About that day I won't forget.

What happened the day I still had a family.

About the day when I still had a peaceful routine.

"Look, Elena, I'm gonna wake up fast!

"Mmm. And a little more..."

"I'm ready for breakfast! I'm gonna eat Elena's bun too!

"No!

At the time, I was only a child.

In a small village in the mountains, I lived with my parents and sister.

Poor and fun days. Not knowing the fact that the Demons say they are fighting humanity, I was looking at a bright future and the sky.

And I thought such a routine would last forever.

That day, my physically strong mother caught a rare cold.

"Oka-san, are you kidding me?

"It's okay, Elena. Mother, I'm strong."

"Ugh, you're worried..."

My sister Elena was a mother and a child.

I'm always beside my mother, helping my mother, listening to my mother, falling into my dreams with old stories my mother reads.

Elena, who lives like that, was fit enough for my mother to make me anxious about the future, too, young.

"Here, Elena. You're annoying your mother! Besides, what if I catch a cold to Elena?

"If Oka-san is cured with it, lie to me!

"Oh..."

As my sister, I watched Elena very closely.

But I'm still young, and I've been swayed by my younger sister a lot more than that. Whenever that happens, my mother put out a rescue ship.

"I kinda hate it when Elena catches a cold because of your mother..."

"Ugh..."

When I still can't, my father joins me.

"Here, Elena. Your mother will be in trouble. Let him rest."

My father was usually a kind of official working under the village chief.

The expression official was somewhat excessive because it is a small village, and as a matter of fact it is close to a hunter. It is a job to help the village chief while entering the woods and hunting for wildlife that sometimes exits to protect the village.

Well, it's a really small village, so there wasn't that much work.

"Yes, Elena. Why don't you and your sister go to Aunt Cania's? Because your mother is watching me."

Living in the same village, Aunt Kania is our aunt. People who make delicious treats.

So it also means Elena can eat plenty of sweets if she goes there.

"... ok. Oh, hey, hey, hey!

I was Elena, who was put on board by my father's ploy, but I thought of something else then.

Oh, Elena's good. Let's hear it from everyone.

My sister's ugly jealousy, is it?

Even though I'm a child, it's always my sister Elena who can take care of me. Sometimes even me, I want your mother to mind.

That's what I thought to my child's heart.

And what I came up with at my aunt's house is a bold decision unique to my child.

"Aunt Cania. You're going outside for a moment."

"... hmm? Where are you going?

"Remember I had business with a friend."

"Ah. Then go away. I have to keep my word."

Naturally, it was a lie. I have no business.

"Hey, you're gonna eat something crazy, right?

"You can eat. Because I don't even know if I'm fat!

"I'm not fat!

Beh, with my tongue-in-cheek sister on my back, I almost stick my hand up, but I think it's about your mother that should be my priority, so I lower my arm.

Instead,

"If you eat that much, you won't be able to eat dinner. I don't know if your father's mad at you."

"Then I'll give it to you for that! Instead, I'm going to eat your freak!

"... you're gonna get fat?

"I'm not fat! Better than that. Hey, where are you going?

"I told you. Promise to a friend"

"Well, good night!

"Yes, sir."

I left my aunt's house, leaving my sister to speak of.

What I went out for was to go into the woods.

Because he knew that some of the woods surrounding the village were growing mountain vegetables, fruits and medicinal herbs. My father often brings it as a souvenir on the way home from the hunt.

At that time, I also saw medicinal herbs that supposedly work against colds. I remember it well.

Bring it back and you'll be delighted.

What a sweet thought, I went into the woods. It was my first adventure in my life...... and it was also my last.

"That's hard to find...... do we have to go a little further back?

I go deep into the woods, even though there are beasts in the woods.

The purpose is: mountain vegetables, fruits and medicinal herbs. Just because I want my favorite mother to be happy.

Of course, as soon as I met the beast, I was going to run away. You can't do that with a kid's leg? That's not what kids know.

And luckily, we didn't meet that day. Instead of a vermin, I never met a bird, nor a wild rabbit.

I wasn't smart enough at the time to think that was weird.

Instead, we rejoice in good luck and keep walking.

Noticed, I became the feather of watching the sunset in the woods without being able to find the herbs, mountain vegetables or fruit I was looking for.

"... what shall we do"

No harvest. If you go back with your bare hands like this, you will surely be pissed off.

I don't know what Elena will look like. But at night, I know it's more dangerous.

The fear that my parents would be mad at me and the fear of the night approaching hung on my balance.

Think about which to weigh in, as a child, but I didn't come to a conclusion.

Because I heard a noise I'd never heard before.

"... of now, what?

If I had the vocabulary at the time, as I am now, I would have said this.

"Oh, I wonder what the explosion sounds like right now"

and.