"It's you girls?"
Megumin let out a surprised cry when she saw the people Youyou had shown in.
Clearly, Megumin knew them.
Fang Li was somewhat surprised as well.
However, Fang Li was not surprised because he knew them; rather, he was surprised precisely because he did not.
The people Youyou had shown in were not Kazuma, Aqua, and Darkness, but three girls.
The girls had apparently not expected Megumin to be here, much less a man in the room. Their eyes widened in considerable surprise as well.
"Well, this is..."
"Megumin is here too!?"
"A-and there's even a man!?"
The three girls spoke up, some in astonishment and some in alarm.
"You are...?"
Fang Li tilted his head in confusion.
In that situation, Youyou stepped forward.
"They were Megumin's and my classmates back when we were students."
As she said this, Megumin and Youyou introduced them together.
The three girls who had appeared in the room each had their own distinctive features.
One was a tall, curvaceous girl who looked nothing like she could be the same age as Megumin and Youyou. She wore an eyepatch over her left eye.
Another was a petite girl with a single ponytail.
The last was also petite, but had twin-tails.
These three girls had been Megumin's and Youyou's classmates during their school days.
According to Youyou, the tall girl with the eyepatch was Aru. She had often ranked third during their school days, behind only Megumin and Youyou. She had learned advanced magic by the time she graduated, but aspired to become a writer. She had remained in the village ever since, working hard on her writing every day.
According to Megumin, Aru was a lot like Fang Li: normally unmoved by anything, impossible to tell what she was thinking even in