"...Fourth Brother?"
Staring blankly at the familiar, handsome Youth before her, smiling gently, Fiona's eyes widened in disbelief.
"It's me, dear sister. Have you been well lately...?"
Before Anvis could finish, the Girl suddenly broke into a small run, threw herself into his arms.
"Brother!"
Clinging tightly to Anvis, Fiona practically hung from him, as if she wanted to release all the worry she had been holding in since his disappearance.
After Anvis had been taken away by enemies, the Girl had always felt somewhat guilty, believing that her brother's disappearance had been caused by her.
Sometimes, she had even dreamed that the enemies were subjecting her brother to all manner of torture, just like the scenes described in those heroic biographies.
"..."
Anvis said nothing at once. With a gentle expression, he lightly held the small Girl in his arms and let her vent her emotions.
Her body felt light and warm against him. At this distance, he could smell the faint, sunlit fragrance clinging to her.
After a while, once the Girl had calmed down, Anvis let her go again.
"So, Fi, why were you with the Spark organization earlier? Was that some task arranged by the family as well?"
Seated on the soft Snowdown Sofa, Anvis looked at the Girl beside him, who was leaning against him as she had when they were children, and asked with slight puzzlement.
Although he knew that her appearance here was most likely due to some Fortuitous Encounter arranged by fate, he was still quite curious about the details.
"No, it was actually an accident. Brother, do you remember the fragment of the Stellar Disk I mentioned before?"
"That day, after I played Star Fantasy in the Family Secret Realm, the fragment suddenly began glowing, then teleported me into the Ruins