Chapter 2 (2/2)
The girl that gave these flowers to me Why didn't she try to stand up even once?──Why was she sitting in the flower garden? I kept wondering about it
But, was that not trying to stand up, or being unable to stand up?
Maybe her lower body was not her's already?
”Uuard from before”
”Yes Ever since going to the garden of aforeo, her whereabouts have been unknown”
He dropped down his gaze to the flower bouquet from before
”Hey, Ojou-chan Who are you planning to give them to? Perhaps──”
”No”
I interrupted his speech
”I plucked these flowers for myself The cloth they are wrapped in is my spare one”
That's why, I don't know about his little sister I shamelessly declared
Part 3
After that, without doing any notable sightseeing, I went to the hotel and rented a rooht’s stay, then went took a bath and crawled in bed as if trying to disappear
I started thinking while staring at the thin wood boards lined up at the ceiling
About the flower garden
And about the girl that was sitting there
In the novel ”Adventures of Nike” that I read long ago, there was a e plant
As I remember, the circumstances in that tale were that a ic power that was originally breathed out and started acting violently──It was so like that
In the first place, soic power exists everywhere in the world Plants like trees and grass in particular, after getting basked sunlight, they breath out the ic power But, I don't understand why in the world it's like that
Then, those who take in that inally in the huicians
So, Magic can be used at its strongest inside a forest that is overfloith ic power The place I trained at with my teacher in order to become a Witch was also in the forest
I'd say we Magicians are also mutated existences like that plant in the ”Adventures of Nike” After all, we are able to use so that is not usable by humans
No, perhaps the ones who can't use Magic are the abnormal ones
I don't understand who is who I had such casual discussion in head, but thinking about it is useless That discussion is the sa, it's absolutely useless to think about after all
”Fuah”
I yawned and rubbed my eyes I can't sleep yet It's okay Don't sleep, don't sleep
──The flower garden from before
I fear that froarden will evolve in a strange way Similar to that flower in that novel that obtained a self awareness
If i think about it, that forest where the flower garden was so dense with trees that you could barely see the sunlight if you looked above fro of it
Under that e even if that flower garden turned into so different
And the flower garden that spew veno people──What in the world brought it forth
””
What would becoarden?
The hazy feeling was constantly attached to
Part 4
”Oya, Witch-san, are you leaving already?”
The next
The one protecting the gate was theto rereeted with a casual smile
Whileface:
”Yes This wasn't a too big country so one day was enough for me”
”It's a boring country isn't it?”
”No no It was very enjoyable”
”Hahah That was a funny joke”
Was I seen through?
”By the here is the young guard from yesterday?”
”Hn? He's taking a rest today He left the country yesterday evening and hasn't returned since then Why? Did you wanted to meet him?”
”So funny”
I don't want to meet him, so listen
”Well he said he'd return till night, so if you want to meet him, then you should wait”
”No thank you”
”H?”
”Yes I would say that there is no need to hurry, but unless you leave atthe next country before sunset”
Besides, there is a place I o
More than this country, my mind is at that place
”Is that so? Well, take care”
”Alright Thank you”
Thus, I left the country
Then
I faced towards the forest visible at the distance──Towards the place from yesterday and fleith my broom
As I approached the trees that were sprouting froreen in front of me
The violent as blowing and twisting around, cooling down the hot vast land The clouds gathered in the sky, interrupting the rays of sun
The ashen sky, already began to dye with a lead color
I
Part 5
Passing through the trees that were pressed together, I was met with the opened space
There was the flower garden
Similar to the sky, they were quite dull compared to the vividness from yesterday
””
Not just colors, even that appearance was giving off a slight unco
I followed the same path from yesterday in reverse, so this should not be another place, and, this unco that can't be wiped of is a proof of it
Descending withKusha! - With the sound that lacked elegance, the flowers underfoot felt like they were dead
The flower garden with pleasant fragrance In front of it was a person's figure
The true shape of this uncoure itself hat gave off unco
””
The girl who gave le man──The attire was different from yesterday but the person who's face I clearly reirl with a s face
It was the gate guard from yesterday
”hello”
”Ah, are you that traveler froht reaction
”Is this your little sister?”
He nodded to my question
”Yes I finally found her Who'd think she would be at such a place”
Making a kind face, he grasped her hand
It looks strange irl whose hand he's grasping as a human
Green specks are visible on the skin, and the ivy is crawling throughout her body, she was looking stagnantly towards the sky with blank eyes without blinking Her mouth was open widely and drool spilled from there since the start
Her lower body was even stranger Her body below the hips rapped in giant red petals
As if a huiant flower As if the human and a floere forcibly connected It was very bizarre looking
He was looking with fascinated eyes towards such girl
”So lovely To become so pretty at such place”
””
”? What is it?”
I shook my head
”No, you look surprisingly different from yesterday so I was surprised”
”Aah, from yesterday? My bad, yesterday I was perplexed fro my little sister's whereabouts
looking slightly down, I saw Ivy that was coiled around his leg Surely, he is unable to move just like her
Rather than unable to ht be more like he has no intention to move
””
He was paying my presence any mind either If I didn't call out to him, he would turn towards her and continue to talk to her with emotionless eyes
”Good grief, to besuch lovely place”
”Ah, that's right Hey, let's invite everyone froether If we show it to everyone, they'll surely be pleased”
”What's more, I want to show you to everyone nohat you became so lovely”
”Hey, is that okay?”
”I see Thank you”
Perhaps he was able to hear words that I was unable to hear To me it only looked like a one-sided talk to his little sister about so, however
The girl that I talked with yesterday, couldn't even make facial expressions any
It looked like both e else was casted away soarden
She couldn't do anything other than to be admired
Just like a flower
Part 6
Above the grasslands, I was flying with broom
Fortunately, it hasn't rained every since I got on broo, but what should I do?
”Oh?”
Under the ashen sky I saw sole towards my direction
As it approached, I vaguely understood that its shape belonged to a hu my speed, I passed side by side with that person
””
I didn't really understand whether it was a e is also unknown I only understood that it was a human
That person alking towards so ahead, perhaps towards the country
In those vague things, I only understood one thing clearly There was just one thing I saw
It was the i in hands
The flower bouquet