And so, the morning after came. We all had peaceful nights, sweet dreams, and somehow, we still managed to keep our kidneys intact. It seems Sandy here wasn't making stuff up after all, otherwise she would have run away with our stuff by now. Either way, I think it's about time we go our separate ways.

"Um?" I glanced back at the innocent looking Sandy following us out of the hotel, "Well, thank you for everything."

"Hm? Oh, sure." She nodded before continuing to follow us step for step.

"We'll... be going to visit Macchu Pichu now." Issei too seemed suspicious.

"Yeah, of course." She gave a hearty thumbs up, "That's what everyone is here for, after all."

"No, I don't think you understand, Sandy." Freddy coughed, "You, ahem, you don't need to come with us anymore."

"Can't I?" She shrugged, "I mean, we're both travelers, and we're both aiming to go to the site anyways, so why not stick together just a bit longer? After all, we did spend the night together~"

L-Lecherous woman! Keep that mouth shut, you tramp! People will hear and misunderstand the situation! Ah, but they probably don't understand English... B-But what if they do!? Geez, she's gonna be a pain in the ass to deal with, but I guess we'll have to bring her along with us no matter how you slice it. She also didn't do anything to harm us even though she could have run off with the goods overnight... Eh, screw it. I say let her.

"If you continue to be that cheeky, then I'll have to unleash my own full potential as well." Issei groaned, "And by the way, just ask these guys and they'll tell you how much of a freak I can be."

"How charming." She laughed, "And I'm certain this 'freakish' side of you is also far from anything your girlfriend ever saw too?"

"Plural."

"Hm?"

"My girlfriends*, there's two." He looked like he was dying to reveal this tidbit of info to her, "And they both know that freak on an intimate level. Hell, I'd argue Othelia's a bigger perv than me..."

"Ah, I see." Sandy smirked naively before turning to ask the two of us, "So he's the dopehead of the group who's always high off his mind, right?"

"Sadly, he doesn't touch the stuff." Freddy sighed.

"Eh?"

"He does in fact have two girlfriends. I know cause I've met them." I chuckled.

"What!? No way!" She did a double-take at him, "This guy!?"

"What's that supposed to mean?" He growled.

"No, I don't think I phrased it correctly. I could imagine you with a girl, that's like, normal." She explained, "But polyamory!? In this day and age!?"

"Well see that's the thing..."

Before he could say anything more though, I quickly shut him up. What the hell is he doing, did he just try to tell a complete stranger about the fact we're world hoppers? Besides, he's only seem crazier in her Eyes if he hit her with the "my two girlfriends are actually from another world" card. I doubt we can come up with that convincing of a lie, and besides, it's pointless to lie about stuff irrelevant to our current goals, so instead I should probably find a natural way to switch topics.

"Anyways, what about you?" I asked her, "You've pried me on my wife last night before bed, and you seem really interested in Issei's case (though who can blame you), but do you have a guy you like?"

"Why? Don't tell me you guys are all into this polyamorous shtick..." She seemed wary, "Isn't one girl enough, dude?"

"Just answer the damned question!"

"Ack, geez, fine. No need to shout..." She sulked upon being yelled at, "But no, I'm single and ready to mingle, as they say!"

"Is it by choice or...?" Freddy asked.

"It's by choice." She revealed, "I like girls, so having a guy really just wouldn't cut it for me."

Ah, well would you look at that. I just asked an insensitive question because the thought never occured to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm familiar with the concept, I just didn't expect someone like her to be like that. I mean, it's just the genderswapped situation of Aaron, right? In other words, they're both gay. I hope she didn't get offended when I specifically asked her about men, but she didn't seem too peeved when she replied. As for someone who did look peeved, Freddy's frown all but gave away his true thoughts on the matter. That guy, every time a woman pops up in his life, she's never available. And the worst part about being single at his age? The more he waits, the harder it'll be to bag anyone...

"That being the case, I'd really like to meet those two girls of yours, JP." She winked at Issei.

"JP? Did you just call me by my country of origin?" He cocked his head back.

"Yeah! It gets confusing to learn everyone's names when you travel as much as I do, so I just go with the country of origin! Don't worry, I'm a good judge though - I only miss the nationality 10% of the time!" She then pointed to all of us from farthest to nearest, "You grew up in New York, right? And you strike me as the English kind, but like, not exactly British. Mn, I dunno..."

New York, English, British? I'm not following at all here. How can you just guess where someone's from without even hearing what language they speak? Isn't that kind of, y'know, risky? Like you're borderline playing with racism at that point, girl. Eh, either way, she couldn't have picked a worse person to play this joke on, cause I'm not of this world at all. As for Freddy though, who knows?

"She..." Freddy and Issei gulped, "She got everyone right."

"Eh?"

"Yeah, even though you know I don't live anywhere in particular now, you still somehow got that I grew up in NY." Freddy looked on in horror, "And you, Lune, you're English too."

"I am?" I furrowed my brows.

"You don't know where you come from?" Sandy laughed at me, "Bah, you're a riot, England!"

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"Dude, play along like you're from there." Issei took me aside as we walked further up the path, "You gonna correct her and tell her you're actually from Secundis? Like that's a country she's familiar with? Cause news flash, it's not!"

"Ah, so that's what you meant."

"...Sigh, but yeah, if we were to translate that whole part of the continent to this world, you kinda are English in a way." He glanced back at her, "Her guesswork is crazy. Hell, she even figured out you're not American even though you have that non-accent accent to you."

"Non-accent accent?" I rolled my Eyes.

"Oh, you know what I mean!" He fussed, "Ed's got a bit of a British tinge to him, your wife has kind of a country accent when she gets too excited..."

"That's cause she's from Great Hiana." I explained, "And Ed got that accent from his grandparents who are originally from the Kingdom of Carmen, or so he said."

"See? Accents! And she somehow guessed yours pretty nicely. Neither American, British, Australian, Scottish, Irish nor any other one for that matter. You're just English, and she surmised that in a flash. God, just how much did she travel to be so confident in that knowledge..."

"Dude, she's just a woman, calm down."

"Yo, England, JP! Come look at the sights over here!" She hollered for us to get moving.

Sandy Smith, was it... Well, I guess you'll meet all sorts of people in this world, just like you would in my own. Either way, we'll go touch the World Wonder and move on to the next location, so it doesn't really matter what we think of her. She seems bubbly and trusting, not to mention trustworthy as well, but that's about it. She'll move on to her own next location or stay here for a bit longer while we'll be looking to get me back home.

"Whoa!" Issei and I gawked at the sights, "This is Macchu Pichu!?"

"Yep, the lost city of the Incas!" Freddy smirked, "Feast your Eyes on it boys, cause unlike Chichén Itzá's temple, here we have an entire mountaintop of ruins to explore!"

"An entire mountaintop..." My Eyes twinkled before I finally realized the actual pain of the situation, "Wait, so we'll have to search the entire mountaintop until we find what shines!?"

"Whatcha looking for?" Sandy seemed curious.

Yeah, there's absolutely no way we'll tell her. Actually, I'm surprised no one from this world has figured it out on their own given the current travel technology. The fact that visiting every World Wonder nets you a free wish... Wait, now we'll just look like idiots if we go around placing our hands on every surface of Macchu Pichu in front of her. And how the hell are we gonna explain the light that appears from it? Gods, we shouldn't have let her join us, after all...

"We're actually on a mission." Freddy spoke up.

"Oi, don't tell her, dude!"

"Look, it's not like it's that big of a secret. Chill out, guys." He chuckled.

"Not much of a-!? Are you insane, uncle?" Even Issei was panicking.

"Ooh, what is it? Now you gotta tell me!" Sandy hopped up and down in place, "Is it a secret mission? Are you guys treasure hunters or something?"

"Kinda." Freddy explained, "You see, we're looking for geocache."

"...What?"

"Geocache, never heard of it?" He smirked, "Someone hides a small treasure out in the world, and you look for it with your phone's GPS. Sounds simple enough, right?"

Wait a second, that sounds amazing? Is he making it all up or is it for real something people of this world do? How fun, it's like a worldwide hide-and-seek, but you find treasure instead of your friends! And just imagine the money you can dig up...

"Nice try, but geocaches are usually like, a McDonald's toy or something not at all valuable like that." She saw right through him, "It's just a fun game to play, but you certainly can't find real treasure with it."

"Maybe not when you're in the city, but here, near these World Wonders..." Freddy patted the cobblestone protruding next to him from the grassy field, "Ah, this counts guys."

"Oh word." Issei nonchalantly leaned on the protrusion before signaling for me to do the same.

Wait, this counts as the World Wonder? I mean, yeah sure, it's all Macchu Pichu after all, but can you really just touch any cobblestone protrusion and it'll work? Wow, the light's really there... Wait, so we're done here? That's it for the second World Wonder? Just like that? I mean, I guess we're lucky it went off so unceremoniously, because this means Sandy didn't find out about the light. Even still, now we have another problem on our hands...

"Then let's find this supposed invaluable treasure of Macchu Pichu." She glanced around aimlessly.

"Nice going, idiot uncle." Issei nudged Freddy, "Now she won't let us leave until she finds some sort of geocache treasure or whatever."

"Does it matter? Let's just go, we got what we wanted." He refuted.

"Nah, I'd feel bad for lying to her, so..." I did the hand gesture.

"Hm? W-Wait, what the hell...!?" Sandy found the thing I hid behind a rock immediately, "There's actually a box here! And it has the geocache symbol on it!"

"See, we told you." I smiled, "Open it up, see what's inside."

"No way, a golden wristwatch!" She mired it endlessly, "You guys were telling the truth, after all! Hahaha!"

There, she got something nice out of this, we got what we came for - Everyone's happy. Now we can all go our separate...

"Hey, you guys said you're going to visit all the World Wonders, right?" She smiled as she closed the box back up, "I'm coming with! There's no way I'm missing out on this treasure hunt now that I know it's not fake, and besides, the more the merrier, haha!"

"...And a great job to you too, dumbass." Issei sternly scolded me for accidentally adding another party member to our team.