I knocked on the door to her room.
The area has changed since I hit earlier, the cold air is passing down the hallway, and it is very quiet to it.
Because of the tranquility, I even thought she might be asleep, but when I heard a reply through the door, my worries ended.
"... Ah, uh. It's Lasalles. Um, Sophia, are you still awake?
"... what can I do for you?
"... I want to apologize. Things Ever."
The door still won't open.
But I keep talking to her like I'm even talking to that door.
"Sorry. I didn't know anything about Sophia."
"... Lasalles"
"Maybe I was looking at Sophia somewhere younger. Sophia's two years older."
"... not at all, no"
... Seems different.
Were those two words incorrectly interpreted?
"How could Lazareth... do you know if I can't open this door?
"... is that because you're angry?
"No. On the other hand, I'm scared."
"Scared?"
... Well, if I tell you, I'm a witch too.
Scaring is not a strange story. Instead, there's something wrong with those two people who treat me normally.
"It's about you. Maybe you're thinking," Because I'm a witch, "but I don't care about that."
"... I don't care. Even I'm serious..."
"... sorry. That was a silence."
"I don't mind, can I ask why you're scared?
I ask her questions in as calm a tone as I can.
After a while, after hearing a deep breath through the door, her voice goes into her ear.
"How can Lasalles be nice to me?
"... how could you"
"How can you be so nice to me when I got so cold and I lost so much temper!?
I breathed softly and stayed with the words.
"... I'm glad the door wasn't open. It's not from Lazareth."
... The word from here is not as Lazareth.
I want to send word to her... as me as a wise man.
"... I used to destroy my opponent's country in war. Took a lot of soldiers, took a lot of lives ahead of us."
"... Lasalles?
"But there was nothing hateful about the other country to me then." I killed him because he's an enemy ". I hardly knew the other country."
……
"After a while, I won the war by myself. That's when I looked up at the sky and I thought,
"'Empty'. That's all I had in me."
I can hear her breathtaking voice.
But I kept talking.
"... I will no longer say that it was a mistake to win that war. But with a little more eyes on the other guy, that councilor might have been able to prevent it."
"... ugh."
"So I want to know a little bit about people. I don't like hurting people without understanding who they are anymore."
At the same time as I finish, the door opens.
There, a girl with slightly congested eyes stared at this one.
"... come in"
"Are you sure?
Not even responding to my words, sitting in the back chair with the door open.
I sat in a chair with her face to face following her like that, too.
"... Lasalles is splendid."
"Really?
"That's right. Unlike me, it's solid."
... If it was a little earlier to find this answer, she might have been as firm as she said.
"... I really don't want anyone to hate me"
"... Sophia?
"I don't want to hurt anyone, and I don't want to be hurt. But I can't live that life. I'm sure people from all over the world."
"... right"
"... I, too, have lost many friends because I am a brave man. Because magic works, because it's special."
Tears can be seen spilling out of Sophia's overturned eyes and falling to her knees.
... It must have been a tough experience. I can't stand the spirit of a ten year old.
"... so I didn't want to come near anyone. Because if you're someone else, you're fine with being hurt, because if you're someone else, you won't be hurt...!
"... well. That was really hard."
"But how can you reach out to me like that!? Why do you always care about me!?
"... I want to be friends with you. This feeling doesn't matter because you're a Mercury or because you're a brave man."
"... trust me, okay?
Of course.
"Can we play together, eat sweets, stay up late and keep talking?
"Oh."
When I hear that word, tears pour out of her eyes as if she had cut a weir.
... really, it must have been hard.
There must have been something I wanted to do before. I've put up with all that just because I'm a brave man.
"... Well, I have one favor for Lazareth first"
"... Fine. Do whatever you can."
"Just a little bit, stay with me. Be a speaker until Alice returns."
"Okay. Yeah, what are we talking about?
"... about the world before, let me hear it"
... That's how it came.
In the memories of the world before me, instead of good memories, there were no more abrupt events than I could remember.
Just study magic in a state-run orphanage, eat and sleep in a group.
Of course there were women, but those in orphanages are almost like family members, so I've never heard of floating.
Sonna Tachi, Omaeha......
... I couldn't help but talk about it, so while I was pondering how to answer it, Utout and Sophia were on the boat.
Hang a blanket on her shoulder like that.