Each Of Their Anxiety
“Tch, don’t follow behind me!”
“Kyaa! Uu, sor-, sorry, Okaa-san”
Before my eyes, there’s a small girl whose face is slapped by a female Elf around my age. A girl whose right eye is blue and left eye is red. This is……the young me?
……I wonder if it’s a dream. Even though I had stopped seeing it recently. I don’t know the face of my father nor my mother. Although the female Elf currently before my eyes is probably my mother, her face is invisible with a mist over it.
Come to think of it, other than that, I had a brother as well. I was also hit by my brother every day. I didn’t even know what I was being hit for back then. I just, repeated getting hit and apologising, getting hit and apologising, and I was abandoned before I knew it.
If I’m not wrong, a new child was born when I was abandoned, was it? A girl if I’m not wrong. So I became non-existent and abandoned in a forest.
I wandered around the forest for days, and right around the time I was somehow surviving on fruits and weeds, I encountered Sylphid-sama huh.
After that, one thing led to another and I was brought all the way to Nanor, had Magic taught to me, and even managed to get onto the prestigious post known as a Magic Squad Captain in the Nanor Kingdom.
The matter with my eyes got exposed and I had no choice but to resign after that though.
……come to think of it, I wonder why I’m thinking back about the memories of the past. Even though I pretty much didn’t think back about it until now.
『You disgrace of the tribe! Why are you alive!』
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“Haah! ……haa, haa. ……as I thought, it’s because I encountered Nii-san huh”
I think back about what happened after the conference ended. Although all the bodyguards of the Kings of the respective countries had gathered in the conference room, I was at where Fi-chan and the others were.
And then, when I went to pick them up because the conference ended, I ended up encountering him. Although I had completely forgotten it, it seems Nii-san had remembered.
But, I never would’ve thought that Nii-san would actually come as a bodyguard and as the Elves’ representative. I wonder why Nii-san, even though the Elves have a decent population…….
“Are you awake?”
“Eh?”
As I was thinking about it while looking at the ceiling, there was suddenly a voice from the side. I tried taking a look in the direction of the voice, and the figure of Lei-kun sitting on a chair and reading a book was over there.
“Lei-kun, why are you here? Rather, where is this? Furthermore, what’s with that wound on your left cheek?”
“Errr, first, this room is one of the rooms of the mansion I’m currently staying in. Marin-san ended up fainting, so I had you carried all the way here. I’d been waiting for Marin-san to wake up since. My left cheek……well, please don’t worry about it. It’s my resolve. More importantly, are you alright? You were having quite a bad dream though?”
Lei is smiling awkwardly while scratching his right cheek. Fufu, my gloomy mood until just now became better after seeing Lei-kun’s smile. Come to think of it, the one who told me my eyes are pretty for the first time was also Lei-kun huh.
Also, having a bad dream, huh. I guess it’s that dream’s fault. Lei-kun is also looking over at me anxiously. Fuu, I wonder if he’s worried about me?
“Thank you for worrying about me. But I’m fine. More importantly, let’s hear what you need. You’re here, not because you wanted to see my sleeping face, right?”
When I say that while giggling, Lei-kun goes into a panic. Although it’s unforgivable to see a lady’s sleeping face, I’ll allow it since I got to see Lei-kun’s flustered figure.
“Gohon! Errr, the reason I’m here is well, as I had also said just now, I was waiting for Marin-san to wake up. I have a little something I want to talk about”
After that, Lei-kun makes a serious expression and starts talking to me. I was enthralled by the serious Lei-kun’s face and couldn’t do anything but nod. He’s so cool…….
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“U〜n, as I thought, the swelling won’t subside just from cooling it for a day huh”
While looking at the mirror, I touch the swell on my left cheek. Ouch. If it were under normal circumstances, I’d use Water Magic to heal when I get wounded, but this wound is not something I can heal that easily.
This injury is, an injury I got after talking to the Pope yesterday and getting hit. I had personally foreseen getting hit, so I took it silently.
It’s because I’ll end up making Caro go through something painful today. It’s not like I’m forgiven with this, but this is also one of my resolves.
After that, as I’m changing and getting ready, there’s a knock on the door. When I responded, the one who opened the door and came in was, actually Caro. Even though if it were under normal circumstances, it should be Chrona who comes.
“Caro. What exactly is going on?”
“Fufu, I asked Chrona-chan and had her switch with me for just the morning”
Saying that, Caro comes into the room. And then, she clung to me.
“Caro?”
“……sorry. Although I agreed to it yesterday, as I thought, I’m scared”
Looking at it closely, Caro’s body is shaking. That’s right. Up until now, Caro had had various painful experiences because of her eyes.
“Caro, I said that yesterday, but as I thought, shall we stop?”
When I ask, Caro shakes her head. And then she looks over at me with eyes filled with determination.
“I’ll go as well. If it’s exactly as Lei talked about it to Otou-sama yesterday, things will wrap up without me as well as that Marin-san, and then the people with heterochromia that will appear from now on as well, going through painful experiences. If it’s necessary for the proof for the sake of that, then I’ll remove this mask as well”
Caro said just that, removed the mask she was wearing on her face, and threw it behind her. The beautiful raw face of Caro that I was already used to seeing was there before my eyes.
Finding Caro to be all too lovely, I hug her hips and kiss her. It’d be great if her anxiety dissipates a little with this.
“Umuu……aanh……chumuu……puhaa”
“With this, is your anxiety gone?”
When I smile brightly at Caro and ask, Caro blushes and puffs up her cheeks like she’s sulking. In a soft voice
“Geez, Lei you dummyy”
she’s saying, but her hand is squeezing my clothes. How adorablee, geez!
As I’m flirting with Caro in such a manner, four lights that shine dimly are visible from the door’s gap. They were eyes when I looked at it closely.
The ones who were watching fixedly were, Alexia and Chrona. I suppose Alexia came for her morning greeting, and Chrona came because she wanted to do something after all.
The two who noticed that I noticed, slam the door open and cling to me tightly.
“That’s unfair, Caro! For you to be the only one to get embraced that much!”
“That is right! Even though I reluctantly yielded looking after Lei-sama because Caro-sama, you say you have something you want to talk to Lei-sama about no matter what, unforgivable!”
“Fufufu, Alexia-neesan and Chrona-chan. This is what you call……the early bird catches the worm”
Caro is placing her hand horizontally under her chin like a villain and laughing, ‘ohohoho‘……was she that kind of character?
But, on the face of Caro who’s squeezed between Alexia and Chrona, there was no longer the look of anxiety.
