Sepakai (GXG) (GIRLXGIRL) (GL)

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Chapter 8
Section 5: Virgin Guardian
“Sarah”

“Ah, y-yes!!”

I gathered together the blooming tikarodeka from the silver cup and handed them to Sarah.

“Sorry I didn’t tell you everything.”

“……it’s okay. I’m sure, you couldn’t say anything even if you wanted to. Onee-chan……you’ve always been terrible with secrets.”

Sarah stared at the crimson colored flowers I had given her for a short while before shaking her head. When she finally looked back up towards me, there was a smile on her face.

“Thank you Sarah”

“But, you don’t have to hide anything anymore. When everything’s done……let’s have a proper talk okay?”

“Okay. I promise. This time, we’ll have a proper talk. I’ll tell you what happened when I was in Relton, and everything else I saw these last six months. Dad and Mom too.”

I turned my gaze away from Sarah and towards my parents. The both of them were wearing their amazement on their sleeves.

But as soon as my eyes met theirs, they smiled and gave me a nod.

“Right, I’ll be waiting.”

“You can take your time and tell us over that stew I need to finish.”

As I was talking to my mom and dad, something small–about the size of a cat or a dog–peeked its head out from between their legs.

“Huh?”

It’s tiny little feet kept moving until it was standing right next to Sarah and raised its head.

“This…..isn’t it the stuffed animal I gave to Onee-chan? Eh, why…….”

It really was the stuffed unicorn Sarah had given me for my birthday. It rested its front feet right on Sarah’s foot while wagging its little wool tail.

A stuffed animal moving on its own is an event ripped straight from a horror story. But we’re in a church, a holy place, so maybe that’s why this doesn’t feel that strange or weird?

“Are you, looking for a hug?”

Sarah carefully lifted up the stuffed animal into her arm. The stuffed unicorn stretched out its limbs in response before rolling up into a ball as if it were about to go to sleep.

And then gradually, it began giving off a soft light.

“Wa, a light……”

“Do not be afraid. This object embodies your thoughts in regard to your sister, the prayer of a pure maiden. The Goddess Illya is responding to that prayer.”

The fairy’s solemn voice sounded out from the position she had unexpectedly taken on top of my head.

“The Goddess is…….”

Sarah blinked a couple of times upon hearing that before turning her focus back on the stuffed animal in her arms.

“……ah, the stuffed animal’s shape, it’s changing……..into a book?”

I’ve seen a scene like this once before. It was that time Rose-san picked up a fragment of the Goddess’s broken statue in the fairy village. At that time, the fragment emitted a golden light before transforming into a grimoire.

And now that same event is happening once again before my eyes.

“Ah…….oh, is that so? Onee-chan and Saluena-sama’s wish……. Okay, I understand……”