Footsteps sounded behind them, followed by Seele's somewhat surprised voice.
"...Clara? What are you doing here?"
It looked like Seele and Bronya had finished talking...
Clara blinked, coming back to her senses, and looked toward Seele and Bronya as they approached.
Jiang Yu and the other two also turned around. Bronya looked somewhat puzzled. "You... what were you just saying? ...Something about the Supreme Guardian? Or..."
Jiang Yu and Stelle turned their heads aside without saying a word.
Sampo glanced at his two teammates, a slightly awkward smile appearing on his face. "Nothing, we didn't say anything. Officer Bronya, you must have misheard!"
"Really...?" Bronya blinked twice, looking a little puzzled and lost.
Clara also spoke timidly. "Seele... from Wildfire... I came here to..."
A little later, Clara explained her purpose to everyone. Essentially, she wanted to find some medicine for the injured vagrants. Of course, she also remembered to apologize on Svarog's behalf and hoped everyone could give her some time.
The child believed that one day, she would persuade Svarog.
Seele rolled her eyes and turned her attention to the vagrants, speaking with considerable disdain. "...Why are you helping the vagrants find medicine? Aren't they supposed to be so capable? How do they have the nerve to send a little girl running around for them?"
"N-no, that's not it. Nobody asked Clara to do this... It's just that the vagrants live in very poor conditions, and their settlement doesn't have a clinic, so Clara wanted to help them.
"And they're actually not all bad people... Everyone just wants to stay alive."
Seele shrugged and snorted, saying nothing more.
Clara looked at the painkillers she had found. After learning that Jiang Yu and the others were also looking for medicine, she had handed most of them to Jiang Yu,