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| Misumi | What’s wrong~? |
| Chikage | It seems like Mika has gone missing. |
| Izumi | Huh!? Mika is? |
| Citron | << Please calm down, Tangerine. What do you mean?>> |
| Tangerine | << T-This letter....>> |
| Citron | This... Is the letter that was addressed to Guy in the package we got before. |
| Guy | ..... |
| Citron | The letter says-- |
| ... I see. |
| Kumon | What what? |
| !! This is--! |
| Taichi | This is... !? |
| Kumon | Why does it say that? |
| Tsuzuru | Oh, hey! |
| Banri | There is no way you could read a letter written in Zahran. |
| Citron | ‘Here, in this country, I need you, |
| I am always here, waiting for your return.’ |
| is what it says. |
| Chikage | To sum it up, Mika says he is not strong enough to continue on his own, so he would like Guy to return to Zahra. |
| And also that he would like to work under Tangerine, the crown prince, as his servent. |
| Sakuya | So that... of course, that’s why the palace officials had come to the jasmine fields.... |
| Guy | .... Yes. They were demanding my response to the letter. |
| Tangerine | When I had heard of this through one of the servants, I took the letter away. |
| However Mika had already read it.... And with that he has disappeared. |
| Kumon | Mika.... |
| Yuki | So shall we go looking for him? |
| Sakyo | Yes. We should split into groups-- |
| Guy | No need. |
| Sakuya | But...! |
| Guy | Mika has failed his job as a servant by fleeing from his master. And now it is up to me to clean up this mess he's left behind. |
| Citron | You know where he is, right? |
| Guy | Yes, I have a hunch. |
| Citron | So I will leave it to you, Guy. |
| However he comes back to better be prepared to give us a good reason why you hid this from us. |
| Guy | .... Acknowledged. |
| Now then I will be going. |
| Izumi | (Guy... Mika...) |
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| Citron | Don’t worry, Tangerine. Mika will come back soon. |
| Tangerine | Yes... |
| Sakuya | I wonder what could cheer up Tangerine... |
| I got it. |
| Umm! Tangerine, umm... |
| Citron | Oh, it’s that book you borrowed from the library. |
| Tangerine | Pretty nostalgic. My older brother read that to me a long time ago. |
| Sakuya | I am almost done translating everything, it is pretty hard.... I don’t think I could do it alone so I was wondering, could you help? |
| Tangerine | Odd horse. |
| Sakuya | Odd horse (of course)? |
| Citron | If you say so, then I’ll leave it to Tangerine. |
| Izumi | (Citron has been helping with his Japanese-- !?) |
| Sakuya | If you wouldn’t mind, do you think you could go get Sakyo and the others? I’m interested to hear what they think as well. |
| Izumi | Yea, me too. |
| (With everyone else in high spirits, maybe that will also pep up Prince Tangerine.) |
| So then I will go get the others. |
| Sakuya | Thank you so much! |
| Tangerine | << As expected, your Japanese family is very kind.>> |
| Citron | << Yes, they are my pride.>> |
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| Mika | .... |
| Guy | << Mika.>> |
| Mika | << ! Guy...>> |
| Guy | << I heard what happened from Prince Tangerine.>> |
| Mika | << .... My deepest apologies....>> |
| << When I was speaking with Citronia and the others I had heard about a letter that was supposedly sent under my name to you. I was curious so I looked into it more...>> |
| << And that is when I discovered the sender was someone who had worked under you and Citronia in the past.>> |
| << I have had the vague suspicion that the others around me feel as if I am not competent in my own skills and that I was unfit for my position....>> |
| << So when I had learned about the contents of the letter.... I fled without a second thought.>> |
| Guy | ..... |
| Mika | << I fled and left my master behind, all because I could not control my own feelings... Without a doubt, I am not fit to take on the role as servant to Prince Tangerine.>> |
| Guy | << Yes. As it stands right now, you are unfit to be a servant.>> |
| Mika | .... |
| Guy | << However, the one who will decide if that is the case or not will be Prince Tangerine. No matter what others may say, you must always carry out your duties in earnest.>> |
| << Another way to think of it is, from your standpoint, do you think Prince Tangerine would ever do something like that?>> |
| Mika | << Never!>> |
| Guy | << If that is the case, you must work diligently and make the others around you rethink their previous judgement.>> |
| Mika | << .... Yes!>> |
| << Thank you very much, Guy. I will work hard and perform my duties with enthusiasm and heart so I can become a servant that is as trusted as you. .>> |
| Guy | << Yes. Keep striving to improve.>> |
