Life in Another World as a Maid Mage

"You're looking at it with great enthusiasm."

Alec's wild arms hug Shiori, whose breath is white and who looks at the stars in the sky without wearing himself out in the bitter cold. The warmth on the back was pleasant, and Shiori narrowed her eyes gently.

"The stars are different from home, so follow me."

"How to see? What's the difference?

When asked, it points to the stars at a high position.

"Polaris. It was further down at home, but it looks pretty high here."

"Polaris...? Ah, Shinjuboshi."

Suspiciously, Alec nodded as if a point had been reached by looking at the star he pointed to.

It's called God Tree Star in here.

Divine Jupiter. He said it bears the name of a tree that grows in the heart of the Northern mythology.

"The star at the end of the north. If you change your place, you change your name."

"Yeah... yeah."

Stars that look different from home. It reminds me that there is such a distance. However, it is not just distance that is far away.

The stars and constellations that can be seen just because of their different positions are the same. The stars that blink in the sky while separating the world are the same. In other words, this place exists on the same planet as home, but only the world is different - it is interpreted like a parallel world.

The starry sky, which is only slightly connected to that world, is also the comfort of Shiori and the place to offer prayers to those who have left it behind.

--I 'm fine, so please be healthy and healthy.

Looking up at the many stars that sparkle across the night sky as lovers, they murmur their thoughtful wishes.

― ― The night when it rains cold, occasionally mixed with white things, in a different world slightly connected in the starry sky.

Shiro Izumi, who was gazing blurrily at several ripples spreading in the water reservoir under his feet, raised his gaze when he noticed that the sound of the water mixing footsteps approached.

"... bad. Did you keep him waiting?

To a man who spoke with a caring voice, Shiro smiled ambiguously.

"No, I just got here. Never mind."

"... I see."

He would have noticed that his words were a lie as he glanced down at the bottom of the coat, which was soaked in water and completely discolored. But he didn't say anything.

Well then, let's go. You can drink today. "

Oh.

As they walked out of the rain, they eventually walked through the doorway of the shop, where the dark blue curtains were lowered. With the warm air, there was a delicious scent that seemed to burn something. An elderly shopkeeper approached the counter, pointing to the back seating area with a soft smile.

"... it's been a long time, this store too"

Wen Hao looked at the poet in pain for just a moment in a casual murmur.

I went to the store several times with him since I was a student. The warm air envelops the poet who visited for the first time in about four years.

- Four years.

Shiro, who had refused alcohol since the disappearance of his seven different sisters, carved his mouth slightly in the form of a bitter smile, thinking of the long and short period of time.

Leaving her wet coat in a quiet hand, she climbs up to the seating area where the reserved seat tag is placed. He wiped his cold hands with a hot sauce, and while he was breathing, he was transported through and beer.

"... then, to your mother."

Ah.

I drink to my other mother last month and drink Jock's beer.

"Mama, I'm so sorry."

"... I see. At least I wanted to see you at the last glance."

My mother, who had been ill for about a year, had been in the hospital for six months and had finally left last month. It was a calm end to the personality, but I still wonder how much I wanted to see my daughter.

--To her daughter Shiori, who suddenly disappeared.

Early winter four years ago.

I remember that it was a pleasant morning with no clouds. However - perhaps it was a later memory - for some reason, Shiro remembered that he had been feeling chest trouble since the morning.

Something feels like it's going to happen - no, something bad is going on, and I got up feeling it, and I was having breakfast with my parents and my wife and kids, and that's when it happened.

The phone rang, and the wife who took it changed her face. The fact was told by her mouth that she exchanged words with the other person on the phone with an impatient voice and eventually looked back with confusion.

The police called about the disappearance of Shiori, a sister who lives away.

The fact that Shiori disappeared under unusual circumstances was heard at the competent department where she contacted her workplace and took a vacation.

--An unexplained power outage occurred near Shiori's apartment the night before yesterday. Electricity recovered in about a minute, but employees of the electricity company who rushed to the scene to find out the cause discovered the girls' bags and accessories scattered on the street, as well as shoes with only one foot, and reported it as something else.

Reports of power outages and mysterious light-emitting phenomena appeared at about the same time, and police vehicles patrolling the vicinity immediately rushed, but it was still judged highly probable from the situation on the scene.

But the police investigation didn't reveal much.

All the leftovers left at the scene belonged to Shiori, Shiori did not return to his apartment and did not come to work the next day, and there was no sign of visiting his parents' home or acquaintance's house. Initially, the kidnapping was suspected, but there was no trace of it at the scene. It is difficult to imagine that they have disappeared by leaving their smartphones, wallets, and ledgers without any evidence of vehicle takeovers or being taken into a nearby building.

There was no record of Shiori heading somewhere from this place in the first place. Witnesses, not even neighboring security cameras.

However, just a few minutes after the blackout, because there were signs of smartphone operation just before the blackout, and the power company employees arrived at the site a few minutes after the blackout, they just disappeared - that's all they found out.

A year passed without knowing why Shiori disappeared. If there was at least one clue, it was about two and a half years ago that I applied for a public television program.

The police said in advance that the mental burden might increase even more than it is now. You might regret being on the show.

There are certainly some cases that have been resolved with useful information broadcast nationwide, but many remain unresolved, and on the contrary, curious eyes are often exposed and unnecessarily hurt, said the detective who became close. Not only for essay writing, but also for a friend who is an active policeman in the local police.

Still, I stepped into the public investigation with the intention of relying on the straw. The same day we discussed it with the police and had a meeting with the TV station.

― ― The response to the OL disappearance that occurred under strange circumstances was great.

The information you received, security cameras and drive recorder footage from multiple locations, as well as personal videos on mobile devices, are often reliable and helpful, and the station and police have carefully examined the information.

However, from the conclusions derived from the result, Shiro was convinced. It wasn't rational, it was intuitive - I was convinced that I would probably never see my lovely sister again, born away from her age.

--- That night, every electrical appliance in the area was malfunctioning and suddenly there was a power outage. At that moment, a mysterious luminescence occurred. From abnormal operation to light emission phenomena and power outages, it takes about a minute.

Videos and videos taken from within and outside the range of abnormal phenomena all emitted instantaneous light in the area at the same time, and immediately thereafter recorded a power outage.

Shiori is thought to have been at the center of the anomaly.

She, who was reflected everywhere in the video, disappeared negligently at 11: 58: 36 p.m. on that day. Leave your luggage and one shoe, no trace.

The detective at the station was subtly cloudy, but Wen Hao, who was watching the show, told me.

Physical evidence is carefully analyzed by forensics, research institutes, and science and police institutes, but rarely is there any explanation - in other words, there seems to be a scene where an unrealistic interpretation can be explained.

And Shiori's disappearance is probably going to hit this.

It's been a while since I've had this conversation on the Internet. Reproduction of program footage and discussion followed on bulletin boards and Twitter.

Most of them are interesting.

― ― Launch of Lanove. A Summon Monster from another world. Trip to another world.

No matter how serious the remaining ones were, for the unrelated, the incident was mere entertainment, and I don't want to admit it, but I used to be - it was realized, and the terrible thing that happened to my lovely sister - the poet was beaten deep.

I haven't been able to connect online since.

"... but, well, you asked me out... are you feeling better?

Wen Hao, who was drinking alcohol while having a status report and chat, asked while pinching about the fried chicken.

"Well... maybe so."

Shiro also grilled ginger - Shiori's specialty - and smiled slightly.

"Dream on. I saw it."

"Dream?"

Until now, it had been all a bad dream. A dream where Shiori is confronted with horror. A dream with painful feelings. And... the dream of losing your life.

But one night my mother departed, and spent forty-nine days a while.

I had a dream that my condition was different from usual.

"... something. I'm laughing happily."

Hmm?

"I thought you were kidding me about Lanobe... but somewhere else I dreamed of having a boyfriend and making me happy."

"Hee... that's it again..."

Wen Hao smiled softly with a slightly painful expression.

"... but the other man is good enough to get angry again. He was handsome, tall, well-paid, strong at extinction, and a good little boy."

In a sober tone, Bu, Wen Hao ejected the beer that had been in his mouth.

"It's really a Lanobe development, isn't it... but, well, that's good. Maybe my mom showed me how she was."

"... that's right."

Shiro laughed.

"Maybe so...."

I hope so.

Nobody knows what happened to her that day. And I didn't give up, but there was a hunch that I would never see him again.

However, if you can't come back again, at least Shiori wanted you to be happy in that place. I wanted you to live safely somewhere and have a warm and gentle day with your loved ones in a comfortable place.

That's just one wish as a brother.

--Finish the accounting and leave the store.

Cold rain stopped.

From the slit of the clouds, you can see the stars instantly.

"Oh... you can see the polar stars clearly."

The night sky is purified by rain. When I was a boy, I looked up at the sky looking for Shiori and a shooting star.

--Exactly then, there was no need to know that my sister was looking at the same star as her beloved in a distant place that separated the world ----The poet looked at the beautiful starry sky with prayer.