Five years later, the routine suddenly collapsed.

Serna does the meal routine, and I'm lenient as I watch it, the usual routine of quiet but calming hearts.

But there was a rare, almost conversational conversation that day. Whatever I say, Serna is up in the sky somewhere, and even if I talk to her, she returns a raw reply, and the conversation doesn't last.

I thought you were in a bad mood.

But that was a big mistake. I wasn't in the mood, I wasn't feeling well.

I've had the same time for years, and I didn't realize it.

Serna suddenly, without any foretaste, fell like a doll with a broken thread.

"Serna"

…………

A knife in the hands of Karalan and Serna fell to the floor and rolled. Shortly afterwards, the sound of Batan and Serna falling and lying down sounded, and I rushed over to her and held her up.

Shake her arms and call out loud, but Serna doesn't move one eyebrow. No matter, your eyes remain closed and never open.

I rocked her over and over again out of a rush and anxiety. But there was still no reaction, and my arm was wet with her sweat.

Serna's body was sweaty and visionary, and she knew that she could do something quite impossible.

I immediately held Serna and put her to bed.

All I could do was put a wet towel on my forehead, wipe my sweat, and nurse like I did when I had a cold. Driven by anxiety about whether this was okay, I did even think of doing what I could now.

Normally by the time I was back in my old world, I didn't try to sleep. There's no way I can leave Serna in this state.

I was going to see Serna until she woke up.

But I didn't have that time left.

Suddenly, my consciousness was distant. That's so sudden that it doesn't even give you a gap to resist. so forcibly that there is not even room for defiance.

I dream of ignoring my will.

"Don't be ridiculous."

When I woke up, I yelled. Leaving Serna unconscious, she became irrationally angry when she was forced back into reality.

If you don't hurry back, you'll dive into bed, but you won't be able to dream. Even if you can sleep, you can't dream.

Why... why?

Driven by impatience didn't solve anything. Only time passes anecdotally.

In the end, it wasn't until nightfall that I was able to enter my dreams.

"Serna"

"Wow! I'm surprised"

When I jumped out of my bet, there was Serna, who shook her body in a vicious manner.

Serna was in the middle of doing her chores the same way she always did. I'm not pale. I looked at it and stroked my chest down.

"Serna, what about your body? Don't you have to be asleep?

"Yeah. I'm sorry to bother you. I'm fine now."

"It's not a good idea to impose. I'll do it. Serna's asleep."

I cared about Serna.

I didn't have to, I wanted you to slow down.

But she shakes her head and laughs. Laugh as usual, say it in a voice that plays fine.

But that smile seemed sad to me for some reason.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm doing better today than usual. Maybe thanks to Reggie for seeing me."

"I can't... I couldn't do anything."

I was only able to see a doctor for about a few hours. We'll see about that, too. The only way I could do it was to look at it and not even know if it was right.

I feel sorry for myself.

How much help would you have gotten Serna to come to this world?

Since we met, I've had countless more help from her.

And yet I... haven't been able to return anything.

Serna speaks kindly to me for asking for such favors.

"That's not true."

Serna tried to hold my head and hugged me.

I thought it was comforting.

But the cold droplets that fell on my head claim it was a mistake.

"Serna?"

"Sorry......"

"Huh...?

I thought I heard wrong. But the whining voice in my ear is shaking, and the droplets that fall on my head make my hair even colder and wet.

"Oh, it's up to me to apologize. I couldn't see Serna... there's nothing wrong with Serna"

"No... no"

I couldn't see Serna's face when she held her head so tight. But the voice told me that the droplets that fell on her head were making her cry.

"Reggie, you have to leave this village..."

"Hey, why? I don't want to get out of here! I don't want to leave Serna!

That was a sudden proclamation. Other than accepting it. I didn't even want to believe what Serna said about that.

I want to stay here. I don't want to leave with Serna.

With that thought, I shake her embrace and see Serna's crying face in my eyes.

And, uh...

"I'm sorry."

"... eh"

Serna had a sadder, spicier look than she had ever shown before. Apologized with such a face, I lost my word for a moment.

Crying and laughing at me like that, Serna hugged me again.

"Live strong. You can't catch a cold, can you? You have to eat rice properly every day, don't you? The outside world is full of scary people, so be careful, okay? I love it, Reggie."

"Wait! Serna, I don't want to leave this village! I want to live here with Serna!

I don't know why.

Why should I leave this village?

Serna, with words like the parting of her life, tries to leave the house when she leaves me to disturb her. Reaching out to hold it back, but it was grabbed by a man who came in through the door.

"Goodbye, Reggie..."

The moment she left the house, Serna's face, who looked back and said goodbye, was guzzled with tears and runny nose. I'm something like that.

And Serna disappeared outside the door without ever looking back again.

"Wait! Wait, wait, wait, wait. Serna."

My screaming will not stop Serna. [M] Step by step, step by step, her back goes away.

Every time I cried, I broke out of a man's restraints. But the man won't let go of my back with his wings clasped tight.

Eventually, when she was completely invisible, I was dragged and thrown out to the exit of the village by a man who came in instead.

"Reggie! I forbid your entry into and exit from this village!

He threw me out the gate. He gave it to me... in exile.

"I..."

"Go, go, go..."

The man pulls out the sword he was laying on his hips. The action declares extraordinarily that its horribly sharp eyes will hang up if we don't go now.

In contrast, fear rises. Scared, I learned to fear that I didn't want to be slashed, and this is the first time I've seen a man properly.

The man is the village warrior chief. I mean - he was the strongest man in the village.

Still, I was part of the village.

I don't want to leave Serna. I...

"But I don't have anywhere else to go!

I raised my voice that I was not convinced of this irrational exile.

The warrior commander gave me a sword and pointed to me.

"If you go straight through here, there's a big city. You can go there. Then do as you please."

"But..."

"Terrible."

I cut the ground right in front of me trying to stay here with a cold word.

Deeply determined ground. Warrior chief coming at the tip of the sword, as he also said he would hit this next time.

I was scared. The fear of trembling from the bottom of my body, like the first time I was attacked by a goblin, set me back.

"Ah, ah... Wow."

I would have rushed out if I'd known. To the road that leads to the city the Warrior Chief pointed to.

I couldn't see the front in tears. I didn't want to leave the village. I wanted to have the same routine with Serna forever.

But I was scared and fled the village in a straight line.

Six months have passed since I left the village.

I lived in a city taught by a warrior chief. To live my daily life, I became an adventurer and lived my life that day.

When he wakes up, he goes to the guild, takes a simple request, and when he returns, he eats and sleeps appropriately with that earned money. I don't rent accommodation. Sleeping outside the park and sometimes the city.

I know it's dangerous. But I didn't think it mattered.

Because I thought if this body disappeared, I wouldn't have to come to this world.

No more... I didn't want to dream.

You can't see Serna in your dreams. Serna must have been disappointed in me. Villagers, too. He was disappointed in me for not being satisfied with one of his visits.

That thought made me hesitate to go to the village again, fighting my fears.

Even though he's nearby, I know where he is, but I can't go see him. What feelings follow me around to do anything. I don't want to come to this world as much as I feel like this.

You know, when I was living those changed days,

"Hey, you know what? That rumor?"

As I was eating with a bad feeling that never cleared up, the men and women who were eating in the nearby seats came into my ears.

"Rumor? What is it? Rumor?

"Nothing, I heard rumors that the lord of this city is going to give a panacea to someone who's taken the dragon's eye."

panacea

I kicked Gatan and his chair and stuffed it with panacea and a woman with a mouth.

"Is that true ⁉?"

"What?"

Two people were surprised at me for jumping in all of a sudden. The two of them were in such a bad shape that I bared my voice again.

"So! Is that story true? ⁉

"Wow, I just asked... maybe if I asked the lord, I'd know?

"Thank you!

I left the unfinished meal intact, paid for it, and left the store in a hurry. And ran out for the lord's mansion.

At this point in my head, if I had a panacea, I could help Serna. There was nothing but that.

"Stop!"

A knight with armor running in, standing at the gate of the Lordship's residence, stood in front of me. The color of vigilance was floating on its face.

"Ha-ha, rumors, ha-ha, is that true?

"Rumors?"

"If I bring a dragon's eye, I'll get a panacea."

"A panacea? Oh, you mean Shizuku, the world tree? It's true."

"Is it true? ⁉R"

I swung the knight's hand up and down. The knight is a little pully.

But I never knew that, and I found hope that I might be able to help Serna, and I was biting my joy.

And at the same time, I was thinking that if you took the panacea, you might be allowed to live in that village again.

Dragon's Eye, I'll definitely get you!

"Is there a dragon here..."

I was at the Little Dragon's place at the request of the Alliance. It's a class A quest. It's not long since I've become an adventurer. A request I can't take.

But I know where the dragon is. That's enough. I didn't have the idea at this time that I wasn't strong enough or that I couldn't beat you.

Get the dragon's eye and help Serna.

The thought dared me to be impotent.

The gear is a novice to adventurers, even in the eyes of the eye. I have no experience in fighting demons properly.

But I was wondering if I could handle this body.

But the idea was sweet, and I came to know it shortly afterwards.

Dogowowo on.

A dragon blow crushing the ground like tofu. That was simply an attack that shook my legs down.

Only a few seconds after we met, I was trampled down, unable to avoid or defend myself from the blow.

"Gahahahahahaha"

Spit blood in the center of the heavily determined ground.

If, monster...... too strong......

Isolated difference in strength, self who can do nothing. No more helplessness.

Serna...... sorry......

Apologizing in my heart to Serna, who was not here, I flew consciousness under my swinging leg again.

- Dead.

I can't do anything. Without even taking a chance at the corner.

I'm pointless, dead.

I woke up in real life. I wept and blamed myself for not being able to do anything.

I thought I could help Serna. I thought I could live like before again. In the end, I remained a child who could do nothing.

I want to see you...... again to Serna.

I wanted to go again to a world where I didn't want to go as much as that.

Just give me one more chance.

He told me to give him a chance to help Serna.

I thought the wish could never be fulfilled. We need to talk about it that sweet.

But the dream was kind to me.

It was the dragon's body that awaited me at night and fell asleep. Little dragon torn in two. The cut was amazingly beautiful and cut into two pieces to the bone.

Little dragon that was terribly strong. The fact that someone far stronger than the dragon made this was understandable to me that I hadn't seen the battle.

"Who the hell... no, eyes sooner than that..."

This is what Serna's doing. She's still sick and suffering. We need to deliver the panacea as soon as possible.

A few days after his death, the dragon's body left traces of being eaten by animals.

But my eyes stayed safe. Big eyes. Cut out your eyes big enough to hold them with both hands, and when you put them in the bag you brought, you rush back to the city.

Wait, Serna. I'll be right there.

"I've brought my eyes to the lord!

"Whoa......? Sure you are..."

"Bring the lord in quickly! Give me the panacea!

"Oops......"

The knight, who has the cliché 'Oooh...', headed to the lord's residence to call the lord. A few minutes later, the returning knight took me inside the mansion. What I waited for there was an uncle with a good width.

"Did your Lord bring you the eyes of a dragon?

"Yes! Now you can get a panacea, right? ⁉ ●"

"A panacea? Oh, you mean Shizuku. Hmm, you're right."

"Yay, yay, yay."

The knights and lords are slightly drawn to me as happy as children. Perhaps if a grown man were to be so happy, he would have no choice. From around you, it would be uncomfortable or disgusting.

"This is the reward world tree Shizuku."

"Wow! Beautiful water! This is the panacea, isn't it? ⁉ Thank you! Yes, this! Bye!

Upon receiving Shizuku, he rampantly threw his bag over to his lord and flew out of the mansion.

"Oops......"

"You were like a child... I might have to invest more in educating this city"

A sudden visit by a strange man. It is only these two people who later know it as the origin of the city that is said to be an academic city.

"Stop!"

Six-monthly village. Only the gate and the outer wall are still visible, but I still feel nostalgic. The nostalgia stopped me.

The gatekeeper approached me to see what I thought of that.

"You...! Why did you come back?

"Give this to Serna..."

The gatekeeper, who confirmed my face by approaching me, immediately put his hand on the sword with his true face after a moment of surprise.

I controlled it with one hand and offered medicine with the other.

When I receive it, the gatekeeper turns his surprise gaze to me.

"What's this?

"It's a panacea. Shizuku the World Tree"

"Shizukuishi of the World Tree ⁉ Stupid... You mean you've got this for Serna...?

"Yes!"

A gatekeeper staring at Shizukuishi as a surprise. Then I followed the gatekeeper who instructed me to wait here and waited outside the gate.

I'm sure this will help Serna. Then you should see me once or so. They may also forgive me for living in the village.

The gate opened when I thought about that and was excited to wait.

And it wasn't the gatekeeper who walked into the village earlier that came out of that gate... he was the warrior chief.

"Do you want to see Serna?

"Yes!"

Unlike before, the warrior chief who has heard in a serene voice. I answered with all my strength in my voice wondering if I could match Serna.

"Right... out. Take me down and I'll let you through."

"... Huh?

"If you're a man, show your will with your strength."

That's what I said and pulled out my sword, Warrior Chief. I waved my sword without waiting for me to set up. All of a sudden, I could barely react. I was lightly slashed in the arm.

"Whoa."

Momentum to pull out the sword bounces back the slash of the second shot. And just back off.

"That's a good reaction. What are we gonna do with this?

In a spare way, the Warrior Chief launches his next attack. Meanwhile, I can't afford to roll to the side and avoid attacks with a candlestick.

The warrior chief unleashed a kick where he rolled up if he didn't miss it. I can't avoid it this time, I get a decent kick in the belly.

"Ghoo."

The air kicks him out of his mouth, letting him down and hits a tree from his back. Puts effort into his legs to regain his posture, but by then the warrior chief was already on the verge of seeing it.

A warrior chief who holds the fist of a hand without a sword and sticks his fist at the dovetail relentlessly.

"Kaha."

Keeping my belly down and on my knees, the warrior chief relentlessly puts in a pursuit.

Buggy, giggy, giggy!

The front kick that was released to sandwich my head with a tree and leg broke through my head and even the tree on my back.

"Are we done?

The warrior chief looked down at me falling so that I could lead him to a broken tree and asked if he would still continue.

Ouch...... painful......

I want to stop fighting like this...

He bled out of his face and his eyes were bogged down by the effects of a kick. He was also beaten hard in the stomach, which is painful.

But... if I stop here, I'm sure I'll never see Serna again.

Even if my illness heals, I can't come back here anymore if I run away here.

I don't want to see Serna again!

Hold your fist so hard that your nails eat in.

"It's not over yet."

It was the first time you attacked me. That's not a samurai attack, like the one we fought in Goblin as soon as we came to this world, nor an attack we wielded bibibilly from behind.

A blow with the desire to see Serna again.

Kick-ass.

"Out of my way, I'm going to see Serna again!

Authentic, full blow. But the warrior chief took it with a sword with both hands without bitterness.

"So? What do we do when we meet? That kid can't help anymore. Even with the Shizukuishi of the world tree. What are you gonna do when you see that girl like that?

"It shouldn't be... it shouldn't be! That water is a panacea!

"No. There is no such thing in this world. Versatile is a word, a bullshit made by a dreamy idiot. Reality is tougher - cruel."

That's not true.

Because it's a medicine that can help Serna.

It's universal. That medicine...

Otherwise... I can't help Serna unless it's omnipotent.

"You're losing your power."

"Ugh."

The moment his powers weakened, he bounced his sword up and was kicked in again.

"Not yet......!

"No more. Give it up. That's yours, Serna."

"I'll decide on my own."

"Slow"

Kakin!

My sword, wielded with a high sound, was bounced off. Karan, I lost my weapon as I heard Karan and the sound of jumping on the ground. I was sworded up in my throat and lowered back as I leaned back. The warrior opened his mouth with a sharp glance as he continued to terrorize me with a few more centimeters of death.

"Do you know how Serna's parents died?

"... and I don't know"

"Well............... her mother suffered the same illness right after giving birth to Serna and she died when she was 5 years old. The father desperately raised Serna even after his wife died. But make yourself ill while you're at it. By the time he was seven, he was alone. Still, Serna never cried. I was laughing at you. You know what that smile means? It makes sense that she threw you out until she cried.... I had a harder time breaking up with you than breaking up with my parents. Still, if I'm gonna bend Serna's will to kick you out - show me how ready she is for it!

I opened my mouth wide in front of my eyes to reprimand my weak will, yelling warrior chief. Anger and sadness in its eyes.

I've never thought about it since I left the village. [M]

How did you get that far and kick me out? and.

"Serna... worry about me..."

"That's right. Now you're trying to ruin it. If you find out, go home."

Serna knew she wasn't long.

So you kicked me out. Look at your moment of death so I don't get hurt...

She just helped me. And yet there can be no good in not being present at the hardest of times or at the last moment.

I want to at least laugh and drop you off so Serna can feel safe.

I thought that was the best I could do.

"............ I don't like it"

"What?"

"I meet Serna. Whatever they say doesn't change that. - Ha!"

"Mmm."

I slammed a flash, dropped my hips and stuck my fist forward. The attack went in decent for the first time, thanks to poking at my intentions.

I treat swords poorly. [M] Preliminary motion is huge, and too much persistence is put into it, swinging to its momentum. Still, I think you've gotten a lot better over the last six years. It's no big deal if you do it to someone else. But in my case, I had to start by getting used to the difference in body size and physical ability from reality.

So using a sword was quite challenging.

Rather, the stronger you are without a sword.

"Gu, give me so much power..."

"Olah! Yah! Ha-ha-ha."

Contrary to earlier, I overwhelmed the Warrior Commander. Only by making full use of this body's physical abilities will there be such a difference. Yet I use my sword because I can distance myself from the discomfort I said earlier.

I was scared. Getting close to them...

But now, I wasn't scared.

It was more scary to never see Serna again than that.

"This is what I want."

"Goha!"

I hit the belly of the warrior chief with the full force of momentum. That's more than twice as many blowing warrior chiefs as I got kicked off earlier. Rolling to the ground, the sword was no longer held in his hand, which fell powerless.

"Ha ha, I'm coming through...?

"Gah,... go. I can't stop you anymore. Whatever you want..."

Once I checked, the warrior chief gave me permission while spitting blood. Did you hear that proclamation, the gate opens all by itself?

I walked silently through the gate and came back home feeling a little relieved by what was going on in the village, which had not changed at all.

Gacher

"Gohogoho, who?

With her bed still asleep, Serna, who heard the door open, saw the door open with only her neck moving.

"It's me, Serna."

I went inside making a laugh. [M] If I'm not laughing, I can't help but make a smile.

"Reggie... I knew you were back..."

"Yeah. I'm sorry."

"Yeah...... thanks. I missed you."

Serna, whom I hadn't seen in a long time, had even thinned her previously skinny body and was very weak.

You don't even try to wake up while you're talking like this because you're so weak that you can't even do that?

"Serna, try this"

"Hey, this?

"Shizuku of the World Tree. Serna's illness may heal."

I woke up Serna's head and tried to get her to drink Shizuku. But Serna shook her head small and didn't try to drink.

"Take that stuff for me... Thanks, Reggie. … but I can't drink that."

"What? Duh, why...?

"My illness doesn't heal with that...... so give it to others, not me. Because it's very valuable…"

What the warrior chief said was not a lie.

The brutal reality was so heavy on my back that I couldn't stand. I lay face down in front of Serna's cot and clenched my fist. [M]

"Damn......"

"Don't cry. Reggie just showed up, and I'm good enough, right?

I tried not to cry and laugh, but my last hope disappeared and my tears overflowed unintentionally.

Serna laughed at me like that with her merciful warm eyes and crawled her hands on my head.

No... not like this...

"Sorry, sorry, Serna. I... couldn't give anything back to Serna. You've helped me ever since I came to this world... and I couldn't do anything."

Make Serna anxious until the end...... you have to laugh...

"That's not true. I had so much fun living thanks to you. It gave me the loneliness...... warmth. I just had enough of you..."

I couldn't stop crying. I should have decided not to cry, but such determination didn't make any sense.

"Thanks... and goodbye... my last family..."

"No! I still have a lot to talk about! Please, don't die yet, Serna!

Don't pass away, sweetheart.

Please, God, I don't care what happens next. So help Serna......!

"Sorry, it seems like the limit is... next time to my real family..."

God did not grant me a wish.

Serna's hand slipped off my palm.

"Serna......? Serna, hey, Serna?... Wake up... it's still early to go to sleep...? Please... open your eyes..."

I don't like it... I want to talk more... I don't like this...

How could you do this...

She will never wake up again. The moment I understood it, despair ran over in front of me.

I don't like it. I don't like it. Uh-huh.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

Broken.

Something... in me...

Raise a cry that doesn't sound like a voice, it collapses. The feeling of my self disappearing pushes me into darkness.

The feeling suddenly changed when the darkness tried to dye everything.

Something is ripped off as if a mountain named me were to be cut off the edge.

My consciousness was taken away by the pain and suffering, which could be described as pain and anguish.

And when it was all taken away, I was gone.

And the words I exchanged with her. Everyday. Memories.

They took everything I lived for.

But only my heart, which had lost everything, was not taken away.

That's all that was left of me.

That's what I got instead of losing everything, important, important thoughts that can't be turned into anything.

I won't forget.

The day I met her.

The days I spent with her.

The days I scratched my feet wanting to help her.

I couldn't save her today.

All of it, I remember my heart.

I will never forget her smile as she fought her illness and lived so hard.