While Leticia and Karl were conversing, on the other side—
“Where on earth is this?!!!”
The two people Furni had teleported were currently suspended in a blue sea of clouds.
If one ignored the fact that they were rapidly plummeting, the surrounding sea of clouds could indeed be considered a beautiful sight.
“As if! Hey! Hurry up and use levitation magic!”
Ichikawa looked toward Lin Ling beside him.
“Wait, where did she go?!”
Ichikawa fell into absolute shock.
During a rapid free fall in mid-air, the only human parachute was actually not by his side.
Even though his survival instincts were frantically hammering his brain, he realized he had never learned any magic that could slow his descent in mid-air.
It was a miracle that Camillaya, guarded by Furni, had managed to hold out until now without being destroyed.
However, just as Ichikawa was about to give up, Lin Ling's figure rapidly descended into his line of sight from high above.
Although she usually seemed so unreliable...
Right now, her levitation magic was practically his savior.
Before Ichikawa could celebrate for long, he noticed that Lin Ling's descent seemed a bit too fast.
Lin Ling was currently surrounded by a layer of golden mana, her arms crossed over her chest as she plummeted toward the ground.
“This guy... What kind of act is she putting on now?!”
Unable to care about anything else, Ichikawa adopted a breaststroke posture in mid-air and paddled toward the rapidly falling Lin Ling.
“Hey, Lin Ling-san! Hurry up and cast levitation magic on me!”
Finally reaching Lin Ling's side, Ichikawa immediately demanded levitation magic without a second thought.
“Hey! Can you hear me?! Hurry, hurry! Levitation magic!”
Seeing Lin Ling still maintaining her crossed-arms pose, Ichikawa stared at her with a look of sheer terror.
“Now is not the time to play cool! If this goes on, our side is going to lose a great general!”
Even in mid-air, Ichikawa finally couldn't help but grab Lin Ling's shoulders and shake her.
“Now is not the time to pose like Vega! We're going to die! We're really going to die!”
The town below grew larger and larger in his vision.
Lin Ling finally moved.
She reached out and placed a hand on Ichikawa's shoulder, pouring a surge of golden mana into his body.
“Th-this is... the feeling of Psycho Power!”
Feeling the golden mana inside him, Ichikawa copied Lin Ling, crossing his arms as he plummeted toward the ground.
Now, he had everything he needed.
Meanwhile, the soldiers guarding the city gate below looked up at the figures falling like golden meteors. One of them hurriedly patted his companion, who was still routinely inspecting people entering the city.
“Hey, look! Golden meteors in the sky!”
Patted impatiently, the companion raised his head in the direction the soldier was pointing.
“Are you crazy?! How could there be—”
“Holy crap, there really are meteors!”
The companion's shout drew the attention of the crowd waiting in line.
“Wait! Those meteors are heading straight for us!”
The soldier yelled, and hearing this, the crowd instantly scattered from the gate.
In the air, Ichikawa couldn't help but look toward Lin Ling beside him.
But Lin Ling was nowhere to be seen; he was the only one left plummeting.
“...”
“What a coward, choosing to run away at the very end?”
Ichikawa brushed back his wind-swept hair, a bitter smile on his face.
“But I believe the Psycho Power you granted me won't betray me like you did.”
With tears of betrayal in his eyes, Ichikawa plummeted toward the city gate alone.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry! That thing is coming down!”
The soldiers below frantically evacuated the crowd while watching the meteor descend.
“Dammit, I can't tell where it's going to land at all!”
The soldier put down his telescope. The object enveloped in golden mana was so bright he couldn't even make out its internal structure.
Boom!
A thick cloud of dust erupted at the city gate. The soldiers quickly ran outside.
“Strange, it clearly looked like it was falling right here?”
The dust outside the gate cleared, but other than the crowd coughing from the dirt, the soldiers couldn't find whatever had fallen.
“Um, excuse me, is this the Duke of Enridel's domain?”
The searching soldiers suddenly heard a slightly trembling voice from inside the gate.
As the dust settled, Ichikawa was still maintaining his crossed-arms pose, complete with a gloomy expression.
The soldiers at the gate took a few steps back, their hands trembling as they held their spears.
“S-Suspicious individual spotted!”
At the soldier's shout, several fully armed patrol teams immediately emerged from inside the city, surrounding Ichikawa.
“Haha, I knew that girl was completely unreliable.”
Although Lin Ling's spell had indeed protected him, his current situation didn't seem much better.
And that dragon... I'll settle the score with all of you one by one.
Brushing his hair back once more, Ichikawa leaped vigorously, quickly breaking out of the encirclement.
“The target is resisting! Capture him immediately!”
Seeing Ichikawa leap out of the crowd and run into the distance, the patrol soldiers exchanged glances and gave chase.
“Move fast, move fast! Don't let him get away!”
“In the name of Enridel!”
As the voices faded, two figures slowly descended from the sky into the crowd.
“Ivelia, why are you here?”
Lin Ling, who had originally planned to land with Ichikawa, had suddenly been scooped up by this purple figure mid-descent.
“You're trying these dangerous things again.”
“It's not dangerous at all. I calculated it; absolutely nothing could have gone wrong.”
“Still, no.”
Held in Ivelia's arms and seeing her serious expression, Lin Ling swallowed back the words she wanted to say.
By this time, the crowd had resumed queuing, and it was finally the turn of the two who had blended in.
“Hello, please show your Camillaya transit contract.”
Ivelia handed a magical-looking contract to the soldier.
“Honored guests, welcome to the Duke of Enridel's domain.”
“...”
Under the soldier's slightly puzzled gaze, they walked out of the city gate.
Only then did Ivelia finally release her hand from Lin Ling's mouth.
“Whew, haah~ You almost suffocated me.”
Lin Ling had a slight look of complaint on her face, as if questioning why Ivelia had just covered her mouth.
“Because Cecil brought that document.”
“These soldiers don't know that territory has fallen yet.”
Ivelia set Lin Ling down and helped her tidy her wind-swept hair.
She spoke of the rapid capture of the Camillaya territory as if it were a trivial matter.
“But what about Ichikawa?”
Although Lin Ling hadn't joined Ichikawa in his grand landing in the end, she still had to worry about him, not knowing where he had been chased off to.
“Someone has already gone to help him.”
“Huh?”
Lin Ling was a bit puzzled. What did she mean by someone had already gone to help?
Just moments ago, Ivelia had clearly seen a cloaked girl with cherry-colored hair. The moment Ichikawa landed, her gaze had practically glued itself to him.
It was a gaze like seeing the savior of her life.
When Ichikawa was being chased, she had run after him without a moment's hesitation.
What was she muttering?
“Id—iot.”
Hearing Ivelia's words, it seemed the Hero's romantic encounter in another world was about to be triggered.
However, it looked like the Hero's romantic encounter needed a little assistance.
Not long after the girl Ivelia mentioned had left, Lin Ling could sense several figures carrying magical signatures pursuing in Ichikawa's direction.
“Now, it's our turn to show off.”
Standing up from Ivelia's embrace, Lin Ling was already growing a bit impatient.
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