Our Journey Is the Stars and the Sea

If Sabertooth wanted to fully recover, it would not be so simple. Without three to five years, it would never regain its former strength.

Even if it took first place in the next Grand Magic Games, that would not prove anything.

Kino had now arrived at Blue Pegasus.

He had received news that shocked him deeply.

Jenny Realight had passed away the year before last.

After standing before her gravestone in thought for a long while, Kino turned and asked, "Are you sure that's what she said?"

"I may be old, but I'm not senile yet," an old man behind him said.

This old man was Hibiki.

Hibiki Lates was also the only familiar face still alive in Blue Pegasus.

In the original timeline, he and Jenny had been a couple... well, not exactly. They had merely been attracted to each other. There was no proof that they had actually gotten together. They had only kissed during the Grand Magic Games arc, but that did not necessarily mean anything.

Hibiki?

He was a regular near the top of Magic Weekly's "Mages Women Want as Boyfriends" rankings. Many female mages had joined Blue Pegasus after being drawn in by his sweet appearance. Though he did not yet have a sweetheart, rumors involving women had never stopped, and there were legends of him being a "girl killer."

Kino did not know what feelings Hibiki had for Jenny, but he knew that Jenny really had liked Hibiki.

Though most of it was probably because she was obsessed with looks.

Jenny was sexy, charming, and fiercely competitive...

Yet Kino had never truly understood Jenny.

If they were talking about falling for someone, Jenny had fallen the hardest. It could be said that she could not bear to be apart from him even for a