-"It counts."
-"Oh."
After Yu Xunge said "oh," Dawn Cicada's arm, which had seemed to be wound up like clockwork, finally stopped, and her Flower Branch stopped clutching her own arm and shaking it frantically.
Holding her arm, Yu Xunge gave Dawn Cicada an utterly speechless look. In that brief span, Dawn Cicada had elbowed her all the way from the middle of the path to its edge, nearly knocking her into the Flower Field...
The sea of flowers closed automatically behind them. Only once things finally quieted down did Yu Xunge have the attention to spare for the flowers here. Without exception, they were varieties she had seen in the "Lighthouse."
Only when she smelled that familiar floral fragrance, the one she smelled on herself every day, did the god ahead stop walking.
The line of apprentices emerged from the path that had opened through the flowers, and the figures ahead spread out. Yu Xunge stood amid a sea of white flowers dotted with red, just like this Cloud Palace Flower Island.
As their party arrived, those white petals instantly scattered, surging into the sky and out in every direction to become a rain of flowers.
Young Stage [Crown of Flowers Murder].
Amid the rain of flowers, five round magical tables emerged from beneath the petals that had submerged them. Each table had a chair on either side, with all sorts of decorations topping their backrests.
Crab Claw, Fox Tail, Butterfly Wing, Grapefruit, Desert Whale.
Gem, Flower Branch, Flower Branch, Owl Feather, Shifting Cloud.
At one end of the round magical tables stood two luxurious chairs, with a small table between them bearing a fruit platter, wineglasses, fine wine, and a hamster wearing a suit and sunglasses. With both hands folded in front, the hamster stood ramrod straight, looking