"Eh? Candy?" Leone unceremoniously grabbed a handful of the candy Tatsumi had brought back, holding one up to inspect it. "What strange candy. Rainbow candy?"
As she spoke, she quickly moved over to Mine's side. "Say, Mine, that thing you're carrying must be heavy. Want me to hold it for you?"
"No! Pumpkin is heavy too, but I got used to this little bit of weight long ago!" Mine moved the enormous lollipop she was carrying aside, dodging Leone's thieving hand. What was hers was hers—she would never give it to anyone else!
"Is that so? What a pity. I don't remember anywhere in the Imperial Capital selling something like this, though. Sheele, you should try some too." Leone passed several pieces of candy to the ditzy glasses girl.
"Huh? They're gummy candies?" The glasses girl reached out and squeezed one. Unexpectedly, it was soft rather than hard.
"Ah? Of course they're soft. Otherwise, if they fell from that high up, they'd hurt people no matter what." Mine curled her lips. She had given that some thought. Those candies scattered from hundreds of meters in the air would definitely smash things or hurt people if they were hard candy.
Switching to gummies solved that problem. He had even thought of details like that—maybe that guy wasn't as crazy as he looked after all. Perhaps he had just temporarily had a screw loose.
"By the way, where's the boss? I discovered that guy who might be an Imperial Arm showed something different. The Imperial Capital was turned upside down today; even the other 'strongest' made a move."
"So that earthshaking explosion earlier really was connected to the Imperial Capital?" Najenda pondered in the meeting room. "Even from here, we saw that incredibly shocking blast wave. What has become of the Imperial