The snow gave way due to my heaviness, and I slid off the roof in an avalanche of snow.
Of course, I was not the only one atop the roof, I was joined by my travelling companion.
「Oof...!」
As it is, we seemed to have fallen together into the snow covered garden area.
And happened to land right next to pile of snow and the snow shovels.
Furthermore, even more snow falls from atop the house, and almost completely buries me.
「Mffmffmff...」
Somehow, I can only manage to get my face out of the snow.
「Santa-san!」
At that point, the only thing my view could fall upon, was the appearance of Lucy, who just came out of the doorway.
Panicking, I hurry and cover as much of my head as I can in snow, all the while trying also to maintain some vision, so I can watch Lucy.
「Santa-san?」
Lucy who has come out dressed only in her pajamas, is relentlessly searching her surroundings, while the blizzard keeps pressing.
It appears I haven't been found.
If I am seen right now, the Power of Santa, and my own personal dignity would end up in question.
「Santa......-san?」
Despite looking around the garden, nothing out of ordinary is noticed.
Furthermore, the small run to the doorway also confirms that there is nobody outside the gate as well.
And Lucy's face, before my very eyes, seemed to become very saddened.
「Lucy.」
「Mama~...」
Lucy runs up and clings to the late-to-arrive Sylphy with a face that seemed about to cry.
「Is Santa-san, not going to come back?
Is it because I was a bad girl, and stayed up late, and made Santa angry because of that?」
Lucy had begun break down in tears and sobbed.
Mm...
What the hell.
If it was going to end up like this, should I have just put the present in front of the room instead?
「Let's see... I think if we want him to come back, at the very least we should go back inside right? Besides you'll catch cold out here.」
No. Even if I just put the present for her there secretly in the middle of the night, that should cure Lucy's sadness well enough.
Yeah, that should be good enough for how Christmas is supposed to go, anyway.
If what comes after she thinks it isn't does, she'll then be twice as happy!
I'll just say that all that noise in the middle of night was me moving a [Rolling Clay Doll] around.
「Ah!」
Suddenly, Lucy's face rapidly began to light up.
In front of the gate, the shadow of a person appeared.
The shadowy figure appeared strangely.
First off, it was wearing a crimson robe, which looked like the color of blood.
In addition to a same colored wide brimmed hat, it also had a huge, huge white backpack.
And their face was hidden by a clumsily attached black helmet.
The very figure was what you expected from a kidnapper.
「Santa...-san?」
「...」
I was speechless, It could only be visualized as a Santa that fell to the dark side.
Whilst inside this blizzard, he silently reached his hand inside the bag.
And what improper thing would come out from the middle of this thing's bag?
Perhaps it might be a hand-axe or a goat's head smeared in blood...
However I've only ever heard of something like that happening once.
It seems like something truly frightening is going to be taken out from there.
I guess it seems that he will not be removing his attached helmet.
「...」
What was taken out, was in fact a present box.
It didn't suit the strange one at all, the box was complete with a pretty ribbon.
He presented it to Lucy.
「Waaaah!」
With a joyful smile on her whole face, Lucy receives the present importantly with both hands and bows respectfully.
「Santa-san! Thank you very much!」
The world's strongest Santa, protected in a cloak of Dragon Saint Touki, put a hand to the head of Lucy, and patted it kindly.
And afterwards, easily, and slowly disappeared back into the snowstorm.
---
The Next Morning.
I was listening to an excited Lucy brag about what happened.
「Hey~ Papa you know~ I got to meet Santa-san!」
「Ohh~ That sounds pretty amazing! How was he?」
「Umm Let's see... ufufu, he wasn't anything like you said at all! However, It was definitely someone that Papa would know!」
「Heeー, That sounds pretty interesting after allー」