I've loved your sister since I've been around.

"I love your sister!

"Already... if Maria"

Your sister was prettier than anyone else. My heart was more beautiful than anyone else.

To me, your sister was everything.

But I know. That I am decidedly uneven with this world.

"Hey look at that..."

"White..."

"That's creepy..."

I first noticed the heterogeneity of my appearance when I noticed the adults around me saying that.

Bright white hair, bright white skin. Besides, these eyes were bright red.

It's not just your sister. Your brother, your father, your mother, they all had black hair.

Of that, I was the only one who was white.

Maybe I'm not a child in this house.

I thought so and asked my mother, but I'm definitely a Bradley family child.

I didn't understand it very well at the time, but it seems to be the one called mutation.

"Hey, sister..."

"Hmm? What's up, Maria?"

When the two of us were playing, I asked.

I wonder if I feel bad. I was wondering if they would call me a weird kid because it's not like around me.

"Am I weird...?

"That's not true. Maria is so beautiful."

"But it's bright white, and my eyes are bright red... not like your sister"

Lie down.

If I could, I wanted to be born as beautiful as your sister.

I wanted to be born normal.

I wanted to have that glossy, silky, sarah black hair, too.

Your sister and I look alike. So I'm pretty sure you're sisters.

But how can you feel so far away from your sister?

"Maria is so cute like a rabbit."

"Mr. Rabbit?

"That's right. Bright white, fluffy, bright red eyes. Same as Maria, very cute rabbit"

"... do you really think your sister would?

"Of course! Because Maria is so beautiful"

Sister stared at these bright red eyes of mine shaking and then smiled nicely.

I was happy.

What's different from what's around you, I can't help it.

I have a sister.

You understand, I have a sweet sister.

So I always thought we could be friendly sisters all the time...... that's what I assumed.

……

Again, I'm supposed to know what your sister's capable of.

She could do anything. Study, archery, every learning, courtesy, and magic.

Among the three great nobles, your sister excelled as a magician. No, I was too good.

It was only a matter of time before I was compared to that sister.

"Look, alle."

"White..."

"You're Rebecca's sister, aren't you?

"Didn't my sister suck it all up?

"Hehe. Yeah, I think so."

Heartless words, I can hear them.

I think I stopped going to the party a lot when I probably started hearing that voice.

I have no choice about appearance. I was going to cut it off.

But not only in terms of appearance, but also in other respects, I was not comfortable with being able to achieve excellence and inferiority with my sister.

My existential significance shakes.

I kept asking myself why I was born.

But there, there was no answer.

I'm just a sister born with this look and inferior to my sister.

That was the only fact left for me.

Studies, witchcraft, I've worked hard.

But your sister is like me, or no, she works harder than that.

If you have talent, but you have made an effort... there was nothing ordinary people could do about it.

So it didn't take that long for me to discern myself...

"Phew..."

My ear hurts.

Ears that have just opened the piercing often bleed. Sometimes it was purulent. I disinfect myself and take care of myself every time.

I also had my hair shaped eccentrically.

Because I'm sure if I hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to keep myself.

"Maria......"

……

I started to distance myself from nature from your sister.

I love your sister. But I hate your sister.

I grew up with such contradictory emotions.

"... Maria-Bradley"

"It's Ray-White. Thank you very much to Senior Rebecca for your help. I wish I could get along with Miss Maria."

"... Huh!

I didn't want to come to the sorcery society party. It's just that this time, my sister really says, it just came with me.

Strange guy I met there.

It was my first meeting with Ray.

The height is high, with a slightly thin impression of the line. My face is not bad. Well... I think you're pretty handsome. Tidy your hair properly, not a bad impression of how it looks.

I just don't know what to say... standing and behaving, but is it weird somewhere?

Anyway, I didn't have a good impression of Ray at first.

I don't really trust men in the first place. I tease you all the time, because it was just men. The woman says hissohisso, but the man teases directly.

Besides, all I see in my creepy gaze was guys.

So anyway, how could a man always be the same... I thought so.

But he looked like me. I felt intimate.

Then I just met Deena in the city, and I talked to her about this.

"Maria, how have you been?

"Yeah. Where's Deena?

"I'm fine, too. But Maria hasn't..."

"Well, there's a lot going on..."

Deena has been close to her sister since she was a young girl. Besides, he played well with me, too. But I took the liberty of distance and walked away from the two of them.

We're close enough to have a conversation when we meet at a party.

And he talks to me about shopping alone in the city... and it's been a long time since the two of us went into a cafe to have a conversation.

"Speaking of which, do you know Ray-White?

I decided to ask about Ray.

I didn't seem to be after your sister like an elephant, but I was just a little concerned.

"Ray? I'm a junior at the horticulture department."

"Uh... the horticultural department is called a garden just for girls, right?

"Right. There are only girls in the crew, except for Ray."

"Well, I thought I'd get in there a lot...... I knew, you're different. He..."

"Hmmm...... that's true. Ray is changing. But"

Mixing the ice in the glass with the straw and the caracallas, Deena gave a look she seemed to miss somewhere to talk about Ray.

That was Kao's first look.

"... you can't hate me, can you? At first, I was distant from the average person, Ordinary. Anyway, I thought you were after Master Rebecca. But he's straight."

"Straight?"

"Yep. Stupid, I only see before. And the strange one that brings people together naturally and around. I can really count on you."

"That's right..."

Deena is tough on men. Especially for a guy close to your sister.

That's what she says. I'm sure he might be a really good one.

Then I decided to ask Ray about my sister. Then Ray seemed to have noticed, too, and he listened seriously.

Besides, he not only cared about me, he praised me.

My chest warmed up.

I've never felt anything like this except my sister.

What Deena was saying was true.

I also somehow understood that people would gather around him.

On the other hand, I stayed alone.

"... let's go home"

Final day of the cultural festival.

I was about to go home because I enjoyed my sister's made-up coffee and was able to see her satisfied as well.

That's when Ray called me out.

"Maria."

"Ray...... how did you get here?

I was looking for you.

"Me?

Maybe it's that thing. That came from Ray's serious atmosphere. He's never seen anything like it before.

And Ray told me I had something important to tell you, and I followed him to the roof.

So what he was told was an incredible story.

I was also surprised that Ray was the [Ice Sword Mage].

But more than that, I couldn't understand what he was going to do now.

The background was then explained.

Anyway, I was all over it because I would sort out the situation.

What I understand is that to help your sister...... we have to do terrible things to your sister.

I didn't want that.

I hate your sister. Because you always stand in front of me, and that glare makes you burn down, and you can't see. The presence of your sister always makes me feel inferior.

But more than that, I loved your sister.

That's why he wants to help your sister. I thought so myself. Of course, I couldn't possibly accept Ray's suggestion or anything.

I turned my anger against Ray.

There's no way I can do that......

But if you look closely... Ray was shaking again too.

Yeah, Ray loves your sister. That's not what I want to do.

That's why we both swore.

Trying to be an accomplice.

But I should bear the sin.

I've been running away from your sister ever since, turning away, trying not to look.

But if I'm going to save your sister, I really should face it.

We should cut ourselves off from the cause of this decade or more.

That's why I told Ray.

"I want you to leave it to me. Ray needs to talk to me about the situation."

"But..."

"It's okay. This is, after all, a matter of sisters… and if you meet Ray's conditions, I'm sure I'd better say it"

"... well. Maria's ready, well received"

"Yep."

That's how I confront your sister.

As if I didn't understand, I was wondering why the two of them were together and that's the look on my face.

I know very well because I'm a sister.

And I know exactly what to do to shake your sister's heart. The resemblance is because its mind must be the same.

Grabbing Ray's arm next door, I said pale to my sister.

"Sister. I decided to hang out with Ray."

"Huh...?

Begin.

We are accomplices.

Together now, we lay down our sins.

To engrave despair in your sister's heart...