The Coffee Shop in a Different World Station

"Well, here we are."

When Liberto tells him so briefly, he gets out of the carriage first and reaches out to Sofia.

Sophia also stepped out of the carriage, picking lightly to keep her long skirt hem from hooking as she gently overlaid her own hand on that hand.

"What is this... a lighthouse by the portside, isn't it?

Sophia leaks her voice as she looks up at the large stone tower.

This lighthouse is well known as one of the Harpertown landmarks, but it was Sophia's first experience to see it so close.

"Oh, I'd love to bring Lord Sophia here today. Well..."

As the Libert approaches the cabin beside the lighthouse, he knocks three times with the concon with a ring attached to the door.

It was one young man dressed in naval clothing from this country who emerged from inside.

"It's a Libert. I'm sorry I said I couldn't do it today. Regards,"

"Ha! I'm listening to you. Please wait while we unlock the key."

When the young man salutes with his right hand on his forehead, he runs small to the door of the tower and inserts the key into the lock, which seems to be sturdy, and opens it with chatter.

"Then come in."

To the young man who salutes again, Liberto also answers with his right hand on his forehead.

"Thank you. Now, Lord Sophia, this way, please."

"Yeah..."

As Liberto passed Sophia into the tower first, he lowered the large basket he had carried in the carriage to his hand and continued later.

The tower is slightly dim and the spiral staircase continues up against the wall.

Riverto called out as Sophia looked up at the tower ceiling uncommonly.

"Looks like you've never been in a place like this before."

"Yeah, it's like this in the lighthouse."

"Uhm. Then let's try to come up quickly...... It's a little sudden. Are you okay?

"As long as this is it, you'll be fine. But if I knew it was a place like this, I should have kept it as a shoe for those who wear it all the time"

Sophia smiles softly as she says so.

Sometimes today they “meet" and Sophia dresses more fashionably than usual.

Shoes also chose slightly higher heels and had to be a little careful to climb the steep stairs.

"If you don't mind, I'll support you like I did then, so don't worry. Nevertheless, I'd like to beg your pardon for getting pushed over."

"Ugh! Forget about that story. I'm coming!

Sophia swells her cheeks to an old story that spilled out of Libert's mouth.

And as he turned his face away, he spilled a grin all the way, and then went up the stairs.

"Wow! This is fantastic!

Reaching the rooftop at the top of the tower, Sophia unexpectedly rushes to the chest wall to the view at the end of the door opened with Libert's hand.

On his left hand side was a sea of quiet waves, and as he turned his gaze from there to the right, the streets of Harpertown were vastly expanded.

There are a number of large ship masts lined up in the commercial harbor, and countless chimneys raise mockingbirds and smoke if you look into the factory district.

If you followed the streets and moved your gaze, Harpertown's station buildings and railway tracks also came into view.

"Um, this is better than I expected. No, I was right to invite you."

The Libert, which later went up to the roof, also lines up next to Sophia and hands on the railing of the wall.

"Oh, I was wondering if Mr. Liberto had ever been here."

"No, I've never seen this lighthouse before. By the time I was in the country, I had visited the local lighthouse a few times, so I must have expected it to be great here too, but no, not so much..."

After Liberto spins the words, the two often forget the words and watch the sight spread in front of them.

Only the sound of the wind enveloped them for a while.

But the silence ends in unexpected ways.

Sophia's belly bug sounded a little cute.

"Ah!"

Sophia turns her face bright red to the belly bug voice that rang at the perfect time.

He was a Libert who managed to laugh, but he couldn't stand it and blew it out.

"No, no, Lord Sophia is still quite interesting."

"Already, Master Liberto!

"Well, isn't that nice? Well, why don't we make it a meal then? That sounds good... that sounds good"

Looking around, Riverto carries it near the chest wall when he finds a simple table and bench made of wood.

Then, two white cloths were removed from the large basket I had held to the roof, each slightly covered on the table and bench.

"Well, Lord Sophia, this way, please"

As Sophia sits on a bench covered in white cloth, the Libert takes out bottles, boxes, cloth-wrapped flat plates, glasses, cutting boards, etc. one after the other from the basket.

What was in the box was colorful ingredients.

Lightly sliced bright orange salmon, bright white seboria (onions), beautiful green lettuce, soft milky tase (cheese), white creamy sauce, and mice (corn) bread.

And finally, when I take a piece of paper out of the basket, I check what it says.

"Uh, in all order..."

A riberto lined with mythbread on the cutting board spreads the white sauce thinly over its surface and layers the retugas, theses, salmon and seboria up in turn.

And when I put a little more white sauce on top of it, I layered another piece of mythbread at the top and then gently held the whole thing down with my palm.

Then Libert takes his favorite knife out of his nose and cuts it in half.

I repeated this again before putting each one on a plate and finished the meal for two.

"You kept me waiting. Sandwich with smoked salmon (smoked salmon) … yes, yes."

A Libert that wipes your hands with a small white cloth and then offers a plate with a sandwich on it.

Sophia, who was still sending a hot gaze at thinkers cooking with a serious eye, also spilled a grin on the beauty of the dish she could.

"Ugh, that was a brilliant arrangement."

"That said, Lord Takumi was doing all the preparation downstairs, so I just pinched him and cut him. Well, here's one too..."

Arranging the empty glass in front of and next to Sophia, Libert carries it and twists the cork stopper of the bottle cuckoo.

And when I sounded the pleasant sound of a pong and pulled out the plug, I poured a beautiful liquid tinted in light gold into the glass.

"It's only noon, but you don't mind a little bit, do you?

"Yes, thank you."

Sophia narrows her eyes to meticulous foam that rises from sparkling wine.

And after all the preparations, Libert nodded one more and then sat next to Sophia, lifting the glass.

"Now, celebrate today's wonderful day with Lord Sophia"

"Thank you, Master Liberto, for showing us this beautiful landscape."

"Cheers."

From the glass they overlapped, the sound of cheen and clarity echoed.

―――――

"Hmmm! It's so delicious. Wow!

Jumping out of Sophia's mouth cheeking the sandwich was a simple but most delightful word.

While I am heartily relieved by the word, Libert also hits the sandwich.

"Um, this is delicious. The smoked flavour of salmon goes well with the shaky vegetables. Besides, this white sauce, unlike the usual mayonnaise, has a unique spiciness, but isn't this good again?"

"I'm sure this flavor is Labano Picante. It's just a little twinkly on the nose, but it really adds to the deliciousness of this salmon. Plus, this refreshing breeze and beautiful landscape. It's truly the greatest luxury."

Sophia looks out at the landscape with a lukewarm look as she goes through the sandwich one bite at a time.

Riverto also carefully enjoyed the taste of the sandwiches he had made from hand and the landscape that extended in front of him, tilting the glass from time to time.

Two people relax in the breeze.

Eventually, when the top of the plate was empty, Libert took a huff of breath as he rubbed his creased stomach.

"Oh, I ate. I ate. Still, the 'swordfish' sandwich is excellent."

"Speaking of which, Mr. Liberto was caught in the sandwich and went to the swordfish."

"Oh, Lord Sophia remembered such a story."

"Yes, if you're talking about Mr. Liberto, you can naturally remember anything."

Sophia stares at Liberto's face with a giggle all the time.

Liberto also gave Sophia a just dazzling smile.

But at the next moment, Liberto changes his expression.

Kilit his eyebrows tightened. When he made a serious look, he opened his mouth roughly.

"Well, Lord Sophia. I have one important story to tell you today. It's a very important story. Can you listen to me?

"Yes..."

As before, Sophia hastily corrects the attitude of the Libert, which creates a heavy atmosphere.

What is an important story, maybe......

Sophia waiting for the next word with pale expectations.

But the next thing that came out of Liberto's mouth was the unexpected word.

"Actually... I'm going to have to go back to my country"

"What...!

Liberto returns to the country, which means' goodbye 'for both of us.

In Sophia's head, poked at that brutal reality, where the two friends who had grown up so slowly were torn apart, instantly turned white.

"So..."

"I don't like it! I don't want to hear it!!

Sophia blocking her ears and shaking her head at Liberto's words.

And when I got up on the bench, I rushed down the stairs.

(WHY, WHY...!!

Sophia's vision seeps in tears as she rushes down the steep stairs.

Running down because of high heeled shoes that are unstable in such a state was also a dangerous act for Sophia, who usually moves vigorously.

Sophia, who is finally out of balance, screams.

"Yikes!!" "Danger!!

On the verge of falling down the stairs, Sophia's left arm is firmly grabbed and she is drawn as she is.

It was Libert, of course, who helped the danger.

Turn your confident left arm around your back and the Libert holds Sophia tight.

Sophia, however, began to lean back wherever she waved it as she became semi-frequent.

"What do you do! Leave me alone!!

"What are you in such a hurry, calm down a little"

"No! Already, please let me go!?!?

Sophia's movements suddenly stop, disturbed with tears all over her eyes.

In front of a wide open eye is the lid of a tightly closed Libert.

And his lips were blocking Sophia's mouth as if to take the word.

Time flies that can be forever for a moment.

When the lips that were eventually overlapping separated, Liberto took a fuzzy breath.

"... at all, is this settled?

"What? Now...? No way!?!?

Go to the stairs, Sophia floats the question mark.

To the rest of the shock, apparently I can't handle what happened.

"I want you to get to the end of the story.

"So, but just now..., I said I was going home..."

"Indeed, the circumstances of those in my own country have changed, and once I return to my country, But I thought you said nothing would ever come to this land again. It's bound to come back under Sophia, that's what I wanted to say. Here, take this..."

When Libert takes the box out of his nostrils, he gently hands it to Sophia, who still stands firm when he hits it.

When I opened the small box with the cloth carefully affixed to it, a ring with a bright white gem was placed in its center.

"Ko, what is this..., could it be...!?

What that ring means, of course, Sophia fully understands.

Sophia finally figured out what was going on and peeked in to make sure she looked up at Libert's face.

"The formal engagement will be after I return to this country. Until then, will you wait for me?

"Also, of course!!

I thought I'd been dropped to the bottom of the earth, and now Sophia's wrapped up in the feeling of rising to heaven.

Now he held him firmly to the Libert, weeping in his eyes.

―――――

"Welcome back. Please wait while we prepare your coffee."

Takumi speaks to Riverto and Sofia, who are back in their private room upstairs at the evening approaching coffee shop, Tsubame.

As usual, after a gratuity, I left the room and found my cat ears popping out of the staircase.

"Kola! You can't peek, can you?

"Ha... But I'm glad it looks like it worked!

The “reasoning (just intuition)" Nyarch told me the night before I went to bed was apparently brilliant.

I decided not to go out of my way to this store to go to the lighthouse for two people to spend their time together as' memorable memories'.

Salmon was chosen as an ingredient to convey to Sofia the taste of her hometown and to show her willingness to 'come back again'.

And the focus on “finishing myself" rather than the finished sandwich was to fulfill my promise to Sofia to make "a dish that will satisfy everything, both the feeling and the taste".

two people in a position. Therefore, a number of difficulties may continue to be visited.

But still, if it were two people, Liberto and Sofia, they would surely get over it.

He was a takumi going down the stairs, believing so firmly in his heart.