For the next several days, no one knew whether it was intentional or not.
At any rate!
Annie simply wandered around everywhere. Even when the interrupted Demon Lord's Gift Game was about to resume, she showed no intention of returning to the northern district city controlled by the Salamandra Community.
As a result, she naturally never ran into Black Rabbit, Izayoi Sakamaki, Asuka Kudou, or You Kasukabe. That completely dashed the naive hopes of certain people who wanted to find her and have Her Majesty Queen Annie personally step in to turn the tide.
And so, after searching high and low without success, Black Rabbit, Izayoi Sakamaki, Asuka Kudou, and You Kasukabe had no choice but to work with the Salamandra Community's fire dragon, Sandora, and the many other affected communities. While they worked hard to study and solve the riddle-like "Pied Piper of Hamelin" Gift Game, they struggled against Pest, the Black Death Demon Lord, and her community members. Pest had once belonged to the Demon Lord Alliance "Ouroboros," hailed from a powerful five-digit community, and possessed an inheritance originating from the Black Death.
Of course, strictly speaking, it couldn't entirely be called a struggle.
After the battle began, that useless Russell unexpectedly solved the riddle with ease. Once he led the other cannon-fodder community members in following the crucial clues and forced the Demon Lord Pest to respond, the battle went much more smoothly.
In any case, Pest, the Black Death Demon Lord, had made a huge mistake.
Her mistake was agreeing, out of greed, to Izayoi Sakamaki's request to add Black Rabbit to the Gift Game when Black Rabbit invoked her Judgment authority and brought both sides to the negotiating table!
After all, who was Black Rabbit?
She was a member of the Moon Rabbit clan, a