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"Faye!"

Faye was in the courtyard. They were playing with the Red Dragon in the garden at dusk, one and one of them stained with the color of the sunset, originally red but looking more and more red.

"Um, I need to ask you something."

I, before I say it, have to ask.

Faye looked a little strange when I said that, then tilted her neck in line with the Red Dragon. We're good friends.

"Well, I wonder what they expect."

"Expectations? That's an interesting thing! You're unparalleled. Oh, and I'm counting on our friendship! … so, naturally, as a painter, painting."

I asked him that nervously, and Faye gave me that back without putting in my hair.

"... not about materializing the painting?

"Yeah. The painting you painted, decorated the mansion. So, of course, he's not real! If the decorated painting suddenly moves, I'm in trouble!?

Somehow, I clapped it out.

I should have known, but when they say it again, here's the thing. I can't help it, can I?

"Um... sounds weird, but, you know, you liked me...?

"As, well, yeah...? 'Cause you're asking a good guy for a job, rather than asking a bad guy for a job. Uh... but I don't know, this"

Faye said so, staring into the void and thinking a little... I said.

"Look, you painted my picture, didn't you? Look at that. I thought you could decorate these paintings. Something soft, sounds fun. Come on."

Saying so, Faye laughed with pleasure... then nodded with a strange face.

"So maybe even the guy you don't like asked for it."

"... well"

Glad to hear it. Wow. At the same time, it is also anxiety.

"... I'm a bad painter."

I don't think so.

"I don't think I should eat it in a painting if I were supposed to. There are a lot of people who go to art college properly to learn and still can't get a painting job. I'm definitely shorter than they are."

University of Fine Arts, I say, and then I reckon it won't be passed on to anyone in this world. But somehow, he also passed it on to Faye, as far as it means. Faye tilted her neck...... then laughed.

"Honestly, I don't know how good or bad the painting is. Yeah. They have to tell me it's a famous painter's painting. I don't know. There's definitely one."

Yeah...... somehow, I feel like him.

"But you don't appreciate paintings like that, do you? 'This is amazing stuff!' Cause I said it in my voice. It's like winning, hey?

... I've been told something very shocking. But...... hey, I kind of can't argue with that!

"So if Togo is only worried about 'how well you can do your job', just throw it at us like that! I don't know what's good or bad about your painting, but I like it. Say," This is an amazing painting. "I'm ready to say it in my voice! Besides, I don't like you. If I had a job, I wouldn't say no, would I? I don't have a problem with money. If you can't eat with that, like I said before, you can feed us!

Reliable. Wow... uh, reliable.

But I don't see how you can tell me that much.

I feed you. What the hell is going on? Why are you telling me so much? I wonder what you liked so much. A painting. Yeah, I don't know that either.

I don't know what to do, I'm getting scared around. What is this?

"... I don't know what it's like to be a nobleman. But the feeling of nobility is that feeding one or two human beings is nothing in particular."

If I was confused, Laocles advised me from the side.

"You can think of it like that. Values are too different from each other. It's no use thinking."

... Ko, this has also been said to be shocking, but I can't argue with this either...

... thought about it. Though I thought about it, I'm still dreaming about this world.

So now, I can't give up. It's too late.

"I think I'm going to fail. At least, 'success' as people of all sorts want, maybe, can't. I don't feel like living as a castle wizard, and I don't want to be a big rich man. You won't be able to paint a picture that will be recognized all over the world, and maybe help you raise your reputation."

I wonder if it's cunning, but still, I feel too dishonest to be a painter without saying this, and in the end, I give an excuse.

"I'm probably also not good at actively selling my paintings. Maybe there's a job I can't do well because I don't feel right."

I admire it, but I know it won't be easy. I don't have enough strength. I don't even feel like going for a sale. Maybe I'm not ready to break it off. So.

"So I think I'm gonna fail. I can't succeed."

"Whoa. That's good."

Faye said so and laughed happily.

"It's never funny what you do as a royal magician, and you don't! Nah!"

"... no body?

"Oops. No body!

Oh, you don't think I'm a royal magician?

Isn't it the other way around? Will you not tell me that I can't paint?

Don't waste it on me, but don't tell me how long I'm holding you back on something like that.

... Glad to hear it. Is it okay? This happened.

"It's just... did you really think about it? You okay? Like I said, even with our contract, I'm getting a little less confident I can really protect you, okay?

"There's no protection left. I'll be able to protect myself.... it's just that if you admit that I paint, I'd be most happy"

"Uh... I don't know. But okay. If that's what Togo says, so be it."

Faye said, 'Admit it?' and leaning his neck. Yeah. Nothing, I'm not trying to make you understand. Nothing. Because Faye, without question, will approve of my path.

"And then... I don't really want to say it, but, well, it's such a Lords of the Realm family thing, us. Maybe I can't really help you get Togo to succeed as a painting. That's what I think if you were to grow up as a painter, you should become a painter of a royal castle or something..."

Faye saying things like sudden loss of confidence is a little strange. You were so reliable until just now. Does this happen when it comes to me?

... Yeah, I can't say this either, maybe.

"... I prefer someone who laughs and regrets with me when I fail to do so than someone who makes me successful"

I'm not interested in success. I don't have to hate it, but I don't like it. So you don't have to let me succeed.

I just want you to stay with me instead. If you look at me for failing and don't say, "You've seen that," "I'm not gonna tell you," "I'm gonna do that because I paint a picture," it's better.

... Don't make fun of what I chose to get, don't be disappointed, just laugh or regret it, it would be great.

"Will Faye fail with me"

I looked up Faye's eyes higher than mine and asked.

"Whoa! Let's fail together! So from today on, you're my best friend, and at the same time you're our holding painter! Way to go!

Faye said so with a full smile, grabbed my hand and shook it.

... Somehow, I'm losing my mind. Yeah, it could be 'I'm getting fuzzy' where Laocles says it.

I think a lot, I'm scared, I'm anxious... nervous, maybe. Yeah. I'm relieved of the tension, and I'm getting fuzzy. It's not realistic at all.

"... I don't know, something like this, something like a dream happened"

"Nice! You go after your dreams! I had a dream, it came true! Thanks to you! So now it's your turn to dream come true! If it's just a dream, it's free. That said, if it's gonna come true, it's better, right? Nah!"

The Red Dragon looked out from behind Faye and laughed a lot, I felt it. Though I'm not sure what a dragon look is. Maybe.

"Oh, yeah. If you can't say no, but you get a bad job, why don't you just paint Phoenix with a leech again? No, because that story was tear-free and funny. I'm looking forward to that, honestly."

... Ugh, yeah. Oh, well... If you're going to enjoy it, fine.

That's okay......

...... yeah. That's okay. Now.

Looking forward to it.

I'm anxious, scared, and unsure to try to paint. Still, fun, what?

Then I dived into the futon and tried to sleep. But I couldn't sleep because my eyes caught on.

Because I became a painter. I've become a painter. [M]

I'm excited, anxious, scared, and so excited. Feeling my heart moving much earlier...... I stayed and got my morning. Yeah. 'Cause I couldn't sleep. I can't help it.

The light that plugs through the window is always bright. Illuminated by the morning sun, it all stains golden, or dazzling and soft yellow.

When I saw it, I thought... it was hyochromic. Hyoko Phoenix is an orange like a sunset, but not a normal hyoko color.

"It's hyochrome..."

When I shrugged like that, Laocles, who slept in the next bed, wandered.

"... are you awake"

Apparently, I woke him up. Sorry.

"Uh, I'm not sleeping"

Though Raocles was surprised to see me... I looked into Raocles' eyes a little sleepy and laughed unexpectedly.

When I was awake, it looked like the color of the winter morning sun, and when I fought, I even looked thunderous. Now that I'm a little sleepy, I really... it looks like a different color.

The colour that fits in his eyes is the colour of the morning sun, the colour of thunder... the colour of the leeches!

"It's hyochrome...!

"Hiyoko?... What are you talking about?

Laocles looked surprised, but because I seemed to have a lot of fun, I was followed and started laughing small.

I'm kind of filled with happiness, as well as the strangely exhilarating mood at dawn all night.

As I approached the window, I could see a leech-colored view on one side.

Maybe I'll never forget this view again. Because it's my morning view of the day I leave. I'm sure I won't forget, even if the day comes when I have to go back to the original world. Ever.

The world shines in the hiyoko morning sun in gentle shades, then dazzling. It's like a freshman leech.

"Hiyoko, huh? Sure, now you look like a leech."

And apparently, when I approached the window, I was also dyed by the color of the morning sun and the leopard color, too. Laocles is laughing.

... In a way, I'm like a freshman hiyoko right now, so maybe this shade is very worthy.

Then I officially exchanged paperwork with Faye's father... and held the position of Redgard family painter.

... nervous. But I'm still looking forward to it. I'll do it.

"Okay, Mr. Towgo. I'd like to request a painting, please."

"Yes."

"For my first request, I'd like a portrait of the Redgard family. I don't have a single family portrait."

... Apparently, I can quickly get people to draw whatever they want.

It's a happy thing. Really.

I received a request... but decided to go back to the woods once.

The painting remains in the woods, and... this model is for a limited time. I'm sorry about the fays there, but I decided to let them get this one first.

"Are you painting us?!? Wow, I'm so excited!

"Are you sure I can come in, too?

"Yes."

… thank you, so let me quickly model Interlia and Carnelia and draw.

It's fun. It's so fun.

Carnelia can't stand still for very long, so draw while pinching a break in moderation.

And taking a break from those models.

"... When I was told to be a model for a painting, I wondered if it would even be painted by a naked woman"

"Eh."

Mr. Interlia told me something terrible.

Naked woman painting. Not rough painting, maybe, naked woman painting.

... No, not when I think about it. Bad one.

"Ha. Looks like you didn't have it in your head!

"Yes......"

There were some of those women when I bought Laocles... naked women painting, yeah, uh, a little later... I'd like to practice one day, but I want that, um, muscle to turn first......

"But, well, I'm glad Lord Togo was such a jen. Take off your armor and clothes, and when they said, even the words of the boulder's benefactor resisted."

"I won't tell you, that's not true"

The only thing that can be used as a model for a naked woman painting is a nude model. I don't think you can do this unless you're in a proper profession like that.

"Right. Well, if you say so, resist or obey."

... Um, I hope you don't say that...

Somehow by the time the break dawns in that condition.

"Hi, I hear it's fashionable in Wang Du. I have no idea what that means."

"Huh? Epidemic?

Suddenly, I can't get my head around it.

Mr. Interlia laughed happily at me like that and said.

"The naked woman painting."

...... yeah.

Uh... that fashion, over here, you want to come?