I don't know why, but I'm being avoided by Sakura right now.

First of all, she stopped coming to my room.

Even if I missed it, it left with a rustle, and instead of greeting me, I don't even try to look at you.

Sometimes I feel the gaze of looking at this one from afar.

I had no idea what I wanted to do.

It bothers me that if I get closer than I need to, I won't stop by.

Is that a return of interest to what you used to avoid Sacramento? I also thought that such a way of paying back is not like a sakura.

Milt seemed to know something, but he didn't tell me because it was funny.

Are you also tired of making confessions like greetings because my reaction is boring?

It helps, to be honest, because I was aware of myself that I was going to shake. But unfortunately, I chewed up my sigh in contradiction.

I guess the fact that I distanced myself from her like this doesn't mean I'm willing to keep joking anymore.

From the beginning, you knew. such as that she didn't mean it.

Still a little, he also had himself to expect.

I have a job too, so I can't even think about Sakura all the time.

Coming to the office that day was a small covert trooper, Lett Spinner.

"Yay, Mr. Fifth Captain. How have you been?

In a bottomless bright voice, Lett said that most openly.

To Nori's lightness as usual, I sigh.

"I would only have left here for about ten days"

"Because sometimes you get sick during those ten days. It's important to check your health."

"Nothing particularly wrong"

I also wonder if it would be weird to prolong the story, and answer concisely.

I'm sure Lett doesn't really care about my health either.

It's just like a public story. Same story as the weather.

"That's good. If anything happens to the captain, this place will collapse."

"I don't mean to work out like that"

"It's a joke, joke. I'd love to have a head start on the Fifth Captain."

Hiya and Lett laugh at.

I swallow the sigh I almost threw up again.

I can't talk about it all the time when I'm being put on Lett's pace.

tons, and tapped the clerk desk with his index finger to sound it.

"No futility is good. How'd it go?

I ask you not to go any further out of line.

This time I let Lett go to Wang Capital because of Sakura.

It was already over a month ago that I filed a document stating that a Spirit guest had appeared.

It was almost a hundred years ago that a guest of the Spirit appeared in this country before, so I'm not familiar with it in detail either, but it should usually move to protect it in the country after less than a month.

I asked Rhett to find out why there was no tone out.

Lett started talking, pointing his mouth at it like it was boring.

"I don't know, it's like we haven't talked up there."

"What do you mean?"

When he looked at Lett with a sharp gaze, he snapped his neck.

"I'm not sure either. It's just downstairs, and the only thing that's really stopping the information at the first stage. There are no rumors of spiritual guests in the Royal Castle. I guess there's only a few people I know."

Apparently, up there, that means no paperwork has gone to the royal family or the superior senators.

The presence of a guest of the Spirit would not be a case that a single senator could handle.

I just think it's deliberate that the information is being stopped.

But for what?

What kind of person gains from not having a guest of the Spirit?

I put my arms together and thought about it.

"... obstruction of those who hate spiritual guests? Or do you want it in your hands?"

"That's not it, especially not that kind of movement. If you move along, there's something I can do about it."

Raise your hands, and let's just raise our hands.

There's no way I can figure out what Lett doesn't know, even if I haven't seen the King's Capital.

"I know people who are stopping paperwork. The Imperial Castle is outside our jurisdiction, but it can move. What do we do? Do you want me to turn the paperwork up properly, or do you want me to talk to you directly from us?"

Military covert units are basically primarily responsible for intelligence management within the military.

The royal castle is an exclusive place for royalty and nobility.

That's not why I can't work from here.

It's easy to cling to a senator, and if you take the steps you should, you can take the story directly to the royal family.

If left to Lett, Sakura's presence will pass up in a few days.

But the fact that someone is stopping the paperwork catches on.

"It's dangerous to move before you know what they're after. Let's see how it goes."

After a little tour, I gave the answer.

So far, Sakura hasn't had any particular problems with her life in this fort, and she didn't seem dissatisfied.

Rather, the relationship seems to be in full swing, so much so that I don't think I can stay here like this.

I didn't immediately feel the need to have him protected as a guest of the Spirit.

Wouldn't it be better to explore why the information is being stopped than that?

"Huh. hehe."

"... what"

I frown at Lett for getting a weird voice.

When I knew everything, I just had a grin.

"Hehe, I know you, Captain Fifth. The captain likes Sakura Minakami. That's why you want to put it off, right?

Lett's words were both shocking and to some extent predictable.

I don't even think about hiding the feeling that I like Sakura now.

Did you ask Milt anything, too easy for me to understand? Maybe I can't hide it in the ret of a covert unit.

I want to postpone it, because it might have been a star indeed.

Being protected by the state means that the state determines the guardian of the Sacrament.

With more than a certain position, I fulfill my conditions as a guardian. I may also be able to put in the judgment material that I have been able to spend no problems in this fort until now.

However, it is also likely that this fort, close to the danger of demons, is not suitable as a place of residence for guests of the Spirit.

If the nobility of the king's capital was chosen as the guardian of the Sacrament.

... go away.

That's all I really wanted to avoid.

Because now that I've noticed my own love, I wasn't going to be able to stand it.

Does this also amount to abuse of authority?

If you really think about Sakura, maybe you should talk to the country.

Still, not yet. While I'm forgiven.

I wish to be with Sakura.

"Oh, my God. Then I..."

Lett, who was grinning slightly, suddenly looked back at the direction of the door with a surprised look.

I look at you too, wondering what it is, but soon I hear it.

There's a footstep coming this way.

"-!"

It was Sakura who was at the end of the door that opened with a bang of noise.

That word, which was uttered like a scream, could not be heard for some reason.

"What's going on?

This is the first time Sakura has come to the office.

Plus, I should be at work right now.

Something about what we had been talking about, and I was worried that something had happened.

Sakura said something and knelt down to break on the spot with Gakun.

"Hey, what's up!?

I rushed over to Sakura's.

Tears began to pour out of Sakura's eyes as he did his hand on his shoulder and peered into his face.

It opens and closes its mouth and makes an inaudible sound.

... Can't you hear me?

That's crazy. Especially if it's a meaningless word, I don't think I can hear it.

Then Sakura is supposed to be speaking meaningful words.

That's not the language I understand.

"... the protection of the Spirit has expired?

That's all I can think of.

For some reason, I guess the Spirit stopped doing the interconversion of words for me.

Sakura always speaks the language of the original world.

Still, I was able to communicate my intentions thanks to the Spirit translating them.

I don't know why, but now they're losing that spiritual blessing.

Sakura was weeping, nodding like a thread had been cut.

Help me, I don't like it anymore, it's coming from all over my body.

I wish I could cry, but I once wondered when it was.

A girl brought to another world on her own by a whimsical spirit and still kept smiling.

You'll miss her, it'll be hard, I can't watch her try to laugh.

But if I saw tears like this, I couldn't be calm.

Presence to protect, not.

There was something wrong with the existence I wanted to protect above all else.

"- Sakura"

For the first time, I called that name.

It was a name I had never called, even though it had been more than a month since she came to this world.

If I called her by name, if I admitted to her existence, maybe I knew I couldn't go back.

I do not intend to go any further, such as going back.

Now I just wanted to deliver the "word of passage” to Sakura.

"Sakura."

I'll call Sakura again with my face up.

Wet eyes with tears showed a man with a pitiful face.

I guess I could recognise they called me by my name.

Sakura has reached out, as she asks for more.

I'll take Sakura, who jumped at me with the impetus to fall in.

Slap your luxurious back gently like a bump.

I can hear Sakura in my ear.

I knew I didn't know what the word meant, but it sounded like a heartfelt relief.

You're about to fall asleep, you're gradually weighing in.

Still, just wondering if it was something to let go of, I felt my shirt on my back gripped tight.

Slowly lower your back so you can fall asleep.

I called Sakura's name over and over again.

I'm fine, don't worry, so I can tell him.

Eventually, Sakura fell asleep completely.

Lay your little body down, and I'll stand up.

You'd better take it to my private room to give it a rest.

"You don't have to worry, you still have spiritual protection. Probably on a whim and didn't help."

That's what Lett tells me as he looks at the Sakura in my arm.

Sometimes I had erased the signs, and I had forgotten half of them existed.

Said, if you even looked out for the spirits in the Sacrament, indeed the spirits still existed.

Also, the whim of the Spirit hurt her.

If you can complain directly, you have as much to say.

How far is a thing called the Spirit a selfish creature?

"Sakura and I are off today already. Get in touch."

"Yes, yes, cheap help. I'll tell you what."

Lett chuckles just because he knows it.

Leave the rest to him and he'll be fine.

I don't have a job that needs a rush. Milt has the possibility of being gutted later, but I don't care about that much.

I'd rather leave Sakura alone in this state than that, I didn't like it.

"You really matter, about Sakura Minakami"

"... oh"

To Lett's word, I returned my affirmation.

I can't say in words that it matters.

I want to protect Sakura's smile. I want to protect Sakura's heart. I want to protect where Sakura can look like a Sakura.

If I could have protected it with this hand the whole time.

I thought I wanted the right to keep protecting Sakura.