"Are you planning to go to the Giant King's Court? Could you take my sister and me along?"
When Franca and Jenna gave no answer, the girl standing before them repeated her question. With blonde hair and purple eyes, she looked underage, but her features were already beginning to blossom, making her endearingly lovely.
The other girl beside her, whose long black hair was simply tied back and who looked rather quiet, also gazed expectantly at Franca.
How could anyone turn them down... yeah, right! Why would two girls whose clothes clearly marked them as anything but ordinary suddenly turn up in a little place this far from a big city and ask to tag along? No matter how you looked at it, something was off.
Although she was on vacation, Franca, a Calamity Messenger and member of a Beyonder organization, still maintained a basic degree of vigilance in this small town, where the number of Beyonders could probably be counted on one hand. She did not immediately agree just because of the other party's "advantages" in appearance.
She had heard far too many stories in the church and the Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society about powerful Beyonders coming to grief over seemingly trivial matters.
Scrutinizing the two girls, Franca quickly spotted several suspicious points.
Although Afternoon Town was not large, it stood in the most prominent part of the East Continent, closest to the Sonia Sea, right beside the first port established during the continent's development. Nearly all immigrants from other regions and goods being shipped in and out had to pass through it. Yet the two girls were not dressed like the locals, who generally wore plain clothes and looked travel-worn. Instead, they resembled children from middle-class families in Loen or Intis.
If they really were locals, they should