As Sunny bitterly explored the damage done to his entertainment system by the strange… malfunction… Nephis silently watched him from her stool.
"Doesn't make sense… gone, the projector is completely gone... it was so expensive!"
After a while, he turned to Changing Star with a miserable expression and opened his mouth, then frowned in confusion.
"Wait… is that my shirt?"
Neph shifted a little and then said, her voice even:
"I don't have any clothes."
Sunny stared at her for a few moments, then waved a hand and looked away, forgetting what he was going to say.
"Never mind. You can keep it. We can also order a delivery of anything else you need. I am an incredibly rich entrepreneur, you know!"
He paused, then added with a bit of embarrassment:
"Well, I used to be rich, anyway. These days, I pretty much spend everything on… research."
She tilted her head a little, then suddenly said:
"...The girl you're tutoring visited."
'What?!'
Pretending to be nonchalant, Sunny glanced at Nephis and answered in a neutral tone:
"Oh? Strange. We weren't supposed to have any lessons until a few days from now."
Neph remained silent for a few moments, then looked away with a smile:
"She is a bright kid. I'm glad you are teaching her."
studied her expression with
up with
Finally, Sunny shrugged.
money is money. My
that, he sighed, threw the destroyed projector out of his mind, and
I can cook something up. My culinary skills have improved a lot, you know! As you should
on the Forgotten Shore, Nephis had always been the one in charge of feeding the cohort. Now, their roles seemed to have reversed, in more ways than
her communicator
eat. Thank
Changing Star frowned
consultation with the government psychiatrist
at her for a while, then shook
'This is so weird…'
did not demand a lot of time to make, he took out a pack of ramen, some vegetables, a piece of
never thought that I would hear something like that from you, of all people. A... psychiatrist,
of
really that
down. After a
wasn't too
distant,
out there in the Dream Realm, I
and then looked
"...Happy."
not
you
She sighed, and nodded.
that I would survive. Other times, I wanted to die. There was so much pain, so
wistful expression slowly settled
to carry. No complicated feelings, no responsibility. I did not have to remember where I came from, and where I
like that would feel like. Well… he didn't have to try too hard. Had he not experienced something similar while living alone in the ruined cathedral of the Dark City? Yes,
been, perhaps. There was a bliss in giving up on everything except for the
lasted for several months instead of years, and the environment
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