"Ah."
"Ugh."
Amid cries of pained groaning, figures lay sprawled across the street in front of Lilith's Patisserie, practically covering the entire road.
Some were dressed extravagantly and were clearly nobles. Some were fully equipped and were clearly guards. Even Knights from the Knights lay among them, rolling weakly on the ground as though they had been beaten flat, looking to be in considerable pain.
Aiyi stood in the middle of this scene of devastation, a pillow tucked under one arm and a pastry in her other hand. She nibbled at it now and then as though everything around her had nothing to do with her—or rather, as though this level of disaster was simply insignificant to her. She looked utterly at ease.
"W-What happened here?"
Shien was dumbfounded.
He had only been gone for a little while. How had this place become like this?
"Hm?"
Aiyi seemed to notice Shien's return. She turned toward him, then leisurely walked over.
"Did you finish what you had to do?"
Stepping over the people lying on the ground, Aiyi came before Shien and asked as casually as if nothing had happened.
She looked as though absolutely nothing had occurred.
"I-I'm back," Shien answered sluggishly. Then he finally reacted and asked in astonishment, "What happened to these people?"
"What do you mean, what happened?" Aiyi did not understand what Shien meant. Tilting her head, she said, "Didn't you tell me to send them flying?"
"Me?" Shien pointed at his own nose, then remembered.
Before leaving, he really had told Aiyi not to wander too far and not to let anyone trick her. If someone came up to talk to her and invited her to go play with them, she was to punch them away immediately.
In other words...
"These people ended up like