Erica Peterson, 21.

It was only when she, who was an orphan, was taken by Rona's father, Batraz, and raised as an escort, when she was only single-digit old.

I don't know if it was a decision I made or an achievement I was taken away from and educated, but Ellie always had the idea of Lorna, younger than herself, 'protecting her children'.

But still, there's something I can tell you clearly.

Right now, Ellie's desire to protect her child is growing stronger than ever before.

(... Probably because I'm back. A world where 'desire' helps. In "Desire," this world where people move even when they become corpses. In such a world, I have been brought back to life, I have been captured harder by the thoughts I had, by the desires of my lifetime)

So when I was brought back to life, I swore to protect the children in front of me, even though I knew they were overwhelmingly stronger than I was.

Minami and Miyuki, who lived back together with Syndicate, Kotalou, and Yurina.

(Syndicate, you and Kotalou. These two are different. But Yurina's not good enough)

As if walking on a flat path, Ulina stopped and showed a series of two large guns.

Still, it shouldn't have been this far when Ellie came back to life.

(... no, probably not until yesterday, it shouldn't have been stopped)

Yurina is growing in strength with terrible speed.

Is training with a beloved boy something that strengthens the girl so far?

(... but that's why!

Around Ellie, two large guns appear.

The gun trigger had a muffler wrapped around it.

It's fired from the barrage that's increased to four, bullets.

(Double the number! This amount! I can prevent it......)

Yurina turns her wand forward.

(Because it would!

One breath, shifted, and then Ellie pulled the trigger.

Four guns and two guns I was letting sneak behind Yurina's back.

An attack from the blind spot, which was kept outside of Ulina's vigilance so as to wrap a muffler simulating in the surrounding colors and hide it in a trap that she had Ulina crush.

An ambush from a total of six directions.

The bullet, however, never hit Ulina.

"... you're lying"

Exactly, there was no grin on Ellie's face.

Ellie drops the gun.

Six bullets. No, I think they hit an ice bullet.

Because Ellie couldn't clearly see what Yurina had done.

However, all six guns that fired bullets at Ulina had been frozen.

I can't move it anymore.

"... that's it, right?

To Yurina's words, Ellie takes a breath.

I knew it, from the beginning.

That Ellie was planting a gun behind Yurina's back.

Different other traps that you let crush, the existence of traps that you were hiding with the intention of hiding.

(... strong, I knew)

Knowing is very important and important in battle.

So it's only natural that Yurina, who knows' what to know ', is strong.

But that's why.

"... what do you think? It may or may not be."

This is a void.

But Ellie doesn't enlighten me.

Yurina looks surprised, rubs and stiffens her body.

Yurina is strong.

I also know the importance of 'knowing'.

(... but adults lie too. I say there are some that don't)

A moment of stiffness. That was enough.

Ellie was frozen and threw an unusable gun at Ulina.

From the front, and from the back.

"... hmm?

Just a little while, the guns off track hitting Ulina exquisitely distracted Ulina's consciousness from Ellie.

In that gap, Ellie was running.

It was imminent.

Yurina's, nostalgia.

(... Yurina is a wizard. Good at ranged attacks. I know that. And I know, I've been working out my own flesh for over 10 years)

No matter how powerful magic you can use, it doesn't matter if you put it together, strangle it and decide.

(... I have to win. To 'protect'!

Somewhat, just because I trained with Sai doesn't make sense in Ulina to beat Ellie in martial arts.

Ellie's hand grabs Yurina's clothes.

"... that was a shame"

Just moments before that, the tip of Yurina's wand turned to Ellie.

Yurina's wand, round as candy, grows up and wraps around Ellie's body.

"... what!?

In an instant, I left Ellie's face, and a round sphere was covering Ellie.

Ellie is like a snowman.

"I was just in a hurry with that one. For proximity... because I had to use trump cards for sai"

Yurina exhales.

"... you're a complete loser."

Ellie, too, as somewhere reassured, lost her strength.

"... well, let me just say this. Even if you beat me, don't be alarmed. There are people who are more cunning, cowardly, and stronger than me. I have a bad adult. You can't underestimate an adult. Whatever happens, don't forget to 'know,' okay? I feel like I'm talking about what I lost."

(Truth is, I wanted to win and tell you. to 'protect')

Around, Ellie rolled.

"... thank you"

To the rolling Ellie, Yurina bows her head firmly.

"Go. Anyway, Syndicate, you know where you are, don't you? Because you must have induced them to put it there."

"Yes."

Yurina runs without hesitation. The hindsight is that of a child who hasn't grown yet.

"Ah. Oh, no. Such a child is stronger than me."

Ellie looks up at the sky.

There's an even stronger child there.

"... I need to be strong, too."

The frozen gun wasn't even going to melt for a while.