Evening.
In the student council room, Ariel was quietly thinking about the strategy.
Thinking that some amount of drastic measures were necessary and even though she actually went to the point of destroying the dorm as a camouflage, for it to still end in failure.
Sylphy was waiting for Ariel's words with a meek face.
"You didn't do the yobai [Night Crawling]?" [1]
"There's no way I could do that!!"
Sylphy yelled in response to Luke's words.
It's a secret that she hesitated over it considerably and then was too afraid in the end.
Luke shrugged his shoulders with a sigh after being yelled at.
It seems he knew that it would end up like this.
"....Luke, what do you think?"
"About what?"
"About Rudeus's actions."
Ariel was thinking.
All of the preparations should have been in place.
However, they failed.
"I don't think it was by chance."
"I'm sure."
Even if it came to light that we were feigning the accident you can feel the intention that it was a necessity to prevent it before it happens.
We did say it is in part because Sylphy is dense, but that's not all.
I can feel an intent behind his actions.
In the first place, for that much of a master to not wake up or make any reaction in response to her getting up and laying down on the bed all night long, is something that can't happen.
I wonder why he didn't say anything.
(After all, is it my fault?)
Rudeus declared that he didn't want any hostility between Ariel and himself.
I don't understand the reason though...
It could be that in his eyes, Ariel looks powerful.
Similar to how Ariel is more cautious and afraid of Rudeus than necessary.
(I have no intention of any hostility with Rudeus Greyrat as well. Mutual love isn't it.)
After making a joke that can't be laughed at in her heart, Ariel let out a sigh.
"After all, it seems like the best method we can do is somehow or other get him to remember the person known as Sylphiette."
"....Now, at this point? I'm sure the other side has already forgotten."
After hearing Luke's words, Ariel gave it some thought.
Certainly, the probability that he's forgotten is high.
The time when Rudeus and Sylphy separated was eight years ago.
If there's eight years, then people can start to forget about people.
At the very least, it seems this past year, Sylphy hadn't heard the words "Sylphy" from Rudeus's mouth.
If that's the case, then the probability that he'd forgotten the very existence of the one known as Sylphiette is high.
I wonder what can be done to make him remember.
Ariel used herself as a precedent and tried thinking about it.
Even I don't think I can remember the names of maids that attended to me eight years ago.
However, there are several that I can remember.
For example, Lilia.
She was already gone by the time I reached the age of matter and mind, but I remember well how she fought before my eyes for my sake.
"Sylphy, do you have some kind of memories between you and him?"
"Memories?"
"Right, people remember other people through ability and memories. That's why, nobles open parties at every matter and introduce other people there. Piling up words of flattery, dancing for the first time with difficult dance moves. Trying to leave at least a bit of an impression... Since there are a lot of nobles, just having only met them, it's easy to forget them soon after."
Sylphy's ability is easy to remember.
Using chantless magic, even across the world there's only a handful of individuals.
People who can use it at Sylphy's and Rudeus's age are almost none.
However, even then Rudeus couldn't remember it.
Why, I wonder.
This was something that Ariel and the others could never come to a conclusion about; first is that in regards to his previous life, he lived the life of a loser.
He had the awareness that because it was something he could do, any number of other people could easily do it as well.
Another one was because of the existences known as Ruijerd, Kishirika, Orsted, and Badigadi.
After meeting overwhelmingly strong people like this, he ended up coming to possess a recognition that there are countless people in the world more amazing than himself.
And concluded that there are a reasonable number of chantless magic users out there.
And finally there's Ariel's existence.
Rather than some average person out there using chantless magic.
The guard of a princess used chantless magic.
That fact, caused his recognition to come to an incorrect conclusion.
If it's the guard of a princess, then I'm sure they can do that much.
"Memories...? Umm, I did tell the story about how I was bullied right."
"Yeah, I did hear about how you were bullied over the color of your hair."
Incidentally.
Sylphy never informed them that her previous hair color was green.
She thought if they were to know that it was green, the princess and Luke might look at her with strange eyes.
It's not as if she doesn't trust them.
Just, she was afraid.
Therefore, she said her hair was white from the time she was born.
She'd continued to say it like that.
It's difficult to correct a lie once it's been told; blessed as it is, her hair that had turned white, never returned to it's previous color.
"I met with Rudi at the time when he saved me, it's the number one memory to me."
"....I guess so."