69 Episode 65: The March of the Revolution (2/2)

”... Dear Anisphere”

”Huh? What, Ilia”

My hand has reached out where I tried to look back on Ilia's call. Ilia hugs me so I can hold her from behind. I round my eyes to the sudden action of Ilia.

Ilia weighs in to keep her face in the back of my head. Stronger to such an extent that the strength of the arms you cuddle is not painful.

”... until today, really, really good job”

... seemed to fill an empty hole in my chest. The sense of reality that I didn't feel fills me up at once.

Today, I welcomed a separation. It doesn't just mean getting ready for tomorrow's festival. Tomorrow will be a special day for me too.

'Cause it's the day to officially announce magic to the people and the achievements of magic. I kept going to get to this day.

It's not like I didn't want it. But reality wasn't nice enough for me to dream. Abused, repelled, feared. I couldn't give up dreaming even though I was pulling away from the palace.

”... haha. Ilia's a mess. We're just ready, aren't we?

”Yes. Still, you arrived. Everything you've been building up is waiting for you tomorrow.”

Ilia says as she whispers in her ear. The voice slips into my ear with a very gentle voice color.

”You can't help but be anxious. Because you are no longer the only one who dreams of Anisphere. There will be many that have left their hands. But isn't that the world you aspired to?

”... Sure, I thought it would be nice to spread. There's my magic in the world. I couldn't give you magic, that's why I was able to produce magic.”

Now that I think about it, my beginnings came from both the extremes of hope and despair.

The supreme hope that there is magic and the greatest despair that its magic could not give me.

I couldn't give up because the hope lay within my reach. I never had time to cry in despair. I just want it, I want it, I keep asking for it.

But it seems to me that as far away from the form I sought as I sought. I wanted to be able to use magic. I wanted to be because I wanted to magically make someone smile.

Maybe I had given up within no one understood me. But if you give up on that, you lose the point of being me, too.

That's not why I was afraid. I can't help losing it. It was just that the giving up that there was nothing I could do was slowly killing me.

”Living has been so hard. Ilia.”

”Yes, if you put your foot on the ground, it feels weighty even if you don't like it”

I'm not even a bird.

”I didn't think it was weird whenever you flew. No, you must have been flying. Even with the stopping trees, you lost sight of where you were going, but you kept flying.”

Ilia hugs me so hard that I lean on her. Its warmth is terribly warm, with my hands on my arms to hold.

”Now I can say it with my chest up, too. This is where you come from.”

”... yeah”

”It's what you built. It is a dream, a wish and a miracle that we all received. That would be no less than the feat of the first king. And I would like to congratulate you from the bottom of your heart on the place you wish to be.”

Mine, where.

Ilia let me go softly. I leave the office in a dream.

Through the hallway leading out of the office and out. The sun sets and the sky is stained bright red.

I burn the royal castle lit that day, the castle town, and its sky and horizon in my eyes.

”... here's mine”

It's where I am. The whining words in my mouth stain my chest.

One step, I look back toward Ilia, who came with me trying to be late.

What would I look like now? A little, that's all I cared about.

”Let's go home, Ilia”

”Yes, Master Anisphere”

”I'm back now”

”Welcome back, Uffi, Raini”

”Yes, I'm home!

It was me and Ilia who came back out of the palace first. Yufi and Raini came home after a little delay.

”Are you done over there?

”Yep. Don't be unprepared tomorrow.”

”It's been tough until today.”

Raini groans emotionally. Indeed, it was us who were on the run to prepare to this day. It really makes me feel emotional.

In the meantime, there was some trouble that wasn't small, but if you think you're going to welcome tomorrow, you don't even have to turn your mind to what's over. The important thing is that it's tomorrow.

”Raini, I just got back, can you help me?

”Oh, yes! Dear Ilia, I'll be there in a minute!

Patapata and Raini rush down to Ilia, where they were preparing meals in the kitchen.

If you drop Raini off his back, it's me and Uffi who will be left behind. If we look at each other, we're kind of crazy and laughing at each other.

”... Is it tomorrow already? Sounds early to me.”

”I've had plenty of days and a lot of things.”

”Yep.... If I had been myself a while ago, I wouldn't have believed that I was a princess.”

”Neither do I. I'm sure you couldn't believe it.”

I reach out and hold Yuffi's hand. Yuffi looks at me just a little strange when he gets his hand gripped.

With such a peek into Yufi's eyes, I smile and make her look hazy.

”He said there's a Uffi next to me. I'm sure you won't believe it.”

”... so is that”

”Things have changed.”

”Yes, me, you, this country.”

”Tomorrow, that's the point of arrival”

”But it's a crossing point, isn't it?

Uffi tangled his fingers at me, pulling himself just a little closer and turning his hand around his hips.

I fit in Yuffi's hand. This is how I got used to being natural.

”It's over, it starts.”

”Yes, that's right”

”Let's do our best, Uffi”

”Yes, Anis”

Yuffi smiles and tries to lip me. I try to let my fingers break in and push Yuffi's lips as they approach me.

Then Yuffi's eyebrows distorted in dissatisfaction. And with just a little strangeness to it, I lay my hand on Yuffi's cheek and hold her finger against my ear.

Drop a kiss that just touches you so you don't gain too much momentum as it is.... I'm glad I didn't fail, stroking my chest down. I can't get used to all this.

Yuffi's eyes open in circles.... Well, it's unusual to do it from me, or only about when I'm loved.

”... I'm hungry”

”Huh? Oh, yeah. Ilia and Raini will prepare the rice now...”

”I'm hungry.”

Gu, and Yufi hold my body. Uffi's eyes are sitting somewhere sighted at a distance where he is likely to exhale.... Shit, could it have stirred up too much.

”... on an equal footing. I have to eat, and I have tomorrow.”

”That's all I can say.”

I can clearly see the heat where it was touched. I closed my eyes to the comfort of that fever.