Boundary Labyrinth and the Foreign Magician

"I studied at Term Wills - that's what Grandpa said to me. Even though Grandpa said so, he seemed to worry a lot... but you were also talking about looking at your relationship with Master Theodore."

"... I think you have some thoughts about Mr. Beline. You're expecting too much, but I haven't done anything yet. So since Ashley and I understood each other's feelings as friends, we thought we'd take this kind of talk a little slower."

With a serious look at my words, Ashley nods.

Rosetta said - I'm going to get ready for tea, and she left the room.

Close your eyes. I'll think about Ashley again. The words she said to Maurice. Do what you've been doing.

I don't know if a guy like me would discuss her way of life and thinking... but I think she's trying to be more of a nobleman than her own physical problems have solved. But I can tell from Grace's conversation.

That must be close to the Tsu road my mother took. Ashley seems to have feelings for her mother that are closer to admiration and respect than gratitude.

Is that why you're here? I get it. Grace has something to say.

What Ashley thinks is just the child burning ideally. Though it's easy to cut it off just because you don't know the reality.

I know the humiliation of being told that. It's a child, so what's wrong with it?

And I know people who lived that way to the end.

But that person died five years ago that winter - when they told me he was cursed for fighting demons, and couldn't reach out to anyone he'd ever helped.

Grace told my mother that it would help if she sucked blood - but that guy shook his head sideways. Have you seen Grace?

Then my mother might have become a vampire and continued to exist, but if she suffered from that disease, she wouldn't have been sure how many times she'd be safe because she was a dumpy.

That time - it was the adventurers who accompanied me on the contract who helped my mother and brought me home. My father was away from the territory and absent because he was an idyllic farmer. Everything was slow when my father found out about it.

Now that I remember Jing Jiu... I can understand what the people who left my mother thought. They wouldn't have been able to afford it, and there's nothing we can do to worry about what they call a curse - if the disease gets infected? There were all those things, and the kid shook his hand off telling me what to figure out.

It was a snowy night. I can't forget the backs of the adults who are leaving.

But to the end. No resentment came out of my mother's mouth against anyone.

But I know why, and I'm not convinced.

There's nothing you can do. I could just say thank you to my mother. I didn't want you to give me the last, etc. to be abandoned. That's why I left the house, too, as far as those people were concerned. Whatever happens after I leave, I don't think I've found out.

... Whether it's Grace or Ashley. If you acknowledge them and support them. If you'll walk with me. If he is the one who protects me.

That's nothing - it shouldn't necessarily have to be me. I guess there are people like that somewhere, and I think that's fine if we can get around each other well.

But talking about marriage... especially if you are the owner, you will not be free. In short, I can't trust someone who hasn't shown up yet - someone I don't know, anywhere.

"Whatever you say at this point, it's probably just a wish. If you can't accomplish anything, don't hesitate to break it from Master Ashley. Still - if you recognize that right to me. I want you to get involved in your life."

That's what I would do if I could just be my fiancée and be a jetty from all sorts of things.

But it's all for me. I do this because I don't want to see things I don't want to see. I move for myself. It's just that. I can't help being disillusioned by Ashley any day, but I can't live like my mother, and I'm not going to.

No matter what way Ashley chooses to live, that doesn't change my appreciation of her. I'll never forget what you said to Maurice.

So just while they admit that qualification to me. Everything, I want to hold it as long as I can and run as long as I can.

Ashley took my word for it, took a big, deep breath and then said quietly.

"After my parents died... Grandpa almost stopped letting me out. I'm scared of things coming from the outside, too. I thought that was okay. Because I have been sick and laying down more often for a long time. I thought there was nothing I could do. Because I had a brother."

... What can I do?

"But your brother didn't come back either. Suddenly they say I'm a lord, but I don't know what to do. But I asked when it was. He said someone had fought against my father and my mother."

"Is that my mother?"

Ashley nods with her eyes closed.

"A lot, thank you for sharing your story with Lisa. It's like - someone in a story. To someone like that...... I admired it. I stayed weak all the time but wanted to be like Master Lisa, so I thought I'd get up and look forward. Grandpa said he'd wait for the day when I could get up properly - he's working on it alone."

So cut the words, and look me in the eye, says Ashley.

"I think I already know. When I heard about Oslo - when I heard that he was more of an Itchy Earl Gartner family member - I wondered if it wasn't Lisa's son. I -- I jumped out of the house."

That's for sure...... you wouldn't be able to tell me in an apology setting.

I admire my mother. That's why I want you to forgive me for that favor. That's how it sounds.

So... did you talk to Grace about my mother, not me? So we'll get along.

"But Master Theodore will forgive me, and then you will even take my physical laziness. That was so weird - I was glad. I felt that way, being added to the continuation of my favorite story, too. My body is light and I feel like I can do anything. That's why I didn't want to stay away, and I held Master Theodore and Mr. Grace back."

"That night, was it. When you spoke to me, you came to see me."

Ashley nods at Grace's words.

"Dear Theodore... I could not ask"

"But Master Ashley knew me from the beginning."

Were people also listening to the story of my mother taking Grace away? So Ashley wasn't scared even if she was a dumpy, was she?

The fact that I'm listening to my mother - even if I don't know the details, maybe I know that Grace and I were the last ones to take care of it...

"Yes. So I thought you two looked great together"

Ashley clouds her expression a little after smiling.

"I'm going to say something more than being a nobleman. Though I thought it was still a long way off."

I don't know to what extent Kennel was educating me about interfering.

At least I didn't think it was familiar.

"... but when it comes to talking to you both... I can't believe I'm next door when I come later. Are you allowed to do that?

"I'm - not someone else. If it was Master Ashley, I would be convinced. To Lisa - because Ashley had the words she wanted me to tell her."

Words I wanted my mother to tell me......?

Or maybe that's what I wanted you to hear from someone else.

"I already told you what I said. It doesn't change."

Two people have been looking at me, so I answer that.

Out of no-one, I smiled.

"Would you like some tea?

A little after the story had wrapped up, Rosetta, whose knock sounded and put a tea set on the basin, came into the reception room with a strangely good smile.

At this time… I pour tea and tea and prepare tea contracts….

"- Were you waiting for me to leave?

and the look on Rosetta's face, which was grinning as she put in the penetration, solidifies and her gaze swims.

"Well...... fine"

Though she is also true, worrying.

As for her, who was at Termwilds, I guess she thought it wasn't more of a curtain for herself than having a father for me - but I guess she had a toothache for it.

But when I was being treated cold at Count Gartner's house and came to Term Wills as a result, did you have regrets about my mother and want to burn all kinds of care? That seems to be the reason why I feel a slightly tough hit on my father.

... Tomorrow? Well, we have plenty of time. I guess I'll talk to Rosetta too. I'm sure, because I'm sure she'll want to stick her neck in too.