Labyrinth Restaurant

Wow.

Wow, wow.

You can hear that from nowhere.

No, it's not a dog nearby. This is not a squeal, it's a cry.

"Wow!

"If you cry so hard, why did you do that?!?"

"Because... Wow!

Alice came back to Cosmos' room a few minutes after she left and then cried with all her might.

It's bee crying.

I'm crying like a child.

Tears seemed enough to make a water hoard on the floor.

Cosmos doesn't even try to comfort it, he just watches.

I've been ruined by numerous hardships, and frankly, my anger outweighed my pity. I'll leave it to my anger. I won't yell at Alice, so it's the best I can do.

Still, how did you end up so dissolved from your engagement with the Demon King?

There was a small, but not negligible reason for him to do so.

Alice is crying, but she started talking about potpourri and its wax.

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"Alice...... can I ask why?

When Alice proposed to dissolve the engagement, naturally the Demon King asked why.

"Demon King."

Alice answered the question without hiding another one.

"Thank you for responding to my thoughts. I was really happy."

"If so..."

Then I don't need to get rid of my current state.

I guess the Demon King's claim is legitimate.

But Alice asked.

"Demon King, why are you trying to love me? That's just a sense of duty because Lisa asked me to..."

"Alice, I don't do that."

That's not true, says the Demon King.

I guess so.

Even Alice really knows.

The Demon King said he was trying to love Alice after thinking about him. If the motive is just a sense of duty, you don't have to bother to do that, you just have to fix the relationship and attitude at the top.

"- Oh, my God, no matter how suspicious I am, I don't think that far. But, Demon King, can you assure me on this occasion that your feelings are entirely your own without any cloudiness?

"... eh"

The silence of the Demon King is rather a manifestation of his sincerity. If I told him a word, "no," that should do it, but I didn't. I couldn't.

Whether or not my thoughts derive entirely from my mind alone.

That can't be answered to anyone, even if they're not demon kings.

Mind is something that grows and constantly changes shape in our daily relationships. It's not really something you can tell from where to where it belongs to you and where it comes from someone else.

"I... we must have been wrong from there. Someone asked me to love you, or you didn't have the courage, but you were scared, and you enjoyed the love you were given with the lid on your questions... and you shouldn't have."

Lisa's confession proxy at that time had cast a dark shadow on Alice's heart as well as on herself who had spoken of it. That is, the shadow of what the motive for that love is.

That may seem like just a trivial thought, like it wouldn't even be a problem if you tried to spare someone. People may be tempted to be too clean.

But Alice couldn't pretend not to see the slightest doubt in herself. Only her feelings for the most important demon king could be compromised or deluded.

"Someone asked me to, so I shouldn't. If you don't like it of your own free will, you can't be so sure."

Yesterday, knowing Lisa's thoughts was an opportunity for Alice. We can no longer abandon this issue as it were, beyond understanding Lisa's sincerity that day. I guess putting aside one night or talking to Cosmos was what it took to be ready.

"So this is my selfishness"

Alice decided to fix the gear that started to uneven that day.

"Fall festival favor...... for me, you haven't had it fulfilled yet, have you? I'll use that right now."

Alice told.

"I will use my wish to void Lisa's wish at that time."

Here, the commandments that bind their hearts have been broken.

To never give up.

Now it's time to get what you want right.

To love and be loved from the bottom of my heart.

"Demon King, now like someone properly at your will, and be happy. Happy, do."

Alice finally smiled like a flower blooming in the sun and said:

"I will try to make you like me, too, so..."

Tears came to me in the middle of the word, but I turned my back to not show it to him.

"I'll be waiting for you."

Alice ran away at the same time she finished saying it.

If I stayed like this, I was going to cry down before I left this place.

The Demon King extended his hand toward Alice's back, but his hand lost momentum along the way, cutting the sky in vain.

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"Wow... I cried a lot and it was refreshing"

You calmed down when I told you everything while you were crying, and Alice, who was crying hard, is kellogging early.

"You can't be depressed forever. I have to brush the woman to the point where I can beat Lisa and no, the Demon King falls in love."

"Oh man, well, I guess it's a good trend to be positive,"

Even as a cosmos, I wasn't entirely convinced.

I still have feelings of anger, but I also thought I had to respect it if it was still the result of being serious about being Alice. Because such a clumsy way to be is the attracted Alice of Cosmos.

"Well, we have to get back to the store and get ready for the New Year's Eve party. Will Cosmos come with us?

"Now that you've done so well, you're willing to face the Demon King right away!? No, it's a good thing though!

Maybe Alice is gaining some kind of mental endurance because of too much depression and too many recurring recoveries.

"Yes, it's a New Year's Eve in the corner, so shall we say hello before we go back? I'll tie your hair too."

"Oh man, I'll go out with Tokoton when this happens. Try your best to make the Demon King fall in love."

After a long, really long detour, they finally reached their starting point.

Then all you have to do is run out.

Learn well and hone yourself, squeeze your wisdom into how to get the favor of the person you want, and just fight directly from the front.

It's just that common love stories everywhere will finally start here.

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Meanwhile, around that time.

The Demon King looked at his hand, which he stopped on the way to stretch out, with a serious face at no time.

The Demon King shuts up.

Really, I'm convinced of Alice's reasons.

I want to dissolve one day's wishes and once again aim to rebuild the relationship from being spotless.

It's hard to say I totally understood, but I was once convinced... it should be.

Still, why did you reach toward Alice?

If she and I are convinced, we don't have to go after her.

He was thinking about the reasons for his own puzzling behavior.

Alice's readiness to die was, without her knowledge, producing another achievement.

The choice of abandonment may have turned out to be the right one.

Reason for reaching out.

What was in the Demon King's chest then was some kind of emptiness.

I don't even have a clear sense of who I am and I don't even understand what that sense of loss is like.

But the "I don't want to lose" desire that inadvertently arose in the Demon King at that time is the flip of the desire for someone.

The germination of thoughts about someone special, isolated from the fondness that should be directed widely at 10,000 people.

It remains unclear who will eventually show, and the "it" that arose in him began to grow loosely and reliably.