Sina took a deep breath and nodded.
"Yes."
"And I'm not the only one suffering."
Sina laughed at Lumiere's words. He added, "Right?"
"Don't be distressed. Let's go back. Let's just say we can' go back. Either way."
"I'll try."
"Instead, tell me about yourself."
Lumiere leaned against the wall and asked. Sina laughed.
"Myself?"
"Yeah, like a country name?"
"Oh, my world? You'll be surprised to hear that. We don't ride horses."
"Then, sheep or cow?"
"No! Drive in the car."
"Car?"
"Yeah, like a horse-less carriage."
"Magic?"
"Not that."
Sina began to talk about where she live and her family. To Lumiere's subsequent questions, Sina answered them sincerely, but to the sharp questions, Sina had no choice but to answer them, saying, "I don't know that either."
"You don't know the principles of what you're using?"
Sina put her mouth out at Lumiere's words.
"Lumiere don't even know the principle of magic work on."
There he nodded in agreement.
"Surely, that's true."
"Right?"
Sina said so and swept away the black hair. She ran into his gaze, blushed slightly, then frowned and opened her lips.
But words didn't come out.
"Why?"
The question was on Lumiere's side.
"No, nothing."
When Sina shook her head, he said.
"That makes me even more curious."
"That's--"
Sina mumbled.
"I wish I had met Lumiere first, and I thought it was too selfish."
"Ishina, you."
Lumie laughed. It's straightforward to the point where it doesn't have to be so straightforward.
But it was comfortable for him.
Everything she says is sincere, and you don't have to try to figure out the back.
"Let's do that next time."
Sina opened her eyes wide at his words. Lumiere said playfully.
"See you first when we're born again."
Sina said, "Ei-," and quickly fixed her mind.
Yeah, there's a world like this, but can't you say there's no next life? I'm sure it exists.
"Okay. Then next time, you sure?"
"Sure,"
Sina grinned.
*******
Ran opened her eyes and saw Eustaf sleeping.
'Sleeping face.'
Have you ever seen it?
Come to think of it for a moment, I've never seen a face like this lying on the bed and sleeping.
He pretended to be asleep at the engagement.
'I've never seen it before!'
Ran thought so and stared at his sleeping face. The white face with long black eyelashes looked a little young sleeping like this.
'Cute.'
Ran smiled at such a thought. I wanted to touch it a little bit, but I thought it would wake him up, so Ran just looked at it.
It's useless to see such a face.....
Ran wrapped her cheek.
'They tell me to open my eyes.'
The face that glances into the shaky field of vision, holding back excess pleasure, with a slightly frowned upon look-
'Euaa'
Ran stuck her head in the pillow and glanced at Eustaf again.
The blue eyes are slowly looking at her.
Ran opened her eyes wide in surprise and he asked with a smirk.
"What were you doing?"
"No, just-"
Attracting a mumbling Ran, Eustaf placed her on top of him.
"Get some more sleep."
"I'm wide awake."
Ran said, leaning her cheeks against his wide chest. Her fingertips lightly scattered down his firm arm and stopped at a faint scar.
Eustaf crouched in tickle, then saw Ran touching a scar left on his arm, lifted her upper body and kissed her lightly on the lips.
"It's all in the past."
"Still"
It was a trace of beating.
Ran's chest hurt because of the blurry but sharp scars on Eustaf's back. She pulled Eustaf's arm and put her lips over the scar.
"I hope it's all gone."
"It doesn't matter."
"I'm here."
After opening her eyes wide, Ran rolled herself down from his body. Then she climbed out of the wide bed and put on a robe.
Eustaf said, "Where are you going?" and Ran stuck out her tongue.
"I won't tell you."
Ran had to go out and prepare water for washing. It was because if I said to wash, I would definitely be dragged into bed again after washing together.
After washing lightly, there was no Eustaf in the bedroom.
Ran hesitated in the couple's bedroom and opened the door to Eustaf's bedroom. It was my first time opening this door.
"Eus?"
"Are you done washing?"
Eustaf was wearing all his clothes, and his hair was slightly wet, so he could tell that he had washed it.
"What, did Eus wash up, too?"
"I think Ran's going to wash up. I've prepared a meal."
Ran looked out the window and said like a sigh.
"It's not lunch, it's not dinner. ····."
"Then shall we wait until dinner?"
"No, I'm hungry."
At Ran's words, Eustaf replied, "A dissipated life isn't bad either.
Ran's face lit up as she heard a bell outside calling, "We're ready to eat."
"I'll get dressed."
Ran quickly went back to her room and came back dressed up.
While eating, Eustaf said.
"I saw what you wrote down."
"What I wrote down? What?"
"The Dragon Slayer plan."
"Ah-"
Ran made a strange noise because she couldn't figure out what to say.
I was ashamed of how it was, and I wanted to hear his opinions.
"The biggest concern is that we don't have a wizard. Can't you do anything about flying in the sky?"
Ran said with her chin up.
I know it because I've been beaten by a flying Masu, but the opponent of having wings was very annoying.
"It will be solved with blue flame."
"With blue flame?"
Ran frowned.
"Are you okay?"
"It'll be enough to make a hole in the wing. If there's a problem with the wings, we can't fly anyway."
"That's it, though. Don't you think you're going to use too much power to do that? What if it use Eustaf's life force?"
"What does that have to do with Ran?"
Ran opened her eyes wide at Eustaf's words. Her lips trembled.
Eustaf quickly added.
"I mean, Ran sometimes acts this way."
Ran's face turned red at the words.
"I, I-"
"You did, didn't you? From the beginning. It was the same when I went to see the wizard, and it was the same when I was trapped in the Dwarf mine. And I don't want to talk about that with Sina."
Ran replied in a shrunken voice.
"I'm very sorry right now."
"That's fine if you knew."
Eustaf said after nodding.
"So I'm not going to overdo it either. And it's no use dying."
Ran nodded, 'Right, right.'
"If you have magic resistance, it's true that the blue flame uses up force quickly, but it's enough to puncture the Dragon Wing."
"Well, even if you make a small hole, it's probably too strong to receive, so the hole will tear quickly."
Ran said, thinking about the plane's wings. Dragons have big bodies, and wings to hold on to their weight-
"Eum, wait. Come to think of it, dragons fly by their magic."
"There's a possibility."
"Umm, does magic mean you don't need wings? But why do they have wings?"
Cool?
ran snorted, thinking so. Eustaf also thought about it for a while and said, "I think it's flying with wings. It don't have to use flying magic because it have wings."
"Well, it could be."
"But is that the ballistic missile you wrote down on your planner?"
"Oh- the window that automatically flies and hits the target?"
"That's an interesting idea."
"But I got in trouble for talking to Frances. Instead, it's possible for a ball of fire to fly away. You'll need your skills to get it right."
So you can throw a fireball or something.
"That's enough."
"It's certainly uncomfortable without a wizard."
Speaking again, Ran sighed. Even if it was a matter of no contact with red or blue crystal, the wizards were reluctant to come to Lazia because it was also a traditional taboo.
"And you also talked to Dwarf and Elf."
"Yeah, the numbers are the best."
At Ran's words, Eustaf nodded. Ran asked carefully.
"Military exchanges won't cause problems with independence, will they?"
"We're past the stage for that kind of problem."
When Eustaf said so and looked at Ran gently, she asked back.
"Why? Did you miss anything?"
"I don't think you have any idea that Eustaf might doubt me because I'm alone in a military alliance with another race."
Ran blinked and asked.
"Do you think?"
"No, not a bit."
Ran swept her chest and Eustaf smiled.
"I'm glad that you believe in me, that I believe in you."
"It, It's it."
Ran's face was flushed.
"We're husband and wife ..."
The voice was as loud as an ant, but Eustaf still understood it. With a satisfied smile, he cut his share of meat and put it on Ran's plate. Ran opened her eyes wide.
"I can't eat all of this."
"You have to eat to use your strength."
"There, There's nothing to struggle with."
"Is that so?"
Eustaf smiled, and Ran blushed even more and began cutting the meat he had given him.
*******
It was a winter weather with no wind.
The faces of the knights going to the seal ceremony were tense.
It was because of the story that darkness was waking up.
This time, Sina and Ran also pushed their hearts to follow them and saw them off on the snow wall.
Sina asked, looking at the knights moving away.
"How long does it take to get back?"
"Well, the weather is nice today, so an hour and a half early? Two hours?"
"It takes longer than I thought."
"And I don't know how long the seal will take."
Ran muttered like that.
The flame burned slowly during the last seal ceremony, Eustaf said. What will happen this time?
'What if blue ring doesn't exert its power?'
Ran sighed with such concern. She must be more anxious than she is. You shouldn't be nervous in front of Sina.
Even in front of the dead.
"Everyone's coming back safe. It's cold, so let's go down."
At Ran's words, Sina nodded, "Yes."
*******
Eustaf stopped in front of the silver arch. Silver arches shined and shined as before, but....
'It's discolored.'
As if silver had been discolored in the jar, the lower part of the arch had been blackened black.
Eustaf stopped in front of the Arch, and Blaine stopped along.
He also noticed that the color of the arch had changed.
"Lord."
What should we do?
When asked, Eustaf began to walk without saying a word, and Blaine and Lumiere walked closely on both sides of him.
Blaine had already lowered his horse to shield.
Lumiere fought without a shield so much that it was cumbersome to learn how to use it late, so he quit the shield.
When he saw it, another knights said, "Do you have many lives?" but he quelled the controversy by beating him in the battle.
Even the sound of white pebbles stepping on it was felt to be intrusive to Lumie. This is a sound that reveals their position.
But Eustaf was outspoken, and the knights followed suit quickly.
As he reached the cave, Blaine asked.
"Are you going in alone?"
"Yes."
Eustaf said so and went into the inner cave, and everyone stood by and waited for the horse-beep.
In the past, the horse's body would have been wrapped around and moved, but now the margab had a device to maintain its temperature, so it was okay.
Eustaf felt strange as he entered the cave.
Something is different.
He stopped for a while and then started walking again.
The blue ring on his throat has been quiet, and that means there's no problem.
Arriving at the white door, Eustaf touched the wall. There was no response.
Does it take time? And then, Eustaf realized.
'It's empty.'
The other side of the wall is empty.
There is no way to answer if you ask me how I knew that. He could know even though he didn't have one.
It was good to say that it was a touch of a gatekeeper. Eustaf hit his hand.
'If it's empty, where did it go-'
Is it outside?!
He was turning and the blue ring made a noise and cried.
Eustaf rolled as if throwing himself on the floor, feeling the spine chilling.