I Favor the Villainess

"What about May and Allea?

"I've fallen asleep. Alea was still anxious."

"Yes...... I can't help it."

Claire in her sleeping clothes frowns at her troubles.

It's twenty o'clock at night.

Master Claire and I are going across the table in the living room to discuss the future.

Probably supposed to be a long stretch, so I made some tea and then got to my seat.

"I can't believe Allea is unsuitable..."

I received a notification of the results of the magic fitness test.

The result was roughly what I feared.

"Alea was so excited to use magic."

It's the same with May that I was looking forward to, but obviously Alea had a stronger longing for magic.

As you can see from the tone, Allea loves Claire and wants to imitate anything Claire does.

Some of them include the magnificent magic that Master Claire manipulates.

Fire attribute magic is a lot of flashy magic, so it would have dazzled the child's eyes as well.

"How shall I tell you two about aptitude..."

To Alea, and to May, the results of the aptitude measurement have not yet been communicated.

Neither of us actively asked if you were sensitive to our disturbing air.

"If we were both unsuitable, the story would have been a little simpler... I don't suppose you should say this."

That's right.

The large disparity in fitness between the two was a problem.

If this were May's inappropriateness too, the story would not have been that difficult.

Unfortunately, I ask the two of you to give up magic and develop another talent - that should have done it.

"Right. But May is a quadcaster. She should rather actively develop her magical powers."

May was the second quadcaster confirmed in the world.

The option of not letting her learn magic is unlikely.

It is said that magic is determined by innate factors.

Apparently, there is a difference that simply cannot be filled by efforts after birth.

Blood is not the problem.

If blood is a problem, there can't be such a difference between May and Alea, born under the same star.

"It's not a matter of being able to hide it forever, is it? We were both holding our mouths today because we were acting strange, but it's only a matter of time before we want to know about aptitude."

Master Claire sighed heavily.

No matter how clever Claire is, this problem doesn't seem so easy to solve.

"Aren't we going to have to talk frankly? I think it would be quicker to talk than to follow up weirdly or make the story more confusing."

"That's not the line of someone who's never bothered with talent?

Master Claire looked a little angry and glanced at me lightly.

"I've never bothered with talent..." says Lady Claire?

From my point of view, Master Claire is the hunk of talent.

Although the only drawback is cooking, it is almost perfect mis-perfect when it comes to other genres.

"Ray. Have you forgotten that you're a dual caster - and super fit? I haven't forgotten my humiliation when I first competed with you in the exam, have I?

"Well, that was it,"

That said, that's all I feel like about my talent.

"Even I don't think I'm as talented and inferior to others as I am, but still, I'm no match for the experts on that path. People like me are dexterously poor."

"Although I don't think Claire's versatility is something you can clean up with a word of clever poverty."

That's what I said as I looked at the embroidery that hung on the wall.

"Still, yes. Being able to show off the difference in talent can still be very painful."

"Every day, I feel it"

"Come on, don't tear it up."

Master Claire gently decoupled my forehead.

I was actually a little concerned while keeping my forehead down lightly.

"Dear Claire,"

"What is it?

"Can I tell you what I'm thinking about the suitability of the two of you"

"? Fine. What is it?

Master Claire gave me the posture to ask.

"Don't you think it's a little too much to have astronomically scarce four attributes until May, as Allea is unlucky to be cleaned up for lack of aptitude?

"Too much is done...? What do you mean?"

"In the first place, I don't think it's natural for Allea to have any aptitude at all."

To my words, Master Claire laughed a little bitterly,

"Isn't that a parent idiot?

I said.

"No, you don't. Forgot? You two have a blood curse, don't you?

"Ah..."

A curse of blood that magically petrifies the object touched.

The curse is not only on May, but also on Alea.

"It's unclear what the causal link is between magical aptitude and the curse of magical petrification, but I don't think it's a little hard to think that it's completely irrelevant?

"That's... right... But if so, is there any reason why Allea doesn't have aptitude?

"I can only make a hypothesis..."

"Say it."

Lady Claire prompts me first.

I can't hide the color of my expectations in those eyes.

That would be so.

Because even Claire is heartbroken by the fact that only Alair is not fit.

"While the two of them were in their mothers, some factor about aptitude skewed them on one side, or something"

"Is that possible?

"I don't think I can say enough..."

Among the films I saw in my previous life were twin-themed western films.

It's a movie with a macho guy named Schwarzhwa out there, and the main characters, a super good brother and a super inferior brother, are talking about looking for a mother.

That was fiction until I got tired of it, so there was nothing scientifically backed up, but in that movie, beneficial talent was biased against one of the twins, something like that.

In this strange world where magic exists, something similar may happen.

"But that won't save Alea."

"No, I don't think so"

"What do you mean?

You will overlap the hypothesis with the hypothesis, but I went on to preface it.

"Assuming that Allea is not completely hopeless and unsuitable, but unsuitable for mutated results, I think she has some kind of qualities for magic."

"But you didn't actually have magical fitness."

"Yes, but that's a story that's already within the bounds of known magic"

It is possible that the qualities that Allea may possess are unknown.

"... you're too fluffy"

"Really?"

"At least we're not talking about Alea making you listen. It's a story that has too many dreams to make hope weird."

"But!"

I tried to eat down, but Master Claire blocked me by the hand.

"Calm down, Ray. We're losing our cool right now."

"... Indeed. It was getting too hot. My apologies."

If this had been about me myself, I would have been a little more calm.

It heats up because it's about May and Alea like no other.

You can't help it if we're arguing here.

"... right. Think about what's best for both of us."

Nevertheless, I see no solution at all.

Or is there a solution?

"First, let's see what's really inevitable. Talk about measured aptitude. This is inevitable, isn't it?

"Right. I don't think you have the option of not talking or just talking to one person."

"We don't talk now about the possibilities of unknown qualities that Allea may have"

"... right. Making hope weirdly is cruel."

"I wonder if I'll have to devise a way to tell you later...... But the only way to tell it is to tell it normally..."

Master Claire thinks of it as a troublemaker.

I'm desperate to find a better way for both of us.

"How to tell, is it? What about falsely communicating airworthiness values?

"It would be futile. Assuming Mae's aptitude value is low, can Mae handle four attributes? That's the only talent in the world."

"Conversely, what tells you that Alea has a lower aptitude value even though she has one too?

"I don't think that's a good idea either. Alea is unsuitable. I think it's cruel to give false hope that you'll never be able to use it, but you should be able to."

"... that's hard"

Stuck.

I don't care what you think. I can't find a way.

"… how good would it be if my aptitude were to be divided into areas..."

There is a squeezed bitterness seeping into Claire's words, who told him to pound and spill.

I totally agree.

Do all the people named Parents of the World have this kind of problem?

Often, heavy silence flowed into the living room.

"Dear Claire, I still have to speak frankly."

"Ray...... But..."

"Maybe, but this issue, unfortunately, I'm sure there's no way for Allea to be unharmed"

……

"Isn't what we can do to show that we still love hurt Alea indefinitely from May"

"... I wonder if that's the only way..."

Master Claire lays down her face.

Me saying things like I get it, but in fact, I may have thrown a teaspoon as well.

But I can't think of anything else.

No matter how much you love them, no matter how much you think for them, there is a problem that cannot be solved.

It's very sad, but I think that's the problem with Alea's magical suitability.

"... helpless. The heroes of the revolution will hear."

"Dear Claire..."

It is very hard for Master Claire to mock herself.

It's important about Mae and Allea, but for me it's just as important about Master Claire as it is.

I renewed my feelings if I didn't support Claire properly.

At that time.

"Oh my gods... are you upset...?

"We have to be good, huh?

"You guys..."

Allea and May came to the living room rubbing their eyes.