Now, it became certain that Nara and Priesia would be joining Riley. After that, Riley decided to leave the rest to Rorona. Riley and others joined up with Nainiae and Sera.
“The four on the top of the list are here?”
Riley had the four people standing in front of him. He nodded as if he was liking the picture.
“They are all here.”
“Still, two people… are missing.”
Of the four, Priesia glanced around left and right and then tilted her head to the side as she asked.
“According to what you explained earlier, you are planning a counter strike with six people just like how the Six Parts from the world below came to cause problems in our world, right?”
Riley nodded. He then explained the current situation briefly.
“Of the six, five were gathered.”
“Five?”
Nara was standing far right of the group. He looked at the three people who were standing next to himself and then furrowed his brows.
“One, two, three… four including myself… There are four in total?”
“By any chance, does the six people include you, Young Master?”
As if he was confused, Nara mumbled. It seemed Priesia was also curious about this. She wiggled her eyebrows and asked.
“No. I’m not included.”
Riley started to explain about the one who could not be seen at the moment.
“The one who is not here is waiting at a place we promised to gather at.”
“A place we promised to gather at?”
“Of the six… This one was decided first.”
“First?”
“Even before Nainiae?”
“That’s right.”
It seemed the three people besides Nainiae were surprised. They had their eyes turned big as they stared at Nainiae.
“Nainiae… You knew about this too?”
“… Yes.”
“Do you know who it is?”
“I know, but… Yes… Won’t it be better to save this as the fun subject for later?”
Nainiae scratched her cheek and avoided answering. Riley also broke cold sweat and thought about the ‘red haired young man’ who was having a conversation with Abyss at Ansyrium. Riley was thinking about ‘the red dragon.’
‘I wonder what the two are up to…’
Riley was not sure about Abyss, but Andal was not liking the man, so Riley could only roughly guess that Andal was not going to sit quietly and become a good conversation partner with Abyss.
‘If we sit around longer, the letters ‘Ansyrium’ might disappear from the map. I think I should hurry before that happens.’
Even before something could happen because of Helena, Riley was having useless worries about half of the map needing correction soon because of Andal and Abyss. He folded his thoughts and said,
“Anyway, we will be moving right away to meet the remaining member. You packed your things right? I did say that it would be a brief moment in this world’s time, but we would be spending quite a while in the other side, so…”
Having heard his question, the four all looked at each other. They nodded as if they were ready. They all said at the same time,
“Yes!”
“Anytime.”
“By the way, who is the sixth person?”
“You’ll know that too when you get there.”
Riley looked at Nainiae and signaled with his gaze.
“Well then, I’ll open the dimensional portal…”
Under Riley’s order, Nainiae was about to open the dimensional portal to find the sixth part. However, she heard footsteps from behind her. She stopped the spell and narrowed her eyes.
“… Hey!”
The steps were not just one or two people. Not just Nainiae, but everyone else at the spot turned their heads toward where the voice came from.
“Is it those bastards? The ones who picked fights with you?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“They said they are from some merchant group. As if interfering with our work was not enough, they broke my Big Bro’s arm.”
Nainiae saw that they were a group who all wore unique desert fabrics wrapped all around their bodies.
“I don’t know which merchant group you all came from, but you cannot meddle with our business spot due collections.”
Of the group, a man who appeared to be the leader was holding a large metal club on his shoulder. He tapped his shoulder with the club as he walked to Riley’s group.
“Big Bro! Over there. It’s the brown-haired lass over there! She is the one who broke his arm!”