Hey, it's been a while, but I've finally gotten the next chapter up. Enjoy part seven...

After regrouping with Yo and Ryo, the [No Names] and the newcomers went to the gates of [Little Garden] and entered inside to find what appeared to be a small marketplace. Wide assortments of buildings were lined up in neat rows with a variety of living creatures moving around. Humans, Lizardmen, Cat people, children, and more were all talking, walking, or shopping around casually. Fountains and plants were placed around the streets, as if trying to give a homely sort of feel to the area. Cafes and little market stalls were set up here and there, ranging from a simple coffee shop to maid cafes. The smells of fruit, cooked food, and ash filled the air, giving the feel of a small village, but from above, the area was obviously much larger than the average town, and more like a city.

"Amazing, so this is the kind of place that [Little Garden] is like?" Ryo asked with a hint of excitement in his voice.

"Yes!" Kurousagi said as she started to explain in a very professional-like manner. "Although this is just one of the many levels in [Little Garden], they are all more or less the same as what you see here! Each level of [Little garden] houses a number of communities and facilities. However, the higher up on the level you go, the rewards, facilities, and even living quarters will significantly improve each time! Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that living quarters in the lowest level can't be better than any of the higher levels, but the amount of effort you need to put into improving these conditions are usually quite difficult, so many communities…."

As Kurousagi continued to explain the situation like a hired tour guide, the newcomers were following the rest of the group while glancing around (Hardly anyone was paying attention at this point). Each had a different reaction to what they saw.

Kyle gave a casual glance around while studying the area with interest, almost like he was searching for something.

Cecillia would simply glare at the buildings and citizens that seemed to ogle to group as they passed by. However, she would occasionally look at the children that ran around with a slightly warmer face before quickly turning her line of vision towards something else.

Hikari didn't seem to care as she just happily followed her brother closely. She was not ignorant of things, as she quickly grasped the idea of how things appeared to work in this world, but was more interested in seeing the guild that her brother had helped out in.

Ryo kept changing his view from the buildings, to the creatures, to the shops, and back to the buildings. Like a child who discovered a toy store for the first time, he was very interested in everything around him, almost to the point of reaching and feeling things with his own skin for a better understanding.

"I assume that very little is different from what you've experienced in each of your own worlds." Kurousagi said. "Buying and Selling is the same here as practically every other world. You have your basic necessities available in your communities, and food and clothing must be bought with the money you've earned on your own. In other words, you shouldn't have any problems adjusting here, since your lifestyle shouldn't be that different from what you would normally do…"

"Just a minute," Asuka interrupted. "Why haven't you mentioned all of this to any of us?" she asked, referring to herself, Izayoi, and Yo. "We've been working quite hard since we've first arrived, but you've never told us that we could have simply kept money for ourselves! We were told that the money was supposed to be directly transferred to the community's reserves!"

Kurousagi froze before beads of sweat started to form from her forehead. She slowly turned around while giving a reply.

"W-Well…it might have been problematic if you problem children started to use up all the money we earn…s-so it was probably for the best to keep quiet about this for…"

"Oh, so you didn't trust us enough to handle money correctly?" Asuka began to give an evil glare as she spoke.

The blue-haired rabbit started to panic strongly. Her natural instincts started to tell her to run off, but she glanced at the other two, hoping they would understand.

Izayoi just glanced before giving a smirk and holding his arms up as if saying "Don't look at me!" Yo didn't seem to show any hostility, but her face seemed a bit gloomier than usual. She started playing with Calico cat while pretending to ignore everything that has happened until now. Kurousagi's situation was starting to look even worse by the minute, and everything went cold as she felt Asuka place one hand on her shoulder with a very frightening smile.

"Well then, let's see how irresponsible I can really be…"

As Kurousagi started to scream, Hikari and Kyle just watched on the sidelines like something pathetic was happening. Ryo didn't seem to have noticed, as he was still glancing around the area with bewilderment. Cecillia didn't seem to have noticed either, but unlike the others, she was thinking about something Kurousagi said earlier.

In other words, you shouldn't have any problems adjusting here, since your lifestyle shouldn't be that different from what you would normally do

She spat at the ground as she angrily thought back to the graffiti on the wall at her home. "You have no idea what my life was like…"

A young child, wearing robes that were obviously too large for him, appeared to be waiting in front of a large mansion-like building, which was the headquarters of the [No Names]. The child slowly walked up to greet the group of people that were arriving up ahead.

"Kurousagi! Izayoi-san!" He waved as each of them started to get closer. "It looks like you've found them!"

"Yeah, we didn't have any trouble getting them to join either, so you don't need to worry about how to ask them or anything like that." Izayoi's assurance gave him some relieve. Even though this spiky blond-haired boy was the most destructive and troublesome of the three, Jin always felt like he could rely on him to help out in the end. He sighed as he turned to look at their new help.

"So we had three more people arrive, huh?"

Kurousagi brightly turned around. "Yes! Four new people are going to…" she blinked as she noticed that Kyle and Asuka had suddenly disappeared.

"EEEHHHH?! W-W-What just happened?!"

Izayoi gave his response like he just remembered something. "Oh yeah, I think Kyle said something about looking around the area and he just grabbed 'Ojou-sama' as some kind of guide."

Kurousagi didn't seem too surprised (as she experienced this almost too-familiar scene at least once before), but her face was still frozen from the shock.

"Then why didn't you say anything?!"

"Well, I kinda felt bad about taking off on my own last time, so I decided to let our 'Ojou-sama' go off this time and kept quiet about it." He gave a cheerful grin as he continued. "Of course, Kasukabe will be the next one when the opportunity arrives."

The quietest of the trio gave a small smile. "Thank you…"

"It's no problem…"

Kurousagi thought about yelling at the two of them, but she just sighed instead. She more or less gave up on trying to restrain the "problem children" too much, and things seem to work out in the end, so she decided to pretend like nothing terrible happened because it really didn't….probably.

"A-Anyways," Jin spoke up. "We should probably get everyone introduced to the new members. So let's all go inside."

The group followed the young child leader as he pushed open the door to their headquarters.

"You sure about this?" Kyle asked as he and Asuka started walking along a busy street at the marketplace. It may have been seen as "taking", but the young girl in the red dress didn't really put up much of a resistance as he lightly grabbed her shoulder. On the contrary, it felt like she was volunteering.

"It's fine. I didn't want to simply go back and forth like a messenger, so it works out for me as well…"

"Is that so?" Kyle smirked as he stopped and gave a bow that closely resembled a butler's. "Well then, excuse me for being so rough on you, 'ojou-sama'." He added the last part with a bit more respect than the last time. Asuka gave a small curtsy as she returned his apology.

"I accept your apology, 'Kuro-san'." She said while emphasizing the end in the same tone as he emphasized.

The two of them grinned respectfully at each other before continuing on their way.

"By the way…" Asuka began. "Where exactly did you want to go look at?"

Kyle scratched his head. "Well for starters, I'd like to know if there's a place where we can ask for work and such."

"A place to find jobs?"

"Something like that…"

"Then I think I know the perfect place…"

Kyle started to follow the girl in the red dress as they went further down the street.

"Now then everyone, let's all greet our new friends!"

Kurousagi was making an announcement to all the members of the [No Names] (which more or less consisted of little children and three {currently two} "problem children"). Hikari, Ryo, and Cecillia were all standing in front of the other members, like some kind of presentation. Hikari gave a very bright smile, but the other two looked nervous as they glanced at the curious looks directed at them.

"This is Hikari, Ryo, and Cecilia. They are the newest members of our community, so make sure you all get along, ok?"

"Ok!" the children all clamored together as some of them even raised their fists.

"Well then, since we have just received some new members, let's all take a break for the rest of the day!"

Most of the children cheered while the others just sighed in relief. They all seemed tired from working hard the past few days, so a resting period was really welcome right now.

As the group of children started to spread out towards different areas of the building, Izayoi and Yo walked up to their new members.

"It's nice to finally see you guys join in…"Izayoi said as he offered his hand.

Ryo was about to give him a handshake, but Hikari suddenly jumped onto her brother and clung onto him tightly while smiling.

"Nii-sama!"

Izayoi chuckled as he helped Hikari drop gently on her feet.

"C'mon Hikari, you know that you need to be respectful around other people at least every once in a while…"

Hikari made a dejected look on her face. "Ok…"

She took a few steps back while puffing her cheeks, but Izayoi started rubbing her head.

"That's a good girl…"

Her face changed from one of annoyance to one of happiness as she started to brightly smile again. From an outside perspective, it seemed a lot like a master and his dog, but at the moment, nobody made a retort about that because a very uplifting atmosphere had suddenly filled the room.

"This is…"

Kurousagi started to feel a bit drunk from the euphoria as she slightly spread her arms out as if to bask in the feeling. Cecillia and Izayoi kept calm, but a small grin could be seen from the corner of their mouths. Yo and Ryo, who were completely new to the experience, were momentarily taken by surprise, but started to smile as they understood that it wasn't anything outwardly dangerous at the very least.

"Is this her ability?" Ryo asked Izayoi, who turned his head in response.

"Yeah, right now you're feeling the effects of what happens when she's truly happy. You know the phrase 'brimming with happiness'? Well in this case, it's happening literally."

"So this feeling we're getting…"

"Yeah, it's pretty much 'happiness' itself. Of course, the effects only last as long as she's in the right mood. When that feeling stops…"

He took his hand away from his sister's head, which made the edges of her mouth drop a bit as she felt disappointed. At the same time, the atmosphere around them seemed to be a bit heavier than before.

"It'll give you a bit of a withdrawal if you aren't used to it, but besides that, you'll be completely fine."

"Then this ability…"

"Yeah, in short it's more or less just therapeutic healing or meant for a bit of 'persuasion'."

He placed a hand from behind on her shoulder.

"Course I don't plan on letting you guys take advantage of this!"

He laughed heartily, but the look on his face had a serious tone to it, so nobody questioned how much of what he last said was true.

Kurousagi gave a slightly confused look as she watched the blond-haired boy laugh.

"Now that I think about it, Izayoi-san hasn't been as childish or perverted as he usually is lately. Is it because Hikari is around?"

She felt relieved to know that there was a way to at least tame this wild child a bit, but she also felt slightly disappointed that he was only so respectful around his blood relatives. "If only he would act this way all the time…"

For someone who's apparently troublesome, you've been very observant about him. You have some kind of thing for him?

Her face turned red as she started to recall her conversation with Kyle earlier. She started to shake her head as if to get rid of these unnecessary thoughts.

"No! There's nothing like that going on between us! Izayoi-san is just someone who's helping out the community! Of course…that's all it is…"

Her ears started to droop a bit as she felt disappointed. She lightly slapped herself on the face to bring her spirits up. After some rest, the feeling from Hikari's ability would disappear, and she'll return to normal. After all, she needed to get some paperwork done before their new members would be "officially" registered.

Unbeknownst to her, the aftereffects had worn off right after Izayoi started to laugh, almost immediately before she started to think about their relationship.

Author's note: Yeah, that time again.

So I've finally decided to put this up after getting my new game. Let me just say that I have NOT forgotten ANY of your characters, so rest assured.

Stuff happened besides my new game, I won't go into details or anything, but both good and bad things have happened recently, so I was having a bit of trouble finding time to work on this until now. I'm not exactly sure how everything works in the world of [Little Garden], so I'm just sort of trying to get by with the knowledge I do have from the anime and LN. Hopefully it's more or less accurate to what they've done.

Um...I guess there's nothing else I really need to say, but I will probably do this right now...

DISCLAIMER: THIS FANFICTION IS PURELY MEANT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY! THERE IS NO INTENTION OF MAKING MONEY OR ANY KIND OF EARNINGS OUTSIDE FROM THE AUTHOR'S PERMISSION.

So yeah, I've finally got that done, so that's it, and I'll try to get the next chapter up in the next couple of days or so.