The robed figures who showed up at the destination of the kidnapping, and Alice, the abductor of the kidnapping, who for some reason left once and came back with immediate effect... The stone room now has an indescribably delicate atmosphere.
　The cause of that is undoubtedly Alice.
　She should have kidnapped me at one time, but for some reason, now she shows up claiming to be here to save me.

''What do you think you're doing?!''

　Alice opens her mouth, shaking her finger lightly as a different robed figure from the man who had just spoken to me shouts out.

''It's just as you said, right?　I'm here to help you, Kite. Please get ready to go.
Okay.
"Boss?

　The man who came to talk to me - the man who was called the boss - nodded his head convincingly to one person in the confused air.

I'm just saying," he said, "that's what I'm trying to say.
....

　After announcing evasively in a voice that is calm but angry in places, the man takes out a bag that may contain coins from his pocket and holds it out to Alice.

''Well fine. It's not a good idea to argue with you here. Here are a hundred white gold coins. You won't have any complaints?
"...what?　There's a big one.
What?

　But Alice didn't receive the white gold coin, she disappeared and before I knew it she was right in front of me.
　And with a swing of the knife in her hand, the rope that bound me was cut and my body was released.

It's not a matter of time before you'll be able to get a good deal more than the amount of money you've put on the subject, but you can't put a price on Mr. Kite. I didn't.
What do you mean by that?

　The man asks Alice, who tells him in a quiet voice that feels sharp, with a strong sense of irritation.
　Alice continues to stand in front of me, staring at the robed figures as she continues to speak.

''No~ I know this is troubling, but this man is more important to me than money, isn't he?
Alice?
'I mean ... it's a thing to begin with. It's a different premise.
Assumptions?

　She tells him matter-of-factly, and while spinning the knife around with one hand, Alice unleashes a killing blow that is stronger than her small body could ever have imagined.
　And after watching the man take a step back, Alice continues to speak in an even colder voice.

''........why I received your request because the request was for a kidnapping, not a murder.''
....
If it was a personal vendetta, you could have done it fast... 'I'll just chop your head off then and there', that's all it took.
Huh?

　In a chilling voice, Alice declares If the request offered to me was a murder and not a kidnapping, I would have killed you........

Why, it was more efficient this way........that's all.
I mean, you can't just start...
Yes, I thought we were going to wipe out all those people who were trying to do you harm, Kite. What's that about?
Alice, why?
Oh, uh, do you mind if I ask you that?

　It seems that from the beginning, Alice was planning to roust out all the people who were trying to kidnap me and take care of them, and that's why she accepted the request.
　It's a good thing to hear those words, but how could she do that to me when she said she was just a friend?
　Then Alice raised a voice that sounded a little troubled and turned to me while scratching her head.

''.........Kaito-san is a sweetheart.
....
I thought I was a bit more of a dry person - well, you never know what's going to happen in life.

　After speaking that much, Alice looked at the robed figures again, lowered her stance and held her knife.

''........I fell in love with them.
...What?
'So I was joking at first, but I really fell in love with you, Kite!　It's fun to spend time with Kaito-san, getting scolded by her for being stupid, and then being taken care of by her afterwards, it's fun. I've fallen in love with him to the point where I thought I could do everything for him, even if he didn't pay me.
Alice.

　
　In an eye-poppingly fast move, Alice, who correctly defeated more than ten people in an instant and reappeared, muttered with a sigh.

''Well........that's why I won't allow anyone to hurt Kite-san. So.........you guys were not so lucky.






























Oh, um~ Kite. Hee, by any chance, are you still angry?
...nothing.
"No, you see, under the circumstances, it would have been faster to kidnap Kite once. I was going to save you from the very beginning!
I feel like I could have done something else.
Ugh.....

　When I was released from my restraints, Alice apologizes to me with a look of impatience.
　It's not that I'm angry, in fact, I was able to save the day somehow, and I understood Alice's intentions. And I was happy to hear her words.
　

'No, well, well, there was another way to do it, but.......this was the quickest way. So. Right?　Mr. Kite, please don't be mad at me.
I'm not mad at you.
"You're sulking, aren't you?　So, I'm sorry~

　Indeed, although it's a shameful story for me, I'm apparently sulking a bit right now.
　Seeing me turning away, Alice makes a troubled voice and bows her head over and over again.

　Well, well, it's true that complaining to Alice won't help anything, but.......it's not fun.

''Mm, I understand. I'll make a proper apology.
An apology?
Don't look at me, please.
Yeah?

　As I tilted my head at the words Alice told me, I heard something click.
　Could it be the sound of an opera mask being removed?　
　Just as that question popped into my head, I felt a soft touch on my cheek.

''Hmph.''
What?

　
　Then Alice, with a face as red as an apple, was hurriedly putting her opera mask back on.


"...what?　Oh, oh....

　I nodded reflexively at the words Alice told me, unable to get rid of the shock of the kiss on my cheek.

　Dear Mother, Father--Alice seemed to have intended to help me from the beginning after all, and I felt somehow unreasonable, but that all disappeared in the present moment. What can I say, maybe it was Alice's - as she had intended - until the end, after all.

























　In the large garden in the mansion, Lilia opens her mouth with her clinging eyes.

''........Please. Kronor-sama, Kite-san........
Yeah, I know.

　Receiving Lilia's words of pleading with her hands clasped together as if in prayer, Kronor nodded quietly and moved his gaze to the two gods on either side of him.
　The purple-haired girl lying on a cushion floating in the air, and the woman with long green hair flowing in a bunch in front of her, with a gentle impression of her haircut.

''I'm going to ask you to lend me your strength, God of Fate, God of Life.''
Huh, I don't like working, but I think this is just a preemptive investment for Kai to provide for me eventually~
It's enough for me to know that you're going to have to bow to us.

　The three supreme gods reigning in the closest place to the top of the divine world.
　After receiving Lilia's wish, Kronor immediately gathered the composition to retake Kaito as soon as possible.......
　Right now, the Supreme Gods of the Divine Realm were about to wield their mighty power to help one man....