Bluntgre

30

The next day, Monday, which is viewed as a weekday for most of the world. 

As usual, I didn’t expect there to be a lot of people gathered early on a Monday morning, so I logged into WLO but didn’t stream.

Touka-chan also went to school this morning.

In the early morning, together  with the lady bodyguard that came to get her, she left bearing a refreshing smile.

I didn’t really remember them but it seems that they remembered me. I was told, 「So you really were still alive」

Could it have been better if Rin-chan had denied my disappearance rumors?

When I said that, she replied while sighing, 「It was necessary, you know」.

Well, in this era where everyone has a phone on them, I suppose I’m at fault too for leaving without telling anybody, so I can’t really blame Rin-chan though. 

From now on, whenever I meet acquaintances from the middle school days, will they keep saying,　「you were still alive?」?

I don’t know about anyone except Rin-chan and Touka-chan’s acquaintances, but on rare occasions I sometimes meet with Rin-chan’s parents.

Returning to the topic.

The reason that I once again returned to Dualis was the little girl from 《Street Stall Avenue》,Haruru, whom I had totally forgotten about.

Of course, there was a possibility that she wasn’t there, but this was a matter I wanted to check out whenever I had time. Moreover, I wanted to look around the street stalls again.

I took my time walking towards the street stall avenue, which was crowded. Perhaps because of the influx of new people, there were still quite a lot of players despite it being a weekday.

One of the shops that caught my eye was a stall selling items called potion juice.

Originally, a potion has a taste you can normally drink–supposedly, though I actually haven’t drunk one yet–but the juice-style potion made by the owner of the stall…had written it in such a way.

「Young lady, what unusual equipment you have there.」

Strawberry, melon, blue hawaii-…..while I was reading through the names that you would typically see in festivals, I was called out to by the owner of the stall.

The appearance was that of The appearance was that of a handsome man with red hair that had a mesh of silver.However, hearing their voice, it was certainly that of a woman.

「There still shouldn’t be that many players who can make Eastern clothing…..If it’s alright, may I ask for the name」

「It’s Sukuna. The one who made this equipment is Konekomaru-san」

As I am a streamer, and Konekomaru-san appeared in my stream, if you were to investigate our names, you could easily find them out, so I said them since there was no meaning in hiding them.

And then he(?) nodded, convinced.

「Ah, so it was Neko-san who made it….Oh, I should have introduced myself before I asked your name. My name is Dion. As you have heard, I am a woman inside.」