#10
It was late at night, and I thought it would be a shameful scene if anyone could see what we were doing here.
“Don’t do it, don’t do it, I did it, I did it, I did it again… ”
Usually I get in trouble.
a great many.
I squatted down on the street like a child, looking down at the glass dripping tears, falling into confusion mixed with worries.
I don’t know how to effectively soothe a sensitive girl like Yuri when she’s crying.
You should have learned something like that before. Have you ever had a similar experience… …
… experience. it’s experience
It was a long time ago though.
As a child, Rubia used to cry often.
Of course, Yuri and I had a sensitive sensitivity that might be a little different, but the fact that he cried in front of me didn’t change. How did I do it each time?
how did you We cried next to each other
… They were also children.
It doesn’t help.
Of course, it wasn’t just that we cried together every day. There were a few times when I was active and made Rubia stop crying.
However, these methods cannot be used in this situation. The reason Yuri burst into tears was entirely because of me.
Finally, he sighed and bent down slowly.
He bent his legs and sat down in front of Yuri with his finger around his eyes.
“Hey, black, hey… … ”
A soft, weak cry is heard. Small shoulders that tremble intermittently. Even if I wanted to hug her, Yuri was completely rejecting me.
I didn’t say anything. He sat quietly in front of the glass and lowered his head a bit to match the inconsistent eye level. He continued to wait calmly while looking at the people around him whether or not they were coming.
What Yuri needed right now was calm.
I must have been quite surprised and embarrassed, but after crying like this, the intense emotions that had reached the top of my head cooled in an instant, making it possible to make a rational decision in the past.
I mean, though.
Even though they were of the same age, Yuri, who was always full of arrogant self-esteem, was crying with her neck down like a child because she only looked like a younger sister to me at least two years younger than her.
Should I say that it feels like I have to do everything he asks me to do after this? Looking at the objective situation, the price I paid for my crime wasn’t that much, but… …
how much time has passed
Yuri’s shoulders, which had been trembling pitifully like a wounded animal, had clearly subsided after a certain moment.
Without saying a word, I took out a new handkerchief from my pocket and fiddled with it, and found that the water drops no longer filled the corners of Yuri’s eyes, who were crying right in front of me.
“… … A little, are you okay?”
“… … ”
The heat of her body, which must have been rising due to exercise, etc., dyed Yuri’s face reddish. The cold night air must have contributed to that.
Tears traces from a small face to a solid line. The tears that were dripping from under her smooth chin left small, darker dots on the road beneath them.
Yuri is holding her lips shut with a soft hiccup, as if she has managed to stop crying, but her mood is still not resolved. He doesn’t even look at me, who is quietly watching me sleeping right in front of me.
Around that time, I handed Yuri a handkerchief.
Since there is no response, I open my mouth softly.
“Clean. It’s new.”
“… … ”
He held out his hand, but he refused to accept it. Yuri’s slightly bloodshot eyes stared at the handkerchief for a moment, then returned to normal. It must have been a strong rejection of it. So keep talking
“I hate cleaning. It is difficult to go back to the dormitory with such a face. Wipe it with this first.”
“… … ”
Yuri did not respond or respond.
Is it an expression of his will that he doesn’t want to even talk to me at all, or is it an unspoken permission that I can wipe her tears with a handkerchief?
The latter was probably never the case.
It was impossible for me to keep doing this, so I thought that if I pretended to wipe it, I would either reject it or snatch the handkerchief.
… suddenly,
Yuri’s ruby-like eyes met his gaze.
Without even having time to think about what was inside, I calmly reached out and touched Yuri’s eyes over the handkerchief.
Yuri did not refuse.
No, formally for a moment, it seemed that he was trying to shake off my hand by raising his left hand, but it was too little force.
Yuri gently closed her eyes as if squinting slightly.
My hand–exactly the handkerchief touched the left cheek of the glass. Soft and fluffy white skin like elastic jelly. Clearness and transparency without a single blemish coexisted on the skin texture of the glass. Whoops, whoops. The long tear marks were slowly erased from top to bottom.
… Why don’t you refuse?
The moment I tried to put the handkerchief on my face, I thought I was going to shake my hand off with panic.
It looks like he is gently stroking a stray cat that has been completely soaked in the rain. I also became suspicious of Yuri, who had been crying for a while, saying she really hated me.
something is scary Isn’t that the kind of thing that pops up all of a sudden? I don’t think I’ll be able to react properly this time. In order to prevent such a situation in advance, I carefully apologized.
“… Sorry to startle you. I didn’t do that on purpose. really. I didn’t even know I was coming back from working out, and I just happened to find you on the way to work and just wanted to say hello to you.”
Through the small, pointed nose, this time around the right eye.
When you tap the part where the aegyosal should be located with a handkerchief, Yuri’s fine forehead frowns for a moment and then returns to its original state.
That figure stimulated something inside of me to the point where I wanted to ruffle Yuri’s hair right now, so a meaningless smile unintentionally leaked out of her mouth.
“… If I had known you a little more, I would have bought you some of your favorite food and only asked you to look at it once. I still don’t know what you like.”
–That moment.
Yuri’s body trembled slightly.
“… … just, what… ”
“… … ?”
A small murmur came out.
As if he had heard something he couldn’t hear, there was a clear feeling of disbelief in his gently opened eyes. It seemed like he was trying to say something, but it seemed that his throat was choked up because he cried a lot. what suddenly I didn’t know anything, so I couldn’t help but blink.
… Did I say anything strange?
Was it wrong to try to apologize differently by buying me something like rice? Is this too childish?
not really. Where is the problem with the act of buying food? Whether it is an unfamiliar person or a close person, wasn’t the act of buying a meal a representative of natural communication… …
I couldn’t figure out anything.
It fills up the corners of the glass again without any water leaking. But in the end it didn’t flow.
It could not flow, and it was clearly stagnant among the red ponds. What could be the problem if you let the tears out as they are?
Yuri’s closed lips were itching to spit something out, but in the end, Yuri swallowed it through her throat and suddenly took the handkerchief from my hand.
Park. – Whoops, whoops.
Wipe off any remaining water on your face. The brow was frowned heavily.
He jumped up from his squatting position, tapped his shaky legs with his hands, and began to close the zipper on the windshield. profit-. The reverberation of sweat that had been cooled by the cold wind fades away in an instant.
Yuri, who stood up from her seat, glared at me, who was staring blankly at me, not knowing why he was doing this. A squeaking sound suddenly came out.
“… I’m going.”
Is that so?
It seems so.
I felt relieved as it seemed to have returned to its original state.
I too get up following Yuri, and Yuri, with her hands in her windshield pockets, proudly passes by me and starts walking towards the dormitory building in the second building.
It seemed to be walking a little faster than usual. As a result, the hair of the glass tied together fluttered in a narrow gap.
“… … I really hate you.”
The shadow went away with the voice.
The pure gold crown gleamed in the light of the street lamp, and as it went out of its radius, it was devoured back into the darkness.
Shortly thereafter – after a while it completely disappeared from my view.
I stood silently in the middle of this street until Yuri went back to the dormitory, and suddenly two students who looked like seniors walked by from the other side, and I started walking towards the 3rd building. Because I had to exercise before going to bed. I’m tired, but I can’t help it.
“… ah.”
I was rummaging through my arms involuntarily.
Realizing something, I slowly turned my head towards the dormitory in Building 2, which Yuri was just facing.
… …
The handkerchief, I’ll return it tomorrow… … ?
#11
friday.
Morning magic class.
“Miss Rubia. Are you ready?”
“… Yes, Professor.”
With only a few students and the professor watching, Rubia began to cast spatial magic as instructed by the professor. This is why it is more effective to show it directly than to explain it in words.
woo woo woo-. A bluish mist seemed to float from Rubia’s body with her eyes closed.
What Rubia is trying to demonstrate now is the connection and harmony between magic and magic.
By using two spells instead of one at the same time—actually, they are cast over a very short period of time, making it appear as if they were used at the same time—allowing more anomalous uses.
“——, —.”
A small whisper that cannot be heard from close. Rubia, who closed her eyes, immediately fell into a state of selflessness, and as the chanting continued, purple magical energy began to form from the tip of the staff she was holding.
—Five-level space-based magic, Instant Portal.
As soon as Rubia was ready to position it, two small cracks would appear tearing apart the space, moving objects sucked into it out of the crack on the other side.
However, the holding power was only for a very brief moment, about 2 seconds, so to easily link the next magic, it required computational power and chant at the speed of light.
It wasn’t too difficult for Rubia.
An eerie chill slowly rising from the other hand instead of the one holding the staff.
From a distance, me and Stella, who had been watching Rubia’s magic calmly, inadvertently wiped their shoulders, the temperature inside the classroom dropped by the cold frost.
—4th rank ice magic, Ice Spear.
Instant Portal has already been activated.
All you need to do is specify the coordinates.
As I watched the spear made of ice rise, scattering cold air, I was just staring at Rubia, just like before.
Not her magic, but Rubia.
Rubia quietly closed her eyes and cast a spell.
… By intuition, I clenched my right hand.
spurt.
——Woo!
——Sweet honey!
As soon as Rubia opened her eyes.
The space was torn with the sound of tearing the paper.
Cracks creaked in the nearby space, and the ice spear summoned by Rubia pierced through the darkness that was all over it.
A truly miraculously sophisticated magic control. The professor briefly admired it, and the students who were watching expressed their surprise. It was a finished form, powerful, and clean without a single complaint.
The elongated spear is sucked into the crack. As soon as she saw it with her own two eyes, Rubia quickly opened the next portal.
——Jumpy!
Once again, a crack appeared in the space, and the first portal opened was already half-closed.
at that time.
I spread my right hand out wide.
“… … 👌👌”
Rubia’s expression, who had been pretending to be okay all day, suddenly distorted, and her shaky concentration caused her to calculate the coordinates incorrectly.
It was the moment when the anxious fears became reality.
If it had been the original intention of Rubia and Professor.
The ultimate goal was to shoot the Ice Spear forward, then open a portal on the ceiling and hit the floor like a lightning bolt.
“… Aaah!”
Stella next to me let out a short scream.
—Wedge love liquid!
Rubia’s Ice Spear passed through the crack.
Through the second rift, it falls vertically from above the head of the caster Rubia, who is not anyone else, and sharply raises its nib to split Rubia in half from the top of the head, who has not yet fully realized the situation.
—Kwaang!
Push the ground vigorously with your right foot.
My body, which was shot like a shot put, before the tip of the spear reached Rubia’s face with her head raised at the same time.
He stretched out his right fist, wrapped around the magical energy he had prepared in advance, and struck the Ice Spear’s spear accurately.
—Pakang!
Flashes flash in my mind
As long as it was a low-intensity ice-based magic, it would have been easy to destroy, but it is Rubia’s magic, not anyone else’s. My current skills could be a little lacking.
Fortunately, the ability was manifested.
The ice sphere shattered in two as it was, shattered like glass, and eventually shards of ice flew towards the classroom door.
… There was an eerie silence in the classroom.
Before the professor, who sensed the danger immediately, even waved his hand, I ran first and broke Rubia’s magic. He looked unsurprisingly surprised, and some of the students kept their mouths shut, as hard as stones.
A piece of ice bounced off my shoulder. wet
While clasping his slightly tingling hand, he reached out his other hand toward Rubia, who had been slumped in her seat with blank eyes at some point.
It seemed to have a better face than yesterday, but it is only a well-groomed surface and appearance. No one else knew, but I knew. It wasn’t that he had been staring at Rubia for nothing from a while ago.
Rubia was crowded now. either mentally or externally. I don’t know exactly what it was, but that fact seemed certain.
“Catch it, now.”
“… … ”
As she spoke, Rubia carefully reached out her hand.
Rubia’s slender fingers, which seemed to have been holding for a long time, wrapped around the back of my hand, and I pulled Rubia vigorously and barely lifted Rubia up.
Seeing his long legs wobbling, he seemed to be in a bit of a shock.
The silent professor opens his mouth quietly.
“… … That’s all for today’s class, folks. As everyone has seen, applying two different types of magic at the same time often results in unpredictable results.”
It must have been a word that also included the caster.
A person almost died right before my eyes.
The students, who were holding their pounding chests and calming their startled hearts, soon came to their senses, packed their bags, and started to leave the classroom one by one. Except for me, Rubia, and Stella behind me.
In the middle of the quiet classroom, Rubia bows her head with a stiff smile at me.
“Oh, thank you… Ezio. I, I keep… Just help… … Ehehe… A little bit shy… … ”
Looking at the smile that had clearly faded from before.
I glanced back at Stella, who was behind Rubia for a moment, then turned my gaze back to Rubia.
Then, with a low sigh, I made a firm decision in my heart.
It seemed like today.
… The day I have to talk to Rubia.