Had she really seen through Ink Lotus? Or to put it another way, did she understand Ink Lotus?
Larkspur did not think so.
Years of work and socializing had certainly given her some ability to judge people, but that ability only let her see certain traits in others; it could not let her see through a person entirely.
Although she had no idea what exactly Ink Lotus had misunderstood, there was no doubt that she was not as remarkable as Ink Lotus claimed.
At the very least, when Ink Lotus had bought those everyday magical tools in the magic-tool shop as if she were stocking up wholesale, Larkspur had been completely unable to make sense of it.
Because they had met much earlier than expected, they had decided to stroll along the street together. Somehow, that stroll had led them into a magic-tool shop, beginning Ink Lotus's own massive street-shopping spree.
There were compact generators that converted magic power into electricity, building repair devices for home maintenance, water resource devices integrated with civilian water network management systems, and a whole heap of agricultural magical tools whose names Larkspur could not even identify... Ink Lotus had even compared prices while buying them, carefully assessing their value for money. She clearly was not fooling around.
"Why are you buying all this?" Although Larkspur did not have anything she wanted to buy, that did not stop her from asking as she followed alongside Ink Lotus.
"My friends need them," Ink Lotus replied.
"Do your friends run a farm?"
"They live in the Wasteland, so they need to grow crops." As she explained, Ink Lotus stood by the counter filling out a delivery form. "The people there do not have water or electricity either. They need these things."
"They live in the Wasteland?"
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