Back home, I laid the woman I had in my bedroom.

The woman still seems to be trying to be conscious and continues to breathe rough as she leaks her bitter voice.

The woman continued to sleep that day and the next day in a painful way.

I occasionally came to the room to change the wet towel I put on my head, or hit the woman's mouth with a sponge containing water.

It was the next morning that the anomaly occurred.

When I was having breakfast in the next room, I heard a quiet noise from my bedroom.

Did you wake up...?

I opened the door to the next room with the breakfast I was about to eat.

... Knock forgot, by the way. Living alone was too long and completely disappeared from my mind.

There was no one left in bed.

Someone was lying there until a while ago, only the messy sheets are left there.

"Ah."

I heard a voice from the side. It's a woman's voice.

When I looked over at you, the traveler I helped - a young woman with bright white hair, about fifteen years old, stood in front of the bookshelf.

The woman's eyes are shaking in agitation, and the woman's mouth is tightly tied in agitation. Two letters of 'vigilance' were all over the frightened body.

Ma......

If you wake up in a house somewhere, and suddenly you open the door and a hundred older men come out, will it solidify with fear...

I open my hands and turn up.

"Are you all right? I found you down in the street, and I was worried about you, so I stepped in at my house."

I guess you understood what I was saying. The woman lowered her head in a panic with a stiff face.

"Excuse me! Have such an attitude towards the person who helped me! Thank you so much!

"No, that's fine. Because I don't care."

I waved flirtatiously.

"Aren't you hungrier than that? I've been sleeping though. I was just having breakfast. If you don't mind, is yours going to come out, too?

"Yes, no! I can't take care of you that much......!

It was when a woman shook her head in a panic.

I smelled the soup I was eating in my room. Fluffy and good aroma. It's like I was inspired by that.

Grr.

The woman's belly rang.

"Oh, oh...!

A blushing woman holds her stomach.

I laughed.

"Don't hesitate. It's not good for you to be impotent."

I led the girl to the table.

Place the soup taken with bread and chicken gallows in front of the girl.

"It's a soup made of birds I shot down. It's good."

"I'll have it!

When the girl said that, she mouthed the food with great momentum.... I guess I was so hungry...

I said to the girl who flattened her.

"Do you have a change?

The girl said in a nasty manner after being annoyed.

"Yes... please..."

After I finished eating that, I put my head down with a pepper on me sitting face to face.

"Thank you for being such a treat"

"Fine. Never mind. Was it good?"

"Yes, very"

Girl haunts.

"Oh, excuse me. You had so much to do, but you still had to introduce yourself. My name is Laura."

"Laura. My name is Alberto."

I swallowed up the family name I was about to mention.

The father's voice comes back to the back of his brain.

- You're in exile. Don't ever name Luminous again.

"... it's Alberto"

Then I threw Laura a question.

"That path leads to the King's Capital... but Laura was headed for the King's Capital?

"Yes, I was just about to take my entrance exam to the Royal School of Magic."

"Heh."

With that said, this was about the time I went to take it.

"... is Mr. Alberto interested in witchcraft?

"Why?"

"Um, sorry I took the liberty of looking, because there were so many magic books in your room earlier..."

"Oh."

I remember. Earlier she was standing in front of the bookshelf. That's where you saw it... the wreckage of a dream I couldn't throw away and brought out of my parents' house.

"Just interested. I twitched a little. I used to go for the School of Magic. In the end, I gave up.... because I didn't have the talent."

I laughed lightly and said so.

It's a lie. I was enrolled in the Kingdom's School of Magic, but that bitter past is not something I want to tell others.

At that moment, Laura began to get overtly upset.

"Ha, ha!? soot, sorry!?

"Huh?"

"Oh, well, to someone like that! Take the exam. - Oh, my God!

Pekopeko and Laura bowed their heads so much that this one was sorry.

...... hmmm......

I feel sorry for this one. Because I lied.

"... never mind. 'Cause that's already a split story in me."

"It would be helpful if you could just say that!

I changed the subject for Laura in a hurry.

"So I'm on my way to college - how did you fall?

"I've walked from my hometown to the kingdom, but it looks like I'm getting tired..."

"That was tough."

"It was helpful to have Mr. Alberto in your arms. I don't think I could recover so quickly. It was such a cool date..."

"It's too much. When's the exam?

Tomorrow, February 17th at noon.

... Tomorrow?

"Tomorrow, February 17th?

"Yes, I do, though?

Laura is looking at me with a decent face.

I swallowed your spit.

And I opened my mouth feeling like I was going to say a death sentence.

"Sorry, February 17th is' Today '"

"... Huh?

Laura opens her mouth pompously.

The face gradually turns into a hurried look.

"Uh, yeah!? Today is exam day!? Wow, only one day I was asleep, right?!?

"No - you've been asleep for two whole days"

"Oh, no...!

Laura complains.

I looked into the window. The soft morning sun is plunging in.

The exam hasn't started yet.

But it starts in just four hours.

No matter how quickly you walk from here, it's only around the evening that you reach the King's Capital. Not to mention the sick body.

There's no way we're gonna make it.

Laura holds her head.

"I'm sorry, village chief, uncle, aunt, mother, father, everyone in the village. Oh, oh! Good thing you sent me out to work so hard! I couldn't live up to my expectations...!

I got up.

"Don't be so depressed. I guess we still have four hours, huh? You'll make it."

"Oh, no, we should make it -!?"

"I still have about an hour to spare. Your luggage is in the bedroom, so get ready for the trip. Oh...... you should get a little familiar. Because it's a big stage. Feel free to use the bucket."

I guess you didn't know what my words meant.

The girl looked at me with a fallen face.

"Uh...?

"Because I'll be there in time. You should slow down and come out. I'll wait outside."

When I said that, I went outside the house.

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"Because I'll be there in time. You should slow down and come out. I'll wait outside."

The man in front of me for saying that - Alberto walked out of the house.

Laura had no idea.

In time?

You can never make it. Is it just a break? But there's no reason to say that to Alberto.

One thing comes to mind after another, but Laura stopped wondering.

That's all we have left.

The spider thread Alberto drooped for me, and I just have to stick to it.

Alberto had made room for about an hour, but Laura took less than half an hour to figure herself out.

Alberto was waiting for me when I went outside the house.

Brown hair, black eyes - your face would be neat. Back in the year, ten was better than Laura. A man who honored the quiet atmosphere.

Alberto, who noticed Laura, rose from the stump.

"That's fast. Do you have a favor?

"Yes.... because I don't want to waste any time. But are you sure you can make it...?

"Of course I am."

Alberto stood beside Laura.

"My magic - I'll carry you with a magic arrow"

Magic Arrow?

Laura was even more confused in her head.

Magic Arrow is elementary - no, it's super elementary magic. It's the first thing most magicians remember.

That's just magic shooting targets with white arrows.

I wonder what such a thing would do in this situation?

"Well, I guess the king's capital is that way"

Alberto turns his hand diagonally upwards.

"I'm sorry, but you need to hold me to my body. It's dangerous."

I was embarrassed, but Laura did what she was told. This is not the stage where Shigeko says it anymore.

So, uh...

Laura remembered a certain sight.

A place emerges behind Laura's brain where she was resting. When I was resting, a bird fell from the sky and crashed to the ground.

- It's a soup made from a bird I shot down.

That's what Alberto said.

Perhaps that bird was shot down by Alberto by magic.

But that's a strange story.

The distance reached by the magic arrow is 50 meters, although there are some differences depending on the strength of the user.

If you're going to shoot down birds flying in the sky, it's going to be hard if you don't aim directly from the bottom.

But Alberto was nowhere near him then.

What do you mean?

"... Um, Mr. Alberto?

"What?

"What is the range of Mr. Alberto's magic arrow?

"Thirteen kilometers."

"What?"

I thought I heard wrong.

A pale Alberto voice follows.

"Magic Arrow"

Shortly after, Laura's vision flowed rapidly.