With just as hazy a goal - that being, find one particular person whose last known address was 'the Country of Fire' with only a name and a description to go by - Konayuki's travels were roughly as circuitous as Pengins.

Which made their eventual meeting almost fated. Perhaps, in a way, Konayuki herself counted as some kind of reverse missile, as she bounded up to the other child sat on the stump. What was he doing? Some kind of diary, it looked like.

"Hello!"