"I wouldn't have noticed if Anri-sensei hadn't asked me..."

Nozomu remembered why he could accept Shino's thoughts. It was because Anri asked Nozomu about Shino so he could understand it slowly.

Unlike back then, he is now the one who was about to confess.

He's still worried. There is also fear.

Even so, the two's words and the warmth of their hands supported Nozomu's back.

"I can't be like this forever..."

The anxiety that Shino had at that time. When she confessed that she was betrayed by her dear family and her lover, she must have been afraid that she would lose her loved one again.

But she went forward regardless. To convey her last words to Nozomu. And above all, she wanted him to accept her true self.

"In that case, I'll have to move forward as well..."

And there will come a time when he has to move on. Given the incident in the battle with the Undead Dragon, if he wanted to continue to be friends with Irisdina and the others, it wouldn't be good to keep hiding his power from them.

"They know that I have extraordinary power, but they don't know what it is..."

Irisdina and the others knew that Nozomu had extraordinary powers, but they did not know that it was the power of dragonslayer.

What kind of answer will they give when they find out the true nature of his power?

"Maybe... maybe I'll be rejected... But even so... I have to move forward, isn't that right, Shishō? ..."

By betting her life, Shino told him not to look away from the fact that he had been running away. Then, the figures of Shīna and her friends, when they collide their feelings and thoughts so they could understand each other, appeared in his mind.

It was Shino who told him not to turn away from the fact that he had run away. Then, the figure of Shīna and her friends as they collide feelings and thoughts in order to understand each other.

"If it's just talking ... it might not be enough..”

It might not be enough to just tell them he is a dragonslayer. He didn't know if they could understand the true nature of his power just by talking. The source of his fear lies in the depths of that power.

"... Can I release it in the first place?"

Yesterday's scene came back to Nozomu's mind.

In the face of his endangered companions, he tried to release his Ability Suppression, but the chains that bound him wouldn't budge.

"But once again ... surely this time ..."

When Nozomu was about to meditate again, the bushes behind him shook.

"... You guys have arrived"

There was no need for him to turn around. What he felt on his back was their presence. He hadn't seen them for just one day, but it felt like he had been away for a long time.

Nozomu turned around slowly. There he could see his school friends... no, they would become his true friends.