People die twice.

I feel like I've been poked out of the way for that word, and my palpitations are terrible.

How far does Leggles remember his mother?

Sonya laid her eyes down softly, shivering inside me elsewhere, feeling like she had been showered with cold water.

"I don't know much about Leña. Before I worshipped my service, I fluttered over there, so I didn't go to see Arioshka or Leña inside. So I can only share a few memories of Leña with those kids..."

Instead of healing grief by sharing memories, as it is, Mr. Leña ceases to exist anywhere but in the memory of the three of us.

Now Mr. Rottenmeyer is a sad, sad thread that connects the three of us to Mr. Leña, but Mr. Rottenmeyer is also human. Life expectancy is much shorter than that of an elf.

I thought to Sonya, speaking in a small voice, that I would be.

"You're here to see us because we're human, and you're gone far faster than the teachers?

……

Sonya bites her shapely lips sooner or later.

That's the answer.

Dr. Romanov and the others adore us very much.

But we're human, so I'm really leaving Dr. Romanoff behind.

At that time, Sonya is trying to heal Dr. Romanov by sharing his memories with him by knowing us properly.

"I'm sorry. Even though you're still small, I don't know what to tell you so far ahead..."

"No... the... what can I say..."

"Can I come see you guys a lot from now on? When I was in Lainia, I only remember growing up flying away from my kids. But if it's true, kids don't suddenly grow up. You're supposed to grow up one day, one month, one year, ten years, little by little, but I don't have that memory of Leña. So..."

"Fine!

Leggles replies in a light and bright voice, but for a moment, both I and I nod face to face.

I can't go to the Imperial City, so I don't mind for you to come and see me at all.

I don't mind.

I'd be dead as soon as possible, maybe fifteen years from now.

I wonder what's going on.

Thinking ahead, Play-kun's hand pounded on his shoulder and said, "Huh?," he said.

"To?"

"Oh, young lady, you didn't hear me?

To my raw reply, Play-kun points a little at my lips. Then Leggles pointed his lips as well.

"Oh, no! I was being a jerk!

"Oh, I'm sorry. What was that?

"So the young man is a little weak, so he has to be so careful to live longer. Everybody's worried about the young lady."

"Huh...?

To unexpected words, when properly, it also plays well.

"I'm worried, why?

"What? Well, we all like youngsters."

"To?"

"No, I'm not surprised."

It returns with the same tone from Play-kun to the surprising voice that came out of his heart.

Oh, well.

By "everyone" you mean one of the mansions, or the teachers?

I don't think they hate you for that.

Convinced, Play-kun looks kind of subtle.

With that look on my face, I scratched my head.

"You don't really believe that we like young people."

"Oh, no, that's not true...?

"But? But what?

Ugh, the pursuit is intense today.

I lay my eyes down on Takumi's gaze as strong as a little stare.

Because.

My parents in my previous life, no matter how rebellious "I" was, were as loving as ever. I have so many memories.

But that's not the love I've been given.

It is clear hostility and disgust that the people who made me gave me.

Who can love a creature that even a real parent can't like, can't love?

I don't get it.

I can't believe what I don't understand.

Trying to believe something incredible makes me anxious.

If you're so anxious and suspicious, it's easier to think that's not possible from the start.

Believe me, expect it, because I knew if I wasn't, I'd be the one hurting you.

You're a coward, you're a coward.

But when I explained it, I felt like I hated it more, and I didn't like it and couldn't put it in my mouth.

As I pressed silently, my little hand touched my brow.

Mr. Sonya's soft voice descends.

"Kana, just give him a minute?

"Huh?"

"Ah-chan is in the midst of rebuilding the diminished part of her heart right now."

"The diminished part of my heart?

"Because we need that diminished part to take someone's 'likes'... Wait for him until that goes back to normal?

When I give Mr. Sonya's serene words a face, he plays and looks at me. I thought we had a situation where we would stare at each other for a little while, and I laughed a little.

"Okay! Damn it!"

Play-kun rubs his fingers under his nose, then drinks up gokugoku and lemon water.

Leggles also stretches the wrinkles between my eyebrows to compete before drinking lemon water.

"Thanks"

Groaning small, the two of them took their seats laughing and went to the stage.

All that remained were two of us, me and Mr. Sonya.

"I... I want you to live as long as you can. For my sons, for me..."

"Yes."

That was the best I could do to give it back.

The theater before the show has a singing voice.

Looks like we're done with one song, and the six of us who got applause for playing Leggles slowly bowed down.

La Purcell's five bowed their hips, and Mr. Ciel put his hands on his chest as a man would.

When that was over, another different song came on, but that sounded familiar.

I heard it so often last New Year's Eve that I sang with the help of Ice Ring.

On stage, Mr. Bumbun and Mr. Yuri wave.

When prompted to approach Mr. Sonya by that, La Purcell and Mr. Ciel sang it out.

"Song of joy......"

"Well, this is it when I say" year old. "When I asked the five of you, the owner sang it last New Year's Eve, and I heard it."

Nod.

"I miss you," Yuri said, flaunting the end of her mouth.

And when you look at us, you just look at us and you say, "Who?" Ask.

I know Play-kun because he and our brothers, Mr. Viktor and Mr. Lara, have taken him to La Purcell's concert several times and we meet with Mr. Yuri and Mr. Eric.

Nice to meet you on this occasion, Mr. Sonya.

Introducing Mr. Yuri to Mr. Sonya as "Dr. Romanov's mother," his eye-overflowing eyes dotted.

"What? So, older than Mr. Viktor?

Mr. Viktor is Sonya's nephew.

"Wow... I thought it was a scam to say to myself that he was young, too, but this is again..."

I know I'm stunned, and I'm snorting.

Sonya was intrigued and watching Mr. Yuri, so honestly telling him he was a crossover, he added that "nothing can be done but play" by Mr. Yuri.

"You're an expert in theater, aren't you?

"Anything else is really a tease. Yeah, but I wonder if I can do my chores."

"Really?"

Why not?

We're both laughing at each other's faces, but I don't feel like there's a giddy reward underneath.

But I have a feeling you can't go in there. You felt the same thing, and Play-kun took a step back quietly from the two of us.

I also concentrate quietly on the songs of La Purcell and Mr. Ciel.

The song is good.

Where I thought the song moistened my heart, the door of the theater opened and the welcome bell rang Karan Karan.

Looking back, there are four shadows.

"Back."

Though never loud, I heard voices often passing lost in songs.