Firefly, I want to be a Sanyo Hermit

"By the way...where's the pink-haired girl?" Mei Raiden, who was leaving the alley and preparing to go home, suddenly stopped.

Thinking back carefully, after he kicked the gangster unconscious, the pink-haired girl who had helped him free himself from the threat of the pistol disappeared.

"Hi~? Are you thinking about me?" At this moment, the pink fairy lady who had just disappeared suddenly appeared.

"Huh!?" The girl's sudden appearance scared Mei Raiden.

Mei Raiden took a half step back and forced herself to hold back the punch that she was about to throw out instinctively.

As a martial artist, it is normal to instinctively fight back when you are frightened. After all... you can't be frightened to the point of closing your eyes and screaming, right?

"Huh...how come you're so elusive?" After seeing who was coming, Raiden Mei breathed a sigh of relief and lowered her clenched fists.

"Well~~ Because I feel that there is a cute girl thinking about me~?" Alicia said while humming a tune.

"..." Although some people would say weird things when they confessed to me normally, this was the first time that a girl said this to Mei Raiden.

This made Mei Raiden at a loss for how to respond for a moment.

"Hee~?" Alicia smiled.

"You... shouldn't be an ordinary person, right?" Raiden Mei was silent for a moment and then asked Alicia. "Are you also a Valkyrie?"

How could an average person have the skills to use a stone to knock someone else's gun away, have it land accurately in one's own hand, and be able to dismantle the gun in an instant?

"Valkyrie?" Alicia tilted her head.

This was the first time that Alicia heard this special name.

Listening to Mei Raiden's description, Valkyrie sounds like a profession.

"No~?" Alicia said with a chuckle. "I'm just passing by..."

Although she didn't know why, a strange name suddenly popped up in Alicia's mind.

"Just Miss Pink Fairy~?"

"..." Raiden Mei blinked, her eyes gradually falling on Alicia's pointed ears. "Is this a Chuunibyou?"

Although Mei Raiden had done some very childish things in the past, she is now a second year of high school and has long since cured herself of her childish syndrome.

The girl in front of me looks to be about the same age as me, but I didn't expect that she still has a chuunibyou syndrome.

"But this ear looks very real, and I don't know what material it is made of." Raiden Mei was somewhat interested in the material of Alicia's ears.

“Forget it.” Mei Raiden sighed. “My name is Mei Raiden…”

After saying that, Mei Raiden took out a notebook from her schoolbag, tore off a piece of paper, and wrote down her cell phone number.

"This is my contact information. You helped me a lot today. If you have any problem, you can contact me at any time. I will not refuse as long as I can help." Mei Raiden handed the note to Alicia.

"Hey~ Can I have a meal with you?"

"...Um?"

B.14 Sister Kiana

Although Mei Raiden knew that she would be scolded by her mother when she returned home, Mei Raiden had been a good girl since she was young and had not been lectured for more than ten years, so...even though she was prepared, she was still moved to tears.

Of course, the most important thing is that her mother started crying while preaching to her. Looking at her mother with tears in her eyes, Raiden Mei couldn't help crying.

The result was that the mother and daughter cried louder and louder...

Finally, after finishing her dinner in tears, Mei Raiden recovered after taking a bath with her mother after a long absence.

"That guy should be the Valkyrie, right?" Sitting at the desk, Raiden Mei played with the clay figures on the table.

It was a sitting puppet holding a knife in both hands.

Although Mei Raiden feels that this doll may be a bit similar to herself, there are also big differences between them.

"Should I ask... though there's no need, right?" Raiden Mei thought. "No... I'll ask anyway."

...

......

Mei Raiden placed her phone horizontally on the table and made a video call to the other party.

After a few plain ringtones, the other person's image appeared on the screen.

"Hi~ Mei, how come you have time to contact me today?" The white-haired elder sister, whose appearance has not changed in the past ten years, appeared on the screen.

"Good evening, Sister Kiana." Mei Raiden smiled a much sweeter smile than usual.

Although Mei Raiden is usually rather aloof in school, that's just an act she puts on in order to deal with those suitors.

Although after pretending for a long time, Mei Raiden's temperament has indeed become a lot colder than before, but when facing her "relatives", she still shows her inner enthusiasm.

"Yeah, good evening." Kiana smiled and nodded. "How is your life lately?"

"It's the same as usual, Sister Kiana, why do you look... so tired?" Raiden Mei found that Kiana's mental state seemed a little bad.

"Well... this is just the helplessness of adults." Kiana rubbed her face and instantly regained her youthful beauty. "I've been working overtime every day recently..."

As Kiana spoke, it seemed as if a soul flew out of the corner of her mouth.

"That's really scary..." Raiden Mei smiled helplessly.

"So Mei should not rush to grow up." Kiana sighed. "Enjoy your youth more, such as going out to play with friends."

"Has Sister Kiana reached this stage too..." Mei Raiden smiled reluctantly, silently complaining in her heart. "Come to think of it... Sister Kiana is a Valkyrie, right? Did something happen recently?"

"..." Hearing Raiden Mei's words, Kiana instantly perked up. "Mei, is there something wrong with you?"

"No, that's not it." Raiden Mei quickly waved her hands. "Actually, I met a very amazing girl today."

"She used only a stone to knock the pistol out of the gangster's hand, and she accurately made the pistol fall into her own hand. In the end, it took her less than a second to dismantle the pistol."

"Thugs? Pistols?" Kiana frowned. "Mei, did you do anything dangerous today?"

"Ah this..." Mei Raiden never expected that her sister Kiana would notice this.

"Forget it, there's no point in interrogating you now." Kiana sighed. "But Mei, you're not hurt, are you?"

"No." Raiden Mei shook her head repeatedly.

"That's good... By the way, what are the characteristics of the girl with good skills you just mentioned?" Kiana tilted her head and asked. "Recently, there may be some things happening in Changkong City, so we sent a few Valkyries to be stationed in Changkong City."

The skills described by Mei Raiden may seem very powerful, even incredible, to ordinary people, but they are very common among Valkyries.

Basically, any Valkyrie above level B can easily do what Mei Raiden described.

"Characteristics? She looks... sweet?" Raiden Mei felt that if she just said 'pretty' it would be too general.

After all...whether it is Mei Raiden herself or Kiana who is talking to her now, they are all "very beautiful".

So after thinking about Alcia's characteristics, Mei Raiden concluded that she was "very sweet".

"She has long pink hair, tied into a low ponytail...but she seems to have a chuunibyou." Although Mei Raiden thinks it's a bit unkind to say someone has a chuunibyou behind their back, but... Mei Raiden thinks that ear is really unique.

"Chuunibyou? Can you tell from that? Is she wearing something like... 'Yoru Shiku' clothes?" Kiana said what she imagined, and then she giggled.

"Puchi... That's not the case~" Kiana's imagination was also conveyed to Raiden Mei, and Raiden Mei imagined that Alicia was wearing a jacket with 'Yoru Shiku' written on it, and speaking with a weird tongue, so she also laughed.

After a while, Mei Raiden and Kiana finally stopped.

"By the way, Mei, do you know her name?" Kiana suddenly remembered that Raiden Mei only said that the other party had good skills, and then under her guidance, she talked about the other party's characteristics, but she never said her name.

"Eh? Did I forget to tell you?" Raiden Mei smiled awkwardly. She always felt that she would become a little reckless when chatting with Sister Kiana. "She said her name is Zuo Alicia."

'...'

Mei Raiden saw with her own eyes that white light appeared in Kiana's eyes and then crossed in her eyes to form a cross.

Those were not eyes that an ordinary person could have.

But Mei Raiden had seen those eyes before, and that was a feature that only appeared when her sister Kiana was serious.

"Mei...you said her name is Zuo Alicia?" Kiana said seriously. "Pink hair, but the most distinctive feature is that she has very strange ears, right?"

"Ah? Well... her ears are pointed, and look like the ears of a fairy or something." Although she didn't know why Kiana suddenly became so serious, Mei Raiden also realized that the identity of this 'Alishia' seemed not simple.

"Well, I understand... Don't worry Mei, she's a good person." Seeing Mei's nervous and slightly uneasy expression, Kiana dispersed her Herrscher form and said with a smile. "I just didn't expect to hear her name at this time."

"What...what do you mean?" Raiden Mei blinked and then swallowed. "Is she...a ghost?"

"Huh?" Kiana tilted her head in confusion.

B.15 Is she a clone?

Although she says that she has recovered from her chuunibyou, Mei Raiden is a person from the Far East after all, and people from the Far East generally have the sequelae of chuunibyou, and they often give themselves some inexplicable and impressive titles.

Mei Raiden's cured chuunibyou only prevents her from doing stupid things, but her understanding of some things is still a little weird.

"I can actually hear her name at this time."

According to Mei Raiden's understanding, Kiana knew the person called 'Alishia', but she shouldn't appear at this time.

So apart from the obvious mistake of "future", "Alicea" can only be an acquaintance of Kiana in the "past".

But if they were just simple acquaintances, Kiana should have used words like 'I didn't expect she would go to Changzora City' or 'I didn't expect you, Mei, to meet her'.

Because of these discordant points, Mei Raiden came up with the idea that "Alicia might be a ghost."

"It shouldn't be a ghost, right?" Although Kiana was confused by Mei Raiden's words, she thought about it carefully and found that...Alicia who appeared in 'Changkong City' at this time might really be a ghost.

After all, Alicia has been dead for more than 50,000 years...

However, in Kiana's opinion, the possibility that Alicia is a ghost is too small.

After all, in this world, consciousness can be re-matched with the container, but if consciousness dissipates, it cannot be recovered no matter what.

If we have to talk about "ghosts", the ghosts that Kiana has actually seen are probably Fu Hua, who existed for a period of time using a feather of [Yu Duchen] as a medium, and Xiao Shi, who traveled around the world relying on the [Power of Consciousness].

A 'ghost' like Alicia from 50,000 years ago should not exist.

It could be a ghost... The more likely possibility is that someone bold enough in the World Serpent created a clone of Alicia.

"Isn't it a ghost..." Realizing that she seemed to be acting stupid just now, Mei Raiden embarrassedly turned her eyes away, but at the same time she felt a little lost for some reason.

After all... wouldn't it be even more powerful if Alicia was a ghost?

"Okay, Mei, stop imagining this." Kiana consoled her. "If I have time tomorrow, I will go to Changkong City. If I go, I will contact you."

"Okay~" Mei Raiden nodded with a smile. "My cooking skills have improved a lot recently. If Kiana-sister comes to 'Changkong City' tomorrow, why don't you come to my house for dinner?"

"Then I have to go now." Kiana pretended to suck the corner of her mouth, making a sound like sucking saliva.

After chatting for a while, Mei Raiden remembered that she had not done a single word of her homework today. She quickly said goodbye to Kiana and started doing her homework.

----

"Alisia..." Kiana walked to the windowsill and looked up at the sky.

'St. Freya Academy' is a school city and also a man-made island, so the heavy industry on the island is not well developed, and you can clearly see the stars in the sky from here.

"Who is Alicia?" Xilin suddenly appeared and asked softly.

"Wow? You scared me!" Kiana pretended to be startled and jumped back. "Xilin, you're back?"

"Change the subject?" Xilin is no longer the kid who was easily fooled by Kiana. She easily saw through Kiana's intention to change the subject.

"Ahem, what are you trying to change the subject about?" Kiana rolled her eyes up, acting as if she was infected with the 'Deli Virus'.

"..." Xilin crossed her arms across her chest, looking like 'keep pretending'.

"Okay." Kiana pouted her lips.

"If you don't want to talk, forget it." Seeing that Kiana didn't want to talk just now, but was forced to talk by herself, Xilin snorted and waved her hand. "I don't like to be forced to ask some secrets."

"Ahaha..." Kiana scratched her cheek in embarrassment. 'Why does it sound like I'm being petty?'

"It's not a big secret." Kiana quickly grabbed Sirin's hand. "I'm not very familiar with Alicia, but... she means a lot to me."

Yes, Kiana has never met 'Alishia'. Even when Mei Raiden returned and became the [Hersher of the Origin], Kiana had never met 'Alishia'.