"Right here?

"Yes!"

An hour after I decided to return home.

Yu, carrying Tifa and hanging a large amount of luggage on both arms, stood down in a position where the gate of the village of Tortia, home of Tifa, could be seen.

For this reason, the distance between the village of Tortia and Alto is just over a kilometre in a straight line distance if the closest city wall. Even from the nearest gate there are five kilometers or not if it's a straight distance, close enough to walk normally without forests and hills.

So if you fly away, you will arrive in about ten seconds, but because Yu served Tifa in what mood, it may take you about enough to land in your current position.

"I thought when I saw it from the sky, it's a pretty big village."

"Yes, I think the farmland was huge and the buildings were definitely about a hundred"

"Hmm. Based on the fact that Tifa's home is a bakery, there will be bureaux, lodging, shops, warehouses, etc., so in terms of the number of households, about 80 to 90 households, etc."

"Sure, I think that's how many shops and households there were"

Yuu turns around that way regarding the size of the village while bringing Tifa down to the ground.

The village of Tortia, the birthplace of Tifa, has also been blessed with water and agricultural land, which has been successfully scaled up. As a result, it was nearly large enough to be called a town.

Most of all, no matter how big, at the moment, it's basically just rural.

As can be seen from the small number of buses, there are no tourist resources such as this.

Even if it's an inn, there's only one small place for merchants and officials to stay on the way home to or from the numerous countryside that lies ahead of Tortia Village along the street.

For once, the Inn also serves as an adventurer's liquor store, with about ten adventurers based in this village, but they already have a house and are not based in the Inn like the Yus.

Using a smaller number of buses is about an adventurer or an official heading to Alto for equipment maintenance, etc., and later a human being who, like Tifa, was forced to leave the village under some circumstances.

Moreover, the majority of them are given a lift to Alto by car in the village, so the demand for buses is only when they return from Alto to the village.

"What kind of crops does this village make?

"Eh, I'm actually not very familiar with it because I do very little farming with all the baking help in the house. However, it's wheat that always helps us harvest, so I think maybe the main crop is wheat."

"Hmm. Well, on this scale, wheat would normally be the top priority"

Yu concludes so with Tifa's reply, convinced that would be the case.

In fact, even when it comes to rural areas, when it comes to a size where shops, like the village of Tortia, are not concurrent farmers, it also usually comes out that children who only farm about the time of harvest give priority to helping their families.

The bakery, Tifa's home in particular, is deceiving all the bread eaten in the village.

When it comes to baking a number every day that satisfies a hundred households, naturally, that's all you need for a family outing.

Besides, where I made it farm work, it's still basically over ten years old that can be the main help for kids.

Before leaving the village, Tifa, who was a critical five-year-old, only helped lightly, at best, by carrying pruned wheat and picking up grasshoppers.

It would also be natural, in some ways, for Tifa not to be familiar with agriculture.

"Now, what's the long story here? Can you show me around?

"Yes!"

Tifa guides you in a delightfully light foothold as to whether you have something to heart in your first home town in three years.

After that, Yu follows at a constant distance.

I approached the entrance to the village of Tortia, but there was no observation because it was rural.

"... there doesn't seem to be anyone at the entrance..."

"Eh, they also added an alert junction when they expanded their farmland, and it looks like they stopped putting too many street watches aside from the monster breeding season"

"... I don't know, but you're careless."

To the too lazy village security system Tifa talked about, Yu flaunts his face.

If it is true that the location of the village of Tortia requires little vigilance on the part of the bandits.

Even for monsters, along the streets are periodically exterminated by the standing army and adventurers, and the point of occurrence of monsters that, thanks to the forest and the streets, constitute a threat to the village can be almost identified. So even if we do guard, we can't say that the logic is wrong that we should always focus on where monsters can occur.

but just as pointless to be wary of demons in a village of this size, there are any exceptions to the level that you can deal with if you stay wary.

If there is a crisis with Crombird and the whole herd, it will jump out of the territory, and not necessarily a monster driven away by that Crombird will attack the village.

The possibility also normally exists that a single criminal enters the village from the street on foot and does whatever he wants before the alarm goes off.

I've seen settlements devastated in various patterns during the Knights of the Iron Wall, and I'm not worried that the hole in my hand is about my eyes, and as a Yu, I'm not worried about my carelessness.

(... well, I was just worried, there's nothing I can do)

In the end, Yu concludes so with regard to the security system in the village of Tortia.

Whatever Tifa is, Yu is an outsider, so he's only another HR wherever he goes.

"Um, so where do we go from here?

Tifa looks back and asks Yu as she walks a little past the fence at the entrance, holding the feeling of diving through the junction.

In response to Tifa's question, Yu immediately said his request without even having to think about it.

"In the meantime, take me to Tifa's home first"

"Yes!"

Tifa listens to Yu's request and goes vigorously down the path she was able to walk.

As he walks behind it, Yu observes the subtle left and right agricultural lands.

Nothing crops have been planted at the moment on the farmland around which they are currently walking, nor is anyone farming.

Nevertheless, it looks like it has been taken care of properly, so we will have already completed the work for this period or vice versa more later.

Such, a short walk down an empty field road, where the building that was visible from the entrance approached, turns to the right at the crossroads.

Apparently, the road leading to the centre of the village gradually increases in buildings as it progresses.

Most of them are private houses with barns, but a few shop-like buildings can also be seen inside.

"... Hmm. I wondered if you were putting everything all together in one grocery store, but to some extent it's a division of labor."

"Yes, before my brother was born, there was only a grocery store and a blacksmith and my parents' bakery, except for an inn and a liquor store, but when my brother was born, he said the grocery store and the hardware store set up shop independently of the grocery store"

"I see. And since the number of stores doesn't match, even after Tifa came to Alto, there seems to be an independent store in that way."

"After all, I thought there were more shops, it wasn't my mistake."

"No, I don't know that..."

Tifa seeks the answer to discomfort from Yu, who is supposed to be a leftover until he is completely skinless, even though it is his home town.

You think you're okay with that? Yu turns his attention to it.

"Oh, isn't that Tiffa?"

You noticed those two, from the grocery store next to the store Tifa was observing, an aunt of perfect width came out and called out.

"Ah, Aunt Myra! Long time no see!

"It's been a long time. When did you get home? You weren't supposed to be on the morning bus, were you?

"Just now. Mr. Yu negatively hit me, and I flew through the sky!

"I flew in...?

Myra, curiously necked by Tifa's words.

Aircraft, flight magic, etc. are common, but not so familiar.

"I mean, who's Mr. Yu? Is that your brother?

"Yes! He's my master!

"I'm a one-time mover, but I'm not big enough to call you a master, am I?

Yu puts a subtly troubled look on Tifa's introduction as to how she corrected it.

As for Yu, he doesn't do enough to be called a teacher, and if he calls himself a mentor at best, he thinks it's a good place.

There is nothing to be guessed in terms of differences in nuances, but the instruction and teachings Yu has given Tifa is something that you may normally call a master from a third party, but apparently it is an indelible line in Yu.

"... I see"

Seeing that exchange, they guessed something, Myra.

Talk to Yu and Tifa in a cheerful tone when you smile a little like them on.

"In the meantime, the details are behind us. I just got back. I'm just gonna run off and let Ivan know."

"Ivan?"

"Oh, it's my father."

"Then I don't have to ask you to call me, but I'm going to ask you to come here."

Yu tells Myra that it doesn't extend to that.

Shake your head left or right in the wind to continue the words, whether you expected that reply or you don't understand Myra.

"What a wild thing to say. It's been a long time since Tifa got home, so there's as many people out there who want to talk to you. You're not gonna hit a bee after talking to those guys for a little while, are you?

"... right, though?

"Right. Auntie, Loretta, how are you with your sister, Miles?

"Oh, I'm fine. Unlike you, both good health is the only thing that matters. It's time to come out, so talk slowly."

That said, Myra rushes out to where Tifa's parents' bakery is. In doing so, I won't forget to touch around loudly that Tifa is back.

"... in time, Tifa's family is going to show their faces here too"

"... right"

The villagers, invited by Myra's voice, show up all over.

It was Yu and Tifa, who saw the appearance, who somehow saw the unanimity of opinion that way in a flat manner.

"Tifa!"

minutes after Myra ran away.

Talking to Myra's children in front of the grocery store, around forty women jump in there.

"Mother!"

At that moment, Tifa ran over to the woman with a full smile that she had never shown before, and Yu, observing it a little further away, nodded somewhat satisfactorily.

Until earlier, I was worried because something was wrong with Tifa, but I was relieved to find that to be a concern.

Speak of Yu, they say this way of worrying is no different than normal people.

"Oh-ho, why are you nodding?

"Hmm? What, it's no big deal. Simply because you were right to bring Tifa here."

"Hmm?"

A five-year-old who looked suspiciously at Yu's condition left the scene without falling to his heart.

I dropped that off. Yu thought,

(Who the hell is the wisdom in not calling me an old man that year?

It was intensely irrelevant.

"... you've grown..."

"Is that right?

"Yeah...... 'Cause when I left the village, my head wasn't even up to my chest yet..."

"Then I'm a little happy..."

Forget Yu, the inspiring reunion between mother and daughter continues.

Mothers, in particular, had to send their daughters out at a young age because of the problems of the country's education system, and then they heard all the disturbing stories.

I've been speechless for three years since then, and I won't let go of it again, and I just hold him tight.

"... Hmm"

Once the thought has done that, Yu, who has also been caught out of the so-called air of inspiring reunion, calmly contemplates something when he does.

I realized that there were a few things that didn't happen to me, although I wasn't an earlier child.

It's not anything suspicious or unnatural, but once you're concerned, you're not comfortable. I'm very worried about how I should react to just that type of question.

With that in mind, a young man, supposedly around twenty, called out to Yu with a little hesitation.

"... you brought Tifa home?

"Hmm? Oh, yeah. Are you... Tifa's brother?

"Is that your father? Should I be glad I didn't have to ask, or should I mourn that I'm the father of one child and I haven't pierced enough yet? It's complicated, but I'm Tifa's brother."

"Right. My name is Yu Brown. For once, Tifa is free to use magic."

"Huh? Even the wizard master, you dress like a warrior adventurer, don't you?

"Nothing like that, simply because you have a magical mind, and the main business is a warrior adventurer. Therefore, it is not so great as a master"

To Yu's reply, Tifa's brother with a strange face.

Yu also agrees in his heart that he would normally be.

"So, what can I call you? Brother, around?

"Please don't. When a man like you calls me that, he can't help but be scared in many ways. My name is Almars Baker. Call me whatever you want, Almars or Al."

"Okay."

Yu snorts honestly at Almarth's words.

Keep talking about things that bothered me a little.

"I don't care, but that's just not a tribute to Tifa or her family."

"Well, that would be normal"

"For that matter, what does it mean to a grocery store aunt or a childhood friend your age who would have looked after you since you were a little girl, that you normally use respectful language?

"Ah, that or ah. Do you care after all?

"I'm not very concerned, but there's something really depressing about it."

To Yu's words, that shrugs his shoulders.

With a little observation, it would be natural to feel unnatural around it.

"That said, you're not sure about me either. When I realized it, I felt like it was happening."

"Really?

"Oh. I knew the village elders were telling me the language, but you don't know how long I've been using respectful language against non-family people."

"Hmm? Or, in this village, do elders teach their children the language?

"No. Somehow, Master Obaba expressed an interest in Tifa. So, the elder taught reading, writing and language on the village chief's orders, and when I realized it, it was."

"Master Obaba?

"He's the elder's wife, the village's best wizard and doctor, and the village's opinion number."

"... Hmm"

Yu convinces himself once and for all of Almarth's explanation and confirms what he comes up with as it is.

"Maybe, but you didn't seem familiar with the people in the village because of that?

"... Seriously, you're looking closely"

"I'm still taking care of this for a year. And I just wanted to say, things have been strange since we got to the village. Anyone will notice if you look at the response just now on top of that"

"Right... I knew it..."

"For once, I was really happy with the return trip itself, and I wasn't enjoying the conversation I hadn't seen with a human from the village in a long time. Just to the extent that I was having trouble replying or showing how I didn't know what to tell you."

Almars shows Yu's words how he is likely to hear the voice 'Ahhhh'.

"In that appearance, was it still floating in this village from the beginning?

"Well, hey...... My youngest child is so bad, he's smarter and more discerning than a normal adult..."

"What about being hated or left out of company?

"I didn't have that because of that personality, but I still don't think I'm going to be like a kid in my nearest year, I mean, it feels like I've pulled a step, I guess..."

Almars says oddly badly about his standing in the village of Tifa.

I can assure you that Tifa is smart, even though it is difficult to say it in her mouth because it is inside her.

For this reason, Tifa's assessment among the village's adults is unanimous and prodigal.

This type tends to look down on kids her age and ridicule adults, but she doesn't have that kind of bad habit and has calmly and legitimately appreciated being better than herself by looking at the right person.

So, I didn't get any noticeable trouble, but if I was fooling around with someone other than my family, I'd have to say no.

"Besides, our village, no matter how big it is, the village you're looking at is a village, right? A lot of people are superstitious in a narrow world, so there are a lot of things to say, including against us."

"I guess."

"A lot of people insult me because I'm a kid and blow in what I don't want, but I've figured it all out, and I've handled it even better after I've decided whether or not to be right. With my sister, I sometimes wanted to feel sorry for her that she seemed to live in this village."

"Being so smart that year would be hard to live in, no matter what kind of environment you're born into."

Yu looks reluctantly at Almars for talking about Tifa in this village.

Tifa was behaving inappropriately for her age: prioritizing care and coordination around her without giving her the innocence she deserves year after year because she is too smart. I guess it was okay because my family is properly loving me, but I can only admire how well it wasn't distorted.

Perhaps because Tifa herself knew the barren nature of feeling properly loved by her family and rebelling and wielding justice with that wit again, but when she was in this village, she hadn't even started attending school yet.

I can't help but wonder what it's like as an adult to have a child of that age take that much into account.

The tricky story would be that what is around it is not a special circumstance in this village, rather it is not a rare story in places where people gather, regardless of their status up or down or the size of the settlement.

"... hair, you're stretching"

While Yu and Almarth were talking about Tifa in this village, the mother, who had confirmed the growth of my child all the time, hugging and holding her head again and again, would say what she most wanted to hear, feeling surprised.

There's no way I wouldn't notice such a noticeable change, so naturally my mother had also noticed that Tifa was stretching her hair from the first glance.

But when I lived in the village, I began to stretch my hair, which had been cut without any particular thought because it was disturbing.

I was afraid that there might be some special meaning, some reason why someone liked it, and I couldn't ask.

Yu, who was observing as he talked to Almars, finds himself on a level no one can tell.

I think I found something disturbing about the atmosphere that crept out of Tifa's mother.

"Yeah. Couldn't you?

Tifa perceives such a mother's fright and asks this one with a troubled frightened look.

A mother who sees the look on Tifa's face shakes her head small to the side and denies it.

"No, there's no such thing. You look great and cute. Just..."

"Just?"

"Why don't you stretch it until now? I didn't have the ear to ask because I was in the way no matter how much I said, but when I got back, it was getting longer. I thought you could have someone you liked or that's why you're stretching it, Mother's a little scared..."

"... Scared? Why?"

Tifa, whose mother's words don't come pinned and her neck snapped small.

I have to realise that that unusual trick is still a young girl who is just nine years old.

Even at this age, I have a daughter who starts having romantic feelings.

However, because of its cleverness, there are no passages around here that either correspond to the year or are lagging behind when it comes to Tifa.

Maybe the fact that my physical development was slightly delayed because of the difficulties in my diet has also affected these parts.

"So, you're stretching your hair for some reason?

"Mr. Yu tells me that longer works better for magic control, and I'm stretching it."

"... Tifa is Mr. Yu for everything"

"I'm not saying anything, but I've never been able to follow Mr. Yu's instructions on magic, so do you trust that place entirely?

With that said, Tifa smiles uncontrollably.

Her mother asks Tifa a question with a smile filled with complex thoughts on that smile.

"So Yu, whose name has come up many times since just now, brought you home this time, right?

"Yeah."

"I'd like to thank you for introducing me."

"Yeah!"

My mother asks me, and Tifa nods happily and guides me to Yu.

It's a village with a population of four hundred. If you look at strangers, you'll see.

"Mr. Yu! It's my mother! So, Mother, this is my master Yu!

"... Master, I'm not so big a person."

Yu says the same thing when Myra or Almars, with a slightly bitter face to Tifa's introduction.

Keep introducing yourself.

"It's Yu Brown. I'm giving Tifa a magic trick for once."

"It's Lena Baker. Looks like Tifa took great care of you."

"It's like becoming. And I owe you an apology."

"What do I have to apologize for?

"Hopefully, I'd like to talk to you when your whole family is in place......, what about your husband?

"My husband's in a task he can't get his hands on right now, and he's staying home with his other sons. So me and Al are here on behalf of each other, right? I really wanted to come this way no matter what I put down..."

Asked by Yu, Mother Lena explains the situation.

Yu snorts when he hears that.

A bakery is a lot of work that cannot be interrupted unexpectedly.

There are also quite a few tasks that cannot be carried out without the father of Tifa, the parent, which makes it difficult to vacate the workplace.

Around here is where Almars is now learning at best for his inheritance, but there are also seasonal differences, and it's still far from being alone in all the work.

"Then may I interrupt your house now?

"Sure. You're welcome."

Lena happily accepts Yu's offer, hiding her inner anxiety.

I can't stand here forever, and it's not nice to leave the rest of my family alone waiting at home for too long to monopolize Tifa just by myself and Almars.

Lena and I will definitely complain if we are in the opposite position.

"Well, I'll show you around."

"Please."

Yu takes Lena's offer and starts moving about later.

About thirty minutes after arriving in the village of Tortia.

Yu and Tifa finally arrived at Tifa's home.

"Thank you for taking care of my daughter."

The Baker family dining room and living room where all ten families gathered.

At its center, Ivan Baker, the head of the family, tells Yu how grateful he is with his obnoxious face.

"It's like becoming, and I'm just doing what I deserve as an adult. And even if I were you, I'd have to apologize."

"What do I have to apologize for?

"Oh. Even though it's force majeure, I've gotten Tifa into a demon crusade twice. This is not acceptable no matter how much you apologize"

That's it, Yu bows his head saying he's sorry.

It is not in itself avoidable to try to avoid encountering demon gods beyond the unparalleled nature of laws such as this in the way they appear.

but that is why, after the encounter, it is a great failure that has no excuse to stay in the fight without being able to evacuate it.

The Baker family's expression is frightened by what Yu apologized for.

I heard rumors and other things about the demon god, but I never thought it was true.

Above all, Tifa was involved in it, etc., outside the imagination.

First, in the current explanation it sounds like Yu has tailored the demon god, but it's hard to believe how strong a man in front of you is to be able to tailor the demon god.

It should be noted that in the village of Tortia, where literacy rates are low, newspapers are not sold. For that reason, the Bakers have no idea what Yu and Tifa are up to.

"... was it true that there was a demon god out there?

"Oh. The first time I pinched Alto from here is the opposite place, but there are still traces. The second time is in" The Fallen Ruins, "but this one comes with a photograph and there's an article in the paper."

"... 'Fallen Ruins'? Why did Tifa have to go to a place like that?

"One of the curricula of the Alto School of Magic is an internship at The Fallen Ruins. In that connection, I took Tifa to the ruins and did what I saw below, but it seems that the demons that occurred in the depths came out to the superficial layers at that time. I ran into him unluckily."

To Yu's explanation, Ivan stiffens his attitude and expression at once.

Tifa, who sees it, hurries to pinch his mouth.

"Um, Dad! For the first time, Mr. Yu was completely irrelevant, and I did something on my own and just got caught up on my own! For the second time, I tried to escape as soon as I encountered him, but the adventurer who came after the demon god attacked me shortly after..."

"Tifa, that's not the problem"

"But, Mr. Yu! For once or for the second time, without Mr. Yu, we would have been dead! In the first place, as for the first time, even if I hadn't done something unsolicited, I would have ended up dead without Mr. Yu because Alto himself was devastated!

"So that's not the problem. The problem is that the encounter with the demon god itself is a force majeure, but it is not possible to evacuate the children held by others, nor to ensure their safety, and is still involved in the battle."

Yu poking at the essence of the problem with a serious look at Tifa trying desperately to follow.

Even in the absence of a demonic disturbance, it is impossible to ensure perfect safety at the point of instruction in magic.

But that doesn't mean you can put yourself in unnecessary danger.

"... is it true that the first time Tifa acted alone on her own initiative?

"A little different, to be exact. In the first place, an accidental dungeon occurred about five kilometres along the street from the southern entrance of Alto. One of Tifa's classmates got in the mouth of a stupid adventurer who ignored the restraining order while I was being taken to deal with it. Tifa and the others went to rescue him and got caught up."

"So it's not Mr. Yu's fault!

Ivan is convinced that's the case with the circumstances Yu spoke of.

I'm not convinced about that part of why Tifa became the flow to rescue his classmates in the first place, but I can agree with Tifa that it's not Yu's fault.

Even with regard to the second time, Yu himself seemed to be trying to escape with Tifa, so I guess this is force majeure too.

"... hey, it's Yu. I've heard that we suck at demons, and all of a sudden they come out?

"Oh."

"Don't you understand beforehand the appearance of that demon god?

"I can only predict to such an extent that even the most advanced Belfoul regarding the measures to combat demons may fall and the cliffs collapse if it is cloudy if it is capable of other disasters. It's impossible to predict with certainty when it will come out, even if it can be prepared, just before it leaves."

On behalf of Ivan, who has been silent, I ask Yu what bothered Almars the most.

In contrast, Yu tells the truth about the prediction of the demonic disaster.

As long as it is not even an artificial invocation with summoning magic or the like, it is impossible at present to predict in advance the emergence of a demon god.

"Then it's only a matter of luck for Tifa to get involved, so there's nothing you can do about it, is there?

"As for what you encounter, yes, but like I said, getting into battle is another story. Besides, the second time, with the help of Tifa, we couldn't have laid down a demon god, and there are quite a few dead people in the process."

"Wait a minute! With Tifa's help, what do you mean!?"

"It was a matter of hand-held equipment that prevented me from doing effective damage. Tifa did something about the problem with Grant Magic and Disability Magic. but by the time I got there, I was caught up in a demon god attack and many people were dead in front of Tifa..."

Almarth's question, rather than telling him so with a reluctant face to the question, continues Yu's words to tell him that he must apologize the most.

"The shock then made Tifa unable to sleep alone. The day is finally the same as before the incident, but you're still asleep crying at night..."

"Become..."

The current situation of Tifa, which Yu told us about. The Bakers are shocked to hear that and lose their words.

I sigh deeply without trying to hide my pity for the words I said myself, and I feel sorry for Yu telling Tifa's family the last words.

"It's been over a month since then, and it's still this. I'm just so sorry that I can't do anything but pillow you in the middle of the night at best, I don't know how to apologize..."

Tifa's heartbreak is more serious than expected, Yu told him.

To its seriousness, Ivan's attitude hardened once and for all when he heard the circumstances and tried to soften them.

"Mr. Yu. Thank you for saving Tifa's life. I'm going to find out that you're not responsible for the demon disaster, or that Tifa's status quo is not what you're supposed to carry."

"... Mother"

"But that's why I can't leave Tifa to you any more!

"Why, Mother!

To Lena's words, Tifa unwittingly roughs up her voice and rebels.

Lena is taken by surprise by the size and tone of Tifa's voice.

Other families are flattered by Tifa, who has shown a stronger backlash than expected.

It is very impressive that Yu has a bitter face on its appearance.

"... Hey, mother-in-law"

Almers' daughter-in-law Reese, the first to recover, speaks to her mother-in-law as they are all taken away.

"... what is it?

"I don't even know how my mother-in-law feels, but I'm pretty sure Mr. Yu is Tifa's benefactor. Why don't you stay in this village for a few days and see how it goes?

"Right. Hey, Yu. Nothing, why don't we just have to go home right away?

"... oh. I haven't heard of the period, but they say it's spring break from today. So I was gonna let Tifa stay here for a few days from the start anyway."

Yuu proposed to Reese and Almars and honestly answers his appointments.

Tifa, who hears it, snaps her neck in anger.

"Um... did Mr. Yu possibly intend to leave like this?

"Oh. If you're just coming to this village, you should just fly. I thought it would be enough to see your training."

To Tifa's doubts, Yu honestly teaches her original plans.

In fact, the problem, as I have said many times, is that the village of Tortia and Alto are close by for a straight distance.

If Tifa had the ability to fly, she wouldn't have to go into a dorm or anything to attend alto magic school.

There is no need for Yu to bother staying in the village.

"No. Stay in this house until Tifa returns to Alto. I need to clean up, but the room is empty"

"Ivan!"

"Lena. I know what you're thinking, but I don't think pulling this guy away is going to be a good result for Tifa. Besides, you can't tell what kind of person he is on the street."

That's how he trumps his wife's protest and turns his gaze to Yu, Ivan.

Take that gaze, one nod Yu.

"It's settled. We have time to bake the next bread. Tell me what Tifa looked like when you started taking care of her."

"Oh."

Yu accepts Ivan's request with a serious look and subtly observes the Bakers as he ponders in his head what to talk from.

In doing so, I still secretly hold the impression that Tifa is not very similar.

As I mentioned earlier, the Bakers are a family of ten, including Tifa.

The breakdown is given to Tifa's parents and eldest son, Almars, whose daughter-in-law and child, besides which he has two older brothers and sisters, and finally his youngest son, Tifa.

Common to all of them would be that they have a basically plain normal face.

There are several elements that make me feel connected to blood, so I'm not convinced that Ivan and Lena are Tifa's parents.

However, it still feels floating that only one Tifa can't fly and look good.

This would also leave superstitious adults with no choice but to blow in the extra.

What's more, only Tifa is extremely old away, because I'm curious.

I can see that Yu doesn't know the exact age, except Armour, who told me he was twenty-two on his way here, but still even his brother just above Tifa is over fifteen.

Apparently the second and eldest sons, third sons and second daughters are twins, so it would also be natural in some ways that the age of non-Tifa children is strangely solidified.

That's why one Tifa looks so floating, both in age and in appearance.

The large number of people gathered at one time also applauds the impression.

Most importantly, it is only now that this number of people will gather in this House, as the eldest daughter, Aefa, has decided to leave with her daughter-in-law during the year and her second son, Henry, will start a second bakery independently in a few more years.

"... right. Let me tell you from where I started taking care of Tifa."

Yu gets into the back of his chest for now for the discomfort he has been observing and begins to talk about Tifa in Alto.

In the end, sometimes it was like there was no such thing as a fracture, and it was Yu who told everything about events from the encounter as long as time allowed.

That night, the Baker family living room.

Yu and Ivan enjoyed dinner across the street.

It should be noted that the women and the children of Almars are taking them in for a bath, and their sons are making tomorrow's bread instead of Ivan.

So there are currently only two of us here: Yu and Ivan.

As a result, we've both already had a bath.

"I'm sorry about your wife during the day."

"It's natural to worry about your daughter more than being a parent. Whatever the first time, the second time, if you weren't involved with me, you wouldn't have encountered a demon god, so that reaction would be natural."

Yu tells Ivan's apology that no one is bad.

In fact, attitudes like Lena's were not even unusual in the Kingdom of Belfar, where there was a deep understanding of the demon gods.

No, for what involves political elements, resentment from criminals, etc., and in some cases, rather, there may be parts of Belfar that are more deep-rooted.

Everyone is a respected elite, but people with more than a certain amount of insight tell me they don't want to get along very deeply.

Shit, it's the Knights of the Iron Wall.

Yu didn't care about one thing about Lena's attitude or words because he had seen so many of those instances before, and most of the cases made sense of what the other person said.

"I don't care if you don't. Whatever it takes, it's not the kind of word you're allowed to say to the benefactor of your daughter's life."

"If you care too much, it's hard to do a lot here..."

I don't know, damn it. Seriously, I care about my wife's non. Ivan.

Yu laughs bitterly without thinking about that attitude.

The part that doesn't give way to this kind of stubbornness is still an impression such as Tifa's father.

Then have a similar exchange twice and three times and change the subject where Ivan is ready.

"So I aimed while Tifa and the others went out of their way to take a bath. Is there something you want to tell me?

"... oh"

Yu prompts me, and I nod small, Ivan. Take a sip of booze as it is and breathe heavily.

"... what did you think when you saw our family?

"What does that mean?

"The... what, Tifa's not much like... wouldn't she?

"Right. Not surprisingly when they say they're parents and kids, but if they say they're similar, I honestly have to say they don't look very alike."

"Right?

"But it's not uncommon to have a family that doesn't resemble you, but what's wrong with that?

Yu somehow guesses what Ivan is trying to say, while daring to continue with an attitude he doesn't understand.

Clearly, that's quicker.

"Tifa's the only one who doesn't have a blood connection, or I picked it up from somewhere, and he's persistently blowing in."

"I didn't mean to be clear, but Almars made you smell like that, too."

"Right?

One nod Yu with a mysterious look at Ivan's words as expected.

Everywhere this guy wants to splurge the demma of his hand and put a crack in his relationship, but one way or the other, it would be a pattern that is common in the countryside where relationships tend to get denser, good or bad.

Especially in rural areas, the person is saying it with kindness, rather than realizing his own inferior genuineness that it would be interesting if a crack went in and the family collapsed, which is particularly troublesome in many cases where he assumes he is saying it in a hundred percent good faith.

"I have one fundamental question, okay?

"... oh"

"In the first place, in this village environment, if my parents are not dead or evaporated, I don't think they have the children themselves to pick them up?

"Oh. Finally, if it's not an environment where you can hide what you've had, it's not an environment where you can sneak kids in from a village or town"

"I guess. And I can't be sure because I didn't see all the villagers, but I feel like I saw them all day today and you're the ones who look the most like Tifa in this village. Therefore, I don't think it's possible to be a hidden child made by one of them having an affair..."

Sometimes Ivan's answer to the question was exactly what I thought, and I can't figure out why that would be a problem, Yu.

I don't know until they persistently say that and make me uncomfortable, but it's just unnatural for Ivan to care so much.

Seeing Yu suspicious like that, Ivan keeps talking.

"If you think about it normally, you'll soon find out, but still, the twins below have really tried to get a Yotai tale full of holes like that..."

"Regardless of Tifa herself, the other brothers should have seen her mother's belly growing, as well as Tifa's birth since she realized..."

"Even so, it's not necessarily me and Lena's kid, or the guy who says it the most..."

"... did you really take that?

"No, Master Obaba explained it well. When Tifa was born, it was Obaba-sama who took it from me."

"Hmm."

"but the kids still don't look alike to just one person, and that's especially bothering Tifa, who's the winner"

"So..."

Until now, I've been coaching Tifa and wondering, an attitude that doesn't try to rely on adults from me until I'm stubborn about anything other than teaching and what I can't do on my own.

Knowing its roots, Yu accidentally puts a face on it.

It's not anyone's fault as far as the Bakers are concerned, but if you grow up in a listened environment, you won't have to be as smart as Tifa to rely on an adult somewhere.

If you are going in a bad direction, it is not strange not to trust adults at all and to be in the so-called 'gutted' state.

Rather, it's out of crowd and smart Tifa, which is why it's done to the extent that 'I'm oddly stubborn, but I don't try to rely on adults'.

"Hey, Ivan. Can I just say something a little leap?

"What?"

"Maybe, but doesn't your wife think I'm gonna take my daughter?

"... maybe. Honestly, I have that feeling too."

"So isn't it strange to enemy certify me as a man who exposes himself to the habit of taking away his young daughter from him without taking much care of him..."

"If Tifa hadn't missed you so much, I would have thought so too..."

Ivan tells Yu to throw up against the conclusion he made.

Ivan has a small mouth count on the strong side if he doesn't get booze in, but he hasn't lost to his wife Lena because of her childish troubles.

Instead, my love for my late youngest daughter is deeper than anyone else in the Baker family.

Originally, it's not weird to beat him unconditionally if he misses a man who can't possibly be the bone of any horse in the pompous, and if he poorly exposes himself to danger, he shows that he trusts more than his real parents, etc.

I weighed myself, for one thing, only because the circumstances I had exposed to danger were force majeure.

"... hey. It's Yu."

"... what?

"... why don't you take care of Tifa,... no, don't"

"If that's about it, I'll answer?

"... Tifa should listen, not me"

"Is that what this is all about?

"Oh."

Ivan tells me, and I unwittingly snap my neck Yu.

Ivan has such a relieved and irritating, complex mood for the way he makes Yu feel human.

I felt the same way when I decided to dowry my eldest daughter, Aefa, but it's probably not my fault that I feel frustrated one way or the other with Yu opponents.

"... for now, it's Yu. Do something about it that you don't care if it's weird or not. I don't know what kind of thing goes to Tifa."

"... I'll do good, but I can't promise"

Ivan tells me, and I just have to answer that with my face that I'm in deep trouble Yu.

It's very rare for Yu to show clearly the trouble so far, but unfortunately Ivan, who I met for the first time today, doesn't know that much.

"... Tifa and the others are back."

"... Really?

"Oh."

"I have no idea, but you know what I mean?

"About half the adventurers in the tavern we take care of can afford to do this kind of sign detection. Besides, I'm not even trying to hide my footsteps. So, what I want to tell you in confidence, is that it?

"... right"

Ivan nods that he's finished what he wants to talk about for now, with a frivolous eye on Yu who has mentioned something he doesn't know is a lie or a truth.

In fact, I'm largely done with what I want to talk to you about, so even if Tifa and the others aren't back, there's no inconvenience in cutting up the conversation.

"That's the last of the booze... It's open for today."

Re-division, and tilting the liquor bottle, looking at the rest and crushing it like that, Ivan drinks it all at once without even being motivated to chicken.

I'm also frightened to do the chicken in the amount of a third or not in the glass, and I'm just not willing to open a new bottle right now.

No particular difference is made to Ivan's words like that, and Yu also drinks up the rest.

"Father, Mr. Yu. I took a bath."

Tifa comes into the living room at a time when the two of them have drunk up the rest.

"Right. I'll run in as usual tomorrow, so go to bed already today."

"Yes."

"It's been a long time, so you should sleep with your parents today"

"Ha!"

I'm really surprised Tifa's back. Yuu gives instructions, as usual, for Ivan approximate.

Tifa follows Yu's instructions with pleasure and snuggles to her parents' bedroom.

It should be noted that there is unfortunately no such thing as Tifa's private room in the Baker family.

Instead, apart from Mr. and Mrs. Ivan's room and the Armarth family's room, there is no such thing as a personal room from the beginning, as it is a bracket between a man's room and a woman's room.

"... Tomorrow, you run in the morning?

"Oh. This is because we have to keep our habits as uninterrupted as possible."

"Right."

"That's why if I finish my routine a little too, I'll give it a rest for today"

"Oh. Good night."

Ivan falls asleep with three parents and daughters side by side pinching Tifa after dropping Yu off from the living room, cleaning up and checking the work status of his sons.

That was a happy sight, but as soon as Tifa fell asleep, she shivered with a tremendous amount of sweat from her whole body, and the situation changed.

As her parents watched, Tifa sometimes said, 'Don't come!' Or 'Run away!' I think I screamed and screamed or suddenly cried out, and I jump up and look for Yu.

Each time, it was Ivans who hugged him and gave him a break and lay him to sleep, but Tifa still repeated the same thing without putting so much time between them.

"... I didn't think so much..."

"... Ivan..."

"Give it up, Lena. Even if you are a parent, monsters can hardly support Tifa right now."

Ivan and Lena realize that we can't reassure Tifa no matter what we do now, although we've seen how frightened Tifa is not the norm in the middle of the night and tried our best to do something about it.

After all, it was the Bakers who mourned helplessly, knowing that it was more serious than expected, to Tifa, who fell asleep calmly as soon as she entered the same bed as Yu.