"Finally back!"
Vichy opened the suite door and saw Ash and Philly standing outside, soaked through, like two little puppies that had fallen into the water.
"Didn't you have an umbrella?" Vichy laughed. Halfway through the Fireworks Ceremony, a sudden downpour had started. They had contacted each other by phone and realized everyone was too far apart, so they decided to each take a taxi back on their own.
"It's not that we didn't..." Ash took out a transparent umbrella, looking a little depressed. "Some kind soul shoved an umbrella at us."
He and Philly had just ridden the cable car back down the mountain when they ran into the downpour. They had originally planned to stay a little longer under the canopy of one of the facilities and wait for the rain to stop, but then a mysterious person wearing a mask and hood suddenly shoved an umbrella into their hands, doing a good deed without leaving a name before turning and walking away.
With such kindness hard to refuse, they could only leave Flawless Joy World under that umbrella.
As it turned out, that umbrella could barely even serve as a single-person umbrella. Using it was no different from not using one at all; even with Ash and Philly squeezed together, they still got drenched by the rain.
Rose brought over dry towels and draped them over them. Ash glanced around the suite and saw that Igula and Harvey were also here, so he asked, "Where's Niya?"
As Rose prepared hot drinks, she said, "She said there was somewhere she wanted to go, so she didn't leave with us."
Ash looked at the fierce wind and torrential rain outside, took out his phone to contact Niya, only for the call to show her phone was turned off. He