And the right person to hear it was very limited, even among wizards.

"Javot."

Yuki calls her name.

That, too, was calm.

"The study of magic is still in the process of development, and therefore the analytical technique is unbridled. I just took that kid as a specimen, and we don't know much about it. And."

Like thinking, or leaning hesitantly.

Then Yuki, for some reason, saw Sputnik once.

But soon he turned back to Javot,

"... there's no way you don't get it. You know what I mean. Javot."

To the call, Javot does not answer.

So Yuki's words went on.

"Wizards are small, exclusive, closed, arrogant, and unacceptable of new winds. Such a race will decline in less than a hundred years.... Javot, you must know. Now that I've sacrificed just one girl, I don't have the strength to resist the elimination of this old-fashioned organization."

View Yuki. She calmed down oddly - no, with cold eyes, it was suitable for Javot.

And on the other hand, Javot's eyes, as if to inhale that heat.

"You said I could tell, Françoise"

The voice.

I had a fever, I was trembling.

"Then you'll see this too - if you did the same research as me and, like me, searched for a magical future! We are an excellent species. A race with rare powers. We need to stay in the world, but you can't possibly disappear! How can you give up on that! How can you throw away the possibility in front of you!

You would understand - it was repeated again. Listen to that.

Sputnik realized what Yuki's cold eyes meant.

These two have similar circumstances. Placed under the same human asylum and control, attracted by the same 'magic', attracted by the ore disease, and equally gained a place in the wizard's organization - but one saw the wider world through the organization, and one looked for the future in a narrow organization.

Yuki's spoken, reminds me of her birth. At that time, for example, what would have happened if it had been Javot who had been chased by the organization. What would Javot have thought now that he saw the world?

At that time when Javot was about to lose his fancy, for example, if the fancy was trying to judge Javot.

If Javot was looking at the world.

Yuki is thinking about it now.

And at the same time, Sputnik, I think.

What Crewe said he wanted to learn. Having gone to experiential school.

For Klu, who feared people and feared a place without Sputnik, I think it was a very courageous thing to go to a land he didn't know. Still wanted to go, why not? I wonder where the reason for her change of heart was.

- For what?

I guess Crewe tried to move on, didn't he?

"Dear Françoise"

I heard a voice calling my name. From the hallway.

From the door I left open, I guess I heard it. He was a wizard who gave directions earlier. "No more," Yuki said, closing the door as she let the two of them out of the room.

Shortly before closing, Yuki said "I'll be back" indoors, but neither listening to the answer nor peeking into Javot's said complexion could be done by Sputnik.

But the door closed without a sound, and the grain of light, which was born of the staff, trapped her like a base.

"Fansion"

When the wizard took me back to the entrance to the building, there was one more wizard there. With the wizard who guided us through the building, and the wizard who waited at the entrance - the other one.

Sputnik had met with the new wizard.

The wizard called Yuki a fantion, that's what he called it. But look at Sputnik standing next to him,

"Was there another name?"

"Fine, Olivia. Never mind about me."

Take the trouble to pull off the busy spot and say hello again to this.

But.

Whether or not it was the Wizard Olivia's reaction that followed was the right one was another story. Olivia, the administrator of Yuki and wizard of the headquarters of the Witches Association and mother of Javot, lowered her deeply worn robe back and revealed her face. And

"Dear Sputnik -"

"Please don't"

Sputnik ate because someone as old as Kroolol carefully bowed his head.

Stop in panic. Olivia raised her head slowly, "How's your injury," she asked about Sputnik's body. There was no back to that word, and he seemed sincerely worried about Sputnik's body.

"Yeah. Thanks to you, it's pretty good"

"I could have cured you with magic."

"No, you should stop. Excess technology corrupts people. Whatever the emergency, you shouldn't use anything you don't have to use."

Yuki's words certainly made sense.

But. Remember what was just Yuki's attitude of giggling, or Olivia stares. And Yuki turned around and laughed and shut up.

Olivia's gaze returns to Sputnik.

"How is she... Krew?"

"I'm fine and well. Earlier, when I handed out the souvenirs I bought in Vealton City, I stuck around and jumped out of the store."

"Really?"

A gentle reply. There was a smile on his lips, at the same time...

"Ah!"

As Yuki raised her voice suddenly, Sputnik followed her and thought it was an enemy attack.

But there's calm air flowing around, and I don't feel any odd signs. When I try to tell you not to be surprised, Yuki looks at Sputnik in a hurry. That just didn't look like an act.

"I forgot. Store keys, not openings."

I remember being told. Shit.

The entrance door is unlocked and the security device is off. No way. The odds are low that an empty nest or robber happens to visit at this time, but it's still not zero.

"Let's go home."

"Mm-hmm. - See you later, Olivia. Yeah, I need to talk to you for a second, so I'll come back later."

"... when I said consult, I guess it's not a lot of shit anyway"

"That's not true. About future activities and about magic girls."

Magic girl. That joke wizard.

Yuki said, "Decline" the future of the wizard. And Javot also did not deny that conclusion. If so, will the future - the future further away from Sputnik's death, sooner or later, from this world, be extinct the race of wizards?

Yuki or Javot's anticipation. I don't know if that's a definitive future. However, as a real decline, I thought if I could save it, it might be out of standard like this Yuki or the magic girls and the loose people. Out of the vice of the Witch Society, they have the potential for the future and live in exile.

- And.

How could Yuki, now, let herself see Javot?

"Yuki. And... Mr. Olivia"

If that's what you think.

Words were zero from nature and mouth.

"I'm not a wizard, so I don't know about your future. Progress, decline, whatever it takes to do that."

The future is beyond Sputnik's control.

In the first place, the future of the wizard, the future of Sputnik, the future of Crewe. It will not be for anyone to know if the path they choose is the right one at present.

"Just"

Just still.

There's only one thing I can say to Sputnik today:

"I want Ku to live the way he likes it"

Don't be tied to anything in the world.

her chosen future.