#15
“——So now, I am grateful to my adoptive father who took me away. Because of him, I was able to have the kind of goodwill that I had never had in my life. Of course, I had to get a lot of education before I could do that.”
relationship from 10 years ago. accidental reunion. hidden truth. As I slowly began to figure out the answer to all of that, like I did before, I sat at the edge of the bed and listened to Stella.
The confusion has subsided somewhat. It took about 5 minutes or more to accept the reality, probably because the images of Alphren and this Princess Stella de Feltline in my memory did not match.
Well, it didn’t take long to see this.
It felt like almost an hour had passed. Was it because of the dizziness of the dizzying mind? His temples still seem to throb.
I suddenly asked Stella.
“Then you must have spent more time with Stella de Feltrein than with Alphren, now?”
“Yes. maybe… … ?”
Stella was the adopted daughter of the Duke of Feltrein.
The imperial duke’s family had adopted daughters who were not pure blood. There must have been something behind it, but Stella didn’t seem to want to say anything yet, so I didn’t say anything like a question.
“You’ve made it, Alfred.”
I chuckled.
In the past, like a child, she had aspirations and vain dreams that adults would sneer at if she heard it.
It’s not that it’s not, but I’m pretty sure it’s this. Just because she’s a foster daughter, it doesn’t seem like she was treated very poorly in the family… …
Stella smiled for a moment, then opened her mouth.
“Ezio, I heard a lot about you from Rubia. At first, I had a little thought that it might be a different person with the same name, but then at a restaurant or… … I was only convinced after hearing what you and Rubia had to say.”
Rubia. When that name came out here, my body hardened for an instant.
But he doesn’t express himself and jokes around.
“Then do you know that my family has fallen?”
“Ah oh? He, I, I… … ”
“It’s a joke. I don’t care either. It was also a long time ago. I just wanted to know that the situation was very different back then.”
Then he laid his upper body back as if he had collapsed.
As I buried myself in the soft bed, the smells like Stella’s incense deepened and poked my nose, subtly stimulating me.
Stella looked down at me like that.
Now, Stella de Feltrain’s identity is stronger than that of Alfrene, but when I heard that Stella was actually Alfrene, my tense heart was relieved somehow.
It is easy to accept the fact that it turned out that she was a woman… … Well, is this still unreasonable?
Seeing that Stella also doesn’t want to go into detail about what happened in the past with me, it means that there are quite a few things that go wrong in a situation where there are only the two of us.
In this form, each of us becomes a different person, so we will gather in the same class. Even if it’s made into a novel, it’s a bit of a no-brainer – it’s likely to be criticized for its plausibility.
There are already three Epic class freshmen who know me. Rubia, Mew, and even Stella next to me.
… … Come to think of it, why isn’t there a single man?
There used to be Alphren, but not anymore. To be honest, I still can’t believe it. However, there is no other way for me to check.
Stella now was a heavenly noble girl herself, so it was almost crazy to try to find a masculinity that would have left no traces for the sake of fact-checking. It’s good enough to just believe.
Anyway, there is a possibility that I should have had many same-s*x friends from the past.
When I was in elementary school, Rubia and I were almost alone together, so I didn’t have much contact with other friends of the same age.
What is middle school? …
Well, it was.
Once again, I am amazed at my poor connections.
are you okay. The lack of human connections should be supplemented here. No matter what anyone says, wasn’t this the place where the most promising young students on the continent gathered?
Just looking at the lineup and lineup each of us have right now, it’s just a series of admiration.
Rubia, Mew, and I are excluded, but all three of us are, in a way, students who have been chosen for the future of the empire.
If we think closely about what kind of preferential treatment frontier graduates of the general class receive in society, we, the Epic class, might have had more authority than the noble nobles after graduating.
The silence that had passed for a while.
“It must have been fun, Ezio.”
“… … huh? what?”
I suddenly wondered what he was talking about.
“Rubia and you. I thought it would be really fun when I was younger. You and I aren’t that long, but Rubia and I have been next to each other for almost nine years, haven’t we?”
“… … ”
When I asked that question with a pure face, I had no choice but to remain silent without giving any answer.
Actually, it is true that the two of us have been in the same space for 9 years, but it is more accurate to think that the time that Rubia and I had been best friends for that day was 6 years.
“It did.”
I answered casually.
Because it’s true.
If I were to dare to evaluate what happened between me and Rubia when I was young, simply expressing that it was fun would not be enough.
The word happiness would be more appropriate.
Times that I believed would last forever. Even if we look at every nook and cranny of our memories, there is no day without laughter.
It is said that people naturally remember bad things more clearly than good things, but for some reason, my elementary school days were full of good things. So, my expression that recalls the happy times must also be bright.
“… … Wasn’t it fun?”
A somewhat vague question.
I lay down and shook my head.
“No, it was fun.”
… … Heartily.
When I go to school and when I leave school. always with two
Everyday, if someone wants to oversleep, they naturally go into one of the houses and shake their sleeping childhood friends to wake them up.
In the middle of the night, while each other’s parents were talking downstairs in the hut, we went upstairs and secretly released the frogs we had caught that day, and watched them saying it was fun.
If someone tripped over a rock while playing outside and got hurt, he would whine up and take him home with his small body.
We continued crying behind our backs, but in the end, crying was contagious like a child, and while we were walking along the sunset, we both went home crying.
When the summer comes back, the two families go on a trip for 3 nights and 4 days. Like swimming in the salty sea. In the middle of a damp sandy beach, they compete to see who makes the sand castle bigger while they are wet.
To warm up his shivering body, he sat around the campfire, talked for a long time, and after talking for a long time, he was tired and fell asleep.
When our parents saw us like that, they took me and Rubia when we were young and carefully laid them down in the tent, and they used each other as pillows to help us fall into a dreamland without knowing the world… …
On an ordinary autumn day when the leaves dyed with the colors of the sunset and sunlight fell.
In the increasingly cold weather, he caught a cold, but he came to me and took care of me, using even the basic magic that Rubia learned at the academy instead of my parents who accidentally left home. Eventually, though, he moved.
One winter day, when it snowed late, as soon as they saw the first snowfall, no one would rush out of the house, spread their arms and smile, and ran all day without getting tired on the gradually turning white field.
… … It was.
At that time, me and Rubia.
We dyed the achromatic tomorrow with our colors.
In the days of the future when nothing has been decided yet, there were days when I never doubted that we would always be by each other’s side.
As a result, that belief has become a reality.
Even now, Rubia will be outside that door.
So —— The faith of our lifelong faith we promised in childhood was fundamentally unbroken.
Even if we cannot regain the innocence we had before, the most important part was that in the middle of our relationship that had begun to fall apart, there was still some room for not to completely change.
My dearest friend, Rubia.
I lost my first love.
It was impossible from the beginning to remove her great presence from my life forever.
“… … It was fun.”
Stella’s quiet voice is heard.
Stella and Alfren must have accumulated quite a few memories within me. It’s only been three months, but seeing some of them come to mind clearly, Alfren was a very important person to me as well.
However, it is six years.
9 years now.
In terms of the number of days, it easily passes 3,000 days and nights.
Memories that are not memories between me and Rubia.
Now I can’t deny it
“Well, that’s right.”
Because it was sincere, without a single lie.
I was then able to contain a small laugh.
#16
The conversation with Stella ended with that.
It would have been nice to have shared a little bit longer, but it was too late for now. Stella also looked a little tired because she used a lot of hair. Today’s work was enough to blow my mind away in many ways.
Because of this, what Stella was supposed to show me was also postponed to a later date.
I put my notes and writing instruments containing the amount of study I studied today in my bag and carry it around my shoulders.
Then, looking at Stella, who was having a hard time figuring out how to get out of her room, I pointed my finger out the window without saying a word.
Stella, who had a bewildered expression, opened the curtains wide with the word “see you tomorrow”, and then jumped through the trees through the terrace railing.
Fortunately, no one found me.
After looking around, I walked straight to Building 3 with a sigh of relief.
You should exercise and sleep.
So, after sweating for a long time in the gym, I was exhausted and returned to the dormitory at Tulletaire.
After washing my body refreshingly, I lay down on the bed, and I was devoured by deep water without even thinking about what happened today.
next day.
Morning liberal arts class.
“Eh, before performing the task today, we will form a group.”
Checking out who has become a member of the same team as me.
I couldn’t help but let out a sigh.