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"Sigh..."
After leaving the central hall of the Baruba Empire's royal palace, Tohka seemed as though a heavy burden had been lifted from her shoulders and began sighing repeatedly.
"Um..." Yoshino, who had been clutching Tohka's sleeve tightly and looked like she had been bullied, making it impossible to imagine that she was a Ninth Order powerhouse, spoke worriedly.
"Tohka, are you hungry again?..."
"Mm, I am a little hungry..." Tohka first rubbed her flat stomach, which did not have an ounce of excess fat, before shaking her head.
"And I feel a little tired too..."
"Tired?..." Kurumi looked at Tohka with some surprise.
"That really is unusual..."
Though Tohka was not especially lively by nature, she was certainly cheerful.
Therefore, whenever Tohka had seemed listless in the past, it was generally only because she was hungry. For her to sigh because she was tired was indeed quite unusual.
"Because the people in there were really unpleasant..." Tohka wrinkled her little nose.
"I don't know why, but they just feel really unpleasant. Every time I see the way they look at us, I feel disgusted!"
"As expected of Tohka, I feel the same way!" Miku immediately nodded in agreement.
"The way those men looked at us was absolutely disgusting. It was as if they saw people as snacks, as though they could eat them whenever they wanted and throw them away whenever they wanted. It was so unpleasant. No, no. I definitely need to take a proper bath when we get back. After being stared at like that for so long, it feels like even my skin has become rough!"
"Th-though I don't dislike them as much as Tohka and Miku do..." Yoshino spoke