(... I'm sure we've met somewhere... where and why? Was that a previous life, after all?... I guess. Probably the part where my memory is still locked...... then I don't think I can remember......)
When Gaius was lost in thought, Ione looked up in the face.
"... I'm going back to my room"
When Ione said so, he quickly returned his heels without hearing from everyone.
Even as Shester raised his right hand to stop him in a bit of a panic, Carla pushed his hand away.
Carla silently glanced at Chester and made him like Ione.
So Ione left quietly.
The door closed and Chester inquired in a quiet tone, confirming that Ione had left.
"Because it was nice of you?
Carla nodded slowly and quietly.
"Oh. For once."
"For now..."
"That's right. I'm pretty sure it's Lucifer holding the key to Ione's memory. If so, I just tried to hit some kind of hand forcefully here, and I can't handle it. If that's what you're doing here, it's what you're doing."
"So you think you're gonna hit some kind of hand sometime?
"That's right. To do this, we need to keep Ione on this side. Now it's not going to hurt Ione's mood."