The streets outside Iketerite Academy were relatively quiet, lined on both sides with small shops and cafés that were open for business.
It was a weekday morning, and at this hour, the shop lights looked soft beneath the daylight as they prepared to welcome the lunchtime customers. Occasionally, one or two employees could be seen wiping the windows or arranging the shelves, getting ready for the day that had only just begun.
Hughberlian and Talia walked slowly, leisurely immersed in the tranquility of winter.
"Speaking of which, Mr. Noe, Lanchi's father, has returned to the South Wantina Border Territory. Tata, you're from the South Wantina Territory too, right? Could we go back together next time?"
Hughberlian said this.
Tata had gone back early on the day of the competition, so she had not been able to meet Lanchi's father with him afterward.
Mr. Noe had said that competition would remain unforgettable for the rest of his life. The thing he regretted most in his life was buying Lanchi a ticket to the royal capital.
But what was done was done.
Noe hoped that Hughberlian could go play in the border territory with Lanchi during the holidays. He was very optimistic about this girl who excelled both academically and morally, possessed a firm moral conscience, and was the same age as Lanchi.
"..."
Although Talia was not from South Wantina, the identity information Lanchi had arranged for her did indeed list her as a resident of that border territory.
Still, Talia had a very good impression of the South Wantina Border Territory. Her decades of wandering had begun to change course in the South Wantina Territory, and everything afterward had become dreamlike.
The butler Hans and maid Francine at the Lanqi Family home had also treated her very well. She had