"Kaoruhei... what is it?

The white girl looks straight at me, hands down that were on her chest.

I slowly stood up and grabbed the hem of the white dress.

"Uh. Yes, Kaoruhei Kaoru..."

I named him for now.

I wonder how this kid knows my name.

Haven't we met before?

No, I'll never forget such a beautiful, cute girl with such a bright white body.

... None, right?

How much am I stupid? No way.

The girl, approaching one step at a time at a tremendous foot, stopped as if remembering at the edge of the stone stage.

"Ah..."

Follow the orange and stage abyss with gaze and bite your lips hard.

Like you can't get off?

No, that's stupid. You don't have ten centimeters of that step, do you?

"Ahhh... ahh..."

He looked at me and the floor of the stage with a troubled face and put his hands together again in front of his chest.

"Oh, you know. Can't you get off? You want me to help?

Listen to me one word at a time, and I'll step closer to the stone stage.

That's when I put my foot up to take the second step.

"No!! You shouldn't come near there!

A girl shouted up and stopped me.

"Please... stop there. Because it's okay. It's okay..."

Is the trembling voice ready to cry?

"Wow, okay."

Pull the second foot back and back even further just in case.

"Oh, why are you here... what is Aruba doing?

The girl covered her face with both hands and leaned down.

Hmm? Alba?

"Hey. Aruba, you mean Aruba Germain? Of little rats?

If you look at the girl well, her tail is growing.

Two small white horns on that forehead. I didn't notice that because it's the same color as my hair, but that's definitely a corner.

Could it be a dragon?

"Hilda occasionally! Hildegarda, now and then!

"Master Hilda! What's wrong!?

Suddenly a child's voice came from behind me, from the woods.

Girls and boys. That's a pretty young voice too.

Turning to that voice, there are two balls of light about the size of a palm. They flew in at great speeds with Bhun Bhun.

"Hilda occasionally! Ammira's here!

"There's also a rock hilt! Oh, come on. Whoa, whoa! Oh, my God, where are you from!

The ball of light sees me or brakes suddenly.

He jumped around to be vigilant around me and stopped to stand between the girl and me.

"Ro, rolo, rock! Because there are creatures I don't know! Because he's a creature I've never seen before!

"It's okay, Ann! I'll protect you! I mean, you! How did you get into this sanctuary!

"Oh, huh? I don't know how. - I want to know that. Sanctuary?"

One ball of light shakes vigorously up and down.

I just noticed, it's a little red light.

When I looked at the light, I saw something in it like a man's silhouette.

"Ammira! Rock Hilt! 'Cause it's okay! She's gonna be okay!

A girl spoke toward two balls of light.

"So, but Hilda occasionally! Because he's a creature I don't know! Because he's a talking creature I've never seen before!

The other ball of light flew towards the girl in momentum, diving into its chest.

That's... that's a blue light.

The red is the boy, the blue is the girl...... is it?

No, although I don't know if the balls of light have gender.

"This sanctuary is a closed land! Hilda the janitor can't even get in and out of here, how did he get in here? Hilda, you came after me!? That's what you're gonna do! This lightning fairy (Torch Fairy), Rockhill's not shutting up!

"A, Anne was there too! The Guardian Magic of the Fairy (Carm Fairy) begins all the time!

Even if they say so.

"Yes, no! I'm just really lost! I don't even know where this place is! I didn't know about the sanctuary!

I was just here when I realized! There's nothing in there!

"Calm down, Rock Hilt! Ammira! You're a good girl, so calm down!

"Ha, ha!

"Wow, I got it!

One drink of the girl, known as Hilda, stopped the two balls of light trembling once in awhile.

Gradually its light intensity weakens and a small boy and girl with four butterfly-like feathers appear on his back.

"Hey, fairy?

Fairy meant fairy, right?

Really a fairy...... What a fantasy. Mikuma seems delighted.

The red ball of light, known as Rock Hilt, was a red short-haired boy with a busy face.

The octagonal teeth are adorable.

The blue ball of light that was called Ammira is a grown-up blue-haired girl who doesn't hide her fright as she looks at Oddod and me. Likewise its color is lighter than the blue haired aye, but its length is nearly twice the height of a girl.

They both wear small clothes. Small clothes, but they are made quite finely, and they seem to be worn by fancy dolls or something.

"Great. I know you're surprised, but you can't be early, can you? Look, I'm sorry about Kaoruhei. And?

Hilda, who lifted Ammira flat in both hands, offered me that little body.

Something about this scolding I miss.

Once upon a time, my mother used to scold me the same way.

Not only will you be angry, but you will tell me what doesn't work properly, and at the end of the day, I will always say, 'I'm sorry?' That prompts me. It was my mother's concern to make me honestly apologize for being so stubborn and quick.

"So, but Hilda."

"Because I'm a creature I don't know. Because Kumpei is a creature?

The fairies still don't pull.

"Yeah, I told you before, didn't I? It's a human race. There's plenty outside the sanctuary, isn't there?

"Ah! I've heard of it! Demons, beasts and humans! Hilda taught me before, so shush! There's more.

There are Giants, Mirage Beasts, Hilda Occasions and Uncle Dragons!

Blue-haired fairy, Ammira, gets her chest up good at it.

I think you're Mr. Giganto.

"He's a jerk! Hilda says apologize, so I apologize! I'm sorry. Let's do this!

Let's just admit it's energy and momentum.

But is that how you apologize to people? Why are you eyeing me from above?

But, well, it's nothing. I'm not mad. Nothing terrible has been done. There's no reason to be sorry.

"Ah, oh. This is the one who showed up all of a sudden, sorry?

I should apologize, too, right?

Looks like Rock was just trying to protect that Hilda.

"Good. Rock and Kaoruhei are good kids who can properly apologize. Great."

That said Hilda laughed proudly.

I feel like I've been treated like a child since just now.

Weird.

I have a great sense of vision.

Hilda's every step of the way inspires memories in me.

Is this similar to the way I praise you now and the way you scold me earlier?

You're like a mother. I can see my mother dabbling with Hilda when she was healthy before she died.

He doesn't look anything like him.

My mother had the same chestnut hair as Shohei, stretched out to about her shoulders. Hilda's hair is bright white from tip to root and longer than her height.

Although her back length was also about her father's breast height and smaller as a woman, she was totally higher than Hilda's height in front of her.

Different face making, too.

The mother looked Japanese, although she thought she was beautiful even without her son's eyes.

Hilda, on the other hand, is a beauty away from the Japanese. He looks like a girl from Russia and Eastern Europe.

It seems so much alike even though it's different from what it is, because it looks just like the way it is, the way it stands and talks about nothing.

As if he did.

... I don't like it.

Such an idiot.

My mother is dead.

Seven years ago, in front of our brothers and father. You took your breath away as if you were asleep.

I even touched my cold body when I was up all night, and I've always watched the body burn at the crematorium.

Shohei and I cried for three days and three nights. Even my father knows he was crying where we didn't see him.

There is no way my mother is alive.

I hope to see you.

How happy I would be to see that face only once more.

But that's a wish that won't come true.

Dead people don't come back. That's why we have to live.

That's what my father said with a serious face after his mother's funeral. Our brothers feel for it above all else.

Because how much Hilda does the same trick as her mother, she's not her mother.

"Hey. Can you tell me where we are? I got flown here all of a sudden. Jaja and Nana, I have to go home to my daughters. Uh-huh."

"Mother!?

Hilda, who was stroking Anne on the palm of her hand, looked up surprised at my words.

"Oh?

What a sudden. Surprised.

Kaoruhei! What's a daughter!? Is this your child? You said my daughters. Now! Aren't you alone? What girl did you get your hands on when you were only seventeen!? Does your father know that?

"What!? No! Um! Oh, I'm sorry!

I'm scared! I don't know anything, but I'm so scared!

I accidentally apologized. Why do you need to apologize? Why do you know I'm old! They say I don't know how old I am enough to be seen more than my age because of this face!

"Jaja and Nana are - eh foreign kids!? It's half!? Child with which daughter!? You go to school, right? What does Shohei say!?

"Wait! Wait, calm down!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!

As always, though I won't try to come off the stone stage, the momentum is about five meters away, enough for me to be under pressure!

"Uh-huh. Shohei?

"Don't change the story!

That's crazy.

How do you even know Shohei's name?

No, it's weird that you know my name and age, but it's too weird that you even know about Shohei, who's not here.

... You're lying, right?

"Mostly you! What's wrong with the other parent? What did you say about opening it? Are you a close daughter? Maybe - you're not from an older woman, are you?!? Did they tease you? Or did you" Tabla "? Look me in the eye and answer, Kaoruhei!

"No, he asked me to hear my excuses too! I couldn't help it! I didn't do anything wrong, and Aoi's not a bad guy! Stop being so weird!

"Do you understand how hard it is to have a child at that age!? It costs money!? Your father doesn't make that much money, and your tuition still costs!?

That word that builds on the momentum of fury. In it, only one trap.

"Please! Just calm down and listen to me. - Uh-huh, Mom!

"Then don't tell me what my mother's convinced of."

Hilda's momentum stops.

Looking at my face, I saw the color of agitation in my eyes.

"Uh-huh. Ha, ha! Ahahahahaha! No, no, no!

No way, no way.

You sure about that?

"... Mother, is it?

A white girl on the stone stage, taking a step back to escape me.

"Chi, no... no! I'm Hilda!" Princess Dragon, "Hildegarda Dragneal! The witch who presides over this sanctuary! A dragon of the wind that exists only to connect and stop the world! I'm not your mother!

Hilda holding her head and shaking her head.

With a crying face, with a spicy face.

"Mother! You're a mother!? 'Cause you know me and Shohei! Mother!"

My leg moved on its own.

Step toward the stone stage and remain in a deviant mood.

"No, no, Kaoruhei! Stop! You mustn't come! You shouldn't be here! I'm the only one who can get trapped in this place! Go home! Go home to Kohei-kun! Please!

"Look! You know my father's name! Explain it to me! What the hell is that look like!? Because, Mother, you must be dead!?

Words won't stop me anymore.

I missed you, I missed you, I've always missed you! Even if it doesn't look the same, they're all mothers! Me and Shohei's! It's our mother!

"Shohei's grown up too! Shohei is many times more amazing about the house now than me or my dad! My dad's working hard for me, too! My mom said she wanted to live in town!? It's a mess, but still buy a big house! The loan is awesome, but it's a really good house! My daughters, they're grandchildren to my mother! The twin girl Jajatnana is so cute!

"No! Please Kaoruhei! Listen to your mother!

"Bye! Explain it to me! We've always missed our mother.

The boundary between the ground and the stone stage. It was the moment I stepped in there.

"Wow!

Something wrapped up that doesn't look like my hands and feet.

"Goddamn it! Not again! What the hell is this!

I'm with you when you get here!

It's like a thick, soft rope with both hands and feet restrained!

"Mother! Mom!"

Get off me! You're right in front of me!

Someone our family hasn't stopped asking for for for the last seven years! I thought I'd never see that face again. My mother!

"Ji, space-time transfer magic!? No way!?

"Hilda occasionally! No! This is normal metastatic magic!

"But I'm so strong! But you can't just walk into the sanctuary!

Looking back towards the invisible rope. I couldn't even move my face when I came here, except my hands and feet, which are now tied.

"Hey, what the... That."

There is a hole in the boundary between the forest and the sky as if it had torn and spread the middle of the paper.

It's dark in that hole. I can't see anything first.

"Damn! I don't know if I'm gonna get pulled over again!

Step as hard as you can on both hands and feet.

I could have seen you! I haven't told you anything yet!

Your mother is right in front of you!

"Kaoruhei, no! Don't fight me! I don't know where it leads, but it's still better than being here!

"That's not true! If you're going, your mother's with you!

Why are you saying that! Let's go home together! My father is waiting for Shohei!

"No... my mother needs to connect the world here. We must continue to protect the world you live in!

"I don't know. I don't know! I don't know what that means!

I have no idea what your mother's talking about!

Kaoruhei!

Mother's little hand wraps my cheeks.

"... listen carefully Kaoruhei. I don't know where the destination is, but you should never give up. Find Alba Germain. You know what he said earlier, right? It's been almost six months since that rat sage stopped coming here, but he'll definitely find you if 'we' want to. No matter how hard it is, keep eating up your teeth and moving on.... Can you do that?

"That's it!

Why are you saying something like that, like the last goodbye!

You're done with that one time! That's enough! Happy now!?

"... Kaoruhei Kaoru waits for the wind. Smell the incense of the wind, at what time, wherever. When I want to fly..."

Close your eyes and your mother mouths that 'spell'.

The words of my mother and I promised.

Something deeply rooted in my heart, something important.

"Fly with Bunn. We can do this, right? Kaoruhei is a strong child."

Oh, that.

"You're a proud child of your mother, aren't you?

Exactly the same face as then. Same dialogue.

"In that world, the whole family lives strong. That's all my mother wants. Promise?"

"Awwwwwwwwww!!!!

And the same smile.

"I don't like it ahhhhhhhhh!!!

My scream sounds vain.

Mother's appearance instantly went away.