Almark – Northern Sword, Southern Wand

"Sicily, are you there?

Outside the classroom, I heard a loud voice.

Hearing that voice, Sicily's chest was boiling.

I'm here.

He deliberately made a slightly annoying face and appeared in the hallway.

Oh, Talwen.

Just look at the face of the boy student in the class standing there, who is one step taller than himself, and you'll see his cheeks turn a little red.

Um...

Talwen scratched red brown hair and said.

Let's go home together today.

"Eh?"

Sicily looks up at him.

"Why?"

"I don't have a reason."

Talwen said he was in trouble.

I don't think so.

"Uh."

Sicily lay down.

"No, I can't."

The word brightens Talwen's face.

Are you sure?

Fine.

"Okay."

Talwen nodded and peered into Sicily's face.

Well, I'll pick you up after school.

"Yeah."

Sicily answered lying face to face.

Sicily first spoke to Talwen in a class next to her, who she had no idea about, after the sorcery festival.

Simultaneously withheld his first winter vacation and exam, Sicily and her first-year students were disturbed by a thousand things, not knowing whether to be fashionable or hurried.

However, as we looked at the second and third graders and the senior students, everyone began to realize that the next exam was even more important than the summer exam, and that it was right to study hard in a hurry.

Nevertheless, there is still no magic subject in the first-year exam.

It is true that the lesson teaches the touch of initial magic such as fog magic, but it has not yet reached a level that is worthy of examination.

Sicily and the others are basically working on writing examinations for general education learned in sitting classes, plus special examinations such as behavioral modeling and meditation.

That's why I study when I get back to the dorm, but everyone hasn't had such a sense of crisis even at their age.

However, most students were aware that it would be better to stop playing in the woods with dignity.

However, Eldo did not identify himself as an honorary student.

Declaring to concentrate on exam studies, he stopped going back to the school building with Sicily every day, as usual.

"I have to concentrate on my studies.I'm leaving early in the morning and stopping by the library in the evening, so I'm sorry, but Sicily needs to go with the others until the exam. "

On the other hand, Sicily was so sad and lonely that the words that she would study in the library came to her throat, but she saw Eldo's serious face and swallowed it.

Because I thought that even if I stuck to Eldo with a half-hearted feeling, it would only cause trouble.

Unlike Eldo, who finished third grade in the summer exam, Sicily's grades were lower in the middle.

Sicily was satisfied with her grades, but Eldo still seemed unconvinced with her grades.

It was also true that I was a little nervous about Eldo's uplifting strength.

So I went to school alone every day.

Originally, my other friends knew that I was always with Eldo, and I didn't want to tell the surroundings that Sicily had asked Eldo to go with other people, so nobody particularly cared that Sicily was walking alone.

At best, I've been worried about Sicily when she sees a friendly third-grade Almark attending school alone.

When he told Eldo that he wasn't having a fight, Almark had a magical face and the exam was tough, so he encouraged Sicily.

That's when it happened.

On his way back from the school building, a strange male student suddenly called out to him.

"You've been alone lately."

I had seen his face, but he was a boy who didn't even know his name.

Sicily, who thought she had been teased, glanced at him and turned away immediately.

"Hey, wait."

Sicily walks away silently, and the boy's voice chases him in a bit of a hurry.

"Hey, what happened to the one you were always with?"

"I don't know"

Sicily answers with her back.

"You don't know."

The boy follows me as he says so.

He's always with me.

"Sicily's not your name, and I don't know the name of the guy you're always with."

When Sicily answered, she found herself silent as if she was in trouble.

I walked silently for a while, but the sound of the boy's footsteps never leaves his back.

Still, when Sicily decided to walk with absolute disregard, the boy suddenly lined up beside Sicily.

He was a tall boy.

"Hey, Sicily."

Don't call me by my own name.

Sicily says without looking at you.

"Always with you."

The boy scratched his head in trouble after saying so.

"Besides, I'm not kidding.I really don't know his name. "

The voice sounded unexpectedly serious, so Sicily answered.

"Eldo"

The name of the precious boy who saved Sicily's life.

She's called Eldo.

"Eldo."

The boy nods.

"Then why aren't Eldo and Sicily with us these days?"

"That's..."

Sicily glanced at the boy.

It's none of your business.

It was an unexpected smile that returned to Sicily's tight gaze.

"You finally looked at me."

The boy said that Sicily blinked his eyes.

Me, Talwen.

Talwen

Speaking of his name, the boy laughed with real joy.

"Yes, my name is Talwen."

Then, on the way to and from school, Talwen began to speak to Sicily a little bit.

Sicily was also cold at first, but Talwen talked too happy, so she started talking to herself little by little.

It was not until I became aware that Talwen seemed to be a popular student of both sexes in the class next door.

I don't know why he was interested in Sicily.

But I didn't feel bad.

Gradually, Sicily began to open her heart to Talwen, and when she was out of school, she started walking around looking around for Talwen.

But the only time they walk together is when they happen to meet on the road.

It happened to happen that we met too many times, but there was still such an implicit understanding between the two.

But today.

Talwen appeared directly in the classroom and was asked to come home with him for the first time.

As she remained restless in her afternoon class, Eldo, a tired face, stopped her feet when she saw Sicily's face during the break.

"Sicily, you look kind of red today."

Yeah, I guess so.

Sicily puts her hand on her cheek.

Be careful how you feel.

Eldo said.

"Is it okay to study?If you have any questions, ask me. [M]I'll tell you everything. "

"Yes, thank you, Eldo."

Sicily nods.

The usual confident words of Eldo.

I always relied heavily on Sicily.

However, it was kind of a long time ago that Eldo's words sounded strange and faded.