"Hm?"

Naoto looked up, seeing a young girl about her age wearing glasses looking back at her. At her question, Naoto offered her a faint smile.

"Ah, of course. I've already skimmed through a number of these--please feel free to take any you find interesting... I apologize for hording them."

This time she remembered not to deepen her voice. She was getting better! ...Slowly.

"I suspect you're another person who got pulled into the Goddess Grotto, yes?"

That's the name she had found for where they'd ended up, anyway.