Chapter 144 – 69-1 the 3rd Day of the Festival.
“Did you sleep well yesterday?”
“…”
“Why are you like that? Staring at my face?’
“…It is nothing. Let’s go have a meal.”
“What happened yesterday? I bet you didn’t kill him, did you?”
“…Do you seem like a teacher who breaks the oath or oath?”
“Sure… I kind of thought so.”
“Are you saying that quite sadly?”
Clos Cerro snorted and pointed at Allen with a fork like four pointed spears and said he was sorry, but not his face at all.
“As for what I’m sorry about… Well… There’s nothing particularly bothering me.”
He smiled dejectedly and said that there was nothing wrong with it, and Clos Sero’s expression strangely brightened.
“Yesterday, after you left, the pink girl also went back.”
“I’m glad we didn’t fight. You must have met Clos Cerro for the first time yesterday, but Pamela-senpai. Your personality is not normal.”
“You seem like a girl who wouldn’t be surprised if you saw the main character. On the contrary, she is a girl who is likely to be ridiculed even if she sees her true appearance.”
The fork he had pointed at Allen was before he knew it, and Claw Sero gracefully put it in his mouth while dipping into the pieces of steak.
“Even so, if the girl in pink starts a fight first, I’ll put up with it at least three times.”
“Oh… For some reason you’ve said all the sensible things…”
“…Allen. You guys… Don’t you think you’ve been ignoring me too openly lately?”
“I’m sorry if you felt that way. The bond is so deep that I make mistakes without realizing it.”
“To think you apologized meekly… Do you have any pain anywhere?”
“People apologize, but where is the pain? Disappointingly.”
The two continue their unfinished meal while exchanging trivial jokes with each other.
“It’s quite tasty for a dish made by humans.”
‘It’s nice that the restaurant here is good. Oh, would you like some more?”
“That’s a good idea.”
The two of them rise from their seats while placing dishes on the top of the countless plates piled up on the table like a mountain at the same time and head to the restaurant ladies who are trembling in fear with tired faces.
****
“Is it here? Where did our famous sister speak?”
“Yes.”
“But did we really have to change into school uniforms? It would have been better if I had just worn a nun’s uniform.”
“I’m sorry, but it’s not known to the world yet, so it’s better to act cautiously. And if you wear a school uniform, won’t anyone let you in without questioning the fact that you’re an academy academy student?”
Two people talking while waiting for a play that is about to start with their backs against the wall.
“Well, it’s strange because it’s the first time I’ve worn a uniform other than the nun’s uniform. You can walk around in a loose short skirt like this.”
A woman complaining by slightly lifting the hem of her skirt.
“You will get used to it.”
“Still, it feels good because it’s been a while.”
The woman puts the hem of her skirt down and adjusts her sunglasses, giving a faint smile.
“…Not an outing, but a threat to the church…”
“Our purpose was not to find an infidel who would become a thread of the church, but to find her little boy named Allen Mestia who had been bullying her sister.”
“You’re right.”
“Well, like Eris said, I think it would be okay to make a beautiful stone statue of a growing pagan who would be a threat to the church. Oh, it’s starting.”
The lights hanging from the ceiling go off, and soon the buzzing noises all at once become quiet.
“…It sounds like a pretty fun play.”
As soon as the lights went off, Eris said quietly that the audience, which had been so noisy, became so quiet.
“Originally, there are not enough seats for fun plays, and people talk loudly. For now, let’s watch quietly.”
“Yes.”
A dark, short silence.
The blackout curtains covering the stage of the auditorium slowly rose, and soon the outlines of the actors could be seen vaguely above the dark auditorium.
As the lights that gradually brighten the stage were turned on, the outlines seen in the darkness soon revealed their complete appearance, and the audience’s silent applause greeted them.
“Oh. Looks pretty authentic, doesn’t it? Seeing everyone clapping?”
“When I heard people talk about it, they said it was a masterpiece of the century and praised it. And our members also said that the play is very interesting.”
“The believers? That’s great The Academy Festival is like an event that people with heavy hips attend every year, but seeing what our believers say, it seems like a really fun play, right?”
“Yes.”
“Hmm… Then let’s watch closely to see if it’s a play worthy of the undeserved praise of being a masterpiece of the century, as rumored.”
As the woman wearing sunglasses said that, she looked closely at the hard-working academy students on the stage in the auditorium.
People who admire the acting of the actors from the start.
Although he was still young, there were numerous scenes that stimulated emotions.
‘…Is it a tragic love story?’
A woman fixing her sunglasses knows at once that she is a tragic love story.
‘Two conflicting families. And it’s a story of love between the children of conflicting families… It’s cleaner than the story of the blue witch, and the way it unfolds is as natural as flowing water.’
She is a woman in sunglasses who analyzes and evaluates Romeo and Juliet alone like an art critic while concentrating on the play.
However, as the play progressed, the appearance of judging like an art critic completely disappeared, and the woman in sunglasses, like the audience watching other plays, quietly exclaimed from her mouth, and soon fell into the swamp called Romeo and Juliet.
“Thank you.”
When the words of gratitude were heard in a different tone for the play that she had fallen for, the woman in sunglasses, who had fallen into the swamp of the play, came to her senses and clapped unconsciously at the sound of loud cheers and applause.
“Surely. It’s such a great play that the believers are talking.”
“…That’s right. It’s a charming play. I fell in love with it without realizing it…”
When a woman named Eris said she was amazing to a woman wearing sunglasses, she replied in a bewildered voice.
“…If you’ll excuse me, Allen Mestia of the Order…”
“No. That’s not going to happen. No matter how talented we are, we have only one purpose here.”
“Sorry.”
“I’m sorry. Anyway, I had a good look today. I thought the outside would be full of ugly things…”
“Then are you going back today?”
“Hmm… I don’t know. Maybe I’m too adamant.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I came here at the request of my sister, but I keep thinking that it would be nice to evangelize that child to the church like Eris said.”
The woman wearing her sunglasses gently closed her eyes, took off her sunglasses, and put them back on again in a meaningless gesture.
However, knowing that she had Eris, she was well aware of the implications of her actions as she now took off her sunglasses with her eyes closed.
“I will evangelize.”
“Oh? I’d really appreciate it if you could. Previously…”
The woman wearing her sunglasses looked at her Eris and smiled brightly and thanked her, but her eyes looking at her Eris were far away before she knew it.
With her red hair hanging down, her arms crossed, they were looking at the two of them, eye to eye with a woman staring at them.
“The gaze of the woman over there with burning hair and crossed arms is so stinging. I never thought that something that wasn’t even love would sting like this.”
“Should I handle it?”
“No. That far away, you’re capturing her noble mana, and if you act rashly, you might die without a sound. I’ll leave for today, and I’ll come back tomorrow, hehe.”
“Yes, then this way.”
The woman in sunglasses was escorted out of the auditorium by Eris.
‘Those… I can feel some crude mana…’
And Clos Cero, thinking of the two women who had left the auditorium, pondered over her memories of what the hell was that crude mana he had felt somewhere.
****
When the play was over and the blackout curtain came down, the actors each said they had a hard time and headed to the dressing room.
“Vivian. Didn’t you forget tomorrow’s promise?”
“Allen Mestia, I am not stupid.”
“You know that. What, is there anything you particularly like?”
“Not at all.”
“Is that so? Then, as I like. Can you choose yourself?”
“Do whatever you feel like.”
“Really? It’s no use complaining?”
“Sure. I’ll go back once I’ve finished my business. Then see you tomorrow.”
Saying that her business is over, Vivian turns around and heads for the dressing room.
“Something feels like low pressure today? Are you glad you kept your promise? By the way, Juliet seemed a little high-pitched today… Didn’t she?”
Watching the back of Vivien as she left, I thought that Vivien, who was playing Juliet, seemed to have a strangely high tone.
“I just need to get some rest today.”
Allen stretches out and promises to take a good rest today on the date tomorrow.
But all the world. Will what you set out to do come true?
****
After changing her clothes in the dressing room, Vivian lowers her head and stares at his feet, then crouches down as if to sit down and embraces her burning face with her hands.
“It’s hot…”
Her heart is hot
No, it was hot.
I couldn’t hide this trembling that thumped as I progressed through the play, and I felt like my heart would explode if I kept it like this.
Is it because I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s promise?
Throughout the play today, no, waking up… No. More fundamental.
No.
I just enjoyed the festival with Allen Mestia in the dream I had today, and it was so strange to see me smiling brightly, so I just… I’m not in a good condition.
Obviously it is…
Vivian, who had been squatting, brushed off his thoughts while covering her hot face for a while.
