Sina sighed.
No shadow has appeared since then, but what the shadow said continued to hover on Kit Street.
- Don't you want to go back?
'Of course I want to go back!'
Sina bit her lips. Should we have had a conversation?
'No, you were a bad conversation partner. You're talking nonsense about giving up Iveria.'
Thinking about the situation several times, I regretted that I should have given a different answer or dug up more.
It was like having a quarrel and then realizing, 'Oh, I should've said this!'
'Is that darkness?'
I think so.
I guess the darkness is right. Otherwise, there's no reason to visit Iveria.
'Let's...just talk to Lumiere.'
Sina thought so and went to Lumiere's room. However, I couldn't knock on the door, so I was hanging around for a while, but the door opened.
"Why aren't you coming in?"
Lumie said with a fever smile, but Sina frowned.
"What's going on?"
Sina looked at Lumiere's face and asked without realizing it. He was smiling, but his face was dark.
"Come on in."
Lumiere said so and stepped away from the door, and Sina cautiously entered Lumiere's room.
Come to think of it, it was my first time coming into his room since I woke up sober.
'I'm ashamed to think twice.'
Lumiere recommended a nearby chair to Sina and sat down at her desk. He opened the letter on the desk and said.
"I got a letter from my sister."
"Is something wrong?"
Sina heard about Lumiere's sister. And that he made a significant sacrifice for her.
"She wants to learn from Elf and become a therapist. That's why she want to stop being human and join the community. She need my permission to do that."
Sina took a light breath.
"She's breaking up as a human being? What? So she's not going to be your sister?"
"No, I don't think so, but... can you read?"
When Lumiere asked, Sina shook her head. I could understand whether it was the privilege of the dimension shift or not, and my body seemed much stronger than others, but I couldn't read the letters.
It was not until Sina came to this world that illiteracy was so uncomfortable.
Lumiere looked down at the letter.
"She says thank you and sorry. And she doesn't want to be a burden."
He frowned and sighed.
"I'm angry."
At Lumiere's words, Sina asked, "Do you decide what's important?"
"So is that."
"Or because you're relieved?"
The words seemed to spark Lumiere's eyes at the moment.
"I've never-"
He tried to raise his voice, but stopped talking when he saw Sina's eyes. There was no agitation or criticism in her black eyes.
I just looked at him as if I had listened to him. Lumiere's mouth shut.
A long time later, he said with a faint smile.
"I don't like people who stab me like that."
"Did you get stabbed?"
When Sina asked with a slight smile, Lumiere looked at the letter, sweeping his head up.
"I hate it when Lily thinks she's a burden. But-"
It was also true that he was relieved.
And I felt guilty about the fact that I was so relieved. Ever since his parents asked him to do Lily, he's done everything for her.
But Ran - when the master reached out his hand, when Lily went to the Elf, it was hard and somewhat relieved.
But now that she said she would stand completely on her own legs and that she didn't want to be a burden to her brother, he was distressed in a different sense.
"It's not just that Lily was a burden."
Lumiere blinked and laughed at Sina's words.
"That's right."
She was a burden, but at the same time, she was a force for him to live.
"So I was wrong."
Lumiere blinked at Sina's words. She grinned.
"It was wrong and right. You can't judge a person's mind anyway. There's one thing I think is great about Lumiere."
"Just one?"
When he snorted and asked playfully, Sina blushed and said quickly, "Of course, there are many."
"Lumie sacrificed himself for Lily. You've tried, so you might want that reward from Lily, but there's nothing like that, isn't? I think that's great."
"I didn't ask for her reward."
Lumiere frowned.
"She's happy for me-"
He stopped talking while talking.
-I hope you'll be happy.
-Lumie, be happy.
I've heard the same thing.
'Was it like this?'
Lumiere laughed low because she laughed. When Sina opened her eyes wide in wonder, she opened her arms wide and gave a demonstration to come here, and she hug him tightly.
Lumiere faced Sina. A soft, sleek body comes into his arms.
"Sina."
"Huh?"
"I like you."
She flinched at his words. She whispered, breathing out like a blue, dragonfly's wings.
"I like too."
"Yes."
He smiled satisfactorily and gave strength to her arm in her arms.
I know, you'll go back.
Let's value this moment more because we know it'll end.
When Lumiere whispered small and low, Sina answered, "Yes," and hugged him tighter.
"I'm going to send a reply to Lily."
If you made that choice because of me, don't do that and do what you want. It wasn't that it wasn't hard, but I've been living because of you.
I should write everything down honestly. Lumiere decided so.
Sina said, taking herself out of his arms.
"Then we'd better send it right away."
Sina decided to postpone her story for a while. Since I hated the story of darkness enough to postpone it anyway, it would not be a big problem if I delayed it a little longer.
'Besides, I'm sure you're already full of your sister.'
It's not the right time to talk.
It was a decision after much thought, but when I had an excuse, my feet naturally fell back.
Lumiere nodded and kissed Sina's lips lightly.
"Then I'll talk to Haresh first."
"The Elf?"
"Yes."
After answering, Lumie asked with a smile.
"Would you like to come with me?"
"Can I?"
Sina opened her eyes wide.
It is also true that I am curious.
Elf!
Lumiere looked at her face and tapped her nose lightly.
"There's nothing you can't do."
Besides, Elf might know something about dimensioned mobility. Lumiere thought so.
Sina nodded her head.
Haresh was waiting in the drawing room, not sitting on the sofa.
When Lumiere entered, Haresch's eyes turned to him, and then to Sinah, who followed him.
Lumiere said, keeping a moderate distance from him.
"I've heard everything."
Haresh's eyes then fell from Sina and headed for Lumiere.
"May I ask for Lily?"
Haresch answered to Lumiere's question seriously.
"I swear that I will take responsibility for the roots of the world's number."
"Okay, then."
Lumiere nodded, and Haresh smiled faintly.
"Lily says you won't allow it."
Lumiere blinked in surprise.
"Did she?"
"Yes."
After answering, Haresh gave a supplementary explanation.
"You're overprotective of herself, and you're trying not to let go of herself."
Lumiere felt like he wanted to refute for a moment, but soon stretched his shoulders.
"It's not that I didn't think about it, but I change, too. Please tell Lily I'm fine now."
Haresh looked amazing at Lumiere and said, "Human beings change too fast."
"That's what I feel."
Haresh nodded at Lumiere's words.
Lumiere went on to say,
"I'm going to write to Lily."
"I don't care about exchanges like letters. You can send it any time as you have done so far."
"I see."
Feeling much relieved, Lumie smiled. Hareh looked at Sina with curious eyes and said,
"I don't know where the human over there came from, but she seems to have come from a very far place."
It doesn't smell like the sea or the mountains here.
"I'm a dimension shift."
When Sina spoke quietly, Haresh looked at her gently, "Is that so?" But he didn't look like he was looking at something interesting. Sina asked without even realizing it, because she had a face like, 'This is a sample I've been looking at.'
"Do you happen to know how to go back?"
"I know if it goes beyond the dimension."
Haresh's answer was so pure that Sina opened her mouth. Lumie also shrugged his shoulders. He didn't know the repercussions of what he said. Sina, who was staring blankly at Haresh, seemed to be blocked in her heart.
I tried to speak, but I was too desperate to speak.
"The, the, then-"
Haresh added as she stammered.
"But no one has the power to go beyond the dimension."
At his calm words, Sina felt her whole body losing strength. Lumiere was surprised to catch her whining. Sina spoke low. Words flowed out quickly as the sense of despondency passed.
"Then how did I get across? The darkness brought me here. So the dark has that much power?"
"It's possible because there's darkness, dragons, and doors."
Haresch said after thinking for a while.
"Or is it possible with a lot of ice crystals? But I don't know how much it'll go in."
Sina bit her lips lightly. Lumie whispered with a light lip to her temple.
"There must be a way."
At the words, Sina felt the insides of her eyes getting sour.
If the situation with her and Lumiere had been the opposite, would she have worked for her like Lumiere did?
I couldn't make a definite answer. Maybe she blamed him for trying to go back.
However, Lumiere is looking straight, sincerely and squarely at himself. Regardless of whether or not he had Ran in his mind, Sina could feel his affection clearly.
'We have to talk now.'
She was convinced in her mind. I have to talk to Lumiere about the dark now.
When you're sure about him, when you decide to talk. Otherwise, I thought it would be postponed indefinitely.
Sina took a deep breath and said. "Lumie, I have something to tell you."
Sina also told Haresh.
"Would you like to hear it, Elf?"
If you talk to the elf, you may have a new perspective.
Sina briefly told they that the darkness came to her and talked to her.
Lumiere's face was hardened, and Haresh was lost in thought.
He spoke slowly.
"I've got to get going."
I don't think there's enough room to delay.
He said so and walked away without saying a word, opening the terrace window.
"Wa, wait a minute!"
Shina, who was embarrassed, called him, but it was already after Haresh left. Lumiere said.
"It's okay. That's how it is."
"That's how it is?"
What kind of man-or-the elves? Sina rushed out to the terrace window, but nothing was seen. There are not even footprints left on the snow.
'The Elf is Elf.'
It was amazing, but I saw a horse running from the far end of the garden. Sina squirmed her eyes in the cold.
"Who is it?"
As she muttered, Lumiere said, wrapping his cloak around her.
"Here comes the Duke."
*****··
Ran is lost in agony.
Looking down at the paper, she looked at the plans written below.
At that time, I was embarrassed that someone covered my eyes.
"Who do you think it is?"
Ran swerved at the sound of his voice. Eustaf was standing. He looked at his hand and said.
"Is it okay to just turn around without an answer?"
"Eus!"
Lan jumped up from her seat and hugged him.
"What, when did you get here? How did you get here? Without a message?"
"I came in first. I just wanted to surprise Ran."
Eustaf smiled and hugged her, and now accustomed to it, Ran burst into laughter, wrapping her arms around his neck.
"I missed you."
"I missed you, too."
Ran leaned down and kissed him lightly on the lips.
His lips were still cold, and I felt a chill in his clothes.
He must have really just come.
Ran carefully slipped his hair and wrapped it around his cheek.
"It's cold. I'll go to the stove."
"No, I'd better get changed first."
Eustaf asked secretly.
"Shall we wash up together?"
"Shall we?"
Ran replied in a gentle manner, and Eustaf blinked and gently put Ran down.
"Wait a minute, please."
"Yes."
When Ran put his hands together and stood still, Eustaf said.
"I'll call you right away. Soon."
Then he said while he was about to go out.
"You won't change your mind."
"I'm about to change."
At Ran's words, Eustaf smiled lightly and quickly left the room.
"Would you like me to let your hair down? Are you going to get ready to wash up, right?"
Ran laughed and nodded at Soda's words. Approaching the window, Ran lightly wiped the steamy window and looked outside.
"It's really coming in now."
I could see sleds and knights running light from over there. Just by looking at it, I could hear the bell on the sled, so Ran smiled lightly.