Do You Think You Can Run After Reincarnating, Nii-san?

Jacques.

- I want to protect you.

With my own hands, I want to be able to protect whoever I want to protect.

When was it that I wished for that?

When my best friend for ten years got his tongue ripped out with a pench?

When my ex-girlfriend in middle school got her face burned in a frying pan?

When a junior in a high school club gets his eyeballs choosen without cork?

I don't remember exactly.

It's just that I...

In the darkness of despair.

In a cage of fear.

Reach out to the unlikely light.

I wish.

God.

Please, help me.

It doesn't have to be a big one.

Please give me the power to be happy with the crowd.

And I met a real god in that bright white world.

I forgot then that I had such aspirations, and I didn't rely on God I met much more than I imagined.

God gave it to me properly.

Give me a chance to fulfill my wish and the power to do so.

You don't have to despair anymore.

You don't have to be afraid anymore.

That's the kind of talent I've been given, the Roost rule.

Yet.

Scary.

Scary, scary, scary, scary...!

I thought I knocked him down.

I thought I killed him.

I thought we'd never see each other again!

Yet he, again...!

Kill, kill, kill a lot of people...!!

I...

I've been, what, eleven years!!

What have you been doing - - Huh!?!?

".................. yeah! Ji-kun!!

There was a voice.

A world that was sinking in darkness gradually regains light.

Both cheeks were wrapped in warm warmth.

They're grabbing me in the face, up close, someone's screaming.

That's......

- Oh.

"... fi... l..."

The face of the most precious girl in this world, was close.

"Ji-kun! Great, I noticed...!

I didn't feel the cold feel of the handcuffs.

The door to the store is open.

"Phil... you, but...?

"Yes, I'm here to help!

"That guy, is...? That demon...!?

"Yawn...?

With a face that hasn't come pin, Phil tilts his neck.

"If Benny and Binny, they've gone to everyone else. It's those twins I was with when the bandits grabbed me! They said they wanted to show us where they grew up and they grabbed Ji-kun! I need to rendezvous with everyone soon, what those two will do......!

The twins I was with when the bandits grabbed me...?

Want to show us where you grew up...?

I can't keep up with my understanding.

But it could be...

"It wasn't him...? But he, 'brother'..."

…… Because I'm a boy and a girl twin, my sister Binny called Benny 'brother' better... "

...... oh.

Ha...!

It's a mistake.

I wasn't caught by that demon.

So, wretched mess......

Phil helped me, so what?

"... hahahahahahahahaha...!

"Ji-kun?

I leak a dry laugh...

I just had to laugh.

All I could do was laugh.

"What the... What's 'I want to protect'......! With all this body......! Just freaked out by the shadows......! The guy who wanted to protect me the most helped me......!! What can I protect with this?!!

I scratch my head.

Compared to that in previous life, scratch a much smaller head .

"You haven't changed into anything since then!! It's been eleven years and nothing!! Drown in the talent of what you get and get on with it!! Aren't you just a self satisfied idiot that you're growing up!!!

I'm... just a normal person.

Not a real genius, like Elvis or Azerea.

Get a gift from God.

Start over while retaining the spirit of adulthood.

I was just pretending to be a genius.

"I" don't have any gifts of my own.

I'll take it all.

Prodigy of Haribote.

Still, I thought I could do it.

If you do it right.

If you take it seriously.

I thought you could be strong enough to protect anyone, even just a normal person!

No, it's not.

No, no, no, no.

You know what I mean, think about it!

How old am I now?

If you only saw the spirit, it would be over thirty Osama!!

Such a guy, now!

To the extent that I was given some life!

Why did you complain that you could grow up on par with a real genius, full of possibilities!?

Something about me.

All three were frightened when they were younger sisters, they wouldn't be able to - ugh!!!

"... ji-kun"

I didn't answer.

"Ji-kun."

I didn't think I deserved that.

"- Ji-kun!!

He accidentally grabs me in the face and returns it to me.

Phil's big eyes were peeking into my face.

Oh......

Please don't.

Stop it, please...

Don't look at me...

Don't look at me...

"... ji-kun"

Again, Phil called my name.

Yeah, give me my name.

It's not a real name that disappeared from the other side of my memory.

I got the name Jack Lieber in this world.

"I am, Ji-kun. I really love you."

I shook my head as I sifted.

"No... no... That's not me... I'm..."

"Hey."

Phil said quietly.

Smile.

"Don't lick me?

With a smile that makes you fall in love.

Phil was quietly angry.

"I know that Ji-kun isn't just a cool boy.

Actually, I don't have much guts, the only thing I'm confident of is shaking, and I can't believe I'm always anxious in the fundamentals, I know that all the time!

Hey, Ji-kun. I'm gonna say it again, okay? Just to be clear again, don't miss asking. "

Phil...

I chose only one girl in this world.

The only girl who picked me out in this world.

From up close, as whispered, as poked.

Talk about thoughts without lies.

"I love you more than anyone else in the world."

Oh.

Oh, oh, oh...

The words come into the back of my chest.

It breaks through a shell called Jack Lieber and it even reaches' Me ', which was lurking deep.

I couldn't stop crying.

... Oh, shit.

How unusual.

At his mental age, he's over thirty.

I am heartily saved by the words of a girl only eleven years old.

"So, yeah."

Phil held my head gently in his chest.

Her warmth engulfed me.

"You can sweeten me. You can count on me. You don't have to be cool, do you?

Don't hesitate to show me the pity, the pity, the weakness.

Because that's... that's your daughter-in-law's job, isn't it?

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh...!!

I hugged Phil's little body and wept endlessly.

"Me... me... I've always been scared...!

"Yeah."

"Suddenly they tell me to live in a world I don't know...! My sister stuck with me like that......! Yet I can't talk to anyone...!!

"Yeah."

"I just have to do something by myself...!! All the time, alone............!!!

"Yeah."

"Because no one can believe me!! I can't believe I was reborn from another world... I can't believe my crazy sister is chasing me... who would believe me!?

"Yeah."

I mess up what I didn't know was in my mind.

I'm sure it didn't make sense. To my story, Phil nodded gently over and over again.

I... I was probably craving that affirmation.

'This is how you do it' is not the solution.

'Cheer up' is not an encouragement.

I just wanted someone to accept it.

I just wanted you to lean on someone.

In this world, I don't care what happens to outsiders.

'It's okay' forgives me, someone wanted it...

I want to be happy with the crowd.

I've always thought so, but I've had a new life.

The happiness of the crowd (...).

It's easy to put into words. I don't even know what form that takes.

But now, I finally get it.

That means you have to admit it.

I mean, you have to admit I'm nothing but a foreign body to this world.

Without any temper.

Without any hesitation.

I'm asking you to forgive me for living as I am.

So, finally...

I can really get out of that iron-smelling room that my sister locked me in.

"... Phil"

When the tears stopped and my breath calmed down, I whined with Phil in my arms.

"I need you to ask me something.... I've been silent for a long time."

"Yeah. What?

"My, true - no, another name (...)"

It should have swept across my memory and disappeared.

But wonder, now.

I should have lost it. That's what comes up in my head.

Mine, another name.

I was born in the world for the first time, and for 23 years, the name I was called.

"My other name--"

I didn't feel comfortable.

I didn't hesitate.

To the girl who allowed me to exist.

For the first time, I'll name it.

"- Kōjo, Kyoya"

There's no such thing as a philosophy.

but in this world the name is only heterogeneous,

"... Yuki, Kyoya"

Phil repeats to bite.

And say it.

Same as always.

You like me now, with a flamboyant smile.

"So it's not Ji-kun, is it?

That sounds crazy nostalgic.

Once, for sure, someone called me that.

But.

"No, that's fine, Ji-kun. I'm Jack Lieber now, after all - I wish I was Kyoya Nobushiro only in your heart."

"Oh well.... Yeah, okay, Ji-kun"

My name is Kyoya Nobushi (Jack Lieber).

There are no more inconsistencies there.

Because there are people here who recognize Jack, including Kyoya.

"Thank you, Phil.... I may be sweet again someday, but I'll say hello then"

"Fine, sweeten as much as you want? But let me sweeten you too."

"Oh. I just like it"

We cross lips.

It lasted just a little longer than usual, hugging each other hard, which was a quick swearing kiss.

I'm sure I'll never forget the fact that we met in a dark place with no mood or lump.

Thin hips to cuddle to both arms.

Warm warmth felt throughout the body.

The wandering softness that touches the lips.

One thing, I won't forget.

When we let go of our lips while we were spared the remnants, we stared at each other closely and laughed dullly.

"Kiss, you're doing well"

"You thought I was bad."

"You like it a little too much, don't you? But the boobs are just a little bit longer."

"Oops!? Come on, you noticed...?

"You'll notice that. If they touch you so much."

"Shh, excuse me..."

"Mmm, fine. I forgive you for being your daughter-in-law."

"Thank you......"

"(When it gets bigger, I'll let you touch it as much as you like, right?

"Huh!?

My brain is paralyzed by a whispered voice in my ear.

Oh, my daughter-in-law is so cute.

I wanted to kiss him again, but this time it didn't seem like it would be enough to be 'a little longer than usual'.

So I give up on the thought of a severance, and I let myself go of Phil.

"... no, you said that earlier. Like a dangerous guy went to everyone else."

I put it into words and forcefully switched my mind.

Phil also gets a serious look and nods.

"Really? Benny, you and your sister, Binny."

"Benny......"

The name sounded familiar.

A child who was caught in the same cell when the bandit 'Crimson Cat' grabbed him.

Actually, he was a twin, sneaking up on the bandit woman leader.

How could that kid be an evil psychic?

"... let's hurry to everyone anyway. Tell me more as you travel."

"Okay!

We leave the barn and start running dungeons like ruins.

I may not be a genius.

I pretended to be a genius, maybe just an ordinary person.

Still.

The last eleven years.

I met Phil, I met Rachel, I spent the last eleven years in college.

I'm sure it wasn't for nothing.

Come on, show him Jack Lieber.

I'm not just a coward in an iron-smelling room anymore.