From now on, the vampire girl escapes from the world

"...You already have enough magic power to cast about 20 times at a time." Ai'er looked at Coco.

"Remember the composition of some basic elements and solution elements, teach two simple magics to understand the logical chain of branch elements, and then we can move on to the simple teaching of complex magic."

Now Coco can memorize more than ten primitives.

After learning how to define primitives, it is time to implement the primitives.

Sitting in the back of the carriage, Ai'er stretched.

Ai'er looked a little lazy, which was unusual in the sunshine.

Lily walked over and sat down next to Elle, staring at the flower fields around her in a daze.

The carriage stood alone in the middle of the flower field. There were only four people here: Ai'er, Lily, Coco, and the driver.

The sun shines on my skin, but it doesn't feel warm. The flower fields are filled with colorful fragrance, and the flower heads occasionally sway in the warm wind.

While she was in a daze, Ai'er suddenly spoke:

"Lily, don't you want to ask something?"

Lily was stunned for a moment, and then she understood what Ai'er meant after thinking for a while.

Ai'er must have her own reasons for insisting on hanging around in the human world.

"All I have to do is follow Elle."

That's what Lily thought.

No matter what Elle is hiding.

But Lily's love for following Elle will not change.

"I see." Ai'er looked up at the sky: "This is what makes Lily so cute. But it's also not so good..."

Not so good? Why?

Lily wanted to ask, but saw that Elle didn't seem to be in the mood to say it.

After a long while, Ai'er reached into her waist and held something in her hand in the sunlight.

It seemed to be a translucent stone.

No...not just stones.

Dark red silk threads float in the gemstones, sometimes curling up, sometimes stretching out, sometimes still, sometimes moving.

It will not be affected by the ambient light, but will simply bloom in dark red.

"This is the essence." Ai'er said.

"It can be used as a benchmark for the [world], and it can also be contained in the body. Races fight for it because it is a weapon of war. Individuals fight for it because it is the key to becoming a god - it sounds stupid, right?"

It is both real and illusory,

It is a power and a curse.

It is both a prison and a key.

It's fate and it's a miracle.

This is the essence.

Even equivalent to God.

"Those races that want to become gods will probably fight tooth and nail for this thing."

Ai'er shook the thing in the sun disrespectfully: "I don't have much hope anyway. Whoever wants to become a god is up to them."

It was not even affected by the concept of "force". The essence in the transparent stone did not react at all.

Are my sisters fighting over this thing?

But it seems that Ai'er has some other purpose in holding this thing.

Ai'er muttered to herself again: "But logically speaking, it shouldn't be so easy to be discovered if it was brought to human territory... How did it get exposed? It was obviously not used many times, and it was used for infiltration without being discovered, and it was not used in combat... Although angels can sense it, she seemed to have known it all along..."

Lily was silent after listening to it. She looked for a while and then turned to look somewhere else.

"Lily doesn't look too interested."

"Yeah. Whatever you want to do, Elle."

Ai'er scratched his face, put the things back, and looked towards the road following Lily's gaze.

Clusters of blue bell-shaped flowers line the roadside, flashing bright colors in the sun.

Lily seemed fascinated by what she saw.

"That's the Liberty Bell. Some people in our area also call it the 'Fingertip Flower'."

"Ah."

"Did you know, Lily? The purple-red Liberty Bell actually represents the language of 'secrets' and 'lies'."

“…Is its meaning bad?”

"Who knows?" Ai'er narrowed his eyes.

"——Let me tell you a secret of mine, Lily. It's a secret that only I know."

Lily turned her head in surprise.

As if recalling something, Ai'er said slowly:

"In fact, I wasn't from this world at first. I wasn't even an elf, I was just an ordinary human girl. There was no magic in that world before, we studied and studied every day... Studying was tiring, but after studying we had to take exams, and after getting the grades we had to work... For a while, I hated that kind of life. But after coming here, I actually found that I missed it a little."

Listening to Al's description, it seems to be a world full of human creativity.

But it is also a very hard world.

It was rare for Lily to pull out some such memories from her memory.

"So, actually, I like humans. I have an inexplicable sense of identification and expectation towards humans... although I will not give up my position as an elf. People like me will be called 'reincarnated' in that world."

Ai Er stood up, as if to hide her embarrassment:

"Well, I'll tell Lily my secret... In exchange, Lily, tell me one of your secrets."

Lily hesitated.

Lily felt somewhat familiar with what Ai'er said.

"Well, actually, I know."

"……Eh?"

"I seem to be... that, reincarnated. I have memories of that world, but I can't remember them clearly... and I seem to have been a boy before."

"Eh eh eh?!"

The next moment, Ai'er grabbed Lily's shoulders in surprise and stared into Lily's lavender eyes.

Lily flinched a little at the glare.

The two of them were frozen for a long time.

But the next moment, I heard Ai'er say with certainty:

"...Lily, you are not a reincarnated person."

"...?"

"It may sound a bit boastful, but because of my identity as a reincarnated person, I can sense who is a reincarnated person. I don't feel any sign of reincarnation on Lily... Lily is not some random 'reincarnated person' or 'traveler'."

Ai'er smiled somewhat relaxedly:

"——As expected, Lily was lying to me, wasn't she? She was worried that I'd be lonely so she tried to comfort me. I was really shocked... But Lily is a little too naughty..."

Ai'er happily hugged Lily's body and rubbed it. Lily was weakly pushed down on the carriage and rolled around.

Lily was still in a daze of doubt, but she heard Ai'er say:

"The secret just now doesn't count, after all, Lily lied. Lily, please tell me a different secret."

"..."

"It doesn't matter if you don't tell me now. Lily, just keep this in mind."

But does Lily have other secrets?

Lily thought about it.

...Actually, there is.

But that was a secret that could never be told to Ai'er.

I'm afraid that after saying this, the two of them will have to separate.

"El, do you like me?"

Lily asked suddenly.

The next moment, Ai'er's eyes began to waver in panic:

"Ahhh Lily, what are you talking about? Ahhhh, what kind of person do you like? I do like Lily, but it's that kind..."

"El. You don't actually like me."

"……Eh?"

“Maybe I’ll hate it.”

"...Lily, what are you talking about?" Convinced that the girl was teasing him, Ai'er held Lily's head in his arms and rubbed it with some dissatisfaction, so hard that Lily's cheek was pinched and hurt:

"If you're worried about something, let me make it clear that I won't abandon Lily. Lily, please don't just abandon me..."

Finally, Lily felt a little uncomfortable and pushed away Ai'er who was hugging her.

The sunlight shone obliquely from the rear of the car onto half of the black-haired girl's face.

Lily held her arms out in front of her to block out the glare.

The Liberty Bell on the roadside was also illuminated brilliantly.

He whispered in a voice that only he could hear.

The lavender petals in the corner were blown into the sky by the warm wind.