The moment Izumi revealed the truth behind the Problem Children's origins, the entire group from Little Garden felt their heads spinning.
Especially Black Rabbit.
"The daughter of Leader Kasukabe…?"
"And Asuka-san is the younger sister of one of the Halloween Queen's knights?!"
Her eyes widened in disbelief.
Just like Izumi said—
If someone claimed none of this had been arranged behind the scenes, she wouldn't believe it even if she were beaten to death.
This was far too outrageous.
Izayoi was Canaria's adopted daughter.
Kasukabe Yō was the daughter of the former leader of No Name.
And Kudou Asuka was connected directly to the Halloween Queen herself.
These weren't coincidences anymore.
This was obviously deliberate.
Even Asuka herself looked completely dumbfounded.
"…A younger sister?"
"I have a sister?"
"What kind of joke is this…?"
She had never once heard about such a thing.
Izumi looked at her with an amused smile.
"It's true."
"And not just any sister."
"She's your twin sister."
"You simply didn't know about her existence."
"Though you'll probably meet her soon enough."
"Once those people eventually come here, anyway."
Asuka immediately fell silent.
Her mind was in complete chaos.
On the other hand, Kasukabe Yō remained relatively calm.
After all, she had already known about her father's connection to Little Garden for a long time.
When she was younger, Kasukabe Takaaki had told her many stories about Little Garden.
He had even promised her that two years later, under the full moon, he would personally bring her there.
Unfortunately—
He never fulfilled that promise.
Instead, he vanished without a trace.
Nobody even knew whether he was alive or dead.
After calming herself down, Asuka took a deep breath and looked at Izumi seriously.
"If she truly comes here…"
"Please tell me."
"I want to meet her."
Izumi nodded casually.
"Sure."
Then Black Rabbit suddenly turned toward Yō.
"Yō…"
"You already knew all this, didn't you?"
Yō quietly nodded.
The moment Black Rabbit saw that, her eyes instantly turned red.
"Then…"
"What about Leader Kasukabe?"
"Where is he now?!"
Back when she was little, Black Rabbit had been extremely close to Kasukabe Takaaki.
Now that she learned Yō was his daughter, her emotions naturally overflowed.
Unfortunately—
Yō simply shook her head.
"I don't know."
"If I knew where Father was…"
"I wouldn't have come to Little Garden."
Black Rabbit lowered her ears sadly.
"…I see."
The atmosphere became somewhat heavy.
Seeing the depressed rabbit girl, Izumi suddenly grinned.
"Black Rabbit."
"How about we talk about the price for resurrecting Canaria?"
The instant those words were spoken—
Black Rabbit immediately straightened up.
Her eyes became determined.
She had already prepared herself mentally during the past half month.
"Please do it!"
"No matter the cost… I'll pay it!"
As long as Canaria could return—
No Name could rise again.
Their banner could finally be reclaimed.
No matter what price she had to pay, she would accept it.
Even selling herself wasn't off the table anymore.
Hearing that, Izumi looked at her with a teasing smile.
"Oh?"
"So determined?"
"Fine then."
"I'll grant your wish."
Then his expression became more serious.
"From now on, come work in my world."
"Replace the Flügel as referees and judges."
The moment those words came out, everyone froze.
Black Rabbit blinked blankly.
"…Eh?"
Izumi rubbed his forehead helplessly.
Honestly speaking, although he enjoyed teasing Black Rabbit—
He genuinely wanted her to take over the referee system.
The Flügel were simply too infamous at this point.
Those lunatics constantly played favorites and abused their authority.
If you offended them once, then during your next game—
Congratulations.
You were probably doomed.
Ninety percent chance of losing.
The remaining ten percent depended entirely on luck.
Maybe Alaya or some other overseer would happen to show up and stop them from blatantly rigging the match.
Otherwise?
You were finished.
Because of this, countless people throughout the Dimensional City had already developed massive complaints.
Although the Flügel themselves didn't care in the slightest.
Lan Yu had even proposed creating a fully automated intelligent referee system to replace them.
But Izumi rejected the idea.
After all—
If those dangerous birds had nothing to do all day, they'd probably become even more troublesome.
Better to let them continue serving as referees and merely blow black whistles occasionally.
Besides—
Whatever the Flügel did had absolutely nothing to do with him.
Totally unrelated.
Definitely.
Black Rabbit, however, accepted immediately without hesitation.
"As a referee?"
"No problem!"
After all, she was basically a professional judge in Little Garden already.
This was merely changing workplaces.
And if Canaria could truly return—
Then she'd finally be free from carrying everything alone.
Besides, once this world and Little Garden merged in the future, traveling back and forth would become easy anyway.
So this arrangement was perfectly acceptable.
Seeing her agree so quickly, Izumi's smile widened slightly.
This rabbit had practically jumped into the bowl herself.
Without wasting another moment, Izumi snapped his fingers.
A surge of power instantly enveloped everyone present.
The next second—
The entire group vanished from the spot.
After all…
Resurrecting Canaria wasn't exactly something suitable to perform in the middle of the street.