When She Becomes a Witch

On that day at the end of the year, the weather was brisk with little snow.

"Oh, Mr. Souzillow. Which way to in this weather?

Madame Therese at boarding house called me in the front door, so I answer this as I had decided beforehand.

"... there was a package I was sending there, to the post office"

December 31.

This evening, when the whole island shows the bustle of the year, I go out of my way to the post office with a small package in my hand.

Nothing. This little package itself is something you don't mind sending at any time.

Yet Aoshiro sends a small package at the post office on this day.

This was a sort of ritual.

Summon someone, a ritual for that matter.

Complete the process of shipping the small package and leave the post office.

As always, Little Snow is stuck. If it keeps getting colder and turns into a lot of snow at night, the fireworks may be canceled tonight.

Looking up at the sky, he sighs cheekfully - that's when the signs' appeared 'behind him.

Reflectively, there was strength in my hand holding the blade implanted stick.

Aoshiro looks back slowly and with a calm look as possible.

"... good afternoon"

Good afternoon, Mr. Souzillow.

What stood there was what I expected.

Reishi's face. A faintly silver-tone fur coat and a lavender-coloured winter hat over a lavender-coloured dress with a different design from last year.

The usual perfume's gorgeous aromas flutter.

"Have you been waiting for me?

The smile and the beauty who seems to be in a good mood - says Yumis Ratrasta Atlantis.

"... well, I've been waiting. That's for sure. We've been waiting for you to do the same thing we did last year."

"Oh, lovely things"

Even if Aoshiro and Yumis are in conversation, the people around them are bare.

She seems to be using magic like she did last year, like 'rewriting the perceptions of the people around her a bit'. Otherwise, I don't think this too famous big witch can go out properly.

"So, will you stick with me this year?

"Yep. If you wish, we can escort you."

Turn to her, reach out.

Yumis took the hand with a slight blur.

"So where shall we head this year"

"Well, as well as last year, the illumination of Harbor Park is good... and eating and walking in the stalls of the year is good. Yeah, well, mobile amusement parks are coming from abroad now, you know?

It is incredible that the woman who laughs innocently and makes plans for the future of today is the head of the International League of Witches.

"Oh, but do you want the same store for dinner as last year? That store will also serve seafood carpaccio. I know it's a little different from sashimi, but I have a reputation for being quite delicious."

"Right. Then I'm concerned about the amusement park, and buy a snack at the stall, and then head over there. How about dinner afterwards?

"Yeah, let's do that!

The stalls of the year were adorably decorated with little dolls and more.

Yumis tells us what that decorative doll means, one by one.

You think everything makes sense, each magically, too?

"Yes, be careful not to burn it because it's hot"

"Thank you very much."

I bought it from a street stall, and I give it to Yumis for half of the fried confectionery that they made by working on wheat dough - they say chulos.

This was filled with cinnamon and sugar, and when it was included in my mouth, it smelled fluffy and sweet and distinctive.

I've been eating and walking ever since I was a student.

"... you were doing that too"

"Yeah, with Tsukiko. He didn't know one thing about Atlantis, so I showed him a lot of things."

So whining like a solitaire, Yumis eats Chulos.

"That's a nostalgic sweetness."

Moving amusement park, something Aoi had never seen before. But I know it's a blinking fun place, as if I packed my kids' dreams.

"Hey, let's get on Marygoland."

Yumis tries to pull his arm around in a direction where there is a plaything with a trojan horse twirling around.

"Is that that spinning Trojan horse plaything, I'm okay with watching"

"Don't hesitate. Are you sure?

"I didn't."

"Already...... then, Mr. Souzillowe should take a good look at it. I don't want to go anywhere."

Grasping Aoishiro's sleeve tightly, anxiously she shrugged.

"Where are you going in this situation?"

"That's right..."

Glittering carousel (Marygoland). Yumis, riding sideways on one of them, waves at me.

The sight must only be properly seen by Aoshiro with her magical effect.

Really dreamy, shimmering, beautiful. Think of it as an illusion.

Same store as last year that I had booked.

The slight difference was that he was put through to a completely private room seat.

"Ha... that was fun"

"... yeah. It was also quite interesting to see a face that looked fun."

"Oh, that's mean."

Not responding to Yumis, Aoshiro sipped a sip of warm green tea. I don't know if this tea is the same thing I was drinking in my hometown. Because it contains sugar, the flavour is not clear. Why, in Europe, do we put sugar in tea indiscriminately?

"... why bother sweetening the tea and drinking it"

"Tsukiko was so blurry, hehe."

She also said something about Tsukiko.

Yuki Miya Tsukiko.

She was a student partner of Yumis, a woman from the Imperial Kingdom.

She's...

"He was on my face."

……

"It's a lie."

Yumis grinned at Aoi, who rushed to his cheeks.

"Me and Tsukiko were partners as students. And he was also in love."

Pompous, Yumis began to talk absurdly.

"Well, you two..."

"Right. Naturally, if we get along like that... it wasn't something we could hide around."

Yumis says so, then mouths a cold cup of tea.

"I was originally a school mandated partner, so I only avoided being totally broken up... but I think I made Tsukiko feel very hard. So I graduated early and wanted to go with her to the Emperor's kingdom."

I put the cup on the saucer with the kacha, but the hand seemed to be shaking at the heel.

"But the International League of Witches didn't try to get away with my talent. Because this is still me, genius from the time, what a lifting. I was forbidden to leave Atlantis, and Tsukiko was... kicked out of Atlantis."

"Oh no..."

"The witch who gave the order is now one of my men."

Yumis, like a girl, giggled dull.... that grin doesn't even have a single piece of darkness. On the contrary, it seems to be glaring at her abyss.

"I just wanted to be free soon, and with that one heart, I kept doing my credit, and when I realized I was standing here... in this place of solitude"

"... Yumis"

I can't stand all sorts of things, and Aoshiro squeaks like that.

She had a sad look on her face, as if she had been stabbed in various parts of her chest.

"Oh, you finally called my name... but no. No, it's not. I'm still only talking about Tsukiko."

"Of course, I'm not Yukiko Yukimiya."

I dare you to pretend to drink green tea with sugar, just as Aoshiro is not interested in Yumis.

"Have you heard from Tsukiko?"

"I don't. Even now, ten years ago, I never get a letter from her. On the contrary, I don't even know where she is. I was scared, and it was a mistake from my youth, and I thought I was already tied up with someone else, and I was scared, and I couldn't even find out where she was."

Spitting out his feelings, Yumis looked out the blurry, dark window.

"I miss you...... she was a very, very beautiful one"

From afar, I hear fireworks.

The Pieces of the Magic Empire Atlantis, which did not sink, was already in its new year.

"Yumis, I'm a little late, shall we go see the fireworks"

"... yes, you are"

Yumis smiling like that was the one who was so sad and so beautiful.