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Tirisia placed a hand on her trembling heart and knocked on Erto’s door.

A lot of worries and conflicts begin to arise.

I wonder if he’s back home now.

Or maybe he’s still having a good time with his friends at the Academy.

If you were here, would you open the door for yourself?

Even if they open the door, won’t they treat me coldly?

In the first place, did he have the right to come to him like this?

Wouldn’t it be the right choice to never appear before his eyes again?

What does he think of me?

Do you think of me as a disgusting being, a slut who gave her body to another man?

Or maybe, I could still be his childhood friend.

I wonder how he’s been doing all this time.

I wonder if I developed a deeper relationship with someone from the Academy or one of the people I had a fun outing with today.

The girls were all looking at Erto with affectionate eyes.

Could Erto now forget me and give his heart to someone else?

How much of me will remain in him?

Is it Tirisia?

Is it brewed?

Or, just other people?

If not that,

Maybe… he just doesn’t exist.

Such thoughts were running wild through her head, but she couldn’t stop her hands.

Even though she was aware of all the circumstances and adverse conditions, she still wanted to meet him.

Right now, I really wanted to see Erto’s face.

I wanted to hear his voice.

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“Erto… ? Are you in there… ?”

May clenched her fists and called out the name of the person she once loved.

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“Erto… If you have it, please answer… ”

… …

There is no response.

Using magic detection, it would be easy to see who was inside the house, but Tyrissia didn’t have the courage to do so.

What if Erto realizes that he is ignoring him even though he is inside the house?

Because I really felt like I was going to fall apart.

There was absolutely no way I could open that lid.

If I just let it pass without noticing, I might at least believe that he wasn’t home.

Now that I’m in a corner, I can readily accept that level of rationalization.

As long as Erto believes that he has not completely abandoned himself, he can still maintain his sanity.

With such a desperate hope, Tirissia knocked on the front door again and again.

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“Erto… If you’re there, could you open the door for me…?”

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“I… have something to say… Erto… ”

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“Please… Just once… Meet me… Please… ”

Even after knocking for a long time, there was no response from inside the door.

“… Yeah… It doesn’t exist.”

Although she never checked, Tirisia hung her head and gave up on calling the boy.

I’m sure it’s not at home.

He hasn’t come back yet because he’s out playing with his friends.

Just sit here and wait.

I have to get home by morning.

Even if I have to stay up all night,

Just stay here and wait for him to come back.

Then you can meet Erto.

I can see his face.

I can hear his voice.

Don’t give up.

It’s not over yet.

“… I’ll wait.”

So, without letting go of the rag she was holding, Tirissia squatted down on the floor with her back to the front door, hugging her knees.

“Erto… Erto… Erto… ”

Some time passed as I buried my face in his arms and repeated his name.

Click—

She heard the door open behind her.

“… !”

Tirisia quickly raised her head and turned her body to look behind her.

There was a black-haired boy in his pajamas, looking down at himself expressionlessly.

“Er… To… ”

Her jade colored eyes opened wide, then closed tightly as she held back the overwhelming joy with all her might.

“… ”

And when she opened her eyes again, she greeted the boy with the gentle smile she always had when dealing with him.

“How have you been?”

“… ”

A girl sitting in front of her house, drenched in rain, wearing a one-piece dress that she used to like.

The boy, who had been blankly staring at her, soon answered in a voice that showed no emotion.

“… What’s going on?”

“Ah… That’s… ”

Tirisia slowly got up from her seat and looked straight at the boy.

And she lifted both arms slightly, showing off her cleavage, and let out a clumsy laugh.

“Well… I got rained on… I wondered if I could take a break… Hehe… ”

“… ”

Two inorganic yellow eyes, one unable to tell what they were thinking, observed her actions.

Tyrissia followed his gaze, feeling the greatest tension in her life.

At that moment, her heart was filled with earnest prayer.

Please, please,

Don’t cast me out, Erto.

If even you reject me… then…

I, I, really…

Without realizing it, Tirisia tightly shut her eyes and waited for his answer, which was soon to come.

and,

“… Come in.”

Did the prayer reach heaven?

Erto allowed himself into the house.

“Let’s go back when the rain stops.”

Erto said, turning his back and going inside, leaving the front door open.

“… Yeah, thanks.”

Tirisia suppressed the emotions that threatened to overflow, and followed Erto’s back, repeatedly reminding herself that she should not show them to him so carelessly.

Click.

The front door was closed, and only two people were left inside the house, cut off from the outside world.

thank god.

Really, I’m so glad.

It wasn’t completely over yet.

It seems Erto still has the heart to embrace me.

Such joy surged through Tirisia’s heart.

*

Shoo-

A white one-piece dress that she carefully chose to wear to look good to Erto.

Tirisia took off all her clothes, including her underwear, which were soaked in the rain, and went into the bathroom, where she washed her cold body with hot water.

This was because there were considerations such as Erto’s order to wash up first and come out, as a person who got wet in the rain could not be left alone in the house.

The makeup had already been washed off by the rain, so there was no way to even show it to Erto.

In the first place, Erto preferred his bare face without makeup, so it didn’t really matter.

“… Phew.”

Feeling the fatigue melting away in the hot water, Tirissia let out a refreshing sigh.

At that moment, Erto’s voice was heard from outside the bathroom door.

[I’ve put all the clothes in the washing machine, so I’ll leave the things I need to change into here.]

“Oh, yeah!”

Tyrisia answered suddenly, covering her cheeks with her palms and forcing back a smile.

Ah, to be entering Erto’s house.

I’m about to shower naked in his bathroom.

As if that weren’t enough, the clothes he wears end up on my bare skin.

What kind of luck is this?

“Hoohoo… Woohoohoo!”

The girl, who had been writhing in the pouring water and caressing her cheeks, soon came to her senses and stared into the mirror.

No, Tyrissia.

What are you doing now?

it’s crazy?

Do you think Erto’s brief moment of sympathy has accomplished anything?

Do you think what you did to Erto has gone away?

Come to your senses.

Because nothing has changed.

“… Phew, haa.”

Tirisia, who had pulled herself together by looking at the ugly girl reflected in the mirror, finished showering, came out of the bathroom naked, and put on the short-sleeved shirt and shorts that Erto had left in front of the door.

Since she wasn’t wearing underwear, there was a chance that her curves would pop out here and there, but since the other person was Erto, there was no reason to feel embarrassed.

Rather, I would be happy if he took interest in my body.

Although she knew full well that such expectations were vain, Tirisia walked down the hallway with her shoulders squared and headed toward Erto’s room.

“Erto, I used the bathroom well. Thanks for lending me your clothes.”

As she expressed her gratitude, pushing her damp silver hair behind her ear, the black-haired boy sitting on the floor glanced at her and replied.

“… Yeah.”

He was lying on his back in bed, wearing his pajamas, quietly reading a book on magic theory.

Tyrisia stood before him blankly, her face flushed from the warmth of the shower, her arms burning.

“… ”

She stared at his profile for a moment, then opened her mouth to break the awkwardness.

“What were you doing?”

“Study.”

“Study… ?”

Tirisia, curious about those words, slowly walked over to him, stood next to Erto, who was sitting on the floor, and scanned the contents of the theory book.

“Huh? Isn’t that… a royal wizard level theory book?”

“That’s right.”

“This is definitely not something you would study at an academy level… ?”

“These days, I feel like this is about right.”

Erto answered Tirisia’s question as if it were nothing, without taking his eyes off the book.

Tirisia covered her mouth so that he wouldn’t notice, and couldn’t hide her surprise at how much progress Erto had made while she wasn’t watching.

“You must have tried really hard.”

“Otherwise, you won’t be able to survive.”

“Surviving… From whom?”

“Well, this rough world?”

Looking at Erto, who answered with an expressionless face that made it impossible to tell whether he was joking or not, Tirisia was relieved that at least he was not ignoring her words.

She placed a hand on her trembling heart and formally asked his permission.

“Erto, over there… Is it okay for me to be here?”

“What are you talking about when I already washed it all?”

“That’s…right.”

Tyrissia’s shoulders slumped at the emotionless remark.

Asking for permission after already causing trouble was shameless, even when I thought about it.

But even so, the joy of being able to be with Erto was so strong that I felt like I could sell my conscience without any worries.

“I won’t kick you out now that you came in with your own feet, so make yourself comfortable and go. I have to wash and dry my clothes too.”

“Ah… Yes, thank you very much. Erto.”

“Yeah.”

“… ”

As the silence fell once more, Tirisia carefully sat down on the bed next to Erto.

“Erto… Can I sit next to you?”

“As you wish.”

“Ah… Thank you.”

Swish.

Tirisia, who had slipped down from the bed, leaned back against the bed like Erto, and sat down next to him with her knees up.

“… ”

Erto paid no attention to her and only focused his eyes on the theory book.

“Um… ”

As Tirisia looked around with confused eyes, wondering what to say to him, several picture frames on the dresser right next to her caught her eye.

“Huh…? This…?”

Tyrissia reached out to the frame as if possessed.

Erto glanced at her actions, but did not try to stop her.

“I still have these pictures.”

Tirissia gathered the picture frames that were on the dresser and moved them to the table in front of Erto.

All the photos in the frame were of the two people in the past.

A photo taken with the sea in the background.

A photo taken with a snowy mountain in the background.

A photo taken with an amusement park in the background.

A photo taken at a cafe in the forest.

All those happy moments were vividly alive and breathing within the frame.

Erto’s gaze lingered on the photographs for a moment, then turned back to the theory book.

And in an honest tone that didn’t sound like an excuse, he explained why he had kept them.

“Well… Because it helped with training.”

“Training…?”

“That’s something that proves the times when I was weak, so I kept it by my side, and it made me think that I had to become stronger. That’s why I didn’t throw it away.”

“That’s right… ”

The times when he was weak.

In other words, it was a time when I was weak and ended up losing something.

And the person in that photo is me.

Tirisia realized that the reason Erto constantly reminded her to become stronger by looking at her past was because he had experienced the worst experience of having his precious lover stolen by another.

Although she knew full well that the cause was her own, paradoxically, she ended up feeling joy.

Because those were words that made you feel how much he cherished you in the past.

Those words, which reminded me of the moments when we loved each other, felt like they quenched the thirst in my heart a little.

“Erto… Do you remember this time?”

Tirissia spoke to Erto, touching one of the picture frames on the table to recall a little more of that past happiness.

I felt like the anxiety in my heart would disappear if I discussed my memories with him.

“… I don’t remember.”

Erto, who was looking at the picture frame that Tirisia was pointing to while placing the theory book on his lap, nodded with his eyes widening.

What she was pointing to was a photo of the two of them playing in the water at the beach on a bright summer day.

Erto, flying upside down in the air over the sea,

Tyrisia is climbing onto the sea dragon’s neck and looking at him with surprised eyes.

It was a ridiculous photo, taken with perfect timing by chance using spirit magic.

“You tamed the sea serpent that swept over the shore, but the one who thought of you as its master swatted me away with its tail when I touched you.”

Erto chuckled and vividly recalled what happened at that time.

“That’s right… I tamed it without knowing it, so I didn’t know how to make other people obey it… Hehe.”

At his smile, Tirisia felt all her worries disappear, and she couldn’t help but laugh.

Her white fingers pointed to the next frame, and she asked Erto again for a moment from the past.

“This is… when the two of us went hiking.”

What she was pointing to this time was a picture of two people on top of a mountain covered in white snow, with the rising sun in the background.

An explanation flowed out of Erto’s mouth with a pleased smile as he looked at it together.

“I went on a trip to see the sunrise on the top of a snowy mountain in the north without any proper equipment.”

“Even if you jumped with magic, crossing a continent that was thousands of kilometers long and climbing a snowy mountain that was over twenty kilometers high in one go was a reckless act, no matter how you thought about it. Isn’t it? Hehe.”

“Well, at least I didn’t freeze to death thanks to the warming magic you cast, Tirisia.”

“If not, both of them would have become snacks for the frost giants.”

Although Tirisia answered with a calm face, a great shock was occurring inside her.

Oh, he called my name.

He called my name in a gentle voice.

I’m so happy.

She felt her heart pounding, but she never showed it and kept her composure on the outside.

‘Don’t tease me.’

Slowly, slowly,

Erto is trying to relax and close the distance.

Before having a serious talk with him.

So that you can prepare your heart to receive me.

It keeps reminding me of the happy moments.

Don’t rush, little by little, little by little,

Don’t be greedy, Tyrissia.

“This is… ”

Her finger pointed to the next frame, which contained a photo of two people wearing rabbit and donkey headbands at an amusement park.

“That’s the only headband left.”

Erto snorted at the pointy ears perched on his head in the photo.

“Why, I thought it was cute. Actually, it doesn’t look much different from a rabbit, right?”

“That’s an insult to rabbits, Tirissia.”

Tirisia smiled and closed her eyes, leaning her face on her knees as if recalling a precious memory.

“At that time… Erto was about to give his ice cream that he had just bought to a girl who was crying because she dropped her ice cream.”

“Ahh… That… ”

“Then I fell over and ended up hitting the child with an ice cream cone upside down on his head.”

“Thanks to you, I stopped crying.”

“Instead, the whole world looked like it was hating him.”

“Forget about that… In the end, you bought me a new 5-tier ice cream.”

“Huh huh… That’s right, that’s what happened.”

The two laughed as they recalled the same moment.

Tirisia opened her eyes, wet with tears, and continued to recall memories of Erto.

“The moments I spent with Erto…were always filled with happiness.”

“… I see.”

“When you first visited my house… You were so fearless that you shouted out loud in front of my parents that you would marry me. Even though you were in kindergarten.”

“… That’s right.”

“That childhood friend, Erto, who was a mischievous boy… As time passed, he gradually began to seem less and less like a simple friend… ”

“… ”

Her jade green eyes stared blankly at the face of the boy sitting next to her.

She wiggled her toes, her eyes looking thoughtful of something else.

“Erto… Now that I think about it, isn’t this place familiar?”

“… ”

He didn’t answer, but stared blankly into Tirisia’s face.

Her skin as white as jade flushed brightly, and she buried her face in her arms that hugged her knees, examining Erto’s complexion with her eyes that were filled with color.

The air in the room changes strangely.

It creates a thick, humid illusion, as if one is burning with the heat radiating from a girl.

“This is where we first met.”

From the alluring girl looking up at the boy’s face with her head bowed,

A bubbling voice emerges, as if unable to contain something.

“… ”

The boy just looked at the girl.

Without any embarrassment or expectation, just with a calm face.

“Not on the bed… I was sitting like this studying, and suddenly.”

Swish―

The girl’s arm, moving slowly, touched the boy’s shoulder.

“… ”

The boy did not resist.

In response, the girl finally exploded with lust and pushed the boy’s body away in one breath, knocking him to the floor.

dump.

“The location was opposite then… ”

A girl wearing only thin clothes climbs on top of a boy lying on the floor.

“It started like this.”

Moist silver hair flowed down over the boy’s face, and within it, jade-colored eyes radiated fiery desire.

The boy left her to her own devices without doing anything to stop her.

And that sight drove Tirisia even crazier.

Right now, countless conflicts were clashing fiercely inside her.

iced coffee,

This is not right.

You shouldn’t do something so hasty.

But I can’t stand it.

Erto is still showing me kindness.

There’s still a chance that they’ll accept me.

You’re not putting up any resistance.

Then wouldn’t it be okay to just do it?

Wouldn’t it be okay to ask Erto to accept me again?

Elkonja, the woman who betrayed him by stabbing him in the back of the head, was also his friend without any problem.

Well then, maybe I have one more chance?

Just like this, just like this,

If you become one with him―

Then wouldn’t everything go back to normal?

With her body and mind damp, Tirisia looked down at the boy lying beneath her.

*

I looked up at Tirisia, who had suddenly fallen on top of me.

She was looking down at me with a red face and hazy eyes, very excited.

It was clear what she wanted.

I’m sure she and I are thinking the same thing right now.

“Erto… Are you okay…?”

Tirissia asked my permission one last time.

“Tirisia… ”

I slowly raised my hand and stroked her cheek.

“Ahhh… !”

Tyrisia pressed her face into his palm even harder, as if she felt an indescribable pleasure from just that touch.

Looking at that happy face, I decided to give her an answer.

“Tirisia… ”

“Yeah, Erto… !”

She was wiggling her waist while being horny above me,

I sincerely hope so,

The answer is,

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I am-

“Do I look like a pushover?”

There’s no way I can do that.

There isn’t any.