The garden tea.
The headmaster of the greatest learning institute, a mediator for many countries, one of the strongest in the world, and most probably the strongest mage.
One who overlooks the entire sky island and one of the most annoying, stingy, strong old men in this world... was holding a gift?
A colorful box, the same as his eyes, with a red ribbon on it?
"Open it when you are alone. Really… alone." He said as he just put the box in my hands and I didn't even know just how my hand was stretched out to hold that box.
I looked at him blankly. Mom was the same, and Anna was still shocked, hugging me tightly.
But I can see the ones behind us.
Every single one of them, the dear cousins of mine, Rein, and all the adults, were looking at this in surprise.
I can say just from this much just how much they knew this character, and just how stingy he was to earn this great of a reaction from my ever-calm grandparents.