-1154- Why bring me along?

After a bit of fooling around, Rozen began to get to the point.

"La Folia."

Rozen looked directly at La Folia and said.

"Do you know what the spatial anomaly that occurred on Itogami Island is all about?"

Rozen finally asked this question.

"The spatial anomaly that occurred on Itogami Island?"

Yukina was immediately stunned.

"..."

Sayaka's expression tightened.

Obviously, Sayaka already knew something.

The reason Rozen came here to find La Folia first instead of going to the Keystone Gate to check the situation was twofold.

First, the distortion of space there was the most severe, and approaching it rashly might not be successful.

Second, he thought La Folia must know something, otherwise, the princess wouldn't risk running out like this with her identity exposed, even with news mentioning her situation on the island.

After all, with La Folia's status and beauty, if she were exposed in public, especially on the eve of the Harurouin Festival, with a large number of tourists around, she could easily be overwhelmed by the crowd.

At that time, it wouldn't be too bad if someone just wanted to talk to La Folia, shake hands, or say hello. What they feared was someone with malicious intent.

So, during the Harurouin Festival, La Folia couldn't reveal her identity.

Now, this princess risked running out, she must have discovered something.

That's what Rozen thought, which is why he came here to see La Folia first.

Rozen wanted to get some necessary information from La Folia.

However...

"Heh!"

La Folia suddenly lunged forward, grabbing Rozen's hand.

"Huh?"

Rozen was stunned.

"La... La Folia...!?"

"Princess...!"

Yukina and Sayaka were also surprised by this sudden change.

But it seemed to be La Folia's purpose.

"Nichiyo! Over here!"

Taking advantage of Yukina and Sayaka's astonishment, La Folia grabbed Rozen and ran towards the entrance to the square.

"La Folia?"

Rozen completely did not expect this development, so he was also dragged by La Folia and soon arrived at the entrance to the square.

"Wait... Senpai...!?"

"You two, stop right there!"

Yukina and Sayaka just reacted and tried to catch up.

Unfortunately, it was too late to chase after them at this point.

"Buzz!"

Just as Rozen and La Folia passed through the entrance to the square, the surrounding space seemed to shift suddenly, undergoing a sudden change.

"What is this...!?"

Rozen's eyes narrowed instantly.

Hand in hand, Rozen and La Folia, under the distortion of space, seemed to have entered a passage to another world, suddenly jumping to another place.

When Rozen and La Folia stopped, the surrounding environment had completely changed.

The location is still in the western district of Itogami City.

However, Rozen and La Folia came to another commercial street, about a quarter of the distance from the Shopping Mall.

Rozen and La Folia suddenly jumped to such a place.

Moreover, the people around seemed to have completely not noticed this anomaly, still bustling with various promotional activities, with the sounds of shouting and noisy music echoing non-stop.

But La Folia didn't seem surprised at all by this situation.

"Sure enough, once you touch a place with the concept of entrances and exits, you'll be randomly transferred to another space."

La Folia seemed to confirm this.

It was because the two were transferred to another place that Yukina and Sayaka couldn't catch up, right?

"La Folia..."

Rozen wanted to say something.

But before that, La Folia unilaterally interrupted Rozen.

"Alright." La Folia's extremely abrupt smile filled her face, and she said, "From now on, let's go on a date."

Astounding words came out of La Folia's mouth.

"Huh?"

Even Rozen couldn't help but make a dumbfounded sound at this moment.

"A date?"

Rozen didn't react in time to this vocabulary.

"What? Don't you know what a date is?" La Folia tilted her head and patiently explained, "A date refers to an intimate meeting between a man and a woman..."

"I'm not asking you what a date is!" Rozen couldn't help but rudely interrupt La Folia, saying, "I'm asking you, why did you think of going on a date at this time?"

This is simply absurd.

But La Folia seemed very serious.

"Well, after finally shaking off Yukina and Sayaka, if we don't make good use of this time, it wouldn't make sense, right?"

La Folia smiled with a mischievous look.

"If it were usual, Yukina would always be following you, and Sayaka wouldn't let me out of her sight either, which means now is the so-called rare opportunity."

La Folia's words unexpectedly raised Rozen's spirits.

This finally reminded Rozen of something.

That is...

"This princess would often sneak out for the simple reason of boredom, making the entire Knight Order busy looking for her."

Given this, in this rare opportunity to escape from the Knight Order and even the Lion King Agency's guards, this princess would naturally be very excited.

Or rather, this might be what La Folia had been planning all along, using the mysterious spatial phenomenon that occurred throughout Itogami Island to escape from others.

Regarding this, Rozen could only say...

"Then why not just get rid of me too? Why bring me along?"

Rozen sighed wearily.

But this made La Folia show a charming smile.

"Because, Nichiyo is special."

The princess, hailed as the reincarnation of beauty, took Rozen's hand very actively and affectionately spoke.

"Alright, let's go, my dear."

With that, La Folia dragged Rozen and walked towards the bustling scene of the commercial street.

"Wait... Wait..."

Rozen wanted to stop, but he was also rendered motionless by La Folia's close proximity.

(I didn't though this princess's figure is this good...!)

Feeling the touch of La Folia's arms holding him, Rozen was shaken.

"Hehe..."

La Folia let out a melodious laughter that seemed to see through everything, resembling an angel yet a demon at the same time.

Instead of letting go of Rozen, she held him even tighter. Together with the stiff Rozen, they ventured into the depths of the commercial street and began to enjoy themselves.

At the same time, in various corners of Itogami City, similar inexplicable spatial transfer phenomena were constantly occurring.

Not only tourists but even some local residents were unknowingly transferred to other places, causing quite a bit of chaos.

The communication channels of the Artificial Island Management Cooperative gradually filled up with various complaints and grievances.

A new turmoil was approaching this Demon Sanctuary.

The storm was about to come.