“This is really…”
People were staring at the sky with vacant looks on their faces. They started to show sparkles in their eyes.
“… Wow.”
A little kid looked up the sky with a vacant look and said,
“It’s pretty.”
Slowly falling raindrops were just as pretty as the fireworks decorating the sky.
Like the child said, it was a pretty sight to behold.
“Look, the rain…”
The raindrops were shining from the lights created by the fireworks. As if the raindrops were saying they have more to show, the raindrops started to narrowly shake. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖
“… They are going up?”
The raindrops were no longer falling by the gravity. Reflecting the lights from the fireworks, the raindrops now started to rise up toward the clouds.
“Wow…”
Grand? Magnificent?
No words could quite fit the scene.
“Huh… This is really…”
Not just the tourists, but the citizens of the Rainfield who saw the fireworks every year were just staring at the sky.
“…”
They were staring at the scene of raindrops returning to the clouds as the raindrops reflected the lights from the fireworks.
“…”
The scene was most definitely… the most beautiful firework in Rainfield’s history until now.
* * *
An uninvited guest who showed at the climax looked at slowly falling raindrops and mumbled,
“Time magic… It’s my first time, so controlling it is difficult, but this is pretty good.”
“… Who are you?”
The caped man looked at the uninvited guest who showed up at the same time as the slowed rain. The caped man asked with a violent look on his face.
“Did you ask who I was?”
“…”
With the rain stopped and the atmosphere calmed, the uninvited guest’s voice, which was leisurely somehow, was making the cape man feel anxious.
“I’m not sure?”
A street light, which seemed like it ran out of its lifespan, started to flicker again.
“I don’t think there is a need for you to know?”
The flickering street light occasionally showed who the uninvited guest was.
‘… Young Master?’
Basilisk, who was in the puddle, confirmed the man’s face and vacantly opened his mouth.
‘Why is he here?’
It wasn’t that Basilisk was mistaking the boy for someone else.
The black haired boy that showed up was definitely the young master of Iphalleta house that they came to Rainfield with from the forest where ogres appeared. The boy was Riley Iphalleta.
“I wonder how it feels to be interrupted in such a spectacular way?”
Splash.
The black haired boy took a step forward as he stepped on a puddle. Riley looked at the caped man and tilted his head side to side.
“Interrupted?”
Having heard the boy’s question, the caped man vacantly mumbled ‘interrupted.’
“I wish you stopped putting on a face as if you were wronged. You were the one that completely ruined my mood in the first place.”
The boy had his head slightly tilted to the side. Unlike his voice, the boy’s face was exuding deadly aura as much as the caped man.
“By any chance… by any chance…”
With his eyes met with the boy, the caped man started to flinch his facial muscles. The caped man looked at the raindrops falling slowly.
“This rain, this cloud, my life long wish… You are… you are?!”
The caped man twitched his ten fingers in bizarre angles. He started to shake uncontrollably.
“Why are you acting like you were wronged? If some bastard didn’t ruin my vacation, I wouldn’t have done it.”
Riley glared at the caped man. As if he was trying to show that this was not the end of it, Riley raised his right arm and flicked it loudly.