"Miss Robin's home, huh."
The moon had already risen over the horizon, but the sun had yet to fully set, and the sky was still bright. Several Knights of the Round Table were off to the side talking about something, Mash included. Fujimaru Ritsuka and Robin sat by the lakeside.
Fujimaru Ritsuka looked up at the moon.
Robin lowered her head, looking at the moon reflected in the lake.
The water rippled, and the moon shattered.
"Mm... Though this would be the time for me to say something cool, the truth is... things like where I belong..." Robin looked away from the shattered moon and scratched her cheek with one finger, giving an awkward laugh.
"Rather than not knowing, I guess I've just never thought about it."
She drew up her legs, wrapped her arms around them, and rested her chin on her knees. Her gaze wandered without focusing on anything.
"I've been like this ever since my mother died."
"Though I had a fixed place to live in the Fairy Realm, living there never really felt real."
"It's been the same all the way until now."
Robin's head gradually tilted, half her face resting against her knee.
Fujimaru Ritsuka rested one arm on his knee and looked at Robin.
He could clearly sense sadness from Robin—or rather, wistfulness.
"...What kind of person was Miss Robin's mother?"
His eyes lowered slightly as he straightened up and asked Robin.
"Mother." Robin lowered one hand and began drawing circles in the grass beside her. "As for my mother, she was just an ordinary mother."
"Maybe she had been a beautiful young girl at first, but by the time I was old enough to really understand things, I realized that Mother wasn't very beautiful anymore."
"But..."
Robin raised her face again, and at