"Mm↘hm↗~ That went smoothly-"
Standing in the middle of the battlefield, Isabella put away her red greatsword.
It wasn't as though she had defeated some mighty enemy. She simply liked this knight-errant feeling.
Of course, she didn't actually want to become a wandering adventurer. She just admired the romance of doing good and fighting injustice in knightly tales. If that included sleeping rough and roaming from place to place, she wouldn't be able to take it either.
"Oh, beautifully done, Bella."
Sephiroth slipped into his usual praise routine as he and Tashigi approached from the other side.
Bella knew he was partly humoring her, but she still planted her hands on her hips and basked in it for a moment.
"Yes, everyone is incapacitated, but none of their injuries are fatal."
Tashigi's admiration was entirely sincere.
That, instead, made the smug Bella squirm a little in embarrassment.
"Mmhm-"
Unable to find a suitable response right away, she could only shyly avert her eyes.
Tashigi was an innocent "good girl." The "bad girl" over there was another story altogether.
"Hehehe~"
Robin leaned against a tree in an elegant, older-sister-style pose, chuckling as she watched Nami bustle about.
Her left leg stretched straight at an angle, her right knee bent slightly, her left arm folded across her chest, and her right hand gently caressed her cheek. She practically radiated "my, my~" energy.
"Nami... what are you..."
When Sephiroth spent time with Nami, it was usually outside combat-concerts, sightseeing, and the like.
There had certainly been major battles, such as the campaign against the Demon King of Songs, but this was their first small-scale fight together.
"Looting, obviously~"
Nami went from body to body like she was shopping at a supermarket, searching the soldiers for wallets and similar valuables.
"This... has reached the