第6話

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日本語の要約がないため、Englishで表示しています。

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Violet and other Dolls travel to the Shaher Observatory to help scholars copy rare astronomical manuscripts before the originals deteriorate. She is paired with Leon Stephanotis, an orphaned researcher who initially looks down on Dolls and expects her to be distracted or uneducated. Violet's speed, accuracy, and indifference to his social background overturn his assumptions. As they work, Leon becomes curious about her solitary travels and invites her to watch Alley's Comet, visible only once every two centuries. Beneath the night sky, he explains that his scholar father vanished on an expedition and his mother left to search for him, never returning. Feeling abandoned, Leon has remained at the observatory and dismissed love as a force that makes people irrational. Violet says she has no known family but remains devoted to Gilbert, whose fate she still avoids considering. Leon recognizes before she does that her attachment is love. The next morning, Violet leaves as soon as the copying assignment ends, accepting separation as part of her work. Leon decides that waiting in one place has protected him from neither loneliness nor uncertainty. Inspired by her, he plans to travel and search for his parents himself.