I returned directly to the club room with Leona and informed the group about Aria's situation.

As usual, Karna wasn't present among the regulars. She wasn’t close enough to Aria to be informed, and, besides, she was so overwhelmed with Swordmaster duties that she hadn't been in the club room for a while.

“That woman…”

“Mmm…”

When I mentioned that Aria’s time was slowly beginning to gather, everyone had complicated expressions. The ratio of hatred to affection was probably about 99.5 to 0.5, but she was a complicated figure, representing both love and hate.

“So, basically, we don’t know when …