Lead the other world.

"I still remember that day...... This dress has been my favorite since then."

Takumi was quite puzzled when she heard Ellis, who is told in a nostalgic way.

"Um... Kiryu Maple is my father..."

"Oh... I thought maybe, did you still! He looks just like him and has the same face and atmosphere."

Ellis replied with a grin when she cringed at Takumi's words, whimpering in confusion.

"Well, listen to me a little more. There's more to this story."

Takumi had a lot to ask, but he listened to Ellis.

Whoa, whoa.

Ever since I got maple patterned on my dress, Ellis has maple about the outside inside, about adventurers, about food, about monsters. When I started raising them, they told me stories about so many things that the sun was slowly starting to fall.

"Wow, wow! Maple knows everything!

"Ha... that's not true. It's all about discovering new things and learning things every day."

"Eh, so the world is full of new things I don't know!

"Ah...... The world is wide...... so I think it's better not just to look at your feet all the time, but to broaden your horizons and not determine your potential. Ellis is still a kid, and I guess it's important to keep challenging new things..."

Ellis looked strange on the maple talking so smugly and tilted her neck.

"Hmm? What do you mean? Something's hard..."

"Ha, well, maybe the time will come to know. Oh, yeah. Let me give you one piece of advice as a senior in my life..."

Maple suddenly stood up, talking like that, looking up at the orange sky, visible from among the trees, where the sun began to fall and begin to tint.

"I mean piercing my beliefs. Oh, it's not like you don't listen to people."

"Belief...?

Maple asked Ellis, leaning his neck with his mouth wide open.

"Right... Ellis is. You know what you're making up your mind?

"Mm-hmm... Ah! I try to be honest with you about what I've done and what I thought! I don't think lying is a good idea. If you lie to me, you'll lose your mind, and something will hurt around your chest."

Maple nodded and showed in surprise to Ellis, who replied with a smile so.

"I think belief is one of the thoughts you believe in, the things that motivate you to act, what Ellis just said."

"Heh... Believe it... That's right! What's the Maple belief?

"Me? My beliefs..."

Maple turned his back on Ellis and walked one or two steps.

"- I don't lie about my feelings. And live now with all your strength so that you don't regret it! That's what I believe."

"Heh heh, that sounds like you. I just met her today but she looks like you... I don't hate that way of thinking!

Then Maple exhaled loudly once, turning to Ellis, who smiled so tenderly and answered.

"Thank you Ellis today. It's been a while since we've had this conversation, and we're going to do something about it."

"Thank you for sharing so much with us. Oh, yeah! Stay at home today."

Maple gave Ellis, who answered that innocently, a look that seemed lonely for a moment and shook his neck sideways with a bitter smile.

"I can't do that. It's time for..."

"Time...?

"If we meet, we have a goodbye... That's what I call it."

Saying so, he walked off like Ellis, putting Pong and his hand on Ellis' head.

"- See you later, Ellis. Be well."

And the moment Ellis' hand got out of his head, Ellis turned around but strangely there was no more maple figure there. It's as if he wasn't there from the start.

Ellis, who had been relieved for a while, touched her head with her hands. I still felt a slight maple warmth there, stroking down my chest that what had happened earlier had not been a dream, and smiling small as I blushed my cheeks.

"See you later...... Strange adventurer...... Kiryu Maple......"

One elf girl walked out of her mind to a human man she met that day.