Watching me, when I suddenly laughed, with suspicion in his eyes.

That reaction. Have he not seen the mirror? Oh, maybe he doesn’t have a mirror here.

“Haha, show me a bit, I want to see that face closer,”

“?”

“Really, You lost so much weight”

His cheeks are thin . The figure got taller. Bones are visible. It is probably because he is considerate of me, that the towel is properly wrapped around his waist.

“Even though you have a lot of time to sleep, why is there shades under your eyes?”

“… What do you mean?”

“Oh, I will cut that hair for you! It’s funny how disorganized it is!”

“You, what are you saying?

” What do you mean … "

Maybe he can’t see it?

Yeah, he is not pleased at all. To begin with, he should have seen differently from me.

“Mikhail, are you still muddy?”

“… I am, but I was probably this way all along”

I don’t want  him to make such a lonely face. He always looked like this.?

And I didn’t notice… Sorry. I was a little pleased about what I could do with Mikhail, but for him..sorry.

I hug that slender body.

“Hey”

“You are pale, because your body doesn’t hit the sun?”

“?”

“To me, I can now see Mikhail properly”

“……?”

“No matter how I look, It's the usual Mikhail”

“… What, do, you mean?”

Even if solidified, I can feel that he is alive.

“Mikhail!

” … How?”

“I don’t know, but Mikhail is..”

“For now, get some clothes on　… ”

Oh..I forgot.

For that reason, we sat together again.

“Mikhail, you seem to have aged a lot”

“… you … ”

“You don't have excess flesh, but you have no muscles too, right?”

“… ….”

4 years ago he had a lot of strength?

Eat, move, go to bed. I guess it was not a basic life of a normal person.

“Oh! Lunch”!

“There are breads”

“Only this?”

In the morning only fruit and only bread in the noon.

“I will lose weight !”

“You still have room for weight loss”

“Hey !?”

That’s right, if I was compared to you.

/sfx knock knock/

Ah! Jean-sama?

“You. More than Jean, you are waiting for food, right?”

“Yu~up !!”

Ignoring his rude way of speech I open the door, Jean’s pulling the cart with a lot of meals, food materials and books.

“I have kept you waiting, poor-looking thought, but this time is … …WHAT!?”

“Jean-sama?”

That face, Is it okay for the king to do the next term? I thought he was always calm but I was wrong.

“What is it !?”

Jean sees him and rounds his eyes.

Hmm? Ah! Could it be?!

“I see … … it’s true, as Angel says you are sand rather than mud, legs are properly brought from under the belly, and there is a neck.”

… how did it look like to you before?

“Then, does he looks sandy to Jean-sama right now?”

“Oh, you can tell how I changed?”

Jean shook his head quietly, while staring.

“I … see … just as before, rather than sand, you looked muddy to me.”

“Do you mean that me, Jean-sama and Mikhail are looking at different figures respectively?”

“Oh well, now I probably can see the same thing as you, as well as the people who saw this figure at the royal palace before coming here were all same as me, I’m surely looking forward to this development . “

” Oh, I’m sorry, but I can see him now. “

In a word that I broke in, Jean-sama got stiff.

“Can see …. Eh, to what extent?”

“Hmm, completely,”

“Huh!? What is the color of his skin!? Hair?! Does it completely match the appearance and feeling!?”

Hey! It's to much of vigor, I will be scared.

“Well, the skin is white, it looks unhealthy with a feeling that it wasn’t out in the sunlight, the hair is as beautiful as before, but its length is disjointed … it is very strange”

“strange …”

“It is strange.”

“Hahaha …… Strange …… Hahah !!”

… Jean-sama is strange. His brother has that kind of laughter after I described his face?

“Yeah … that's great, really, i'm glad.”

Is he okay? After too much laugh he seems to spill some tears in the corners.

“I really see hope, truly thank you. ”

"No.."

Oh, okay. That’s right. Jean-sama protected him like this. There is no reason for this person to not  feel responsible. I heard that Jean-sama is busy handling the king’s job. Still he come here all the time.

There is also a thing to clean up, and it’s this chair in the house is because this person comes.

Jean-sama, who will take care of him, making time for him, surely wishes that his curse will be resolved more than anyone else.

And Mikhail may also have chosen to live, while continuing such lethargic way of life, as he knows this.

'It would be good if I came here and quietly died' The words he mentioned before is certainly not a lie. But even Mikhail is not that kind of person who would press this responsibility against his brother.

Besides, he looks at his elder brother casually. He is not honest at all..

Though it can’t be helped, if I think of the suffering of those two people this far, I’m glad that I could see the signs of improvement.

/ sfx laughter Muf-fu-fu. /

“But why it happen so suddenly …?”

Asking me a strange question. Something … what was it? Well, maybe because of that? I can not say it…

And we did that once before, but he remained sandy at that time.

Then … oh, I see.

Because I like Mikhail. If I said that. I wonder if we can solve it with our love.

Then why he still can’t see himself ?

Could it be… because he don't like me? Only I like him? Haha, I can not say this.

” Why was it, I don't really know.”

This curse can not be solved. From now on he will never encounter anyone other than me, and I do not think that he would love me in a true sense.

And if he can solve it … Where will he go when he gets free?

Not wis.h.i.+ng for his happiness, I am the worst.

“Angel?”

Jean looks anxiously at my face.

“Oh, sorry, I thought about it, but I don't really know …”

Saying this bitterly , then Jean-sama asked Mikhail.

“You. Have you figured something?”

“Nothing has changed in my eyes, I have no idea whatsoever”

That’s right. There is no way he can think of it.

“…… I see …”

I apologize in my mind to Jean-sama who looks a little disappointed. I’m sorry. I love Mikhail.

After Jean-sama returned home, we had a meal.

“You, did something happen?”

” What?”

“You are too quiet”

“Nothing, I am not noisy all the time”

“Ah, OK”

Why do you notice such a thing? I wonder why he always so kind to me. Like you. Like you. Like you.

“Aaa~n Open your mouth!”

“I ate by myself already.”

“Why didn’t you tell me !?”

“Why should I?”

　… He ate nothing but bread.

“Side dis.h.!.+ say, aaa~n!”

“Hey … …”

While saying so, his mouth opened naturally.

“Do you dislike side dishes?”

” It depends”

Is that so? But even though there are so many of them, he didn’t took even a bite.

“You are here, and I can not eat without spilling it.”

“Eh …”

“I can not see the side dishes and the spoon properly”

“… I’m sorry”

So that's why he told me to eat separately first. I have not thought of this.

“There is no point in trying to look cool now”

He is clumsy laughing while frowning. Sorry. But Mikhail is cooler than anyone.

I will do whatever I can.

Let me be together with you.