Episode 323. Side Story (1): Nana’s Diary
Is this what it feels like to feel new every day?
Academy or home.
Unlike the past, when we had the same night under the same sky every day, these days, each day is very special.
I’m traveling right now.
Papa recommended it.
Let’s go on a journey to find the real me.
Papa said he wanted me to see a lot, experience a lot, and develop my own personality and values.
Emily tried to stop me, saying she couldn’t let me go alone without knowing where I might end up, but I finally got permission after begging for three days and nights.
Instead, it told me a lot of things to be careful about.
In particular, I was told not to follow a strange person if they told me they were cute or offered me something to eat.
Could it be that I don’t even notice that much?
Rather, Brian broke into a cold sweat, saying that he should be worried about the people he took, not me.
What are you doing now?
I’m writing a diary!
In order to better remember what I saw and felt during my trip, I record everything that happened that day.
Today, something a little special happened.
I can’t say it’s particularly good, but it’s not a bad thing, is it?
I can say that it was a very strange day for me.
What happened?
Would you like to take a listen?
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Should we say it is the end of dawn, that is, around the time sunlight begins to leak out of the eastern sky?
At that point, we arrived at Brenu, the southern city of the Usif Empire.
After walking for two days and nights, I finally arrived.
Oh, by the way, I try to refrain from flying using wings as much as possible.
After all, I’m human, right?
So, I thought that as a human being, I should travel on my own two feet rather than by flying.
At first, it wasn’t easy to walk for more than a few hours on these two weak legs,
Now I have completely adapted to it, to the point where I can walk for more than 12 hours a day without any problems!
You can do that too, right?
Anyway, Brenu is a special city to me.
There are a lot of delicious foods like crepes, and it’s very noisy because there are a lot of people walking around.
But more than anything, it is a very meaningful city in that it is the place where Papa and I first met.
As soon as I entered the city, I bought all of Brenu’s delicious snacks, starting with fruit crepes.
Before leaving for the trip, Brian gave me plenty of money to buy delicious food.
When I asked where he got it, he said he stole it from Emily’s pocket and that he was the only one who knew.
Don’t you know how you’ll handle it if you get caught later?
Oh, by the way, people don’t eat much these days.
Last time, I accidentally ate a dark elf that looked similar to a human and got a severe stomachache.
I couldn’t eat anything for two days and I fainted.
So, when it smells really delicious, I follow it around and watch it, and when I decide it will be okay to eat it, I eat it.
After filling up my stomach to a certain extent, I headed to an important place that I must visit when I come to Brenu.
There are no traces of people now, and although it looks almost like an abandoned house from the outside,
For me, Papa’s house is the next warmest place.
This is where Mama’s memories are.
It is the place where the last traces of the precious person who brought Nana into this world were, and it is a secret place that no one knows except Papa and me!
I entered the building with such excitement,
“… … ?”
What is this? Did you feel like you were popular inside?
At first, I thought a homeless person with nowhere to go had come in.
But I immediately realized that wasn’t the case.
Because it didn’t smell human.
However, it wasn’t the smell of an unfamiliar creature that I had smelled for the first time.
It was a very unfamiliar, yet at the same time familiar smell that I definitely remember having encountered somewhere.
Out of curiosity, I quickly ran in the direction of the smell.
“… … ?”
The basement of the building, exactly where Mama’s memories are located.
There I met a truly unexpected person, no, a dragon.
“… … !”
He was also very surprised when he saw me.
We just looked at each other in silence for a while, not knowing why we were here.
So I asked first.
“You’re the dragon who lives in the demon world, right?”
“… … .”
The man didn’t say anything.
I think he probably didn’t like being called uncle.
“The uncle’s name is probably… .”
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“Nagel Anción de Court… … .”
“That’s right, Uncle Nagel! Now I remember! He’s the leader of the devil dragons who dragged us into this strange space! Right?”
Would you say it’s the joy of meeting an unexpected being in a familiar place?
He wasn’t a very friendly person, but he wasn’t a bad person either, so I greeted him warmly.
“Why are you here?”
“Is that what I want to ask? Uncle Nagel, why are you here? “This is definitely a human world?”
I was born in the human world and grew up in the human world, so it’s natural for me to be here, but that’s not the case for Uncle Nagel.
A person who lives in the Demon World suddenly appeared in the Human World, and in a special place for me, so I was not only curious but also suspicious.
“I heard that someone with a connection to me visited this place.”
“Human? “Did you have any human friends?”
Uncle Nagel reluctantly nodded.
“Hmm~! That’s why the demon world treated me kindly back then! “Papa said that dragons usually despise humans and look down on them!”
“I don’t think I was treated particularly kindly, but… … .”
“What kind of person was he? “Is he still alive?”
“I heard he died. More than 10 years ago… … .”
“Oh, I’m sorry. “I was rude.”
“Does not matter.”
The atmosphere became awkward for a moment because of my thoughtless question.
I thought hard about how to resolve this awkwardness.
“Dragons despise humans and view them as mean… … .”
“… … !”
“It’s not wrong. “I also had that kind of time.”
In the meantime, Uncle Nagel opened his mouth first.
I naturally listened to Uncle Nagel’s story.
“She was the one who broke my false notions. Just looking at her puts her mind at ease. If I don’t see her, I keep thinking about her… … . “The emotions she felt at that time still remain vivid.”
“That’s what you like! “Uncle Nagel, didn’t you have feelings for that person, or that woman?”
“Yes, that’s right. Without any doubt about her, I definitely had feelings for her… … .”
Uncle Nagel did not deny his feelings.
“But at the time, I didn’t acknowledge those feelings. I can’t believe I, a dragon, have feelings for humans. Rather, I felt deeply disillusioned with myself for thinking about such things. So she abandoned her and left her heartlessly. Despite the fact that there was even an uproar… … .”
At that time, Uncle Nagel’s eyes I saw were full of sadness and regret.
When I saw that, my heart also became depressed.
“If you meet him one more time, what would you like to say?”
“well. I wonder what the point is of taking someone who is already dead and making that assumption… … .”
Uncle Nagel thought for a moment, then sighed and said.
“Maybe I should apologize. I apologize for not being honest with my feelings and being unfaithful… … .”
After hearing those words, I made up my mind.
I decided to show my precious person to Uncle Nagel.
So I rushed in front of him.
“What are you doing?”
“Just wait a moment! uh… … “Is this how you do it?”
I touched the dark attribute mana that appeared in my hand to the ground.
It was to use the same magic that Papa used for me all those years ago.
-Whoa!
Fortunately, it worked well, and the aura that rose from the ground enveloped Uncle Nagel and me.
Soon, a light appeared in front of our eyes, and in that light, Mama appeared.
“… … !”
You should have seen Uncle Nagel’s face back then!
He had a very surprised face, as if he had seen a world on the verge of destruction.
“mama!”
I immediately ran to Mama and shared a bond that I hadn’t had in a while.
Mama welcomed me as warmly as she did back then.
“… … !”
Then suddenly Mama’s eyes turned to Uncle Nagel.
Uncle Nagel also accepted Mama’s gaze without avoiding it.
But it’s not like we had a conversation or anything.
It seemed like we shared an unspoken connection that I couldn’t understand, just through our eyes, without saying a word.
Then, at the end, we looked at each other and smiled.
I smiled a pure smile full of sincerity, without any lies.
After the magic ended, Uncle Nagel and I returned to reality.
Uncle Nagel, who had been soaked in emotion, returned to his original expressionless face as if he had never done it before.
“Why did you show me this?”
“I just wanted to show you too! Just as Uncle Nagel told me his precious story, Mama’s memories are precious to me too!”
Uncle Nagel looked into my eyes in silence for a moment.
“What do you think you are?”
“A human!”
“From what I see, you are clearly a dragon. “Not just any dragon, but a devil dragon with the same blood as us.”
“It could be a dragon, or it could be a human. “Aren’t we all the same anyway, whether humans or dragons?”
Mr. Nagel reacted blankly when he heard my answer, but then he nodded.
“okay. You are right. Humans and dragons are beings with no differences from each other… … .”
“I’m just Nana! Nana, Sian Berth’s precious daughter!”
I think this is more important than anything else.
It will be the same in the future as well.
“Ugh~! After using the magic, I suddenly became hungry. “I know a good restaurant nearby. Would you like to go with Mr. Nagel?”
“I’m fine. “Go alone and eat a lot.”
“Okay then! “I’m doing well, mister~!”
That’s how I broke up with Uncle Nagel.
I don’t know how long Uncle Nagel stayed in that place, but I had a feeling that we would meet again somewhere.
It’s okay to say it now, but I already know.
That my Papa, who is more precious than anything else in this world, is not actually the real Papa who gave me birth.
It makes no sense to not know when your head is this big!
So sometimes I thought about the real dad who had s*x with my mom,
I wonder if there is any point in doing it.
This is what happened anyway, we just need to take care of each other and get along.
Today’s diary ends here!
What kind of night sky will I write my diary under tomorrow?
But when I talk about Papa, I suddenly want to see Papa again.
What is our Papa doing right now?
(Continued in the next part)
fantasy,
