Charlotte had a reason for bringing me along.0

“Let me know if you sense anything.”3

“Okay… I’m not sure it’ll work though.”1

She had brought me along without any particular expectations, just hoping that my supernatural power could work some kind of miracle. She thought that being at the last place Baalier had been might help me find a clue.0

Charlotte had probably already extracted all the information she could about this place. 0

Yet she wanted to check things out for herself, and believe that bringing me along might make a difference.0

Charlotte roamed around showing Baalier’s portrait to people and asking about him.0

“Have you seen anyone who looks like this?”0

Even though she must have known that I had been focusing on the scroll shops, Charlotte meticulously wandered the marketplace, asking various store owners questions.0

She asked if they had seen the person in the picture, and if so, where had they gone.0

Of course, this was the Aligar shopping district. If you weren’t forking over money, you were to be treated harshly.0

“What are you kids doing here? This is no place for sightseeing. Get out.”0

Although she was wearing a robe, Charlotte still had a small frame, and I too looked obviously underage—not fit to be an adventurer in their eyes.0

As a result, no one took us seriously, and some told us that sightseeing wasn’t allowed.0

This was considered relatively polite.0

Others were not so generous, raving at us for being kids that were not going to buy anything, and demanding to know why we were in their shops stirring up trouble. Such harsh words were common here.0

If the people uttering those words knew that they were speaking to the First Imperial Princess, they would probably want...0