Editing Masou Gakuen HxH:Volume 13 Chapter 3 (section)

===Part 6===

Around that time, Sylvia was also spending her few remaining valuable time for a farewell with her important friend.

「UWAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHNNN」

「Ra, Ragrus-chan. Please don’t cry like that desuu~」

In the room that was assigned to Sylvia, Ragrus suddenly visited when she was checking the program of the live show tomorrow about an hour ago.

And then, since that time she had been like this all along.

Right now she was burying her face into the long sofa and crying.

「Sylvia made tea desu. Drink it and calm down desu.」

Sylvia came carrying a tray with tea on it. It was a high-class tea from Izgard, and it was a bit similar to Earl Grey, which Sylvia liked.

She put the tray on the table in front of the sofa and poured the tea into a cup.

「Here, enjoy desu.」

「U……」

Ragrus held the cup Sylvia handed her with both hands and sipped it with slurping sound.

「Is it delicious desu?」

「……It’s delicious.」

「That’s great desu.」

Ragrus put the cup on the table with a loud sound.

「What do you mean great! Aren’t you feeling sad?」

「Ra, Ragrus-chan……」

The area around Ragrus’s eyes was swelling red because she was crying too much. Even so tears were trickling once again and Ragrus yelled.

「Yo, you are, thinking that I’m someone who doesn’t matter to you anyway! Because, all that time I only kept harassing you after all!」

「There is no way Sylvia isn’t sad desu!」

Sylvia sat beside Ragrus and hugged her.

「Ragrus-chan is Sylvia’s most important friend desu! Best friend desu! And yet, we won’t be able to meet again, there is no way Sylvia isn’t sad desu!」

The shoulders of Sylvia who was hugging her were trembling. Ragrus forgot to even cry at Sylvia’s drastic change and stayed dumbfounded.

「Sy, Sylvia……」

Sylvia’s voice was shaking and mixed with sobbing.

「Sy, Sylvia thought, tha, that finally, in the end……we can laugh, and have fun memories desu……and yet.」

Tears were flowing without end from Sylvia’s eyes.

「RAGRUS-CHAN YOU IDIOOOOOOOTT」

Sylvia’s thin arms hugged Ragrus with all her strength.

Tears were overflowing from Ragrus’s eyes once more.

「UWAaAAAAAHN, Sy, SYLVIAaAAAAAAAAAAAA-」

「RAGRUS-CHAaAAaAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN-」

They called each other’s name and continued crying loudly while hugging each other.

They cried until their tears dried out.

Before long they were tired from crying and leaned on each other limply. It was then that Ragrus talked faintly.

「I won’t……stay behind.」

「Fue?」

Sylvia stared at Ragrus with the area around her eyes swelling red.

「I won’t stay behind in Vatlantis. I’ll go to Lemuria.」

「Ra, Ragrus-chan? But, that’s……」

Ragrus’s twintails shook left and right from her shaking her head.

「I’m just an orphan anyway……I also have no one close to me. I’m also out of place in the imperial guard……honestly I have no lingering attachment to Vatlantis. But……」

Ragrus looked down shyly.

「I have lingering attachment to Lemuria……or rather, I’ve made something that I don’t want to lose……」

Sylvia was flustered by the sudden decision.

「Bu, but, is it really okay desu? You won’t be able to come back here you know desu?」

Ragrus lifted her face abruptly and talked back stubbornly.

「It’s fine! I’ve decided already!」

After declaring that, Ragrus’s face became a bit timid.

「But that’s, only if……Sylvia-chan will keep being my friend from here on too.」

There was bewilderment in Sylvia’s heart.

It was the fear that because of her fault, the future of her important friend became disordered.

Previously too, there was that time when she fought Ragrus at the Tokyo recapture operation which resulted in Ragrus losing her memory.

However──

Right now was different from that time.

Sylvia grasped the hand of her best friend.

「We are friends for life desu! When we return to Lemuria, no matter what happens Sylvia will protect Ragrus-chan desu!」

Ragrus looked back at Sylvia’s serious gaze with an astonished look.

「Tha……that’s a promise okay? E, even if you say later that as expected it’s impossible or anything, I won’t accept it!」

「Yes desu!」

Ragrus felt awkward and she was unable to look straight at Sylvia. Sylvia pulled the hand of Ragrus who was like that toward her.

「It’s a promise desu.」

Sylvia said that and turned a smile at the end.

「Yes……a promise.」

And then Ragrus also showed a gentle smile as though all her worries had been resolved.