Natsuki Minamiya walked down the street beneath a parasol. Though winter had fully arrived and some places on the mainland were even getting snow,
Itogami Island was still thirty-five degrees.
It was genuinely hot.
But there was one advantage: summer clothes all year round.
Looking at Fairy Airi and Kanase Kanon ahead of her, they seemed to have truly treated this as a game of hide-and-seek, searching everywhere for Elysia. Despite the sweltering weather, neither of them appeared to feel the heat.
Children really were different. When they were having fun, they stopped caring about the temperature.
But as she reached one street, Natsuki noticed that even in the blazing midday heat, many people were heading in the same direction.
Then, Natsuki vaguely caught the word "fairy."
That inevitably made her think of Elysia, but she quickly dismissed the thought.
"Come on, hurry up. There won't be any seats if we get there too late."
"Yeah! You can see her from outside too, but who wouldn't want to go in and interact with that flawless maid?"
"Langxu said he'd save me a seat. I have no idea whether he actually did. I'm worried sick—I don't want to stand out in the sun for that long again."
"You can't handle a few hours in the sun for the sake of the flawless sweetheart? And you call yourself her fan? Then I'd advise you not to go."
"That's not what I meant!"
The pedestrians hurried onward, chatting from time to time.
Without exception, they were all expressing their affection for a certain maid, even calling her... flawless.
The more Natsuki listened, the stranger it felt. Then, when she spotted someone she knew, she quickly stopped him with her parasol.
The man who had been stopped was about to get angry, but swallowed