Um, .......

　I've been through a lot before, but as expected, my mind stopped for a moment in this situation.

　The girl clinging to me is, at a quick glance, about a kindergarten age child.
　It's hard to tell at a glance because her hair is a bit long and covered her body, but she's wearing a dress.

　I got the impression that she was a healthy, innocent child who looked like she could run barefoot across a grassy field at any moment.

　I found an eggshell near her.
　It was an erythronium egg that I had protected yesterday and wanted to keep with me.

　The egg was split in half from the middle.
　Normally, when you break an egg, you get a sticky residue inside, but this egg didn't have that and the inside was clean.

　This is the reason why this child broke the egg and came out of the inside ......, but it's hard to accept it at the moment.

I don't know what's going on .......
N......

　The girl let out a voice and gradually opened her eyes, probably because she flinched when she mumbled.
　I'm not sure if it's because of the fact that I've been in the same situation.

".......

　Squeezing me, he held on to me.
　He clings to me pretty hard, even more so than when he was sleeping.

　The strength of the clinging makes me feel all kinds of fright and fear.
　Oh, she's definitely an erythronium, I'm convinced.

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It's a good morning--who is this girl?

　I left the room and came to the dining room, lured by the good smell, to find Emily making breakfast in the adjoining kitchen.
　Emily only turned around to face me, but when she noticed Erislonium hiding behind my legs, she stopped her hand and turned around completely.

'This is what it seems to be about,'

　I held out the egg shell I'd brought with me.
　The egg of erythronium, the egg that all my friends saw last night and tatamago.

　Seeing it broken in half.

'Are you a genie?'
I think that's the situation. I'm sure, in my opinion, but I'd like to have Aulum and Nihonium and the others check it out, just in case.
Mr. Nifornium has already gone out. He's been a great friend of Sakuya's lately.
Is that so?

　I often see them together, but all I can remember is the vague, unhappy part where Nihonium seems to be in a bad mood.

'Yes, sir, they are very, very good friends.
'I see. If Emily says so, then so be it.

　That's true.

What about Aulum?
''Aurum-san is already in the dungeon too. There's only one Meeke, so she has to go before Nihonium and the others.
'I see, the Nihoniums will move around the dungeon, but Aulum will just stay in the spirit room the whole time. And after Meeke sends Aulum, he's going to be stuck to Nihonium.
Yes, sir!
So it's all a bit of a mixed bag.

　Take her into the dungeon, no.

　I'm sure the girl is Erislonium herself, and if it's the spirit herself, she'll disappear if she straddles the borders of the dungeon or hierarchy without Meeke.

　I can ask Melamela to do it, or I can wait until nightfall.

''Yoo-hoo, whoa-hoo!

　In the meantime, Alice walked into the dining room.
　Even though it's the first thing in the morning, Alice is still high strung as usual.

　Perhaps frightened by that high tension, the girl clung to me.

'It's okay,'

　I used as gentle a tone of voice as I could.
　To reassure the younger and more frightened child, I spoke to her in a voice that was gentle to the limit, and gently stroked her head.

'That sis isn't a bad person,'

　The girl clings to me even tighter, burying her face in my thighs while she pulls and bobs her head.
　Her body is shaking in small increments.
　You must have had a really bad experience with .......

"It's okay. I'll be there for you.

　I've changed my approach.
　The fact that you're clinging to me means I can handle it.

　So when I was there, I patted his head and patted him gently on the back.

'......'

　It seemed to work this time.
　The girl clung to me, stopped shaking, and slowly looked up at me.

　I make a gentle smile, and the girl seems to be a little relieved when I do.

　Now, if I'm going to be this frightened, I'm going to have to ask Alice to refrain a bit.

'They haven't all woken up yet. 'Just Emily alone?'
What?

　I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at Alice, who was going to say something crazy even though I was right next to her.
　But Alice wasn't the only one who got funny.

'Yoda was there too ...... where did you go?'

　Emily also scurried around with a strange look on her face.

　I'm rather surprised.
　The distance between me, Emily and Alice is less than two meters.
　If I take one step, I can reach them.

　And yet both Emily and Alice are pacing around, seemingly unable to find me.

　That's when it happened.
　To my relief, the girls stopped clinging to me and quietly moved away, just hiding behind me the same way they did before.

'Heee!'
'Wow!　What's that, Lyota? Where have you been hiding?

　Emily and Alice, both of them looked at me in grand surprise.

　The two of them were so startled that they yelled out, which startled the girls too, and they clung to me again.

'Miss Yoda?'
Gone?　Where did you go?

　They scurried around again, looking for me.

　The two of them lost sight of me, and I was in the same situation earlier.
　The only thing I had in common then and now was that the girl was holding on to me.

...... No way.

　Frightened, and then rejected.
　I thought it was possible enough, considering what Erislonium had been showing me.

　Only when they're clinging to me, neither of them seem to be visible to anyone else.

'......'

　No, I touched Alice's shoulder, but she didn't notice.
　It could have been something more, something amazing.