Board Game
9 in the morning. Asch＝Dahl and company, arrive at the foot of Sirusasa Mountain, and one after another, they get on board the carriages the capable butler arranged.
Gararararararararah……
The reason the noise of the wheels can be heard strangely loudly, is because the inside of the carriage is enveloped by a terrifying amount of silence. Inside the carriage are, Asch, Cis, Lily, and then the honour student, Jispa, but there isn’t the slightest sign of a conversation over there.
“……err, Asch-sensei……why are you here?”
Jispa, kicks off the conversation at last. Under normal circumstances, Dan, who has a girlfriend, should be in this carriage. This teacher, he forcefully pushed him away and came in. That action is all too puzzling, and every single one of them questions his motives.
“Well, no particular reason……”
Asch, speechless. He’s sitting silently with his arms folded.
‘What’s with him……what does this guy want to do’, are the thoughts of the three inside the carriage. By the way, Estelise is alone with Mira in a carriage. Of course, the ero teacher, Asch, had thought of going in there as well.
“Bu-, but, it was fun one way or another huh. Isn’t it,”
Bad with silence. Considerate about various things. It’s precisely so that she’s an honour student. Jispa who desperately tries to get the conversation going.
“Yeah. It was funー”
Cis spells her thoughts innocently. However……she just spells it. Over there, there wasn’t the consideration to try to continue the conversation. This here is the okay-with-silence group.
“……”
Reading. Lily is reading diligently. It’s the pattern where her tension is high at the start of the excursion, but it doesn’t hold until the end, and she’s run out of strength. Of course, she’s also the okay-with-silence group.
“Hahaa……it realーly is huh”
The conversation ends with an awkward smile. ‘Really just die’, is the thought of her, a low-class noble’s daughter, and a young girl who’s made to shoulder the fate of being considerate about various things.
‘I guess I’ll just act like I’m sleeping’, as she faced upwards while becoming slightly teary,
“……Jispa-kun. Are you bored?”
Asch who had stayed silent opened his mouth.
“E-, eeh. Well”
“I see……it can’t be helped”
Displaying a somewhat happy-looking back view, he took out a single wooden board.
“A board game is it……it looks fun, doesn’t it; let’s play it”
“Is-, is that so? Well, since a student has gone that far”
A Dark Magician who actually wanted to play this very much. As for why, it’s because he had few friends. Furthermore, overwhelmingly few at that. If one is going to enjoy a board game, there has to at least be 3 people. 4 people are the best.
However, for the lonely Magician, that was an endlessly tough hurdle. Hence, although he had known full well that it was difficult based on the disposition of the game, he had played it alone with Mira just once previously.
It was the worst. In the first place, there was no way it would be fun even if he played it with a doll that hadn’t any emotional turbulence. However, ironically, one of his collecting addictions is the collection of board games around the continent.
One day……one day with 4 people. ‘The look of him spinning the roulette alone while harbouring such a tiny wish was extraordinarily pathetic’, was the thought Mira harboured previously.
『Silvia’s Plans』
A game where the protagonist young girl, Silvia, despite living in a harsh world, becomes a billionaire, falls to her ruins, and so forth.
“In my opinion, this is the board game of board gam――”
“I am, not playing”
!?
At Lily’s words, the lonely Magician turned his head to the girl’s direction, so much so that it’s like he’d sprained his neck.
“Why! Let’s plaーy”
Jispa urges her as such.
“No. I, hate luck games”
The can’t-read-the-room beautiful young girl who stubbornly refuses. The fact that previously, she played with her family and lost 36 times in a row is still a trauma in her. She was a beautiful young girl who had a miraculously lack of talent in board games.
“Ho-, how uncooperative”
“It’s exactly as Jispa-kun said, you know. You’re so lacking in cooperativeness that it makes me sad as a teacher”
“Wha-……you are the last person I want to hear it from!”
To the rebuttal Lily voiced, the two people other than Asch agreed vehemently.
“However, you’re presently the only one who’s refusing the board game, isn’t it. It’s clear as day which one of us has no cooperativeness, right”
A lonely Magician who wants to play the board game no matter what. Board game. Board game. Board game. In his head, there’s already nothing but board games.
“……do you want to play it that much?”
“The-, the-, the-, there’s no way I want to play it right, such a commoner’s game”
“Then it’s fine isn’t it!?”
“Guu……”
Lost for words. The lonely Magician who’s unusually hard-pressed for a rebuttal.
“What’s so fun about a board game in the first place! Please explain it to me in an easy-to-understand manner”
The instant Lily ran her mouth like that, Asch’s eyes glisten.
“Well, this is something that can also be said to be general education, so I guess it is better to teach it to you guys as well ahead of time. In the first place, the origin of board games is――”
・・・
6 hours later.
“――is how it is. And, Boldach＝Walter said it.『That’s, not a board game, it’s borderline disgusting』. Haha, it’s a masterpiece, right?”
“Aaaaaaa! Geez, I got it! I will play. I just have to play, right!?”
Lily shouts hysterically.
“I, I see. The greatness of board games is finally conveyed to you as well huh”
“I just don’t want to hear your board games stories anymore!”
“……we-, well, whatever. Let’s play”
A lonely Magician who, even so, wanted to play the board game, he is.
