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Warmth That Melts Away Your Unease: Chapter 1
[Location: Lounge, day]
White: That day is our tea party day. I’ve already asked Nero to provide us with special treats.
Snow: Oh, right, right. Then let us go shopping on this day instead.
Akira: Snow, White, you look like you’re having fun. What are you doing?
White: Oh, Sage. We are just writing our schedules down.
Snow: This way, we share what we would like to do on each day. It’s fun in its own way.
Akira: Ahaha, you two really get along well.
White: Indeed! ...Oh, this day is the day we spend the day on our own.
White: What would be good to do….Perhaps I shall spend the day with Oz and Figaro for the first time in a while. How about you, Snow?
Snow: I will be going out on that day.
Akira: Where will you be going?
Snow: Hohoho, try asking again after I come back.
White, pouting: …Lately, that is all that you say.
White, pouting: I notice you sometimes hiding your presence with magic. In the end, even after you get back home, you start beating around the bush.
Snow: I-Is that so?
White, pouting: I see you have been doing something you cannot tell me….
Snow: White, shall we take a break? Let me brew a tasty cup of tea for both of us.
White: There is no need. I do not know Snow anymore.
[White running away]
Snow: White!
Akira: I’ll go after him.
[Location: hallway]
Akira: Um, White?
White: Sage.
Akira: I think Snow isn’t doing anything you would hate.
White: ….Are you saying that Snow keeping a secret is not because he is doing something of bad conscience?
Akira: Yes, I’m sure.
White: ….Alright. I shall believe you, Sage, and overlook this matter.
[Location: hallway]
Akira: (I think today is the day Snow and White spend their days separately.)
Akira: (White invited me to his room, I wonder if something happened….)
Akira: White, this is Akira.
[Location: Snow and White’s room]
White: Welcome, dear Sage. I received fine tea leaves, so I thought of having tea together with you.
Akira: Wah, it smells nice…. Thank you for having me.
White: I have to apologize for the other day. I seem to have raised you a concern after storming out of the lounge.
White: ….To speak the truth, I still haven’t made up with Snow.
White: Even though I planned to enjoy this tea together with him....
Akira: It tastes delicious. I’m sure Snow will like it.
White: I can only hope so….
Akira: ...Um, White, if you don’t mind, shall we play a game around the manor?
Akira: Not doing anything will only worsen your mood. We could play and move our body as a change of pace!
White: Oh, that certainly sounds fun. Then, I want to try ‘hide and seek’, the thing you played with Murr the other day.
Akira: That sounds great!
White: And let’s make it a little more thrilling while we’re at it.
Warmth That Melts Away Your Unease: Chapter 2
[Location: Manor’s foyer]
White: Good to see the three of you.
Bradley: The heck d’you want in a sudden?
Owen: There’s no way it won’t be troublesome when these guys are together.
Mithra: I’m sleepy. May I go back to my room?
White: You may not. I will have the three of you compete.
White: The first one to find me and the Sage wins! Otherwise, you lose. Simple, isn’t it?
Bradley: Why the hell should I go through all that trouble?
White: If you do not participate, you lose by default. You lose before you even fight.
Bradley: Huh?
White: If you do not compete, it is our win! It is your loss for running away.
Mithra: Well, I wouldn’t like that.
Owen: Alright, I’ll play with you.
Akira: (That was kind of pushy, is it really alright…?)
White: Count to a hundred, and come look for us. Hide and seek, begin!
White: Sage, hide with me. I know excellent hiding places here in the manor.
Akira: Okay!
[Location: manor courtyard, day]
Akira: I didn’t know there was such a hiding spot in the courtyard….
Akira: (We fit perfectly in this spot, it’s good for hiding)
White: If we hide here, they are sure not to find us.
Akira: I believe so too! Hm? The air looks hazy...?
White: Is this… a time and space door?
[sound of casted magic]
Akira: Wah!?
Akira: (Someone tugged me by the hand!?)
[Location: foyer hall]
Mithra: There, I found you.
Akira: Mithra! You pulled me all of a sudden, I’m startled….
White: Uugh, I cannot believe you found us this soon….
Mithra: It’s easy as a pie if I just look for your presence with magic.
Mithra: It’s my victory.
White: You were not to use magic! There is no fun in that!
Mithra: Haa….How troublesome.
Bradley: Haha, that’s a shame Mithra! It’s “all for naught” as one’d say!
Owen: You’d think victory is yours, but then you see it slipping through your own hands. I wonder how that feels? Hey, Mithra, tell us how it feels.
Mithra: I don’t mind. I’ll tell you directly to your bodies. I’ll make sure to listen to your hideous cry.
Akira: (Somehow it turned into a grim matter…)
White: Good heavens. We ought to start over. Dear Sage, this time we shall hide in an even more excellent spot.
Akira: O-okay.
[Location: Library]
Akira: Are we going to hide in the library?
White: Yes. This is a blind spot to all the bookshelves.
Akira: Ah, you’re right! It’s kind of hard to find us here unless you’re on a child’s eye level….
White: A perfect spot to hide from our tall young’uns.
White: The library is filled with books that are fused with magic. It shall not be that easy to find our presence with magic anymore.
[crash]
Akira: Uwah!? W-what was that sound…?
Warmth That Melts Away Your Unease: Chapter 3
[Location: Library]
Akira: (Could that be the Northern Wizards…? I felt a grim aura.)
White: Our young’uns really like to resort to violence like that. There shall be punishment afterward.
White: Good grief. Snow would have found us by this moment….
White: ….
Akira: White?
White: Will Snow find me without fail, no matter where I go…?
Akira: I’m sure Snow will find you.
White: Sage….
Akira: White, can I hold your hands for a while?
White: Hm? Here.
Akira: When I first came here, both of you held my hands like this, and it soothed my worries.
Akira: So I thought, I can cheer you up a little bit, by holding your hand.
White: ….We did. That time, I had not thought you would be this dependable of a Sage.
White: I thought I would never see the day where Oz and the Northern Wizards live together in the manor.
White: The Sage’s Wizards all have gathered, and spend their days happily like it was something that always has been; because of you.
White: It is a bit overdue, but I thank you.
Akira: Please. Thank you, White.
White: You really are a good Sage. You also go along with so many of my whims!
Akira: So long as I can make you feel less lonely, I will go along with you!
White: Hohoho, I am happy to hear that.
Akira: …Hm? It’s been pretty quiet outside…
Akira: (Are they done fighting? I hope they aren’t hurt badly….)
Snow: Found ya!
Akira: Waah!?
White: Snow! So you have come back.
Snow: Yes, I arrived just now, to the Northern Wizards wreaking havoc.
Snow: I asked, and they said they were frustrated because they couldn’t find you, and decided to ultimately determine the winner by sheer power.
Akira: That isn’t hide and seek anymore….
Snow: Worry not, for I have disciplined them!
White: ...Snow, how did you find us?
Snow: Hoho, I know just about everything you are thinking, White.
Snow: I went out today, keeping my destination in secret from you. I thought that would have put you in unease, so I came back earlier than I should.
Snow: To tell you the truth, I am preparing something that I hope you would like. Please, forgive me.
White: I see…. As I had thought, Snow would be the first one to find me!
Akira: There is just no one who can replace Snow.
White: Indeed!
White: The same goes for you, Sage. There is no one who can replace you.
Akira: …! Yes!
Card Episode: Halfsies in Secret
[Location: Manor lounge]
Akira: White, you and Snow always seem like you do everything together, but have you ever felt like you want to do different things on your own?
White: Why, yes, I have. We are twins; we are two, but one. Still, that does not mean we do not have slightly different tastes.
Akira: I see. ...Do you sometimes fight as well?
White: We hardly get into arguments, but when we do, most of the time Snow will yield and go along with me.
White: Because Snow loves me so!
Akira: (It’s just like White to say it himself….)
Akira: Snow really loves you, I see.
White: Of course, I love Snow just as much. ...That’s why, if Snow yields for me in an argument, I try to balance it out in other things.
Akira: Is that so?
White: Discreetly. For instance, if I were to make a stained glass art with my design, I’d color it with Snow’s favorite color. Ultimately, it’s half and half.
White: I love having halfsies with Snow as much as I love things that match.
Akira: You and Snow really get along well.
White: Hohoho, of course. But do keep this a secret from Snow.
Akira: Okay, I’ll keep it a secret.
Note: I recommend reading Snow's anniversary card after this!