Can the sadness that magic cannot take away be offset by love?

Ernest made a phone call from the Internet, and the corners of Iris's mouth that had just raised were suddenly suppressed.

"Why so long? Did something happen on the road?"

It's only been a few minutes, so hurry up.

"Do you think this little time is enough for anything to happen to me?"

"Stumbled over a rock on the ground and fell into a pit?"

"Then are you going to save me?"

"You can try to save yourself first. If that doesn't work, I can go over."

"beep--"

The phone was hung up, and Ernest looked up at Alexia, whose face was full of anger:

"I wanted to call her! I didn't even say a word!"

"Then you can ask her not to hang up the phone in a hurry next time."

"Do you usually do this when talking to others on the phone?!"

"It's not something a kid needs to know."

"Please, I'm eight years old!"

"Yeah, you're eight years old, go play with Lucius."

Ernest replied perfunctorily.

"Who wants to play with that fool? I want sister Ecilia——"

"She has to train and compete. Come find her again in the evening. Now go find Lucius. Also, Lucius is not a fool, he is your brother."

On another table in the study, the blue-haired boy held his pen hard and looked at Alexia coolly. The girl glanced at him and said slowly under Ernest's gaze:

"sorry."

A quill flew towards her head, and the girl squatted down. The pen was held by Ernest, who had just stood up, and put it into the pen holder.

"sorry."

Lucius said with a smile.

Alexia pouted:

"I won't forgive you."

"I do not know either."

This is why Ernest always asks his sister to play with Lucius.

Ignoring the physical age difference, they are of similar mental age and will be good playmates for each other.

...At least Ernest couldn't imagine throwing a quill at his sister's head out of anger. That would be a bit scary.

*

At dusk, people left the training room one after another. Iris stayed for a while because she had new ideas about some magic.

By the time she closed the door to the training room, the street lights in the courtyard were already on and the sky was already dark.

Iris saw Alexia holding a snow-white rabbit by the flower bed. She couldn't see anything clearly in such a weak light environment. Only when she got closer did she recognize that the rabbit was Angelia.

Alexia picked up the carrot slices in the bowl with a small fork and fed them to the rabbit's mouth. Iris was stunned for a moment.

One Man and One Rabbit then noticed her arrival. Angelie Rabbit froze for a moment, turned around and buried her head in the girl's arms, only showing her furry tail to Iris.

Iris: "?"

Angelia rarely takes on her true form in front of people, but she remembers it when she sees it, and it's easy to distinguish her from other rabbits.

The rabbits here usually run all over the place, and Angelia may have wanted her to think that Alexia just picked one up randomly.

Iris cooperated and pretended not to recognize her:

"Alexia, haven't all the rabbits gone back to their dens at this point? Why did you pull one out?"

Alexia blinked and said very embarrassedly:

"I want to hug you."

Iris touched her head:

"Let's go."

If she trains too late, she will stay in the room opposite Alexia.

"You don't have to wait here for too long in the future. It won't be too late to come over after dinner."

"Sister~ I want to eat with you."

"... Eat together, just eat together, don't act like a baby."

Alexia walked for a while and then stopped and put the rabbit down.

"It's time for you to go home."

Iris held back her laughter as she watched them play with each other.

Sure enough, not long after the two sat down, Angelia also "hurried over" and she didn't eat dinner.

How can you be full if you only eat carrot slices? They are just snacks at best.

Before the dishes were served, an angry question came from outside the door:

"Alexia! Where did you take Angelia to again?"

Iris looked at the two girls casually.

Angelia's eyes darkened the moment Lucius spoke, and Alexia looked at the door with some distress.

So there was another person at the dinner table who was puzzled by the murderous intent of unknown origin.

Today's dinner included pan-fried fish, and Iris was satisfied.

On the way back to the room with Alexia, they passed by Ernest's study, which was brightly lit.