EpilogueIt was the third day after that incident. It was a sunny day.
Itsuki looked at the wide blue sky through his room’s window.
On some aspects, Itsuki’s appearance made people want to greet him with ‘Hi, mummy’. The doctor had said that he would need two weeks to fully recover, but from Itsuki’s external appearance, it seemed that if he said that he needed to spend ten times of that time to recover, everyone would believe him. Itsuki’s body was completely injured from his fall from eight meters high; he had internal injuries from being attacked by the bull; and he had a large number of scratches, abrasions and cuts on him because he had not been able to avoid all of the magical attacks.
And as for the last blow, his left leg was encased tightly in a cast.
Although it was bad that he had still moved around when he had broke a bone, but there were a few places where his muscles had ruptures, the doctors and nurses were shocked just by looking at it.
Also, although Itsuki was in a personal hospital room, but because of the company’s budget, he would be moving into a hospital room shared by four people. This made one feel uneasy about the financial situation in
“…Eh~”
“What’s wrong, President-Onii-san?”
Mikan tilted her head, slightly surprised. There was a red bag beside her, Mikan had just came from her primary school.
“No, I was just thinking, why is the sky so blue, but my whole body is injured?”
It was like a philosophy question.
Although Itsuki could still remember the memories of fighting with the sludge, but his sense of reality was weak. Or he should say, the memory was becoming faint?
That memory about this right eye.
Itsuki learnt of the phrase Glam Sight after the incident, when Honami had told him. But even if he tried to think about it, he didn’t feel that he had done anything special.
(No, I should say- how should I say it- this makes me feel nostalgic…)
Itsuki thought dazedly.
“President?”
Honami narrowed her eyes as she sliced an apple.
“If you go into a daze too often, we’ll think that your brain was injured!”
“This, isn’t this too unfair?”
“It’s not unfair.”
After answering oddly, Honami asked with a slight hoa.r.s.e voice:
“Does your head still ache?”
“Eh?...Ah, it doesn’t matter now.”
Itsuki had felt as if someone was. .h.i.tting his head violently with a pole for the whole day yesterday, but his headache had diminished this morning.
According to Nekoyashiki’s diagnosis, it could be because he had overused his magic eyes.
‘Seeing’ didn’t only involve the eyes. Since the brain was the site where information was gathered and organized, then ‘seeing something that cannot be seen’ would damage the brain.
Itsuki seemed to understand this explanation, but also seemed not to understand. Anyway, the right eye under his eye patch was bandaged now. The after effects of doing rash things still resided in Itsuki’s body.
“…Really?”
“Eh.”
Honami’s ice blue eyes flashed sharply.
“This means that it’s about time that you continue working hard, right?”
“Eh?”
Bang.
Honami pulled out a large amount of files and reference books from her bag and piled them on the table. No, he watched the files multiply and the reference books increase, Itsuki seemed to be surrounded by things that could potentially suffocate him.
“Wa, that’s amazing.”
Mikan spoke honestly.
Honami smiled a witch’s smile, looking at Itsuki.
“Because of ‘work’, President’s progress in studying has fallen back. We have to remedy that during your stay in hospital.”
“My, my head still seems to ache…”
Itsuki’s face twitched and his body seemed to waver.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
“Ah, I’ll get it.”
Mikan raised her hand energetically.
But the door opened suddenly.
“Aiya, Mikan and Honami are here?”
In the white corridor of the hospital, a girl wearing a black western outfit stood there—Adilisia Lenn Mathers was carrying an adorable bouquet of flowers.
“Adilisia-san.”
“Good afternoon, Itsuki. I’m glad to see that you’re as energetic as before. I thought you would be abused by the witch, so I was quite frantic!”
“Hey, who are you talking about?”
Honami glared. Wuah, her cold eyes were much more powerful than the real magical eyes.
Looking at Honami who continued to cut the apple, Adilisia replied.
“…You, wait, the two of you! Aren’t you here to pay a visit?”
Itsuki frantically tried to stop the potential war from blooming between the two girls. Just by watching them, his heart felt as if it was about to explode.
Adilisia shrugged and put the flowers in the flower vase in the room.
“Forget it, it’s fine—if I remember Honami’s face when I return to my country, I will not stand for that.”
“Ah, are you going back?”
Itsuki’s words made Adilisia lower her head slightly.
“Eh, because Otou-sama’s matters have been dealt with. I have collected a part of the spiritual bodies of the demons it ate, as time pa.s.ses, I can let them come to life again.”
After that, it seemed as if the re-energized members of
Itsuki sighed and smiled.
“…Is that so, then I’ll temporarily say good bye to Adilisia-san here.”
“Ai ya, I’ll be returning to j.a.pan next week.”
Adilisia snorted as she told him.
“!!!”
Honami seemed to be shocked and withheld her breath.
For unknown reasons, even Mikan did so.
“Eh, next week?”
“Of course. Unless, Itsuki feels that it is better that I don’t return?”
“Ah, no, I didn’t think that.”
Itsuki waved his bandaged hand and Adilisia smiled.
She quickly reached out and stroked his short hair—then the blond girl pressed her lips to the boy’s temple.
“…”
“…”
“…”
The air froze. No, to the other three people apart from Adilisia, time had stopped.
“Itsuki.”
Adilisia stroked Itsuki’s cheek and eye patch adoringly, departing with this whisper:
“About Otou-sama’s affairs, thank you.”
Not long after.
Adilisia reached the lounge of the hospital and looked at a person among the patient and visiting patients.
“Kagezaki.”
“Ai ya, isn’t this Adilisia-san? How coincidental.”
On Kagezaki’s normal features, there was a warm smile that seemed nothing out of ordinary.
The magician of the sanctioned magicians—Kagezaki bowed.
“I wanted to visit President Iba, but I was rejected by Nekoyashiki-san, what a pity.”
“…”
Adilisia did not reply.
Instead, she asked:
“How much do you know about Itsuki?”
“No, I don’t know anything.”
Kagezaki shook his head.
“He is the heir of Tsukasa Iba—a magician who cannot use magic. I only know that much, the rest of them is work from the .”“I can’t trust you.”
Adilisia stared at her opponent after refusing his answer.
“I’ll say this first, if you plan to harm Itsuki Iba, will not remain silent. Please remember this.”“Yes, I will remember that.”
Kagezaki smiled faintly.
At the same time, in the hospital room.
“—President, what are you thinking, forming such close ties with the leader of the enemy organization?”
“President-Onii-san! Although I don’t really understand, you can’t be too flirtatious!”
Itsuki suffered under the barrage of questions from the two people.
“No… even if you ask me of my intentions, I… and why flirtatious?”
Even if he was sweating or blinking ferociously, Itsuki tried to express his troubled feelings with his restrained body.
Ai ya, although he thought that her lips were very soft and felt very comfortable and other similar thoughts.
At this moment…
“Miaow~”
“Miao~”
“Meow~”
“Eh, what is this, President? I just walked past Adilisia-san!”
Nekoyashiki entered the room with his cats that were supposed to be prohibited by the hospital.
“Nekoyashiki-san, save, save me!”
“Ah? Save you?”
The grey-haired youth entered his thoughts for a moment, then clapped his palms together.
“Ah, I see, it seems pretty interesting. Come, Suzaku, Byakko, Genbu, Sohryu, deal the naughty President with his deserved punishment!”
“Miaow miaow miaow miaow!”
After receiving Nekoyashiki’s approval, the four cats bravely attacked him. Each cat’s eyes were gleaming with mischief.
“Tr-traitor~”
And so…
In the small room, there were cries of someone who did not sound like a magician and happy laughter.