“Get up. Your sins will not be erased just because you kneel here.”

His tone was sharp. He looked up at the ceiling of the hallway like a cold rationalist who was not easily swayed by emotions, and then suddenly took out his glasses and put them on. “The sin of taking tears from me will never be light.”

‘Did you cry too… …?’

Although he was a frustrating superior in many ways, he didn’t seem to have a personality that was completely closed off. He was like a devilish philanthropist.

Old Man Recal grabbed Diches’ hand and got up. They were busy wiping each other’s wet eyes, and when they finally made eye contact, only awkwardness surrounded them.

“Well, let’s go back in.”

Old Man Recal was the first to speak and grabbed the doorknob. Before Lara could even feel the afterglow of the emotion, the doorknob clanked and turned without a moment’s notice as Lara was shocked.

“The door is locked… …?”

Lara, who suddenly came to her senses at the bewildered voice of the old man Recal, continued speaking hurriedly.

“Uh, uh, uh! I can’t tell the old man to climb out the window, and I can’t tell the duke to do it, so I’ll go back and climb out the window! Just wait a minute!” “You don’t have to. I just happened to have the key.”

“No. Don’t open it!! Please!!”

In that brief moment when the old man Recal took out the key ring from his bosom and turned the doorknob, all sorts of doubts came flooding in. What on earth did I do, trying to frame such a kind person, the excuse that I covered her with his panties because her shoulders looked cold wouldn’t work, but anyone could tell that he was a pervert… … .

At that moment, an unbelievable sight entered Lara’s eyes. A man in a black robe was on top of Elina3’s body. The three of them witnessed the scene of him handcuffing her wrists and hanging her on the headboard. At the posture that seemed like he was about to rape her, Recal was the first to roll his eyes.

“This pervert! What are you doing in someone else’s house right now… …!!”

It was a miraculous moment where someone who almost became a pervert turned someone else into a pervert in just 3 seconds.

As Diches flew to grab him, the man quickly jumped down on top of Elina3’s body and quickly climbed over the window. The hem of his black robe, which had been fluttering in the wind, disappeared without leaving an afterimage.

Without even being able to stare blankly at it, Lara left the room and headed toward the back door. She knew that if you went out the window, you would end up going around and coming to the back door anyway.

Using the Lady’s Shrinking Technique, she was able to quickly and quietly arrive at the back door. As she went out the back door, she saw a black robe fluttering not far away.

“Hey, you!”

The man in the mysterious robe stopped at Lara’s call. He even looked back leisurely, wondering if it was easy. She couldn’t see his face well because his robe was pulled down so deep.

Lara was quite flustered because she didn’t know he would really stop. However, she regained her composure and slowly started crying.

“… That robe, isn’t it the robe that the robe gentleman first wore in Volume 2, Chapter 25 of ‘Magical Girl Lillica’?”

He didn’t say anything. She must have hit the nail on the head. Lara had read the original ‘Magical Girl Lillica’ as well as most secondary doujinshi. She had been a fan for years, but she couldn’t fool her own eyes. That wasn’t just a robe, it was the robe gentleman’s cosplay robe.

“Don’t try to fool me. So just tell me.”

She wasn’t the type to come out like that, but she had to find out somehow, even if it meant acting like the main character. Where to buy that robe.

Suddenly, the man tilted his head obliquely. The slender jawline under the hood appeared and disappeared. The long lip line that revealed faint emotions without knowing it.

‘What is this, the answer… is this?’

When the man showed signs of hurrying to leave, Lara followed him one step closer and shouted urgently.

“Then, this one thing! If Elina 3 was your goal, you would have carried her, right? But the fact that you tried to tie her to Mr. Recal’s bed… means that Elina 3 wasn’t your goal, right? Are you deliberately trying to frame Mr. Recal? Where on earth did you get that robe? It must be a limited edition… … .”

It was a moment of reversal. The lips that had been drawing a faint curve under the robe smoothly curved upward. That smile was so beautiful that Lara felt momentarily enchanted.

“Raan… … ! What happened?”

Lara turned around at the voice she heard at that moment. Only after facing Diches, who had been running after her, could she come to her senses.

When she turned her head again, the man in the black robe had disappeared without a trace, as if he had melted into the night air.

After a brief moment of emptiness, Lara had no idea how to explain to him that she had missed the culprit right in front of her.

“Ah… that… … .” “Aren’t you hurt?”

Contrary to her expectations that he would be angry, he was not cold. “Let’s go in.”

“Um, but is Elina 3 okay?”

“It looks like he only tried to tie her hands. There was no sign that he tried to untie her clothes.”

“Thank goodness.”

Feeling relieved, Lara followed Diches into the mansion. Then, a sudden thought occurred to her, making her tilt her head. If he had checked her clothes, that must mean that he had seen Elina 3 wearing her uniform.

She glanced at Diches’s profile, but she couldn’t read his thoughts. As I crossed the long hallway and entered the room again, I saw Elina3 sitting on the bed.

Her long silver hair, soaked in cold sweat, was tied up neatly, and she didn’t look like a knight holding a sword. She turned to Lara, revealing her delicate figure. “… Lara.”

Her voice was slightly hoarse. Although she had only had a fever once, Lara approached Elina3, fussing.

“Oh! Edgar3! Are you okay? Edgar3? Edgar3 is so sick… … .” “It’s just a cold.”

“But Edgar3 was usually healthy. Edgar3, Edgar3, that’s not like Edgar3.”

Lara deliberately used Edgar3 too much. “Edgar3… … ?”

Diches looked at Elina3 with a stern face, wondering if he had heard correctly. Even though they were both cross-dressing women, the treatment was so different that it was surprising.

He stood still at the doorway, not moving an inch, as if he couldn’t believe it. He reacted as if his entire life had been denied, as if he had dismissed his parents’ joke about picking him up under a bridge when he was young, but had grown up and found out that it was true.

“You’re Edgar3… Does that mean that your thick hair is real?”

‘No, how can you do that!’

Isn’t being a princess, being a woman, the more important point? Lara was so dumbfounded that she tried to laugh a little, but the atmosphere was too serious to laugh openly. “Answer.”

“… I didn’t intend to fool you, Commander.”

Elina3 lowered her head. No matter how she tried to make excuses, she couldn’t erase the fact that she was a princess. Anyone who breaks the rules is a disgrace to the Knights Templar. “… I’m sorry.”

She tried to be calm, but it was a waste. Her tightly clenched lips trembled as if they were going to fall apart.

It would have been better if she had been born a man. She was resentful of her own identity that she had to hide. It was when Elina3 lowered her head deeply in a heavy mood. “Why did you wear a wig? I thought you were a true partial alopecia patient… … That’s why I was going to tell you to go to a hair loss treatment shop together.” Elina3 looked up at the affectionate voice tapping her ear.

Diches, who was standing in front of her, put his hand on Elina3’s thick hair. The hair flowing between his fingers was real, not falling out. A faint look of resignation appeared on Diches’s lips and then disappeared.

“But now I guess I have to give up on that feeling.”

The feeling of betrayal seemed enormous. It seemed like he had given a 20% discount if you brought an acquaintance.

“It’s unfortunate that you don’t have partial alopecia. But… I don’t want to completely deny your hair roots just because of that.”

“Boss.”

“I’ll keep this between the two of us.” “Pishik―”

Lara quickly covered her mouth at the laughter that suddenly burst out. However, Elina3 and Diches’s eyes had already long since turned to Lara.

“Why are you laughing? Is hair loss funny?”

“… No, I suddenly remembered something funny… … . I’m sorry.”

Lara hesitated and apologised honestly. When she turned to Elina3, she had turned her back and was getting out of bed, leaving the room. While Elina3 went outside to thank Young Master Recal, Lara let out a sigh.

The incident was over, but it was time to give up on her romance fantasy.

* * *

Lara dragged her tattered body and mind onto the carriage. As she closed her eyes because she was tired, a mysterious man wearing a robe appeared in her mind as if he had been waiting for her.

Where on earth did he get that limited edition robe? He was much taller and more agile than her. Just like the Robe Gentleman who chased Lilika and the Seal Rose in the beginning of the manga 『Magical Girl Lilika』.

Many readers were curious about the identity of the Robe Gentleman because of his intense appearance in the middle of the night wearing a mysterious robe and interfering with Lilika. As of volume 35, he has been confirmed as the male protagonist, and the Robe Gentleman X Lilika couple has been officially solidified for a long time.

Since Lala came across the Robe Gentleman X Lilika doujinshi and then the original, it would not be an exaggeration to say that she developed the hobby of collecting doujinshi thanks to her favourite Robe Gentleman.

‘That handsome man… He almost perfectly embodied the original Robe Gentleman.’ Lala buried herself comfortably in the sofa, recalling her brief encounter with the handsome cosplayer.

When she opened her eyes, she had arrived at the mansion. Since she hadn’t even contacted him for two days, her family must have been very worried. As she passed the main gate and entered the darkened living room, there was no one there.

Who would be up at this hour of the morning? Lara felt tears well up in her eyes for no reason at the thought that she had no one to confide in about her extra sorrows.

‘I should read my treasured doujinshi for the first time in a while and heal myself… … .’

It was at that moment when she was struggling to climb the stairs. “You… … .”