Senpensekai no Madoushoshi

After a little early dinner, a bath, and after Mr. Mertalia has talked about the latest developments, it's a night out with Charli.

"I was surprised when I heard the knights were here, but I was even more surprised when I heard the assignment was to escort Iris to the King's Capital."

"Yeah, I was surprised when I first heard that, too."

Get dressed in your pajamas and get some hot milk on top of the bed. Of course, I don't have a choice to sleep, and naturally I start chatting.

"The hero Iris defeated the Dragon..."

Didn't you believe me?

"Hey, well, I thought you said you believed me, or you weren't lying. But I can't imagine. 'Cause I'm the only one who knows if I'm reading a book or eating dinner or sleeping."

"Is that what I look like? No, well... Really?"

I do feel like there was a lot of that cycle when I was staying here. It's about time you went out to the library all the time, and basically you didn't get out of here.

"I really doubted my ears when I heard you were coming to this city with the knight. Speaking of which, I've heard rumors that you've drilled a big hole in Nogrint St., but is that a little too?"

Me and Charli lie down in the same bed, trying to wrap the milk with both hands and poking each other in the face.

"No, that's a big hole, or a tree, right? It's hard to explain, but I grew up in a special environment in the mountains, and I grew the Sorletta tree so rapidly, I broke through the mountain skin."

"I don't know what that means."

I'm the only one who came to her room today in the hope of Chalri. Because you want to give it to me? I just had something I wanted to give her, too, just fine. I'll give it to you first.

"Yes, it's detailed in this."

"What's this, a letter? Not too thick?

"I was about to leave, but I heard you were staying in this city, so you could just hand it to me."

"That's the kind of ooh thing about Iris, I love it"

Once out of bed, Chalri took a bunch of paper out of her desk drawer.

"Yes this. Letter in return. I've never really written a letter, so it might be hard to read."

"Wow, happy! Thank you, Charlie."

"You're welcome. Now, read it"

"What, now? In front of you?"

"That's what they gave me. You'll read it. What? Dear Mr. Chalri, How are you?"

"Hey, really read it!? I mean, stop reading it!"

"Haha, Iris letter, be strong! Like my mother."

"You don't laugh, do you? Fine, I'll read it too."

"Er, stop, stop! Because I'm too shy to die."

"Ha, Iris. How are you, sir? I am very well. I don't know how to write a letter or anything, so I'll write it in diary form every day."

"Hey...... really stop!!"

"Heh, nice, this. I know what it's like to be angry with Mr. Mertalia every day."

"It's true they piss me off every day, but I'm not gonna write that down."

"It is. Then what..."

"Oh, my God! Don't read it now. Because I'm going to suffocate. Really!"

That's how we shouldered each other and enjoyed our first reunion in a long time.

"... but... that's amazing. I can't believe the knights were sent all the way from the King's Capital for Iris."

When we made an agreement not to read the letter in front of us for about two hours, we were a little tired of talking and we were looking at the ceiling with half a pillow at a time.

"Tomorrow we'll take the beginning streets towards the Knights and the King's Capital, won't we? Isn't that like Lano Route?"

The streets stretching from the front to the king's capital are called the streets of the beginning.

When challenging Auschnell, the dragon king of Orihara, in the battle of Illua a thousand years ago, he marched with a large number of his companions and made a brilliant crusade to build the world today.

"Lano Route......"

A turning point in my life began when I went to the village of Lelton at the request of the Alliance to ask about Guthridake's delivery status. That's when we were four.

But now there's a comforting knight named Saluena, and he's five. Fairy Laplice, Phoenix and Unicorn are with us, and every day is as busy as it gets loud.

And a total of over a hundred white lily knights.

It's not hard to imagine that it would be a sight as if it were a legend. Knowing even more that such a reality was imminent tomorrow, I was disproportionately thrilled.

"Ha, I feel the Iries kind of far away"

"Huh? Don't say that. I've never forgotten about Chalri in a day."

"Eh, really? I mean, no. It's like he's confessed something, and I'm a little bit conscious."

"What's a confession... Oh, oh... uh, I see."

It certainly doesn't even sound that way if you ask me.

"But really. Even Charlie, right?"

A letter I got from Chalri that I keep on my pillow.

I haven't read it all yet, but he did write about everyday events. That means that some minutes every day, you always thought of me, didn't you? I'm so happy about that, and I'm so lucky.

"As, well... yes..."

"Then I won't go far. Even if the distance is away, I will always be by Chalri"

Holding Charli's hand and saying so, she looked at me with surprise.

"... yeah. Me too... by my side, I hope. I've always wanted to be in this relationship with Iris"

Charli laughed and shook my hand back.

"Thanks for hanging out with me selfishly today and sleeping with me. Come back, Iris. Me, because I'm waiting."

"Yeah. Of course I'm coming, and I'll write to you again. Now I'm sending it right."

"Yeah... you're looking forward to it. Good night, then. Iris."

Charli said that with a slightly grown up face, not like usual.

"Good night, Chalri"

But even after the lights went out, Charli stared at my face in the room illuminated by the light of the moon.

"... what?"

When she caresses her little neck, Charli strokes my hair so that it combs with her fingers.

"Ugh, I just thought you had beautiful hair"

I think Charlie's hair is prettier.

"... Iris, you're hot for a woman."

"Oh, what's sudden?"

"Nothing? I just thought so."

Chalri sank her head into a poff pillow at the end of the conversation, closing her eyes.

"Uh... really, what? What?"

I don't know why I said that all of a sudden, but I do. But Chalri doesn't answer anything just by laughing.

"Uh, already... I kind of feel Chalri far away..."

"Aha, that's enough, go to sleep. It's early tomorrow."

"Ugh... will you tell me right next time?"

"... yeah, fine. Next time, I'll tell you."

"Oh well, then... fu... no. Good night..."

"Yes, good night"

And now it's time for us to sleep. To welcome tomorrow divided into each path.

But that day I... had a slightly different dream.