Volume 5 Chapter 45 Resolution
"Um, about the other day..."
"..."
Tsukiko is probably talking about when Ayaka spoke her mind freely. Ayaka lowers her head, thinking that it's probably about that matter.
"I'm sorry. I also said too much at that time. It's not an excuse to say that I was frustrated, but my tone was bad, so I'm really sorry."
When she thinks back to herself at that time, she was completely cornered and irritated. Kanami was in critical condition, Lisha was kidnapped, and Yuusuke was missing. She couldn't even contact her reliable ally, Silver. She is searching blindly in the midst of not knowing the whole picture of the situation.
In such a situation, she lashed out at Tsukiko, who had just returned home.
As an older person, or rather as a human being, it was disappointing.
However, Tsukiko slowly shook her head.
"That's okay."
"No, it's not good, right?"
"What Ayaka said is all true."
Tsukiko runs her finger over the glass as if to distract herself and wipes off the droplets.
"I've been thinking about it since then. I thought I had no regrets about what I had done, but was it really the right thing to do?"
She desperately searches for words. She has always been bad at talking to people since she was a child and has been hiding in Ayaka's shadow.
"I don't want Yuusuke to get hurt because of me. That hasn't changed even now. But it's not just about the body. I didn't understand that. What did that person think? What did he wish for? I want to ask him properly. And then, I want to talk about everything too."
"Talk about that? Are you serious?"
"Yes. What I've been holding onto, what I've been thinking about, I want to talk about it properly again. Yuusuke may not want to hear it anymore, but if he's willing to listen, I want to start from scratch."
To Ayaka, who knows Tsukiko well, it was an unthinkable choice.
What she is holding onto is not just being a magician or an Anti-Demon Official.
She may be rejected. Or, even if that's all, Tsukiko may be able to endure it, but there is also a future that will hurt her more.
Ayaka knows that she has been hurt in that way.
Just wanting friends and seeking ordinary happiness. Every time she mustered up the courage to talk to her classmates or children of magicians, Tsukiko was hurt.
She had painful scars on her small heart and cried.
Tsukiko's wings are too big, and the birdcage that surrounds her is heavy.
How many humans are there who can pry open that cage and fly together? Ayaka can't fly, even if she can be close to her.
But he can.
A strange blank period. Even though he must have experienced many painful things, if he can act for someone else.
However, is it too irresponsible to hope for that?
As she thought so, Tsukiko said with a bright face that blew away her sentimentality.
"I won't run away anymore. I'll accept everything and move forward, that's what I think."
The little girl who was crying there is no longer there.
Adults never demanded Tsukiko's heart or words. All they needed was her talented magic. The only criterion for evaluating her was always the result.
Tsukiko is now facing someone important to her with all seriousness.
Filled with this fact, Ayaka drank her coffee and said,
"Do your best. Contact me right away if anything happens."
"Thank you, Ayaka."
And so, on that fateful day, the story that nobody knew the ending to accelerated.
Oddly enough, that day was the third day of the Souten Festival that Tsukiko and Yuusuke had promised to meet.
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