In a bustling place, there will also be secluded corners that no one cares about.

Just as where there is sunlight, there are also shadows.

So after leaving Tomoki and his group, Nimfu found a quiet corner not long after.

With her back to the cliff, Nimfu sat on the sand with her hands on her knees.

Watching the tide rush ashore and crash against the sparkling waves on the reef, Nimfu's blue eyes were hollow.

[Is this the ground?]

[This is the place where the insects live]

Worms, that's what Nimfu always called the humans on earth.

It was as if her master, Minos, the Lord of the Sky, addressed the people of the earth.

When you look up, the sky is as blue and transparent as your own eyes.

Nimfu involuntarily stretched out a slender arm to the sky, as if to grasp something.

"Chirp! Haw! ”

A pair of birds flapped their wings and flew by, landing lightly on Nimfu's outstretched palm as she gazed in amazement.

With her eyes slightly wide, Nimfu carefully lowered her hand, and looked at the pair of birds that seemed to be companions standing in the palm of her hand, turning their cute heads deftly, staring at herself with those beautiful eyes, and Nimfu couldn't help but smile for the first time since coming to the ground.

"Good ......"

The other hand gently stroked the bird's feathers, and Nimfu suddenly frowned in anguish.

Myself, it seems that there is nothing that can entertain the two cute little ones.

"Use this."

A piece of bread with a sweet smell was handed to him.

A faint fragrance of lilies lingered on the tip of his nose, and Nimfu, who turned his head in amazement, saw Yakumo with a warm smile like a spring breeze.

"Is that you?"

"It's me."

Without any scruples, he sat down directly beside Nimfu, and Yakumo gently tore off some fine crumbs from the bread in his hand and put them in Nimfu's palm.

The pair of birds pecked lightly, and Nimfu smiled like a child when she saw this scene.

"That's nice......"

"It's nice to be able to fly freely in the sky."

Nimfu looked at Yakumo strangely. "α's master, what a strange man."

"People?" Yakumo said with a smile, "Why don't you call it a bug?" I think that's what you called Sakurai-kun. ”

"Humph!"

Nimfu shook her head proudly, and a pair of smooth blue double ponytails crackled against Yakumo Mo's clothes.

Perhaps startled by Nimfu's movements, a pair of birds that were eating breadcrumbs flapped their wings and flew away.

"Ahh

Subconsciously, Nimfu wanted to reach out. But the outstretched hand paused.

"Flew away...... That's fine. ”

"In that case...... It won't be ......."

"Won't it be?"

"What's your business!"

Grimacing at Yakumo, Nimfu was about to get up and leave, but stopped again because of Yakumo's words.

"Is it because I remember the little bird I met in Sinapus?"

“――！！”

In an instant, Nimfu's pupils suddenly changed to the state they were in battle, staring at Yakumo deadly.

"Y-how do you know?"

"I know a lot, Icarus's, yours, and maybe Astrea's."

“Δ？”

"Ah, yes. It's that idiot. ”

…… Dumbfounded.

Nimfu almost got out of breath.

However, regardless of Yakumomo's somewhat inappropriate name for Astraea, it seems that the owner of the α in front of him knows a lot about Sinapus.

In this case-

"Hacking!"

The Almighty Angel for electronic warfare can hack creatures other than electronic devices.

In an instant, the feeling similar to that when being manipulated by bee-eating to activate the ability of mental control, suddenly came to me.

Yakumo chuckled, but he didn't see any movement, and the air seemed to suddenly make a sound of glass breaking.

Nimfu screamed and fell backwards in a cold sweat.

However, the expected fall did not materialize. Yakumo reached out in time to support her body.

"It's useless to use hacking on me."

"How, how is it possible...... ...... on the ground Worm-"

"Huh?"

"Mere ...... Humans on the ground are just ......"

"Hah!"

After straightening Nimfu's soft body, Yakumo leaned his back against the rock behind him. Raise your head and look at the blue sky.

"I'm not human, won't you investigate before you act?"

"Not human? No kidding! Don't you still want to say that you are a winged person? ”

The Winged People are the natives of Sinapus and the makers of the Almighty Angels.

"Bang!"

"Yikes! It hurts! ”

Covering the top of his head that had been knocked by Yakumo Mo, Nimfu glared at him dissatisfiedly, "Is there something wrong with what I said?" ”

"Of course not, I'm a youkai."

"Nonsense!"

Nimfu certainly had the confidence to say so.

Sinapus has existed for a long time that far exceeds human civilization.

So what kind of creatures live on the ground? It is impossible for the people of Sinapus not to be unclear.

If there really were youkai on the ground, they would have been discovered by Sinapus a long time ago.

"Nonsense? As an almighty angel, you should be able to analyze any matter, so you might as well try it on me. ”

"Humph! That's what you said! ”

Standing up, Nimfu's goblin wings flapped behind her. Eyes flashed with countless streams of data.

"...... in Matter Analysis"

“…… Parsing can't!? ”

Nimfu covered her eyes with a pale face, as if her eyes had been hurt by the analysis just now.

"What's going on! There is a large amount of anomalous information on the surface of your body, which completely disrupts the normal analysis! ”

"Anomalous information?"

Yakumo shook his head.

"That's just that you haven't encountered such a existence before, so you will think it's an anomaly, and that's actually - demonic power."

With Yakumo's current strength, it is not difficult for the demonic power scattered on the surface of the body to hinder Nimfu's simple material analysis.

Of course, if he couldn't resist, Nimfu's analysis at full power output would still be able to proceed normally.

And if it is replaced by Zilai, even if he does not deliberately resist, the demonic power emitted by the unconscious is enough to make Nimfu, who analyzes it at full power, analyze and confuse because of the abnormal information, and finally get a lot of useless results.

Nimfu took a step back and looked at Yakumo solemnly.

Now it seems that the biggest trouble to bring Icarus back is not Icarus herself, but her master.

Although the analysis just now was unsuccessful, it also gave Nimfu a rough estimate of Yakumo's strength.

- It's not something she can fight against.

"Why, thinking about how to bring Icarus back to Sinapus?"

"Why- yes, you already know so many secrets of Sinapus, and it's normal to know my purpose again."

"So, are you going to get rid of me now?"

As she said this, the retreating Nimfu opened her cute little mouth slightly.

Ultrasonic vibrating particles (Aphrodite), ready to activate at any time.

As if completely unaware of Nimfu's actions, Yakumo Mo looked at the sky to himself.

"Nimfu, if you look at it from the ground, the sky here is very wide." (To be continued......)