After thinking it over, especially considering the prospect of spending a night like this in the forest with Xia You, Cynthia ultimately chose to go straight to the door, continuing to pass herself and Xia You off as lost travelers.
As for whether Akari and the others would believe them, they certainly would not.
After all, however anyone looked at it, they had only just parted ways. There was no way they could meet again so soon by coincidence.
No matter how one looked at it, their reappearance clearly meant they were after something.
But they had already dealt with Akari and the others anyway. Since they had already aroused their suspicions, the others would be on their guard whenever they met again. In that case, meeting sooner or later made practically no difference.
One could even say that, from another perspective, showing up so directly would certainly put the others on alert, but that was precisely the key to breaking the deadlock.
It would force them to face her and Xia You, preventing that blond man from using some excuse to take Akari away again, as he had just done, and interfering with their communication.
Doing this would certainly make that blond man even more hostile toward them, but since they already knew he was the Mastermind, what was there to worry about?
She told Xia You her idea, and he thought it would work too.
Dialga's time power surely had not brought him back to Hisui just for that.
Maybe...
Did it also want to accomplish something through me?
Xia You could hardly help wondering.
But he also had to admit that, compared with his companions and his women, who were reliable but mostly followed his instructions completely, someone like Cynthia, who thought for herself and possessed both