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The jingling of an antique store doorbell is accompanied with the footsteps of two girls walking out.
"We are back, we are so back!"
The empty-headed, purple haired idiot raising both her arms to the sky in a 'V' is Madison Deroux. I'm amazed that her reddish Frxnch cap doesn't fall off her vacuous head from the angle of that tilt, but hey, it's magick, she doesn't have to expin sheeto.
[SFX:Fsh!]
[SFX:Fsh!]
"What are you...?!"
The crazy Frxnchwoman just pulled out her obnoxiously red flipphone and fshed me!
[SFX:Fsh!!]
"Stop THAT! You can kill a glowie [1] with that!"
The girl pulling out her own normally-colored blue flipphone is watashi[2], normal bck hair, normal chest size and if I do say so myself, slightly more intelligent than my companion here, whose mind is filled with conspiracies, glowies, and robed cultists chanting monosylbic names.
All of which I've been a witness to the st month, by the way!
Ah yes, I didn't tell (you) my name.
My name is Ayano Sane.
It has barely been a week since we arrived in [New Coimbra, the Continent's Capital], and our purple-haired troublemaker has already racked up a veritable rap sheet of unpaid for crimes, including but not limited to assault, arson, dine n' dash, impersonation of a historical figure, animal abuse (catgirl), and I suppose her existence is a sort of crime in itself!
"Don't get so cocky, Aya-chan! I can hear you backtalking just fine, even if I only lent you 「heibun」of my [Narrator's Power]!"
Haah?
That's another thing that ticks me off. The murder of my ancestral nguage should be made a crime, and me the sole executioner. The correct word is はんぶん, はんぶん!
hanbun, which means half!
I'm not even going to bother beginning to dissect whatever she just said. What (you) need to know is that Madi-san is prone to spouting nonsense wherever she goes, and not expining it. Whatever this [Narrator's Power] is, I never wanted it, I never asked for it, I'm never gonna use it. I'm the detective of this story, thank you very much!
And this story... is about conspiracies.
Sort of.
Girls who chase conspiracies and get into all sorts of trouble.
t. The two of us.
"And the rest of the girls in [Trono Palido] too!
Riiiiight, I should mention that we also uncovered a secret murder conspiracy headed by a faceless 'King Glowie' and that the city has its own worst-kept secret in literal dark knights wearing outndishly eye-catching white cloaks.
The two sides fought st night.
And we were in the center of it all.
But that's too much of an infodump right now. Pacing! Pacing!! I would never have believed that the proverbial glowies Madi-san always yells about existed until they literally tried to murder her st night. [3] Small bombs eat your heart out, this is real goatgirl wearing suits stuff!
It is as these intrusive thoughts floated into my head that the red flipphone suddenly rang in my face!
"Duuu--- Duuu---"
On the crazed madwoman's phone screen, a blonde girl wearing an elegant, yet off-century frilly dress twirls around on one leg with both arms up above her head.
Somehow, the girl looks a little familiar.
Just as I was about to lean in to take a look...
The biichii pulls her phone away from me!
There is a signature look of superiority on her face,
like that of a balding old man offering you a treat,
only to pull it away from you in the end,
live on national TV!
"Hmm hmm! You got off easy there, Aya-chan! Moshi moshi? La-Roux des...
... or should I say, maddafaqqer?! Where have (you) been?!"
...
Whoever is on the other side of the flipphone must be on really good terms with Madi-san if she can tolerate her potty mouth like that. There are some garbled words exchanged on the other side of the screen as Madi-san breaks out in a malevolent smile.
"Got it! See you at the [Garden of Avalon]!"
With that, Madi-san flips her phone resolutely shut.
"Come on, Aya-chan! We're going to pick up a new chara!"
First of all, don't talk about your acquaintances like they are characters out of a third rate RPGMaker geimu!
Second of all, [Garden of Avalon] sounds really sus. Is there even such a pce in all of [New Coimbra]? Yes, yes, put away your [New Continental Travel App] on your phone, what I meant is that the name itself is sus, don't we know a certain hentai bird by that name?
"Yapyapyap!... and thirdly, who do (you) think you are, Plxymxker?"
With one hand on her hips and two fingers on my lips, this tyrannical vilin interrupted me yet again! Well excuse me for thoroughly and analytically breaking down why this is a bad idea, especially when we (me) have not had a wink of sleep st night because of your (>you) antics,
but here you are, all energetic and genki, its as if st night flew over your head--- woah!!"
Grabbing the wrist of my long green sleeves, she pulls the reluctant and tired me across the city's stone-paved main street.
"Come on, we don't want to keep Val-sama waiting! She's been wanting to meet you since, forever!"
Garden of Avalon, New Coimbra.
It turns out that its not even that far out the city. All you had to cross was the main drawbridge and you would be able to see the bright-leafed forest pnted outside. The autumn winds bring with them a bountiful harvest of golden apples hanging atop every tree.
As we walk down the wide and sloping main dirt road, I can't help but wonder how many hundreds of years this forest has been pnted to reach this size. Of course, I could just take out my flipphone and ask the [New Continental Travel App], but that's sort of cursed. I am the kind of girl who prefers to think for herself, thank you very much! You have specimen A of someone whose brain has been rotted by constant phone use right beside me now!
Ow!
Madi-san suddenly backhands the back of my head with her free hand, other hand scrolling through her phone.
"I didn't even say anything!"
"Quiet, Aya-chan! We don't take backbiting in this biichii!"
See what I mean? Even when I don't say anything at all, this biichii just assumes that I am talking bad about her at every moment! Not true! I keep my most wicked thoughts of what I would do to Madi-san if I ever got the chance deep deep inside my head!
Magickal unexpined thought-reading abilities aside, Madi-san is never not immersed in the world of conspiracy, pulling her vital information from a pce called the >Chans. See? She's doing it right now!
"Don't act like you don't browse /a/ at night! I can see your phone's glow from under the door!"
What...? Why were you looking in my bedroom's door slit at night? Ahem... The difference between you and me is that I do it for the research! So that I can better understand the verbal vomitage that comes out of your mouth! You actually believe in all the nonsense that you read!
Until now, I have not received a single proper expnation how phones work in the New Continent, considering that it has been five hundred years since they were widespread! I, of course know about phones because I come from the [Old Continent]! The number of contacts in your phonebook probably are less than the fingers on your hand; me, Sachiko-senpai, and whoever this Val-sama is!
"Ehehehe! Wrong!" Shaking a single finger in my face when I am obviously right, I can only roll my eyes at this intellectual stalemate. Surely (You), who is reading this thinks I am right, at least, right?
The main road doesn't twist too much before Madi-san's phone announces in a chibi kleeful girl's voice that 'You have arrived at your destination!'
We have arrived in a vast clearing surrounded by apple trees in maple gold. At the very center of this clearing is a single towering apple tree, branches canopying almost the entire of this area. It would be difficult to measure how tall it actually is, but if thirty Ayanos stacked on our shoulders at the same time, we probably would not even reach the top! Some small white ruins dot the ndscape, but what would I know about Vespana historical architecture? For that, you have to go ask the local hentai bird.
Most strikingly, there is a single golden-haired girl underneath the gigantic central tree. Although her back is turned to us, I can already see a certain familiarity in her top dress.
A whole lot of things suddenly made sense to me.
I...
I have definitely seen this person before.
Not here in New Coimbra...
... but all the way back
when I first arrived on [Bylon Isnd],
back when I hadn't heard about [Trono Palido]...!
Go Go And Learn Moonrunes Conspiracies With Aya-chan Madi-san![1] glowie - 'What's a glowie?' "Ehehehe! A glowie is someone who glows in the dark!" "You know that's not a proper expnation, Madi-san."
