After receiving Oscar's approval, Meredith answered happily, and Oscar said:

"The dust will fly up, could you please be quiet?"

"It's my fault for kicking up the dust, but Ao! It's not like that!"

Oscar's response seemed to be different from what Meredith wanted. As for Meredith, perhaps she hoped that Oscar would say something kind to her.

After deciding that she couldn't count on Oscar, Meredith looked at Naz, placing a glimmer of hope on him.

Let's pass it on! My thoughts!

"...Want to eat?"

After struggling for a while, Niz scooped up the last mouthful of ice and handed it to Meredith.

"Who is so greedy?"

But she still had to eat it! Meredith devoured it in one gulp, like a pet dog.

Oscar seemed to be at his wit's end, so he scooped up the last of the ice and held out his spoon.

Meredy ate it in one gulp, as a matter of course.

"Hmmmm... you really don't understand women's hearts. Hmmmm... Speaking of which, you two have been so inconsiderate to Xiao Mi lately. Hahmm hahmm... I'm not asking you to pamper me, okay? Hmmmm, but you two often chat or play the games that Ao made until midnight, right? Hmmmm... I don't think that's okay, since we're traveling as a group of three. You should be asking me, 'Xiao Mi, do you want to come chat too?' or 'Let's play together!'"

While making her own shaved ice, Mireidi chatted freely. It seemed that she had accumulated quite a lot of dissatisfaction with Oscar and Natsu recently.

To be frank, all Meredith wanted was "See me more!" "Let me join in the conversation!" "Invite me to play!" Meredith didn't look at Oscar and the others, but at the shaved ice, perhaps hiding her shyness about speaking her mind.

Miledy glanced pitifully at Oscar and the others, and this action seemed very calculated.

"Knight, go to E-4 and attack Nizu's pirates. Assault."

"How naive. Activate the terrain effect. With this effect, the pirate can instantly move one square. I'll move the pirate at E-4 to D-4 to avoid the sudden attack."

"Wha...what? You're using the new feature 'Terrain Effects' so soon... That's impressive, Natsu."

"Hmph, even if you praise me, I won't show mercy."

The two of them happily played a board game Oscar had created. It was a war simulation game similar to chess, but with game pieces that had growth rules and terrain effects.

Even if they are just pawns, as long as they properly grow their abilities, fight on terrain they are good at, and get support from our magicians, they can defeat knights of higher ranks.

This board game strives for realism and is a masterpiece that Oscar is proud of.

Since Meredith seemed to be able to talk for a long time, they started playing games.

Meredith suddenly stood up silently. Her bangs obscured her expression, making her look extremely eerie and terrifying.

And the eerie and terrifying Meredith in the next moment——

"Fly away! — 'Break the Formation'!!"

She releases the constraints of gravity and unleashes the Age of Gods magic that blasts her target into the distant sky!

“Wow!?”

“Uuuuu!?”

Oscar and Niz were startled. Weeds, sand, and Oscar's proud board game were all swept up, and the warriors and magicians flew into the distant sky...

"W-What are you doing, Meredy! My game flew away!"

"It's so noisy, so noisy, so noisy~~! Oh, I'm going to make you lose your glasses and wander around like a zombie looking for them! You glasses!"

"Stop teasing my glasses, please! Ah, hey, stop it! Stop casting gravity magic on my glasses! Why are you using such a high-level technique in such a meaningless place?!"

Oscar desperately tried to hold on to his glasses, while Meredith tried to make his glasses fly into the distant sky.

It can be seen that Xiao Mi is so sad when she is ignored!

"Hey, hey, Meredith, we were wrong, just stop here—"

Nizu felt that he was in the wrong after all, so he tried to mediate.

"Idiot! Idiot! Naruto is a lolicon! He's a perverted gentleman who carries around pictures of beautiful young sisters!"

"Take that back! I'm not a lolicon!"

Nizu did not deny that he had the photo.

Because he couldn't do anything about it. Sixia and Yunfa—they were sisters who held Natsu in high esteem and whose life goal was to become his wife. They somehow knew whenever Natsu didn't keep the photo with him.

Then, when the liaison from the "Liberator" organization sent a letter that inexplicably exuded a dark resentment, they would ask - why was the photo placed at the bottom of the luggage?

Needless to say, Natsu was so frightened that he kept shaking all day long.

Therefore, it is not that he likes to keep photos of his younger sisters with him.

Even though they are wearing hot maid outfits and posing in sexy poses in the photos, Natsu is definitely not willing to carry the photos with her!

"Such a fuss! You're ignoring Mi-chan! Na-chan needs to be punished by Si-chan! I'm going to complain to Si-chan! Tell her, 'Na-chan wants Mi-chan to open her mouth so I can feed her myself♪'!"

"Don't do that, idiot!"

"I insist! Just wait for Xiaosi's wrath—"

"In this situation, you're the one who'll have to bear her wrath! Don't you want to live?!"

Indeed, Sisha's jealousy and resentment of being fed by Natsu before herself would most likely be directed at Meredi.

Meredith's mind flashed back to Sisha's reaction when she heard of Meredith's frequent meetings with Nitsu. Her eyes had completely lost their luster, a cold and ruthless expression that would have made even the Apostle of God shudder...

“…Never mind! I won’t complain to her! On the contrary, whether it’s true or fictional, I will tell her. No, at this point, even if it’s completely fictional, it doesn’t matter!”

"You're so awful!"

Natsu is afraid of the young love hunter (Sixia), so he plans to silence Meredith.

He used space to move behind Meredith! However, Meredith fell directly upwards to avoid it!

——At the same time, he cast a momentary gravity reversal on Oscar.

"Wow!? Oh, shit! My glasses!"

Oscar lost his balance and his true form was finally taken away.

"Hahaha! I, the Phantom Thief Mireddy, have taken Ao's glasses! Mireddy is going to take away your precious things and let you experience Mireddy's sorrow!"

"Milledy~~! Don't leave fingerprints on the lenses!"

Whether the lenses were stained with fingerprints seemed more important than having the glasses stolen. Countless "chains"—sacred chains with remote refining and electric shock abilities—attacked the airborne Meredith.

"Aou without glasses is nothing to be afraid of! Ahahaha, ahahahaha! Hey, Aou! How are you feeling now? How are you feeling about having your glasses taken away by your neglected Xiao Mi? Look, look, I'm going to put my fingerprints on the lenses~"

"Miledi!! You! How could you do such a cruel thing!"

Meredith's movements were like those of an acrobat, flying through the air and dodging the torrential rain of chains with a nonchalant expression. She looked down at Oscar from above, smiled softly, and pressed her index finger against the lens of his glasses.

Oscar's mind was filled with the sound of his rationality being severed.

"Natsu!"

"have!"

Oscar's glasses were taken away and held hostage.

Niz was afraid that Meredith would tell the terrible love hunter about it.

Because both parties are facing a situation that cannot be ignored, the "Peerless Alchemist" and the "Desert Guardian" have joined forces!

And that angered Xiao Mi even more.

"Damn it! Show me your friendship again! You need to care about me more!"

"Anyway, don't touch the lenses!"

"Sixia wouldn't take that as a joke. I'm going to kill her!"

The super gravity pressed the earth into a depression, the space shook violently, and the chains and magic swords flew in the air.

Three users of magic from the Age of Gods, in a small oasis, engaged in an idiotic war (bickering) that was probably unprecedented in history.

Some time passed after that.

“““…”””

Looking around, all I could see was a reddish-brown dusty land, and three people were walking silently forward.

They were Meredi and his group, and the overall atmosphere seemed a bit gloomy.

“…What the hell are we doing?”

"That oasis is irreparable..."

"Although there was a good amount of water and food left behind,... for those heading to that oasis to rest, they would probably be surprised to see this."

And they would surely be furious with the criminals. Desert oases are resting places and lifelines for travelers, and Meredith destroyed most of them. What a sin!

After seeing the tragedy they had caused, the three of them calmed down completely. Although they had tried their best to repair the oasis, the destroyed nature would never recover.

Oscar sighed deeply at his own stupidity, and then said to Meredith:

"I'm sorry, Meredith, we left you alone."

"Don't make it sound like I have no friends... But, uh, I'm sorry for smearing animal fat on Aou's body."

"Hey, Meredith, it's me, not the glasses. You don't actually mean to apologize, do you?"

Even using the "fully automatic cleaning" function of the black glasses, the stubborn dirt could not be removed. Milady was truly guilty of a serious crime.

"Xiao Nai, I apologize to you too."

"No, I didn't suffer any real damage—"

"I'm sorry, I've told Xiaosi and Xiaoyun all the information up to now, whether it's true or fictional."

“Have you done it yet? No, I should say you are the culprit after all!!”

By the way, among the true and false information, Xiaosi somehow always manages to see through the true information and writes it down in a letter to send to Natsu.

Oscar and Niez's eye muscles twitched in anger at Meredith's various horrific crimes.

The reason why the friendship between the two became good was often caused by Meredith, but Meredith herself did not realize this.

The more annoying Meredith becomes, the more Oscar and Nitzi get along. However, Meredith, when she's not annoying, is just a genius magician and a super beautiful girl, so she can't lose her annoying qualities. As a result, Meredith's friendlessness problem remains unsolved.

If there was someone else on the journey to help coordinate, then perhaps the "Miledi friendlessness problem" could be solved to some extent...

"The Saint of the West Sea."

Hearing Oscar's mumbling, Natsu asked:

"That's the person we're looking for, right? What happened to that saint?"

"Nothing much. I was thinking that if she really existed, she must be an outstanding woman with a broad mind."

"Eh? Oh, if you put it that way, then Mi-chan is the Saint?"

Oscar ignored Meredith's nonsense and continued:

"If someone like that could become our companion, I believe she would be able to handle Meredith well."

"I see. Since she's a saint, such a woman must be kind-hearted and have an upright character who can point out the faults of others. She's naturally the perfect person to control Meredith."

"Right? A saint... I hope there really is such a person."

"That's right."

"Hey, Ao, Xiaonai, if you guys want to fight, I'll join you, okay? You're welcome, okay? If it were Xiaomi now, even a desert could probably be turned into the Grand Canyon of Laisen."

Meredith was furious, her eyes blazing with anger, her hands swirling with vortexes of gravity. Being treated like a ferocious, exotic animal seemed to irritate her.

Under such strong pressure, Oscar and Niz broke out in cold sweats and tried to change the subject as quickly as possible.

"It would be great if we could confirm the truth of the rumors in Hong Kong."

Now they are heading to the port city of Epona on the west coast of the desert.

The "Saintess of the West Sea" was a rumor Sixia and her companions had heard from merchants in a western port city. The story simply stated, "In the waters west of the continent, someone will rescue those attacked by pirates or stranded, treating them and returning them to land." The truth of the rumor remained as elusive as a cloud of mist.

"Even if we don't find anything in Epona, we'll definitely find some clues in Antica."

"Is this a city without a way out..."

Hearing what Meredi said, Natsu's expression froze slightly.

——Impossible City Andica.

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