"You're in trouble, Saika."

Private room at night.

That's what Yuki, an elongated fox with a face from between her hair, said to me as I cut through the human rattle under the moonlight that plunged through the window.

"Kind of."

"After all, will you kill me?

"- Seika, do you have a minute?

Along with the sound of a knock, the voice of my eldest brother.

Yuki hides in her hair. Me, too, rushed paper and scissors under my bed.

"Yeah, what? Brother Luft."

"I'm coming in... I knew you were still awake"

When Luft says so, he hangs the lights on the ceiling and sits down next to me sitting in bed.

Often, the time for silence flowed.

What do you want from me?

"Um, Brother Luft...?

"Seika. A little late, but happy birthday."

"Eh."

"This, a gift"

and is handed a small crate.

"Open it."

Take a leather string that looks superior and open the lid.

What was inside was a white, transparent pen and ink kettle.

"This... glass?

"Yeah. It's a glass pen. They're made by craftsmen who repaired high-ranking soil attribute magic. I bought it when it was popular in Imperial City and I followed my father."

"How do you use it?

"I'm with the feather pen. Simply dip it in an ink kettle and write. But unlike a feather pen, you can always use it."

"Heh..."

"Seika is keen to study, so you're gonna ruin the feather pen right away, right? So I thought it was just the right time...... good timing. If you go to school, you'll get more and more opportunities for writing. And every once in a while, you're gonna write to the house."

"Ugh...... yeah. Thank you, Brother Luft."

I can't think of any more words, and I am silent.

"Sorry, Seika"

"Huh..."

"I've always been nice."

……

"I don't know... you didn't know how to treat me."

"... because you're a concubine child?

"Not so much around. My father, my mother, my maids have always been like that, so I didn't know what to do. Look, I'm not a protagonist, am I?

"I don't think so."

"I'm just acting like that. To be like the eldest son of a lord. I'm really timid. I used to be scared of Seika."

"Uh... Was I? Why?"

"Hmm... I don't know why if I say so? I remember that, but I forgot. It was when I was a kid."

Luft laughs.

"But now I'm glad Seika's doing fine. I'm proud to be your brother."

"Mmm..."

I keep my mouth shut.

I never thought of the people in this house as a family.

My family is only one sister who died at a very young age in her previous life.

So I thought the position of being a concubine and treating swelling was convenient in a way.

That's why I was a little surprised.

I can't believe someone was worried about my relationship.

"Give me a break, Seika."

"Huh..."

"It's about tomorrow. I shouldn't have had the magic, but I even knocked down the monster to show it to you. You can't lose to Grye. So much so. So he'll be punished, too."

"... yeah, okay"

"I'm still ahead of you, but you can go to school and do it right."

"Yeah. Good luck and be a fine lord, too, Brother Luft"

"A fine lord? You're not sure."

"So it's me or Brother Glai who's going to take over instead?

"Hmm, that's uneasy, too. I figured I'd do my best. - Well, good night. Seika."

As Luft left the room, Yuki peered his face out of his head again.

"Is it a gift, Master Seika? Yeah, you seem somewhat of a carefree person. I guess it's not worth a lot anyway."

"Here, don't say that. And... this is pretty good stuff."

I dipped it in a nearby ink kettle and wrote a spell on the human rattle, but it tastes pretty good in writing.

I am also convinced that it is popular in the capital. Probably expensive.

"If you like it, fine, but be careful, it might be poisoned needles"

"It's gonna be okay."

"Which way does that mean?

"In either sense"

It's not my last life, so I don't have to worry about that.

Meaning even if a poison needle is planted.

"Than that, that's the problem now,"

"Over there?"

Yuki, hide again for a moment.

"Oh, Saika?

When I push Yuki back between my hair, I bow my head wide.

The next moment.

A blade of wind jumped through the window and sliced the door flashly past my head.

A piece of wood falls apart on the floor.

"Ah. You can't fix this..."

Moving your gaze out the window through the pathetic door, there is one shadow.

Two moonlights lit me up, and I saw Glai poking his wand at me with an angry expression.

I have to go, he said it's this flow.

Apparently, the duel is about half a day early.