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Place of Friendship (3) Feeling like he was the only one who didn’t understand what was going on, Cleio quietly asked Isiel, who was a seat away. "Gilad Eclipse?" "…Last year, he was the student who left that strange magical formula in a remote corner—the one I wrongly suspected was your doing, Cleio. I’m sorry for accusing you so abruptly back then." Isiel’s earlobes turned faintly red. He seemed to regret having pressured Cleio, thinking he was up to some scheme. Cleio also felt a…
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Amphitheater (1) "You’re acting like you’re totally in love. Huh? Even a single word feels too precious to say, right?" "I let it slide last time because I was distracted, but where did you learn such baseless, wild accusations? You’re quite the expert." "Baseless? This is the result of careful observation, you know? I’ve suspected for a while, but I think you’re into older women. You might have a shot with Lady Dione since you’re five years apart, but with Archbishop Historia the age…
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Amphitheater (2) "Well, I guess that’s just adult circumstances. Breaking up doesn’t mean you stop loving each other." "Ugh, I don’t get it." The emperor of Rome urges Berenice to leave, yet tells her she is the only one he’ll love and desire until he dies. 'Hmm. This is really too subtle a story for an eighteen-year-old. Seriously, dear author, this is not it.' Cleio was starting to miss the video content rating system he always used to criticize. "Whether you get it or not, at…
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Amphitheater (3) Cleio somehow managed not to doze off. It was mostly thanks to Arthur. The conflict between his sibling Antigone, who tried to bury the dead Polynices, and King Creon, who forbade the traitor’s funeral by royal edict, seemed strange to Arthur as well. “Hey, what the heck is this? The sister just wants to bury her dead brother, so why is the king so mad? And what’s with how he acts toward his son’s fiancée?” “That order represents the positive law, the law of…
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Amphitheater (4) “I didn’t know that ‘someday’ would come this quickly.” Cleio slowly turned his head. The boy gazed at Arthur with a face as dry as if he had lived a century. Without surprise or fear. Even when the worst happens, if it was something you expected, it brings a faint sense of release. That kind of relief lingered in Cleio’s demeanor. Though it was happening for the first time in his life, somehow Arthur felt as if he had always known it would come to this. If you…
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Side Story 1. The Sage Who Became Light and Gold (1) This is an old story, yet it is not the kind of narrative that calls for the song of a goddess. Melchior Lioghnan was rather sick of the muses’ chorus. Nine times, no matter the content, is simply too much. To begin with, this narration is not bound by the promise of the story. The lines begin outside the story. First, a question: How is the world constructed before the existence of the protagonist? Is it darkness where light and…
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Side Story 1. The Sage Who Became Light and Gold (2) Hileida Seydr, who was of good birth and had a neat appearance, was considered a likely candidate for the next head maid. She had an excellent talent for guiding those she served so that, even without going against their wishes, they did not cross the line. Born to a noble family, Hileida was even fluent in Karolinger, making her an indispensable asset for Philip, whose household was full of troubles. Eight years had passed since the grand…
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Three Springs (1) "April 12, 1892" "From Lillian Bennett" "Teacher, how have you been? I have now come to the capital as a first-year student of the Capital Defense Academy. I was not an outstanding student at Queen Isolde Girls’ School, so you must have been surprised! I myself still feel dazed. It was a miraculous thing that I became the 979th class student of the Capital Defense Academy. My father always said that if you are a girl, you only need to go to a girls’ school to learn…
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Three Springs (2) Sniffle. “Are you feeling calmer now?” Pout~. Aser, who had carefully set down the bicycle and the two boxes of champagne tied to it, sat the first-year student on a nearby stump and patiently soothed her tears. Perhaps feeling sorry to wipe her tears with his own dirty and crumpled muslin handkerchief, he even commandeered Cleio’s crisp handkerchief. “You must’ve been startled by the bicycle suddenly coming at you. I’m really sorry.” With a little girl…
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“That really is an amazing thing!” “Is it something to be amazed at?” “Madame de Tempête de Neige was the noblest of nobles, wasn’t she? It’s astonishing that she knew beauty skills.” “Oh, Dione, so there are things you don’t know. My grandmother was originally a lady’s maid in the Tempête de Neige family. She got hired as a sewing maid but, with her outstanding hairdressing skills, she took over the lady’s dressing room, and not long after the lady’s early death, she…
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Cleio, who was both the main character and the target of the day’s teasing, sensed he could not stop his friends’ mouths, so he focused his entire mind on the scent of Liognes champagne. He still found Dione’s sense of beauty hard to understand, but Cleio himself rather liked being tall. Of course, it was truly painful to go through growing pains twice in one life. He suffered pain like molten metal poured into his knees every other day. It got so bad that Zebedee ended up casting magic on…
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Three Springs (5) Cleio, now experiencing his third spring here, knew all the seasons of Albion. In summer, the sun rose early and did not set until nine o'clock. In winter, night began at three-thirty. Instead of heavy snow or rain, gray weather continued for a long, long time. Messages regarding the degree of narrative intervention surfaced only very occasionally once the cumulative rate exceeded 50%. "Promise" no longer intruded upon Cleio's life as frequently as before. He no longer…
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Three Springs (6) Chel, who had outgrown adolescence but was not yet fully an adult, possessed an androgynous beauty at its peak, giving her a mysterious charm like a navy iris seen at night. With such looks, she went around wholeheartedly charming cute girls, so the number of love letters she received was enormous. ‘There may not be an Arthur fan club among the underclassmen, but there is a Chel fan club. Even though it's a co-ed school, Chel always gets the prince's role in school plays during…
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Three Springs (7) Meanwhile, Isiel drove Lippy by the book all the way to the edge of the parade ground. The elder of the twins was disqualified for stepping out of bounds. The process was so clean that, regardless of grade, all the swordsmanship students watched the match with such focus that ether seemed to pour from their eyes. Cleio also applauded Isiel from afar, though the sound could not be heard. Somehow, he felt as if she glanced toward the practice room, but it was such a brief moment he…
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The Pastoral of Albion (1) ‘The priestess who cared for Melchior’s mother, Lady Elene… is no longer one, it seems. It’s not wartime, so a priestess wouldn’t be walking around in a military uniform.’ The contents of the Eight Faiths that Cleio knew were no longer reliable guidelines for living in this world. He hadn’t wanted to learn that fact in this way. ‘Come to think of it, in the previous manuscript there was no depiction of Melchior so openly using secret police…
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The Pastoral of Albion (2) “You won’t be staying long. You’re a special guest. If you weren’t a mage, you’d have been assigned a visitor’s room with silk sheets. Personally, I’d like to treat you more intimately, but unfortunately, this time you won’t get to see the true face of the underground beneath the North Gate.” What filled the pauses in Vesna’s slow speech was an excess of passion, a repressed sadism. Cleio hid his trembling back, taking the last drag of his cigarette.…
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The Idyll of Albion (3) "To the esteemed Investigative Department of Aser Company" "My name is Cyrus Merchant, and I have operated the directly managed retail store of Aser Company in the city of Parisa for 15 years. Parisa is located in the central region of the Pintos Mountains, at a high altitude and in an area with inconvenient transportation. It is the capital of the Kishion estate and is also the site of the Northeastern Defense Army’s camp. The soil and climate of the estate are…
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The peaceful days that have passed—were they so tranquil only to make the ruin of this day more dramatic? No. Those days themselves were what gave the strength to get through the present. Arthur and the children were not weak. Surely, there would be a way to overcome this crisis. Cleio steeled his heart and organized the new information in his mind. 'If Tayserton had stormed in from the beginning under the name of the royal regent, Count Kishion would not have ordered a counterattack. They…
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Unconcealed passion radiated from within Katarina. Celestes, who had been leaning at an angle against the window frame with her arms folded, showed no reaction to her mother’s reproach. “Do you think your grandmother and I went through all that suffering just so you could waste it on some reckless game of playing soldier? It took three generations to build this fortune, but it only takes one to waste it all!” It had been revealed by the Internal Security Bureau’s investigation that Chel…
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The next morning at dawn. Cleio, who had woken early, entered the bathroom and lit a small gas lamp. Then, using office scissors, he cut his own hair. While in neighboring Brunnenn, it was still customary for men among the lords to grow their hair long, in Albion it was standard to comb the front hair back and keep the back neatly trimmed. Unless one was a classicist or of noble lineage, it was rare to grow hair below the shoulders, but Cleio, who hadn’t known the circumstances at first, had…
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