Chapter Two: Nameless (cont.)

"This young man with those seemingly extraordinary eyes, could you introduce the circumstances of this rabbit girl's Community, who seems to have some hidden difficulties?"

"What is there to introduce that you don't already know?"

Li Zihan spoke calmly. The three Problem Children present were all highly intelligent; some things did not need to be said outright.

"Miss Black Rabbit has already said that several years ago, her Community was still a very powerful force. In other words, that is no longer the case now, right?"

Towa Asuka sighed. Black Rabbit could not even lie properly—how could she possibly deceive Problem Children like them?

"Your Community must have encountered some unimaginable predicament for some reason. Either it declined, or it urgently needed manpower, which was why it had no choice but to summon humans with the highest-level Gifts from another world. Is that right?"

Black Rabbit lowered her head, and her rabbit ears, which had been standing upright, drooped as well.

"Three years ago, we were defeated in a Game held by a Demon Lord whose identity remains unknown. Overnight, we lost everything essential to the Community: our core members, the Community's name, and its flag."

Black Rabbit gave a few hollow laughs in response to the Problem Children's calm remarks, then dropped to her knees in dejection. Once she actually put those circumstances into words, she could not help feeling that perhaps her Community had no reason to continue existing at all.

But... she wanted to protect the home that would allow her lost companions to return, to preserve a place for those companions who had vanished after playing Gift Games with Demon Lords.

Even if that home was now nothing more than ruins—or rather, a historical site.

"Demon Lord?"

The moment he heard that term, Sakaigami Todoh, who