Warm sun shoots, in pleasant weather.
"Oh, come here, mister."
"Oh, wow."
Nell pulls me over and I walk down the road.
The surrounding area is sprawled with open fields, blown and swayed by yurayura and the wind.
Private houses exist only rarely, and people are seldom seen. They farm from time to time. So much so that Grandma and Grandpa look.
The sight of the countryside doesn't seem to change much, even if the world is different.
He finds out what I'm thinking, Nell smiles and opens his mouth.
"There's nothing here, is there?"
"Oh, that sounds like it"
It's an idyllic village.
- This is a village where Nel grew up, located on the outskirts of Wangdu.
It seems that it is a land ruled by ordinary aristocrats who are about three hours away by carriage from Wang Du and are not particularly good, but not bad.
Nell explained with a laugh that he could pick a fruit like Minkan as a specialty, but since the same fruit is grown in various parts of this country, it's not as rare as it sounds.
Well, because of that, let's just say I buy some as souvenirs and go home.
And Nell looks at me and laughs at Couscous.
"Huff, you don't have to be such a dick anymore."
"Yes, no, I say so...... or what can I call you about me, your mother? Am I supposed to call you Mr. Noira? Or should I call you mother-in-law? Like your mother-in-law?
Noira is Nell's mother's name.
What can I call you, seriously? Somebody tell me what you know about meeting your lover's parents...
"What, um... that's definitely bothering you when they say that"
"Right?"
Nell slowly opens his mouth after showing how troubled he often is.
"Well, wouldn't it normally be okay with 'mother-in-law'? I feel a little bit like someone else behaving with my name, and I didn't like being too tough (...) because (...) I would laugh if I called my mother-in-law."
"... well. Well, I guess I will."
I was slightly surprised by Nell speaking in the past, but I nodded without raising any particular question.
Then we went on into the often idyllic rural landscape and eventually arrived at a church, not her home for some reason.
Nell had heard that he was not an orphan who grew up in church or anything, but a single parent but grew up in a normal family......
"This way, Oh-ho."
Shortly after I pinched my questionable voice, Nell pulled my hand off walking out, and a little while later she stopped herself - a beautifully polished (...) white stone (...) built securely on the back of the church.
That stone in the shade of a large tree shoots a leaky day of wood shaking in a cool breeze, and just watching it calms me down.
Somehow it just feels like time is slowly flowing through this space.
... Ah.
You know what?
"... When did he die?
I said that, looking down at the white stone with one name engraved on it - the tombstone (...).
"When I started training as a brave man, maybe two and a half years later. I first met Oh-san, about a year ago. Originally, it seemed like you couldn't do much to raise me, but you kept hiding it and working. As soon as I decided to go to church, I broke my body. So I've been fighting illness for a while..."
"... you were a fine man"
"... yeah. He was a very fine man. I worked from morning to evening, but I was always nicotine, kind. Plus, he's a cute guy who fails to cook and stuff all the time, right? I learned to cook, so what?"
The tone of Nell, who speaks so, is calm, and he smiles, whether it evokes the memory of the day of his presence.
The fact that Nell decided to go to church and soon broke his body... must have appeased him there.
He said that Nell would be able to live without trying, that he was relieved, and that the fatigue he'd been through had come all at once.
... No, maybe he was just misleading and misleading what was originally the limit.
Just didn't put that on the table until now.
"... if I could, I would have liked to introduce you to her when she was alive."
"... ah"
I wanted to say hello when I was alive, too, if I could.
"... uh... this is a bit of a hard question to ask if I can ask..."
"Yeah? Fine, ask me anything"
I ask Nell, even though I jam the words a little.
"Uh... your father's grave, isn't it here? I heard from you before when you were the deceased..."
But there's only one grave here, and only one name that's engraved.
He wanted to go under this tree, and there are no other graves nearby.
Normally, wouldn't a couple be buried next door or under the same headstone?
"Oh, my father's grave is in the southeast all the way from here. Your father was a soldier, but I hear he died in the war. Your mother said that after your father died, you left your war-stricken country to live in peace with me, and you came to this country, which is stable in a great country."
... for my daughter, huh?
But it wouldn't have been half-baked.
My husband dies, comes to a foreign land I don't know on my own, and gives birth to, raises, and works my daughter in a place I don't even know Locke.
It shouldn't be possible to put it into words easily to see how hard it was.
"I've heard the place, so I'd like to visit your father's grave... but I can't leave this country for long while I'm brave."
You look just a little lonely, Nell, and you say so.
"... well. So, when the time comes for you to stop being a brave man, why don't you join me in the grave and say hello and go with me to that place? Good luck with your trip, brave man. Well, maybe we shouldn't be alone."
"... Yeah, maybe. Huff, sounds like fun. It's a noisy trip with everyone in the dungeon. I just imagined it would be fun."
"Haha, yeah"
That would be a noisy trip.
When I get back, I'll probably try even the first major modification I've made in a long time so that it's okay to vacate the dungeon for a long time.
I still have pets to repel intruders, but I'm worried about boulders when they're available for a long time.
- I'll think about that later.
"Nell, in the human world, what do we do when we pray to the dead?
"Eh, this is how you put your right hand against your chest. He said," I still think of you when you're gone. "
I put my right hand on my chest and closed my eyes, as she told me, as I poked my knees in front of the tombstone with my toes up.
- Uh... Hi, mother-in-law. I'm sorry for being abrupt, but I became your daughter's husband and your righteous breath, I say Yuki.
Really abrupt, I laugh a little myself, and then I go on with the words.
- Nell does a very fine job as a brave man. He's a sweet guy, he's a cute guy, he's a coward, he's a brave guy. I was attracted to her like that, and this time, we're going to live together as a couple.
- I'll take care of your daughter and the rest. I will always protect him. I will always protect you and live next door.
Whatever happens, be sure. Bet everything there is to me, everything.
- So please. Sleep in peace and warmth.
"... All right"
Open your eyelids, pay for the bread and the sand on your knees, and stand up.
"Hmm, did you talk to your mother?
Nell was praying again, apparently. Put down the hand that was on your chest and say so with your face over here from the tombstone.
"Oh. Actually, I have two other daughters, but I asked them to forgive me if I could."
"Haha, maybe I should say that for sure"
"Is that enough for you, too?
"Yeah, I introduced you to this weird guy."
"Hen, you"
I smiled bitterly and turned my back on the grave at Nell, who laughed pleasantly Nico.
The wind blows.
Caught in that wind, and, uh, looking back.
- Soft, smiling.
A gentle smile, very similar to Nell, with a sense of mercy.
Shake in the leaking day, and, as it dissolves in the world, disappear.
Breathtaking and blinking, there was just a headstone nestled in the shade of a tree there.
"? What's wrong?
"... I guess that means I got forgiveness for you"
"Huh? What do you mean?
"Well."
To Nell with a question mark on his head, I laughed, and took her comfortable hand.
"Well, you don't have that much time, but show me around here gently. Oh, or I'd like to go to your house."
"Yeah, fine, but it's a normal house in nothing, right? Sometimes I go back to take care of it, but I'm already spending time in Wang Du, so it'll be a little dusty and dirty."
"Fine. Fine. Then we can clean together."