Now there's a voice she hasn't heard in a while. Eruka's ears perk up when she hears Hanamaru's voice, immediately swinging around from skewers of grilled squid(? Hard to say, they are in a completely different world so who knows what they have for livestock here!) to beam at her.

"Maru! You're back!" She has pretty good reason to be surprised, considering she thought the other girl might have finished out her contract in the time she's been gone, but it's nice to see a familiar face ... although the circumstances are perhaps less than ideal. Someone familiar also means someone else to complain at histrionically, and Eruka's lip wobbles for just a few seconds before she bursts out, flailing.

"Everything's crazy now!" Not that the Carnival wasn't crazy before, what with being a world-hopping place of entertainment and all that. "We're stealing artifacts, getting trapped in prisons ... and everyone else working for the acquisitioner is creepy!"