"That…worked out smoothly. Too smoothly, if I may add."
Outside the coffee shop, the bewildered Abigail turns to her friend, Layland Kleinhaus—me. I don't know what she was expecting but she is genuinely bemused by how things have developed.
"I didn't know you were a good talker," she says, which is a valid point. "Also, what was that—the thing that you did in the office? You use Dark Magic?"
"That was just my friend, Teanosvera, helping me smooth things up."
"…can you say that again?"
"Tea—"
"That legendary Forest Spirit in Amizanima Forest?"
"Yeah."
"Absurd."
Thinking about what I have managed to do, now, I do agree with Abigail they are quite absurd. I survived an Earth Eater's attack and got Luxia. I took the lead (somehow) of my first Conquest Mission and we got a new territory under control. I formed a friendship with the Dark Elf's Royalty, we got another territory, and I got Teanosvera.