So the Girl Too Starts Running Again (だから少女もまた、走り出す) is a short story included in the compilation of short stories from spin offs released as part of the ninth of ten projects of the 10th Anniversary Campaign of DanMachi.
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After making a deal with Fels and the Xenos to work together, the Loki Familia headed to the surface in silence. Everyone was deep in thought, affected by the idea of making a deal with monsters, except for Lefiya who had a "presentiment".
Seeing pieces of monster corpses scattered along the main route made it clear that Asterius had passed through there on his way back to the depths of the dungeon. Because of this, the young mage worried about what had happened to Bell, who had faced him, and so she went ahead of the rest of her familia to return to the surface first.
Although she refused to think that he had died, she made sure to check that neither his belongings nor his body were around her path as she rushed towards the surface. Once she reached the first floor of Babel she saw Bell being tended to by a group of healers and a Half Elf holding his hand.
While the boy was tended to by the healers desperate to preserve his life Lefiya remained focused solely on Bell himself. She was shocked to see him cry as, no matter how pathetic he had looked or how much he had cried, she had never seen him shed genuine tears of regret before.
Seeing him like this made her feel so frustrated that she could not even understand that the one she was jealous and envious of was the boy's "worthy rival", Asterius. However, she was also sure that by overcoming his defeat against the monster Bell would grow and become stronger, breaking through his shell in such a way that it could be called an "awakening". That belief was the "presentiment" she had had.
Lefiya renewed her determination and proclaimed that she would not lose to him, thinking to herself that the one who was his worthy rival was her. She knew that Bell did not need comfort or help, and that if it were her in his place she would rise again. With that thought engraved in her heart Lefiya turned around. So, in order not to lose to him, she too started to run again.
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- Despite not having been released alongside any volume, this story was listed as corresponding to volume 10.