Miss Hinako felt that her luck had been terrible today.
As an immortal elf, she would not starve or die of thirst even without food or water, but she still found this way of maintaining her vital signs far too uncomfortable—after all, nothing in life should come before good food.
Thus, the literary young woman, having regained her elegant bearing, wandered along the old streets near the Clock Tower around noon, when there were fewer people about, hoping to find some local specialties.
But she had not expected to run into the second person she least wanted to see after a certain scum of humanity in a dessert shop.
"Huh? Isn't this... Ah, sorry, let me think—um, Miss Hinako?"
Standing before her was Ridel, the self-proclaimed "super British beauty" she had met that morning. Ridel elegantly swallowed a piece of chocolate cake.
Hinako Akuta hurriedly raised the book she carried with her to shield her face, but Ridel's sharp eyes caught her all the same.
"Ahahaha... haha... what a coincidence..."
Ridel leaned closer with a solemn expression and looked her over from head to toe. "A coincidence? I finally caught a fellow Botany Department student. We clearly agreed at Karnak Mall to return to the Clock Tower together, yet you ran off early and made me wait for half the day."
The guilty Hinako's lips twitched a few times. "Ahaha, well... sorry, I... actually..."
Actually, I snuck in.
She really wanted to say that.
"Actually, I'll be leaving London soon..."
Hinako did not think she was lying. After the commotion that morning, she probably could not keep up this identity any longer.
Rather than being caught red-handed, she might as well make a run for it first. After all, she had already obtained some of the information she wanted from