Naoto's eyebrow raised as Kanji told her his tale. The girl with the long hair? ...She had thought she'd seen a young woman with blond hair that she couldn't seem to see the end of, but she thought she had just imagined that. Was that who Kanji was speaking of?

But that thought trailed off for now as he continued to explain. His notes about the necklace was fascinating, and she wanted to experiment with him to confirm his findings as an inkling of an idea was starting to cross her mind. That thought was cut short as he explained meeting...

"Do you mean--" She turned a few pages of the book in her hand, before turning it for him to see. The illustration now were of cute, tiny sprites, compared with the size of a human body, "These creatures?"

Wait a second. He told them he'd...

"...'clean it up real good and make use of it'. Kanji-kun, what exactly does that entail?"

As she eyed him picking up the book on farming, Naoto's expression became all the more flat and annoyed. Oooh no, Kanji, you did not just make some sort of contract for a long term investment with the local mythological figures, did you? Without talking it over with her or investigating it further than some sort of imp you met in the middle of a field?!