Honestly, Annie had never wanted to go looking for some Christmas Boss, and she certainly didn't want a resurrection item!
What she liked much more was wandering around, killing monsters, earning money, and buying tasty food. Then she'd wait for that cat-faced young lady to find her the exact information and location of the Floor Boss. After that, she'd head up the tower, go straight to some unlucky Boss's room, and cut them down as quickly as possible. Then she'd be able to move on to the next floor.
Anyway, that was how she'd spent this whole time, and it had been pretty fun.
Each floor had its own delicious food, too. She'd spent more than a year in this game world without even realizing it, and right now, she wasn't thinking of leaving at all.
Of course, maybe she'd simply forgotten that she could leave whenever she wanted?
But...
Sometimes, things just turned out strangely!
"Huh?"
(ˉ?ˉ;)
"That's..."
(°ー°〃)
While Annie had no intention whatsoever of looking for a fir tree or fighting the special Christmas Boss, a huge, faintly glowing fir tree suddenly appeared in the forest she was heading toward, making her pause in surprise.
"All right!"
╮(╯▽╰)╭
After hesitating for a moment and thinking it over, she finally ran in its direction.
"..."
|?˙?˙)?
Before long, she peeked out from behind a large tree and discovered that two groups had apparently already spotted the fir tree and were confronting each other in the freezing snow.
"Looks like you were followed too..."
"Klein..."
"Tch!"
"You're right!"
"They're probably those unscrupulous guys from the Divine Dragons Alliance. This is bad..."
"Yeah!"
"Those guys will do anything for a rare item, even PK someone!"
"Yeah, this is a real pain."
"What do we do?"
"Can't be helped. We have