To Almark's calling, Leila turns slowly, sees the Lord of her voice, and sighs.
"You are."
That said Leila smiled unexpectedly.
"You always show up when you don't want to see me."
"Sorry."
Apologize, Almark stands next to Leila and looks at the sea.
"What were you looking at?"
"Nothing."
Saying, Leila also turns to the sea.
"Look, you don't see anything"
The voice is only calm.
"The sea."
Almark narrowed his eyes.
Across this sea is Lerbuda, but I don't see it today.
"If something bad happens, come here and watch the ocean."
But today. Layla laughs bitterly.
"I don't see anything."
That's what I say and shake my head. Long hair shakes in the sea breeze.
For a calm voice, Leila's wound depth was also known to Almark.
The first shock leaves, allowing us to speak in a calm tone, and yet, so much wound that we cannot rejoice in the victory of our classmates together.
"Leila, you said it before."
said Almark.
"My goal is high."
Layla glimpses Almark with a glimpse of her side.
"What is Leila's goal?"
Goddamn, he gave a small voice and Layla laughed.
"You ask me that now."
"Sorry."
Almark apologizes again.
"But I wanted to ask. I'm hunting you down to this point right now. What the hell is your goal?"
Almark stares at the sea, so he connects words.
Silence for a while.
Only the sound of the waves and the sounds of the seabirds wrap them up.
Almark dared not carry on the words, and waited.
"... Foretta's High-Level Mage Exam"
Slightly, Leila said.
"Ever heard of it?
Almark shakes his head.
The kingdom of Foretta is a great power in the Middle Plains, not to mention. The Kingdom of Logosha, Leila's home country, is its neighbor.
"I guess."
Leila laughs thinly.
"Because it's not the kind of exam kids take. Even the youngest and recipient is an 18 year old graduate of this college of higher education. Normally in their late 20s and 30s...... some people continue to take it at older ages"
My father, Leila says.
"He said he'd take it by the time he matured into the exam. Otherwise, stop and come home."
"Until you grow up? Adults in the Middle Plains and the South."
Almark accidentally looked at Leila's face.
"Yes. Fifteen."
Leila nods without changing her expression.
"It's... impotent"
Almark shakes his neck.
"Why would your father do that?"
"My father was against me coming here. An autographed letter from the Dean of the College finally only admitted me to enrollment, but the conditions my father put out at that time, it"
Leila had a grin on her mouth.
"I haven't spoken to my father properly since. I don't want the people at home to come into the college either, so I can keep my servants waiting at the harbor when I get home."
The figure, Almark had also seen.
"'Cause we're about to fall apart"
Leila tells self-derision.
"I have no choice. I'm your only daughter."
I say that like I threw it away.
Almark tried to open his mouth, but Leila continued her words first.
"My father wants to use it. Make me an instrument of political marriage."
Leila's words seem to be only other personnel.
"I want a good son-in-law. That means you can't wait until you're 18."
It was a terribly vivid story.
Almark shakes his head.
"Isn't it just three years of difference? Besides, you can definitely be a fine magician. Even the reconstruction of the house, I'm sure. Can't your father do that?"
"My father, I guess not. Not in real life. What do you think? Because that's everything to my father. That's why I made it so difficult."
Leila keeps her eyes open from the sea. The expression was calm, but the eyes were harsh.
"But you're not gonna make that a challenge, are you?
"Sort of."
Leila nods.
"I've already done everything I learned at the elementary school on my own. Now I'm learning about the second year or so of middle school."
"Oh...... so"
Almark reminds me of Leila before the exam.
I remember everything I need to do in class. That's how it was twitching, Leila.
Was that also supposed to be a review of all the elementary classes for Leila?
"I think I can take first or second place in the school year if I really only study the contents of the elementary school, but that doesn't make sense to me. If you have that time, I want to learn more about the above"
Almark nods at the word.
"But you said you never wanted to lose to Rosfilia at a martial arts tournament. Why is that?"
"Rosfilia is..."
A little dark shadow in Leila's eyes.
"Daughter of the great nobility of Foretta. He wants to pass the high magician's exam right after he graduates from high school."
So, Leila shrugs.
"I don't want to lose to that kid. Even if it's martial arts. Because I have to be three years ahead of her."
I had to win overwhelmingly.
And yet, I lost. It's also in a way that clearly shows off differences in character.
It's not just because I lost the tournament.
That I lost to Rosfilia. That's what drove Leila deep.
When Almark finally got to the point, Leila shook her head small.
"Almark, I'm sure you see a lot of things"
That said, Layla saw Almark's face for the first time.
"What's the difference between me and Rosfilia? What am I missing?"
Leila's eyes staring at Almark were serious in itself. But there was still a danger that it would collapse.
Almark stares into his eyes for a moment, then slowly shakes his neck to the side, saying, sorry.
"I still know very little about magic. I've never heard of that exam before. [M] I don't know what you're missing."
Give that answer a look of Leila's disappointment.
Almark doesn't mind that, but he slowly turns his eyes to the sea.
"Do you know what the Menover Strait is, Leila?"
"Menover Strait?
Layla looks surprised at the sudden question.
"I know you do. That's the name of the strait that separates the North from the Middle Plains, isn't it? Of course, though I've never seen it."
"Yeah."
Almark nods.
"It's also known as the Water Dragon Strait, like a ship's graveyard. Every day, there are gray waves standing in the black sea, swirling everywhere"
I came over there, Almark said.
"Not at all like this ocean"
With that said, Almark opens his hands and shows the blue sea in front of a calm eye.
"The first sea I saw in my life was the Menover Strait. Waves, vortexes and rocks always open their mouths like monsters, and sailors desperately manipulate the ship to avoid being eaten by it. That's what I thought the ocean was all about. So I was surprised to see this southern sea. I didn't think it was the same sea."
Leila looks at Almark with the face of what the hell she said.
"Leila, now that you're looking at this southern sea, it was like looking at the Menover Strait"
Almark saw Leila's face.
Always a beautiful face full of sides was now pointed straight at Almark.
"The sea in front of you is so blue and calm, yet you could see the black straits that revolve around you"
Leila looked like she was being blacked out.
"Dr. Illmis said the sorcerer will see as he is."
To Almark's words, Leila silenced for a moment.
Shut up and stare at the calm sea.
The sounds of seabirds.
Eventually, Layla shook her head.
"I'm not sure."
"Sorry."
"It's okay."
That's what Leila says, turning her back on the ocean.
Long hair makes me feel windy.
"But thanks for listening"
When Leila said so, she slowly walked away without looking back.
When Almark looked back, only a little bit on its back, seemed to dwell on softness.