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“A Romantic Declaration”

[Blue Roses’ Salon]

Male Guest: Your attention enchanted the both of us. Thank you, truly, from the bottom of my heart!

Cain: Pleasure's mine, I’m honoured that you let me have a few words with your significant other.

Male Guest: Now, if you’ll excuse me.

Akira: Is everything okay, Cain?

Cain: Oh, Master Sage. That guy just asked me to give a few romantic lines to something precious to him.

Akira: And that precious thing is… A glass marble?

(It looks just like a tonbodama bead. The floral pattern looks like it’s floating on its surface, it’s so pretty…)

Cain: The guy told me how fond he is of the thing, as much as he would be with a lover even, that’s why he wanted the li’l thing to listen to tons of declarations.

Akira: So that’s what it was.

(There really are all sorts of people visiting the salon...)

So, what did you tell them?

Cain: “The sheer beauty of your crystalline glow outshines the hyaline of the skies above and the blue of the roses so below.”

“I can assure you that our meeting tonight is a miracle I will not forget. I pray that the feeling is mutual, and that you will keep me in your thoughts as well.”

…Heh, something like that.

Akira: You’re incredible—hard to resist our knightley Cain!

I felt like you were serenading me for a second, like, my heart totally skipped a few beats there!

Cain: I think I kinda went overboard with it, but I’m flattered that it got you feeling that way.

Thank you, Master Sage.