☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- Whatever troubles you, please remember that talking to friends and loved ones can, even if only in a small way, ease your soul even in the most difficult moments.
After leaving a tenner as a tip for the waitress, she quickly eats the pudding - which turns out to be too sweet - and goes outside.

Lost in thought, she looks over the city map again, and finally looks up, barely managing to dodge a scrap of discarded, crumpled, and trampled newspaper, caught by a gust of wind, so that it sticks to the wall instead of flying into her face. Mentally wishing the garbage collector a thousand curses, she manages to notice a certain "cat advertisement" that has miraculously survived on this urine-soaked piece of paper before it flies away. Standing in thought for a few seconds, she vaguely recalls stories about something similar, told during an endless feast with the "Carnelian" people, and successfully forgotten since then - it seemed like an eternity had passed - as well as a scene of Aiko-tan secretly feeding a piece of octopus tentacle to a shaggy urchin rubbing against her legs under the tablecloth.

"What nonsense," she thinks, but still decides to walk to the park and burn off the silly dessert calories, even though she doesn't really need to.