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Unlimited Fafnir Vol 15 Epilogue
🕑 Added 2021-03-19 20:54:01 +0000 UTCEpilogue
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Part 1
「……chan……Onii-chan──」
My body was shaken. My consciousness floated up from the depth of sleep.
The dream I saw turned distant, receded, and vanished. Then I opened my heavy eyelids.
Then in front of me there was Ren’s face looking down at me.
When our eyes met, she smiled happily and gave me the morning greeting.
「Good morning……Onii-chan.」
「…………Yeah, good morning……Ren」
I replied while still half asleep.
However I knew what I should do next even though my head wasn’t working yet.
I brought out my arm from under the blanket and plopped my hand on the head of Ren who was looking at me in expectation.
「……Thanks for waking me up again today.」
I gently caressed Ren’s red hair with gratitude.
「Nn」
Ren nodded in satisfaction and stepped away from the bedside. She headed toward the room’s entrance.
「Onee-chan is running earlier than usual. Perhaps, at the usual place.」
Ren looked back in front of the door and told me where Ariella was.
「Got it. Ah, that’s right──Ren」
I recalled a business and called Ren to stop.
「Nn?」
Ren tilted her head slightly and I asked her a bit cautiously.
「For the party this time……will Chief Miyazawa come?」
Miyazawa Kenya──Ren’s father. The matter regarding him was something delicate, but that didn’t mean I could avoid it. After all both Ren and I didn’t wish for that kind of relationship.
「……Looks like it. But, I don’t care.」
Ren answered indifferently. She didn’t look like she was forcing herself.
That was why I also replied with a light tone.
「I see, certainly it doesn’t really matter.」
「Nn.」
Ren nodded with surety. She looked at me with a serious face.
「More importantly, what’s important for the party is whether I can be with Onii-chan or not.」
「──I get it. I’m in the party committee so I won’t really be able to leave everything, but I’ll definitely make time.」
I nodded back. Ren smiled in relieve seeing that.
「Nn, promise. Then Onii-chan……don’t fall asleep, again.」
Ren said that and exited my room.
My room suddenly turned quiet. The morning sunlight was shining in.
Two weeks had passed since the final battle against Angolmois ended and we returned to Midgard.
I felt strangely happy of being able to welcome a peaceful morning in this room. I was feeling moved emotionally that I couldn’t really describe with word.
The days kept continuing like it was only natural, and there was a future that we could picture clearly ahead of it. I believed that was really a great blessing.
I washed my face and drunk a glass of water before quickly changing into a training jersey and left my room.
The first floor corridor was filled with the cool air of early morning. I walked through the corridor and went outside the building.
Although the temperature was still low, the outside of the building had a lot of moisture so it didn’t feel cold.
I lightly jogged on the path along the sea before heading to the open space behind the lodging house.
*Pon, pon* I could hear the sound of ball.
There Ariella was performing juggling with a soccer ball.
Her training menu changed every day. It seemed that she was fine with anything as long as she moved her body.
Just repeating the same thing would make the muscle growth of the body to be unbalanced. And it would be boring and not fun──that was what she said.
That way of thinking was extremely refreshing for me who thought that completing routine work was only natural.
「Ah, Mononobe-kun──morning.」
Ariella immediately noticed me and kicked the ball my way.
「Oops, morning──Ariella.」
I trapped the ball with my chest before replying to her.
「You are really early today.」
I juggled the ball around ten times with my leg before kicking it back to Ariella.
「Actually yesterday, something good happened for a bit. It makes me feel exhilarated……that I woke up early.」
Ariella skillfully caught the ball with her head and spoke with her expression loosening up.
「Something good?」
「Yep, Sherry……my acquaintance from the past called and said that she will come to the party──ah, just to be clear, I’m not happy because I’ll meet her you know? Rather there are a lot of things between us that our relationship with each other is awkward……but, it seems she is going to come with letters for me.」
She rolled the ball with her forehead before dropping it behind her. Then she kicked up the ball with her heel without looking back.
The ball flew this way again. I trapped it and asked her back.
「Letters from who?」
An old acquaintance of Ariella must be someone involved with her when she belonged with a dragon boycotter organization.
「For me──they are like my little brothers and sisters I guess. It seems they saw headmaster’s broadcast……after that……you know.」
Ariella answered vaguely, but that was enough for me.
Perhaps Ariella was finally──rewarded for her effort.
「That’s great.」
I lightly kicked the ball high toward Ariella. She smiled while following the ball’s trajectory with her gaze.
「Yep.」
Ariella directly kicked back the falling ball. Our “fight” began from there.
A mood that the one who dropped the ball would be the loser was created. We had a work out together.
The training that should be painful and boring was becoming a time that made my heart danced before I realized it.
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Christmas party was held every year in Midgard at 24 and 25 December.
This year the party’s program was drastically expanded. Outsiders would be invited at 22 and 23 December like the school festival before.
The reason for the sudden modification in the program was the broadcast that Charlotte held during the fight against Angolmois and……our Brunhilde class.
Our names and faces became well known across the world due to that broadcast. It couldn’t be felt in Midgard, but it seemed that there was a really big commotion outside.
Interest, rumor, and speculation about us continued to swell up. I heard there were even people who insisted that our existence was even more dangerous than dragon.
「My friend, maidens, this will put burden on all of you but──no matter what we need to temporarily allow them to let off their steam with this. We will show the people who attend the party that all of you are “normal children”. The flow of event will greatly change just from that.」
Charlotte said that and asked for our cooperation.
We also had no reason to refuse that.
Because everyone and I also thought that there was something that we had to convey to the people of the world.
Thanks to the people who responded to Charlotte’s broadcast, we could win that battle. We had to convey our gratitude properly for that.
But──because the party’s program had expanded, the workload of the student council and executive committee was becoming outrageous.
I who was appointed as executive committee member by the student council president Mitsuki was feeling that keenly.
The time that I could freely use at morning was also limited, so I ended up the training earlier than Ariella and returned to my room with quick steps.
Today too Mitsuki and I needed to go to school earlier than everyone to work.
──There is less than two weeks until the party. We have to hurry.
I washed off my sweat in shower and changed into my uniform. When I went to the dining room──I heard rhythmical sound of kitchen knife from the kitchen.
Sometimes there would be those who relied on auto maid when oversleeping, but this wasn’t the sound mechanical automatic sound.
「Eh……?」
Usually Mitsuki and I would take turn to cook breakfast for two people, so I peered into the kitchen wondering who it could be.
There I found Lisa cooking while wearing apron.
「Lisa?」
When I called her, Lisa stopped her hands and looked back.
「Aa, Mononobe Yuu. Good morning──it’s my turn to cook today, so I woke up early to also cook for the portion of you two. Be grateful.」
「Oo……of course I’m grateful for that. Thanks a lot.」
I expressed my gratitude and washed my hand before helping with the cooking.
The ingredient preparation had finished, so there wasn’t much that I should do.
「Mononobe Yuu, it seems that you also went back late yesterday……you mustn’t force yourself too much.」
Lisa who was cooking beside me spoke to me with a worried voice.
「I’m fine. I’m confident with my stamina, so I won’t collapse just from this much.」
「That kind of self-conceit is the most dangerous. You only had cup ramen for your dinner last night didn’t you? I was aghast when I saw the packaging inside the trash can.」
Lisa sent me a sidelong glare, so I averted my gaze.
「Well, that’s, I was tired yesterday……」
「Even your vaunted stamina would be gone in the blink of eye if you have that kind of eating habit. Next time please ask me if you don’t have any energy left to cook. I can at least whip up dinner quickly.」
Lisa said that. Her hand movement when cooking was really speedy without any wasted motion. Certainly if it was Lisa then she would be able to prepare food quickly.
「Got it……I’ll do that next time I’m tired. But, even so──you are really good at cooking Lisa.」
「That’s, I’m──as expected I want to be told that my cooking is delicious if I’m making it. Especially, by you.」
Lisa said that jokingly, but right after that she blushed until her ears. Because of that the atmosphere turned awkward.
I was aware how my face also heated up while searching for the words to say.
「……Next time, when I thought that your food is delicious, I’ll properly tell you how delicious it is.」
「If you can do that for me──I’ll feel, really happy.」
The overlapping sounds of kitchen knife felt really pleasant for some reason.
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The breakfast preparation finished quickly thanks to Lisa. After that I headed to wake up Mitsuki.
However midway──when I was passing in front of another room, the door was opened hard from the inside.
「Oops」
I hurriedly jumped back from almost getting hit by the door.
「Wah, Mononobe-kun.」
Firill came out from the room.
Originally this was Lisa and Tia’s room, but Firill was using her own room as book storage, so she was sleeping in this room.
「Morning Firill. You are really early today.」
Firill was the one who woke up the latest next after Iris, so I almost had no chance at all to see her recently.
However right now Firill wasn’t looking sleepy at all. She was already wearing her uniform properly.
「M-morning. A-actually there is a bit……a delivery from outside is scheduled to arrive today so……I can’t wait any longer, so I’m thinking to go to the harbor to pick it up.」
Firill answered me with a flustered look and averted her gaze from me.
Her action was obviously suspicious, but in Firill’s case, it would be better to not question it too much. She often ordered book, manga, or game online, and among them sometimes there would be thing in the category of “a world that you would be better off not knowing” mixed in.
「──I-I see. Then sorry that I’m holding you back here.」
I awkwardly smiled and moved to leave that place.
But Firill got a taken aback look and grabbed my hand.
「W-wait a second Mononobe-kun! D-don’t misunderstand! My order this time isn’t anything indecent at all!」
「You said this time. I don’t think that it can’t even become any excuse at all by the time you said that though.」
I stopped walking and sighed.
「Uu……b-but, I don’t want to be misunderstood. This time it’s really not that kind of thing at all, it’s a delivery from Erlia Principality──from father.」
「From King Alfred?」
I asked back in surprise.
Certainly if it was a delivery from her father, there was no way it would be something strange.
「Yep, father will come to the party this time, so the delivery is for the preparation of that……there is also things, like──w……wedding, dress……or something.」
Firill spoke a shocking word with a small hoarse voice.
「Heh?」
I was flabbergasted. Firill got defiant in respond and continued speaking.
「Mononobe-kun, prepare yourself for the day when father come okay? I swear that this time for sure, I’ll accomplish the ancient Elria wedding ceremony──the completed hard mode version!」
A passionate flame was lit in Firill’s eyes and she clenched her fist.
「O-oi……」
Firill started running and left me dumbfounded, but when she turned at the corner, she looked back and smiled mischievously.
「This time it won’t be me stealing a march, but a fair and square fight with everyone. I-I’ll be……happy if you cheer me on at that time. Also──I believe that it will be fine if it’s you Mononobe-kun but, do your best to survive!」
After saying that, Firill turned the corner and the sound of footsteps going down the stairs was getting further.
「Survive……hard mode……」
I felt an extremely bad premonition from those words, but I resigned myself to accept my fate because surely Firill wouldn’t be able to stop already.
──I hope that nobody will get injured.
I only prayed for that and moved to close the door that was left open.
「……Yuu?」
But there Tia’s voice came from inside the dark room.
「Ah, sorry. Did I wake you up?」
「Nnnn……Tia is fine.」
Tia came until in front of the door with shaky footsteps. Her eyes were still half closed. She clearly looked sleepy.
「No, it’s better if you continue sleeping. Tia usually wake up thirty minutes after this right?」
Tia looked like she was going to collapse anytime now, so I kneeled and said that while supporting her body.
「That’s true but……Yuu will already leave at that time……not being able to see off the husband……is a disgrace, as a wife.」
「──Just that feeling is enough. If you force yourself awake and fall asleep during class, you will lose face as the senior of Kili and others you know?」
I caressed Tia’s hair that was disheveled from just waking up and persuaded her slowly.
「Certainly……a senior’s dignity is important.」
「Yosh, then let’s get you back to bed.」
I lifted up Tia’s light body in my arms and I entered inside the room.
There was sweet scent drifting from somewhere inside the room. It made me felt like I was doing something improper. This room was also the living place of Lisa and Firill, so I restrained myself to not stare around too much.
「Yuu……but, just one thing.」
「What?」
Tia brought her face closer to my cheek when we got close to the bed.
「Have a……safe trip.」
In an instant Tia left behind a warm and soft sensation on my cheek before smiling shyly at me.
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「──Walking to school together like this reminds me of when Nii-san first came to Midgard.」
Mitsuki who was walking side by side with me on the path along the sea spoke in nostalgia.
「Is that so? Even if you don’t look back until that far in the past, I often went to school with Mitsuki alone until everyone moved to Mitsuki’s lodging house though.」
I listened to the sound of crashing wave across the breakwater while replying to Mitsuki.
There would be mountain of work waiting for us when we arrived to school, but my footsteps while walking to school with only Mitsuki were light.
「Aa……that’s true now that Nii-san mentioned it. For some reason, it feels like I have lived together with everyone since a long time ago.」
Mitsuki smiled wryly and checked that there was nobody around before linking her arm with mine.
「Besides thinking carefully──at that time I was too shy to do something like this……I couldn’t do it even if I wanted.」
Mitsuki smiled shyly. She was leaning on me very naturally.
A soft sensation touched on my skin. I got a bit nervous, but I also felt relieved that I could feel Mitsuki this closely.
「So you wanted to do this huh……」
I muttered keenly. I couldn’t imagine that at all from Mitsuki’s attitude when we first reunited in Midgard.
Then Mitsuki puffed her cheeks in discontent.
「Naturally. Good grief……does Nii-san know just how much I love you?」
「You love me──how much?」
Mitsuki’s straightforward confession made my face heated up and I asked back to cover that up.
「Let’s see……even if the paperwork that Nii-san took care is inadequate and because of that I have to apologize to everyone involved, I can still forgive Nii-san with a smile. That’s just how much I love you.」
「──My deepest apologies about that, president.」
I was overwhelmed by Mitsuki’s menacing smile and apologized.
Since I became an executive committee member until now, I had committed various blunders with the paperwork duty that I wasn’t familiar with. Each time Mitsuki would clean up for me.
「Nii-san, are you really feeling guilty?」
「Well of course.」
When I nodded seriously, Mitsuki fell into thought for a bit before opening her mouth.
「Then, please give me piggyback.」
「Eh?」
「Can’t you hear me? I’m saying piggyback, piggyback. My legs are a bit tired. It’s fine to do it only until the path join with the girl dormitory’s path, so please do so.」
Mitsuki said that and looked up fixedly at me.
There was no way I could oppose that stare. I crouched down and turned my back toward Mitsuki.
「Come on.」
「Thank you very much, Nii-san.」
Mitsuki thanked me with an excited voice. She put her arms around my neck and leaned her body on mine.
I supported her smooth thighs while feeling a bit nervous before putting my strength into my legs to stand up.
「Heave ho」
「D-don’t yell heave ho like that. Nii-san makes it sound like I’m heavy.」
「No, you are quite heavy you know?」
「Muu……」
「Wait, don’t choke my neck! Light light, you are really light! Look I can easily run even with you on my back.」
When I started running with Mitsuki on my back, a laughter echoed inside my ears.
「Fufu, in the past──when we climbed the mountain to the viewing platform, it would be nice if Nii-san also did this for me.」
Mitsuki muttered with a heartfelt feeling. She hugged me tighter.
「I’ll resupply my Nii-san particle so that I can work hard the whole day so……it’s fine if Nii-san walk slower.」
「……Ou」
I stopped running after Mitsuki asked and walked as slowly as possible.
Because I also wanted for this time to last as long as possible.
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Because I was working as executive committee member before class began, at lunch break, and after school, during the class became a time when I couldn’t help but feel sleepy.
As someone who had talked to Tia about showing example as a senior, I didn’t want to fall asleep here, but I couldn’t endure what couldn’t be endured.
But when I started to doze off, there was a girl who offered a hand of salvation to me.
I who was about to surrender to sleepiness during the class of world history got poked from behind and returned to my senses.
When I turned around, Shion who was sitting on the seat behind me smiled innocently.
「pApa, figHt oN.」
She encouraged me with a small voice. I nodded.
But the wave of sleepiness kept advancing on me.
Then this time I felt a slight stinging shock on my neck.
It was a cover fire using eraser from Jeanne who was sitting diagonally behind me. She gave me a thumb up when I looked at her.
「Please count on me, captain.」
Jeanne conveyed her words to me with just her lips movement.
The two of them were helping me like this, but Shion was starting to play around as it went on.
Recently she was brimming with curiosity and liked to play prank. She was writing letter on my back with her finger.
──Pa……then one more time, pa.
I looked back at Shion behind the back of Shinomiya-sensei who was giving lecture in front of the classroom.
「You wrote papa?」
「coRrEct!」
Shion raised her voice happily. Shinomiya-sensei looked our way to see what we were doing.
「I-I’m sorry! Zwei asked me a question just now……please don’t mind us and continue the lesson!」
Jeanne immediately followed up on us.
Jeanne’s excuse couldn’t fool anybody, but Shinomiya-sensei who spoiled Shion rotten returned to the lesson without asking anything further.
The three of us sighed in relieve and looked at each other with a smile.
My sleepiness was already gone somewhere without me realizing it.
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And then between the lessons, the scene that had become a routine during the short break time was unfolding.
「I’m going home now! Don’t stop me!」
「It’s still the third period. Even I’m enduring here, so I won’t allow Okaa-sama to act as you please by yourself.」
Vritra who tried to run away from classroom got her arm grabbed by Kili and pulled back.
「I have nothing else but this vessel now. That’s why I won’t go outside where we don’t know what will happen and stay inside my pleasant and safe room for the whole day. I want to have my fill of human’s entertainment!」
「That kind of excuse won’t fly at all. Only having one body also apply to everyone. Stop acting like this and just give up already!」
Kili said that an pinioned Vritra. She dragged her back to her seat.
This happened every day, so everyone including me only watched that scene with lukewarm gaze.
「My comrade, help me!」
「Vritra……you don’t have any choice but to live as human from now on, so I think you should study properly.」
She asked me for help, but I turned my heart into demon and pushed her away. It wasn’t because I felt that it was troublesome to play along with this kind of farce, not at all.
Since Vritra returned to Midgard, her thought completely became that of a NEET just as could be seen.
The reason was just as Vritra said, because she only had her human vessel now.
She was an existence that was nearly immortal before, so this must be the recoil of her becoming a human with limited life.
I was thankful from the bottom of my heart to her because she ended up like this in order to save Iris. I also intended to do anything if it was for Vritra’s sake.
However even then……I couldn’t lend a help with something that wouldn’t be good for Vritra.
「It’s just as Yuu said. Okaa-sama, as long as I’m here──I absolutely won’t allow you to play hooky.」
Kili spoke a line that sounded like something a class president would say. It was a charming sight.
「……Yuu, what are you grinning at?」
Kili glared at me seeing me like that, but I shrugged and said that it was nothing.
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Part 2
After school──my work as executive member was unusually finished early. Mitsuki told me to go home first, so I left school.
Although it was earlier than usual, all the other students already went home.
There wasn’t anyone’s voice in the school or the path home. There were only the sounds of tree leaves rustling and waves.
I walked through the path along the sea that was illuminated bright red by the evening sun.
It had been a week since the last time I went home before the sun set.
For some reason I wanted to see the sea from nearby and went down to the beach from the breakwater’s stair.
There was the smell of sea water and the tune of waves that had already become familiar to me.
*Kyuu kyuu* With sea birds cry entering my ear, I stepped on the white sand and walked until the water’s edge. The sun that was sinking at the other side of the horizon looked extremely big.
At that moment, the mobile phone in my pocket vibrated.
I took it out and looked on the screen. It was a call with the phone number not showed. While I hesitated whether to pick up the call or not, a fairy girl──Atla popped out in the screen.
『Pick it up already!』
She said that and connected the call without permission.
And then I sighed in resignation when I saw the face of the man who appeared in the screen.
「What is it, Major Loki.」
The man──Major Loki narrowed his almond eyes and smiled as though he had expected my reaction.
『Fuh──you don’t look really happy, Second Lieutenant Mononobe. But I have an information that will be useful for you. Listen to it.』
「Information?」
I frowned. He told me his business with me.
『The party that will be held in Midgard──I also plan to show my face there but, there are various disquieting movements there. There are multiple factions at play, so I can’t predict what might happen. You better be fully on your guard.』
「──Is that so, I’m thankful for the information you provide me.」
『Oh, you don’t look shaken. Have you known about it?』
「No……I have simply intended to deal with anything that might happen from the start. I swear that I’ll protect my comrades──Midgard without fail.」
Major Loki smiled in satisfaction at my reply.
『How reliable, as expected from the hero who saved the world. But your opponent also isn’t ordinary. Actually a technology of different type from the old civilization(Atlantis)──is……bzz──zzzz-』
Major Loki was continuing to talk, but noise covered the screen in the middle of his talk and the connection was severed. And then Charlotte’s voice got uploaded in exchange.
『Good grief, that accursed son of hero! He is connecting a line here as he pleased again……my friend, are you safe?』
Charlotte looked at me with worry. I smiled wryly at her.
「We were just talking, so you don’t need to ask me that.」
『No, we can’t let our guard down against him. There are still signs of maneuvering to pull you back to NIFL again.』
「Got it. I’ll be careful Char.」
Even now I was already on my guard enough, but I should nod obediently here.
『Umu. Now putting that aside──my friend. Recently you never visited my room at all, what’s the meaning of this? Every day I’m looking forward to play game together with you……』
Charlotte asked me with a sad face, but that face was suddenly pulled away from the screen.
『Charlotte-sama, Mononobe-sama is busy with the party preparation so please don’t trouble him. Or rather……Charlotte-sama shouldn’t have time to play around too.』
The voice of the secretary Mica-san came from the speaker.
『T-that’s──o-ouch ouch ouch ouch! Stop that, my head will burst! My friend, till next time──next time I’ll be the one──gufuh!?』
The call was severed with Charlotte’s scream.
I stood still for a while at the water’s edge before looking toward the clock tower that could be seen at far away. I prayed for her safety.
And then I put my phone into my pocket and slowly started walking.
The evening sea where there was nobody else was quiet. I felt a bit lonely.
However when I returned to the lodging house, things should become really hectic that I wouldn’t even have any time to rest.
──Mitsuki also said that she might be able to make it in time for dinner today, so perhaps we might be able to eat with everyone after so long.
As I thought of such thing while walking on the beach, *splash* a sound came from the sea.
It was a light sound like a fish jumping out of water.
That was why I turned my gaze over there without really thinking of anything.
There──I held my breath.
I saw a girl appearing from the sea that was dyed red──.
「Ah」
The girl wearing white swimsuit saw me and stopped her legs.
Her silver hair reflected back the evening sun. The water drops trickling on her body were sparkling like jewel. The outline of her body that was standing out early from the background light was graceful. I was entranced by its curve.
「──Iris.」
I spoke the girl’s name.
And then the emotion that was welling up inside me leaked out as words almost unconsciously.
「So pretty……」
「Hyai!?」
Iris’s face instantly turned red. She looked at me with a flushed face that even the evening sun couldn’t hide. She fidgeted and hid her chest with both her arms.
「M-Mononobe──if you suddenly say something like that to, it’s……embarrassing.」
I also came back to my senses then and hurriedly opened my mouth.
「Ah……no, I unconsciously──that, err, you are wearing swimsuit properly today huh.」
I recalled the first time we met while saying that. Iris’s face blushed even redder to that.
「T-that was because my swimsuit got washed away──I’m not always swimming naked you know?」
Iris emphasized that, but she then got concerned with the state of her swimsuit and looked down to her body.
「Mononobe……now that you mention it, the first time we met, you also……called me pretty didn’t you?」
「Certainly──I did that.」
Iris’s naked body that was seared into my mind overlapped with her current figure. It made me suddenly unable to look at her directly.
Then Iris approached me with light steps and circled to in front of my averted gaze.
「You see, it was my first time being told something like that so……my heart really throbbed at that time. Even now……my heart is throbbing.」
Iris put her hand over her left chest. She stared at me from really close.
「I’m the same. Both at that time, and also now──」
I said that and took Iris’s hand. I pressed it on my left chest.
「Ah, it’s true……it’s the same like me.」
Iris’s expression burst into a smile, but then she slightly looked down.
「But──it might be a bit scary. What if, one day Mononobe stop thinking of me as pretty……you might hate me.」
I was stunned hearing those words.
Because that was a possibility that I really had never thought of.
Certainly I felt that “Iris right now” was prettier than anything. But──.
「No matter how you change, the me at that time──will surely think of Iris of that time as the prettiest. Somehow, I can feel sure of that.」
When I asserted that without any hesitation, it was Iris’s turn to be stunned this time with her mouth wide open──a few seconds later, her face boiled up.
「M-Mononobe! That’s no good! Cheating! Overly cool line like that is forbidden!」
Iris tried to cover my mouth in a fluster.
「O-oi!?」
I lost my balance due to her rush. I fell to the water together with Iris.
*Splash* Seawater splashed and my back got cold.
「Wawa! I’m sorry Mononobe!」
Iris was leaning over me. She apologized but I scooped seawater with both hands and aimed at her face with water gun.
「Eat this」
「Kyauh!?」
The water squirt hit Iris’s face directly. She screamed and glared back at me──then she smiled mischievously.
「Mononobe, I’m not going to hold back you know? Your uniform might get soaked wet.」
「Doesn’t matter. I’m already soaked wet.」
And then we began to splash each other with water at the water’s edge.
It was a time without really any meaning, just a time of having fun.
It was an irreplaceable moment.
「Mononobe! Here I goooo!!」
Iris scooped up water with both her hands strongly.
White cloth got removed from her chest because of that movement.
The future was always impossible to predict and filled with miracle.
After all the future was something that was spun with Iris, everyone, and people who we hadn’t met yet.
However, my chest pounded exactly because we didn’t know the future.
Miracle could always occur.
Just like in this paradise──like the time I first met with her.
