☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- Well, alright... - remembering a random listener in "the drowned woman" during a gathering with cornichons, she lowers her voice and looks around carefully, but not in an obviously suspicious way, to make sure no one is eavesdropping while they talk. - There were all sorts of puzzles in which the location of the next kuma-san was encrypted. It's surprising that they survived because they were made more than ten years ago. Some of them were hidden in places where no one could find them unless absolutely necessary, but others were with real people, and it's unclear why they haven't thrown them away or tried to do something with them yet. Maybe all these people knew the puzzle maker to some extent and kept them out of respect? I can't say. Not all of them are particularly interesting, but there are a few individual ones that I can tell you about. For example, have you ever been to 69/54? It's in the dormitory. There's a huge statue of that bear there. I don't understand how it got there; I think it's a bit much, even for a quest. Imagine - just putting a statue there for fun, it's absurd. Unless... maybe it was there before, and it was the inspiration for that design - that's possible. What else... Oh, for example, there was another one in the fishermen's guild. Apparently, it was caught from some very rare fish. How is that possible? Did they stuff a fish with a puzzle and let it swim around until someone caught it? That's ridiculous. Or maybe I was just told a lie, or they meant something else... Or, here's another one - did you see the executioner on the guillotine? He had one. And here's what's interesting - did you know that there is not only a regular executioner, but also a... ghost executioner? Well, of course, I knew you wouldn't believe it. But it's really true - the regular executioner executes a physical body, and the ghost one executes a ghost. All the facts point to that. Another place was in... mmm... some kind of cafe on Emerald... you know what I mean, - she looked around completely unassumingly, first making sure that EdgeLord-kun wasn't sitting nearby, hiding under a table or chair, standing in the corner, walking past the window, or watching them through the door crack. - You said that that guy comes to you and is generally a respected person, and maybe that's how it is for you, but in that atmosphere, it was a complete nightmare. You might have handled it in one or two tries, but it was very difficult for me... He didn't want to give me hints just like that and offered all sorts of things in return, but I can't do that. I had to reveal all my cards. We talked for a whole hour, and with each new turn, he pushed me further into the abyss of despair. It's like some kind of Emerald boss, or I don't know... I barely got out of there - I was already thinking that they would finish me off there. That's how it was... Oh, yes - there was one in that modeling agency. There I had to... ... ... participate in a photoshoot... Not like you think, thank goodness! A normal one. But you know how it often happens - they'll offer you something on one condition, and then they can change it gradually or abruptly, and it's unclear what to do with all this. I know these "photographers"... Not in that sense, - she quickly adds. - Just, you know. That all sorts of things happen. In general, that's how it all was.

Please, Nebok, don't corrupt Kasu... He's already been through enough.

Nothing new will happen to him