#7 Memories (2)
Originally, if you say ‘the sun goes down’, you will think of a scene where the world is surrounded by darkness and depicts silence.
But that day was different.
“miss!”
“young master!”
In order to find Elric and Tyria, who did not return home, the servants of both families made an uproar in the whole town.
For Tyria, it was a nervous situation that could cause her heart to drop, but Elric led Tyria with a bright smile as if he was used to it.
“let’s go! Let me introduce you to my secret base!”
The place he arrived at, led by him, was under the stone bridge at the entrance to the village.
The tent was drooped quite snugly, and even though it was a shaded place, I didn’t feel too much moisture.
In the tent completely cut off from the outside world, Elric lit a lantern.
The open face revealed under the flickering light was a shape that did not harbor the slightest anxiety.
Tyria asked because it was strange.
“Isn’t it scary?”
“what?”
“D-I’ll get scolded if I get caught… .”
It wouldn’t have been just a scolding.
Obviously, there would be corporal punishment that was incomparable to this time, and maybe I would have to live under strict surveillance so that I could never go outside again.
I asked if he was afraid of such a thing, and the answer that came back was the same as before.
“are you okay! Daddy doesn’t care about me!”
Although he was speaking triumphantly, he immediately noticed that there was a shadow somewhere.
This sullen face of a child who was thought to be only brave was a new look to Tyria.
That must have been the reason why his curiosity toward Elric deepened.
Emotions such as sympathy and sympathy were overlaid on the gaze looking at him.
I wanted to ask.
How is your family, why do you have a bad relationship with your family, and how do you hold on when your family is having a hard time?
However, before the question could be asked, Elric spoke first.
“I was born after eating my mother.”
Shockingly, Tyria’s fingertips trembled.
Elric looked blankly at the lantern and continued.
“My mother said it was difficult for her to give birth to me because I was too grown up. So I even called a doctor in the capital, but in the end, my mother said she couldn’t stand it.”
“… .”
“Dad cried a lot that day. I can’t imagine. My dad is expressionless all the time.”
Tack, Tack.
The kerosene lights flicker.
The light flashed over Elric’s face as well.
Is it the words I spit out, or is this atmosphere the problem?
Waves seemed to paint sorrow on Elric’s face.
“I haven’t talked to my dad much. He doesn’t talk to me very well.”
Elric was holding a branch.
Elric, who was looking at the end while stirring the air, spit out those words before long.
It was a grinning face.
“Then I will be a knight.”
“… suddenly?”
“Suddenly what! Don’t you understand this?!”
“… ?”
Tyria couldn’t understand.
This is because Tyria’s common sense was too solid to understand the correlation between a bad relationship with her father and becoming a knight.
Elric sighed and said.
Then he shook his head and added an explanation.
“When you become a knight, you become a person higher than your father. Besides, it’s even cool. You’ll never be able to ignore me again, will you?”
Elric, with his arms crossed, was very arrogant.
Tyria blinked and then nodded.
“… huh.”
There was nothing more to refute, so it was a rough answer, and Elric burst into exasperation, saying, ‘This is why I can’t communicate with girls!’
Tyria inertia apologized.
“sorry.”
“huh? Why are you sorry?”
“just… .”
“Don’t apologize for no reason. this fucking idiot If you apologize first, you’ll be looked down upon.”
It was still an unknown logic.
However, this time, unlike his dream of becoming a knight, these were words that pierced his heart.
Saying that there was no need to apologize was too unfamiliar to Tyria at the time.
Tyria lowered her head, feeling that her stomach was tickling.
Then, feeling his face heat up, he replied in a trembling voice.
“… Yeah, then I won’t be sorry.”
“Yes, yes, throw a stone in the face if someone asks what you did wrong! Then I’ll never say that again!”
“Puhh… .”
A laugh came out.
Tyria laughed so loudly that she wondered if she had ever laughed like this before.
Tyria now knew the pleasure of laughing out loud.
The boy who taught me that made me a little better.
Of course, it wasn’t if it was romance.
Until then, in Tyria, Elric is a strange and mysterious age, a fun kid to be with.
It was a relationship that could be explained to that extent.
It was on that night that, funny enough, that perception changed.
It was the time when drowsiness came rushing in, and Elric was already dozing off with his head spinning.
The night air was very cold because winter was just around the corner.
Eventually, Elric, unable to overcome his drowsiness, pulled out a blanket and said,
“Come on, let’s go to sleep.”
There was only one blanket, but it was big enough for two small children.
Elric took Tyria in his arms and rolled a blanket over her to lie down.
Tyria stiffened.
Then Elric patted Tyria on the back.
“If you do this, you will sleep well. I know because the nanny did it once in a while.”
It was a story that Tyria did not know.
But sure enough, Elric’s pat on the back made me feel at ease.
As my body, which had been tense all along, was released, my mind also collapsed.
Only then did Tyria recall the events of the previous day.
Then, all of a sudden, I started crying.
“Ooooh… .”
Perhaps it was because of the extreme temperature difference.
There was that much gap between his father’s hand, which was reaching out with a ferocious shout, and Elric’s hand, which patted the back in a soft voice.
“Huh… .”
Tyria didn’t know that a person’s body temperature was this warm.
Because her parents didn’t hug her.
Every night Tyria worried about tomorrow.
I went to sleep, worrying about whether I would be able to take tomorrow’s class well, or if I wouldn’t fit in tomorrow.
So it was the first time.
Tyria was not afraid of tomorrow for the first time today.
“Keep it… .”
“what’s the matter?”
“Huh… .”
“He is crying again. I will become a real asshole hair master.”
Tears flowed incessantly and did not stop.
Elric didn’t stop patting him on the back even though he complained about it.
Tyria was very grateful for that.
Burying my face in his arms warmed me.
The body temperature of the boy in the tent under the bridge was so warm that it made his whole body feel hot.
So it must have been.
Tyria fell asleep without having nightmares that day.
Instead of a nightmare, I had a dream of being in the sun in a warm garden.
It was the next morning when I realized why I felt such warm energy even though it was a dream.
Until the moment he woke up, he didn’t let go of Elric he embraced and shared his warmth all night long.
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So the moment she finally opened her eyes in the morning, Tyria realized that Elric was still there.
‘It’s not scary.’
With Elric, I am not afraid to fall asleep or wake up in the morning.
that this boy makes it so.
That a boy is a person who can become a huge fence so that he is not afraid of anything in the world.
It was a very young heart, but it was a precious heart nonetheless.
It was a heart-throbbing heart.
I don’t want to fall away, or I want to stick together.
The infantile idea of taking eternity for granted was clearly in the realm of children, so it touched the essence of first love.
Even though she had lived a life without Elric until then, when she fell into the thought that she would not be able to live without Elric, Tyria smiled and wriggled her hands.
Then Elric woke up.
“Ugh… stuffy.”
Elric opened his eyes and said with a frown.
They slept close together with a blanket wrapped around them, so their faces were close enough to touch the tips of their noses.
Tyria’s heart thumped.
When Elric woke up, his eyes were clear, just like a prince in a fairy tale.
“Ugh, that’s ugly.”
… If only I hadn’t opened my mouth.
“Clear your face, it’s scary.”
“no.”
“what?”
“no. And I’m not sorry.”
Tyria finally had a dream that day.
It was an ideal that I wanted to achieve as a reality, not a dream I dreamed while sleeping.
I want to fall asleep with Elric and wake up with him every day.
And Tyria knew how to achieve that dream.
“I want to marry you.”
If my father and teacher get married as they always say, they will be together every day.
The girl in love lived by the reckless law and the desire of others, but the girl who first realized her own desire spoke boldly and straightforwardly.
However, there was something that Tyria at the time did not know.
“Nope? You are ugly.”
Marriage was originally by mutual agreement.
and,
“I’m going to marry a beautiful woman. Aldio lives with a beautiful knight.”
Elric that day was an ugly 6-year-old who was very immature.
MC was a brat.