"Serena! I soaked up yesterday!

Augusto's first voice of anger echoes through the royal castle's laundry.

But Serena, holding the laundry cage with both hands, turned a cold eye and left the place.

After being taken, Augusto chases after him in advance.

"Hey, Serena."

……

"Why didn't you come to the dinner party yesterday? They all got together."

……

"Were you feeling a little sick? If that's the case, just tell me."

"Die."

I could not understand the words said with a sharp eye. But return to me all the time, and line up beside it.

"We can't be friends forever."

……

"I know that's a lot awkward."

"Die."

"So why do you keep saying that!

"You're a child who doesn't know how to be a man and a woman!

He yelled back at me with double the momentum, and I let his eyes fill. I'm about to be left there, and I catch up on that back in a hurry.

(Yes, much different, not so!

That's not what I'm trying to say. Serena and I often get emotional, and the conversation doesn't carry it very well.

"It's okay that I soaked it up, no, it's not good. Everyone told me it was natural, and I reflected on it."

"... you?

A look full of disbelief, but Serena finally turned her gaze this way. Nod back in great seriousness.

"You're not friends with me yet, but you didn't have the delicacy to surround a bunch of guys with girls."

…… I knew I should have died. "

"So why that - not! So! Now you and I are going out!

Serena stopped her leg.

Augusto is about to hit that luxurious back and stomps in a hurry.

Then Serena turns around, acting like a broken doll, and returns the question with a cursed look.

"- Right now, what?

"Huh? You two are going out with me... it's our next day off."

"How do you know my day off?"

"Zeems checked me out"

"Oh yeah. I'm a prince now, so keep up the good work, that half demon."

He threw up with the tongue punch. I wanted to say I didn't want you to say that, but I'll be patient.

Eileen caught my eye. Says if you want to ask Serena out again, she says it's a hand in patience.

"... can't you?

And then there's the secret trick given to me by the Demon King, the ascendant.

With only one eyebrow tickled up, Serena watched Augusto for a while - but eventually exhaled a very long and deep sigh, mouthing an answer she didn't think was released from its freezing glance.

"Fine."

"What lie!?

"I knew you wouldn't go -"

"Okay! Absolutely!

It would be ruined if you were withdrawn for inadvertent remarks.

Forcefully specifying the meeting place and time, Augusto broke up with Serena - but a few days ago.

"Somehow, I had a feeling this would happen..."

That holiday is a common one, with parents and children, multiple friends, or lovers passing by in front of Augusto. The meeting time, which was scheduled from lunch first, was an hour ago. The long needle on the watch stand standing next to the store circled all the way around.

(No, maybe something happened. Or time, you think you're wrong)

Two hours have passed.

(... the wrong day or something?

Three hours have passed.

(No, no, Zemes told me to be prepared for this to happen to Kyle and Walt)

Four hours have passed.

(Still, I'm the one who decided not to give up)

Five hours have passed.

(... I'm not sure why you're being such a jerk. But I figured I'd leave the kid alone who was my friend for a while...)

Six hours have passed.

(Well, no. Why, when I'm born, we'll talk about stopping pestering Prince Cedric's concubine. Fine, but whatever you stop doing)

Seven hours have passed.

(I don't know how long I have to wait for this, me. But I wish I could come back later...)

Eight hours have passed.

(I'm just getting hungry...)

Nine hours have passed.

(I don't know when I'm going home...)

Ten hours have passed.

"I don't know what you're doing - me..."

Augusto snapped as he stared at the streets of the darkened imperial capital. It is crouched at the end of the flower bed to keep it out of the way of the store, but the key store is closing at once.

The time is already close to midnight. There were fewer and fewer people to go out with because of the crowd when I first came here.

(... Exactly. You can be mad at this, right? Me)

All right, let's get angry tomorrow.

Decide so, stand up. My body was only slightly pungent because I was kneeling for a long time. I haven't worked out enough yet.

Your body, maybe your mind.

Exhale from your shoulders and stretch. Looks like a full moon today. So it was when I wondered if my surroundings looked bright, etc.

Sticky, and the sound of heels pounding cobblestones.

"- I can't believe you're still waiting, aren't you stupid?

The white skirt has a wide hem and a fluffy, sweet smell on the night breeze. Long straight hair of gray silver gleamed in the moonlight.

"Serena......"

"Normally, you go home."

If you say you're not angry at the way you say it, you're lying. It's a lie, but more than that.

"... my sticky win"

With a little laugh, Serena glanced at her face.

"I'm telling you, I just wanted to get through. I didn't come to meet you, so..."

"Serena. Be friends with me for now"

"Are you stupid?

"I mean it."

Serena shut up with a crease between her eyebrows. Staring straight at that face, Augusto continues.

"I can't forgive Serena for what she did to Zemes. But... I think it's true that you were making fun of Serena one way or another. So if Serena did something like that without relying on anyone, I'm pretty sure I'm sorry."

……

"I say Zemes or something that doesn't matter, but I, I don't think so.... I've been thinking about it. Why is Serena so desperate? But I just thought"

Selfishly, I concluded that I'm sure she just wanted to stand out, laughed arrogantly, and didn't try to listen.

I was aware that she was being ridiculed and so on, and I still didn't even put it on my teeth such as her circumstances approaching me.

Of course, Serena is bad. I did something unacceptable. I know that's Augusto. Although.

"... as long as we talked about it, we could always hear it."

Serena Gilbert is supposed to be dead and it will be hard to live a decent life.

And time will not return.

The crush remained, I regretted it.

"I mean, self-satisfied."

"That's the way to put it - wow!?

Suddenly he was pressed against his luggage and his vision was filled with a pile of boxes. Augusto screams balancing to avoid dropping the round box above the tease.

"Hey, what's this?"

"I refuse to be my friend. But I'll give you enough to carry your stuff."

"Ha!? Hey, hey."

Serena walked out flicking the hem of her skirt. With the pressed luggage, Augusto chases after it.

"Wait a minute, Serena! Oh, my God, this package."

"Shopping today. The wedding escort during this time, I used it because I got a cool amount in it. I left my stuff with someone else earlier, and it's just too heavy to hold it myself."

"So this amount... was out today!? With whom!? Guess someone's hanging around again!?

"It's none of your business."

"If that means you could have gone out with me."

Augusto's criticism was blocked by a clumsy noise.

Serena looks back at the sound of her enlarged belly.

"What? No way, you're not eating"

"It's your fault...!?

"Want some?"

What was offered was a waffle that subsided in a triangular paper bag. Augusto finally realizes that this is why he smelled so sweet and good from earlier.

(Uh, no, but he said he'd eat)

Waiting for Augusto, whose hands are blocked, dressed as Serena offered him a waffle.

I mean, this is what we call, uh, posture.

I'm getting nervous. Taking food at will from Zemes' hands is perfectly fine.

Drink the sawdust and spit before approaching your rough face.

The waffle goes into my mouth - just before that, I was just pulled into the waffle.

……

teased. At a time like this when my heart is starving because of the stirring of waiting.

Two things get angry and get started.

"Serena......!

"Bye."

- But the anger, on the smile beneath the moonlight, fogged lightly.

It's not a ridiculous mockery, it's not a fake selling the charm, it's a real, just a girl's.

"Really, a man is simple"

……

"What? Are you mad? Then you can leave your things behind."

"... one more time"

My voice blurred. What, to Serena, who turned around, Augusto continued.

"One more time, laugh"

- It was the moment Serena hoisted her brow after the silence that I realized I had failed.

Waffles are stuck in your mouth before you say excuses, and you can turn your back.

"You guys suck."

That's not it, the word doesn't sound because of the waffle.

(Even though she was cute)

But if I said that, it would make me extra angry. Besides, maybe it was an illusion.

(Ahhhh. First of all, do you have the luggage? Ah)

The journey to friends seems a long way off. I almost sighed, but now I'm walking down the moonlight aisle.

I felt good to the extent that I wondered why.

I heard a nose song from behind me. He's the same man I don't know. I can't believe they let me carry my stuff and follow me around my nose.

(Really - stupid. bottom fool)

But at that rate, I guess they haven't noticed.

That my face is turning bright red, or the noisy heart sound if I do.

This is anger.

Never, ever, because I was begged to laugh. I wasn't exposed to a voice color that contained a slightly darker sweetness such as a glance that looked through my chest as far back as I could see, which was completely different from the usual irritating look on my face.

- You, like just a girl, you wanted a normal time where you could fall in love with nothing with your intentions, right?

The face of a nasty woman with a discerning face came to mind, but all of that has been thrown away in a school life that hasn't lasted a year.

No time to fall in love, no time to admire. If you waste your youth in such stupid dreams, you miss a man on good terms as there is. I don't want you to spoil your miserable life forever.

"Serena, come back in time."

"... you still don't punish me?

"I won't punish you."

If what still falls is love, what is it like?

A man who once dreamed that he would be this man laughed without knowing people's minds or giving in.