A knife and fork play music on a keyboard of dishes.

    This isn’t a sort of conversation of bad manners.

    It’s normally to an extent where it’s a basically unnoticeable sound but, it rings especially loudly in the ears in this day’s morning dining room.

    In short――it’s too quiet.

    「……」

    I tried obliquely looking over everyone’s faces at the table.

    Was my house’s morning mood, this heavy?

    As Saira questioned the appearances around her in the same way, her ears drooped.

    Our eyes met.

    Nyafu, I got that sort of frail smile, thank you.

    Is there stomach medicine in this world?

    After this I’d like to prescribe some you see.

    「……Ah～, today’s meal is also delicious isn’t it～」

    My facial muscles couldn’t be stiffer than this but, I forcefully made a smile.

    The responsibility to break down this mood is mine, the source that created it I suppose.

    「That does seem to be so, delicious meals are the source of health.」

    The one going along along with me, while clearing the food elegantly and wiping her mouth with a napkin is Kran.

    Kran has an easy smile from something like this mood’s weight being none of her concern.

    「Alice.」

    「Ha, hai.」

    「I thought this, it is a foolish thing for an adorable kitten to, just as expected of it, be captured only by a human’s ego.」

    「Is, is that so.」

    ……That heart is?

    As Kran had recognized the interval of my heart her smile deepened――she turned her gaze to a person releasing a negative aura.

    「That vessel, is cramped.」

    For a moment, the sound of my heart shrinking up reverberated.

    「Hii!? Ve, vess? Is it not enough for Kran!? A small vessel……are your dishes too small!?」

    Without facing my eyes in the direction from which a loud sound was made with a knife’s handle, I asked Kran a question.

    「No? I am fully satisfied, Alice. That eating meals with affable friends is something that fulfills the heart to this extent is……Something pleasing.」

    「Kran……」

    Before asking something that seems to create a sad atmosphere, could you stop throwing in a bomb like it’s a replacement for a greeting okay?

    「Nn, by coming to master’s house I can eat meals without restraint so, it’s not bad.」

    Seconds, and with Aim passing her tableware to a maid-san she has a my pace manner.

    Maa, go ahead go ahead.

    Please go ahead and eat without restraint.

    Aim really seems happy, seeing her eating her meal like it’s delicious comforts me.

    「So, Alice. In the end what happened yesterday?」

    Shion-san being a glutton of the same level ate up her food and faced her water at me.

    Naturally changing the topic so that the conversation doesn’t get cut off part way is a great help.

    I love oneechan!

    「I was captured by a witch and my magic power was sucked out of me.」

    And so I became tired and slept……

    Having taken in nutrition the witch is just now currently in highly praised repose.

    「Fu～n? She does handy things doesn’t she.」

    「I’m thinking that next time I’ll suck it back when she’s sleeping.」

    「Hahaa, that seems like it’ll become something enjoyable.」

    A witch without magic power isn’t an enemy!

    Look at the present!

    「――However ojousama, sucking too much magic power is not good for the body you know.」

    Ilya pushed a service wagon as she came into the dining room with an excuse me.

    She came bringing the aftermeal tea.

    That girl rarely takes her meals with us.

    I told her that holding back is forbidden so she eats when it’s time to eat but, it seems that within herself this is a sort of situation in which to know her place, that seems to be so today.

    Telling us feel free she make black tea with a practiced handling.

    Finally when Ilya comes to make black tea before me, I tried offering my arm out.