After I drop Wendy off at the main entrance, when I try to go home, I notice a familiar guard.
"Mr. Zied."
"Hey, Mr. Almark."
When I first crept through this gate, I was Jeed, the guard who burned all kinds of care.
A handful of associates, knowing that Almark is the son of a northern mercenary.
Most of all, Almark doesn't know how far the teachers are being asked by the college director's yolog.
"Is Wendy the one who just left? I guess that's the last of the elementary school."
"Oh, really?"
"Oh, because today is the toughest day of the year for us guards. Oh, boy."
The guards at the main entrance seemed to be sobering with the arrival of many visitors.
"Everybody's gone home happy."
After saying that, Jeed remembers Almark's origins.
"Right. You can't go home."
"Yeah. That's nothing."
I've been ready since I came to this college. We reached the end of a one-and-a-half year solo journey. In just a few months, I don't feel like going back to see my parents.
But...
Almark remembered once again Leila walking through the garden in the early morning with only one, tough face.
I didn't feel any joy from Layla that I was going home from now on.
Even the torque, he hated it with his mouth, but let something more or less like liberation drift.
But all Almark felt from Leila's back this morning was a sense of duty,
The usual cool feeling was no fine dust.
Is there no place for Leila to go home, either, in the true sense?
With that in mind, Almark told Jeed.
"Leila was the first one to leave, wasn't she?"
"Layla?"
Jeed thinks a little, and, oh, nods.
"Well, that was Leila at first today."
Almark gets a little hooked on the way that Zyde says it.
"First of the day? So some kids left yesterday?"
I still had class yesterday.
"Oh."
Jeed nods quickly.
Wallis left last night.
"Wallis?"
To Jeed's words, Almark remembers the lights in the garden last night.
That was Wallis.
"Are you alone?"
"Oh. Wallis is alone every year. Though I don't know why. [M] Maybe he's keeping people waiting in the harbor like Leila."
"Really?"
Wallis still seems to have some complicated circumstances, too. At least, I'm pretty sure you're not just an honorary student, Almark thought.
Speaking of which, I said it like Jeed remembered.
"Now I think Wallis looks just like you."
"To me?
"When I started school, Wallis traveled alone, too. From the western edge of Galais."
"Eh."
When it comes to school, will I turn nine?
Just around the time Almark first came out on the battlefield.
Although the Kingdom of Galais is certainly far less safe than the northern lands, neither did Almark see a child of that age traveling alone but himself.
"Wallis is a noble child, isn't he? I had to come alone, but how could he?"
Jeed, um, twisted his neck.
"I don't know the details, but speaking of which, I've never seen anyone from Wallis' house pick me up either. I'm sure there's something going on."
"Really..."
We all have our own circumstances. I wasn't willing to pry any further into Almark.
I just thought you might see why he would be hostile to himself and why.
As it turned out, the mystery only deepened.
"By the way, what do you say? Are you used to school life?"
To Jeed's question, Almark changes his mind and smiles.
"Yes, thanks to you, it's perfectly for life"
I can't use magic at all.
Jeed looks closely at Almark's face.
"Sounds like it. My expression is milder than when I first met her."
To Zid's words, Almark nodded with a serene expression, as the words said.