"It looks like I'm always waiting for instructions from above. There's no new instructions, so I'm continuing to monitor Al, the last instruction."
In a room of Seseragi-tei, Aldis was listening to Rona who had returned.
"Are you in that organization ...?"
Aldis has an unspeakable emotion in a story he never thought of.
"I can't get any more instructions."
Rona utters facts in an unemotional voice.
That was exactly what Rona had to say. Yomo: Aldis already has all the people at the top of the organization and those who can be called executives sent to him by Aldis. Even foreign bases are ruined, and it is probably impossible to rebuild the organization.
There are no more people to give instructions to that girl. Normally, it would be better to decide how to live by the girl's own will, but as far as listening to Rona's story and actually seeing the girl's behavior, it seemed unlikely.
If you are guided through your thinking, given knowledge, taught skills, and cut off everything else in a way that is convenient for your organization, you will be a doll like a doll without your will. I guess she was brought up like that.
For a girl polished as a tool, not as a human being, to live is not to think in her own head, but to fulfill the instructions given by the organization and to be dependent on the life given at the same time. What Aldis did was to release the girl from the organization, and to conversely forcibly cut off the way she lived.
"Do you feel responsible?"
Rona asked, as if she had perceived that inside.
Aldis shook his head silently, announcing the end of surveillance, with the hope of Rona's efforts. At first she suspected that the message she had heard from Kirill was something she felt in a house in the forest, but as far as Rona told her she was limited to Aldis himself. It seems.
In the first place, after pursuing Aldis and the girl herself had left the royal capital, I do not think she would suddenly appear in the Caucasus Forest. Given the fact that the two Lactors were dying recently with no hands or feet, it is unlikely that the girl would reach a house in the woods.
"I'm glad I just knew it wasn't someone's money. If that girl was only for my surveillance, it wouldn't do much harm."
"That's right. If you leave it alone, it will die."
Aldis glances at Rona for a brief moment with a light tone. But Rona, pretending to be unaware of it, curled up on the bed and fell asleep, saying "rest" while chewing on her yawn.
Aldis continued to work as before, based on the royal capital, feeling the sign of a girl following the next day. On one day, Minerva's instructions are in the royal capital, and on other days, Aldis is relatively calm while requesting defeat.
In the meantime, the only thing that bothers me is a girl who keeps monitoring Aldis from a distance. There was no reason to be alarmed because it could not be a threat and it was clear that there was no harm.
At this point, you will notice a thin girl who is almost thin.
Certainly, the girl was part of the organization that attacked Minerva. Indignation Aldis is also angry with the organization that committed the assault and someone who commissioned it. But he wasn't too irrational to hit his anger at a child whose life had been twisted because of adulthood.
After finishing Minerva's instruction that day, Aldis returned to Seseragi-tei, where she stayed, and ordered a meal for three people from Mermaid, a signboard girl.
"Return immediately"
Aldis told Merrill that she ignored her gaze and walked out of the inn.
For Aldis who can grasp the position of humans by magic, the place where the girl is is hollow. Unlike Nere, it is not possible to distinguish objects only by magical reaction, but as you can see here, there is a general idea if there is a human lurking in the shade. Especially if there are no other people watching Aldis.
Before the girl noticed this move and tried to move, Aldis appeared to stand in the alley.
"Oops, don't be alarmed."
Aldis controls the girl with her hand in one hand.
"I know you don't have any harm here. If you just monitor it, I'll tolerate it, and have you ever done that?"
In Aldis's speech, a color appears in the eyes of the girl that looks for something.
"Or is it? Are you trying to attack me and the people around me?"
The girl shakes her head small with silence of about three breaths.
"Then I'm not going to do anything with you. If you don't feel like hostile, you don't even have to monitor me from afar."
"…………What do you mean?"
The girl asks with a look full of vigilance.
"In short, it's better to be close to me if you want to watch."
“…………?”
"I'm going to eat some food at the inn, so just watch me in the meantime. Isn't that easier than observing from a distant shadow?"
"What are you saying?"
"If it doesn't hurt, it's not much different whether you're being watched in the distance or just beside you. Well follow me. You know it's useless to get away, right?"
Aldis pushes a girl who cannot hide her expression of incomprehensibility. Hesitate A girl who knew Aldis's ability in the previous case reluctantly followed it.
When Ardis, with the girl, returned to Seseragi-tei, she was called out by Merrill, who came out of the kitchen.
"Oh, good Aldis. Just done. Today's menu is chicken sauce and consommé soup baked with a special sauce. And today we have a fresh salad. Is that all right? "
"No, two people for me and this child."
With that in mind, he finds the girl behind Aldis sitting in a chair, and Rona sighs at this.
"Why isn't it alone less?"
Aldis asks Rona, as if he misunderstood the reason for the sigh.
"Separately ..."
Rona whispers in a whisper to prevent Merrill from hearing, but it was clear she was defying.
"Merrill. Ask another one for Rona."
"Then I'll tell my dad to make another one."
"sorry"
As he turns his eyes from Merrill's back into the kitchen to the girl standing beside the table, Aldis points to an empty chair.
"Sit without standing."
"..."
"I'm going to stand out when I'm standing in such a place."
Huran A girl looks at Aldis with a brash look. The gaze says, "What are you doing? 』Silently asserted the girl's doubts and confusion.
"Hey."
Prompt When Aldis finishes, the girl slowly sits down on the chair as she finally thought. The moment that he kept his eye on Aldis for the moment, it reminded me of a stray cat on the back alley watching for humans.
Merrill came and carried the food and set it on the table as the strange silence lay.
"My treat. Eat. Are you hungry?"
After telling him only what he needed, Aldis started eating quickly. But after a while, the girl never tries to cook.
"Why don't you eat?"
"why?"
The girl is questioned if she doesn't understand the intention.
"If you don't worry, there's nothing weird. That's what I eat."
But Aldis doesn't seem to be offended and pierces a bite-sized piece of poultry with a fork.
"If you're going to do something to your opponent, you'll do nothing without such hassle. Your vigilance is completely useless."
Suspicious A girl who understands the difference between Aldis and her ability turns to Aldis to cook, then to the kitchen, to see if she is convinced to some extent or just wondered. He looked around closely, moving his eyes only busy, and the girl finally licked a small amount of soup or cooking sauce on his fingertips, and then began to eat carefully, gazing at it.
At first she was eating food at random, but eventually she realized she was safe. Chew the food as if you remembered hungry. Aldis smiled happily upon seeing it, and began to look for Merrill, who would be moving around on a catering table to order additional food.
I don't know if I've really received the word that it would be easier to be close to me if I was going to watch all day, but since then, whenever Aldis acts in the royal capital, the girl always follows her from behind. become. As expected, when I returned to the forest house, I shook it so that I could not follow it, but at other places I did it as I liked.
"Can you get six skewers?"
"I have it! Three copper coins!"
Aldis buys skewers with a good aroma at the main street and Aldis hands two to Rona.
"Hey, come a little."
With the remaining four in hand, Aldis turns around and beckons the girl.
At first, the girl, who did not seem to approach her, may have been much less alert to Aldis during the past half month. I wasn't glad to say it, but he was coming with caution.
"Hello, yours."
Hand over half of the skewers Aldis has in his hand. The girl who receives it obediently confirms that Aldis has eaten the meat, and starts to wear himself.
"I'll be back today, so don't follow me.
No matter how dangerous you are, you can't afford to expose your twins.
"From tomorrow it will be a three day work of defeat. I will be preparing for it because it will be a noshuku. I will procure what I need in the royal city in the morning and go out at noon. If I want to eat breakfast Wait at the north gate by eight o'clock.
Aldis tells the girl the tomorrow's schedule to chew and include. You can follow the outside of the royal capital without any preparation.
If you don't even come to the house where your twins are waiting, it doesn't matter whether you're in the royal capital or where you went for defeat. Aldis is honestly announcing the plan because she is convinced that the girl will not harm him with that information. Rather, it also meant preventing the girl from recklessly following Aldis and coming to the forest.
The girl nodded to Aldis's words while chewing the skewers.
The girls have become accustomed so far, and they do not open their guards as they did before, and they are honest with the food they have given. Lona seemed to have given up on this, and now she wasn't saying anything. With food But Rona says, "I can only see it from wherever I look."
Aldis has no intention of doing that, but it is only his subjectivity. Even those who gave or did not give food were apparently objectively nothing more than feeding.
"But how long are you going to keep doing this? It's not always possible, you know Al."
On the way out of the royal city and back to the house in the forest, Rona pierces the pain.
"I know, but it wouldn't hurt if I didn't become an enemy, and it wouldn't be a huge burden if I increased my meal cost."
In fact, it's known how much a girl eats compared to Rona's diet. Even though the skewered meat is just a snack for Rona, considering the girl's diet, there should have been a volume that was not exaggerated to say dinner.
"That girl is, in a way, a victim of the organization.
"That's why you don't need to feed them."
"Well, well ..."
Aldis clogs Rona's theory.
"Well, it looks like it's no longer in the forest, and it's certainly not going to be dangerous ... but don't go too deep."
"... I know."
Despite answering in his mouth, he felt openly unconvinced by Aldis's face.