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Tengu City...
Though it was clearly morning, dark clouds blanketed the skies above Tengu City, making it all too believable that it could start raining at any moment.
It was still early, yet the surroundings had already grown dim. The pitch-black sky brought an unimaginable sense of oppression. In such weather, after finishing the shopping Shiori had asked them to do, Tohka, Yekusaya, and Yuzuru were in rather poor moods as they headed back toward the Itsuka Household.
Rather, their moods had been low all day. The weather was merely making it worse.
"It's already been a day..." Yekusaya rarely looked so listless and sighing. She raised her head to look at the black sky, her voice somewhat weak.
"The master has been gone for a whole day..."
"Correction..." Yuzuru carried a bag full of ingredients while narrowing her eyes slightly.
"The master left in the morning, and it has not yet become night. Therefore, strictly speaking, the master has not been gone for a full day..."
"Don't say that. Shido has things he needs to do too..." Although she said that, Tohka also looked utterly unenthused.
"And he's only been gone for a day. Back when we were in another world, Shido left for a very, very long time..."
"A very, very long time?..." Yekusaya looked at Tohka.
"How long was that?..."
"I remember..." Tohka frowned in distress and counted on her fingers before finally giving a vague answer.
"About ten days, I think?..."
"Surprise, ten days?..." Yuzuru's mercury-colored eyes widened slightly.
"The master said that the time ratio between our world and his world was 1:100. Wouldn't ten days mean that the master spent several years in another