The Economics of Prophecy

"... eyeballs"

The first thing my consciousness captured was my usual own ceiling. Apparently, he woke up with light from the window. That's unusual, faster than the sun these days... I was so relieved when I thought about it. Isn't this about noon?

The work you should have done today lines up behind your brain. from all of the original Central Gardens................... Is that, like, done with the job?

I tried to get up with my neck tied. But I can't help myself. In particular, the right side of the futon is heavy. If you look closely, there is shining blue and silver hair spread over the white duvet. Alfina is asleep so that it can be brought to bed.

I have flaky hair hanging on my beautiful side. Seeing it, I remembered Alfina calling me desperately in her half-closed vision. Yes, in the room at work......

"... what has happened since then"

I managed to get myself up. My body is weak. Meanwhile, my head manages to move.

".................. Li, Caldo...... Kun"

Suddenly the weight disappeared. Alfina raised her face. Those eyes captured me when I managed to wake up.

"... uh, that. … Good morning."

I said a dumb greeting. First, it's not fast. But Alfina, looking at me, burst into tears in an instant.

"You woke up. Oh, good. In the evening, at night, in the morning. It doesn't cool my eyes at all, and I... I..."

Tears flooded Alfina's eyes.

"Well, I'm sorry for your concern. Uh, it's okay."

I'm not ill, thanks to my sleep. I tried to appeal with my hands wide open. But Alfina puts her hand on my forehead.

"There doesn't seem to be a fever or anything. Really nowhere. Is there anything that hurts?"

I can stare into my desperate eyes. Very close.

"Yes, maybe, it's okay..."

"Really, really, at all..."

Grr...

It was my stomach that stopped Alfina from speaking. With that said, have you not eaten for more than a whole day?

I remember before I fell.... lack of sleep, fatigue, that being said, I don't think I even had breakfast. Was that question of Meer a catch issue?... I can't tell you about Mathier, ha.

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"... uh, Dear Alfina, this is just..."

"Yes, Ricardo. Open your mouth."

Small cut white, soft looking bread served in front of your mouth. Golden honey hangs. Calories, the carbohydrate that my body is so eager for right now. Besides, I was cornered.

"Open your mouth, please................... eh. Don't you have an appetite?

Alfina's face clouds.

"No, that's not true"

I opened my mouth in a panic. In the mouth, a small, sweet bread enters. It's our honey, right? Would it have been so fiercely sweet? Better quality while I was abandoning my main business!?

"Can I have a drink next..., milk?"

Alfina brings the cup closer. Warm milk moisturizes your throat.

"In my mouth..."

Alfina muddles my mouth with a handkerchief. It's like being a baby.

Alfina only looks at me like a mother. Fill my mind in a different dimension from the lightness. As always. I'm going to be tempted like that. But......

"Um, it's time..."

I looked at the door with Alfina's bread in my mouth. I have to get back to work. Instead, it crumbled all day in the morning. Recovery as soon as possible......

"Ricardo's plans for today are for Meer and your father. So Ricardo needs to rest."

Alfina said. I'm talking a little fast.

"No, but those two just share their time..."

I tried to get out of bed. But Alfina pushed my body away.

No, sir.

There are no islands to attach. Slowly, slowly lunch more than you need? strength is starting to return to my body because I ate it. I think it's okay. By and large, having an appetite is in itself….

"You know, yesterday, there was just a lack of sleep and all that overlap"

"No. No... Please."

Alfina's eyes moistened. Wow, isn't this against the rules?

"Please. Rest now."

"So, but you are. I slept the whole day, so I took enough time off..."

I tried to argue. By and large, I thought Alfina needed some sleep.

"What time do you get to sleep properly next? How long will you be in such a state that you forget to eat..."

I can stare into Alfina's eyes.

"Oh, that's... Yes, I'm sure if my current work comes to a paragraph..."

"Which is your current job…"

Alfina has the list she was watching before I fell................ all of it. I collapsed when I was checking that.

…………

"I know Ricardo is amazing. Yeah, Ricardo is so incomprehensible to me... But this is unscrupulous, no matter how much."

Alfina looks at me with a serious face. Almost all of what Alfina said was amazing is previous life knowledge.

"Ricardo..."

"Yes, sir"

"Ricardo... Are you trying to protect me?"

Alfina dyes her cheeks like nervous.

"As a partner… naturally"

I managed to say it. Alfina loosened her expression just a little bit. But I tightened it up quickly.

"I also want to be Ricardo's partner. Just because Ricardo is protecting you, you're not a partner. I must have a role to play."

From my list she held in her hand, she points to one project.

"Leave it to me"

The finger was placed on the purple magic generator by extension, a project of the highest priority without complaint. At the same time, it's the project that I least want to keep her close to.

"Oh, you can't do that."

"I don't know anything as difficult as a curator or Ricardo. I don't have any special skills either, like Noel or His Royal Highness Maitir. But if it's about feeling purple magic, I have the most experience."

I know what Alfina wants. It would be the right material. And I can focus on another big problem, the new magic wand. Reason clearly tells its correctness.

"So, that's why. Yes, Master Alfina, in a mechanism that relies on one person, it doesn't taste good as disaster preparedness. For example, if Master Alfina was ill when he called it a showdown... Besides, even if not, as the last trump card........."

I said as I shook my gaze to the left and right.

"So what about Ricardo?"

Alfina looks straight at me. Tears begin to creep slightly into his eyes.

"Don't you rely on Ricardo alone in your current state?"

Straight feelings pierce me. The vulnerability of the project is me, not Alfina. Why am I keeping my body in bed at a time like this?

"Ricardo always tells us great ideas, though. We must verify it properly."

"Oh, yes... but"

"Keep me away from the role I deserve to play in this situation. Is that all there is to it? I am also careful how I treat crystals after that. I'm not sick anymore."

…………

I got sick. I had a mouthful. Given the dangers of the crystal, and the potential for the future, I did a number of incomplete investigations. What I asked for from Luitzer. What I asked Mayteel for. The latter is still under investigation, but so far no obvious danger has emerged.

Of course, I sometimes say that I have too little information to judge. But that just means I'm doing something I can't do in real life. If you want to erase all possibilities of danger, you have to die.

"... To be honest, I am very happy to feel that I am the only one being treated specially. Hehe, is this an exclusive greed? You're a disqualified witch princess."

Alfina lay her hands on her chest. Words and backs, that smile is so straight and dazzling to me. Alfina said the appetite for exclusivity. That's why my judgment is distorted.

"But then I'm sure you'll regret it. Me too, Ricardo."

Alfina looked straight at me and said.

It's on my own, endangering a lot of people. People who are desperately trying to face disaster while I sleep in bed. And ultimately I can't even protect Alfina......

My judgment is distorted, and Alfina's judgment is right. In case anything happens to her. The fear is still in me. But it is reminded that the root cause of it is ego.

".................. I think Master Alfina is right"

I had to admit defeat.

"Kusu, that's what Ricardo told me. Don't you remember? At that time, I was told in the library I had no idea."

Alfina smiled mischievously. After all, this girl is not the kind of person I can lock in and monopolize. You should have understood.

"Regards"

"Yes. Okay, first. My first favor as a partner."

"Yes, sir"

I got nervous. Utilize the qualities involved in Alfina's purple magic. I can't help it. But if you make it impossible without clear grounds, it will be like before. I don't want to see Alfina lying in bed anymore.

"Alfina and call me that"

"What?"

... Is that important now? In other words, I'm trying to reflect on the special victory and turn myself around. I mean, this conversation reminds me of that time. But it tastes so bad.

"Ricardo."

Alfina has a tone that doesn't make you feel compromised.

"I understand. …………… Alfina"

My smile is all over me.

"Next, then. Restore your health first."

When I wondered if there was anything still there, a white object poked at my mouth.

"… are you still eating in this style"

"Yes, that's what I've decided is most important as a partner now"

Get closer to the bread Alfina had left in my mouth. It's not appropriate for me as a partner to feed you like this, but I opened my mouth.

I have a lot to think about. The voice of whether this is really okay still doesn't disappear from the chest. Even what that voice is headed for.

But now I was sure I didn't feel like I could beat this sweetness.