Only with Your Heart

The feeling of being drunk by light continued for a while, and Chizuru thought that this feeling was remembered vaguely in his vanishing consciousness.

──Yeah, it's like when I was flying into this world.

(No...... I can't leave Lukrov's side!)

No matter how hard you try to resist, you'll be swallowed up with your will. Luqlov, Luqlov, Luqlov. That's all Chizuru could think of.

If I have to go somewhere, take me to you. I don't care what you look like anytime... "





Chizuru regained consciousness and felt the noise around him. As he slowly opened his eyelids, there was a familiar shadow immediately in front of him.

It's not about being familiar, not familiar, etc. You can't be mistaken. Chizuru felt a sense of relief for a moment and took a sigh and smiled at the man in front of him.

"Lucroff..."

At some point, Chizuru was hugged by Lukrov.

The surroundings remained at night, but for some reason they were out in the open. Lucroff was sitting in a low chair, holding the unconscious Chizuru in his arms. His masculine aroma tickles his nose.

Chitre

As usual, Lukrov answered the call of Chizuru.

But for some reason, his voice has an unusual rigidity. That's not all. Normally, my forehead would be like this... Otherwise, I'd kiss my lips, but Lukrov didn't make a slightly unnatural move.

Lucroff, why are you hard?

With a smile on his face, Lukrov stared at Chizuru's face as he squinted between his brows. Although the expression itself was not unusual, I felt a strange discomfort.

I don't know... It's never weird, but it's not the usual.

"Because you got drunk and hit your head and lost your mind, Shrine Maiden of Salvation." With just a few bites of wine, I suddenly couldn't walk straight, and I hit my head in the tree trying to get into the fluffy forest..... "

"Oh, are you sure...?"

“Yeah, I helped him fall down like that.”

Chizuru rushed to check the surroundings.

Indeed, it was surrounded by trees. And there was a kindling beside them, and it was burning brightly. The night sky is dark crimson, and although it is night, it may not yet be late.

But why is this happening when you were supposed to be in the castle?

Although I was certainly vulnerable to── alcohol in the── first place, I shouldn't have been exposed to that kind of ugliness for a long time. When I first came to this world, I was still a teenager and had no drinking experience at all, and I lost my mind and was embarrassed several times because of the habit of drinking wine instead of water...

Chizuru himself often doesn't remember much, mostly because of what Lu Kurofu, who took care of him, later told him, so he remembers it as "apparent".

But lately, a few bites of wine won't be enough to charge the tree... Why is that?

"I see... I'm sorry." Did we have a drink? I don't really remember why I'm here... "

With a sense of affection for her husband, Chizuru leaned against Lukrov's chest.

Even though he would normally hug me here, tonight Lucrov took a short breath and turned his back slightly in amazement.

It's like trying to escape from Chizuru.

"I told you, I was drunk, I hit my head, I was unconscious."

Lucrov answered with a faint voice, as if he were coming out from between his gnashing teeth.

"No, I get it..." But I wondered why he was outside in the first place. What time is it now? "

"The sun had just set a little while ago. It's not like you've been unconscious for so long."

"But I can only remember where we were sleeping in the castle bedroom..."

"Castle?" The wrinkles between Lucrov's brows deepened. "Which castle?"

Now it was Chizuru's turn to turn his back.

"It's Ruklov's castle."... that's why I get angry all the time. Our castle, isn't it? "

Silence.

Silence...

After a while, Ruklov shook his head left and right with a deep breath.

"You're still drunk."

Lucrov straightened his posture and sat upright with a thousand cranes on his lap at the same time, peering into her face.

(Huh...?)

And, it was at this time that Chizuru first felt strange.

(No scratches on my face......?)

There were traces of cuts on Lucroff's face from his forehead to his eyebrows. It's not so painful because he's healing properly, but it still changes the first impression of his face.

I couldn't find it.

It's like when I was young... when I was twenty-two years old, it was like Lucroff.

"Huh... Lucroff!?"

Chizuru unexpectedly raised his voice and wrapped Lukrov's face with his hands. His pitch-black eyes widen. Regardless, Chizuru stared at Lukrov. Since the surrounding area is at night and the light source is only the moon overhead and the bonfire next to it, there is a limit to the sight.

But you can't be mistaken. The face of a loved one I see every day.

This is definitely Lucroff.

But...... but...... this Lucroff.

"I-Is it young...?"

If you get sane and think about it, a rather rude statement will leak out from Chizuru's mouth. But I couldn't keep quiet.

The Lucroff in front of me was the same old Lucroff no matter where he looked. The skin is different, and the hair and whether there are scars or not. Above all, the calm adult atmosphere disappeared, and instead, there was a mood that came from the unique youth and something like strength.

... I feel like...

"What are you trying to say, Chidl?"

"Wait, wait. I mean, Lucroff wasn't supposed to be so young anymore..."

“How's it going?

Chizuru touched Petapeta and Lucrov's hands to confirm the touch. No. Obviously, sucking on the skin is different. It's already at night, and the beard is slightly tingling, but this is definitely rejuvenating.

“How did this happen? A dream or some kind of medicine?”.

"Chitre... you're drunk." Drink some water. "

A leather bag instead of a water bottle was offered, and Chizuru received it reflexively. When he unplugged the bottle, he poured the water inside into his mouth. Puzzled to breath, but there's no sign of getting drunk. In the first place... I don't feel like I'm drunk.

Chizuru stared at Lukrov in a daze.

Speaking of Lucrov, he stared back at Chizuru strangely.

Fourteen years ago, I never thought that Lucrov's appearance was inferior to that of his old self... but when I looked again at his appearance when he fell in love for the first time, overflowing with youth... it was so fascinating that it was difficult to explain. First of all, it is not the kind of incense that the high school girls who have just come from modern Japan resist.

(You're already falling in love with this...)

And I even feel strange sympathy for myself in the past... or something like understanding.

(Not, not!)

Chizuru pulled the leather bag to her chest and gripped it, facing her husband who seemed rejuvenated for some reason.

"Lukrov... do you realize you're getting younger?"

"...... Chidl... so, you..."

"If you say drunk!" Besides, I didn't drink anything tonight. maybe some kind of magic..... "

As they argued, a sudden voice came from the other side of the fire.

"What are you arguing about, Chitre?" Is it Captain Ruklov's irrational orders again? "

Chizuru looked over his shoulder and saw the direction of his voice.

At the forefront of the flaming flame is a rich red-haired big man who has just made that flame into a human form...

"Lo... Loan...?"

I opened my mouth wide enough to think that my jaw would come off, and Chizuru was stunned. And he shouted, "Young! Even Loan, young!"

Huh?

I saw Ruklov and Lorne gaze at each other and interact silently. The conversation echoes in your ears much more painfully than if you actually talked out loud.

Did you have a bad headache?

Yeah, maybe.

... there's a fascinating conversation!

Chizuru turned to Lucrov like a spring and groaned at his face.

When is it, and where is it?

In response to Chizuru's question, Rukurov's worried expression turned into a desperate one.

"It's nighttime, and this is the entrance to the woods on the edge of the border."

Luqlov's answer was accurate... and didn't really help Chizuru understand.

"That's not true. When was it, not the time, but the A.D.... or something like that?" How old is Ruklov now? Off the border, isn't this Lukov's territory? Of course, Lukrov's territory is also on the outskirts of the country..... "

"Chitre..."

Lucrov exhaled because he was deep enough to breathe deeply into Chizuru's face.

"I don't have any territory." If you really want to know, I'll answer, but I'm twenty-two years old. I feel like I've been getting older for a month since you came into this world. "

Chizuru's head turned pure white.

I don't know what to do, so I accidentally look up at the night sky. I remembered seeing the lower chord of the moon before I lost consciousness.

But what was floating was a full moon so big that it was disgusting.

If you give up a hundred steps and you lose consciousness, you know that a day has passed. But it should take three weeks to move from the lower moon to the full moon. I wasn't particularly familiar with the object, but since I came to this world, I've learned how to calculate the number of days.

Impossible... "

However, the reality that stunned Chizuru more than ever before appeared before my eyes.

"Hey, Chitzle. Did you wake up? What's the matter, all three of you?"

A blonde knight like the prince appeared behind the drone... and Chizuru dropped a leather bag from his hand. Edina was next to him.