Have Them Come Back First, Quickly

Whoosh—

Katie swept both hands across the air.

The scene around Lan Qingyou and the others instantly changed from the Library back to the deck.

"This..."

As soon as they returned, they realized that Esmeralda, who should have been standing across from Lan Qingyou, had disappeared.

But at least they were back.

Everyone could finally relax a little.

Honestly...

It felt like more had happened today than in the entire previous year.

They were exhausted.

Not only were they physically drained from the great battle...

They were mentally exhausted, too.

After all, they had suffered two Mental Attacks.

Even if, according to Katie, one of them didn't really count as a Mental Attack,

to those of them who had experienced it, it had felt exactly the same.

Unlike the others, old Nemo wasn't nearly as relaxed.

She suddenly stood up and called to a Sailor standing not far behind them.

"Hey, did anything happen to us just now?"

Nemo's question immediately caught the attention of the others, who had only just relaxed.

Then they understood what she meant.

"No. The governor and the rest of you stayed right where you were."

The Sailor shook his head.

All right, now they got it.

Their minds had been pulled straight into the Library—or perhaps the whole thing had simply been an illusion.

This again...

Nemo clicked her tongue, then sat down cross-legged with a gloomy expression and raised her wine, gulping it down.

There was nothing she could do.

She'd been embarrassed over this sort of thing all day, so she was a little annoyed.

In truth, she wasn't the only one. Everyone else felt the same.

Even Lan Qingyou's mouth twitched when she heard the Sailor's answer.

She'd realized that she had fallen for an illusion again.

That shouldn't have happened.