"Hey!"
"Any of you find anything?"
"Report!"
"Nothing over here!"
"Nothing on our side either!"
"You..."
"Go check over there!"
"Yes, sir!"
"And you lot! Go to the right!"
"Yes, sir!"
"The rest of you, come with me!"
While a certain troublesome little girl was fast asleep on her bear-skin sofa, with no idea how much time had passed, the quiet, rundown city was finally interrupted by a growing commotion outside: people shouting and cursing, things being tossed around, and doors and windows being kicked in.
"..."
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"Mm..."
(Huh?)
"Tibbers, why is it so noisy outside...?"
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Soon after, Annie, the troublesome little girl who had slept until who-knows-when, finally woke up. With no sun in the sky, she'd lost track of time—and forgotten she had something important to do today.
(Reporting, my esteemed little mistress: the humans you let go yesterday have brought a large number of soldiers to search for us. They'll probably reach this abandoned place you're in within a few minutes.)
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(Without waiting for her troublesome little mistress to wake up properly—or for her to roll over and go back to sleep—Tibbers hurriedly and gently warned her.)
"Huh?"
━(What?∥)━N
"They're here already? So early?"
=(???*)
"Do those guys never sleep in?"
?°(°ˉ??ˉ?°)°?
Annie glanced up at the dilapidated window. The sky outside still looked gray, so she assumed it was early and quietly grumbled about the people who'd come looking for her.
"The sun isn't even up yet. What a nuisance!"
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She didn't care whether this world even had a sun, or that she was on someone else's turf. As she slowly sat up, Annie muttered about those other people's soldiers, who didn't sleep in and had gone out to work so "early."
"R-Report!"
"General!"
"There are some small footprints in the courtyard