126 – The Way Back
“Koul…Koul…”
The sight of her sleeping comfortably with the sound of her breathing made me and Hockey speechless at the same time.
Whether she knows it or not, Simila was sleeping very happy, as if she had a good dream.
“Why the hell is Similla here…”
“When did she go in?”
Haki looked at Simila like that and picked up her own sassy.
“I’m sorry, but since she was laughing yesterday without saying that Mila was following her for some reason, she should have guessed ahead of time…”
“No, you’re not sorry.”
I sighed heavily and decided to wait for Similla to wake up.
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“Ha ha ha!”
Similla got up shortly after and clung to Haki with a cheeky smile.
“It smells like alcohol.”
Because the smell of the alcohol I had yesterday had been in the box until now, the smell was also trapped in the box and couldn’t get out, so it couldn’t be erased at all.
Haki looked at Similla with a puzzled expression.
“Hockey… Are you mad?”
“Well, won’t you be angry? That would have been dangerous!”
“But the smell and the sound made me feel like I would get caught if I drilled a hole.”
“What if I die then!”
Come to think of it, when Keira died the other day, Haki witnessed the scene right next to him.
After that, hockey began to fear death severely.
It was ‘almost’ dangerous even now, but Similla didn’t have any problems, so it was okay.
But Hockey’s hands were still shaking.
Even when I went hunting with Hameri, Haki didn’t follow me.
If he had thought of hockey as usual, he would have followed it.
Although hockey did not neglect training after Keira’s death, it was an undeniable fact that he was more skeptical about fighting than before and avoided it whenever possible.
He’ll have to overcome this.
“Hockey, it’s okay.”
Similar’s behavior was a big shock, Haki tried to shed tears.
I stroked Haki’s hair like that.
I didn’t express it, but I could tell that Keira’s case was very shocking to Hockey.
Hockey is strong and mature for her age, but in the world of adventurers, she was just a kid who hadn’t even crossed the line yet.
As I stroked my hair, Haki leaned on me and leaned on me.
Looking at him like that, Similla said.
“Does hockey make a good relationship with you?”
“…Is that so?”
“Really! Me and my brother fight every day?”
“You have a brother.”
Let’s move on to the story of Similla’s brother.
“Ugh.”
He hated hockey.
“What’s wrong?”
“hahahahaha! My brother likes hockey!”
“Really?”
“But my brother hates hockey!”
···I’m your brother, can I speak so casually?
Anyway, hockey isn’t the type to hate someone for no reason.
“What does Javier think of my personality?”
“Um… Lively, bright, talkative?”
“Right? Most people say that. But my brother’s personality is the opposite of mine.”
Against it? The opposite of a lively, bright, talkative personality.
I can only come up with bad thoughts… But this must be prejudice.
“He’s my older brother, but even from my point of view, he’s a bit gloomy and dark? He has that side. He also reads a lot of strange novels. Where has he been recently? I read a lot of books that come out, but when I secretly read them, all of them are strange.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, what was the title of the book? Running away from them… Something like that, making a girlfriend through hypnosis? What else was it… NTR? NTL? Well, I saw something like that. I didn’t like the title. It was so bizarre that I hadn’t even read it.”
“I don’t know what NTR or hypnosis is, but it’s kind of… Weird.”
“Right? But the problem is that it’s fine as long as you read it. I don’t think you can distinguish between reality and fiction.”
“You can’t tell the difference?”
“I heard it while passing by my brother’s room the other day… I heard he screamed that he made a timeless stoppe watch himself.”
What the hell is a Taimus stoppe watch?
Is that just the name of the watch?
“Isn’t it just a watch?”
“But isn’t it your dream to be a watchmaker?”
“I don’t think you’ve ever shown off like that before?”
“Well, you can hide your dreams as a secret, just in case.”
“Is that so?”
“But does this alone make hockey so disgusting?”
I looked at hockey.
“…When he came to me, he shook a coin tied to a string, and suddenly asked if he loved him, and held my hand with sweaty hands, or said something like that… Bringing a watch from a Thaimusu stope… ·· ‘Thai must stop!’ While doing so, he presses the button on the watch and looks at me with eyes full of anticipation… Something is wrong…”
I don’t know because it’s a world I can’t understand, but I think it’s worth feeling bad.
I heard that he likes hockey, so I thought I should test him to see if he’s a good guy, but even without the need to take the test, he was rejected as a husband for my precious sister.
After talking about such a big deal, hours and days passed before I knew it, and then I returned to the imperial capital.
“Wow…!”
Similla, who had lived only in the countryside until now and saw a big city like the capital for the first time, exclaimed in a voice of admiration.
I bought him some street food, and it was funny to see him stuff his cheek full of food and chew it, saying that he had never tasted such delicious food.
Looking around, shooting here and there, once far away from us, even belatedly noticing that Mila had lost her way, but I widened my senses and was able to find it.
That’s how we arrived in front of Hestia Academy.
Similla asked.
“Where is Hestia Academy?”
“Huh? It’s here.”
“Yes? Isn’t this like the Imperial Palace?”
“I have to go here for a few hours.”
“Wow… This isn’t a castle, it’s an academy.”
I took out a card indicating that I was a Hestia professor, showed it to the guards, and entered the academy.
At that moment, someone hit me in the chest.
“Professor!”
It was the pink-haired Cabri.