But he stopped his feet there. Thinking about it, Eugeo was now a criminal
who went against the Taboo Index and sliced apart Humbert's arm. To a
girl who lived for merely sixteen years, he must be the same as Raios... or
perhaps, his existence might even be several times as abominable.
Not even able to look at Teiza's face any longer, Eugeo lowered his own and
tried to draw back.
But before he could do so, a small figure flew into his chest with a thump.
The messed up red hair strongly pushed against Eugeo's uniform.
Simultaneously, a harsh voice struck his earlobes.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry, Eugeo-senpai... It's... it's because of me that...!"
Eugeo reacted by vehemently shaking his head, then interrupted Teiza's
speech.
"That's not it, it's not your fault, Teiza. I... I didn't think through it enough.
You aren't at fault for any of it, Teiza."
"B-But... but...!"
"It's fine, both you and Ronie ended up unharmed. I have to apologize too...
sorry for making you go through all those scary things."
When he said that and stroked the autumn-colored hair awkwardly, Teiza
begun to sob even harder. Ronie was pushing her face into Kirito's chest
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while crying as well, at his side. Moving his line of sight upwards, his
partner gave a slight nod when their eyes met.
It happened when Eugeo tried to nod in return. Kirito's face twitched into a
grimace as though someone pulled onto his hair. His eyes darted left and
right and looked up at the ceiling next.
Those black eyes suddenly opened wide, so Eugeo traced their sight. And—
he saw that.
Near the northeast corner on the bedroom's ceiling, something that looked
like a violet board was hovering. It resembled the «Stacia Window» greatly,
but was much larger, not to mention round. And from deep inside that,
someone was looking down at the room... no, Eugeo and the rest. It was
unknown whether that someone was male or female, young or old. There
were eyes on the pale skin, round and like glass marbles.
......Somewhere in the past.
......I have seen that person somewhere long ago in the past.
While Eugeo's intuition told him that, the white face opened its bottomless
pit of a mouth. In that instant, Kirito who stood at his side whispered in an
extremely soft voice.
"Don't let Teiza and Ronie hear it!"
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Eugeo instantaneously embraced Teiza's head with both