I didn't ask for it, but it's early morning.
Everyone in the city gathered to drop off Crewe's departure.
"Thank you for coming here today."
As Sputnik matched, Crewe bowed his head.
- It's Krew's, travel day.
Lunch boxes, water bottles and anti-drunken candy. Important stuffed animals, diary books and pennies.
Packing up to the city of Vealton had been done during the previous evening. So I didn't panic in the morning, I just had the breakfast I was preparing, got dressed, combed my hair, pale, ready.
The city is just a little foggy. But not so much that the carriage can't run. The Crews were in front of the store, waiting for a carriage for Crewe to arrive.
All necessary luggage for school life, such as textbooks and uniforms, is sent to student dormitories located on the campus of the Erkühr Jewellery School. So the only thing I put in my bag is what I need on the road from Liafiat City to Vealton City.
When you get to the City of Vealton, stop by the Crew Lol mansion once, say hello to Crew Lol, and then, go to the school dorm. The school meets Lee, who has also become an enrolled student. Unlike traveling to an experiential school, it's a city I've been to once, and I'm not going anywhere without anyone I know, so I'm not worried about my next visit.
There shouldn't be any anxiety.
But.
"Handkerchief, did you have it"
"Yes."
"Stuffed animals, haven't you forgotten"
"... Yes"
"If you forget anything, ask Yuki to come back."
……
"Uh..."
……
"Handkerchief, did you have it"
How many times have you been asked the same question?
Everyone gathered gave me a few words of encouragement at first, but now, quietly, they are waiting for me when Krew travels.
"Um..."
Sputnik accidentally opened his mouth to see what he remembered.
"You're coming home, I'm waiting for you."
Because I'm waiting.
The one word, as much as it seemed like a tear, was delightful.
"Yes."
- From the morning mist, you can hear the sound of wheels and hooves (hives). Soon I could see one carriage, and it stopped in front of the Crews.
The carriage door opens and anyone who shows their face from inside.
"Hey."
Again this time, the companion to the city of Viearton is Lau. As for Crewe, I don't like the bottom of my heart, the candidates, but I can't help it.
"Are you okay with not taking a break? You'll be tired of leaving me alone in the carriage."
"Uhm. I'm fine"
You don't seem to be putting your arms together and sitting somewhere in a chair.
- Ready to go, you'll be ready.
Just.
Just one more thing.
"Um, uh, Mr. Sputnik"
Before you go to school, before you leave the city of Liafiat.
Crewe had something to say to Sputnik.
"Hmm?"
Sputnik's beautiful eyes reflected Crewe, as usual.
I thought I shouldn't tell you. That doesn't make my stomach heavier.
But I didn't think so.
"Ku is..."
The only thing I don't think you should say is that Crewe doesn't want to say it himself.
Say it right.
I have to tell you, you can't.
So.
"Ku loves Mr. Sputnik"
Courage, I said in one breath.
All this time, what I wanted to say.
"... Hi"
But somehow.
I didn't think it was telling.
"Me too... what. Because you're an employee, and you've helped a lot."
Oh, you're not passing this on. Convinced.
"Uh..."
Being brave because of it doesn't make sense, but it doesn't convey the meaning of bravery. Think about it for a second and decide to change the way you talk.
"Do you remember Mr. Sputnik?"
"What?
"What you said to me when you hired me"
Crewe, I remember.
- Use your 'physique' to fulfill my wish. When that happens, I'll fix it for my life, but I'll fix yours.
Something I didn't even think about when I was told. This' physique 'of spitting gems, once healed. When' physique 'is gone. - After that.
Sputnik nodded, "Oh," after a cruising silence. "I remember you."
Sputnik also remembered what Krew remembered. With the same memories, Crewe continues the conversation, thinking little by little, even himself, feeling ticklish and strange.
"I, in a little while, will lose my 'physique'"
That was what the Wizard Fusion taught us - Yuki - in Sputnik's hospital room in the city of Vealton. The 'physique' of spitting Krew's jewels is just for childhood and is gone before he grows up. I'm sure there's no mistake in her saying that she's a magic researcher and familiar with ore disease.
What Sputnik wished for when Crewe was hired was to run his own jewelry store in a city with a delicious store of melon bread. His dream of opening a jewelry store in Liafiat City came true.
And.
What Yuki taught me, if you're sure.
In a few years, Ku's wish will also come true.
"Then I thought the point of Ku being with Mr. Sputnik would be gone"
"It's"
I try to be exposed to Crewe's words, and Sputnik says something - but it stays unsaid, and I shut my mouth. I waved the wear, and once again I answered,
"... if you think so, maybe so"
For some reason, it was a squeezing reply. I wonder why. Like you took care of Crewe's mind? Was he the kind of person who would do that?
But anyway...
That was natural in Crewe, and Crewe nodded.
The wish that they both wanted from each other is to come true. And all that remains is one good jeweler and a half-service girl who just fails and is not smart enough to throw up jewelry.
A girl who doesn't get it, she's just immature.
That's the one thing you shouldn't do next to him who's good.
"But"
I don't deserve it. I know.
But still.
"Ku wanted to be with Mr. Sputnik"
The wish could not be abandoned.
- For example, one day, as the day has come to make someone else laugh at each other.
That's okay, I can't believe it.
I didn't feel like I could tell Crewe.
So.
"Mr. Sputnik"
Crewe looks him straight in the eye. You won't see those eyes for a while anymore.
And say.
"Ku likes Mr. Sputnik"
"... ha"
"Best in the world, I love it"
"Hi."
"I want to be a good man, I like"
"Ha..."
Silence.
Later.
"... Ha ha!?
Sputnik opened his eyes. The kind of 'likes' that Crewe really wants to tell him seems to have been properly passed on to him.
And if you passed it on, you can't go back! Crewe had once and for all screwed up.
"Ku likes Mr. Sputnik! I play with women all the time, drink a lot, smoke, but I also lie and treat them like children about Coo, but I still really like Mr. Sputnik, who is cool, kind, hard at work and sees a lot about Coo!
"Shh, no, you know, ku, hey, stay, eh?
Pushed by the impending crew momentum, it lags behind but doesn't let it get away! Grab Sputnik's shirt with both hands on each bowtie, and Crewe tells him how long he thinks at once.
"So, so! Even if Ku no longer has' physique ', he will study a lot at school so that he can stay next to Mr. Sputnik, and work hard, and he will return to Liafiat City so when he finishes school, graduates, and returns -"
At that time.
Crewe took a breath.
The important thing is, loud and clear!
"I want Ku to be Mr. Sputnik's boss!
Sputnik totally loses his word and opens and closes his mouth when he puffs like a fish. Crewe let go of his shirt, thinking he sometimes looked like this too.
Crewe's face gets hotter and hotter as he becomes aware of the content of what he shouted. Even embarrassed that he was facing Sputnik any further, Crewe rushed into the carriage.
Lau, who waited inside, with a face filled with surprise and joy, cuddled me around about Crewe and stroked me in a shaking of my head.
"Oh, well said!
"Stop touching my hair!
Through the open window, look out.
Sputnik, who either lost his hips to much or sat on the ground, stared up at this one. The eyes are wide open, and the jaw is open as if it had come off. I've always been with Sputnik, but I've never been able to surprise him so much, maybe for the first time.
My nuts are laughing when I see how Krew and Sputnik are doing like that. Elsa too. Everyone else said, "Well said!," he laughs.
Everyone is laughing. So Crewe got fun, too, and laughed.
Laughing, raising your hands high and high to the top of your head...
"I'm coming!
And Krew traveled through Liafiat City.
For what I wanted, for the future.
The city of Riafiat is located in the eastern part of the continent, a moderate city that flourished as a lodging town on Lucar Street.
The city, which is also known throughout the year as a region of a wide variety of fruits and flowers (kaki) due to its warm climate, is very good in policing the police station, although it is not part of the Witch Society, and the unsolved cases are equal to zero and very livable land.
In such a corner of the city there was a small jewelry store with two clerks. - "Sputnik Jewellery Sputnik".