Lured by Alma's line of sight that went outside the store, I also looked outside.
There's a girl around Alma's age with blond hair--
C....Cute!
"Alma, did you have any luck with this store? I couldn't get any myself. Maybe getting a magic sword augmented for tomorrow is--oh my? The gentleman over there is...."
"This is Mathi-kun. He's gonna do the magic augmenting for me!"
It was a perfect strike.
No wait. The other party is 14 year old y'know? Think of my age. My age right now is.... Huh? It's 12. There's nothing weird about it.
Let's forget about that. First, I need to calm down and introduce myself. Be natural, natural....
"I-it is an honor to have met you, my name is Mathias Hildesheimr..."
"Why'd you act so polite all of a sudden...."
Alma retorted me. She's exactly right.
What am I getting shaken for anyway. Even if the current me is 12 year old, the fact that I have a thousand and several hundred years worth of memory doesn't change.
I'm going to use my experience in love affair from my past life here--Huh?
When I think about it again, my experience in the past life mostly didn't have anything related to love.
No. Let's think about it again, carefully.
I was alive in my past life for a thousand and hundreds years.
Time without a girlfriend, a thousand and hundreds years (equals, my lifetime in my past life + my lifetime in this life.)
I see. It's only natural for me to be like this then. Even Biffgel's experience in combat is still slightly better compared to my experience in love.
For now, I've got to introduce myself. When I think again, I should just do it like I did with Alma earlier.
"I'm Mathias. Mathias Hildesheimr. I might have a family name, but I"m the third son of a small noble household. In short, a commoner. I've got no field to plow so I went out of the village. Call me Mathi."
Alright. T'was a perfect self-introduction word-to-word identical to the one earlier. This is nothing if I just calm down.
But.... There's no response.
I look at the girl, her face is red with a blank expression.
....I wonder why. Did I anger since I recycled my introduction.
No. Her expression is too unusual for it to be that. Perhaps, a magic criminal lurking in the city used a hidden mind magic on--.
"Are you alright Ruli?"
While I was converging a detection magic, Alma got close to Ruli and poked her cheek.
How enviable--I mean, that's dangerous! Even though they're rare, there are types of magic that can infect with contacts!
"....Ha! I-I'm fine. M-my name is Ruli Abendroht. I-I don't have a fiance or a boyfriend! I would love it if you call me Ruli...."
I see. She's got no boyfriend huh.
It's a nice information for me, but I wonder if that's something you'd tell in your first meeting.
....Perhaps there's such a custom in some parts of the world. I can't think of any other reason for it.
"Nice to meet you, Ruli."
"N-nice to meet you!"
"Yup, now that we know each other, let's get back to the topic!"
Once we were done, Alma cut in with eyes that looked like she saw something heartwarming for some reason.
....I didn't think about it the first time, but looking closer, Alma is also quite--.
No. Let's not think anything unnecessary, yes let's.
"Mathi-kun would augment the sword for us now, Ruli, do you have that sword with you?"
"Mathi-kun would? Mathi-kun is around the same age as us right? Don't you think that's too much...."
"My common sense also agrees with you.... But my intuition told me to leave it to him."
"I suppose it can't be helped if Alma's intuition says so."
It comes through her with that. Is Alma's intuition really that accurate I wonder.
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