"..."
The golden horn slowly lowered.
Shaya paid no further attention to Tu Feibai, who still held his fighting stance. The eight wings behind her and the horn in her hand returned to their angelic forms.
Then her figure flickered, and she vanished from the Heroic Battlefield.
Tu Feibai was left standing there alone.
"Why didn't she kill me?"
"...Was she looking down on me?"
Tu Feibai gritted his teeth. The Heroic Battlefield disappeared, and the injuries he had forcibly suppressed erupted all at once.
"Damn it!"
In truth, Shaya did not care about Tu Feibai's life. Whether she killed him made little difference.
There was only one reason she had chosen to stop.
"Zhuxing Tu-that charlatan reached the Sky Garden already?"
"It's only Abucado. Why would so many people need to come here together?"
There probably wasn't anything good in store next.
She needed to get a clear answer from Zhuxing Tu.
The Third District.
At the end of an alley stood a lavishly furnished arcade that no customers ever entered, yet no one found it strange.
Shaya pushed the door open and entered.
The first thing she saw was Zhuxing Tu's beaming face.
"Hehe, Shaya~ I knew that guy called Tu Feibai couldn't beat you."
Shaya rolled her eyes wordlessly and looked past Zhuxing Tu toward the dining table behind her, where an energetic young girl sat.
"Boss Shaya! Long time no see! Hehe, by Wasteland time, it's been fifteen years since I last saw you!"
A smile appeared on Shaya's face.
"Long time no see, Stasia. Oh, didn't you say someone else came with you? Where is he?"
Stasia waved her phone, which had a little bear doll dangling from it.
"I don't really know him either. That guy went off on his own after arriving