☀️ Arselia and Akonia

For an entire month, Ayano worked in "abundance," without accounting for expenses like rent, food, and other costs, just to come to this store, listen to insults from the staff directed at her, and then hand over her entire salary for a single issue of a magazine, in which an aging, overweight imperial archivist would insult her further, talking about how lucky her local culture was to be completely absorbed by his aggressive, expansive chimera, and presenting transcripts of countless dreary meetings of senile old men, which constitute the body of its bureaucratic mechanism – what could be better than that? Only to go to another store on the same street, Ayano decided, and headed towards "Leaf."