EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: THE AMAZON
Tiona was having fun.
“Man, I love festivals! If only Aiz and Lefiya could have come with us!”
“I doubt they would be able to keep up with your appetite,” her elder twin, Tione, sighed.
Tiona licked the crumbs off her cheek. The sash around her waist was adorned with an array of colorful badges, causing onlookers to turn and murmur.
“Wow…”
“A complete set…”
“How much did she eat?!”
She had enjoyed practically everything the Goddess Festival had to offer by this point. For just a onetime purchase of a badge for a thousand valis, most places offered an all-you-can-eat buffet, making it a sheer paradise for a food junkie like Tiona.
Now with a full belly, the Amazon clasped her hands behind her head and smiled, when all of a sudden…
“Hmm?”
…she spotted, off in the distance, a white-haired boy walking with a gray-haired girl.
“It’s Rabbit Foot,” observed Tione. “And with him…isn’t she that waitress from…?”
“Huh?! Why?! What’s going on?!”
Tiona’s wild shriek made Tione plug her ears.
“What do you mean, why?” she asked, irritated. “It’s not like you called dibs on that man. You just helped him on the eighteenth floor and in the War Game. That’s all.”
“I mean, yeah, but…Argonaut’s…different…like with Aiz and me…”
Tiona normally spoke her mind with a clear disregard for the consequences, so it was a little strange to see her falter with her words like this. After a few moments, however, she brightened up and put on her usual smile.
“Oh well! I’m gonna go hang out with Argonaut as well!”
“How does that make any sense…?”
Tiona rushed off without a second thought, ready to give Bell a big surprise by hugging him from behind. However, a dark elf and four prum brothers stepped in front of her, tasked with making sure nothing got in the way of Syr and Bell’s outing.
The standoff quickly devolved into an impromptu brawl, and even Tione got dragged into it, but that whole mess would be a story for another time.
…As would the detail that this battle caused Syr’s five protectors to lose sight of their charge completely.
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