Please Do Not Abandon the Adopted Heroine

157 – Memories of sleeping water drops_2

The snowy field was not an unfamiliar place to Undine.

When you look out the window at DC’s Mansion, you can see at a glance the endless ash covered with ash beyond the low fence in the front yard and the ecology of all kinds of monsters passing over it.

The snowy field was the home of our blood relatives, and it was like our hometown for the rest of our lives.

When I got used to playing for a while, I made a bet with Ignis to see who would go farther into the snowy field. The monsters were a bit fierce, but just because it was an empire didn’t mean there were no wild animals. There was a time when Undine had such an immature thought that if she learned magic from her parents, she wouldn’t be afraid no matter where she fell in the snowy field.

“… “The atmosphere is strange.”

Even Undine, who is accustomed to snowy fields, sees an unfamiliar sky spread out high above.

I could tell right away that this was not ash, but real snow that had fallen from the sky.

White breath. The air was so cold that it was frozen. The transparent yet bright sunlight reflects off the snow, making it sore.

I received the coordinates from Manwol. Undine immediately cast teleportation. Actually, it wasn’t that there were no questions. Although the DCs have been looking for Eugene for the past several years, they have never been able to find him. Even if Eugene’s purpose is unknown, it would be unnatural for Manwol to know his location if he fought and lost to him.

I looked around carefully with a feeling of doubt. There are no monsters around.

Not long after, I found a shadow standing in the middle of a white snow field.

Undine did not miss him.

“Eugene!”

“You’re probably just pretending you didn’t hear? Even after that incident at the end of the northern snowfield, it has remained in that state. “Standing there incredibly dumbfounded.”

At that moment, Undine heard a voice over her shoulder and started to wake up, hiccuping and hiccuping. Manwol, who was holding her breath, grabbed her belly button and laughed.

“The taste of teasing is truly excellent.”

“… … … .”

Undine was displeased inwardly, but quickly changed her mind.

“Did Eugene inherit the holy sword that you had?”

“mister? … Ah, you mean Neferna? That’s right, it’s been a long time since Eugene received the Second Holy Sword. … “I am not treated as a hero in the empire, but it is true that I have spent the past few years in the snowy field holding a holy sword.”

I felt like my heart was going to sink. She hoped that what she heard from Mr. and Mrs. DC was not true, but she ended up admitting it as if Manwol was proud of it.

I vaguely heard that the situation was a bit difficult. But she only thought that she was living well in the empire until now. I never would have thought that he would be wandering around the snowy fields with a holy sword for the past ten years.

“Hmm… . The atmosphere is different from last time. Did the Second Holy Sword try again?”

Manwol shrugged her shoulders as she looked at Eugene, who was far away in the distance.

“In times like this, just close your eyes and give it a go~ Undine! sally!”

“Ouch!”

Manwol pushed Undine’s back.

With a thud, I lost my balance.

As I rolled around, snow started to clump up on my body.

Rolling,

Rolling,

Uddangtangtang…

Only after rolling so much that she got motion sick and her vision spinning so fast that she couldn’t even tell what speed she was going at, Undine realized that her body was covered in snow and looked like a snowman.

“… … Ugh… . it hurts… .”

No matter how snowy it is, just because it rolls a little doesn’t make it a snowman. This was clearly Manwol’s masterpiece.

But when Undine looked back, huffing and puffing, she realized that something was very wrong.

The full moon was so far away that it seemed distant.

… Isn’t this the same point where I was looking at Eugene just a moment ago… ?

Sure enough, when I raised my head buried in the snow, there was…

“… … … .”

“… … … .”

there he was

close.

The distance you can reach if you stretch out your hand.

Eyes meet with dry eyes like dry plants.

Standing quietly in the middle of a snow field.

There isn’t even a slight movement.

There is no emotion in the facial expression as he silently rolls his eyes and looks at Undine.

Rather than being indifferent, I could tell intuitively that he didn’t even have the slightest interest.

When she first met that gaze, Undine felt her heart sink. Before he came here, he had a lot of words in his head, but when he actually stood in front of him, everything went to waste. Fortunately, he unconsciously closed his mouth.

… Now that I think about it, what should I say?

I came this far with all the blood rushing to my head, but it was actually the most important issue.

There was nothing Undine could say.

Are you trying to persuade me? how?

Come to your senses? You can’t do this?

Eugene, who remained in Undine’s memories, was a boy who was somewhat childish and clumsy. A kind boy who silently protected him until the end even when his life was in danger.

It’s less than ten years. As I occasionally exchanged letters or heard news from the DCs, I thought that if I held on for a little while, we would be able to meet again. There were days when she would blush and kick the blanket while imagining how Eugene would grow up to be similar to her, perhaps even older than her.

I hope that we will meet again someday, and that when that day comes, we will be able to smile and talk face to face.

I just sincerely hoped that you would forget the tearful expression I showed you the last time, and that I could say that I am truly, truly grateful.

“… … you!”

I could hardly breathe.

The sigh lodged deep in my lungs stung like a sharp needle.

What are you saying now?

Undine doesn’t know Eugene’s past times.

He is so shameless that he shows up after several years and suddenly says, “You can’t do this,” but it has no weight.

Is it really right to spout hypocrisy now about a subject who never showed up when Eugene was tired and needed help the most? I feel so disgusted and disgusted with myself.

“… you… you… … that… … that is… ”

Undine had no right to be called ‘Eugene’.

The moment I realized that fact, I felt like tears would fall without me knowing.

He turned his head. It was Eugene’s first move. As the embarrassed Undine hurriedly wiped away her tears, a very unfamiliar voice reached her ears.

“… Next time, I’ll cut it.”

“… … uh?”

“go away.”

That was the end of it.

Undine with a blank expression stared off into space.

You didn’t hear it wrong. It was clearly something he said himself.

The voice that has changed is far from the one in my memories.

A colorless voice that has lost temperature and color… .

Eugene looked away in silence, as if he had nothing more to do.

A crack appeared. It’s not a delusion. … It’s magic. When I realized it too late, I was already in a different place. Where is this place? I didn’t even have the presence of mind to worry about such things. My entire mind turned black. Was he crying? It seemed like it might have been that way.

There was a full moon through the blurry vision. Manwol looked at Undine with a strange look and then at Eugene who was in the distance, then shrugged his shoulders and smiled bitterly.

“Hmm… … .”

I don’t remember exactly how I got back home after that.

***

“Honey, what should I do?”

“ma’am. Calm down a little… … ”

“I haven’t been able to eat for several days already. My complexion is pale, and I’m stuck in my room all day… What should I do?”

“Undine is still at a sensitive age. “This incident deserves to be shocking.”

“It’s the same as then. If you fall asleep like this… ”

Mrs. Dees hovered in the same spot with a pensive look on her face. Washedishz tried hard to calm her wife down, but she was just as anxious.

Suddenly, an unfamiliar voice was heard from the sofa.

“If I fall asleep like this, I’ll probably go into sleep mode and sleep for a few years before waking up. When our blood relatives are mentally stressed, they fall into a state of sleep. It’s puberty, right? That happens sometimes. ah! Can I eat what’s on the table? I’ll eat some~ Ommnyomnyom… ”

“I see the tip of the precious moon phase, the full moon.”

“Greetings to the full moon, the tip of the precious moon phase.”

The DC couple immediately bowed their heads towards Manwol, who had been rolling around on the sofa for some time.

“It’s okay to say hello.”

“… “What’s going on here?”

“Well, I came to check on your condition.”

“If you say status… … ”

“It happened because I asked for it, right? I don’t like to easily ask someone for something. Shouldn’t you take responsibility? Omnyomnyom… … ”

Manwol, who had been mindlessly eating a few pieces of fruit, shook her hands and stood up.

She shouted excitedly and pounded Undine’s room! And when they opened it, the DC couple’s hearts skipped a beat! And I almost fell.

“Ego! As soon as I reunite with my unrequited love of several years, “Shut up and get out of here!!” “Where on earth was our poor Miss Undine hiding when she first heard that?”

A dark room without a single ray of light. I heard that it has already been more than 15 days, just counting the days I spent curled up under the blanket and feeling like a wreck.

Manwol rolled Undine up and lifted her up with the blanket.

“Youngcha!”

“Manwol… ! Ooh, Undine is now… ”

“I’m borrowing it from my daughter. I’ll use it up and return it to you right away.”

“yes… ?”