#090 Hello, Pearl
After a while, Emerald came to her senses and asked with a complicated face.
“Amber, what on earth were you thinking?”
Emerald said, pointing to Pearl, the girl I brought with her.
“I couldn’t bear to leave it behind… “
“Oh my, my head… “
Emerald asked me, holding her throbbing head.
“Have you ever been caught by anyone else on the way?”
“No. “I saw nothing but the delivery man in the hallway.”
“Thank goodness. If you haven’t been caught yet, something might work out… Rather than that, let’s lift both of them from their restraints.”
Showing Emerald her ankles, she tapped her restraining sphere with a light gesture of her hand and easily released it.
It felt like she was living a life now that the uncomfortable anklet that had been covering her feet for a day was removed.
Emerald said, showing her face as if she was thinking deeply.
“Amber go back to the academy. “I guess I have a lot to deal with.”
“What about Pearl? “You’re not going to send it back, are you?”
“How evil do you think I am…? Since I am responsible for sending you to a dangerous place, I will take responsibility for keeping things in order. Instead, take this child back to where he originally lived. “
In response to Emerald’s words, Pearl, who was standing behind me, asked cautiously.
“Amber. I can’t go see Diamond… ?”
When I hesitated to answer, Emerald answered instead.
“That’s not possible. “It’s too dangerous.”
Pearl was now being chased by the Magic Association.
If you take her to a public place where there are a lot of people like her academy and get caught again, the effort she put in to get her out will end up being a big deal to her.
Emerald said, pushing us away in a firm manner.
“You two, get on the carriage and go back first. “If we stay here, we’ll both be suspicious.”
“… Yes.”
It’s a shame she didn’t get to meet her diamond, but it was for Pearl in the end.
Pearl will understand, too.
After changing into the school uniform that Emerald had kept, I got on the carriage with Pearl.
I looked at Pearl’s face while returning to the carriage.
She was looking at the scenery around her with her characteristic curious eyes sparkling.
“Pearl. Are you okay?”
When I asked, Pearl nodded her head and answered.
“Yes. It all feels like a dream. “Until yesterday, it felt like I would live forever underground without a single ray of sunlight.”
“… Someday, I will save all the other children who are still underground. “I don’t know when that will happen.”
Pearl was silent for a moment after hearing what I said, and then she spoke.
“That girl named Emerald earlier, she’s a good person.”
“… Emerald feels guilty about capturing witches in the past. “That’s why she actively tried to help.”
“But you reflected on it. “I thought everyone in the association was bad.”
“… “
It may not be easy for her to forgive the characters who put her in her shoes, but Pearl had no hesitation in saying that she was a good person.
When the carriage was passing through the thick forest, Pearl shouted.
“Wait a minute, stop here!”
The coachman, startled by Pearl’s noise, stopped her carriage, and she jumped out of her carriage and looked around her.
“Pearl. “Is this the forest?”
“Yes. It’s a little overgrown, but it’s definitely true. “This is the entrance.”
The entrance to the house where witches gather and live.
Three years had passed, but she still remembered that place clearly.
Pearl looked back at me with regret and said.
“… It’s time to part ways. Amber.”
Her regret grew as she tried to let her go.
However, it was an unavoidable choice for Pearl’s safety.
“I’ll say hello to Dia. “I hope you’re fine.”
When I said that, Pearl responded by shaking her head.
“… No. “Just don’t tell me.”
“Why? “I wanted to meet you like that.”
“I don’t want to cause unnecessary worry to her. She promised to hide well. “It would be good for Dia if she didn’t hear anything from me.”
“Pearl… “
“It’s okay. Besides, Amber will be next to Diamond, right?”
“… Okay.”
Before I knew it, she had completely turned her back on me and shouted bravely without looking at me.
“See you again. Amber!”
“Yes. “I will definitely come back to see you again.”
That’s how I let go of a mysterious and pure girl named Pearl.
***
As soon as she entered the academy, she felt like all the tension in her body was melting away.
‘Ah, this familiar scenery… ‘
I wanted to go back to my room and lie down on the bed right away, but there was a place I had to stop by before that.
Because I wanted to go back to the club room and let everyone know that I was safe.
When I opened the door to the club room, the first thing I saw was Lady Ruby.
“Amber!?”
When she saw me, she got up from her seat and came running.
“What happened? I definitely wasn’t lying down in the nurse’s room covered in blankets until morning… ?”
‘Health room… ?’
I wondered what Ruby would say, but she thought Emerald had done something behind the scenes right before I left.
I guess they said it as if I was hospitalized in the infirmary.
“That…” “I felt fine when I woke up one day.”
“What about fever? “Are you done now?”
Ruby said that and placed her hand on my forehead.
Her slightly cold hand touched my forehead and the distance became closer.
Until just now, I thought I would be scolded by Ruby when I returned to the academy.
I was so happy to see her that I hugged her.
“I missed you. Miss.”
Then, Ruby gave an expression that she had not expected and she was embarrassed.
“What’s wrong with the kid? Again… ?”
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Even though it was only a day, it felt like I hadn’t seen him in a very long time.
At that time, a crunching sound was heard from behind.
‘What!?’
When Ruby was startled by the sound and fell away, Amethyst appeared with a bright smile on her face.
“You just woke up, Amber! “How worried everyone was.”
“Ame?”
“Did you know that there is an after-night festival being held this evening?”
The after-night festival, which was held to conclude the festival, was an event that opened up the academy’s large grounds and invited local merchants to provide various foods and entertainment.
“So, why don’t you go to the festival together? “Just the two of us.”
Amethyst approached me and grabbed my handsome hand.
‘Just the two of us… ?’
When she was panicking, not knowing how to react, Ruby forcefully slapped her hand away and said,
“… This is the height of shamelessness. “If you’re going to borrow someone else’s item, isn’t it right to ask the owner for permission first?”
“When you say things, that’s a bit excessive. Instead of falling under such an eccentric master, why don’t she officially become my fiancée? Amber?”
“Hah? Even if they give me a country, I can’t give it up. Even if the other person is royalty!”
I could feel the spark rising between the two of them, and I felt like I had to stop it.
I stepped in between the two people, trying hard to calm the atmosphere.
“You two, don’t act like this on a good day, calm down. Even if it’s not just the two of us, if we go together… “
“”Amber stay quiet!””
When the two people shouted at the same time as if they had guessed what they were saying, I was so scared that I immediately collapsed into a corner.
Ruby snapped at Amethyst in a slightly nervous tone.
“Amethyst. I’m a little sensitive because I didn’t see Amber all day yesterday. “On a day like today, don’t think about making a fuss and just quietly leave?”
However, Amethyst’s momentum was not easy.
“Ruby seems to be mistaken. I’ve never done anything like that. “Are you just asking about Amber’s doctor?”
“It’s natural to choose the owner, right? A question that doesn’t even need to be asked… “
“Do you really think so?”
Amethyst asked Ruby with a meaningful look on her face.
“Perhaps I have always been lying out loud because I cannot disobey my master, Ruby?”
“What, what…?” !?”
“So, let’s ask this clearly. “Which of the two of you would you like to go to the festival with, Amber?”
Ruby, who was shaking at Amethyst’s words, opened her eyes wide and glared at me and asked.
“Yes, Amber. Answer me. “Not as my maid, but as a woman!”
Why are these choices always my responsibility?
First of all, the top priority for me was none other than the amicable relationship between Ruby and Amethyst.
The closer Ruby becomes to Amethyst, the less likely she is to go down the path of destruction in the original, and the more powerful connections she has as a member of the royal family are created.
One day, when I was receiving maid training from Merilda, there was one thing I heard.
‘For a maid, managing her master’s personal relationships is the most important destiny! If you neglect that, you won’t be able to grow into a great maid!’
If I chose one of the two and their relationship worsened, they said I would be disqualified as a maid.
At that time, Dia, who was sitting in the corner and quietly listening to our story, stood up and spoke.
“Then how about trying this?”
“”The third party is missing!””
Ruby and Amethyst shouted at Diamond with angry expressions, but she continued speaking without paying attention.
“I feel sorry for Amber if you two push her like that. So, let’s decide it in a fair way.”
‘Dia, you’re not pushed back at all… ?’
In their fight, reminiscent of a dragon and a tiger, Diamond intervened like a hyena.
“A fair method?”
“I’m making a bet.”
Dia, who successfully calmed the two people down, slowly continued her explanation.
“This festival has something called a stamp system, and after completing the experience at a specific store, you get a stamp that can be exchanged for various souvenirs.”
“… So? “What should I do with just getting a stamp?”
“How about the one who collects 10 first gets the right to go to the festival with Amber?”
Among the two people who listened to Diamond in silence, Amethyst shouted with her eyes sparkling.
“Is that good? “I agree!”
Then she ran out of her club room without even looking behind her.
“Amethyst, wait… !”
Ruby hurriedly followed her and disappeared, and her diamond spoke to me with a satisfied look on her face.
“He was in trouble, so I intervened. “Are you okay?”
“Yes, it’s okay, but… “What if we decide this way and things end up between the two of us?”
“It’s okay. Because that will never happen.”
Dia gently put her mouth to my ear and whispered.
“Actually, there are only 9 stamps in total… !”
“Yes? Then it’s a scam… ?”
“Wouldn’t it be better than letting them fight on such a nice day?”
“… “
When I think about it, that’s right.
If no one wins, there will be no reason to fight in the first place.
“Then, shall we leave soon? Amber?”
I shrugged and followed Dia to the festival booth.
——-(Author’s words)
Yesterday, I received a congratulatory message commemorating the creation of emoticons! I will keep it well!
(The trap is that it hasn’t come out yet)
