55 Secret Activities The conversation harmoniously advanced with the impression of a bashful Ciel and his doting parents.
[Our son Ciel, once he sets his heart on either magic or studying, becomes single minded.]
[He"s still like that even now when he"s completely absorbed in magic.]
[Is that right, Aleph-kun? He must have troubled you.]
[Not at all, he also helped me a lot of times. And it"s not like he can"t see the others around him, he even played an active role of protecting Rei back at Sacred City.]
[He wasn"t able to do that before, but it looks like he matured in the outside world. It must be thanks to you all, you have my grat.i.tude.]
Aleph and Ciel"s father must have comprehended their position as Ciel"s former guardians, looks like they"re talking together well.
It"s funny how it"s slightly becoming something like a parent and child meeting at school.
[Ciel-chan might be easy to misunderstand but he"s a good child. There was a time when Ciel-chan was thiis small and he picked up an injured small bird, he desperately casted healing magic on it with tears pooling in his eyes, but its parents misunderstood and attacked him to protect their young so he cried loudly.]
[Kasan! Please stop with that story.]
[I also remember when he plunged into a Redousse Dragon and became teary-eyed. Isn"t it normal to have stories of failure when you"re a kid?]
[That"s right, I also made a mistake and destroyed a part of the city and regretted it.]
Unlike Ciel"s adorable mistakes, he"s laughing even though he"s talking about a story that"s beyond acceptable, what on earth was it that he mistook that caused him to destroy a part of the city?
[Ufufufu, Dy-san is such a mischievous person, that was a funny joke.]
No no, Cis-san, that"s most probably the truth.
[That"s right, dear me! Everyone will be staying here for a while, right? Although I"d also love to hear about Rei-chan"s love story, I"ll prepare the rooms first.]
[You don"t really have to hear it!]
[I will definitely listen to it later!]
Ignoring Ciel"s cry, Cis ascended to the second floor in a good mood.
[I"m sorry that my wife is in such high spirits, Rei-kun.]
[It"s alright, she"s very cheerful, isn"t she?]
[I know right? The house becomes lively when she"s here. She"s like a Sun G.o.ddess to me.]
He started speaking fondly of her. Darrel-san looks like he"s fallen head-over-heels for Cis-san.
[Tou-san, what have you been experimenting lately?]
Ciel nonchalantly changed the topic. Ah, this must be a pattern where he will keep talking fondly of her if left alone, I got it.
[I"m currently focusing on the magic tree"s cultivation.]
The professional talk started just like that. Looks like this topic will also keep going if left alone. They really love research, don"t they?
Listening to their research, I remember the necklace I received from Ciel and feel around for it on my chest.
[Huh?]
I"m pretty sure I wore it over my clothes, but there was nothing on my chest when I looked down.
[Oh shoot.]
[Rei, what"s the matter?]
Aleph asks after noticing my plight.
[No, there"s nothing, rather… that, I"ll go to the toilet for a bit.]
I ask Darrel-san where the toilet is and go inside. From the window in the toilet, I confirm that no one is watching and go out.
There was no pane, but the small window for ventilation which I can pa.s.s through was hidden by cut off leaves used to cover against the rain, so I cautiously pa.s.sed through it in order to not make a sound.
[I probably dropped it over there. I must quickly retrieve it before Ciel notices.]
There was one time when I almost fell when we were about to reach the village. There"s no mistake that I must have dropped it there back then.
That place is really close to the village so I should be able to quickly go there and swiftly come back.
Once Ciel knows that I lost it, he will probably get mad with his eyes raised so I must quietly recover it before he finds out.
With the residents conveniently absent, I went back to the way we came from.