Her words were gentle and warm.
"..." Anna wanted to laugh, but felt a little too embarrassed to do so.
She looked toward Griseo.
"..." Griseo, in turn, gazed at Five Rivers Shiori with a faintly resentful look.
Five Rivers Shiori suddenly felt as if she were sitting on pins and needles. She was at a loss, her heart pounding with panic.
"Kotori... what's going on? I shouldn't have given myself away..." Five Rivers Shiori secretly spoke to Fraxinus through her hidden earpiece.
She had done her best to act natural.
Why... were the two of them looking at her like that?
Obviously.
Fraxinus's strategists believed that—
Although Anna could not see anything unusual,
Griseo's every gesture revealed an artistic air. Even when she had turned back time earlier, she had displayed her power through an apparition resembling a painted sketch.
The odds were that it had something to do with painting.
Following that line of thought,
her Spirit power was almost certainly related to painting and art.
If she could create the image of an art student who had gone out to sketch from life,
and then approach them,
it would certainly seem especially appropriate.
It wouldn't seem abrupt, either.
More importantly—
it might well pique their curiosity and bring them closer.
After all, sharing a hobby made it easy to find common ground~
Whatever they talked about would feel natural.
But why...
did their reactions seem a little off?
"The section in the middle of the palette is for holding clean water. It isn't for mixing paint directly."
After staring for quite a while,
Griseo realized that Five Rivers Shiori was sitting there blankly, completely unaware of her mistake.
She spoke softly, as if pointing out an error.
"Pfft~" Anna finally couldn't hold it in any longer. She