After Mr. Eden returns, Alice and I relax again and have a store number.

"hehe... one or two white gold coins... a lot... hehe - hehe!?

"You..."

"Isn't that nice, it's a long time ago sales. With all this...... you can 'lose' 200 times in gambling - yah!?

"I wonder why you try to lose with the waza..."

Beat Alice, who was nibbling by counting the large quantities of white gold coins she received from Mr. Eden with a very bad face.

Even though I don't need to lose with Wazza anymore after that, I have an account to lose with Wazza... somehow, it feels like Alice is Alice after all.

"... Oh, if you say so, I forgot. I had something for Mr. Kite."

"Something to give?

"Yep... uh, it's definitely around here... oh, there it is!

"... what is this money?

Tell me you have something to give me, and I'll give you a cloth bag with lots of gold.

But I don't know why they're giving this to me... or I can't keep my head on the anomaly of Alice giving me the money.

Seeing the look on my face like that, Alice giggles and explains.

"Look, the futon I made before with Kate's idea... that was a messy sell. No, well, as usual, we don't have customers... at Mr. Crowe's, so much so that they can't keep up with the manufacturing. So, that's 20% of what you make."

"Hmm...... uh-huh. I can't help but have more money..."

"You should also remember luxury - luxury for Alice, buy clothes for Alice, buy accessories for Alice... like that!

"Reject All"

"Wouldn't you mind worrying a little more there!?

Put a penetration into Alice, who talks as she jokes. It kind of feels like the usual interaction, makes it weird and fun.

That sounds like Alice was the same, and me and Alice laugh at each other face to face.

"Haha, ah, I knew it was like this. But I think it's been a while."

"Alice was acting a little strange."

"Ah, there, excuse me. But, look, I'm growing up to be New Alice, too, right?

"Hmm, what exactly?

"I didn't get hit by that stupid god"

"... ugh, ugh"

What a subtle growth. Or, you know, if you hadn't done it with New Alice, you'd have hit her...

As I look subtle, Alice gently snarls her fingers after laughing cuckoo again.

Then I heard the door of the grocery store locked, and the next thing I knew, I heard something hit the door, whether the sign had changed from "open" to "closed".

Alice then opens her mouth as she takes off her mask and turns bare, dyeing her cheeks a little shy.

"... well, jokes aside... I think I would have been more sinister with that god a while back. I told him I had to protect Mr. Kite... and now I know very well when I try to calm down. I must have been in a hurry."

"... now, you're not, are you?

"... Yes. Protecting Mr. Kite doesn't make a difference... just a little bit."

With that said, Alice softly lays her own hand over mine. Make it a so-called lover connection, and then continue with the words.

"... Now, I've stopped pushing myself. I want to protect my happiness with Kate... because I have to protect myself."

"... yeah. Right..."

"Well, but as Kate knows... I'm an idiot, so I'm going to have a lot of help from Kate too"

"Oh, me too... I don't think I can do it in terms of power, but I want to hold Alice's heart together. I want to protect the feeling that Alice is happy with me."

Listening to Alice's determination, I hold my hand back strongly and convey my thoughts.

Then Alice slowly brings it to me without saying anything.

The gentle warmth I feel from my connected hands and shoulders, I also keep myself in the happiness of twitching and spreading from the back of my heart without saying anything.

Beginning encounters are coincidental for me and manipulative for Alice. The impact of the cat's clothing gesture, which I first saw at the grocery store I visited, is still clearly remembered.

If you think back now, that might have been the prospect of trying to impress me strongly.

In fact, I've been visiting Alice's grocery store ever since, and I've had a friend-like relationship with her.

Stupid words and actions frightened me many times, and I also preached to unplanned behavior. But on second thought, since I came to this world, Alice was the second person to have a conversation in nature without any fixing at all.

Is that why? As for Alice, she was going to break up with me there. Kidnapping... and Alice's betrayal. Against that, "Oh, if this kid betrayed me," rather than outraged me, I was more than willing to forgive him.

That was already, at that time... the presence of Alice must have been very important to me.

My attitude toward Alice hasn't changed since I found out Alice was the Phantom King... no, I wasn't even going to change it.

For me, Alice was more of a friend than a corner of the Six Kings... after all, because she had a strong impression that she was an important friend...

I didn't expect Alice and her lovers to be one another like that, at least not at that time.

We hit each other with a crappy light mouth and I thought it was going to last forever, as in a bittersweet relationship...... no, maybe I was trying to guess.

I've been aware of Alice as a girl for some time now, and I didn't even think of her as a casual gesture as cute once or twice.

I pretended not to realize that because I thought it would be unconscious of Alice and not just Alice to turn into a relationship between her lovers... but to change her cheerful pattern like before.

But I think it ended up worried and changed in a better direction. This is how I slapped my mouth lightly, and I smiled bitterly... and the added affection there made me feel happy for each and every one of them.

I'm sure it will continue to be. He is an easy-going friend, a loving lover...... he walks with me, protected or protected.

That's a happy thing without even having to think about it...... that's why I'll do my best to protect Alice's heart too.

As this happy relationship... will last forever...

"... Mr. Kite"

"Yeah?"

"I just called."

"... what the hell is that"

"Hehe."

"Ha."

"... Mr. Kite"

"... yeah?

"... stay with me forever. Don't leave me alone."

"It's okay. I won't do it alone. I promise."

"Yes."

……

……

"... Mr. Kite"

"Now what?

"... I love it"

"... so am I."

Dear Mother, Father - I think I made and will continue to make bright, smug remarks like an idiot and vomit full of sighs. But I don't think I'd like that. Because, sure, me and Alice's - our minds are connected.