Editing Failing Witch:Volume3 Episode1 (section)

===Part 11===

Melehe Superlative stood up on the practical building roof.

Everything was dyed by the setting sun.

When Myousou Yagoro joined her, she wasn’t able to compose herself.

“Melehe.”

She turned around at the sound of the door opening, her face crumpled up.

“You did the right thing by fighting Brewery. You were a perfectly beautiful witch.”

But that didn’t mean it would help her on the harsh exam.

Melehe had to understand that better than anyone.

He felt a gentle impact.

Maybe she didn’t want him to see her face, but she had leaped into his chest.

Her large hat had fallen to her feet.

Her shouts were distorted by her tears.

This was a girl who had lost everything.

“I’m the worst.”

Her trembling voice made it through the sobs as she buried her face in the tutor’s chest.

“It isn’t because I dropped a rank. I can always work harder and regain that rank!! B-but it scared me to find one of them had caught up to me… I’ve been calling them my friends, but deep down I was looking down on them! That’s why it shocked me so badly!! Ahhhhh!!”

Yagoro said nothing.

Maybe so. But that was what it meant to be an exam student. They might attend the same prep school and they might look like good friends, but they were all rivals. It would have been weird if she didn’t feel anything at all to see the grades around her rising. Of course she panicked when someone caught up to her.

Being yelled at wouldn’t change her lowered rank.

She knew that. And yet…

She couldn’t help it.

“You can turn it all around.”

Yagoro patted the sobbing girl’s head.

And he spoke to her.

She was not his student. He knew that, but he did it anyway.

“You’ve already said what it is you need to do, Melehe.”