I squatted down and locked eye level with the girl.

　She was still clinging to my leg, which made the position slightly uncomfortable, but I spoke softly to her, tripping her up so as not to scare her.

'Don't worry, I'm here for you.'
......

　Even though she's squatting, the girl is still about half a head shorter than me.
　Her eyes wavered anxiously as she looked up at me.

　I stroked her head.
　Wordlessly, I kept stroking her anyway.

　These aren't words.
　I kept stroking her until she felt safe.

　I'm not good at baby-sitting, but I'm confident in my patience.

　I waited until the other side calmed down.

......

　About three minutes. That's how long it took for the girl to calm down.
　The girl stopped clinging to her leg and grabbed the hand I was stroking her head with, thumb and pinky.

　She grabbed each of the two fingers at the open end of the "par" with both hands.

　It was a childishly unpredictable action, but it was cute.

'Oh, it's Yoda,'
It's true. Where have you been?
Can you see ......?
Hi. Can you see it?
Why do you have to say it's been gone for so long?

　Alice nodded at Emily, who looked at me suspiciously.

　I thought about it.
　I started looking at her again, almost at the same time she stopped clinging to me.
　It was after I changed to grabbing my fingers.

　That thing from earlier.
　You can't see it and you can't recognize it's existence only when you're holding on to it?　Or is it only when she's scared?

　I wanted to make sure of that, but I didn't want to figure it out, but I soon found out the truth.

'First of all, it's going to be rice. My energy for the day is breakfast.
Yeah.
Yeah.

　Emily was right, whatever you do, you have to eat breakfast first - and when I got up, the girl clung to me again.

　It was a little different than before, not frightened.
　Don't go, she said. Her eyes, wavering with accumulated tears, insisted.

'Huh?　She's gone again, Lyota.
She's not here either.

　Emily and Alice, they've lost track of us again.
　They look around for us.

　And unlike before, I've noticed something because for the second time I'm feeling a little more relaxed.

　The friends on Alice's shoulders.
　Honeone, purr-purr, bong-bong, spiky, gawky, gawky - and melasma.

　Alice's fellow monsters are scurrying around and looking for her as well.
　The monsters, too, and the same spirit, Meramela-phosphorus, are looking for us.
　They don't seem to see us.

　While patting and fondling the girl's head, I gave Melamela a deco pin.

　The human soul-like looking Melamela was blown away a bit by the decoupins, but she just looked at me in wonder.

'What's wrong Melamela?'
Mr. Yoda: "Yoda, I'm ...... close by.
'What?　Oh, I see, I'm going invisible.

　Emily's words made Alice gasp.
　Strictly speaking - it's not invisible.

　In any case, they wouldn't even notice if I touched it.

　I suddenly became curious and looked at the window.
　Faintly, my image was reflected in the window.

　I'm not going to be able to get the same look as I did, and Emily and Alice are scurrying around.
　This is ...... a system that is not recognized for its very existence.

　Immediately after recognizing this, the girls again felt relieved and grabbed my fingers from their clutches.

　The reflection of the window didn't change the scene I was seeing, but Emily and Alice and the others caught sight of me all at once and stared at me.

　So that means when they're clinging to me, others can't recognize my presence anymore, and when they're not, they look normal.

'Hey, hey, what do you mean by that?　Transparent?　Are you invisible?

　Alice is extremely curious about it.

Does that mean that Ryota can look into your bathroom as much as he wants?
How did you get that idea?

　I chuckled at the idea of Alice.

'Ree-chin told me before that's a man's romance.
...... Mr. Yoda.

　Emily's eyes had some darkness in them.

　Ryouchin, a copy of me calling out with the magic of All Might.
　The air was as if I had said such a thing.

　Well, I don't quite understand the Invisible Man -> Looking into the Bath.

　It's not at all hard to understand. ............

"I wouldn't do that.
Really?
Yeah, it's true.

　So good, he pats the girl's head.
　If this was a special bullet effect, there's a chance in all likelihood that it would be used for something like that, but not this.

　Clinging to me and activating the ability to be unrecognized by others.
　Completely, it's an ability that is linked to this child's - the lineage of the erythronium dungeon.

　Then it's something I should use to protect this child.

''Eh?　Yes, mellifluous.

　I'm surprised to hear something from Melamela, who has Alice on her shoulder.
　I can guess what it is.

'Lyota, is that girl an erythronium?'
I knew it?

　I silently held out the eggshell.
　It's the eggshell I brought back from erythronium that everyone had seen yesterday.

　If Melamela is like that, it means she is an erythronium.

　But this.

"Let's keep her being an erythronium secret from the others.
Oh, yeah.
I'm for it.

　I squatted down and brought my eyes level with the girl again.

'We'll give her a temporary name. 'Eri, how about that?'

　The girl looked at me often and then hugged me as if she were clinging to my neck.