The picturesque rice cakes are delicious today

"Hey! Go! Are you all right?

As we walked a few steps out of the gallery, Fay came.

Ah, speaking of which, I had Faye deliver a status report note.

"Yeah, it's okay."

Faye looked at us and sighed relieved.

"... are you a strange customer?What the hell was that?

"Now... I don't know, but I wasn't a bad person."

"Probably not a person...."

Ah, after all? Mm-hmm.I thought so, too.There was an atmosphere separate from humans, hmm... I think the atmosphere was close to fairies, bones, and so on.Somehow.

"Well, it was a strange customer... but I'm in love with the picture of corn.There won't be a problem. "

Laocles said that, and then he looked at me.

"More than that...."

When I turned to Laocles, Laocles followed me with a little hand. [M]

"What is that?

"... come on"

I have something in my hand from a strange customer.

Something I don't quite understand, like a piece of the night sky.

"... hmm?What the hell. Isn't that a rock?It's not metal either. It looks transparent, but what's glowing inside...?Gold leaf, magic stone powder?

Fay takes the customer's souvenir from my hand and tilts his neck as he looks through the starlight.

It was like a piece of the starry sky that I got.

Something as big as a petal on the palm of a palm, with stars shining in the dark blue.

It's not stone or metal, I don't know... well, it's something I really don't know.We saw it and tilted our necks.

Glass, but this is it.

"Yeah, maybe...."

If you insist, is it close to plastic?Lighter than glass, not as cold as metal, slightly clear...

However, that's all I can explain.I wonder what this is...

"... well, if you don't know, why don't you just keep it as' that kind of thing '?"

"Yeah, I will."

In the meantime, I don't know what this is, but it's still beautiful... so I'm going to feel like 'I got something beautiful'.

Then we decided to go back to the forest.I'm sorry about Fai.Even though nothing happened, I'm really sorry that the fairy woke me up in the middle of the night and read my letter, and when I tried to follow it, we were just looking at the souvenir and tilting our necks...

Besides, I'm sorry about Laocles.

"Sorry, I pulled it out in the middle of the night."

We decided to go back to the forest from the gallery and disband in front of Laocles' house.Laocles, you're off duty tomorrow.If it's work, I'm really sorry I let you work at night...

"I don't mind. Call me anytime.Much better than being put in danger in a place I don't know. "

I'm sorry about that, too.Ugh...

"... you seem to have forgotten, but I'm your slave.What do you need to refrain from? "

"Even if he was a slave, he was a person, a model, a plaster statue...."

"... I don't know how you feel about creating"

Laocles said so in astonishment, and stroked my head.I wonder why you always stroke...

"Rest slowly today.If Ange is still awake, you might want to report it. "

"Ah, then I've already asked the fairy."

There must be a report on the fairy tale to Ange.The fairy is friendly with Ange, so if Ange were asleep, she would be caring enough not to wake her up.

"... or can't you sleep?

"Ah, yeah. I'm a little excited....."

I'm a little embarrassed like a child, but maybe I'm a little excited right now.

I went out in the middle of the night, got a little rough, and then I met a very beautiful and strange customer.... I can't help but get excited.

"Well, I guess so...."

Laocles thought for a moment and then laughed a little.

"Then draw a picture and sleep when you get sleepy."

"Yeah, I will."

Laocles said good night and went back to his house.Thank you, Laocles.

... and once again, I look at the beautiful pieces of the night sky in my hands.

Yeah, it's beautiful. It's like the eyes of that weird customer.

"... let's draw from the customer just now"

Speaking of which, strange customer, I was thinking of drawing, but I was disturbed.A lifetime of inactivity.... as far as I can remember, let's draw it somehow...

It was in the morning when I noticed.I've been painting all night, so I've been up all night.It's been a while since I've been here all night.

... I feel like it was a dream, but it certainly remained like a piece of the night sky on my desk.

I had breakfast and went out, then I flew to the gallery in Phoenix, but the painting I gave yesterday was gone, and the walls were completely empty.

I thought it was a strange customer, but I was somehow happy that it wasn't a dream, so I decided to paint vigorously today.

I hope that customer comes again.It's nice to have a customer who doesn't understand the words and doesn't think he's human.

"... Corn-san, have you been up late lately?

"Eh, ah, yeah...."

And then a few days.

... somehow, the days of staying up late continue.And Mr. Crowe scolds me a little.

"What's wrong?It seemed less and less like painting all night. "

"Um... I was wondering if a strange customer would come... lately, I've been drawing in the gallery at night..."

So, to tell you the truth, Mr. Crowe forgot to scold me.

"Weird customer?... oh, that's who Laocles was talking about. "

Ah, did Laocles tell you already?... Laocles, by surprise, talks a lot with Mr. Crowe.Though it seems that the type is different from that of Mr. Crowe, but I don't know, they are both similar in their way of thinking, and I think they might like each other.

When I was thinking about that, Claire... looked me in the eye with a bit of a playful, yet the most seductive smile on her lips.

"What? Did you fall in love with her at first sight?

Huh?

"I mean, isn't that right?You want to see her again and go to the gallery in the middle of the night, right?

... fell in love at first sight.

So, am I in the middle of the night...?

Um... um... I'll think about it.

Think, think... I see.I'm kind of convinced.

"Yeah, maybe so...."

"... well"

When I admitted it, Ms. Crowe raised her voice of admiration with her hand around her mouth, somehow gladly shining her eyes.

"At last, you too, Corn."

"Because it's the same thing.When I first met Claire, when I first met Laocles, when I found Lian, this kind of feeling.... "

"... ah, oh!?

When I said that to myself, suddenly Claire turned around and looked a little sad, but I felt refreshed because I had answers to my feelings in me.

"I want to draw..."

No, but I'm a little nervous.I want to draw. I really want to draw.I realized I wanted to draw!And that customer hasn't come since then!I want to paint!

I want to paint! I want to paint!

Claire said to Lyla, "Listen!'.A little later, I heard Lyla laughing without hesitation.She's laughing so much. Why?

... but I still want to draw.That customer, I really want to paint.

The non-human atmosphere was very attractive.If you melt and solidify the beautiful night of the stars into a human form, you might feel that way.Yeah. Maybe he was too attractive just because he saw it at night.

A strange customer whose blurry starlight and starlight look great together.I think it was really good to be in a gallery surrounded by trees, which is not popular.Ah, when I remember, I want to paint again, but I don't remember enough to paint just by memory, so I want to paint more...!

I want to draw, I want to draw, while I draw another picture. [M]I have a request for a painting even if there is something else I want to draw, and I have to draw it, and I'm happy to draw it because it's fun.

... but I still think about it.

What I'm drawing right now is a picture of my client.A picture of the forest.

Many of the paintings that I have been asked to paint are beautiful girls' paintings, forest paintings, fairies' paintings, knights' paintings... but many of them are still forest paintings.Somehow.

That's why I'm still painting the forest today.Spring is coming soon. In the morning of the forest, the branches are dyed golden on the morning sun when the trees plunge in strongly from the east.Strong light produces a dark shadow, with a clear light blue shadow behind the golden light, resulting in a contrasting screen.

... when drawing this kind of thing, I think the watercolour is somehow good.

Magic paintings can be painted exactly as you think, but on the contrary, they can only be painted exactly as you think.Such things as the random seepage of water color, the darkness of the color of the boundary between paint and paper after drying, etc., cannot be reproduced well if it is a magical painting.

Even now, I think it's fun watching the dark gray of the tree bleed blue and the paint mix with each other.

Look a little farther while the paint dries.

The sky is clear. The sun is dazzling, the sky is blue as if it were falling out, and the clouds are just hanging high.

Spring is coming soon, so I think it will be a different scenery, a different skyline.

That's why I'm staring at the sky, the only view I can see right now...

"... that?

And I was a little surprised.

From the other side and end of the sky, a dark grey color spreads like a watercolor paint seepage.

... it's not a cloud, is it?That one.