Illia kept on ignoring their questions until they made it to the mall.
"Illia, please tell us what do you mean." Yui doted on her.
"Yes. Don't ignore our questions after saying that statement." Friela said.
"I'll tell it if you feed me." Illia said while holding her stomach, "It's rumbling." She added.
Friela sighed, "Let's go to Lucy's favorite pizza restaurant, then." She said.
"Alright." Yui agreed.
"Pizza? What's that?" Illia asked.
"You'll see when we got there." Canum said.
They went to the escalator to climb from first floor to second floor.
"I can feel it this time." Illia whispered to herself, but Canum heard her.
"Feel what?" Canum asked. Friela and Yui turned their heads to see what's going on.
Illia ignored them and looked around while turning her head from right to left.
"What is it, Illia?" Yui asked this time.
"I can feel a massive amount of magic power." She said.
"What? Where?" Friela asked.
"I can't pinpoint where, but I can feel it." Illia said and turn her head on her left again. As the escalator slowly went up, she saw a familiar face smiling at her at the other side of the escalator.
Illia was shocked. "L-Licht?! Licht!" Illia shouted and tried to go against the flow of the escalator.
"Illia what are you doing?!" Canum followed Illia and hold her arms.
She hurriedly climbed on the escalator and went on the other side to follow Licht. Yui, Friela, and Canum had no choice but to follow Illia.
"Licht!" Illia's eyes were fixated on the one she's calling Licht. The massive amount of magic power is fading.
She held Licht's shoulder. To her surprise, she was mistaken because he's not Licht.
"I am sorry. I thought you're my friend." The man was confused, he shrugged and continue walking.
"What the hell is that, Illia?" Yui panted.
"The escalator is freaking long, what's wrong with you? Why are you shouting your friend's name?" Friela said.
"Because he was here a while ago!" Illia shouted at them.
"How come? It's impossible, right?" Friela asked too.
"No, it's not." Canum replied.
All of them looked at him, "Why? What do you mean?" Yui asked Canum.
"Because Illia is here also. That means it's not impossible. She even said that the president is an agmenagia. We do not know who else among these people are agmenagia or human." Canum explained.
"Well, you have a point." Yui replied.
"What is he doing in this world?" Illia asked.
"You do not know. How are we going to think of an idea? Can you still feel his presence or magic?" Friela asked.
"I am not sure whether that's him, but he smiled at me." Illia replied.
"Maybe he's just the Licht counterpart of this world?" Yui asked.
"But I felt a presence of magic when I saw him." Illia said.
"I thought you said you can't pinpoint the direction of the magic?" Yui asked.
"Yeah." Illia nodded.
"If he's not here anymore, we can't do anything about that. Let's just go to the restaurant because you're making us hungry!" Friela exclaimed.
Illia tried to looked again at the waves of people, but his presence is totally gone. "Is it just my imagination?" Illia thought to herself.
"Illia, let's go." Canum tapped her shoulder.
"Alright." She said and followed them.
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They sat on their chairs, and waited for Canum to finish ordering a big size of pizza and four plates of lasagna.
Friela and Yui looked at Lucy who was staring at her staff.
"I still don't know why Licht was here, or maybe it's just a mistake." Illia said.
"I'm still confused as to why you said that our president is an agmenagia." Yui broke her train of thoughts.
"Oh, the president? I just knew it the moment he said my name." Illia replied.
"What do you mean?" Friela said.
"Is there some kind of magic where you knew if he's a human or not when they utter your name?" Yui asked.
Illia laughed, "No, there isn't. He purposely exposed himself to me." Illia replied.
"Exposed? So you can conceal your presence and magic?" Friela asked.
"When you're on higher ranks, yes you can. But there are enchantments as well that can reveal them and expose you. I was about to do the enchant, but you guys stopped me." Illia explained.
"I'm sorry for that. As we've said, you can't easily use magic here. Since we do not have those, people will panic if they saw someone using unnatural things like so-called magic." Yui said.
"I understand. That's why I calmed myself back then." She said and put her staff beside her.
"The food is here!" Canum said while holding a tray of lasagna, and a waiter is holding the pizza.
"Wow! It's so big!" Illia looks amazed with the food on the table.
"You know, Illia looks like an airhead, but she can be reliable sometimes." Friela spouted out of nowhere.
"That's a rude thing to say to a princess!" Illia said and laughed.
They ate their food and forgot what had just happened to them.
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After they had their lunch, Yui decided to buy some clothes for Illia. They had fun watching her struggle to put clothes because of her breast. After buying necessary stuff for Illia, all of them decided to go to Friela's house again to stay there for few days.
"I think it's time to talk about serious stuff." Illia said as she looked outside the window of Canum's van.
"What do you mean?" Yui asked.
"About me and Lucy." Illia replied.
"What are we going to do?" Canum looked at their reflection on his front mirror.
"I just thought about this for the mean time, since I really have no idea where to start." Illia looked at them, "You said that I was here for four times, right?" Illia asked.
"Yes. First was from when we were in highschool. Second is we're unsure where, but you came on a market and a hotel after the switch. Third is when there's an interview about Lucy's comeback, and lastly, you switched with her in the hospital, but we went in an amusement park that time." Friela explained.
"That's it?" Illia asked and put her index finger on her chin.
"Yes, why?" Friela replied.
"Because as far as I remember, what Verus said to me was Lucy's been switching with me from time to time." Illia said.
"What do you mean by time to time?" Canum asked.
"She's been switching with me for almost hundred times already." Illia said.
"Hundred times?!" Friela and Yui asked in unison.
"Yes. That makes me want to ask you, how old are you guys?" Illia asked them.
"I am twenty three years old." Canum replied.
"Twenty three." Friela replied.
"I'm twenty five." Yui replied.
"How about Lucy?" Illia asked.
"She's twenty two, but turning twenty three this month." Friela answered.
"Why our ages? How about you, Illia? It doesn't looked like you're older than us, so maybe you're just around our age, right?" Yui asked, but Illia shook her head.
"You're wrong." Illia replied.
"What do you mean?" Friela asked.
"I am a hundred and forty nine years old already." Illia said.
Yui and Friela froze in their seats, while Canum accidentally stepped on the car's break, causing Illia to bumped her head on the back of the chair.
"Ouch." Illia held her forehead because of the impact.
"You're what?!" Canum asked.
"Hundred and forty nine years old?!" Yui repeated and Illia nodded.
"You effin' kidding me!" Friela shouted.
There were noises from the horns of the car behind them because of Canum's fault, "I think I have to park for a while." Canum found a gasoline station and parked the car.
"What are we going to do here?" Illia asked.
"I'll buy water, and pee as well." Canum said and got out of the van.
Meanwhile, Friela and Yui are just staring at Illia.
"Hundred and forty..." Friela said.
"...nine years old." Yui continued Friela's statement.
"What's wrong with that?" Illia asked.
"Nothing. We're just— I don't know, shocked?" Friela asked herself.
"Now, I don't have any idea where to start in this world. I have a strong feeling that the answer lies somewhere in Orbisomn." Illia said out of nowhere.
"What do you mean by that?" Friela asked.
"Before I was teleported here, I felt a disturbance of magic power. It's like an explosion of power outside of the mountain." Illia replied.
Yui thought for a while, "Wait, wait, wait. It's just bugging me. If you're hundred and forty years old, when did Lucy started switching with you?" She asked.
"The first time was when we are travelling to go to a mountain named Viridisum. Haven't I told you about it, yet?" Illia asked.
"I'm afraid you didn't told us the details." Friela replied.
"That was about twenty one years ago. It was the last time that I was with Miu and Licht. The war between my mother; the Queen, and my father; the King ended. I was wounded so bad, but my father did his best to protect me before the queen killed him. When I woke up, I was already in the infirmary of the palace hidden inside the Viridisum." Illia explained.
"Twenty one years ago?" Friela looked at Yui.
"But around that time Lucy's just around two years old." Yui laughed a bit.
"Maybe we have different timeline." Friela suggested.
"Different timeline?" Yui asked.
"The time here, and the time in my world is different. Is that what you mean to say?" Illia asked.
"Yes." Friela said.
"But, how would you know it?" Yui asked.
"I am turning eighteen that month when there's a switch happened between Illia and Lucy. Back then, we didn't knew that both of you switched with each other's consciousness. That was around May, it means already six years have passed." Friela tracked their past.
"In my world, already twenty one years have passed." Illia said.
"Do you also have twenty four hours in a day?" Friela asked.
"Yes." Illia replied.
"That means I just have to divide twenty one to six years." Friela looked at the ceiling of Canum's van, "Twenty one divided by six is three point five. It means one day here in my world is equivalent to three and a half days on Orbisomn." Friela said.
"Three and a half days?" Yui asked.
"You've switched with Lucy two days ago, right?" Friela asked.
"Yes? Around night." Illia replied, "If she's in Orbisomn right now, that means she was there for about one week already." She added.
"I think so, too. If I will calculate the exact time, every six hours and fifty one minutes in our world is equivalent to twenty four hours in your world. Am I right?" Friela asked.
"Yes." Illia nodded.
"I don't get you guys. I hate math." Yui rolled her eyes.
"Here, to sum up. Every two days in our world is equivalent to one week in Orbisomn." Friela said.
"But, how the hell are we going to find out if Lucy's in Orbisomn?" Yui asked when they suddenly heard a phone rang.
"Is it my phone?" Friela asked.
"I think it's mine." Yui picked her phone from her sling bag. She was frozen in her place when she saw who's calling.
"Who's that? Why aren't you answering?" Friela asked.
Yui let Friela saw who's calling. Both of them are shocked.
"What was happening?" Illia asked.
"It's Lucy!" Yui raised her voice.
"Answer it!" Friela said.
"H-hello?" Yui asked.
"YUI!" Lucy shouted with full of excitement on the other line.
"Lucy, is that you?" Yui asked.
"Yes, this is me! Wait, I'll put the speaker on." Lucy said on the phone.
"Okay, me too." Yui said and clicked the loudspeaker button.
Illia was shocked, because she heard a voice inside the phone.
"W-what is that? There's a voice coming out." Yui and Friela heard from the other line.
Then they heard Lucy laughed, "Yes, yes. That's how it works." Lucy seemed to reply to the one who asked.
"Are you with someone, Lucy?" Friela asked Lucy.
"Yes, I am with some friends." Lucy laughed a bit.
"Where the hell are you?! You suddenly disappeared, you know?" Yui asked her with full of concern.
"I am so sorry. To be honest it's hard to explain, but right now I am in Orbisomn. The world you're talking about." Lucy explained.
"Orbisomn?! So you're really there in my world?" Illia suddenly butted in the conversation. She even tried her best to shout like they won't be able to hear what she's gonna say.
"Princess!" Another man speak on the other line.
"Is seems like a reunion from Ingeum and Orbisomn." Friela whispered to Yui. Yui laughed a little.
"Verus? Is that you?" Illia asked while searching somewhere in the phone from side to side.
"Illia, put it down." Yui whispered to Illia.
"Yes, this is me. How are you there?" Verus asked.
"I'm totally fine here. Lucy's friends are kind, and I am eating a lot of food!" Illia happily explained.
Yui laughed, "You really love food, don't you?" She whispered to Illia.
"I'm so glad that I got to hear from you, Lucy. We've been worried, you know?" Friela said.
"Me too, Friela. I really wanted to go back there, but I don't know how." Lucy replied.
Friela and Yui looked at each other. They also don't have any idea for now on what to do to bring Lucy back.
"Try your best to find out how are we going to go back to our own world, Lucy. I am trying my best here, but I feel like the answer is there somewhere in Orbisomn." Illia suddenly talked to Lucy.
"I think it's weird that the Lucy from another world is talking with Lucy from our world." Yui whispered to Friela, and they both giggled with laughter.
"Somewhere here in Orbisomn? What do you mean, Illia?" Lucy asked her.
"I felt it when we switched places. I felt a big disturbance of magic in my world. When I woke up, I can still faintly feel it. Find where that disturbance of magic is coming from." Illia explained to Lucy.
After that, they heard people discussing about something.
"I did felt that, too." A man's voice said.
"Oh, the one that you're asking me?" Another man asked.
"Yes." A man replied.
"Verus and Dafydd." Illia whispered and smiled.
"Maybe a disturbance was created because there might be a portal somewhere in Orbisomn. Portal to my world that was here in your world." Lucy suggested on the other line.
"I am not sure, but it is possible. I will try my best to find a clue in your world. Maybe I'll try to revisit all the place that might be related to our switches." Illia said, but the connection was lost.
"What happened?" Friela asked.
"I don't know. I'll try to contact her." Yui replied.
'The number you have dialed is either unattended or out of—'
Yui shook her head, "Out of coverage." She said.
The door of the driver's seat suddenly opened.
"Hey. Sorry." Canum went inside and sat on the driver's seat, "My sweat is pouring! Only one cubicle is working inside." He said and looked at them. Yui's texting someone while Illia and Friela were staring at Yui's phone screen.
"Did something happened when I was gone?" Canum looked at them.
They all sighed when they noticed Canum.
"You're so slow!" Yui shouted at him.
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