Chapter 16 (2/2)

After finishi+ng her last sandwich, Ferris quickly jumped from the bench

Alicia took out a practice staff fro and lined up beside Ferris

“And then… how I should do it?”

“First act like soreat one”

“…like this?”

Following Ferris who puffed out her nonexistence chest, Alicia also puffed out her chest [TN: Fozen-sama, please make a better sentence for it](Ed: I can’t er…)

“More! Like soreat! Like the queen!”

“Like the queen?”

She put her hands on her waist and looked down the ground

“And then, chant aria like ordering sohtly mistaken,of an aria and feel it”

“Feel it… hn, I understand, I’ll try it”

Alicia prepared her staff and looked at a stone on the road side

Just like Ferris said, she chanted the aria as if giving an order to someone

A basic attack ician

With Alicia ic could only create fist-sized fireball

“Oh fire,burning ht… obey my will, strike my foe… Flame Bullet!”

The fire broke out from the staff

Overflowing fire rushed towards the stone and burned it The burning stone melted and lost its shape

Alicia panicked and lowered her staff

The one

“Ho, how about it…? arethere any changes in your ic power?”

Ferris asked orry

“It’sbefore… for …”

Aliciathe staff

“That’s great! It’s convenient since it should work on other ic!”

Ferrissmile on her face

This innocent girl must have not realized it

That ed to top class elites That mean in just a few minutes, she revived Alicia’s dream

No, not only will she be capable of entering the uard with that, or ic division

Alicia suddenly felt like the world idely opened

She touched the drop that slid down her cheek with her finger

Then she realized

How painful it was to gave up her own drea it was to hold down her own frustration

“Ahahaha… I… I really was a child…”

Ferris titled her head when she saw Alicia laugh and

That girl was always more childlike than Alicia

In a ed

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The night

After co preparation for sleep, they were entered their own beds

The weather started to deteriorating since evening, there was a storm outside now

As the heavy rain hit the s, and the roof howled, the atmosphere became eerie

In a day like this, sleeping quickly was the best

When Alicia have such thought and put her head on the pillow, a flash of lightning was brightening the room

Followed by thunderous roar A loud voice attacked Alicia’s ears

“That was close!”

Alicia was shocked and looked at Ferris’ bed

She thought that the blanket was shaped like dango,

Butthat was not it That dango was Ferris curling her body, stiffening and covered by the blanket

“Ferris…”

Alicia came to Ferris’ bed and peeked into the blanket

“A, Alicia-san…”

Ferris was tre and her eyes were full of tears

“…maybe, are you afraid thunder?”

“I, I think there is no one ho doesn’t fear thunder…”

She had difficulty to speaking

She grasped Alicia’s pajahtly

“A child like you…”

Alicia was laughed since it was funny for her

“Uuu… why are you laughing…?”

Ferris weakly protested

“Coic is obviously far ht?”

“But… but…” [TN: Scary things are scary][Ed: well thunder is shocking~hehe Yeah io away now]

“Fine then, coether”

“Yes!!”

Ferris gave a big nod, and ran with pitter-patter, and slipped into Alicia’s bed

Alicia returned to her bed and e down

When she watched over Ferris each time there was thunder, somehow Alicia understood what she wanted to do

Surely, this child is strong

But, she need someone to protect her

Having such thought, Alicia felt sohtness like never before