Only when she encountered something that truly interested her did it bloom so fleetingly.
"You look so pretty when you smile, yet you keep such a cold face every day. What a waste of that beautiful face."
"Hm?" Her smile faded as Kajieliena tilted her head. She had been lost in thought just now and had not noticed what Ando Meiko said.
"Never mind. Forget it if you didn't hear me." Waving it off, Ando Meiko immediately changed the subject. "So, can you guess what that monster wants us to find?"
"Rather than guessing that, we should guess what kind of liberation it meant. Does it want us to destroy it, or remove something suppressing it?"
After pondering for a moment, Ando Meiko shrugged and stopped thinking about it.
"If we can't figure it out, we can only wait for it to appear again and ask it properly."
"Are you sure it'll come back?"
Kajieliena nodded. "I don't know how it achieved something like resurrection, but it must consume a tremendous amount of magic power. If it really was the one absorbing those students' magic power, then it will definitely return."
"But what if the monster leaves this place and goes to the villages around the mountains to absorb other people's magic power?"
"Then we can only consider ourselves unlucky."
After saying that, Kajieliena fell silent again. During their conversation, they had already emerged from the dense forest and returned to the student campsite.
It had taken them quite some time to get here, and by the time they returned, the students who had collapsed had already been discovered and sent back to the school by the supervising teachers.
"Looks like there's no point staying here anymore. Let's head back for now." Shaking her head, Ando Meiko turned and walked