The day after the carriage departed.

Estik Magic School was still having the morning as usual.As the morning sun plunges in, the birds chirp and the fog clears up little by little.

Nina was thinking while lying in a bedroom bed in the dorm.

Nina didn't have any friends other than Alisa Natori.

After the disappearance of the two of them, Radica and the Demon King, they played with other friends in Estik and neighboring cities, and went sightseeing and talking to the King's capital, Ka Bassa.

But it still reminds me of Alisa and the others.

"What the hell did you do with the death penalty? Soda and radica are suddenly gone."

If Alisa is simply missing and learns that she is being nominated as a servant equivalent to the death penalty, she can't help but be a friend.Alisa doesn't look like such a serious offender.Sotora, Radica, and Demon King were all gone after that day.I didn't go to my room, I didn't go to class, I didn't go to the bath, I didn't go to the dining room.I have met a man and a woman named after Radhika's parents, and two men named Radhika's brother and graduate of Estik Martial Arts School. Both of them were strikingly searching the girls' dormitory and faculty building for any clues to the news of Radhika.

Somehow Nina is a fourth grader at Estik Magic School.Alisa and the others would have been in the same fourth grade as Nina if nothing had happened.

When the kingdom of Wistaria invaded the kingdom of Harmony, it was rumored by the wind that there were enemies named Alisa and Natori.Probably the royal castle and the police know the truth, but it's pretty confidential, so it won't be easy for a single student to tell you.Nina doesn't know if it was really Alisa or Natori.

Nina wakes up from her bed and rubs her eyes.

"I wonder how Alisa and the others are doing."

Today is a holiday. Last year, Alisa and Natori came into the room and said, "Nina, what shall we do today?I've been asked.Can Nina never taste the same daily happiness again?

Certainly Nina has other friends.But Alisa is the only one who can forget the time, not create herself, and talk to herself as she is.That's how much Alisa meant to Nina.

Nina gets out of bed, sits on a desk chair while sleeping, and opens a drawer.There is a letter that Alisa left in the morning of the day she left for the king's capital, Ka 'Bassa, and a letter that Sotori left the following day.Nina had read them back many times, so the corners of the letter were rounded.

"I'll be gone for a while. Don't worry, Alisa, I'll be right back."

That's what the letter says.Nina looks out the window by her desk.You can see the sunlight coming in from the roof of the school building.

"I can't believe you're back soon, liar."

A good friend of mine was nominated and other classmates went missing with him.Nina closed her eyes and remembered the day she was playing with Alisa and Natori without wings.

At that time, there is a quiet knock on the door.Nina, who remembers the past, is slow to react, but replies towards the door.

"Who?"

Stop knocking and instead hear a man you don't know.It was like an old man's voice.

"I know Alisa, Natori, Radica, and Vargis.I have a letter for you and I need to talk to you.Get me in the room. "

Teachers should be guarding the doorway to keep suspicious people out of the dormitory.If he went through that guard, he would be fine.Nina replies with a little surprise, "Please come in."

The man who came in with the door open is a gray-haired old man dressed in shabby white with a cane as big as his height.

Nina pulls her eyebrows down on her dirty face and brings the chair she left at the edge of the room and says, "Sit down."Someone was using it on a daily basis, but it is considered a mannering violation to give a visitor something with plankton magic.Nina sits on her chair and asks when she brings her chair to a position opposite the old man.

So, I'd like to ask you something, but can you name it first?

"Hmm. I'm Deggle."

Do you have a last name?

"Nothing like that."

Deggle says so, removes three postcards from his pocket and gives them to Nina.

"Before I tell you, I want you to read it."

"I understand."

Nina receives it.It was a letter from Alisa Natori Radhika.

Read it carefully. The three have fled to the Kingdom of Harmony.The fact that he enjoys the sadness every day with the demon king Vargis and his niece Hagis.And because there may be another war in the near future, I want Nina to come to the Harmony Kingdom by then.As Nina reads them, she looks at them one by one.Something hot is coming up from your eyes.However, it stopped immediately after seeing the end of the letter.

This letter is indeed written in the handwriting of Alisa, Natori.I don't know about Radica's handwriting, but it was a handwriting that a girl of her age would often use.But before that, as a problem.

"This letter, dated yesterday, is Alisa nearby?"

Lettering overnight to Estik, far from the Kingdom of Harmony, is absolutely impossible to charter a carriage or even a fast horse.Is it possible that Alisa and the others are actually hiding near this Esteek Magic School?Expecting that, he asked Deggle, but Deggle shook his head sideways.

"I can't answer very detailed questions.Well, you read the letter. "

Ha, yes...

Nina feels like she has been confronted by Deggle's reply.Deggle keeps looking down on Alisa's letter in her hand.

"I want you to come to the Kingdom of Harmony."

Nina closes her eyes for a while, then closes the letter and looks up at Deggle.

"Are you telling me to abandon this kingdom of Wistaria?To me as a nobleman? "

Hmm.

"You can say that to someone else in red."

"If you stay in this country, you will abandon your friends."

When Deggle says so, Nina silently swallows her tongue and returns it.

"... my ancestors have benefited from the kingdom of Wistaria.Without the kingdom of Wistaria, there would have been no me now.It's hard to break up with friends, but I will do my best for the Kingdom of Wistaria. "

"Even though the King of the Kingdom of Wistaria is out of the way?"

Huh?

The king's bad reputation also spread to Estik.If you talk about it in front of the soldiers, they will be arrested and killed on the spot, so everyone will keep their voices down and say bad things about the king.Do it, the King will shatter the sinner's body like a liquid.Do it, the king puts people to death for trivial things.Do it, there is no one to work enthusiastically under such a king, and there are rape ministers everywhere.Do it, the economy is in disarray.

All of them were impractical to Nina and close to jokes.

"I work in powder for the prosperity of this kingdom of Wistaria, no matter who the king may be.That doesn't change my mind. "

When he heard that, Deggle sighed and stood up from his chair, pointing his wand towards Nina.

Look at that, Nina pulls a little back.

"... I'll give you a piece of advice.Nina Dege Ameli. If you stay here without coming to the Harmony Kingdom, you will follow a tragic path. "

Miserable end ♪?

"Mm-hmm. You're gonna die. Not only will you die, but you will suffer in heaven after you die.Your next life will undoubtedly be a severely disabled child. [M]As an acquaintance of Alisa's, I don't want to see you like that."There is only one chance to avoid this fate."

Nina blinks her eyes.