Tingil Ice Cream is an open terrace shop just like the sandwich shop I ate during the day.

From the storefront facing the street, a curtain of narcotic cloth, called shade, is drawn and tied to a street tree. Street trees and shades block out the sun and create soft shades. There are about six round tables lined up underneath, all full.

There was a glass display with ice cream in the store, but before that there was a line of customers to buy.

"Riola, you've been working part-time this afternoon."

"That's right! Brother Gu, not so Brother Len. No, you're here, I'm glad. Are you... done with your work today?

It's our maid length, Riola, who makes her big eyes shine and smile.

She looks like a white apron with a frilled, triangular towel-like cloth wrapped around her head and has lovely chestnut hair that she sees in the sun.

"I've been on a date. Hey, Greg."

"Come on, it's work."

"Even if I can't light anything else. Isn't it usual to get along?"

Riola smiles at Lentomia's joke and hits the right gavel as well.

There are a lot of people out there because they face the boulevard, and some of them seem to know me. Looks like some people who were eating ice cream at the store noticed quickly and are looking at this one. I also thought I would conceal myself by chanting "Awareness Agitation Magic (Imagine Jammer)," but I dare to expose myself here.

"That sounds like a pretty big boom. Looks like he's got a few part-time jobs, too."

Several girls as old as Riola seem busy working between open terrace seats in and out of the store. I don't see the manager, Tingil Hyde, but I guess he makes ice cream using all the icing magic (...) in the kitchen behind the store.

"Yes. I'm understaffed during the summer and the store manager hires me more and more. My classmates are either on the" eating side "or on the" part-time side "when I get home from school. Ah... what do you want to do with the order? Is it good with the usual milk ice cream?

"Oh, give me a single milk ice cream"

"I... I'd love some milk, but I like the mint flavor."

Lentomia is a little troubled by the type of ice cream.

"Then, if you order the same until you're a couple, you'll have one mint flavored half ice cream, plus you'll follow!

"Okay, so let's order it for a couple!

Lentomia rocks my arm.

"... Riola, the. You need to show me some kind of a couple or something?

"No, it's fine if you sit in the same seat."

Riola laughs when she dulls, but when she looks at the terrace seats, she sees an old couple or something, mixed in with a couple of men and women, eating the same thing between girls. If it's this stream, it's nothing. Friends of mine and Lentomia are good friends even if they're eating the same thing. There will be no problem.

"So then"

"Yes."

Riola wrote down me and Lentomia's order on a note on the basin she held with her left hand.

"Unfortunately, the seat at the store is filled, but the bench seat under the street tree is empty, so please wait there. I'll take it with me!

"Oh, okay"

In the meantime, Lentomia and I sit on a bench under a street tree beside the store. When you look at people on the road, there's a wide variety of people going around and you never get tired of it.

"Hey, Greg. What are you gonna do after this?

"I'm going back to the hall to teach Hemperoza his magic training. Manuferno will be free, too. Chuta can't walk freely either if he's the king's capital, and we have to deal with him..."

Usually, there are many days when meetings are scheduled in the Royal Castle until the evening. But sometimes it's the end of the day off, and I don't have any plans. I don't have an exit form, so I want to go home and spend time with my family.

Hemperoza will also be at the end of the secondary school building and it will be time to go home with Plum and Larna. The magic training is a secret specialty for Hemperoza alone, but I'm pretty sure she's going to go to higher school, so I want to make her study to develop her talents a little bit.

"Well, you're busy, Greg."

"Well. What about Lentomia? Are you going back to the hall or to the Magic Society's nest hole (...)?

"... I'm going back to the Magic Society."

"'Going home' would be from the hall"

"I'm staying at the museum. That's where Greg spends time with his family."

The words seemed to have care and something that could not be exceeded.

"What are you doing now, Lentomia's like a family?"

"I'm glad, but I think it's a little different. You must be one of those people I've been with for a long time, and it doesn't change the fact that I have vowed a deep friendship."

Lentomia's fingertips touch the back of my hand like a gentle stroke.

And then there's a beat, and I carry on the words.

"You know, I'm gonna rent a room near the castle."

"... right"

Raise your gaze and narrow your eyes unintentionally on a tree leak in a street tree. I think I miss you, but this is the free will of the individual.

"If you rent a room, I'll put a big bedroom (bed), so you can come and see me and stay."

"... and so is that"

Face to face and manage to smile. Wouldn't I look a little pitiful...

"Hello, city! Milk ice cream double for a couple orders, and mint ice cream half for service!

and brought there a vessel of ice cream that Riola had put on the basin. Handing me one cup (...), he bowed with a pepper and smiled away, "Okay, take your time."

"Wow, that looks delicious!

"Here you go...... dude!?

Ice cream is indeed a double serving and mint ice cream half is served beside it. But there was one cup of stuff. There are two spoons properly. I mean, it looks like a friendly way to eat from one cup.

- Shit...! That was a conspiracy, Riola.

I forgot, Riola's better friends with Manuferno than I am. It's no surprise they teach you how to tease.

"What are you doing? Eat fast or you'll melt."

"Oh...!

"Mint ice cream is delicious......! Yes, uh."

"... um" (Chuckles)

In the end, me and Lentomia were really close and ate ice cream in one cup. Sweet ice cream is delicious, but I felt the taste was only slightly different from usual.

Continued