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Perhaps because Garin, Linya, Mula, and Magnubi had made no effort to lower their voices, the contents of their conversation naturally reached the ears of the two people facing each other from afar on the ground.
"Cynthia...?"
"Yakumo Yukari...?"
The two girls muttered at the same time, their gazes toward one another gradually filling with interest.
Yukari had not expected that such a youthful-looking, lovely girl—one who appeared to be in her twenties, or perhaps even her teens—would be a Demigod Rank powerhouse. Sparlier World was not like Gensokyo, where yokai, vampires, undead, celestials, and all sorts of other beings existed, and creatures with lifespans as long as heaven and earth could be found just by looking around the streets.
In this world, humans were the dominant life-form, yet human lives were also pitifully fragile. Yukari did not think the girl opposite her was anything other than human.
But could an ordinary human cultivate to the Demigod Rank at the age of ten or twenty?...
The answer was naturally no!
And yet, such a person had appeared before her. Though she did not yet know whether there was some hidden story behind it, that did not stop Yukari from being curious about Cynthia.
Moreover, without using the system's perception, she had been unable to detect the other's presence. How could Yakumo Yukari, the Yokai Sage, not be curious?...
As for that lovely girl, Cynthia, her curiosity was much simpler.
She was merely curious. Why could this beautiful girl opposite her, who seemed to be around the same age, detect her presence?...
Such a thing had never happened before!
The thing that concealed Cynthia's presence was no ordinary item...
At that moment, the two equally