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Mira’s mother, Tesla, loved her daughter. Her father, Baerdour, too. The same goes for the oldest son, Zel, as well as the second son, Zidan.
“……sorryy……I’m really, sorryy”
Mira pats the head, of the mother who holds her daughter close and apologises over and over again.
“Okaa-san, it’s fine. I’m, alright. Otou-san, Zel-nii, and Zidan-nii too, don’t make such faces”
With utmost cheerfulness, she tries to lift the mood of this sombre place up somehow.
“””……”””
However, the family’s expressions are, all equally depressed.
“Do, don’t make such sombre faces. We won’t be able to meet for a good while once tomorrow comes. Today, let’s have fun in any case. Today, I’ll make everybody’s favourite dishes”
Mira, who should be feeling the grimmest, is livening the place for some reason.
After that, the dreary last supper, unfolded with the futile effort of Mira brightening it by herself as well.
Unable to stand it, Mira, went outside.
Leaning on the door, she looks up at the starry sky.
“Waa……”
The night sky was, a beautiful, full moon.
・・・
“Haa……won’t a prince on a white horse come and fetch mee”
While sighing loudly, she stares at the moon and mutters.
Ever since Mira was a child, she liked fairy tales.
One day, a prince on a white horse will bring a glass shoe and come and fetch her. She had been living every day while placing such an event that most young girls would fascinate in the corner of her heart.
However, she already has to graduate, from such delusions.
When she was saying that for her heart to hear,
“A prince sure wouldn’t fit you……well, probably a merchant at best”
When she suddenly brings her eyes back, Asch＝Dahl was standing over there.
“Wha……what are you here for, you dummy!”
“I don’t have time to be bothered with you. Is your family around?”
While saying, Asch shoved Mira aside and opened the house’s door.
“Wai……what are you doing as you please……”
“Hou……what a sombre atmosphere”
“Is, isn’t it a given!? It’s tomorrow! Tomorrow, I’ll be sold……”
“That is……a cause for celebration. And yet, it looks you’re not having a celebratory feast”
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“Y, you bastardd!”
Baerdour, the father, stands up ferociously.
“Why, are you angry? You people, willingly sold her, right?”
“……uu”
In response to the Dark Magician’s words, all of the family members’ expressions, turn cloudy.
“Don’t tell me……you people, you weren’t downhearted, right? Having sold her off willingly, you people think you have the right to be upset?”
“It’s something that can’t be helped……”
“That’s right, there are some things in this world that you can’t do anything about”
“……are you a Demon!? There is no mother who would sell her beloved daughter and not be upset!”
Tesla, the mother, shouts frenziedly.
“Yeah……I suppose you people loved her. So much so that the mother worries for her future and bawls. I suppose you loved her to the extent that you’re upset, altogether, on the day before she gets sold off”
‘But, you know……’, Asch continues with a twisted smile.
“You, the mother, didn’t love your daughter enough to stop her from being sold off. The father, he didn’t love his daughter enough, to reduce the number of beer bottles scattered over there. You guys, the sons, didn’t love her enough, to share a little bit of your own supposedly bright future with her……is that not so?”
“”””……””””
Everybody, went silent, altogether.
“Please, stop it already! What is it with you! What exactly, did you come here to do!?”
Mira stands in front of her family and spreads her arms.
“Oops, that’s right. The main subject is, this”
When he, opens his bag, it’s filled with a large amount of Rale notes. The bag, which was stuffed to the brim with paper currency, was of a sum that can purchase a mansion that a great noble family possesses in the capital.
They became speechless altogether, by how excessively much there is.
“With this, I shall buy her. What, there’s no need for change. I’ve also come to an agreement with the person who was scheduled to buy you”
“Wha……I, don’t want to!”
Mira glares at Asch sternly.
“I’m not asking you; you have neither the ownership rights nor the right to choose”
He says decisively, shuts off her next words, and directs his eyes to the father, who’s the head of the family.
“……”
“You don’t have to worry. I’m a patient gentleman. 5 seconds……I shall give you 5 seconds to consider”
“……uu! No matter what, deciding on my daughter’s future in such a short time――”
Without lending his ears to the father’s words at all, Asch continues talking.
“Let me inform you beforehand; the person who was scheduled to buy her, will never again negotiate with you people. If the contract isn’t established, I won’t come here again either. Which means you people’s love will be, wonderfully proven”
“……”
“Now then, let’s start the countdown”
“He……wai……”
The father tries to stop him, but Asch ignores him.
“5
4
3
2
“Got it”
In less than 5 seconds, the father, sold his daughter.
“……what about the other family members? If there’s any objection, I’ll leave”
“””……”””
“I shall take the silence as your answer. Now then, Mira. Let’s go, shall we”
Gently hugging her shoulders, the Dark Magician shut the ordinary house’s door dashingly.
“……hikku……hikku”
Beside Asch, Mira was sobbing with her shoulders trembling.
“Don’t cry so much. Didn’t you actually want to say the same things to them?”
“……uuuuu”
“Sadly, this is reality. It’s cruel, hideous, messed up……that’s precisely why it’s lovely”
While staring at the full moon quietly,
not a prince on a white horse――a white-haired merchant, gently stroked her head.
