Anyway, Ameria and Zelgadiss walked together.

Ameria : So! Any magic user becomes unable to use magic when her emotional strength is weak or she loses concentration. (kept on explaining)

Zel : .... (didn't listen carefully)

Ameria : Don't you know the motion picture, "Majono Takkyuubin"? The witch became unable to use magic in it.

Zel : ... ::: not my business :::

Ameria : Why don't you ask me why I have lost my emotional power?

Zel : I don't need to do. Each one has his own trouble, I know.

Ameria : (admired his strange kindness) ::: If here were my father, he should bother me with a lot of question (chuckle) :::

Suddenly, she recalled what happened to her. It was the very reason why Ameria was so depressed. It was a few days ago, she listened her father talking with his chief retainers. They had been talking about who should be the next crown prince or princess, in case Prince Phil would come to the throne.

The third prince of King Eldran had died and he hadn't left a child. The second prince had abandoned his right to succeed and his son had been killed by a Mazoku. < Kurume : everybody remember? > Then the successor should be...

But Ameria's father only sighed.

Phil : If Ameria were a boy....

Ameria : ::: Father? ::: (got shocked)

Prince Phil had meant that he had wanted to make Ameria marry to someone she had loved. He had wished that she wouldn't have been care about the nation. He had loved his second daughter, being pure, proper, and strong, and he hadn't regarded her as being incompetent princess.

Ameria hadn't read his mind, and pretended not to have listened what he had said. While she had been with her father, she had been busy in her jobs, being filled with sense of justice, mission, and purpose. She hadn't realized that she had been so shocked that she had become unable to use magic.

Ameria : ::: I realize I am tired now... ::: (sign, sign, SIGH)

A dark air enveloped her. Zel watched her depressed and was overwhelmed by her depressed air.

Zel : (whispered) Oh, she is so gloomy...

Ameria couldn't overlook him.

Ameria : It's all up with me to be said as 'gloomy'... by YOU! Zelgadiss!

Ameria ran away from him in a panic. Zel watched at her, being sick of her words.

< Kurume : Ameria, you meant to say that you regarded Zel as a despicable man. >

Zel : Oh, no...