Perspective – Teenager

"Hmm......"

The first thing I saw after regaining consciousness was an acquaintance.

"You're awake."

The gray girl said to me with gray eyes that I couldn't tell whether it was concern or cold.

Although the above is my subjective feeling, from the very beginning, I felt as if this girl came from the world of black and white. Skin, hair, eyes, and clothing are all distinguished by black and white. It's like the winter fairy in the colorless world. In a world filled with pure white snow, she is the only one who is always a sad Gray.

- Similar to me. But there is a decisive difference.

Shaking my head and shaking off the cranky thoughts in my head, I sat up and found myself lying on the couch.

"This is ......"

"Master's apartment."

"That's the?"

I candidly uttered the first impression of this room through a questioning sentence.

The interior of the room is exactly like that of a cheap apartment, and although it is relatively spacious, the clutter in the room has wasted this area. Littering things have little in common, from piles of books and desks that look old, to moldy leftovers of bread and a few home game consoles that seem to be in regular use, making the room unbearably crowded.

"The standard dead otaku room...... Didn't you clean up for him? ”

"It was raised before, but it was immediately dismissed."

"Why?"

"I don't want to be disturbed by the time I have on my day off."

"It's worse than you think, that man."

"Right. If only he could be like Miss Rhaenys...... Although it is almost impossible to be. ”

Saying that, Gray lowered her head in frustration, it seems that the uncle is a half-witted person in anyone's eyes.

"Rhaenys?"

I repeated the name that had just appeared.

At this moment, the door that had been closed was opened.

"Ahh

Beautiful blonde hair spread out in the doorway.

Then, you will be greeted by a skin as white as a ceramic doll (Bisque–doll). She straightened her skirt, and the movement was extremely beautiful. However, the most impressive thing is her flame-colored eyes that contain a strong will. Obviously she looks like me - but at the age of fifteen, what kind of life did she have to have such eyes?

But that doesn't affect what I'm going to blurt out next.

"Ah, Miss No Friends......"

Bang!

The moment he said it, he was knocked away by the maid - yes, the maid. And also very strange maids. The so-called strangeness refers to her skin color. Not white, not black, not yellow, but shining with a color that humans should not deserve - silver.

"—Is that all it take, Master?"

The silver maid retracted her fist and said to Leenys.

"That's right, Trim Mawu. The next time he said that word again, he would just beat him to death. ”

An extremely dangerous order was given to the maid, and the blonde girl looked down at me with a smile on her face. Maybe it's an illusion, but I found a hint of my brother in this smile.

"You're the boy my brother said."

"Uh, probably yes."

"That's great - can you lend me your body for a few days?"

"Oh.................. Ha? ”

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Perspective – Lenys

"So, what's the hell going on with him to me?"

The elder brother asked with an unhappy expression.

"Ah, it's rare that a friend of my inner disciple is here, shouldn't I be a good master to entertain him? Hey, or is there some self-awareness that [there] is not suitable for entertaining guests? Or maybe the elder brother is jealous because his beloved disciple has been snatched away? ”

As for my brother's serious questions, I chose to play tricks on him, as always.

"Ma'am...... That's not something you can manipulate. The elder stroked his forehead, thought for a while, and then said, "Forget it, I think you already know about the stripping of the city (Adela), so you should know how to be in a measured position—know what I'm talking about." ”

Of course, I wouldn't have put Grey with him either.

- Unidentified person wielding the Tower of the World.

When I saw the word "unidentified" in the report of the Law and Political Science Division, I still remember the excitement and trembling that hit the bone marrow.

"Alas......"

Probably because I unconsciously showed a happy expression again, my brother sighed deeply.

He has long black hair with shallow wrinkles carved between his eyebrows.

He looked older than his age because of his hard work, but he still had the shadow of a young man on his face.

Monarch Ermelo II.

Just thinking about the name makes me feel like laughing.

The name I give, I bind his status.

“…… And then? What was the purpose of your original visit. Say something quickly. You've come to me. Anyway, it won't be much better than before. ”

"Well, I think it's simple."

I smiled wryly and nodded.

With my elbows propped up on the table, I poked my head in front of my brother. Ignoring my brother's eyes, which seemed to be saying that this guy didn't take any medicine, I said the important thing this time.

"Can you lend me Grey outside for a few days?"

"It's not for me to decide, you have to tell her yourself."

"Whew."

Because of this unexpected answer, I was a little overwhelmed for a moment.

"Come to think of it, you and Grey are both my students, so you can be considered peers. Since you want to ask her for help, you should go and tell her yourself, there is no need to go through me. ”

That is to say...... You don't mind if I ask her as a person? ”

"Isn't that what I said?"

"Uh-huh, woo-huh......"

My brother stared at me in contemplation with a strange look.

"I've been thinking about it before."

"Huh?"

He pressed me into questioning with a frown.

"You've never asked a friend for help. Do you have friends? ”

"Woo."

I couldn't help but moan.

He was right. If it's a formal commission, or if you're going to pay a lot of money, that's not a problem at all, but I know it's not the same as that. Oh, no, of course I have some friends, but I'm not trained to deal with them.

"—but what exactly I'm going to ask Gray to help with, that's what I need to know."

My brother said to me with great seriousness.

"Oops."

Really cares about people. I don't know whether to admire him or be speechless to him. Forget it, let's not play tricks on him yet.

I shrugged my shoulders and told him the truth.

"Actually, I was invited to [the social evening]."

“…… Social evenings? ”

"Yes, an invitation from the Transberio faction. Usually I would refuse, but this time because Noli Jiqing who invested in us intervened, it's not good to ignore it, right? ”

“…… You said it was sent by Tranbellio? ”

Through my brother's gaze, I could feel the temperature drop dramatically.

…… Ahhhh

Come back, I feel this way. This icy tension. Unlike Flatt's unheard-of way of being, the world of magic as I know it. People who have not tasted the darkness of London cannot understand it.

This is where I live. Where I was born and raised.

The elder brother asked in a deep voice.

"What's the theme of the party?"

"Before I do that, I can ask my tutor a question, right?"

I cocked up my index finger and continued without waiting for my brother to answer.

"Ask my teacher. - What is beauty? ”

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Perspective – Grey

I looked at the scene in front of me at a loss.

Miss Rhaeny asked the boy who had been beaten down.

"I ask you. What is beauty? ”

"I don't know why I always feel that this sentence has a strong smell of discrimination......"

The boy muttered. Although I felt the same way, at the same time Miss Rhaenys's question did make me think about what is beauty?

If you want to define beauty in magic, the most common example is probably the golden section. According to Master, people can discover beauty from this ratio, regardless of time and place.

However, unlike this kind of beauty, there is also beauty that changes depending on the times and regions. This is "fashion".

I think back to a piece of the clock tower's history.

Exemplar transfer.

It can't be restarted, it's irreversible.

The end of the god generation, the end of the age of goblins, and finally the age of mankind. After this, it should also be connected to a new era, so it must be-

"I don't know."

At this time, the boy said to Rhaenys.

"And it has nothing to do with where I'm now. What exactly does it mean to borrow my body? ”

"It's very simple, just ask you to be a bodyguard."

Rhaenys replied with a rare briskness.

"After all, it's a bit unsettling to just take Trim Mau. But there were no other bodyguards to bring with them to the Clock Tower's social evening. My brother doesn't want to talk about how to be a detective, but I can't say that it's appropriate to be a guard, so I want to borrow your power. ”

"Grey can do this kind of thing, can't she find her?"

"Uh......h This ......"

Rhaenys began to stumble as if she had hit a sore spot.

The young man who saw her look hoisted, then turned to look at me.

(—Over to you.) ）

I raised my right hand in the eyes of a please.

“…… That one. ”

I spoke cautiously.

“…… That's okay with that. ”

Miss Rhaenys grabbed my hand.

“…… That's it. Thank you Grey. ”

"Ahh

I lowered my head with a flushed face as my hand was suddenly grasped, and only whispered after a while.

"That, that's, that's it, what the hell is the party?"

"Well, I'll tell you more about this when I'm on the road."

Although the boy stared at Miss Rhaenys with a "Ahh

"Well, the meeting time is tomorrow morning at nine o'clock on the platform of London Station. Don't be late. ”

"Wait, why should I go!?"

"One more person has more protection."

So, see you tomorrow. With that, she turned to leave.

Hold my hand, of course.

Miss Rhaenys pulled me and winked at the boy behind her.

"By the way, there's no pasta here."

! The moment the door closed, I felt as if I heard my teenager screaming.