"I think you should be the only Outlander."
While Shade was lost in thought, the whispering voice by his ear spoke gently.
"Why?"
The arrival of an Outlander was luck among luck. The appearance of even one was already a miracle. There could not possibly be a second.
"Then why is there The Little Match Girl?"
There are no coincidences in this world, only inevitabilities piled upon inevitabilities. Besides, haven't you already guessed the reason?
Shade smiled. If there was no second Outlander, then the answer was indeed quite clear.
Today was wednesday. Once he crossed zero hour, it would be exactly one week since he had last used the Time Key.
"Looks like this Outlander isn't completely without advantages."
The woman's pleasant laughter reached his ears again.
"Shade, did you hear me?"
Only then did Shade realize that Miss Louisa had been speaking to him. He looked up and said apologetically:
"Sorry, I was thinking about something just now. What did you say?"
"I said, if you don't do something about your cat, it's going to leap out of the basket."
The blonde writer said this while touching her earlobe.
"Meow~"
Mia let out a "threatening" cry at Miss Louisa. She was just short of jumping onto the dining table.
After dinner, Shade bid Miss Louisa farewell. Before leaving, he also asked her about placing an advertisement in the newspaper. Miss Louisa directly pulled out a stack of business cards from her handbag and stuffed them into his hands. They belonged to newspapers she had worked with before.
"One of them is bound to suit you."
Looking forward to tonight's events, Shade did not go anywhere else after parting with the writer. Instead, he carried Little Mia straight back to Saint Derain Square. The Time Key could only be