Green, blue, red, yellow, and many more. No matter where one looks, each sery was filled with vibrant and lively colors. The noise bing the whole ival was just as lively.

  Currently, the five girls, Yuna, Eliza, Elise, Eine, and Amelia, are traversing a rge and lush maze in the ival. But no matter he it was, it was nothing pared to the training grounds of the Royal Academy.

  The maze's hedges were more than 3 meters tall, preventing eveallest people from cheating. All one could rely on was their luck, intuition, and memory to clear the maze within the allotted 10 minutes.

  What was supposed to be a date frey and Yuna had turned into a group outing, with five more people going to the ival with them. It also just so happehat all of those who joined in were children of nobility, with one of them even being a prince.

  Driven by the ival's events, everyone all decided to py a game where they o collect the most stamps within two hours in order to win, bringing them to the current situation.

  "We're finally out!" ［Eine］

  "That was fun!" ［Eliza］

  "gratutions on pleting the maze! Here are your stamps!"

  After successfully getting out of the maze, a ival staff greeted the five girls with a blooming smile on her fad presented each of them with a stamp, proof that they have pleted the maze.

  Each stamp had a unique design pattero each of the games and attras they are awarded to. Only those who plete the list of 27 stamps win the grand prize. One which many people look forward to every year.

  "Yay! We got our 5th one! Only 22 more to go!" ［Eliza］

  Upon receiving the stamp the staff hao her, like a child that she was, Eliza hopped happily with aed smile pstered on her face. Seeing her act like that, the other four couldn't help but indulge in her cute expressions.

  If oo describe the current se, the four irls would look like fathers fawning over their cute daughter, though in the current sario, rather than fathers, it would be better to say older sisters fawning over their little sister.

  While Eliza was only Elise's little sister, Yuna, Eine, and even Amelia also treated her the same way, and iurn, Eliza also treated the three of them the same with her real older sister. It was a mutual retionship.

  "Then, Liz, where do you want to go ?" ［Amelia］

  "Umm..." ［Eliza］

  Upon hearing Amelia's question, Eliza quickly pondered seriously as she looked at a map of the ival printed over the flyer hao them by the entrance. She looked very serious as she was doing so.

  But rather thaing a serious atmosphere from her, all Yuna was able to feel was a warm and fluffy feeling from watg her. Not only her, but the other three also felt the same way.

  It was not the first time Eliza picked the destination. In fact, all the games they have pyed were chosen by her. They don't even care about the petition anymore, they just wao indulge in her ess.

  "Let's go here!" ［Eliza］

  Eliza excitedly poi one of the game attras in the map. She was enjoying herself to the max. Her bright expression was enough to outshine even the sun itself as she wore a little angel's smile.

  "Hm? Isn't that the shooting range?" ［Yuna］

  "Have you tried it before, Yuna?" ［Elise］

  "Un. I have..." ［Yuna］

  Yuna mumbled in a low voice as she once again checked the pce Eliza poi. It was the same pce where she made a preemory with Grey during their date. The same pce where she earned hers and Grey's bracelets.

  At that time, Yuna had pletely thought that Grey would be disappointed with her present for him, but trary to her expectations, the tter immediately gave her a tight hug as soon as he received it.

  Just remembering about what happehat day was enough to make Yuna's heart flutter. While it was a little embarrassing, it was one of her preemories she wouldn't trade for anything.

  "Yuna, are you alright? You seem a little feverish...?" ［Eine］

  "A-Ah! I'm fine! How about we head there nht, Liz?" ［Yuna］

  "... Un!" ［Eliza］

  Before she noticed it, Yuna's face had turned pletely red from remembering the memories of that fay, making everyone else fused and worried for her at the same time.

  Thankfully, Yuna was able to dismiss the topic before it even started, because if she wasn't able to, Other than the i Eliza, everyone else would have uood why she reacted that way.

  With everyone's agreement, all five of them then headed to the shooting range where they waited in line for their turn, and while in lihey eyed the prizes in front of them to kill some time.

  "Hm...? Isn't that the same as Yuna's bracelet?" ［Elise］

  Elise said nontly as she poi one of the prizes dispyed he stall. It was a development that Yuna hoped to evade, yet failed to do so as fate itself decided to go against her.

  "Un! It really looks like Elder Sister Yuna's!" ［Eliza］

  "e to think of it, Grey was also wearing the same braceletー" ［Amelia］

  """Ah..."""

  Seeming to have uood what the deal with the bracelet was, Amelia, Elise, and Eine all voiced out a short "ah". Yuna ractically able to see what the three of them were thinking of, behind the back of their minds.

  "What? What is it?" ［Eliza］

  And like one would expect, only Eliza wasn't able to uand it. Her young mind was still not able to piece things together just from a few fragments of vague information like the others did.

  Oher hand, a warm and teasing smile was blooming oher three's faces. They were smiles which gave Yuna a bad premonition as if something worse than battling an S-rank monster was going to happen.

  "So that's how it is～!" ［Elise］

  "You don't have to be shy, you know, Yuna～!" ［Eine］

  "That's right! You tell us anything～!" ［Amelia］

  Oer the other, the three dies barraged Yuna with uing teases, and still not able to uand it, Eliza asked what they were meaning with their words every ce she got.

  It wasn't until wheall manager called them for their turn that they stopped with their attacks, and while they looked somewhat disappointed, satisfied smiles were evident on their faces.

  As for the one on the receiving end of their uing attacks, Yuna was, well, she...

  "Uuu..." ［Yuna］

  "Elder Sister Yuna, are you alright?" ［Eliza］

  ... was on the verge , with aremely flustered face. Thankfully, Eliza was there to cheer her up, even though she didn't uand o what just happened before her.

  Eliza still wore an i face as she tried to sole Yuna. Meanwhile, the other three didn't even try to do the same, rather, they wao tease Yuna more. Friends are like that, after all.

  "Yuna, what are you waiting for?" ［Elise］

  "Let's py already!" ［Eine］

  As if nothing happehe three dies invited Yuna to py the shooting rah them. Evehey were callihe satisfied smiles were still evident and shining on their faces.

  "Excuse me, we have ory, please?" ［Amelia］

  "That would be 5 kiels per three shots."

  "Alright. Here you go." ［Amelia］

  After Amelia gave the payment to the stall owner, she then received the three shots that she had asked for, and following her, Elise and Eine also bought their ow of shots.

  "Elder Sister, me too!" ［Eliza］

  "That's alright, I'll pay for it." ［Elise］

  Seeing the others hand their payment to the stall owner, Eliza tried to pay for her ow of shots. But before she even had the ce to open her wallet, Elise already stopped her.

  Eliza wao pay her share with the money she earned from her savings, but Elise just couldn't let it pass. As the older sister, she felt responsible to also pay for her little sister's share.

  "B-B-Butー" ［Eliza］

  "I said it's fine, didn't I? It's only natural for the older sister to treat her cute little sister, isn't it?" ［Elise］

  "U-Un... and thank you..." ［Eliza］

  "Now that's a good girl... Excuse me, I would like another set please." ［Elise］

  Not being able to retaliate from her older sister's words, Elia obediently stayed quiet as her older sister brought her share of shots. It was such a heartwarming se that eveall owner was touched.

  It wasn't only her responsibility as the older sister which made Elise do what she just did. It was because of the fact that they only meet for a short while every year. That fact alone made her want to spoil her little sister even if it's only a little.

  "How about you, Yuna? Won't you also be pying?" ［Elise］

  "No, I'm fine. I won't be participating this time around." ［Yuna］

  "Are you sure?" ［Elise］

  "Un." ［Yuna］

  "Well, if you say so..." ［Elise］

  Still not believing Yuna's answer, Elise stared at the former for a short while but she soon gave up, heaving a brief sigh at the end for unclear reasons as she positioned herself for the game

  Truthfully, Yuna also wao participate in the game, but after the girls' teasing attacks, She became really exhausted. In fact, she felt more exhausted than when she and Grey went os.

  Just like how he did on Yuna and Grey's date, the stall owner expihe rules of the game to the four who were participating and soon after, each of them went ahead and tried the game for themselves.

  Oer ahe four of them scored perfect points after hitting the farthest target perfectly which was located about a dozeers from the shooting line, shog the stall owner and the spectators.

  While it may be difficult for normal people to hit the faraway targets, it was just a walk in the park for people who had already received training. Not to mention, all four of them were ge their crafts.

  "A-Amazing! All of you got perfect points! Here are your stamps."

  The stall owner said in surprise as he pced a stamp on the four's stamp paper. For all the years he had been in business, it was his first time seeing a little girl like Eliza get a perfect score effortlessly. He was in awe.

  "Thank you!" ［Eliza］

  "Ah, right! You also choose the prize that you want from here."

  Wheall manager said those words, Eliza's eyes shone immediately as she locked on to oem. She had already long choseem while she was still waiting in line.

  Eliza was about to point at the same kind of bracelet that Grey and Yuna have but before she could, Elise and the others stopped her, whispering something to her ears soon after.

  Yuna, who was sitting on a nearby bench could hear it if she wao, but sihey whispered it to her, she respected their privad didn't do so. She only kept her curiosity to herself.

  Upon hearing the other's words, Eliza made a disappointed face for a short sed but then cheered up suddenly. She then took her time and chose a different item. It was a cute stuffed bear just about the size of her torso.

  After Eliza chose her prize, the irls also chose the items they wanted and walked back to where Yuna was waiting for them. All of them wore happy faces as they were doing so.

  "How was it? Did you all have fun?" ［Yuna］

  "Un! It was fun!" ［Eliza］

  Answering my question, Eliza voiced out her response eically while the others nodded in agreement to her. The young girl hugged her teddy bear tightly, thinking of it as her older sister's gift.

  "By the way, Liz, why didn't you choose the bracelet? You seemed to have taken a liking to it, after all." ［Yuna］

  Yuna asked out of curiosity. She didn't want to ihers' privacy, but she wao know why Eliza ged her mind. She was a little worried because of the sad face she made for a quient.

  "I was about to, but when Elder Sister said that it has a special meaning to Elder Sister Yuna and Elder Brrey. I thought it would ge that special meaning so I chose the stuffed bear insteaー Eh? Elder Sister Yuna...?" ［Eliza］

  Eliza didn't evehe ce to finish expining, she stopped herself midway, the moment she saw Yuna's very flustered face. The tter nretted asking Eliza the question she did.

  Yuna was very embarrassed to the point that her mind was going to explode. Hearing it from the pure and i Eliza was more embarrassing thahe other three were teasing her.

  While Yuna was happy that Eliza was being siderate, the fact that she now khe meaning about the bracelet that Grey and Yuna have was very embarrassing. She was red all the way to the tip of her pointy elven ears.

  "Yuna? Yuna...." ［Elise］

  "Are you alright..." ［Amelia］

  Because of how embarrassed she was, before she even noticed, Yuna's mind had already started overheating and the other's words no longer reached her. Her soul had already left her body.

  ...

  Look here, look there, look everywhere. Grey and Julius' head turned arou and right, and up and down as they searched for certain items listed on the piece of paper they were holding.

  It has already been more than half an hour sihe little pletioween the boys and the girls started. Uhe tter, Grey and Julius have only gotten two stamps in that span of time.

  The reason was simple. It was because rather than pig the ones which were easier to plete, they just picked which seemed iing to them. All of which were the time-ing ones.

  "Hey, Grey, remind me why we're doing this again?" ［Julius］

  "I don't know as well. Weren't you the one who said you wao try this game with ahusiastic smile?" ［Grey］

  "And you agreed with me without aation. You even said that it would probably be easy." ［Julius］

  Fod knows how many times already, Julius and Grey once again bantered in the middle of the ival withards for the people around. Thankfully, the crowd was also busy and had no time to pay attention to them.

  Currently, Julius and Grey were on an item hunt game where they o hunt 5 items scattered throughout the whole ival. The reason why they picked the game, well... her of them were sure either.

  Because of the game they joined, Grey and Julius had been looking around the ival for the said items. We have searched the trees, the bushes, and the stalls nearby, and they have gotten all items except one.

  For the first four items, it was fairly easy with the use of Grey's "Divine Eyes", but it was different for the fifth and st item. He already did all he could but just couldn't find it. There weren't even clues for it.

  The item they were searg for was an item called "Purple Rose". It was a little hard to find as there weren't any pictures on the list given. More than 10 minutes had passed sihey started to look for it.

  "Then, how about we check over there?" ［Julius］

  Julius poiowards his left, to the empty space behind the stalls. When he did save him a peculiar look with his eyes squinting, obviously having an issue with Julius' proposal.

  "Hey, Julius, you're just pointing randomly, aren't you." ［Grey］

  "Don't give me that look. At least it's better than nothing." ［Julius］

  "You're right, butー Haah... Fine, let's just go there." ［Grey］

  Grey wao retort to Julius' words, but cut off himself midway. He her had the energy husiasm to banter with Julius once again. He just wao get the game over with.

  Following Julius' suggestion, the two of them headed behind the stalls and started searg for the said item. They searched and searched, but it was all in vain. They just couldn't find it no matter what.

  "Aghhh! We've already spent more than 20 minutes looking for it! At this rate, we'll surely lose!" ［Julius］

  Julius said with a voice full of frustration as he threw the item list into the ground. He was clearly pissed off and wao vent out his frustrations. Grey was just as frustrated as he was, too.

  "Hey, Grey, I have a suggestion." ［Julius］

  "What is it this time?" ［Grey］

  "Why don't we just quit this and find aname?" ［Julius］

  A short moment of silence swallowed the pce as Grey looked towards Julius. It was the first time he wholeheartedly agreed on Julius' words.

  "Haah...,let's do that. It's probably much better than searg for something that ot be found." ［Grey］

  "You could say that again!" ［Julius］

  Agreeing to quit the game, Grey and Julius then headed to another destination to try out aname, but while we were heading there, Grey noticed something written on a lemoand's sign board.

  "Hey, Julius..." ［Grey］

  "Hm? What is it?" ［Julius］

  "Look..." ［Grey］

  Slowly, Grey pointed his fiowards the lemoand and following his fingers, Julius's eyes shifted into the same dire. Both of their eyes became wide open as shotered their systems.

  While there was nothing really outstanding from the lemoand itself, the fvors of the lemonades written on the signboard made both Grey and Julius freeze. The efforts they have made so far have bee ughable.

  In there, written was a fvor of lemonade named "Purple Rose". It was the st item they were searg for. After remembering their previous efforts, both of them felt like idiots.

  It was as if the world suddenly became silent and there was only the rustling of the wind to be heard. If there was a leaf fluttering in the wind, the se would have been like something straight out of an anime Grey used to watch ba Earth.

  "Ah... I really want to punch myself..." ［Grey］

  "Same..." ［Julius］

  Lifeless eyes, Grey and Julius got a signature from the stall owner for the pletion of their list. her of them felt happy eveheir lists had finally been pleted. All that there was was shame.

  As they headed towards the destination like they had pnned, Grey and Julius didn't utter a single word to one ahey just wao bury themselves in a small hole and hide away. The embarrassment was just too much.

  CHAPTER 105 END