After the enormous cat that could walk upright went inside with a little girl,
Josie followed Cecily's advice and waited at the entrance for the other arriving guests.
The next visitor was a... girl wearing the robes of the Advanced Magic Academy?
"Hello."
Josie looked her over from head to toe. By appearance alone, she was definitely a girl, yet some voice within Josie told her that judgment was wrong.
"Be... Belle?"
Her friend Reddels had a far sharper eye than Josie. She recognized at once that the person before them was the actor who had played Belle in Beauty and the Demon.
Although Belle was not wearing that golden gown now, and her formerly beautiful long hair had become a more delicate neck-length bob,
Reddels still immediately matched the person before her with the character in her memory.
"What Belle? Beauty and the Demon?"
Prompted by her friend, Josie remembered as well. The two girls pointed at I Nuo standing at the entrance, utterly speechless.
"Hello. That was a role I played a long time ago, but I'm still quite happy that people remember it."
I Nuo shyly scratched his cheek. Over the past few years, he had grown up... transforming from a beautiful young girl into a handsome young man.
"Actually, I'm here to help today too." I Nuo carefully slipped past the two girls and, once inside the hall, began doing his usual work.
Josie and her friend Reddels watched Zennas and I Nuo busily working in the hall.
"Does your dad have some connection to the Beauty and the Demon crew?"
Reddels could not help lightly nudging Josie beside her with her elbow.
"Getting the two leads from Beauty and the Demon to come help us arrange the tableware is beyond merely having connections, isn't it?"