Phyllia was blushing with a bright red face as she lay low on me.

I didn't know what to do, but it was solidified.

There is no doubt that if someone sees you, you will be misled.

I was playing "Father and Daughter," and I don't think anyone would believe me no matter what I said.

And in fact, the witness didn't seem to believe me.

"Hey, what are you doing? Solon?"

A slightly lower tone for a woman, but a beautiful voice echoed in the room.

Turning around the door of the room, a beautiful woman with red hair and red eyes stood there.

He was a professor at Imperial School of Magic, "Lucy the Crimson".

Lucy looked like she was in trouble and compared me to Philia.

To his disciple, the princess, the goddess, held him blush.

I don't know why Lucy's here, but I do think she'll be confused.

Philia smiled and asked Lucy before I made any excuses.

"Maybe you envy me?

"Beh, I'm not jealous of you."

"Yeah. So this is how me and Solon can stay close together?

"Not good!

And then Lucy blushed.

Lucy walked over to us once.

And grab my shoulder.

"Hold on, Solon. Because you are the master of this child. I need to say no to these mundane things!

"No, not mundane..."

Philia looks like she's enjoying herself next to me.

Phyllia walked away from me and spoke.

"But, Lucy, because when Solon was a student, he had a lot of flirting, didn't he?

"Wow, because I don't do that with my disciples!

"Weren't you stroking my hair, hugging me, knee pillows?

"How do you know!? Solon talked!?

I shook my head to the side and Philia glanced at Lucy with her jitsy eyes.

"Yeah. That's really what Lucy was like"

"Maybe now is the induction interrogation?

To Lucy's words, Philia nodded.

Lucy, increasingly blushing, knelt too shy or disappointed on the spot.

I thought Lucy the genius was totally swinging by the philia.

Lucy's a little older than me, but when Lucy became my master, she was still like a girl.

So we were more like friends than mentors. Though I don't know if that is the right way to go as a master and disciple.

Aside from that, Lucy doesn't use reverence for the Empress Philia, and Philia treats Lucy comfortably for it.

It was Lucy who brought me and Philia together.

But I haven't heard what Lucy and Philia have to do with it.

Philia answered my question.

"Me and Lucy are supposed to be cousins."

"Cousins?"

"My mother was the 'demon' of slaves, but that there are other formal mothers to hide the matter. That stepmother was Lucy's aunt."

I mean, my aunt was the Emperor's Queen.

Lucy supplemented Philia's explanation.

It's tricky, but in short, it's not blood relations, but they seem to be relatives to each other.

Otherwise, no matter how much Lucy is the daughter of a prestigious aristocrat, she shouldn't easily come to the back of such a palace.

Lucy said whether she had changed her mind or looked serious.

"Anyway, I need Solon to explain exactly what he was doing to the 14-year-old girl's apprentice."

He said he didn't do anything.

That's what I said, and I tried to get Phyllia to agree, but Phyllia was already pulling into the back room.

He started dressing sometime.

I laughed and Lucy stared at me.

After we were facing each other for a while, Lucy sighed and whispered.

"It's good to get along with Her Royal Highness, but you better keep it that way."

"Wasn't it the teacher who introduced me to Master Philia?"

"That's right. But I think we have to keep our distance."

"I'm sure that's true."

As I nodded vaguely, Lucy looked into my eyes worried.

"You're the one who gets too close and hurts. The disciple is going away one day, and he won't need a master. The more thoughtful you are, the greater the wound."

Lucy told me to tell myself.

I mean, that sounded like you were talking about Lucy herself.

I asked back unexpectedly.

"Do you miss Dr. Lucy, too, when her goddaughter is gone?

"My godson is about you, isn't he?

Come to think of it, you're right.

I was the first apprentice of Professor Lucy, still young, and that next apprentice of Dr. Lucy has yet to graduate from magic school.

Lucy told me to whisper.

"Do you think I've missed you?

"If you thought I was lonely, I'd be happy to,"

"If that's what you think, I wish I'd been in the Empire all the time, without making a Knights"

Lucy twinkled so, staring at me with red beautiful eyes.

"Both Sophia and Cleon were so good to you and so helpful to you, they left you. Even Filia could do that. Because you're always the one who gets hurt then. It must have been hard to get the Knights banished, right?

"Even if it hurts, I don't think I did the wrong thing."

"Why?"

I spinned the words as I thought.

"Neither Sophia nor Cleon used to rely on me, but now I've become a fine adventurer everyone admires. The two of you don't need me right now. But if it's because of me, I can brag about it."

"... you're more of a leader than an adventurer."

"Really?

"That's right. And I'm not like you. I want to keep something important with me. It's not for teachers."

Lucy laughed lonely.