A few minutes later.
"Fors, are you saying you were robbed by a black cat, and it carried off both pies?"
A petite woman with short hair spoke, suspicion filling her slightly baby-faced features. "I really find that hard to believe. Did you eat both pies yourself and then lie to me?"
At the same time, her eyes unconsciously swept over the brown-haired woman's stomach.
"I didn't eat them all myself!"
Fors Wall cried out, feeling terribly wronged, and hurriedly covered her waist. "And Xio, stop looking me up and down!"
"Well, if you're telling the truth, you're pretty useless."
Xio Derecha, whose short hair was blond, looked at her with disdain welling up in her eyes. "And you call yourself a Beyonder. You actually got robbed by a cat... even an ordinary person wouldn't be so weak that a cat could steal their food!"
"That cat was different!"
Fors cried, losing her composure. "It was especially beautiful, and especially clever..."
She offered a few feeble explanations, but when she saw that her companion didn't believe a word of it, she simply shifted the blame onto her. "Actually, it was all your fault. You took so long over there that I lost focus!"
"All right, all right, stop arguing." Xio was getting annoyed. She scratched her short blond hair and forcibly brought the subject to an end. "Let's put that aside. Anyway, we'll buy another two pies and hurry up and finish lunch. I have something to do this afternoon."
"What is it?"
Noticing something unusual about her, Fors frowned slightly. "...Is the assignment Gold Mask gave you difficult?"
"Not particularly. I just think it deserves to be taken seriously."
Xio answered, withdrawing her right hand into her sleeve to touch the triangular military spike hidden inside. "A new gang