Chapter 133 (2/2)

「Ojousama……」

「……Ano, ther」

「Hai」

My body honestly desired nutrition

I suppose it’s natural, because…………I’m alive

Taking a truly long time, I slowly took my meal

Ilya always repeated the saht soup to my lips

I ate the sandwich as well

There’s no one besides Ilya who has shared this taste with me, now

After taking my meal in a trance, I became intensely sleepy

For how I had been laying in bed for a full day, I have noslept

As such I, gave my body over to slumber

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The body of Till that had been looking up at the sky with a rainbow hanging over it, wavered

I ran as hard as I could

Irritated even with the air resistance, I reround

「Till!!!」

When I soht

So that she could be in a relaxed posture, I slowly let her body down and gave her a lap pillow

Till wasa thin smile, with her eyes still shut

「You, you’re tired right, Till? Shall we go to the royal capital now? Since I’ll carry you while you sleep」

「…………」

Till opened her eyes

My relief, lasted for a moment

I couldn’t sense light in those eyes

It wasn’t clear whether the world may have been reflected within

「…………」

「Since if you’d like, I’ll carry you the whole way! It’s fine, this is also training!」

Tears spill down and, h I didn’t want them to flow

Till closed her eyes once again and, s manner

「Yare yare……what a noisy person」

Hearing her voice, ht

「Kufu, don’t make a tormented face like that……it ruins your cute face」

Well I suppose it’s captivating in it’s oay, and Till made a playful smile

She put a hand on rasped that hand

「Nee, nee Till! What should be done? What, should I be doing!?」

Till’s body

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Till’s body had gone coree

And ever since the tiic continues to encroach even now

Such that her body is turning to ice

「Nothing good will come of it if you only seek answers Think for yourself and, live on as such from here on」

I used heal with my full power

My head swam

Biting ether ic power

Without rebuking such irrationality, without stopping it, Till watched over me with kind eyes

「Alice, would you listen?」

I nodded countless times

「During ether with Est, I played as I pleased Getting around the village’s strict rules was an easy matter」

I was an awful brat wasn’t I, and she narrowed her eyes with a nostalgic feeling

「On a certain day, the Est I had always been with, who I had thought I would always be with, ceased to be That incident was enough toa hole in my heart」

The story of her separation frouely knew

「And so while I andering the world alone, I found it……kufu, there was a dark elf with the sa face as my own」

It see snow, of the sort that anyone would close their door to keep the warmth inside

She said the one begging in front of a stable a ways away froe, was Libra

「It could also be said that my conscience wouldn’t let me leave her be I also perceived that she had the talent for ht have been that I wanted a partner to fill my loneliness」

Till gave a bitter smile toward herself

Thinking, wasn’t the one as saved at that time not Libra but, myself

After that, the days guiding the Libra who begged for lessons were enjoyable

During the days of journey without the need to speak alone, it was enjoyable as Libra took back her original brightness and came to make innocent conversation

「Kufu, what’s called er than the chains that connected to the ic wolf……the truth is that I was able to finish her But I couldn’t do it I couldn’t even do the act of, correcting ht misfortune to others What’s called the heart is, truly a difficult thing you know……」

Till sret

「You can! If it’s Till it can be done! Or rather, I’ll show it be done! Please watch, because without troubling Till’s hand, I’ll rake that blockhead ane-disciple over the flames!!」

Is that so, and Tillnod

「There’s no need to hold back Don’t worry about life and death, or rather even the battle itself isn’t inevitable The fate of me and Libra is our affair Alice, you are……because what’sis that you all are safe」

「I don’t want that! I’ve decided, I’ chased around already The 2nd disciple of Ice and Snoill, shohat she’s capable of!」

「Kufu……is that so」

「!?」

The power faded from

power faded from Till’s hand

The hand she had placed on round

「Till……?」

My heart was, truly noisy

Its palpitation was intense enough, to make me dizzy

「……It is a little early, for you You ht But I wish to entrust it to you nonetheless Alice, I already think of nothing but you」

「A, anything! Please ask anything of me!!」

「Kufu……I have your pledge then? Young htly upon……」

Saying so like an incantation with a small voice

「While it doesn’t mean I’ve lost in battle, there’s no victory in er suited to this name」

A blue ic system floated above Till’s center

Having reached this point, thinking is she still going to use o mad

And so that blueabove Till’s chest

「……Accept it」

Nodding, I placed ht touched ht

Not aas sucked into my chest

I shuddered in surprise fro up

「What, you’ll grow used to it in time……」

Till, turned her gaze to the sky after having looked at me with a kind smile in my surprise

「There just happens to be a rainbow bridge built It’s a good day to go」

This time it was like my heart would stop

「I, I don’t want that, what are you saying Till! Please don’t say so ridiculous!」

「Kufu……sorry Alice, it’s fine to take your ti after me What, it’s fine even if you don’t hurry Since I’ll pass my time with Est」

I was already, so shaken that I didn’t knohat I should do

I wanted to do so

「――I love you, hter」

The power faded completely, from Till’s body

「…………Eh?」

Reality, doesn’t even wait long enough to think

Till’s body hardened in blue crystal as I blankly looked down――――it broke and rose into the air

「Ah――ah―――」

Give it back, give back, Till’s body――

Slipping throughhand, the crystals rise into the sky

As if the rainbow bridge, was guiding the blue crystal somewhere

「AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa!!!!!!」

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「――I atching a dream wasn’t I」

My head hurts

I notice so kindly rubbed by someone

「Teacher-sama……surely that was fate……no one, would think you-sama would pass away……」

The hand that was unable to reach the person I wanted to protect, is enveloped by someone beside me

「――This body is a shi+eld, the shi+eld that protects ojousa that would drop ojousama into the abyss of sorrow, a 2nd time」

I noticed a warm drop fall, on the enveloped hand

Sensing so in, I realized that Till made a troubled sort of smile within my dream

――Can she not keep it together, this idiot disciple

My kind kind , in such a manner――――