#One
“… … What have you done?”
First of all, I felt nauseous.
On the first floor of the library, where the number of students in uniforms was significantly higher than usual for the long-awaited exam period, a chirping voice as if shooting someone relentlessly reached everyone’s ears.
Golden hair that shows off her color brilliantly even without sunlight. When the girl with her hand on one side of her waist and raising her eyebrows with a dissatisfied expression uttered a rather loud voice, the young man who was quietly looking at the textbook in front of the girl turned his head indifferently.
The moment blue and red eyes finally met.
“What did you do, Lu… … ”
“Before asking anything, keep basic manners. Where do you think this is now?”
In response to a rational word, Yuri said, “I’m sorry.” I groaned and looked around in a hurry.
Seniors, or classmates, who are watching them making a loud fuss in a library where quietness is the rule.
Yuri admitted that she was excited. After finding the person he was looking for, he had a tendency to raise his voice without realizing it. He wasn’t the kind of person who would raise his self-esteem here and raise his tone again, so he hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and opened his mouth as if whispering to a young man.
“Follow me. I have something to talk about for a moment.”
“How important is the exam period right now, do I have to do it now even after watching my studies? Can’t we do it later?”
“I’m not doing this because I don’t have the latter.”
Ezio answered, turning the pen around, but Yuri never seemed to back down.
Perhaps he knew that he was staring at people around him, his face was slightly red, but his legs were completely motionless.
It seemed like there would be no way I would leave unless I was outright humiliated here, so I was thinking about how to pursue him.
“… … If I just do well in your exam, is it over?”
“… … ”
what else does this mean
Of course, you have to do well in the exam, and it is natural that you have to work harder as you are far behind others because of an unfortunate accident. Yuri was also concerned about Ezio’s condition when he found out that Ezio, who had gone missing immediately, had returned—though, of course, it wasn’t a normal person’s worrying reaction.
There was no reason to interfere with Ezio’s studies. He probably didn’t come all the way here on purpose to disturb him. Because Amu-ryum Yuri was also one of the students taking the exam. I was just staring at a book in the dormitory, finally grabbed my head, sighed, and just came out.
“… … ”
“… … ”
The eyebrows of Yuri were narrowed down to the middle. A face that clearly looks annoyed. If I leave it in this state, I think more troublesome things will happen. Rather than making additional scrapes here, it would be better to process it outside and come quickly.
On the other hand, it was something I had predicted right away that problems would arise in one way or another.
chin.
Ezio closed the book and placed the bag on the chair.
“okay. Let’s go outside.”
“… … huh.”
Before turning her back, Yuri suddenly glanced at the person opposite Ezio who was looking at Yuri and Ezio with troubled eyes.
‘Because there is nothing wrong with it.’
He opened the door to the library as if he was not interested.
After a moment of silence.
“I’ll come and talk for a moment. I am studying.”
“Ah, yes… ”
I pulled up a chair and stood up, sighing.
Stella, who was looking at the place where Yuri had just left and Ezio with a worried look alternately, showed a reaction, not knowing what to do, stroking her side hair with her fingers.
Since I’m taking the magic major exam on Wednesday, the content of the class that has already passed… … It was last night that I asked for help to even cram.
There was a history of getting help once before, and Ezio, who visited Stella, who was looking at the night sky as usual, asked for a favor.
First of all, basic theory studies can be done in the library. The actual application of magic has to be done in another place, but… First of all it was. Because of this, Stella has been helping Ezio with her studies since Monday morning, when both of them had relatively free time.
After taking the last view of Ezio’s back out of the library along the glass, Stella looked back at the text in the textbook.
of course.
‘… … I can’t concentrate.’
I hope you solve it well.
Stella let out a small sigh.
#2
“Speak quickly, I don’t have time.”
“Noisy. It’s not something to end in a rough way.”
After the rain, the sky was clear.
Yuri brought Ezio under the shade of a tree next to the library. Since there were no benches, the two stood facing each other on the floor.
“Considering the gap between classes I didn’t take, one minute and one second right now is a waste, isn’t it? If I can’t study for another 5 minutes and something that I didn’t remember comes up on the exam, will you take responsibility?”
“Oh really. okay! Who doesn’t know you’re busy? I’ll take responsibility! I’ll take responsibility, so answer my questions calmly.”
Unlike the library, it doesn’t matter much if you shout and shout. Ezio scratched the back of his neck after hearing Yuri’s voice, which had stayed in the air for a while.
‘I expected it, but it’s really coming.’
I haven’t seen her after that, but if Yuri comes to ask her like this… Ezio paused for a moment and looked down at the growling glass in front of me.
“As I said before, if I just do well in your exam, it’s over, right? Do you really think so? You ruined other people’s exams?”
“It’s someone else’s test, today is Monday. it’s morning Aren’t there any tests that you’ve done so far?”
“You’re not talking like that now.”
Yuri bit her lower lip and spoke.
“Because of you, I couldn’t prepare properly for the exam, and even if I came back right away, it interfered enough to affect the exam I’m going to take soon. No, not at all, you.”
“… … I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Strictly speaking, I don’t think it’s Ezio’s fault for not preparing for the exam properly, but I only left it as a brief thought.
Yuri, who had been shaking her shoulders for a while, took a deep breath, and calmly but calmly opened her mouth.
“What did you do to Rubia? you.”
“… … ”
The main point came.
Ezio tilted his head up this time.
A blue sky could be seen through the leaves.
“To the kid who worried so much because you disappeared, didn’t eat, cried, and did that… … I asked what you did yesterday.”
“… … ”
“I didn’t even eat breakfast today. I think he was in the room, but he didn’t even open the door. I felt like I was sleeping, so I knocked on the door, but there was no response. And, I’ve seen it all. Yesterday when Rubia came back from the dorm… The face was messed up. Even so, you’re smiling because you don’t want to worry me. Seeing that face… How would you feel as a friend of mine?”
“… … ”
“You took Rubia yesterday. And then that’s how it happened. What the hell were you doing there… The child you should be smiling at when you come back is crying, right? I do not get it. Absolutely.”
As Ezio returned, I thought that Rubia’s condition would return to normal. But instead of getting better, it got worse.
Then Yuri noticed it intuitively.
Last night, something happened.
Not a very good thing.
“Really, I just don’t understand. why… did you ring? for what? What’s the matter? In fact, no matter what the circumstances, I don’t think I’ll ever understand. How could this be? As the days went by, I watched all of my friends get exhausted, and it was hard to see them laughing so desperately that they were okay, but when it got really dangerous, you came back… Good luck, I thought.”
The meaning of happiness Yuri said had many other things besides suggesting that Rubia’s condition would be alleviated.
Yuri played a role in reassuring Rubia, who was trembling with anxiety, but when the time came for everyone to fall asleep, in the middle of the spacious bed, she quietly fiddled with her hair tie and fell into deep thought.
“It turned out to be the opposite. This makes sense… ?”
“… … ”
Looking up at Ezio, who still didn’t say a word, Yuri was filled with excitement inside her, and she burst into laughter as she spoke.
“Rubia… he’s a pretty good kid Most of all, he’s your closest friend. Why are you tormenting a friend like that? ”
fell off was genuinely pissed off. I didn’t really like the man in front of me. Still, I wondered if it would be okay, but it seemed that the favorable reception would be drastically reduced by this incident. I don’t know if there was such a thing in the first place.
In the meantime, he did not try to get deeply involved in the two’s affairs. Rubia and Ezio. Because the two always put on a complicated expression first when they met. Because it didn’t seem like a one-sided relationship where one person clings to it and one person shakes it off. Because of that, Yuri didn’t even ask Rubia. I just said that if you want to depend on me someday, you can depend on me.
However, as the days went by, I got closer to Rubia, felt that she was a really good friend, and I fell in love with Rubia. In fact, it made me think about the person who made Rubia so hard on Rubia, who was practically the same age friend I met for the first time. As I was talking about a man, I remembered Rubia’s face that was crying even after laughing.
Yuri was not a referee who arbitrated in a fight. He was a friend who only took the side of Rubia. Rubia, locked in her room with a sad expression on her face that brought tears to her eyes, couldn’t leave her alone.
So I came to Ezio. In the end, he couldn’t comfort Rubia. It was only effective if the person responsible for driving the situation solved it himself.
“If it’s okay with you, it’s over? I know how sad Rubia was for you… ? If you made a person to that level, you shouldn’t have to do anything. At least you don’t have to reassure me. I can’t do that, and if I get involved with you, Rubia just keeps getting harder… Are you really friends? you?”
He left such a deep wound on his kind-hearted friend that he even skipped dinner because he was worried about sleeping, and the way he was doing his own thing… Glass didn’t like it at all.
“Study for the exam, it doesn’t matter. It’s important… I mean, you’re not the only one that matters. At this rate, Rubia looks like she’ll ruin the exam. Because of you.”
“… … ”
“Yeah, I know I’m in a position where I can’t be more involved. But this isn’t it. If you have done something, take responsibility for it. I mean, take care of Rubia somehow. It’s my friend, it’s your friend. You said that you were each other’s precious friends. But if this is a normal friendship, I don’t know.”
“… … ”
“If you can’t answer what happened… after. okay. Okay, so please do something with Rubia. I mean, it hurts so much for him to do that. If you don’t talk to me today, I’m really disappointed with you… … ”
“hey.”
In an instant, my body felt stiff.
saah… …
A gentle breeze swept through the leaves, and the coldness contained within it sharply skimmed through Yuri’s arms and legs.
The hairs all over his body stood upright.
Gosh, it was cold.
… If you stop talking and look up your head, which has gradually faltered,
“Do it in moderation.”
There was Ezio, the first face he had ever seen.
#3
“I’m your friend too, so I won’t say anything that doesn’t sound like such a thing, such as why are you only mad at me. But I have to say something else.”
“Uh, uh… … ”
Ezio swept his bangs away without a sigh, with a look as if he would have choked him right away if he had even had a cigarette in his pocket.
A momentum with a chilling coldness.
When I was young, I suddenly remembered the image of my older brother who shoved Yuri just three times.
“Everything I can do on my part is over. It’s not that I don’t want to do it. It would be great if I could comfort you with a fake lie. But, I think if I get through the crisis with a lie, one day I’ll get a good f*ck.”
“Joe, what… … ?”
Relationships built from lies from start to finish are bound to collapse eventually. The piled up lies became an unbearable weight, and they only weighed the sinner down until everything about him crumbled away.
Whether Yuri is silent or not, Ezio continues.
“I am not in a situation where I have to do more here. As you said, the more I do, the more difficult it becomes for Rubia. It is a problem that we have to overcome by ourselves, and if it is impossible to overcome, we will have to stay that way for a while.”
“you you… How can you be so irresponsible… … ”
“Irresponsible?”
“under-.” Ezio wiggled the corners of his mouth.
“The time has come to determine whose responsibility is already long gone.”
“… … ”
Not only mentioning what happened last night, Ezio gave off an atmosphere of talking about a very distant time period.
“If it was wrong to have talked before the exam, it could be. But if I hadn’t talked about it then, Rubia would have been more anxious. I was so concerned that I could die, so I couldn’t even concentrate on my studies. No, more than that… … Now both are limited. slowly.”
Still, Yuri doesn’t know what Ezio is talking about. What was the limit? I couldn’t ask any more.
“It has come, and we are just facing each other. He used to be locked up in his room right now, but in my experience it won’t last that long. Rubia is obviously soft, but she’s not weak.”
Not only because of his sincerity, but also because of his friends who are worried about him, he will inevitably wake up. It might not be a good look to those around me, but I had to stand up anyway. Now is.
“It… … how are you sure What if this doesn’t happen? What if I don’t come out any more?”
“What then… I’ll have to go.”
“… … ! Then you can just go out now!”
“why me?”
Ezio half closed his eyes and looked down at the glass.
Again, it’s the first time I see a face.
“… ”
Yuri, who had shrugged her shoulders for a while because of the cold, questioning gaze, immediately opened her chest and shouted.
“It means that there is a way to solve it. To leave it like that even though there is a way, do you really think that’s right?!”
“Oh my God.”
“… … What?”
“There are a lot of things in the world that can’t be done with effort.”
Ezio continued.
“Anything doesn’t go the way you want it to, and just because you know how to do it doesn’t mean you can get it right away.”
“… … ”
“At the time, I said I was going to go. It’s been quite some time. Neither me nor Rubia can do anything right now. It wouldn’t have happened if it had been simple enough to solve last night’s work this morning. As I’ve already said, there’s nothing more I can do. Now is.”
“… … then-“
The moment I wanted to say one more word without backing down.
“Just because Rubia is locked up right now, don’t hold me responsible for everything. … What am I going to become when I just woke up and came to study?”
The momentum that stood on the day is gradually dissipating.
As a result, Yuri’s face, which had been suppressed, returned to its original state, but she couldn’t scream and generate heat like before.
“you… … ”
Now, a familiar face.
The time they met at the back of the banquet hall seemed to overlap.
He seems to cry, but he doesn’t cry, he closes his mouth, wrinkles his nose, loosens his nose, closes his eyes, and stares into empty space.
“Yeah, Yuri.”
He was clearly speaking to Yuri, but without looking at Yuri, his voice was deprived of strength and he muttered blankly.
“I know you value Rubia.”
“By the way, you’re only a month old.”
“I am nine years old.”
“It’s nine years. Even if 3 years are subtracted from that… Six years.”
“… … Don’t make your own judgement and ask me questions that don’t even sound like Rubia and I’m friends. It’s really hard to listen to, and it’s hard to respond to each one.”
“Can’t you be worried? Could it be that you don’t care? It’s still complicated, did you even need to make me more complicated, you?”
“If it’s okay with me, will it be over? Who am I tormenting? Rubia? I? Why do I have to torment such a nice guy as you say?”
“I mean, for Rubia’s sake… … not.”
“Yuri, you.”
“I know you care a lot about Rubia, but the only thing you saw yesterday was Rubia. How I was yesterday, you don’t even know.”
“You must have been talking like this because I looked okay, but that’s not it.”
“Because I am tired now.”
“… … I just want you to leave me alone.”
Yuri stood still, unable to turn, until Ezio wiped his face and trudged back to the library.
I came here in the name of a friend.
In the end, no one helped.
“… … What is it, so?”
Yuri did not move for a while with her head bowed.