When you say ‘the sun is setting,’ you probably think of a scene where the world is shrouded in darkness and silence.
But that day was different.
“miss!”
“young master!”
Employees from both families had caused an uproar throughout the neighborhood, looking for Elric and Tyria, who had not returned home.
It was a tense situation that made Tyria’s heart drop, but Elric led her with a bright smile as if she was used to it.
“let’s go! “Let me introduce you to my secret base!”
The place he led us to was under a stone bridge at the entrance to the village.
The tent was pitched quite comfortably, and even though it was a shady place, it didn’t feel very humid.
Elric lit a lantern in a tent completely cut off from the outside.
The mischievous face revealed under the flickering lights did not harbor the slightest anxiety.
Tyria was curious about that and asked.
“Aren’t you scared?”
“what?”
“Well, if I get caught, I’ll get scolded… .”
It wasn’t just about getting scolded.
I would definitely be subjected to corporal punishment that was incomparable to anything I had received up to this point, and I might even have to live under strict surveillance so that I could never go outside again.
I asked him if he was afraid of that, and the answer he got was the same as before.
“are you okay! “Daddy doesn’t care about me!”
Although he was speaking triumphantly, I could immediately sense that there was a shadow somewhere.
This sullen face of a child who was thought to be brave was something completely new to Tyria.
That may have been the reason why my curiosity about Elric became more intense.
Emotions such as identification and sympathy were overlaid on the gaze upon him.
I wanted to ask.
What is your family like, why do you have a bad relationship with your family, and how do you cope when your family gives you a hard time?
However, before any questions could be asked, Elric spoke first.
“I was born to eat my mother.”
Shocked, Tyria’s fingertips trembled.
Elric looked blankly at the lantern and continued speaking.
“My mom had a hard time giving birth to me because I was so big. So she even called a doctor in the capital, who ultimately said that her mother couldn’t bear it.”
“… .”
“My dad cried so hard that day. I can’t really imagine. “My dad always has a deadpan expression.”
Crack, crack.
The lantern flame flutters.
The light shimmered on Elric’s face as well.
Are the words being spoken or this atmosphere the problem?
It seemed as if the waves were drawing sadness onto Elric’s face.
“I haven’t really talked to my dad. “He doesn’t really talk to me.”
Elric was holding a tree branch.
Elric, who was swinging through the air and looking at the end, finally uttered those words.
It was a grinning face.
“So I will become a knight.”
“… suddenly?”
“Why all of a sudden! “Don’t you understand this?!”
“… ?”
Tyria couldn’t understand.
This is because Tyria’s common sense was too solid to understand the correlation between her bad relationship with her father and becoming a knight.
Elric sighed and said.
Then he shook his head and added an explanation.
“If you become a knight, you will become a higher person than your father. Plus, it’s cool. “You’ll never be able to ignore me again?”
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Elric, with his arms crossed, was very arrogant.
Tyria blinked her eyes, then nodded.
“… huh.”
There was nothing more to refute, so it was a rough answer, and Elric burst into anger, saying, ‘This is why I can’t communicate with girls!’
Tyria inertically apologized.
“sorry.”
“huh? “Why are you sorry?”
“just… .”
“Don’t apologize if there’s no reason. You f*ucking idiot. “If you apologize first, you look belittled.”
It was still an incomprehensible logic.
However, this time, unlike his dream of becoming a knight, it was something that really penetrated his heart.
The idea that there was no need to apologize was something very unfamiliar to Tyria at the time.
Feeling an itch inside her stomach for no reason, Tyria lowered her head.
Then, feeling my face getting hot, I answered in a trembling voice.
“… Yes, then I won’t be sorry.”
“Okay, okay, if anyone asks you what you did wrong, throw a rock in their face! “Then you’ll never say that again!”
“Puhuh… .”
I laughed.
Tyria laughed so hard that she wondered if she had ever laughed like this before.
Now Tyria knew the joy of laughing out loud.
The boy who taught it got a little better.
Of course, it wasn’t whether it was love or not.
Until then, Elric was an unfamiliar and surprising peer to Tyria, a kid who was fun to be with.
It was a relationship that could be explained to that extent.
Funnily enough, that perception changed that night.
It was a time when drowsiness began to creep in, and Elric was already dozing off with his head spinning.
The night air was very cold because winter was just around the corner.
Finally, unable to overcome his drowsiness, Elric took out a blanket and said.
“Come here, let’s sleep now.”
Even though there was only one blanket, it was big enough to cover two children.
Elric held Tyria in his arms, rolled a blanket over her, and laid her down.
Tyria stiffened.
Then Elric patted Tyria on the back.
“If you do this, you can sleep better. “I know because my nanny did it once.”
This was a story Tyria did not know.
But I definitely felt like my body was at ease when Elric patted my back.
As my body, which had been tense the entire time, relaxed, my mind also relaxed.
Tyria then thought back to the events of the previous day.
Then, suddenly, I started crying.
“Ugh… .”
Perhaps it was because of the extreme temperature difference.
There was that much of a gap between my father’s hand, which was stretched out while screaming viciously, and Elric’s hand, which was patting my back with a soft voice.
“Hmm… .”
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 fell asleep worrying about whether I would be able to attend tomorrow’s class well or whether I would not be able to attend tomorrow.
So it was the first time.
Today was the first time Tyria wasn’t afraid of tomorrow.
“Kuhhh… .”
“what’s the matter?”
“Huh… .”
“He’s crying again. “I’m going to be a real butt-haired leader.”
The tears flowed endlessly and never stopped.
Even though Elric complained about that, he didn’t stop patting his back.
Tyria was very thankful for that.
As I buried my face in his arms, the warmth became stronger.
The boy’s body temperature in the tent under the bridge was so warm that it felt warm inside, to the point where it felt warmer than the cozy room in the mansion.
That may have been why.
Tyria fell asleep without a nightmare that day.
Instead of having a nightmare, I had a dream of being in a warm garden and being bathed in sunlight.
It was a dream, but it was the next morning that I realized why I felt such a warm energy.
She didn’t let go of Elric, who she hugged until the moment she woke up, and shared his warmth all night long.
So, when the morning finally dawned and she opened her eyes, Tyria realized that Elric was still there.
‘I’m not scared.’
If you have Elric, you won’t be afraid of falling asleep or waking up in the morning.
That this boy makes it happen.
That the boy is a person who can become a huge fence so that he can not be afraid of anything in the world.
It was a very young heart, but it was still a precious one.
It was a feeling that made my heart flutter.
I don’t want to fall off, or I want to stay attached.
The childish idea of taking eternity for granted was clearly the realm of a child, and as such, it touched the essence of first love.
Although she had lived a life without Elric until then, she fell into the thought that she would not be able to live without Elric. Tyria smiled and waved her hands.
Then Elric woke up.
“Ugh… stuffy.”
Elric opened his eyes slowly and frowned.
They had been sleeping tightly together with blankets wrapped around them, so their faces were so close that their noses were touching.
Tyria’s heart was pounding.
When Elric woke up, his eyes were clear and he looked like a prince from a fairy tale.
“Ugh, it’s ugly.”
… If only you hadn’t opened your mouth.
“Get your face away, 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 just a dream I had while sleeping.
I want to fall asleep with Elric and wake up with him every day.
And Tyria knew how to make that dream come true.
“I want to marry you.”
My father and teacher always say that if we get married, we will be together every day.
The girl I love is reckless, living by the desires of others, but the girl who first awakens to her own desires spoke shamelessly and directly.
However, there was something that Tyria at the time did not know.
“Nope? “You’re ugly.”
Marriage was originally a matter of mutual consent.
and,
“I’m going to marry a peerless beauty. “Rdio says the driver lives with a beautiful woman.”
Elric that day was an ugly, immature six-year-old.
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