Editing Hyouketsu Kyoukai no Eden:Volume 4 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 2===

{{furigana|Tenketsu Palace|Sophia}}, 1st floor, the information lobby.

From guides for tourists to interview appointments, to taking care of lost children, dozens of people were usually present to fulfill these. Within the tower especially, it was a gigantic lobby packed with civilians.

“Hey, hey, I asked yesterday as well, but do you have any information?”

“Yuto-san, wasn’t it. Black hair with a white one-piece. Age is……”

The receptionist tapped on the search terminal.

Eyriey gazed at that screen as if to eat into it as she leaned against the window.

───Where did you go, Yuto?

Since noon yesterday, and as late into the night as possible, she had searched the tower to no avail.

Ever since she’d lost sight of her on the upper floors of the tower, a whole day had already passed. During that time, it was hard to imagine that she had wandered around inside the tower without anybody seeing her. She hoped that she was under somebody’s care though.

“It’s a pity, but no information has arrived.”

“I see, ……thanks.”

She closed her eyes while biting on her lower lip.

……Just where did she go this time?

Truthfully, this was not the first time Yuto had gone missing. She would periodically just not be there and no matter how much Sheltis and she searched for her, they wouldn’t find her.

But a few days later, she’d return all of a sudden with an energetic smile.

She wanted to believe that was the case this time as well but she couldn’t discard the possibility that she’d really become lost.

“Sheltis as well……I wonder if he won’t come soon.”

Having decided it would be difficult on her own, she had requested help from him not too long ago. She’d told him they’d meet up at the 1st floor’s information lobby, so he should be coming soon.

“Same as yesterday, if I find something out, I’ll contact Eyriey-san.”

“I’m counting on you. She’s a cute girl so I think you’ll know immediately. She has beautiful black hair that’s tied into two like twintails. Her clothes are also a pretty color so they should be readily recognizable.”

“Ah, it’s Eyri-nee──. Over there, there!”

“Yep, yep. It’s this feeling of ‘Eyri-nee〰’ that…………that”

She turned around and there was ─── the young girl with the features she’d just described to the receptionist, waving at her with a smile that covered her face.

“Yuto!?”

“Eyri-nee! Waa, I’m glad. It’s Eyri-nee! Look, look, Vaa-nii.”

“……Mm, yeah. Here.”

The man that had been piggybacking Yuto until now let her down and and she ran towards Eyriey at full speed. Eyriey firmly hugged back the young girl that jumped at her chest with both arms spread.

“Yuto! I’m glad……where did you go?”

“Ehehe, Yuto doesn’t really know.”

“……Jeez. Though I expected that. Mm? Yuto, what are you holding?”

Yuto was holding something in her tiny hand.

One was candy wrapped in a vinyl bag and the other was a glass rendition of the tower’s mascot character ‘The {{furigana|Dusk Dragon|Arma}}’. Either one was a souvenir sold at the entrance to the tower’s 1st floor.

“You know, you know, Vaa-nii bought them for me!”

Yuto pointed at the young man that had been piggybacking Yuto until not too long ago.

“You brought back Yuto? Really──, thanks. I was worried about where she got lost and was just in the middle of searching.”

“……She was wandering around the training grounds.”

The young man sighed with a tired expression. He was a tall young man with darkened golden hair that was cut short and his face was moderately tidy, but his expression of displeasure made all of it count for nil.

“The training grounds? Ah──, of course I couldn’t find her.”

“Well……I was searching for Shel-nii.”

“For Sheltis? Ah── I see, it would have been nice if you told me.”

And she knocked her own forehead against Yuto’s.

“Ehehe, sorry, Eyri-nee.”

“It’s fine if you understand. So, thank you as well. For guiding her, as well as for the candy and souvenir.”

“……That brat was whining about being hungry. It was just right for shutting her up.”

He scratched the back of his head, or so she thought. Fed up with doing that, he turned his back.

“Ah, wait! I didn’t get your name. As thanks───”

“I don’t need thanks, and it was nothing so major that I should name myself for it.”

Turning his face away, he was about to leave just like that.

“……Vaiel?”

That was when somebody else called the young man’s name.

Reddish brown frizzy hair and amiable eyes, a boy who wore an impressive black jacket ─── Sheltis stared over in their direction vacantly.