Ruit: Oh. Ruit: Pardon me. -/-/-/-> Ruit: My hand slipped. -/-/-/-> Corona: Woah. ????: My word! ????: Your highness, you alright!? ????: Ah. Seems it was a bad call to drag him to the public this early, commander. Corona: Huh? The hell are you talking about? ????: Clearly, you've cut his highness' rest short with your antics. -/-/-/-> ????: But you still insisted on conducting this meeting now!????: Uuueh, what am I even a spokesman for? You never listen to me...Selene: Hah!? Watch it, Minos, do you know who you're talking to?Minos: Even if you're the royal advisor, I-I shouldn't have agreed...Headmaid: My prince, are you feeling unwell?Ruit: I'm alright.Ruit: Don't make a fuss.Minos: No, n-no, this must be my fault!Minos: M-my proposal must've been too shabby for his highness...Minos:…

Reed: Here we are.Aria: The barrier...Meimona: Wuh, it's so funky-looking up close. Meimona: I've never gone through a rift before...Meimona: B-but it's gonna be okay to cross, right?Meimona: You guys all gotta believe so!Reed: It'll be fine.Reed: I've done this plenty of times before.Five: If everyone is together, Mei... won't be scared!Meimona: I-I'm not scared!Nino: Ha, sure you aren't. Meimona: No! Really, I just don't know what to expect! Meimona: So I just wanna prepare myself...Meimona: Can you tell me what it's like to cross? ----> Nino: It's not scary at all.Nino: From what I remember, there was bright, warm light from every direction.Nino: I felt a bit of pushback, like I was walking against a wind current...Nino: But nothing that could stop me from moving.Aria: Yeah, I had the…

What? No. That's stupid. Who the heck eats flowers??? Not you, as far as you know. Nino: Nino you have to eat the flower. No. There's better things to do with glow-y flowers than that. C'mon, stop messing around and focus. Nino: EAT THE FLOWER. No! Shut up already! Seriously, why is that the first thing on your mind? You're not even particularly hungry! Nino: Poke the flower, it could have radiation... Radiation? Does that happen to flowers? Eh, you're no scientist. This one glows a strange green color, and... it feels somehow... Familiar? You will need to conduct further investigation on this matter, regardless of the fact that the flower may or may not be radiated. Nino: ...Wait, have you thought this before? Have you? Actually, wait... Yes! Yes…

Warty: L̸̜̃ą̵́n̴̲̏d̴̻̓ ̵̝͆h̸̘͝o. Nino: Reading time's over, pack it up. Meimona: Seriously... feels like my wingbones atrophied from sitting around.Nino: That's because you didn't try to pass time with something meaningful, Mei.Meimona: Yeah well, I'm not like that phone freak, or you two lovebird-nerds.Nino: H-hey, what?Meimona: Lovenerds for short!Nino: Don't say that, idiot!Meimona: Ummm, I mean...Meimona: You looked super-duper-wuper excited to read with someone.Nino: Okay, I don't expect you to understand, but listen.Nino: Reading is usually a very solitary activity. It's not every day that you get the chance to share it with someone else... that's all.Meimona: Sure, suuuure.Meimona: The reasons behind anything you do are sooo very logical, aren't they?Nino: I don't know what you're talking about...Meimona: Heheheh! Just calling it as I see it, bro.Nino: You're so confidently…

Right!? Gosh, you simply cannot take your eyes off of it. You probably should pick items that benefit the group as a whole, but still... There's some room to spare, right? It's your own inventory space anyway, so it'll be fine! Reed: So let me get this straight.Reed: Someone puts free food and money in front of you.Reed: But you pick a fucking book.Reed: The hell's your problem. ...OK, maybe it's not totally fine just yet. Nino: The book sounds like something useful in the long run. Nino: Hey, we have enough space for other things...Nino: Besides, aren't you guys curious to know what's up with a book this special?Reed: No.Nino: Okay, not accepting any answers from Reed about this.Meimona: Ummm, if you wanted to read then just go to…

Meimona: Woooaw... this is so cool!Meimona: But um, I don't know what I'm looking at.Meimona: It looks like an incomplete jigsaw puzzle!Reed: Uh, so... this is a map built off of the data I've "gathered".Reed: By that I mean, these visible areas are locations I've previously been to.Nino: So these blocky parts are places you've never been to?Reed: Yeah.Aria: It's mostly concentrated in the monster world, I see...Reed: Well, because we don't really have a ready-made map of it,Reed: It could only be constructed bit by bit, like this.Meimona: Oh! It really is like putting together a lil' puzzle! :oReed: But for our purposes, this much data should be more than enough.Reed: Look at that northernmost part of the monster world. Reed: Up until "0001", that's the part that really…

Hell yeah! It's about time you got this bunch more organized. And "organized" is certainly the word, you're about to sort everything by following a checklist. Literally. You've got a list of basic checks in mind - which you as a group must pass - to confirm that you're well-equipped for this daring detour of yours. Let's get this started. Check #1: Firepower. First check - everyone's weapons, their means of self defense! Reed steps up as the first to demonstrate. And in terms of raw power... he certainly is unmatched. Reed: Use LEVEL 02 - BEAM. Meimona: Whoa! COOL!Aria: You have a different "shot" from this one, don't you?Aria: I remember it was some kind of wind-ish thingy!Reed: Oh, yeah.Reed: It's faster, and I don't need to charge for…

Nino: You're more perceptive than I thought.Nino: Are you... hurt?Aria: ...I'm a little upset, I admit.Aria: But I'm not hurt.Aria: I'm worried.Aria: You make me worry so much, Nino.Nino: What...?Nino: ...What are you talking about?Aria: You want me to help, but...Aria: You won't even talk to me first.Aria: Instead, you thought of all this trickery. Aria: Wait, what does Nino not recognize? Nino doesn't recognize this awful treatment. Not of you, but of himself. He really doesn't see how bad it is. Aria: I'm not the one who wasn't able to trust the other party.Aria: I'm not the one who felt the need to manipulate, just to get what I want.Aria: So... why would I be the hurt one here?Aria: That was all you.Aria: Why was this your first thought,…

Reed: ...What?Aria: ...Meimona: Huh... ummm? Reed: Are you still half-asleep or something?Meimona: Ooor did you forget like everything from yesterday? Meimona: Nino, if the ports are closed, we can't enter anywhere!Meimona: And we don't even have a ship, dummy!Nino: Don't judge so hastily. Nino: I wouldn't have said anything if I didn't have any plans.Nino: Right... there's still a way forward.Nino: Let's take a shortcut by crossing the barrier twice.Meimona: Wuh?Aria: What...?Nino: These two worlds are connected, after all.Nino: If we can cross the barrier at a good point from here...Nino: Then we can travel to a point close by the capital, but from the other side.Nino: And if we cross again, we'll end up in our destination.Nino: That means we can enter the capital, even if the docks are…

Nino: Stop, stop! I'm awake already! Nino: Ugh, who... what the heck... Nino: Uh... Five?Five: Yay! Nino finally woke up!Five: Hello, Nino! Nino: Augh, it's so bright. Meimona: Heeeey, it worked!Five: See! Five can do it! Meimona: Good job, Five!Aria: Aaah, even though I told you not to wake him up so forcefully... Nino: Kindly ask Five to not do that again. Nino: Please, don't do that again!Nino: But, Five... you were trying to wake me up?Meimona: ALL of us were!Meimona: You were NOT responding though, lazybones!Nino: Huh.Nino: I think... I heard your voice in my dream, Five.Five: Whoa! Really!?Five: What did Five say in Nino's dream?Nino: Uh...Nino: You just called my name.Nino: I think that's what woke me up.Five: Oh...Five: Nino, that's boring.Nino: !?Five: In a dream, Five wants…