Witch C.C. looked at Gilgamesh, who was already lying on the ground as a corpse.
"By the way, how did Akasaka lure this guy over here?"
Mio Takamiya guessed, "It probably has something to do with that Chuunibyou Mode ability?"
"If that thing were in the real world, Akasaka's physical abilities wouldn't be enough to cause much of a stir."
"But now he's in the game world, and he seems to have obtained something that can rapidly restore his stamina, so he drew Gilgamesh here."
Witch C.C. caught the flaw in her wording. "Wasn't that ability given to Akasaka by you?"
Witch C.C. had always assumed that Chuunibyou Mode was something Mio Takamiya had given him for self-defense.
Yet, judging from Mio Takamiya's tone, that ability did not seem to have come from her.
Mio Takamiya shook her head. "I wasn't the one who gave him that ability..."
Mio Takamiya subconsciously raised her head and looked through the window at the moon in the sky.
The moon.
Somewhere within a luxurious palace built from blue crystal.
At the center of the palace, near the courtyard, lay an open sea of blue flowers.
Someone lay quietly atop that sea of blue flowers.
With long, straight golden hair, crimson eyes, and a white princess dress, she resembled a sleeping beauty. Her hands rested over her abdomen as she slept peacefully.
She slightly opened her blood-red eyes and said something utterly inexplicable.
"Ah~, I'm so bored!"
This beautiful woman rolled over without the slightest concern for her image, then rolled back again.
As though throwing a tantrum, she stretched her limbs straight and rolled around, nearly flattening the sea of flowers.
"I'm so bored!!!!"
Then she abruptly sat up, spat out the petals she had accidentally gotten into her mouth, and muttered—
"That