Huh… Anise was used to most people she met being from Earth. Was Landel aiming for more diversity lately, or something? Then again, maybe it was just a coincidence.

The way Tsurugi talked, it was almost like he took her last comment to mean she had no friends at all! Anise had plenty of friends – it was just that they were mostly older than her. Some of them, two or three times her age. The fact that she didn’t go to school when she was little, and then went into military training, had a lot to do with it. Though that didn’t really explain why she couldn’t get along with any of the other Fon Master Guardians, who were mostly only two or three years apart…

But there was a nicer way to take his comment, and so Anise decided to go with that. “Hmm… is that an offer?” she asked with a playful grin.