"... hey..."

"No, I'm sorry. I kept my mouth shut... are you okay?

Girl who looks familiar to mouth an apology while gently stroking my back coughing. A nightmare (Baby Castella) that struck me where I was a little dusk the first night I came to another world. Wow, different worlds, different worlds... I didn't think I could plant trauma on a baby castella.

After a while, he also breathes and again turns his gaze to the girl next door.

"... well, what is it, Cro?

"No - coincidence is amazing, isn't it? It feels so fateful to just meet again in this place!

"No, nothing like this, it's this guy's mansion!?

"Look, I was told a boring story, and when I got out of town to change my mood, someone I knew was opening his mouth to the sky 'a few kilometers away', so I threw in a baby castella, and it's a good story."

"It used to be. It was like! Such an anomaly!

You're totally rocking on, aren't you?!? You stormed the Duke's house at night after breaking and entering. No coincidence, no shit!? No. There are too many penetrations to catch up with.

"Well, well, leave the details alone."

"... it's not fine. It's a pretty good case..."

Seems unwilling to hear this one's soul scream, Kro continues his words with an innocent smile with Nico.

"Look, I told you, didn't I? If you're in trouble, I can help you - 'cause, Kite, you looked like you were worried about something, but what's wrong?

"Huh? Oh, no, you say you were worried... what you say..."

Uh-huh, it was the same when it happened in the evening, but I can't grasp the pace of Chro. I mean, Nico and her innocent smile drained me of poison, and I feel like I'm being flushed.

"I've been thinking a little bit about what's going to happen and what's going to happen."

"Cheng Cheng...... OK, then why don't we ask while 'Otsukimi'!

"Holy shit!?

Sooner or later, the coat of chrome touches the floor of the balcony as it ripples, and a black onion appears to boil off the ground. Oh, no, if you look closely, it's a tatami without this.

And that's not the end of it, the platform that puts the moonshine dough on so that the black shadow of the coat stretches - was it just Sanbao? It turns into it, detached, and placed on a tatami. What's that coat? Are you coming out with anything? It seems so convenient...

"Sit down. Sit down. The moon is beautiful. Let's talk slowly."

"... Oh, yeah"

Develop without a thump and sit on a tatami with a loving smile pushing you and urging you. Then Crowe pointed his finger at Sanbao and waved gently, and there appeared the moon dough -

"Why not dough, baby castella!?

"Huh? Otsukimi is the one who eats sweets while watching the moon, right?

"... I don't think the interpretation itself is wrong, but there seems to be a mistake in the fatal part..."

Yes, it was loaded right in front of me... a nightmare baked treat that engraved an indelible trauma in my mind earlier - it was a baby castella. How do you even know Tatami or Sanbao, but the dough at the heart is Baby Castella? What halfway knowledge...

"Hehe, you'll have trouble underestimating me. Oh, my God, this baby castella is specially made for otsukimi! Try it and you'll see the difference soon!! There you go."

"Wow, okay. Okay... I'll eat."

Carry the baby castella into your mouth in a mindful way while being slightly traumatized by the way you lean over with the baby castella in your hands.

"Huh!? This..."

The baby castella I put in my mouth was a regular baby castella because of its appearance, but inside it is a tangy fabric that feels definitely elastic and a hint of sweetness familiar to the tongue for the Japanese - wrapped in fillings.

Cheng Cheng, so to speak, this baby castella wraps the dough inside. In this little shard, it's extraordinary craftsmanship to keep the dough inside the dough -

"Then you're good with a regular lunar dough!! Why are you coated with baby castella!? What is that obsession with baby castella! I feel nothing but fear!? Why did you remember the wrong name when you were so obsessed with it?

"You're fine - but you get tired of talking to me like that for a breath? Look, I've got drinks for you, so it's a decent beverage from around the world."

"Oh, thanks - blah!?

I was smiling and staring at me screaming. I received the hot water that Cro offered me, drank it to moisten my dry throat with a penetration - it erupts instantly.

"Are you okay? It's dangerous to drink all at once, so you have to drink slowly"

"Ho ho ho ho... why... coffee..."

"Huh? In other worlds, you drink when you eat sweets, right?

……

Hey, the braves of the past who would have planted half-way through different worlds of knowledge in Cro, come out in front of me because I want to hit you once.

I thought it was ridiculous to say moon sight in the New Year's Eve, but in this world, the Moon in Heaven - it seems that New Year's Eve is the biggest place to say it in Japan, and as a time of year, it can also be said to be excellent.

Best of all - I think the moon sight of sitting on a tatami and eating baby castella with one hand a cup of coffee in hot water is wrong regardless of the other world or something...

"... Huh. I mean, human beings want to worry about weird things as always."

"Is that what you feel from a demon tribe?

Unlike the noisy appearance of the previous period, it was revealing nature and things to think about until earlier, while we had a moon sight with a calm atmosphere that made us know a long history somewhere.

What I don't know what I want to do, the expectations and anxieties of change that I came to the other world and visited regardless of my will. The story of Nan's unsuccessful questioning is strangely and naturally zeroed out of his mouth when he is a cro opponent. Maybe that's a move that makes her have a unique atmosphere, but somehow Crowe's voice gives her a calm relief.

And after listening to me all the way through, Cro spins his words quietly as he leans on the hot water.

"I don't think people with goals or dreams are better than people without them. It's not like you can't have what you don't have, it's not like you want it... I just don't think you can reach out?

"No body?"

"Yeah. Kite - a human life is as short as a moment from my point of view. Only 100 years or less, if that's all I have. Yet if you're worried that this isn't the case for a reason, even if it's so detailed, you'll end your life just worrying about it. Then I'll cut that up properly, and don't think it's much better to have fun."

"... have fun..."

I don't know how to enjoy that. I know you want something, but I don't know exactly what you want.

"... there was a kid I used to know who said something similar to Kate. He said he was empty."

"Empty?"

"Yes, hopes and expectations around me and all that stuff piles up... at some point I can only walk down the path shown to someone. You said you've made an empty self with no contents - that's not why I don't like it, and I want to live up to expectations, but sometimes you say you think about where your true feelings lie"

"... sure, maybe a little bit alike"

"Yeah. Is that why? I love you, Kite."

"To?"

Turning to Clo in surprise at the gently spoken word, his golden eyes looked straight at me as if he were foresight of everything in the world. In no way was that uncomfortable as being glanced at, but seemed like a gentle, warm glance of affirmation like a mother.

"... you're just a newborn chick who doesn't know anything."

"A chick?"

"Yes, I want feathers - but I don't know how to live them. I want to fly - but I don't know how to fly. I think worrying is the same as wishing. There's a sparkling wish in Kite that you haven't found yourself yet. It's still empty and good now. It's nothing to be ashamed of or wrong to have never been able to find it."

It's like singing a lullaby, a gentle voice in the depths of your heart. That's all right. It's like wrapping it up so you don't have to worry about it.

"For the record, let's do a treasure hunt!

"... Yes?

Is that weird? Wasn't that where this is going to be an inspiring story right now? Why are you starting to tell me there's no clapping again? Are you free? Hey, are you free?

"Yeah, yeah. I like you, Kite, and that's good."

"Uh, you say you don't know what it means... why are you holding it by turning your hands from behind me to both sides? Why is your coat shaped like a big wing? I have a really bad feeling about this. What are you doing? How powerful!?

"It's okay, it's okay. 'Cause we're just gonna take a little empty walk!

"Feel one more part of that explanation that's okay - yahhh!?

Disappointingly held from behind by natural movements, Clos' coat of protests also moved, turning into empty, giant wings, and soon after, the scenery blows all at once downstairs.

Close your eyes unintentionally, but never feel strong wind resistance, rather the wind feels gently stroking your cheeks.

"Look, kite. Take a look."

"Huh!?

When I slowly opened my eyes, which had been invited to close by a beautiful voice, I could not utter any more words.

What you see is the great moon that floats in the sky and the operating light that looks like a shining star in the earth. Stunning view - a magnificent and beautiful sight so that no other thoughts emerge.

"Kite. The world is wide."

"Huh?"

"There are a lot of things that I don't know and don't know after all these years of living. Things you don't know, things you've never seen, things you've spent your whole life trying to figure out."

……

"I'm here in this world because of it, and let's find it. Here's a 'treasure' that you think is sincerely important… you don't have to find the answer to what you want to do. When you leave here, you don't have to know what you want to do so you can answer 'what you've been doing', 'what you've found'... so now it's empty and good"

With that word, let go of the hand that Crowe had me in. Falling!? I thought for a moment, my body slowly descends toward the vast earth instead of falling rapidly.

You're descending from a considerable altitude, or you point your gaze at a brilliant star on earth - at the tip of your gaze, a short while before me, you smiled gently, and you saw Crowe with his hands spread out.

With the brilliant light of the stars on our backs on earth, the brilliant silver hair soaked in the wind, and the merciful look at this one with the kind of golden eyes that are sucked in, we cannot look away so beautifully as to illuminate with the goddess.

"I want feathers - but I don't know how to live them. I want to fly - but I don't know how to fly. Yes, you don't know anything yet Innocent, dear chick..."

The distance should be so far away, but the sound of the wind will reach my ear straight away.

"Then - I'll tell you! Something you don't know, a view you've never seen, this world!

"Huh!?

Dear Mother, Father - I have been caught up in a valiant summons and have come to different worlds.

"This kind world, I congratulate you on your visit!

But - the other world was peaceful, and I didn't make any difference myself, and I didn't have the courage to change.

"So start looking here, from this other world! I couldn't find you. Yourself!

But - I've had a strange encounter, I've been wielded by doom, and my previous common sense has been smashed to pieces with no explanation.

"Now, let's start at this moment! Do something different than before!

But - in retrospect, meeting this insane demon tribe was the biggest moment of change.

"You - tell the hero's story!!

Yes, in the other world - tough and ruinous, and then gentle and warm - the story has begun.