Felinella just passed the word on to Alice.

Message through the President of the Council. I was just talking about how she happened to be there and baked some extra care.

That was a report from the Favel family and asked Sisty, the president of the board, after her words of thanks.

So I have no choice but to bake a little yakimochi. Because Alice and Tesfir are really close to each other.

I guess that's a relationship like Ferrinella and Illumina. However, in their case, they were nobles and there were no hedges.

Oh, and Ferrinella looked somewhere delightfully ahead with an open door.

And the inhabitants left her behind, with no sides, and they grabbed AWR and ran away.

"Well, let's just say I can do it too"

Ferrinella's raised eyes illuminate the light to see straight.

There was only a slight intention behind it, but it was from undisputed compassion that she came to Alice's room in this way.

Is it also what those attracted to the same man have in common?

That's why Ferrinella let him contain only a few lies. It's the same with her that there's nothing she can do, but that's not at all.

Since my father, the visaist, is deeply involved in this case, I was wondering if I could help you with that last seat or so.

Exactly. I don't think this is all a glimmer, but I don't have to imagine the stupidity of being a Felinera and not being able to do anything about Ars' predicament.

and, at the same time, a murky emotion was gushing from the back of his chest.

◇ ◇ ◇

That evening. I feel darker than usual as a physical sensation because I can finally calm down.

Alice was visiting the Favel family without any support.

Only one, have an AWR that fits in the sheath.

Why did you bring all this... I immediately realized when I saw that firm handshake.

Tesfir and I are good friends and good competitors. It's always magic technology to compete.

I guess that's why I could vividly recall a few incisive moments under Ars.

There are many other things that connect the two, but the first thing that comes to mind is always a magic word. Such an unconscious manifestation is the AWR. Besides, Alice understood what to do.

I don't even know if I'm right or not.

Although.

(Because I regret it, because I don't like it... what's not helping)

Selva sat down respectfully and offered to show her around the mansion, but Alice refused. I can even meditate on finding a Tesfir room in a mansion I have visited many times in the past.

Besides, every time I walked down the hallway, I looked back at the past, and it was also time for a forward-facing liquidation.

(So, fia. I'll just look forward)

Yes, Alice's determination is also a big thing that happened a few days ago.

Ars' lab where no one is supposed to be. It was when I witnessed many military uniforms coming out of the research building. Other than them carrying their luggage, they were forbidden to enter.

But Alice just ran up to the top floor and saw the idle room.

The general indoor memory of where and what is is is erased in an instant.

That wasn't Alice's known lab. Laboratories that have been seized. Bright white indoor, just spacious, just spacious. A collection of anxieties that cannot be said in words about emptiness or idleness.

Even though the everyday landscape that should be there is one thing that must not be missing...

To the lost scenery, the feeling of coming for the first time, Alice falls back without the art of exchanging, and the words of loss are whispered in her chest.

- I lost (,) again.

I could still notice. Yes, it makes no difference. Because I'm the one who's changed.

(I don't want to think like that anymore)

The words as if to reprimand myself were repeated as many times. I even have to take Felinella's hand to realize that this is all. I felt so bad about my childhood.

But it's not back, it's just a good place to start. It is up to me to choose between the path that follows and the path that leads back.

Froze did not tell Alice much. It's just, "Can you meet me first?," he said calmly.

I'm glad you're not injured, though.

◇ ◇ ◇

The girl dived into the futon and held an unstoppable body of trembling.

A tragic sight that burns in the back of your brain and won't leave you. It was horrible. I was scared. My hair is still flashing back.

Even that unfamiliar smell gets on my nose.

I was more afraid than anything that Ars, who created such a sight, was faceless and flat. And I desperately try to understand the words Loki told me, but my body refuses to do so.

As soon as I eat, I spit it out. The college didn't teach me that there was such a world. No one told me.

No, I knew as knowledge that there was a job behind it in a person named Ars... but I guess it meant I was thinking sweetly somewhere.

Tesphere wraps her duvet around her body and meditates her eyes hard as she squeezes tears away.

She doesn't understand the look on Ars's face she showed when she left. What did you think made you turn such a lonely face, didn't you speak out?

That's why Tesfir was horrified to remember what the look on his face he gave Ars at that time was.

I know the truth.

Because he must have had eyes like a monster.

Such a thing plundered the back of his brain for a moment, and again Tesfir wept like he refused to do anything.

That was the time. The mattress sank like someone sat down by the tehsphere squatting on the bed. I couldn't have noticed if I hadn't come this close.

I thought Selva would be here again, but not once, such as when he sat in bed.

I thought I didn't want to see anyone, but I can't check their faces.

At the time I tried to say "leave" with my doubts intact.

"Fia."

――

You can't even mishear me. Tesfir opens her eyes to a voice she can't possibly be, and wipes her tears forcefully.

Then her hand, accompanied by her back, scratches her heart helplessly.

"Hey, Fia. What happened to you? You won the Aristocrat's ruling."

A weak nod.

Then there must be no reason for her to be locked in the room like this. But Alice doesn't rush to follow the order. Because there was definitely something going on.

And I guess that's something that erodes Tesfir's mind. Never HR, never irrelevant myself, such a hunch was making Alice's voice nervous and yet she was speaking a clear language.

A voice as inclusive as a lullaby.

It echoed indoors filled only with tranquility.

Shortly afterwards, Tesfir jumped off the duvet and hugged Alice so that she could stare at her face.

Take it tight Alice caresses her bumpy hair carefully.

It was painful. Alice looking down hugs back as that's all for sure.

Tremors like a whimper are not the result of grief, but a lot like it, which was driven by fear. Alice waited still for Tesfir to settle down.

Not a word, and I'm going to wait as long as I can until then when she's ready.

I honestly had difficulty correcting my brain for the contents of the Tesphere that was finally spoken out, but I repeated the gavel without pinching my mouth.

The regret of what Tesfir felt and has gone so far that he turned a blind eye at that time. Self-blame for refusing.

It seemed as if that was proving unprepared... it seemed to have strayed from the reality of being a magician, and I was afraid of myself wanting to deny it.

When I stayed up late at night, everything was thrown up.

No matter, Alice is no other HR. If I had let myself in on the spot, I would surely have stopped on the same path as Tesfir. I couldn't help feeling that way.

That's why I know. That's why I know now.

Pottori and Alice sit back on the bed and move straight to the front of the Tesphere.

"We don't know anything. About Al and reality... Loki said someday."

…………

"How much Al has fought, how many people it has saved and how many Alphas there are now. I didn't know then, but I can't do that anymore."

"Alice?"

Alice stared straight into the back of her eyes with perseverance.

"I guess, but if you normally graduate from college and become a magician, maybe it's something you don't have to know. But, you know, that path isn't the way to interact with Al. That's why Al and Loki saw a different world from ours from the beginning. That's crazy, don't even notice that. They taught me magic and I was floating. I'm sure we're just other people no matter how far we go. I can't go any further..."

"Alice, what are you saying..."

Tesfir looks down with her hands gripped hard. It also includes fright that what I want to tell you is ahead of my feelings and I am not ready to catch up yet.

Perhaps Alice's voice and words, dazzling and emitting a strong light, were not what Tesfir had expected.

"So I want to know all about Al. Still, still. I'm sure it's scary... I think I'll turn away."

Alice also smiles forcibly so that she can weep and whimper again.

"But I don't think I want to leave anymore. I know I can't do anything, but I can't. I also know Fia likes Al. Still I like Al..."

Yeah, and Alice waves her face as she explores her mind.

"............... I love it! I really want to be with you and I want to be with you."

With his eyes open to surprise, Tesfir wanted to wave Alice's hand away, to refuse. But when I saw her power not to let it, I gave up.

Both hands held tight so they wouldn't let you get away.

I feel compelled to rush to answer to myself.

"But... but..."

"But it's not, Fia. Even if I feel scared of Al like this, I can tell. You worry because you like it. You regretted it because you liked it. You can't forgive yourself, can you? The truth is, if Fia gives up, I'm still good. But I figured if you still like Fia, you want to back her up... it's paradoxical."

Alice's voice was trembling as she couldn't help laughing. I wasn't looking at the same situation as Tesfir, but what Ars did is understandable only to her what kind of fear it was.

But more than that, I feel sad for Ars now.

He tells me more about the inside of his chest, and Tesfir lets only tears pass to his cheeks.

"Alice, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't notice. I'm sorry I'm the only one."

Alice was also hugging Alice to the crying tesphere with a loud voice and she was overwhelmed.

"Yeah, I'm sorry too. Weak, brittle, gone at a critical time."

"I was scared, like someone else, and I didn't know... and I refused it..."

"Yeah, yeah...... yeah"

One room in the Favel family mansion did not sleep until late that night, and the girls' voices continued to leak with the lights. Tears dry, leaving marks on his cheeks and blowing them off one by one.

If there was a wall in something called life, it was the moment I got over it. No, more importantly, it was a night I decided to be ready to get over.

The true silence came when the sun rose and the light of dawn began to keep the darkness away.

Two people happily saw that silence. He opened the window at this time of year without looking at the cold and listened to his leaky voice.

"Looks like you both fell asleep."

"I see."

"Alice, you were right to call the lady."

"Those kids have known each other for a long time. It would have been difficult for Fia alone all this time. If it's true, you don't have to know, but it's not something you can turn away from. That's the kind of magician she wants."

"That being said, ma'am. You seem to have lost a lot of shoulder strength."

Selva, who closed the window, shook her mustache and emitted happily.

"I wonder what you're trying to say?

"No, because your job seemed more neglected"

…………

Looking down at his hand, Froze wrinkled between his eyebrows, pointing his grumpy eyes at the butler.

And he shifts his gaze sideways as he leaks his sigh for a breath. The package arrived from the army the other day.

I called Alice, and not least because this arrived. No, this has been on my mind since the ruling of the nobility (Tempram).

I never thought that would happen, but this is a good opportunity too.

Challenges for my two daughters include...... But that didn't even pose a challenge. Flose loosens her cheeks because she was worried.