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The doors of the Mage-Knight Training Classroom opened, and the waters that had been kept sealed within the room flowed outside.
"We'd better get away from here before someone spots all… this," Delia was saying, only for her to stutter toward the end.
The smile she hadn't been able to keep off her face following her moment with Caius stiffed a bit when she saw someone seated on the ground beside the Mage-Knight Classroom doorway.
Caius noticed Delia's reaction and followed her eyes and saw who she had seen. The person had their head bowed over in between their knees but Caius recognized who it was.
"Doran?" He called.
The boy raised his brown-haired head then and looked at Caius and Delia with his warm brown eyes that were slightly puffy and red in a show of tears well and long shed. Even if his face was now dry and free of moisture, the traces remained.
"Caius… You finally came out," he said.
