How Could She Be Called a Powerful Enemy?
December.
It was the final month of the year.
During this month, schools almost everywhere began their winter vacations, allowing students to welcome a long holiday while starting to consider returning to their hometowns to visit their families.
After all, New Year's Day was fast approaching, and the new year was nearly upon them. Countless people returned home to see their relatives and celebrate the New Year. No matter how cold the winter weather became, there was never any shortage of people wanting to return home.
Unfortunately, this rule did not entirely apply to Kageno Island.
As a perpetually summery island floating in the middle of the Pacific, Kageno Island's temperature still exceeded twenty degrees even during the winter vacation. The sunlight remained as intense as ever, and the leaves on the roadside trees grew lush and green, casting deep shadows across the roads. No matter how one looked at it, such weather could not be called cold.
Kageno Island still had a winter vacation, however.
Now that two months had passed since the Haronin Festival, the schools across Kageno Island had begun their winter vacations, and many people were likewise returning home to visit their families.
Because Kageno Island was a Demon Race Special Administrative Zone, entering or leaving the island required extremely complicated and cumbersome procedures. Combined with the high cost of plane tickets, those wishing to return home would usually purchase their tickets and submit their applications in advance. As a result, Kageno Island was quite lively during this period, giving one the impression that the Haronin Festival had yet to end.
Of course, that applied to those who had left during the Haronin Festival and only returned now.
No matter how much he tried to reassure himself, two