teased them as she took out a paper fan, covering her smile.
Kyo looked down at Yō with a hint of concern in his tone.
"You're okay?" Yō looked away unconsciously not meeting his eyes hiding her blush. She felt embarrassed for some reasons.
"Yeah I'm fine." Kyo let her down. She felt disappointed for an unknown reason. She thanked him but she still avoided meeting his gaze as her blush still present.
Shiroyasha who looked at the both of them while grinning. 'Ah, young love.'