The So-Called Trip Away from Home

"Are you not going out for a stroll anymore?"

Xi Shenlian had already gone several days without leaving the house to wander around the streets.

Imagawa Gin was sprawled on her side across the sofa, eating spicy potato chips as she lightly grumbled with some curiosity:

"Why do I feel like you've gone back to being a shut-in again? You don't go out at all for long stretches of time."

"Hmph, what a lazy man~"

At those words,

Xi Shenlian, who was playing a game nearby, casually glanced at her before immediately replying:

"I'm not going out. I'm not in the mood for it at the moment."

Then,

He still could not resist retorting to her face:

"When it comes to this sort of thing, I feel like you have even less right to criticize me. Compared to me, you're the real shut-in, aren't you?"

"I've gone on a trip away from home recently!"

Unexpectedly, Imagawa Gin immediately let out a disdainful chuckle:

"You've gone on a trip recently?"

"Tch, who hasn't~"

"Back when you were wandering around outside every day, I went out to look for you many times."

"You should know that those places were quite a distance from the Purple Dreamland Company. Even if I directly used the Superdimensional Battleship as a vehicle, it would still have taken a very, very long time to reach the destination."

"Some people with insufficient abilities could have set off from the moment they were born, and they still wouldn't have covered such a distance by the time death came for them..."

Hearing this, Xi Shenlian did not refute her claim that she had gone far away to look for him.

Instead, he chose to emphasize the method of transportation she had used.

"You said it yourself—that was while using the