The atmosphere grew heavier as silence looms over the place. Senya’s overflowing concentration took everyone’s breath away as a large influx of magic gathers.  However, almost none of us can feel Ki besides Alstroe who smiles a little and Kel, the fairy kin, ear twitches. Also, looking around, I saw Higan’s tails are standing on its end.

Maybe Higan learned how to use Ki with Alstroe guidance. I should ask her later because if we ever fight, I would think of any countermeasure against it. If the day Higan asks me in a duel to be her betrothed, I am going all out in respect for her feelings.

As if her concentration ends, Senya’s perpetually closed eyes open revealing her green emerald eyes. She raises both of her hands in the air…wait…this looks familiar…

“Iyoo!”

Ah…I knew it!

It’s the same divination Hibiscus and Emby showed us weeks ago. I kind of just smiles awkwardly and those who know about it are the same. Hibiscus’ eyes sparkle as she saw Senya do a divination that has an exact manner like her.

However, because of the serious atmosphere, no one dares to say or mutter anything. Instead, they just either look away from Senya because they find it too funny or stare blankly at her without making any expressions.

Amidst the display, A large magical circle filled with written incantations suddenly appeared. Daytime appears now to be night as constellations of stars appear in the sky and bright particles of light towers toward the sky.

As Senya’s hand that she held towards the sky was brought down in front of her, every light disperses. The illumination earlier felt like a grand hallucination by stars dancing in the sky.

I held my breath as the beauty out of this world disappears in my sight and only the glowing Senya is left.

“I can see it…”

Everyone’s attention sharpens as Senya mutters something. Even I got excited of Senya’s divination that I have to walk a little closer.

“A town…right beside the sea…a street filled with horned fish as their main attraction…A…a hero with…matured divine blessing resides…that’s…all…”

……

It was a major clue. A town by the seaside that sells fishes and as it sounds, there’s a hero we are looking for. The hero in question isn’t mentioned nor any clue about its identity but most of all, the clue sounded so familiar to me…

Opinions from various people like Ichirou, Susanoo, Shouta, Gria, Kel, and even Cattleya and Fang sprouted.

“A certain place near the ocean or seaside… this is a problem if we can’t pinpoint an exact location. What do you think, Susanoo?”

“It is as you said, Ichirou. Given that…we have…limited time…finding the exact place…will be the most…difficult…task.”

“That’s not the only problem, Mister Ichirou, Mister Susanoo. About how we go about traveling around the seaside and the personnel we need will be difficult to procure.”

“Uncle Gria, there are also a lot of town like that in the demon continent, however, none of them has horned fish as specialty or there are just too many of them to know.”

“I know little Cattleya.”

“What kind of fish is a horned fish anyway? If we know where they usually make their habitats, their behavior and the season where they will be, we can narrow down our choices. Sir Fairy over there, do you know anything?”

“I know we have some collection of information about animals in this world in our library. Also, my name is Kel, young lady.”

“I’m a boy.”

“Ah…what? M-My bad…your appearance is so confusing…”

And so on and so forth…

Even Higan is muttering to herself as she contemplates…

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“It could be around our continent. However, our continent is composed of hundred islands and each tribe may have their own specialties themselves. The beast continent is exactly in the sea but it should be in the criteria of the divination. If we ask most of the aquatic beast kin about it, they may have some information and we may pinpoint most of where those horned fish can be caught…”

As everyone makes effort on thinking, Mimosa writes down everything in her note very detailed. With her arcana magic, she collects all the information and incorporates it inside her head while listening to multiple people.

Senya gave up as soon as she told us the content of divination. She was living in the fairy forest for more than hundreds of years now so don’t have any clues about it. The same goes for the twins who only lived inside the elven city up until they were brought out by Susanoo and Priscilla.

Of course, Mimi and Topaz are clueless of it because they don’t have much association with the world yet…

Meiko, the adventurer also started joining the conversation with them as she shares thoughts and opinion.

Everyone is on the edge since we are given the time limit of two weeks to save this world. It’s given that everyone will become frantic. As for me, I have to think too of any possibilities…

“Umm…”

Suddenly, Alstroe’s voice captured everyone’s attention as her lively voice is now timid as if she did something wrong.

“I think…it’s my hometown…Nanab Harbor Town. We recently made horned fishes as our specialty via a petition from one of the major nobles near our town. Elder Sis Cecille just told me about it before I left. However, before we even announced it officially to be our specialty, we’ve selling horned fish for more than years now since the guild master of Nanab learned how to farm them.”

Everyone went quiet, even Senya who made the divination.

It seems they can’t believe that although everyone was getting into it, thinking side by side, someone readily answered the divination effortlessly…no less, from the least person they expect to...

Yeah…the divination sounded so familiar to me. So it was Nanab Harbor Town all along…seeing that in their street, that hideous looking fish I saw in their wet market was actually that horned fish…

Do they really taste good?!

“You’re a lifesaver! Thank you for that! Your name is Alstroemeria, right? Asagao talked about you often.”

Ichirou beamed a smile towards Alstroe because of the life-saving answer that she gave. He walks closer to her to reach out for her hand but before he could, I got in his way and glare at Ichirou.

“Ichirou, Alstroe can probably beat you without going all out. Also, where are you looking at?”

“Eh? No…! It was just…Anyway, we already got an immediate answer…”

“Touch anyone but Alstroe, Higan, the twins, Topaz and even Mimi.”

“Ahahaha…”

Ichirou backs out while laughing weakly from my warning. I kind of doesn't want anyone else touching them, especially Alstroe even though she is strong enough to fend for herself.

“Ehem…”

Senya called out to us again…

“So…what are your plans now?”

“Senya…of course, we will go there, to Nanab Harbor Town. Don’t worry, we have a ship readily available…I guess…”

“Is that so?”

“What about you Senya?”

“Let’s see here, I’ll see to it that I still give you all of you needs, though, it’s a shame that I’ve only taught you little things…”

“That’s okay. What are you going to do after that?”

“If there will be a large-scale battle against the devils, we will make our own preparations to go into battle too.”

“I see…what about…the fairies?”

“I will talk about this with our leader about it immediately. Most likely, the fairy will move accordingly for the sake of this world. Be assured that we, the fairies, will help in the name of Asagao.”

Kel interrupted with his own opinion. He said that most likely, they will help but don’t casually use my name as your banner.

I look at everyone and they look at me as if I am the chosen leader. Why do I felt like this would happen beforehand…?

First, we have the ancient dragons led by Pr’thcor as my first followers who are carrying my name as their banner. After that, I have become the Pirates Empress of the Sea in which automatically, everyone is into my bidding.

Now, Senya’s group will be following my lead as we are going to battle the devils and Kel plans to use my name so that the fairy kins will make their move.

“About this matter, I am planning to go back to the demon capital?”

“Uncle…Gria?”

Gria then spoke his thoughts and told everyone that he will be going back to the demon continent.

“Little Cattleya, the situation over there is far worse than you could imagine…”

“Wait…what did you mean, uncle?!”

“Those bastards think that you are dead and you as a demon lord is now being invalidated.”

“Eh?!”

Cattleya’s face darkens as Gria brought sad news to her. We didn’t even know that Cattleya was the demon lord appearance wise. I only know from Ichirou when he told me what happened to him. No one would think she is…

“That’s why I am going back there.”

“I’ll come with you!”

“No little Cattleya, stay here. Stay with them and…never ever come back to the demon capital.”

“Uncle…what are you planning?”

“Something…I should have done years ago.”

“Uncle…”

“I will try to get the demons to participate in the upcoming battle too. Little Asagao, may you expect great things from us. You will be the representation of the devil’s rise.”

Me again?!

Why it always has to be me?!

As the torrent of problem keeps piling up, another trouble came to say hi to us at this very moment…

VROOOOOOM!!

A familiar sound I thought I would never ever hear again came to everyone’s ears. In the midst of day, from the depth of this forest, I am pretty sure that the sound came towards the sea and I am not hallucinating or anything…

And then, right off the bat, two figure of people riding THAT suddenly came out from the thick forest…

“WOAH!!”

“I told you, Miss Merissa, using the trike wouldn’t be a good idea in a forest.”

“AHHH!! F-FERD! DON’T THINK I DIDN’T KNOW!? WE ARE LOSING TIME!”

“Oh, look. It’s Miss Asagao and Co.”

CRASH

Ferd and Merissa came out of nowhere while riding a trike, a kind of motorcycle with three wheels. Because it was out of control, they were flung from the trike and the trike crashes on a tree. Ferd landed safely like the mister do-everything-perfect-guy he is and Merissa was caught by the fast reacting Susanoo.

“Uuu…that was terrible…”

“Are you…okay?”

“Eh? Who are you?”

“Susanoo.”

“Put me down?”

“Ah…”

Today is a trainwreck of surprises that I think I am getting a severe migraine. Susanoo puts Merissa down and looks around her…

“T-There’s a lot of fellas here. What’s the occasion?”

The clueless Merissa just blurted out whatever in her mind. Everyone looks at her with questioning gazes, especially Senya. The way she looks at Merissa, Senya seems to know her…

“Ah, nevermind. Asagao, I’ve been looking for you for good two days now!”

“Eh? You two got lost?!”

“Yeah. Can’t believe this fucktwat of a forest is this big.”

“M-Mind your words...”

“Aiee…sorry.”

“So…why are you here?”

“Ah, right!”

Merissa, with an excited face, turns up to me with vigorous eyes and puffs her chest out in pride. Her body is small and petite but like Cattleya, her breast is standing out…

“We can make the ship fly now with almost no limitation!!”

Today, a good news was brought upon us when we needed it the most…