Actually, by normal standards, if someone had come from far away to find you, then after picking them up from the station, you ought to give them a proper welcome. You should let a guest who had traveled such a long way rest for at least half a day before doing anything else. After all, there was a saying: a journey of a thousand miles was exhausting. Traveling far was always tiring and troublesome. So my first thought had been to let Anu Lili rest for a while, but she said she was not tired at all. She had not even realized that she had already crossed who knew how many "mountains and rivers." The distance from her world to Shadow City could no longer be measured simply in terms of near or far. Numerically, it was a journey frighteningly vast, yet Anu Lili had completed it, including the time wasted by missing her stop, in only twenty-two minutes... The Empire's teleportation technology had changed many things founded on common sense. I felt that arranging lodgings for a girl who had only left home twenty minutes ago was one of the stupidest things I had ever done.
Since she did not need to rest, we naturally took Anu Lili around directly. It was not mealtime yet, and I had always divided my daily life according to meals. It worked better than a schedule. Perhaps Sandora had influenced me. We had just left Dimensional Hub Plaza, and Anu Lili was still utterly absorbed in the magnificent buildings around her, so I decided to plan out our sightseeing route before pulling her out of it.
But just then, while I was not paying attention, Anu Lili struck up a conversation with one of the small vendors commonly found near the hub plaza.