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

When I poured the wheat porridge that Azerea brought me into my stomach to make me feel comfortable, I finally got the story to the point - but before I did.

"Jack. Can you get me some more food? 'Cause this guy eats so much."

"Hmm? Oh...... ok"

Azelea physically forced Jack to take his seat off.

From here on out, it's hard to talk in front of him - that's what I guess.

Drop that back off and I squeal.

"I lost my memory...?

"Yes."

Azerea looked at me somewhere to blame, answering with certainty.

"The reason... you don't have to tell me, you know"

"... Yep. Right......"

In the first place, seven years ago.

At the time that happened, it wasn't weird if it was.

Being still decent - at least in brain function - is a scarier miracle.

"Doctor, tell me first"

With a clear gaze of vigilance and enmity, Azerea looked to me.

"That day...... that day when the Demon King Army attacked Bradia. Why did you attack me? Why did I have to be banished to the end of the world?

Because I thought you were Girl X.

I didn't want to answer that...

Neither the [leading cause and effect] thing, nor the girl x thing, I am no longer willing to speak lightly.

Girl X herself finds out everything, so it's too late where I just held my mouth.

Even if I knew I was... after all, I didn't feel like talking.

There is no longer any reason.

I felt like I was tied up in chains.

A chain named Fear wraps around my throat, sealing my attempt to spin words...

"... I can't tell you more..."

Azerea sharpened her eyes.

"It's just... at that time, I thought you might do Jack harm... Now the suspicion is clear, but then I thought Jack would be in danger if I didn't get rid of you.... Believe me, I can't tell you... I'm really, really sorry."

I bow my head from my heart.

All I could do was show my apologies in this way, beyond being able to tell you the details.

"... ha"

I hear the sigh of Azerea, and I lift up my face.

"Convinced, I can't. It's also hard to believe.... but I know people who don't do things without me. With that apology, we're going to water it for a moment."

"Azelea......"

What a sweet kid.

I was glad to be this child's teacher, and I sincerely thought,

"Next... it's my turn"

Correct your residence, Azelea says.

"I'll tell you what I've been up to..."

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"Flew to a strange land by a teacher, I managed to return to my original place. I checked my current location, checked my directions...... I didn't know how many months it would take to get the carriage on board, so I sold off what I had and secured the horse. It was a long way to go."

"... I didn't think you'd be able to come back in just about a month"

"Horses alone wouldn't have been possible, would they? At first, too, I expected it to take as early as three months...... Because I didn't even think the battle with the Demon King's Army would be over in just three months."

"You didn't know Jack was defeated?

"I learned a long time later...... The information itself was a remote area with little flow, and I was desperate to go back anyway."

"... sorry"

"Enough said. Fortunately, it didn't go badly - I lived through a lot of things with Mr. Elvis' launch of his new and spiritual artist guild. I was helped by the connections I made around that time."

"Good......"

"So the journey itself went well. But after a few weeks, knowing that there was... I had to hurry back."

"Something?

"of public executions…"

"Jack's? That... shouldn't have been publicized outside of the Three Kingdoms. Were you back that close already?

"No. Laes, Lowe and Cenri were still in a land where I couldn't even see a shadow - but they taught me,"

"You taught me...? To whom?"

- It's Ruby.

"... eh"

I barely enjoyed the look on my face.

"That's... when did that happen?

"Uh... sure, that Samizina kid - Jack's sideroom kid issues a recapture declaration, some days ago"

Elvis had tasked Ruby with a missing Azerea search.

He had received that report from Ruby on a regular basis - I feel like Elvis was saying that he had also received a report the day before Samizina's declaration of recapture.

By then, Ruby had already found Azelea.

Yet he lied that they hadn't found him.

Given that Ruby was a girl x, that can be taken for granted - though.

"When I heard about Jack's public execution from Ruby - precisely from Ruby's manners - I dumped my horse and switched to a faster means of travel.

… I think it's a miracle that I followed that blast flying technique. "

In other words, Ruby's contact with Azerea expedited her return.

Azerea made it to that execution site because she heard from Ruby about the public execution.

If you return the back, you can also say this.

Ruby said - Girl X set up an intervention in a public execution by Azerea.

But... do that, what the hell will it be...?

"So in time for the critical execution... you can skip the history there, right?"

"... Yep. After you took Jack away, what happened?

"There was a fierce pursuit by the Demon King's Army - more than the former, that flying technique was sometimes not available for very long, and I went down to earth and tried to escape the forces zone of the three Powers while hiding. Dimkuld is taking in the Guild of Evil Spiritualists, so I thought it was dangerous for any land that still had its influence."

"Right..."

"Flying in the sky is also noticeable, so we had to travel slowly through the ground. Most importantly, Jack was in terrible shape... and I thought it would be dangerous to force him to do too much."

"Is Jack... after all, not yet then?

"... Yes. It was like a shell out...... He didn't even eat a decent meal, so... me, the... always with a mouthful..."

Saying, Azelea shyly turned away.

Makes me smile a little.

It was something I also knew that she had always liked about Jack since she was a child.

"... Kohon. Anyway, that's how I tried to treat Jack while running away and hiding. I don't really know if that worked... but over the course of a few days, Jack started slowly returning the response."

"What? Really?

"Yes."

... No matter how many times I talked to you, you didn't even tell me what to do.

"So, the escape life started, and I'm sure it was about a week... but when I lurked in the empty house and tried to reveal the night, Jack started crying with trembling"

"Jack!? I don't..."

"Yes, I, too, have never seen Jack cry before... me, I kept holding him in my bed and saying 'it's okay'. That's all I can do. So..."

So, for some reason, Azelea mumbled.

I lean my neck.

"So?"

"... oh, that. Do we have to talk about this too...?

"? Is it like you can't talk?

"That's because the..."

Azerea rapidly turned her face bright red, as much as her hair.

It's a more intense reaction than when we were talking about the mouthpiece earlier.

Ha.

Holding Jack in tears in his empty bed, I wonder what happened.

... an empty bed?

Behind my brain, I remember resurrection.

A bed with Azelea and Jack's hair left behind and... a relatively new trace of blood left on that sheet.

".................. ah"

In my brain, the answer flashed.

"... of the bed, of the blood, of the marks..."

"Mi, you saw it!?

"Oh, because there were traces of you guys... that's not what I meant..."

Oh... that blood trail, I mean, Azelea's...

My face is getting hot to me.

At that time, was I exploring the place after Azerea and Jack did such a thing...

An awkward silence drifted among us.

I'm sure Azerea would be better off than I am.

What the hell kind of torture can a teacher find out where he scattered his purity?

"... well... no."

Beating the crap out of her, Azelea started making excuses.

"Hey, while I'm comforting you, at some point, it feels like Jack's going to be able to put you up to it...... and when it does, there's nothing I can do about it!?

Azerea Austin, who is second only to Elvis in the Kingdom of Laes, though I don't think there's anything I can do about it.

"... how'd it go?

"Hih!?

Is that it?

What are you asking me?

"I don't know how it went, you know... and anyway, I'm desperate to accept Jack... oh, I don't really remember..."

"Oh, yes... congratulations"

"Uh... oh, thank you...?

Even though she was confused, Azelea lowered her gaze as she blurted.

Whatever the situation, I'm sure we should celebrate the years of thoughts that have come true.

... Although I'm somewhat unintelligible when I say Elvis and my godchild just keeps me ahead of him.

"And anyway!

Azerea forcefully proceeded to talk about how she could no longer stand it.

"Since then, Jack's condition has improved visibly."

"... is that what triggered it?

"... Yes. Well, probably..."

"Boys are simple..."

"No, I kind of thought so, too!... but I still think Jack needed it. Someone who accepts it all unconditionally."

That... might be so.

In the past, Phil was in charge of the role.

I lost that... and as a result, I just had to lock myself in my shell...

"Jack recovered as he started walking on his own or giving me answers.... but..."

"I had lost my memory..."

"... Yes. I hardly remember anything other than my name...... I'm sure it was necessary to protect my mind."

... That much happened.

Hope, even despair, was taken away and stoned by numerous human beings.

I can assure you that even I once lost my memory.

That I'm happier not remembering.

If you can forget it, you better forget it.

... forgotten we miss, but if Jack gets peace with it...

"... I thought Jack needed a place to rest. So... I found this house."

And to this day.

Past recollections by Azerea thus marked the end.