Chapter 152 – 70-3 the 4th Day of the Festival.

“What would you like to drink?”
“I am…”

In front of the suburban booth operated by academy students during the festival.

Allen asked Vivian next to her what she would like to drink.

“I’d like some lemonade.”
“Okay. A glass of lemonade and cherry ade, please.”
“Okay, please get a number here and wait a moment.”

Allen handed over the ade and received a number ticket.

Maybe a minute or two passed like that?

“Lemonade, cherry ade is here!”

When she said in a confident voice that the ade she ordered came out, Allen, who was waiting nearby, handed over the cold ade and went back to Vivian.

“It’s still morning, so there aren’t many people, so I came out pretty quickly. Ruler.”
“…Thank you. I will drink well.”
“Are you surprised?”
“What?”

At the word unexpected, Vivian asks what you mean.

“No, I thought you would say, ‘I’ll pay for mine’ for some reason.”

Vivian watched Allen as she stirred the lemonade she had received with a straw.

“I will live next time.”
“No, I didn’t mean it like that.”

Vivian was pondering something as she sipped her whipped lemonade.

And then…

“…Have I always acted so coldly…?”
“Huh? I don’t know why the story suddenly became like this… Well, it was a little chilly. At first, I tried to make friends with him, but he often ignored me.”
“Of course, people you don’t know talk to you and get suspicious.”
“It’s not like that. Still, I approached him to be friendly, but it’s quite embarrassing when he passes by empty-handed. I am ashamed.”
“Are you feeling ashamed too?”
“What do you look at people for?”
“A rude man who pushes against you without knowing shame?”
“Are you talking about being a man quite sarcastically?”
“Are you really trying to cover up your flaws as you like?”

Seeing Vivian talking a lot today, I could feel that her affinity for me had increased.

Normally, they had short conversations and didn’t have jokes mixed with jokes, but maybe it was because they persistently created the situation.

I was happy that the conversation was going smoothly now.

“Vivian.”
“Why are you calling me, Allen Mestia?”

Still, when I called my name, I felt an invisible wall when I called the whole family name, but I wasn’t sad.

First time. It’s a huge improvement when I think about my meeting with Vivian.

“It’s lunchtime soon anyway, so shall we bet? How about lunch?”
“What bet are you going to make?”
“How about shooting?”
“Good. Instead, surrender cleanly to the match.”

Vivian readily accepts Allen’s lunch bet and puts on a confident expression.

“Oh, you look confident? Good. 10 feet in total. If you get the prize with the highest score among them, let’s win.”
“I look forward to it. Allen Mestia. I can’t wait to see your distorted face, unable to accept your defeat.”
“Ho… You’re quite sadistic, aren’t you? I said earlier Often, the condition is not good, the gun is strange, the product does not work. The same loser comments are rejected at all?”
“You know what I want to say. Have you already sensed defeat?”

A conversation between two men and women who do not back down an inch.

“Do you think it would be better to worry about your wallet? Didn’t I see you at the restaurant?”
“You talk a lot? They say that weak people talk a lot. Isn’t that right, Allen Mestia?”
“Well, I have to show my skills. Come with me, Vivian Araxis.”
“You go even though you know you’re going to lose. Are you quite stupid?”
“Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if you said so confidently that you would win?”
“I will never lose.”

Seeing the confident smile that he never loses made me smile.

I mean, it’s like a real friend.

It was nice not to have to act uncomfortable with a fake smile.

More than anything, when we were together, it was just fun for no reason.

“Why are you laughing? Are you laughing because you think I’m going to lose?”
“Of course. I can’t stop laughing at the thought of a free lunch.”

****

“There are too many people because it is the last day.”
“Iknow, right. I guess I should have preached yesterday, even if it was too much work.”

The two women walking around the academy were looking for Allen with their eyes on.

“Not here, not there. It’s really embarrassing…”

The woman who fixes her sunglasses sighs deeply, as if it was difficult to find Allen from early morning.

“It is unexpected.”
“Huh? What?”
“I can go alone, but you are accompanying me. You seem to have changed your mind.”
“Ughhh… Well. Even when I think about it, I think of myself as a girl who gets bored easily and doesn’t have a lot of flair. Does Eris think so too?”

The sunglasses woman looks at Eris and she asks how she is.

“Still, aren’t you doing well in the church?”
“Oops… I was hurt. Doesn’t that mean that even if you’re immature, you’re a good person at work?”

A woman in sunglasses with an exaggerated gesture, showing quite a bit of shock.

However, the woman called Eris is just polite, and when she nods lightly in response to the woman in sunglasses, she responds.

“Eris is scary… But she doesn’t hate that.”

She soon returned to normal and smiled and continued her speech.

“Honestly, I really liked the kid Allen I saw yesterday. Should I say that she feels different from other believers?”
“Does it feel different?”
“Yes. I don’t know the details because she looks far away, but I have an intuition that if she evangelizes, she will definitely draw the splendid appearance of the church, and that she is a child who naturally imagines that her future will become even brighter.”
“Even if it’s a bit forced, it evangelizes…”
“Ugh, that’s not it. The child I saw will never be tamed, even if he is forced to bring it.”
“It looks like a wolf.”
“It is appropriate. On the outside, he has a gentle face like a sheep, but inside he is a wolf that cannot be tamed.”

The woman in sunglasses smiled quietly at her Eris.

“Still, I like it so much that I would be willing to teach it myself if a lamb or a wolf joins our church.”
“You seem to really like it.”
“Today’s believers are all like a white sheet of paper. So I think it would be nice to dye it in a different color once in a while.”
“Wouldn’t it cause trouble again? If it’s a stimulating color, other believers…”
“Let’s go and think about it then. Oh, was that a remark that was too blunt? If the headmaster had listened to me, what would he have said?”
“…I do not know. As a lowly person, you are unapproachable.”
“Hmm… I don’t know either. Still, I have a feeling that he gave permission without knowing it. The headmaster also dismissed the church’s atmosphere as too optimistic. Ah!”

The woman in sunglasses suddenly stopped her steps and looked at Eris with a short exclamation, as if she had remembered something.

“There was no need to search for it in the first place, right? Wouldn’t it be just a matter of checking the play times in the auditorium? Even if we blindly search for them anyway, it will be difficult to meet them. If so, wouldn’t it be more appropriate physically or time-wise to meet at the start or end of the play?”
“You made the right choice.”
“Oh, we moved too hard, whoops. I skipped breakfast because I didn’t want to lose the jewel in front of me. But I’m glad you noticed now.”

A woman in sunglasses bursting out laughing rather than lamenting her own stupidity.

“Then what are you planning to do now?”
“First of all, let’s check the play timetable and then have lunch. You went through a lot from early morning to accompany me, Eris.”
“No. Then I’ll check the play time and come back. Please wait here for a moment.”
“Oh? I don’t know if you’re having a hard time because of me.”
“No. I’ll be back soon.”

Eris, who was following the woman in sunglasses, went somewhere to check her play time.

She was left alone in the hallway, and the woman in sunglasses was leaning against the wall of her hallway, watching each and every passer-by as if searching for her score.

‘Hmm… I was expecting a child named Allen, but she’s lower than I thought.’

The woman in sunglasses tried to anticipate her unknown, but as expected, she was about to sigh when she saw things below the standard and threw away her eyes.

“Hey, come see a play, come…!”

Hallway in a noisy, festive atmosphere.

Amidst the loud noise, a very small voice reached the woman in sunglasses.

‘…A strange child.’

It was just a small voice to others, but she was a child who somehow caught the eye.

‘She looks like a small child, so why can’t I take my eyes off her?’

The woman in sunglasses looked at Mirai handing out her leaflets with a trembling voice as her disappointed face changed to a curious one before she knew it.

‘Shall I take a good look…’

The woman in sunglasses is about to walk towards Mirai, raising her back against the wall.

“There, a school student wearing sunglasses.”
“Me? Why are you like that?”

The woman in sunglasses, who was about to approach Mirai, pointed her finger at herself at the sound of someone’s screeching voice and looked back at her.

“Who are you? He’s the first academy student I’ve ever seen.”

The sound of heels piercing through the noisy hallway.

Red hair swaying in the beautiful wind like red petals fluttering.

And a woman with a voluptuous body was approaching the woman in sunglasses.