Searching for the Missing Fox Spirit (?▽?)

The weather in Ionia was excellent today—or at least, it was in the region where these mountains and forests lay.

High above, the sky was clear and blue, with light winds and wispy clouds...

Sunlight slanted through the branches and forks of the towering ancient trees, bringing essential light to this cool, dim forest. Magic sprites of all kinds flitted about, while countless wild animals and low shrubs hid and stirred among the undergrowth.

However, at this moment,

In this forest filled with magic, seas of flowers, all kinds of wild creatures, vegetation, and towering ancient trees, a vigorous, bald old man with blue skin and a long beard was leading a somewhat listless little girl slowly along a forest trail. No one knew whether human merchants or nearby Vastaya had trampled it into existence.

The one leading the way, occasionally stopping to sense or confirm their direction, was none other than the blue-skinned, bald, wandering Archmage Ryze! Behind him trailed a girl carrying a stuffed Little Bear, her face full of reluctance and impatience. She pouted, periodically stopping to kick the wildflowers and grasses by the roadside, or suddenly shouting to scare off some curious wild animal that had poked its head out of the bushes to observe her. Clearly, she was little Annie, whom some bald Archmage had conscripted into service!

"..."

ヽ(′~｀;)

Clearly,

Annie had no desire to follow some bald-headed old man on a hurried, purposeful journey across this beautiful great island of Ionia... Queen Annie only wanted to run wild and have fun, wander wherever she pleased, or cause trouble for everyone she met?

Of course, she could also eat every last one of the adorable little animals living on this great island, filled with the aura of primal magic?

In any case, she did