"Buzz!"
The pitch-black space portal trembled slightly as if it had completed its mission and was retreating. Under everyone's gaze, it began to rotate like a vortex, then gradually shrank, finally disappearing quietly when only a speck remained, closing the passage connecting two distant countries.
Yuri stood in the courtyard, looking in the direction Reiger had left, watching for a long, long time.
"Let's go back, my lady."
Marilyn gently reminded her.
"...Okay."
Only then did Yuri retract her gaze.
Seeing her sister like this, Anlisa felt somewhat emotional.
It had been two years since she last saw Yuri, and her impression of Yuri was still stuck at the age of fifteen.
Back then, she was seventeen, the same age as Yuri now.
Yet at that time, Yuri had already become one of the kingdom's only two strategic magicians.
