6.5 Silent Night, Holy Night (5)
The dainty lips opened and closed over and over again.
Swallowing dry saliva, moistening the dry tongue with saliva.
Elsie’s hesitation continued for a long time. Instead of rushing for an answer, I looked around the studio.
It was a place where traces of blood and sweat were visible everywhere.
Books with numerous notes, drawing papers filled with geometric shapes, and papers written in unknown characters stood out one by one. Every time that happened, I had no choice but to bite my bitter smile.
It meant that he did not neglect anything during study, research, and training.
Elsie-senpai was not in despair. Rather, he was struggling to escape from the bottom of despair. to get up again.
I’m sorry for that, but I’m grateful.
It was then. What Elsie-senpai squeezed out in a small voice.
“… … I couldn’t do anything.”
Following the sudden confession, my gaze slowly shifted. At the end of it stood a girl wearing a cone-shaped hat.
The brim of the hat he clenched tightly covered half of his face. It was difficult to read the expression on his face, but it was worth guessing from his clenched teeth.
Am I resentful?
As if to prove this, the girl’s lips were repeating a slight trembling.
“Isn’t it? In the last battle, I wasn’t much help… I don’t know if it’s a burden.”
“Senior Elsie… … .”
An involuntary sigh escaped my mouth.
It was a misunderstanding, I wanted to make an excuse on behalf of senior Elsie.
The secret room was not a favorable environment for wizards. Unless he adopted a unique fighting style like Mr. Reynolds, the firepower a wizard could project in a confined space was limited.
In addition, it is easy to be surrounded, and it is not appropriate to spread the distance.
After all, there was little room for senior Elsie to play an active part in the last battle. In other words, it meant that there was no need to blame myself and push myself like this.
However, senior Elsie’s will already seemed firm.
“I was too complacent.”
It was an assertion that did not show even the slightest gap.
Sometimes a firm resolution doesn’t even allow a bit of persuasion. I was about to say something, but I kept my mouth shut.
Elsie’s hand holding the brim of the hat was shaking.
“Watching you stabbed by a traitor’s sword… Do you know how much I shuddered to see you chained up and suffering? If my uncle had not come, I would have lost you.”
“senior… … .”
“And in the end I lost my uncle.”
It was a voice full of water.
At this point I gave up further persuasion. It was just taking a step and narrowing the distance with senior Elsie.
“Again, never again… . Ugh, I don’t want to lose… … .”
Before long, the sobbing girl came into my arms.
I patted Elsie-senpai on the back without saying a word while giving strength to the arm that was holding Elsie-senpai. Kneeling due to the height difference, my body slightly supported Elsie-senpai.
Then, a strange feeling of satisfaction filled my chest. It was a sense that only senior Elsie could give as a gift.
“As much as you, black… As for you, never… … .”
“I am not leaving.”
While appeasing Elsie-senpai, who was clinging like a child, I said with strong conviction.
“You made a promise to your uncle. My fiancé is crying so much, where am I going?”
After hearing my consolation, Elsie-senpai burst into even more sorrowful crying.
I must have wanted to cry over and over again.
There must have been many times when I shut myself up in a workshop and stole tears by myself.
So I decided to silently accept the torrent of emotions bursting out by Elsie. Hoping that senior Elsie would no longer be lonely, and furthermore, hoping that I could be at least a little bit of strength.
Even after that, Elsie-senpai couldn’t stop crying for a long time.
How long did he hold the girl in his arms?
“… … I will become stronger.”
The declaration, soaked with moisture, followed. My hand stroked Elsie-senpai’s back without a word.
“To never lose you again… So, I’ll concede for a very short while.”
It was an outright refusal.
I didn’t know that I would be kicked by Elsie-senpai, so I had to swallow a small laugh. However, it was a yard that had already listened to senior Elsie’s resolution.
As for me, I had no choice but to be willing to support Elsie-senpai.
Having made up my mind, my hand groped in my bosom. Soon after, I was able to find something to return to Elsie-senpai.
pitch black rod.
It was Mr. Reynolds legacy. I received help at the Court on the Mount, but now it was my turn to return to my master.
I handed over the bar and thanked him.
“Thank you, senior Elsie.”
“… … ?”
Elsie’s puzzled eyes turned to me. I burst out laughing at the blue eyes that I finally met.
“You trusted me. That stick gave me a lot of courage. Also, seeing ‘Beyond the Boundaries’ helped.”
Looking back, it was an amazing experience.
beyond the border.
The other side of the world was there. In the wave of meaning that swept away everything, the ego was reduced to nothing more than a speck of dust.
At that time, the jet-black rod helped.
I didn’t know what the principle was. I just remembered that the pitch-black stick was crying endlessly. Instinctively, I knew I had the help of this rod.
Therefore, the jet-black stick had to go back to Elsie-senpai.
Because in order to become a ‘great wizard’, I had to face that ‘truth’.
“From now on, I will contact you often. Don’t suffer too much alone… We are betrothed.”
After that, I slowly got up.
Elsie-senpai put on a sad expression for a moment, but soon she seemed to have regained her composure and smiled to the fullest.
The tear-stained face was very attractive.
“… … yes!”
That’s how I ended my short reunion with senior Elsie.
It wasn’t sad. I had no doubts that if it was Elsie-senpai, he would see results sooner or later.
The girl will rise from the ground once more.
As always.
**
“Me, Ian? So, who are you thinking of pairing up with? … ?”
A sonorous voice resounded in the faint sunlight.
On the upper floor of the newspaper department, on a chair that only the manager could sit on, was a strange owner.
It was me.
Originally, the owner of this office was senior Neris, but she wasn’t the one to calmly leave me after a long absence.
He made the excuse that he couldn’t sit in a higher seat than me, so he finally put me in this seat.
Of course, it was comfortable to sit on. The chair seemed to be of high quality, befitting the Empire’s secret service overflowing with rotten money.
In the end, I got drunk on the back of a soft chair and felt drowsy. The past, in which Hansako had refused to take the honorary seat, was almost laughable.
My lukewarm gaze was far away, so I turned to senior Neris.
She was a beautiful woman with brown hair and dark green eyes. The hairpin that gave her bangs a stylish look stood out.
In the past, it was a bit colder and harsher.
Now, there was only one cute senior who glanced at me. Thanks to being a little closer, he seemed less afraid of me, though.
At this point, I swallowed my saliva and slightly averted my gaze.
It was a sign that I didn’t have anything to say.
“Well, I’m not sure yet.”
“That is a presumptuous word… … .”
Senior Neris cautiously opened his mouth to my sullen attitude.
A gulp, a dry swallowing sound was heard. The cold sweat that began to form on his forehead revealed the feelings of senior Neris.
Even though we were a little close, the boss was the boss. That’s why I wouldn’t be able to deal with it comfortably.
“As in combat, it is important for martial arts to have an opponent with whom to work together. In particular, since there is a strong perception that men should lead women at prom… … .”
“Then, how about senior Neris?”
At my mischievous question, Neris-senpai widened his eyes.
It was a look that I didn’t know what it meant. So I had to add an additional explanation.
“You haven’t decided on your partner for the Holy Night Festival yet, have you? Then how about me?”
“Oh, that, that, that… … !”
Only then did Neris-senpai understand what I meant, and his face brightened up.
He stuttered, unable to meet my gaze, and struggled with both arms.
It was the most embarrassing look out of all the Neris seniors I’ve ever seen.
Was it too mean
Eventually, I had no choice but to shake my head and let out a light laugh.
“I’m kidding, kidding! Isn’t that too much though? As long as you don’t have to hate it… … .”
“Si, I don’t hate it!”
It was a reflexive voice.
Now it was my turn to put on a puzzled look. As the golden eyes moved, Neris-senpai let out a stuttering voice.
“Absolutely, absolutely not! Rather, a little… … !”
It was then.
In the distance, a sound echoed like a reverberation.
Neris-senpai and I froze at the same time. It was because the sound that passed my ears at first glance was too familiar.
scream?
“… … Did you hear?”
Neris-senpai’s face turned pale at my subtle question.
No answer was needed.
It was because the frequency of the screams was getting shorter and shorter. Even the epicenter of the noise was getting closer and closer to the office.
It was an obvious attack. And it also meant ‘failure of boundaries’.
Senior Neris’ expression collapsed terribly. It was no wonder that he acted so rudely in front of his direct superior, even though he wanted to die.
However, my interests were different.
Who the hell are you?
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Judging from the sounds heard, there was only one opponent.
It took a lot of skill to break through the newspaper department alone. I knew it well because I had been through it too.
At least expert.
Among them, it had to belong to a fairly talented axis. I stared out the door with interest.
Coincidentally, there was an ongoing restraint by a newspaper member who was on guard there.
“Sorry, but this place is off-limits… Aww!”
single match.
No, it didn’t even crash. It literally meant that it happened in an instant.
In the end, senior Neris, who could not stand it, burst into a roar.
“How dare you know where this place is… … !”
bang, and
As if to answer that question, the door of the office burst open. Bloodstains were seeping through the shattered pieces of wood.
It was then.
Senior Neris, who was about to run away at any moment, stopped. Regardless of whether or not, the other person was just taking light steps without saying a word.
Blue eyes burned like wildfire through clouds of dust.
Eventually, when the gray hair was exposed, I made a stupid face.
Seria Yurdina.
A junior who should have been in the northern part suddenly appeared here.
Even that, leaving a few drops of blood on his cheeks.
It was a strangely sorcerous atmosphere. I was impressed by the cold and sharp momentum than I had seen before.
A girl with a cool complexion met my eyes in the air.
hold on for a while
Pak, the girl’s new model scattered. Neris-senpai tried to respond, but it was faster for the girl to dig into my arms.
Even if I didn’t do that, I was buried in the backrest.
I had no idea what to do with the girl jumping over the desk and flying towards me. I had to fall backwards with a chair and look at my junior who was rubbing his cheek with his face buried in my arms.
“senior! Bo, I missed you… Ugh, black… That, how that bitch bullied her… … !”
So, Seria burst into tears and began to breathe deeply while burying her nose in my clothes.
Neris-senpai and I were far away from each other, so we met in mid-air.
Those dark green eyes demanded an explanation from me. But the answer I can give is only one.
‘I do not know.’
I had no choice but to answer that with my mouth.
It was truly an unexpected reunion.
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