The Economics of Prophecy

"Between the crystals is smaller than I thought."

I looked around the hexagonal space where I stepped in. There are no decorations on the walls. There's a desk on the wall and... that, there's a bed.

Well, today's target is a magic prop that sits on a central circular altar.

"Is this the crystal of prophecy"

"Yes."

Me and Alfina stood in front of a transparent sphere. Size is about the crystal ball used for fortune telling. No, if you look closely, it's not just a sphere, it's a layered structure of concentric circles. A three-dimensional pattern floats at the boundary of each transparent layer.

"How did you process it?

"I don't know either. They say it's been passed down since before the founding of the kingdom."

Alfina told me she snapped by accident. From the ancient powers (provisional), the predecessors of kingdoms and empires?

"I mean, more than four hundred years ago..."

I'm in a hurry that Alfina's face was right next to her. Shoulders and shoulders are close enough to each other. Now we are conscious that there are only two of us in a small room.

"That being said, Lord Claudia..."

I heard about Claudia, who was supposed to be with me.

"Crowe is in the escort room, in front of the door that leads here. When the crystal represents a mark, I'm the only one inside. Of course this time......... Was Ricardo better with Kraw?

Alfina asks. That, a little voiced...?

"No, not like that... Yes, you'll be ready to measure."

I'll go back to my old room early enough and start assembling Ealis One. Connect the optical path table and install lenses and prisms. Carefully marked with angles and heights. The sensory demon plate is stored in a box of green magic inhibitors, so I won't let it out yet.

At the end of the day, each table carries the Ealis 1 toward the crystal. Now we're ready. In this experiment, the crystal is the source of light, and Alfina's role in drawing out the magic. My role is to replace the Sensory Demon Board. I can't do anything else.

When the work is done, there will again be a situation for just the two of us in a small room.

"Shh, how do crystal signals come"

I distract myself from the little bed between the crystals. Ask questions to focus on the experiment.

"It's still at the omen stage, but before it starts glowing I feel like a pulsating thing. So it's okay to wait next door"

"Let's do that. It's wider over there. I'm sure you'll calm down."

We went back to the barn. I don't have a chair, as I just checked. The table also moved between the crystals. The gaze naturally turns to the bed. Alfina sat back as she slowly headed to bed.

"Please sit down, Ricardo."

And invite me next door to stand up. I'm thrilled for a moment, peeking at Alfina, but I can't tell the expression because I'm laying on my face. Well, because of her character, you can't just stand there with me.

I sit in bed carefully at a distance of one person.

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Silence covered the bed. No, not a bed, this is a big chair. I think so.

"Well, with that being said, it feels like this room isn't being used much."

I said as I shook my restless gaze to the left and right. Only the sheets below are oddly brand new.

"I have never used it!

Alfina raised her face and strengthened her tone. Really...... I did have a bed over there, though.

"Well, it's been a long time since we've had that, just the two of us."

Alfina looked up at me. As for the situation, it doesn't even resemble that library, but I don't have the task of looking into it this time. No, I have the more important task of measuring crystals, but I have nothing to do until the signal starts to come out.

Actually, I'd never have crossed that if you'd just disappeared. Signal though.

"If His Royal Highness sees a situation like this, what will he say? Ha..."

When I joked and answered, Alfina swelled her cheeks.

"His Royal Highness Maitir does not understand. Ricardo is with Meer at the Mansion. In the lab, His Highness Maitir told Ricardo something... How precious it is for me to have just the two of us..."

"Well, it's about the futures market to that Meer..."

Even after returning to Wang Capital, thanks to my magic research and Maitir's dietary situation, I started the Chamber of Commerce and continued to rely on Meer for commercial relations. Still, there are a lot of things I have to judge about the futures market. I still work with Meer at the Mansion.

"I know you're busy with your work.... I was just not convinced, as His Highness Maityle said."

Alfina said. Somehow, I feel like a normal girl with a rare shin, and this is fresh... No, no, you're too dangerous an idea in this situation. This is the deepest part of the sacred cathedral.

But Alfina also began to freak out. And you look at me like you've made up your mind.

"Ricardo. I have one favor to ask you."

The bed stirs. She tilted her body and only one knee's worth of distance clogged.

"Hey, what is it?"

"Here's the thing… I'd like you to call me Alfina, even if it's just the two of us"

Alfina dyed her cheeks when she said so.

"Others are callouts. Just me..."

"Meh, His Royal Highness Maitir is also His Royal Highness..."

"Unlike His Royal Highness Mathilde, we are supposed to be partners."

"Well..."

"It's just for the two of us."

It's not that I don't think it's other people's behavior. But I don't like switching. As a safekeeper, I could say deadly.

Imagine. Me and Alfina walking down the hallway of the college. I've gotten used to it a little lately, but since I often line up next to Alfina, I really get my attention. Foolish civilians who inadvertently called it "Alfina" there. Alfina replies "Yes, Ricardo".

... it will be outrageous without a joke. It's bad for Alfina, but this is a shy hand. Mostly, what if there's some crazy rumor going on in Alfina?

"No, is that..."

When Alfina smiled weakly, she leaned back a little. The sweet scent of understated perfume tickles the nasal cavity. Heart only moistened eyes, beautiful voice on ears.

It's very hard to say no to a good whisper when it's such a vicious trick.

"Well, I can't..."

Unexpectedly I turned away. Behind the bed gets into my eyes.... I wonder why you have two pillows.

"That said, what was this room used for?"

I asked to buy some time. A topic that I can't even think of as an idiot after I hear it. But for some reason, Alfina trembled.

"I go from my aunt's mansion specifically for the reason that I go to college. But whoever is entrusted to the witch princess, the cathedral will be the place of life."

"I see, so..."

Alfina has never used this room. I'm convinced, but Alfina keeps going as she holds her cheek.

"Well, so..., lately, the role of the witch is not necessarily..."

Alfina turned bright red to her ears and kept saying. I guess you want to say that the role of the witch princess was shape-shifting. I know that without being cloudy. Until I got involved with Alfina myself, I only thought about prophecy to the extent of the lottery.

"So the... Some of the former witch princesses were originally close to each other, or had such a relationship during their tenure… could be done,"

The meaning of Alfina's words slowly penetrates the brain.

"Well, then this room..."

I remembered that this room would dare to detour from the opposite direction between the crystals. Alfina turned red to her ears and nodded cocklessly. Oh, my God. Is this the room for a witch princess to surround her mistress? There's plenty to wreck. At least do it outside.

The bed I was trying to assume was a replacement for the chair until just now, it feels like a bed. No, it's a bed from the beginning.

I remember the three female clerics who stopped me before I got here. I wasn't aware of it then, but with what eyes was I seen?

"Now, if this room is used in this way, there are disgraceful rumors against Master Alfina…"

This is disgusting. I screwed in the crystal measurements as soon as I could, so I must have taken this form to soften up the rules.

"Wow, I don't think I'm dishonourable!

"No, indeed, this measurement is important"

By and large, shouldn't it have Claudia or Luitzer on it to keep rumors like that from happening? In the first place, you should designate Noel no matter what I say. Why 'd you go through? No, not rumors in the first place, but what if something happens to Alfina?... although I'm the one who could possibly do something.

I mean, what did Luitzer just say...

"But if Ricardo wants me..."

Alfina's words don't get in my ear. Behind my brain was a revival of the words Luitzer said across the door. What should happen in this room...

"Dear A, Alfina......, The crystal..."

I manage to squeeze the "natural” business out of my thirsty throat. That's when Alfina's knee hit my knee.

"I think we're still fine. Before this, in the middle of the night..."

Alfina has been watching me since close. Big eyes that tend to go up. The warmer I could feel the exhale, the less distance there was between us.