Almark – Northern Sword, Southern Wand

Ain!

Ficke jumped into the classroom.

Already after school, nearly half of the students remained in one group of classrooms.

"Case, case!

"Shut up."

Lift up his face from the book he read, and Ain frowns.

"Speak to me at the right volume. Or are you calling the birds outside the window?"

"I didn't call the birds!

Fiquet said that at the same volume as before, but he grabbed Ain's arm.

"Come on, Ain. This is awesome, it's hard."

"No."

Ain immediately refuses.

"I don't believe what you say about 'awesome' and 'hard'."

"Well then, that's okay!

Ficke shouted without any glare.

"I'll scream in your favorite words. Anyway, come on!

That's not the problem.

"I'll ask you later what the problem is!

Ain stood up breathing, hah, because of the deep breath of this.

"You know I'm looking forward to reading this after-school time."

"You know I'll call you if anything happens to me."

"I know. I don't know. It's not a problem."

"So, ask me later what the problem is!

Ain takes Fiquet out of the classroom in trouble, and the color that was watching the whole thing laughs funny and talks to Emelia.

"Ain's sarcasm doesn't make any sense to Fiquet."

"Fiquet is stupid in the first place."

Emelia answers coldly.

"With animals, I don't understand words."

"But Ficke's always listening to Emelia."

Because I'm with the animals.

Emelia rolls up the sleeves of the robes to show off the muscles of her arms in color.

"Let them know by force. That's the fastest."

Ahahah, the color laughs.

It looks like Emelia.

"That's the only way I can do it."

Emelia said with a clear face.

Besides, it suits my sex.

Fiquet led Ain to the back of the school building.

Just in the darkness of the sun, two boys were staring at each other in a harsh atmosphere.

"Oops, I haven't hit you yet!

Ficke screams like that and enters between the two of us.

"No fighting, no fighting."

"Second grade."

Looking at their faces, Ain murmured.

"Ain's been on a class committee for three years."

Ain named them both.

When I heard the senior student's class councillor, they looked a little awkward.

"It's such a nasty atmosphere. What happened?"

"Yes, tell Ain."

Ficke looks at the two faces alternately and says.

"It solves everything. If you hit me, it's nothing but pain."

Fike, you shut up a little bit.

Ain silences Fiquet coolly and looks at the face of one boy.

"Hull, it's from you."

The boy's name is called, and the boy looks faint.

"My name. Why?"

"There are only 130 or so people in the whole primary school, but I can't remember the faces and names of all of them."

Ain said so and saw another boy.

Teen, I'll listen to you later.

After all, he was called his name and the boy called Teen nodded as if under pressure.

I promised Teen I'd go to the woods after school yesterday.

Huell said.

"We had a different class, so we met under the tree behind the martial arts field."

Hmm.

Ain nods.

So?

"But after school, no matter how long I waited under the tree, the teens didn't come."

That said, Huell distorts his face with regret.

"He's gone."

Teens speak up.

"He's not here."

Huell screamed back.

"Liar!"

"You're a liar!

Ficke stops in between as they get excited and try to grab their chest again.

"So wait."

Teen, I told you I'd hear from you later.

Ain said that he felt tingling and turned back to Hull.

"Teen's not here, so what happened to you?

"I'm home."

Huell said as if he was rotten.

"As the sun went down, I ran out of time to go to the woods."

I see.

Ain nods.

"But today, I was going to forgive you if you're honest with me. Then, this guy...."

Huell also distorts his lips.

"I went, but I wasn't under the tree, how dare you lie...!

"I'm not lying!

Teens scream.

Hmm.

Ain turned back to Teen.

"I made you wait. It's your turn."

Teen is more excited than Hull, and if Fiquet doesn't hold her shoulders tightly, she's going to hit Hull.

"Did you go to the tree late?

Teens nod.

"My class is late for class. That's why I hurried there, thinking I was waiting. And then..."

Teen pointed at Huell and told him to throw up.

He wasn't here.

"There he is!

Huell screams.

"Liar!

"I'm not lying!

Fiquet holds back the two of them trying to grab each other again.

"Wait, wait. Ain, don't look at me. Can you help me?"

"I'm a brain worker."

Ain doesn't shrug his shoulders.

"If you needed someone to get hold of you, you should have called Emelia, not me."

"You can't do Emelia."

Fiquet shook his head with his face down while holding them down.

"When he comes, I'll beat these two up and it's over, absolutely."

"Emelia?"

Until then, Huel's voice suddenly changed, trying to shake Fiquet's hand somehow.

"Maybe you're in the same class as Emelia."

"Oh, Emelia is my class."

When Ain answers, their faces blur quickly.

I'm in the same class.

Fiquet tells me about the trouble.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't tell Emelia."

The two began to apologize for fighting first.

That's right, Ain's nose is also white.

"You're a lot scared of Emelia. Something wrong?"

"No, it's nothing. I'm sorry."

When I calmed down the two of them and heard that, Emelia found out that they were playing jokes in the dorm, and it seems that they were tightly pinned down.

I can do it.

Fiquet nodded sympathetically to both of them.

"In his case, he's strong again."

There's a crack in the wall.

The teen complains with a trembling voice.

"I'm sure there will be."

Ficke nodded.

"I've never been violent with her."

When Ain says it, his eyes clearly change when he sees two Ains.

"Ain is our class leader. Emelia can't defy Ain."

Fiquet added that their gaze turned into a completely respectful look.

"It's normal. There are words, but you don't have to do it."

That's what Ain said, looking at the two grown up.

"One says he didn't come, and one says he did. It doesn't matter if we blame each other here. Let's go to the back of the martial arts arena."

"Right here."

Behind the martial arts arena.

Hull said in front of the deciduous tree with its roots down.

"I waited here."

I'm here, too.

Teens speak up.

But you weren't there.

"There he is."

"No."

"If we fight, we can tell Emelia."

Fiquet says that they get quiet.

I see.

Ain puts his hand on the trunk of the tree and looks up at the branch.

Rari, the fallen leaves danced.

Speaking of which, the wind was strong yesterday.

That's how I look at Fiquet.

"Oh, the dorm windows were rattling."

Ficke nodded.

Then we know who did it.

Ain bent down and picked up the fallen leaves, showing them to the second graders.

"This is what makes you different."

Ain stood with the two of them a little further from the tree.

Fiquet stands under the tree.

"Fiquet"

Ain speaks loudly.

"Shake the tree and drop the leaves. The wind was strong, like yesterday."

"Yes, sir."

Fiquet replies and shakes the trunk of the tree with both hands, but it's quite a big tree. Trees don't shake so easily.

"What's the matter, Fike? Hurry up."

"No, I can't do this alone. Help me, Ain."

Fiquet said, desperately trying to shake the tree with both hands.

"Decline"

Ain immediately refuses.

"Shake it."

"No, I can't..."

"What are you guys doing?"

I heard a cold voice from behind.

Looking back, the two sophomores shrieked.

"Emelia, just in time."

Ain answered his voice without looking back at Emelia, pointing at Fiquet.

Tell that idiot how to shake a tree.

"How to shake a tree?

Emelia frowns and looks at Fiquet.

Fikke is stepping on his feet to the trunk and shaking the tree with both hands.

"Oh, is that about to shake the tree?"

"Motor nerves are good, but he has no power. I want the leaves to fall like a strong wind day."

Hmm.

Emelia slips past Ain and walks to Fiquet.

Get out of the way, Fike.

"You're here, Emelia!

Ficke takes his hand off the tree with joy.

"Hin, Ain can't help you at all."

Fike, shut up for a second.

Emelia said that and dropped her hips a little.

I thought I took a short breath, and I turned my hips and knocked a strong bottom thrust into the trunk of the tree.

The blunt sound, next to Ain, shrugs their necks.

The tree seemed to be tilted for a moment, and then the twig rubbed.

Countless leaves fell.

That's right.

Ain smiles.

Look at that.

The two of them looked at Ain's pointing point.

"Ah."

and raised his voice.

The leaves that fell round and round sparkled in the light of the sun.

Countless fallen leaves overlapped with Fiquet and Emelia standing under the tree, as if there was no one there.

I'm not hiding in the leaves.

It looks like there's no one behind the leaves.

It's as if my vision was only distorted there.

"The leaves of the Kagamiba tree are sliding like mirrors on the surface."

Ain said so and showed them the fallen leaves at hand again.

"By wandering around in the sunlight when falling, it shows the surrounding landscape and exerts a visual effect. To put it plainly, it distorts the view of the viewer. If there are a few fallen leaves, it doesn't have much effect, but if only one leaf falls at a time, the landscape around the tree is slightly distorted. As you can see, people under trees only look like they're gone."

They are staring at the tree of Kagamiba as if they had lost their words.

"Ain, is this it?

Only Fikke's voice can be heard in a empty space.

"Oh, that's enough. Thank you, Emelia."

In Ain's words,

"Say thank you to me!

Fiquet's voice echoed.

"Oh, Ayn, where have you been? Hey."

"Even if you look at people under trees, you're right."

Ain nodded impatiently.

Well...

Ain turned to the two of them.

"Now you know. One waited at the promised place and the other went to the promised place. What else do you have to cheer on?

In Ain's words, they looked at each other in awkward fashion and said, "I'm sorry."

"Emelia, you seem to be quite admired by juniors."

On the way home, Ain said ironically, Emelia lifted up her short hair and smiled with her nose.

"I'm more afraid of simple power than animals."

"Yes, it is."

Ficke nods as if he were someone else.

"Show me your strength first, and then they'll look at you on their own. It's easy."

Ain nods joyfully at Emelia's words.

"I see. It makes sense."

But Emelia looked up at the sky with a bitter smile.

"But after all, I'm learning that you can't just do it."

Emelia distorts her lips by saying so to herself.

"Emelia"

Ain seriously saw Emelia's face.

You've changed since the martial arts tournament.

"What's changed?"

Emelia frowns and Ain wrinkles her neck.

"You've become attractive. More than before."

/(adv, adv-to, vs) (on-mim) (on-mim) feeling better/feeling better/feeling better

Emelia stops silently, Ain doesn't stop walking and complains to Fiquet who walks sideways.

"Fike, I'm done with this boring fight. Don't stick anything in your neck."

"No, you solved it vividly today, didn't you?"

"That's why I'm saying it's not a problem."

"So tell me what the problem is. Emelia, what's going on?

Speaking to Fiquet looking back, Emelia ran after them as if they had returned to me.