Only Ais, Bete, and Tsubaki, who stood by the door watching the show, remained.
Tsubaki rested both hands behind her head and gave a lazy yawn.
The conspicuous cowlick in her long hair swayed with the motion.
For a moment, the atmosphere fell into a somewhat delicate silence.
Bete irritably scratched his short gray hair.
His gray wolf ears twitched twice in irritation.
"What the hell!"
Bete glanced at the tightly shut copper door and kicked hard at the base of the wall beside it.
"Dragging me out first thing in the morning to haul boxes was bad enough, and now I have to wait around here?"
"Who knows how long they're going to dawdle in there!"
"Well~"
"It's the gods' business, after all. Not much we can do about it."
Tsubaki kept both hands behind her head, looking utterly unconcerned.
"But now that I've delivered everyone, I need to get back to work."
"I still have a pile of orders for middle-floor weapons to finish before delivery, so I won't hang around wasting time with you two. Every day's just exhausting."
"Do whatever you like."
With that, Tsubaki turned to glance at the two heavyweights from the [Loki Familia] beside her, then strode off casually in the other direction down the corridor.
In the end, only Bete and Ais remained.
Seeing this, Bete had no desire to spend even another second in this unbearably hot place.
"Hey, Ais."
Suppressing his temper, Bete turned toward Ais, who had been standing quietly all this time, and asked curtly.
"I'm heading back to Twilight Manor. This damn place is hot as hell. Are you coming or not?"
"No."
At Bete's words, Ais turned her head.
Her golden eyes calmly regarded the tightly shut copper door before her.
Then she gently shook