Friends in Kroix, While the Young Girl is Away

Silvia! A letter came from Latina!

Oh Is she well?

More or less. Its Latina anyway, she seems fine

As soon as she entered her classroom at the Yellow God(Asfars)school, thats how Chloe called out to her friend, Silvia.

Silvia Fal is a friend she made after coming to school. Her father was working in a considerable position as the military police for the mayors mansion, and she was someone who lived in the high class residential West District however, her personality isnt very irritating, getting along nicely with Chloe and Latina who lived in the working parts of town, the East and South Districts. That temperament of hers fit right with Chloes and she is as close to her as Latina is.

It has been over half a month since Latina had departed from Kroix.

Not to mention the length of their journey and back but, Latina seems likely to stay a little while even after they reached their destination, so they wont be able to meet until after the seasons have changed.

When they reach over to Dales place, Latina will be able to send out a letter. She wasnt very good with studies, and her sentences werent written out very well but Chloe was little by little composing together the events that had happened in Kroix.

(When Latina comes back, itll be bad if only shedoesnt knowafter all)

Thinks Chloe.

She says that after the sea is the Beastmans village

Beastmen huh. Ive never seen any in Kroix. Are there any Mixed race adventurers?

I didnt see any even when I went over to Latinas place to play

Is that so. I want to see what theyre like

Silvia says that and, looked far off into the distance.

When Silvia was born she was endowed with, despite being a weak one, a Divine Protection from the Green God(Ahdar). To people like her, they hold a quality of being drawn to travels and curiousities.

Going off into an unknown world, and to gather unknown knowledge. The Desire to visit the unknown is, partially instinctive for possessors of Ahdars Divine Protection.

Are you going to the Shrine after you leave school, Silvia?

I wonder.

At Chloes question, Silvia folds her arms together and holds up her chin.

The simplest thing would be if I become a member to a Shrine huh. I can have them teach me about magic as well

You can use magic?

Thanks to Latina, I know the attribute I have affinity with~

Latinas friends who had an interest in magic had been learning chants by her side.

As expected, most of them werent able to deal with it but, Silvia was able to pronounce it. Not just chants but she also wanted to learn the greetings of the Demon Race as this was related to Silvias dream of one day visiting the country of Demons, Vasrio.

Speaking of which, what about you Chloe?

Ill succeed my familys business. Its pretty fun lately anyway

Then, I guess Ill have to ask Chloe for my clothes when I grow up~.

Ask for something expensive ok

It was when Chloe and Silvia were talking about those sorts of things.

Chloe

Pon. Rudi passed over something from underneath his armpits.

Chloe, having sensed that something was coming in that instant, panickedly reached out so that it wouldnt fall.

This. Baka Rudi! What the heck are you doin!

What. I gave one to you right, something that was made well

At Chloes complaints, Rudi tilted his head in confusion.

Something that was made well, you say. Oi you

W-what do you want. I needed to practise so, I cut it into two parts. You have a problem?

When Chloe repeated what he said, thinking that something was up with Rudis answer, he looked the other way awkwardly.

Whats that? An accessory piece?

When Silvia points at that, which Chloe was gripping, and asks her, Chloe opens up her hand which had been gripped shut.

A black fragment, shining with beauty. Along it were signs of the shape, after being cut and prepared, being diligently polished.

Chloe slightly lifted that small object, which had been carefully and preciously worked on, to take a look.

It shines, glittering as it reflects back the light.

Its pretty right. I got it from Latina.

From Latina?

Yea. When I said Ill take good care of it so leave it with me, she said that itll be fine if it was me and gave it to me

And why did you bring it?

When I was thinking about how I should cut it a little, I thought, if she was in her own house, she might have a nail file or some kind of tool so, thats why I brought it

She was thankful for that but, it seems he was shrewd and tricked her out of half the amount.

Chloe shrugged her shoulders, my my.

Dishonesty is such a pain in the ass

Boys are all children after all

For girls around this age, having an exchange like this allows them to act beyond their age.

What Chloe received from Latina was the Horn that she had broken off herself.

From the first time that Chloe saw it, she had thought that Latinas horn was truly pretty.

There was nothing but regret and sorrow, that Latina had broken off such a beautiful part of herself.

For some reason she couldnt all for it to merely leave it there and let it gather dust, and thinking so she asked Latina. Saying Wont you give your horn to me?

In the beginning she was thinking that she would be able to somehow do something with it but, she was troubled when she couldnt process it since that was tougher than she had thought. The one who lent her his help at that time, was Rudi.

At those words, Chloe entrusted Latinas horn to Rudi, and had it processed.

Speaking of which, what will you do after leaving school Rudi?

Even though Chloe had asked him that, she meant nothing of it.

It was because Rudi had come in when she had just been coincidentally talking about itwith Silvia. That was all.

Noth.It, its not like. Its related to you ok

However, at the sight of Rudi acting suspicious and overreacting, Chloe and Silvia look to each other and grin.

Hmmm. Are you thinking about something.

W-whatever, its not like it matters right?

Well I guess. It doesnt really matter.

Speaking of which, I got a letter from Latina

W-w-why are, are, you bringing up Latina all of the sudden!?

Eh? Arent you interested?

-! Thats not what I.

If youre interested then just say so. Right~?

Right~

.!!!

While they were looking at the sight of Rudi stamping his feet in frustration, screaming in a voice that cant be heard, Marcel and Anthony exchanged a strange smile with each other.

Since Rudi has already, ended up being forced into a corner by Chloe and Silvia, he should just give up already

That is, in itself is an act of understanding Marcel.

To a certain degree, its important to just accepting how life is

Someone like you who states that with a smile might just end up becoming a big-shot.

With a calm expression, at his friend who stated that, Anthony stiffens up his smile.

Anthony, youre advancing to higher education right?

Going back to Chloes conversation, Marcel asks him and, Anthony nodded once.

Yea

So youll also be working in the mayors mansion?

If I could be like my dad that would the best though. I know nothing about any of this as well. It would be fine to work at a firm as well

Anthonys father is a low level official are the mayors place. Since it isnt a job which is of the inheritance system, it isnt acceptable to just give his son Anthony the job. However there were a few things which could be done for him, if its things like connections and networking.

And youll probably succeed the bakery I guess?

Theres no reason to do something different after all. I like our bread as well

Marcel calmly responds.

For the majority of kids who live in Kroix, taking over their parents business is the norm.

If its the second son, third son then its not like there arent some who look for a different occupation but, especially for children from a trade, there arent many who purposely look for a different line of work, training under someone else.

Rudi has an older brother as well.

.But, up till recently he should have been planning to go into his familys business (Blacksmithing). I wonder what happened all of a sudden

The two of them paused for a moment but then nod to one another with a Un.

It might be related to Latina

Its probably related to Latina

Its so easy to understand after all

I wonder how Latina hasnt noticed, you know.

Only when hes in front of Latina does he put up a more than unnecessary cold attitude. He does this so thoroughly too. In a sense, I think its amazing

For us, witnessing it from the start, its really obvious though

At that point the two of them once again nodded.

Thats why hes an idiot

Hes an idiot alright

Oi you guuuys! I can hear you, you know!

The moment Rudi shouts, half in tears, the door to the classroom open up, and their teacher looked at Rudi with a smile.

Rudolf-san. The classroom isnt a place to be rowdy, ok

-!

When Rudi, who came to his senses look over to his friends, they were returning back to their seats as if nothing had happened.

Basically he was just bad at grasping the way of the world.

(Authors note:

In the beginning Chloes lines were all typed in Katakana, and I looked over them for a while. I fixed it so there was a mix of Hiragana as well.

Baka Rudi is just. Something that came up..

This is how this work is but, thank you for always reading)