After Tir Anders put away the Duke of the Second Dimension, Jiang Yu suddenly looked up and waved.
He had spotted his companions returning from checking the memory bubble.
Gallagher noticed them too. Turning toward the Nameless of the Astral Express, he asked, "Back sooner than I expected... find anything?"
"Yes..." Himeko nodded. "Now it's our turn to open the way forward."
Gallagher smiled, seeming considerably more at ease. "Heh, now that his final wish has been delivered, my last task is complete.
"But don't take this the wrong way. It's good to have fighting spirit, but the road Mikhail left you won't be an easy one...
"Otherwise, why would he have gone to his rest alone, staking everything on you Nameless of the future?"
"Easy or not, we're already on it..." Jiang Yu pursed his lips at the side, his little face drooping. The boy spread his hands and grumbled:
"We originally came here for the festival, for a vacation. But with things the way they are now... it'll be hard to keep having fun here without sorting this out, won't it?
"It's like letting a friend drag you out to play when you know you have a mountain of homework you haven't even touched. The guilt sticks in your chest like a thorn. You can't even enjoy yourself."
Gallagher's mouth twitched as he listened to Jiang Yu's complaints.
As expected of a child connected to both Beauty and the Nameless, even his complaints were blunt and to the point. His goals were always clear, leaving no room for hesitation or confusion.
The boy's attitude prompted him, for once, to joke about the matter. "Heh, there are more of you. Maybe you'll lose more slowly and get more time to play than we did."
"You sure know how to