The Night Before
The night before the dance party.
The Taboo Mansion was, as always, enveloped in darkness.
“Fuu……this will be all I can do”
The last lesson finishes, and the Dark Magician shows an expression filled with satisfaction.
“Haa……haa……re, really!?”
The way she looks like she’s about collapse from exhaustion at any time is, a far cry from a mannered demeanour.
“……well, since you’re unseemly on the soul level, it’s probably impossible for you to be a genuine lady unless you reincarnate, but if it’s just a few hours, you’ll probably be able to pull the wool over their eyes”
“There you are joking againー!”
“……”
The Dark Magician who’s worried to no end, thinking, ‘When she wakes up tomorrow, she’s not going to forget everything by any chance, is she’.
“Go to sleep already. We have to go to the Capital of Veybar and make various preparations early in the morning tomorrow after all”
“zZZZZ……”
……she had already, fallen asleep.
“Haa, I wonder if there’s nothing like,『I can’t fall asleep from nervousness on the day before』, for her”
Asch, he piggybacks Mira as always and heads towards her bedroom. He’d gotten completely used to it in these two weeks as well; the inverted phenomenon of the master carrying the butler.
・・・
The next moment, Mira, she woke up on top of her bed. The sky is still night. Again, she covers herself with the sheet and closes her eyes but……
“U゛ーーーーーuu, I can’t fall asleep!”
She sprung up and started loitering the mansion. As she goes down the stairs and heads to the kitchen to search for food, she sees a gleam of light. When she goes down the spiral stairs and open the metal door, she found Asch who’s standing over there staring at a book. On top of the desk, there are various parts of the human body.
“……you’re still, not asleep?”
“Are those……real?”
Mira, she asks, timidly.
“No, these are dolls”
“Thaーt’s all huh”
Despite saying that, she strokes her chest in relief.
“Unfortunately, it’s still just a theory”
“Humph. What are you trying to do?”
‘In any case, he’s probably thinking about something wicked again’, was the incompetent butler’s verdict.
“……I’m making a doll that can live until the end of time”
Asch, he muttered, whisperingly.
“Until the end of time?”
“It means forever……even after 100 years……even after 200 years……”
“Why?”
“……it’s late. Now then, go to sleep already”
“Eeh……I can’t fall asleep”
While saying, she selfishly sits on the chair and starts relaxing on top of the desk.
“Your circumstances are, completely none of my business though”
“Please tell me……some kind of story”
“……I refuse”
“I don’t wanna I don’t wanna! I won’t sleep unless you do it!”
“……I haven’t the slightest clue, why I have to do something, for your sake……but yeah……I guess I shall tell you a fairytale that you like”
“A fairytale?”
“Aah……the story of a certain Magician”
“Hmm, sounds interesting”
Asch sighed loudly and placed the book he was staring at aside.
“……once upon a time, there lived a Magician boy. When he was young, he lost both his parents, and he became the disciple of a famous Magician. Ever since then, he was raised with his daughter and lived in happiness. But one day, she was afflicted with an incurable disease. Wanting to treat her no matter what……no matter what, the boy searches for a way to cure her”
“……did he love her?”
“Aah……he loved her so much, as much as he ever will”
“……”
“However, despite the boy’s effort, she ended up dying. Over there, God, places a curse on him. A body that can by no means die, to that boy who didn’t manage to save her”
“No way……why?”
“Who knows”
“……”
“Spurned by the famous Magician as well, the boy, he lives his life alone. Alone the whole, whole time……and amidst all that, the boy, encountered another girl”
“……did he love her?”
“Aah……he loved her so deeply, as deeply as he ever will”
“……”
“The two of them got married and lived happily……however, the girl, she normally matured, aged, and ended up dying. The boy who can by no means die, is again, all by himself”
“……”
“That’s why, the boy thought. ‘That’s right, let’s create a doll’. A doll that can stay until the end of time……a doll that can be with him forever……if he does that……”
“If……he does that?”
“……who knows, go to sleep already. You want tomorrow, to be a fairy-tale-like day, right?”
Asch, he gently pats Mira’s head.
“……please tell, that Magician”
“Tell him what?”
“I will……I will be with him. Forーever and eーver!”
Leaving those words behind, Mira runs out of the room.
“……fuu. Does that idiot butler……not even know the meaning of『forever』”
Asch, he smiled slightly and moved his eyes to the book once again.
