#7
“Ha, ha… … Whoa, whoa.”
“Whoa, whoa… … ”
Sweet taste from the mouth. Swallowing dry saliva, she lay down on the floor as if she was lying on the floor, and Stella slowly lowered her posture and sat down comfortably.
“Joe, can we rest for a bit? … ”
“yes… … ”
No matter who came in in the middle or not, in preparation for the exam on Wednesday, I used my magic power to study in the gymnasium.
For the first hour or so, he performed magic without resting, and then stopped for a while at a restaurant when it was time to eat, and then immediately returned to the gymnasium.
And he sat there until evening.
Monday was a day without lectures for both me and Stella. Originally, there was a class for the magic major, but it looks like he doesn’t have a class today. I’ve already told you all the things that will be on the exam or something. I don’t know yet. Stella told me everything, so there were no major complaints.
This test, Stella said, is to take both written and practical skills. It was said that the ratio of reflection in the final evaluation was slightly higher for the actual machine.
He said he didn’t tell me the details of the test, so I’m suggesting a topic when taking the test on the same day or something like that.
As well as mock practice.
The rest of the subjects were similar.
Swordsmanship lectures or extrasensory specials that I started relearning when I was not there… … No, but in the latter case, can I take the test? Have you ever learned anything in the first place? I hope the professor and the frontier will do well, but I can’t help but have doubts.
In any case, since all of the lectures on magic, swordsmanship, and extrasensory specialties were all lectures with Stella, all the necessary information was obtained from Stella.
“The magic is, uh… For now, up to here… … It would be nice, I guess… … ”
“Yes… … I guess so. It’s a little dizzy.”
If I used this much magic power, it might take quite a while to recover. It felt like the magic inside was empty enough to cause dizziness. Stella and I’s magical powers were never negligible, but again, that’s how hard we practiced.
I stretched out on the floor, taking a deep breath, barely getting up, and staggered towards the canteen I had brought earlier.
gulp, gulp… …
“Wow!”
When I opened the lid and took a sip, it couldn’t get any cooler than this. It was reserved for this very moment. A sweet break after hard training.
After wiping the stream of water flowing under her chin with the back of her hand, she looked back at Stella, who was tying her sweat-soaked hair.
He held out the canteen he was holding in his hand and opened his mouth.
“stellar.”
“yes?”
“Would you like to drink too?”
Cheeks flushed with heat. A pure white neckline dripping with sweat. Stella, who was making a ponytail by making rings with her fingers, looks at me.
“uh… … ”
“I drank it without putting it in my mouth.”
“Oh, no. I don’t care.”
Just in case she said that, Stella shook her hand, making her face more red, and finally nodded reluctantly.
“Then I’ll take one bite. thank you.”
“No, you can drink it all. I can bring more.”
After all, I’ll be in the gym until tonight anyway.
Right now, I’m learning magic from Stella, but now that I’ve had enough rest, I had to teach Stella to swordsmanship.
Anyway, Stella is good at magic, but… … Because swordsmanship was not young. He said that even now, compared to a month ago, his skills have not improved much.
On the other hand, I have achieved quite a bit of growth that the professor admits. There was a gap of two weeks that could never be ignored, but if Stellar’s level is still there, there are probably a lot of things I can tell you now. It wouldn’t help at all.
In the case of swordsmanship, there was a test on Thursday, so I had more time than magic. During that time, I have to teach Stella my own swordsmanship. By the way, Stella asked me first. I want you to take swordsmanship lessons.
… … To be honest, there must be many more helpful people than me. Aside from the seniors, there is Gabriel who can fight better than me right now, and there is also Mew, who is recognized as a true swordsmanship authority among our freshmen.
Gabriel seems to be able to teach himself, even if it is only for a set amount of time, if Stella asks for it.
Mu is… …
“… … Ezio?”
“Ah oh. Did you drink it all?”
“Yeah, a little bit left. thanks I think I’m going to live a little… ”
I woke up to the sound of Stella calling me.
“… … ”
She nodded, took the canteen she was handed, and silently looked down at it… … In the end, I fell into thoughts again.
I do not know.
I thought it would be better not to think about him now.
I haven’t seen you all day today. I was a little worried when I first heard of the dance hall, but in the end, I never showed up. I don’t know where he is or what he’s doing, but I’ve never met him since then.
If you’re lucky… are you happy
I’m still not in a position to meet face to face.
If that happens, I don’t know how I’m going to react. I have Stella, but I also don’t want to create an awkward atmosphere for nothing.
“But, that… sorry. mouth… dumped it Ahaha.”
okay. It was so comfortable and nice to have time to focus on training and study while forgetting all the complicated things like now.
When I do this, I feel as if I have gone back to that tight time in middle school.
A time when I firmly vowed not to make even a single crack in my life.
In the end, when the resolution that I wanted to carry on for the rest of my life did not go far, and I was forced to show a gap by an absurd junior.
“Uh, uh… I, I was mouthful… peel… … ?”
In my not-so-long life, perhaps, it was the second happiest period of my life… … Memories of sad and sad times.
“Ah, ah… … !”
As if to wash away all the scenes in the memories that were quickly engulfing his brain, he drank the canteen with the lid open and swallowed and chewed the water.
cold water. cold to the touch The scarce amount of cold water gulped down his throat and emptied it from his mouth.
“Whew… … Oh sorry. what?”
Once again, stealing the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand, looking to the side, Stella, who had a somewhat bewildered expression on her face, tried to say something.
“Oh, no… … it’s okay if you don’t know yes.”
“… … ?”
He tilted his head at the clear catchy remarks, but in the end, he couldn’t understand what Stella was talking about until the end.
#8
Around the time Ezio and Stella were training hard at the gymnasium dedicated to the first year.
“… … ”
“… … ”
Yuri, who had succeeded in entering her room with Rubia’s permission, sat on the edge of the bed with Rubia.
Rubia’s room was neat and tidy.
Except for the fact that I just woke up and the blankets were very neatly folded, it was a normal girl’s room.
It was a familiar scene because I had already come in and talked a few times, but now I didn’t come here to chat like it was back then.
“… … ”
“… … ”
Whether or not she thought she had already been caught, Rubia had erased her forced smile. His eyes, which seemed a little wet with sadness, were just pointing downwards. Yuri glanced back at Rubia’s side face and let out a sigh.
“Rubia.”
“… … yes?”
“Why do you think I am here?”
“Well, tomorrow is the exam, so let’s study together… … ”
“Eww.”
“Uh, Yuri… … ?”
Although she doesn’t know the details of how to listen to her friend’s concerns and soothe their pain, Yuri knows that it would be more difficult to speak out in this kind of atmosphere.
Lean yourself on the bed as if you were going backwards. Yuri, who buried herself in the soft bed, stared up at the white ceiling. Then, with his hand, he fiddled with the ends of Rubia’s long, pale pink hair.
“The answer is, I don’t know, hey.”
“… … ?”
“I don’t even know why I’m here. I have no idea what exactly I want to say to you when you come here, or what I wanted to tell you. … But I didn’t think it would be possible if you didn’t come today. Somehow, I thought I’d have to see Rubia’s face today. So I was forced into it.”
This time, he stabbed Rubia’s body with his finger. Rubia let out a small laugh because of the tickling when it was stabbed in the back.
“Well, what are you doing… glass.”
“It’s soft. It’s like a marshmallow.”
“Hey, stop it… Oh, it’s tickling… ”
“Hey. yap.”
“Ah, ah, hot, heh, that, stop… … !”
As if the prank was on fire, she got up halfway and started to tickle Rubia with both hands, and Rubia started to roll with the glass on the bed, smiling enough to shed tears.
Five minutes had passed since then.
“Ha, ha, huh, hey, hey, hey… … ”
“haha… … ”
Rubia, who was rolling on the white bed, trying to get away from Yuri’s touch somehow, and Yuri, who tenaciously attacked sensitive areas and teased her fingers, finally ended with Rubia’s surrender.
“Rubia has good sensitivity.”
“Hey, what’s that, hey, hey, hey, hey… … ”
“Hey-.”
“Ha, huh, hey, hey… … ”
As Yuri reached out her hand as if threateningly, Rubia burst out a tearful laugh as she felt a tingling sensation even though she hadn’t touched it yet.
“It’s hard to breathe… … Too bad, Yuri.”
“Heh heh.”
Whether or not Rubia, who had water droplets on her eyelids, pouted her lips with a resentful expression, Yuri only hummed happily at the thought that her friend had finally escaped from her sad face.
The figure of Rubia, curled up on the bed, probably because she laughed too much, was quite enchanting even to Yuri, the same woman.
The forehead and neckline, which are sweaty due to intense movement, are clear and transparent without a single speck. Because of her snow-white skin, even a small amount of development on her face will make a difference. Her wet emerald eyes were truly jewel-like when viewed up close, and her lips exhaling a sweet breath showed a soft texture with a color resembling the color of her hair.
When it tickled Rubia, it was sometimes caught in Yuri’s arm or trembled slightly… … Rubia is inflating up and down at the same time as it repeats inhalation and exhalation. It would be quite funny if he held that vile thing with his hand, but Yuri didn’t intend to do that.
The head is small, and the body is elongated. Overall, it is moderately dry, but there are soft skins where it should be attached. Body balance is also perfect itself. Her white, smooth legs were scattered randomly on the bed.
It was a contradictory body in which purity and innocence, and glamor and color coexist.
So, she is such a perfect woman and girl.
In Yuri’s opinion, of course, it shouldn’t belong to any man, but is there a man in the world who would refuse Rubia like this?
It’s really disgusting to see that men are the seeds that even Yuri, who was so young, viewed as an object of unhealthy s*xual desire.
‘That guy… … ‘
How on earth can I make a rubia cry like this and fall asleep? A bastard who couldn’t work hard enough to get Rubia’s favor.
… … Oh, are you saying that you have already caught all the fish from your point of view? So, am I just dealing with Rubia?
If Rubia does the same to Yuri as much as she cares for him and takes care of him, I don’t think it’s seriously bad. Historically, same-s*x marriage has never existed. Basically, all men are their enemies too… … Uh, is that really possible?
‘If you keep making Rubia sick, someday I might take Rubia. You bad bastard.’
After laughing so hard inside, Yuri opened her mouth as she lay down next to Rubia and turned to Rubia.
“Rubia.”
“Why, why… … ?”
“Are you feeling a little better now?”
“… … ”
Perhaps the aftertaste has not gone away, Rubia, who had put her hand on her pounding chest and calmed her down for a while, answered.
“Because of you, Yuri, I’ve lost all my energy… … ”
“Heh heh.”
Still, the atmosphere seemed more relaxed.
This was satisfactory.
“I can’t move for a while now. You did too much, Yuri… ”
“There was a bit of sincerity in the middle.”
“Sincerity?”
“yes. I’m a little mad at you.”
“… … uh?”
The words came out as if they were lightly thrown, but Rubia couldn’t help but blink in embarrassment.
“I really like you, Rubia.”
“… … ”
“So I want to have fun with you, I want to know you more, and I want to get to know you more. I want you to have fun with me when you’re happy, and I want to be your strength whenever you’re having a hard time. I am your friend.”
“… … ”
“Honestly, I haven’t made many friends, so I don’t know how to continue the relationship. So, I don’t want to ruin my first. I want to be friends with you for life, Rubia. There is still time left, but… … If we’re going to get to know each other, wouldn’t it be better to get to know them sooner?”
“… … ”
Yuri spoke silently, and Rubia listened quietly. Yuri’s voice was the only thing that blended in between the two breathing sounds.
“You want to talk to someone or have you had any concerns? I said last time that you can confide to me at any time without any hesitation… … Did you say you needed a little more time? But did you even tell me you would?”
“… … ”
“Still… … Do we need more time?”
“… … ”
“Can you tell me anything? I’m not yet your strength… … Are there many shortcomings? I look very young and there are many places where I am not reliable… … Couldn’t you rely on me?”
Know. It’s about making yourself look younger than your peers. Small in stature and small in stature. When it comes to the environment I grew up in, I can only remember growing up with overprotection under passionate parents. To rely internally on this less distant self. I thought it was pointless to myself.
But Rubia asserts.
“Not at all, Yuri. you… … mature enough I am getting a lot of help from you in many ways. Thanks to you, I just felt a little refreshed.”
Yuri let out a smirk.
Also, Rubia is good.
“Then why don’t you tell me?”
“… … ”
“I think it might be something you can’t tell me. It’s a problem that can’t be easily discussed, so maybe it’s something I can’t talk about. I know, I know… … If you’re like this, my heart aches. as your friend. So, you want to be stubborn. Because I don’t want to see you struggling anymore. Because I want to be your strength somehow.”
“Yuri, I… … ”
“So, I have something to tell you.”
“… … yes?”
Whoops.
Yuri, who had turned towards Rubia, raised her upper body. Was it uncomfortable to lie down with your hair tied? After untiing the black ribbon, she lay down on the bed again, combing the golden hair that flowed down like a waterfall with her fingers.
“Where did you hear this? In order to gain the trust of others, you must first expose your weaknesses. That way, the position will be fair or something.”
Yuri took the untied headband in her hand.
It’s not that special, and it’s not that pretty either. It wasn’t even an expensive jewel. It was just a black ribbon.
So, it was an invaluable item.
“To me… There was one family.”
He probably wasn’t referring to Yuri’s parents.
Rubia clearly remembered the appearance of King Artina and Queen Artina who were enthusiastically welcoming Yuri at the entrance ceremony.
So it’s not about your parents.
“… … ”
Yuri said ‘there was’ now,
Because I was speaking in the past tense.
“He is the one who gave this to me. I got it as a present for my 6th birthday.”
“It’s a very old thing.”
“Yeah, it’s been over ten years already.”
Still, it maintains its elasticity without breaking or breaking. It doesn’t look like it’s broken at all. It was proof that it was being kept very well.
“I think I was just happy when I first got it. I was at an age I didn’t know anything about, and I was just happy to receive a present.”
Yuri held the hairband in her hand and looked around.
“Looking back now, it wasn’t even a sensible gift. Why did you even buy something like this from another country because it was pretty? … ”
“You look good enough, Yuri.”
“okay? thanks To be honest, I’m used to this, so I don’t really think about buying other braids.”
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Do you think it would be awkward looking in the mirror? just liked this Exactly, it was comfortable. Because when you wear it on your head, it seems to convey the feeling of receiving a present as it is.
“Actually, whatever the shape of the braid, I said that I bought anything because I thought it would be cuter with a braid. What gift is that? self-satisfaction I don’t know how to tie a girl’s hair on such a topic, so the first time I braided my hair saying I wanted to see you soon, I tied it up in a completely stupid way.”
A sigh escapes from Yuri’s mouth.
“My hair was leaking all over the place, it was jagged all over, and it was so tight that it just hurt so badly. In the end, after making me cry, I didn’t know what to do, so I called the maid. It looked really pathetic, back then. Even trying to appease me with something like my favorite snack – I didn’t really like it.”
As if he were recalling the memories of that time, he had an annoyed expression on his face, but his lips were softly curved.
“When I was six, oh… … Was he 18 years old? Even though he was already an adult, he always looked like a child to me. I must say that there was something unreliable about it. There were a lot of lesser corners. Anyway, now that I think about it… I didn’t feel like an adult.”
That’s a lie. Yuri would often get out of her parents’ bed, move to another bed, and curl up to sleep. On a day when it was raining heavily and lightning struck, I went to the person’s room first.
Even a brief stay in a foreign country due to diplomatic issues would lead to a depressive state all day, and he even shunned his parents. Most didn’t work though.
As always, the moment he returned to the kingdom after buying a gift, he quickly shot his small body and prepared to welcome it in a grand way.
Even if the liberal arts class was boring enough to make me yawn, it was worth taking if that person listened to me from the side. Perhaps he also had the qualities of a teacher, because he knew how to retell the stories of an old scholar in a fun way.
“But everyone else praised him until his mouth dried up. Upright, mature, intelligent, talented, good at martial arts, wise, he said that he was the right heir to lead the future of the kingdom… … ”
It was good to say that there was no reason to hide it at the moment I mentioned it up to this point. Yuri glanced around for a moment, then spoke again.
“Well, after all, they are wrong. He is the one who will lead the future of the kingdom… … Because it was me, not my brother.”
“… … ”
Then Rubia opened her mouth.
“There was a brother.”
“Yeah, there was.”
“What is your name?”
The answer is not too late.
“Idel. Eidel von Artina.”
The first prince of the Kingdom of Artina.
Crown Prince – Eidel von Artina.
When the army of demons rushed to the border area of the kingdom, to protect the kingdom in crisis, he resisted disapproval and entered the war on his own.
As a result, the Kingdom of Artina succeeded in becoming one of the victorious countries without taking much damage in the war.
— The Crown Prince… … You have fought.
The kingdom lost its brightest star that day.
“All the Knights Templars who survived near annihilation in the war say that their older brother is dead, but I don’t think so.”
Consistent statements and the dire conditions of the battlefield at that time told everything, but Yuri firmly denied the hidden truth.
“You promised me. I’ll be back before the thirtieth night is over. I will definitely buy my favorite snacks on the way home too… … ”
“… … ”
Looking at the muttering glass, Rubia kept her mouth shut and didn’t say anything.
Yuri chuckled lightly.
“Are you stupid? Promises are not always kept. But my brother had never broken his promise until then. never once.”
“… … ”
“and… The most important thing is words.”
At that point, Yuri hardened her expression.
“We had a funeral without a body.”
Even her parents had accepted everything, but Yuri was the reason why she continued to deny it until the end.
Maybe, maybe he wasn’t dead.
somewhere… … To return to Yuri, to keep a promise that was already long overdue, he might be dragging his feet.
“I never thought my brother was dead. Because there was no trace of his brother anywhere. No one knew what happened after that, except that he had entered the horde of demons alone… … ”
perhaps.
really maybe.
A very small hope that his brother might be alive kept Yuri from childhood from being seriously damaged.
“But now… … I honestly don’t know.”
The present Yuri has aged quite a bit.
grew up
Little by little, I learned to see reality.
“It’s already been ten years. ten years. My brother broke his promise to me for the first time… … I don’t know if I should take it that way.”
The moment you admit that, something inside of Yuri might break.
“really… … Is he dead, my brother?”
In the end, you put those words in your mouth.
“… … ”
from him.
How much silence had passed?
“… … Black.”
“yes?”
Yuri couldn’t help but laugh.
“what… Why are you crying?”
“Black, uh, black… … ”
At some point, Rubia was smirking.
“I felt that you loved your brother so much… ”
“… … ”
“I thought, ‘If it were me, I really couldn’t stand it… It hurts so much… Black, whoops. Uh-huh.”
He was shaking his shoulders little by little as he wiped the beads of water from his red-tinted eyes with his fingers.
“It’s me who should cry… Idiot.”
“But… Not so… … ”
I feel like I’m about to let out a sigh.
How good is he, boy?
‘It will be difficult to say more than that.’
After Eidel von Artina disappeared, Yuri decided to end the story at this point because she felt like she would burst into tears if she explained more about what happened to the kingdom and what happened to her.
“Okay, my story ends here. you don’t cry either I don’t cry, so why are you crying?”
“If you think that your precious family will disappear… It’s weird not being sad… Black, whoops.”
“So even if I’m fine… … ”
I must have cried, but after crying here again, it seemed like I was getting a rough idea of what Rubia’s eyes would look like tomorrow.
“… … You will be there.”
“yes?”
When Yuri asked, Rubia said.
“You must be alive, for sure… … ”
“… … ”
Yuri felt her heart flutter for a moment.
“I wish I did.”
finally,
That was all he could say.
“Stop crying now. Then I will cry.”
“Yes. whoops black… ”
Then, gently hugging Rubia as a sign not to cry, Rubia sighed in a watery voice for a while.
“… … You know, Yuri.”
“yes?”
Rubia’s whisper was heard in Yuri’s ear.
The end is still trembling, but with more stable breathing, Rubia slowly raises her voice.
“me too… … There was one person who was like family.”
Yuri smiled softly.