(Thank you very much to 'Yuezuki Tatsuha' for the tip!)
"What happened?..."
When that voice reached the ears of the two people confronting each other, both their expressions changed.
Wu Yan's surprise carried a trace of delight.
Alice's astonishment carried a trace of unease.
Under those circumstances, the owner of the voice appeared before Wu Yan and Alice as well.
She was riding a broomstick, dressed in a black-and-white witch-like outfit with an apron, with a pointed witch's hat perched on her head.
It was none other than Marisa.
"I heard a huge bang while I was at home drinking mushroom soup! It scared me so badly that I knocked over the soup I'd worked so hard to make!" Marisa shouted as she leisurely flew over on her broom. When she saw the giant hole blasted into Alice's house, she cried out even louder.
"Whoa! What happened here?!"
Neither Wu Yan nor Alice paid any attention to Marisa's fussing. They looked at each other, then one snorted and turned away while the other quietly let out a breath and wiped nonexistent cold sweat from his forehead.
Since Marisa had arrived, unless Alice wanted to make a bigger deal out of this and risk letting Marisa find out what had happened, she probably would not attack again.
Of course, Alice not attacking did not mean Marisa would let the matter go.
Curiously watching Wu Yan and Alice face off in midair without speaking, Marisa tilted her head. As if recalling something, she raised a brow and looked at Wu Yan strangely.
"Say, Yakumo Family guy. Don't tell me you came looking for trouble with Alice again because of something involving the Seven Deadly Sins?..."
At those words, both Wu Yan and Alice twitched at the corners of their mouths.
When Wu