Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu (WN)

"Rem's birthday and festivities are here again this year! Come on, let's work together to make it through this good day!

And, in the Natsuki family, which celebrated February 2 (meaning), signs of disturbance were about to sprout.

At times like this, often the cut-off of the sayings is Natsuki Subaru, the great black pillar of the family, and that is no exception this time around.

"Families want to join forces to make it a great day. Of course, you can help me, Rigel!

That being said, it was Subaru who suggested it with his thumbs up and his teeth glowing.

Subaru's suggestion to pose, the boy on the side who could turn it, had an aging face that didn't match his real age, and he sighed, "Ha..."

Deeply sighed was Natsuki Rigel, a boy who would be ten years old with short alignment of beautiful blue hair conceded by his mother and three white eyes conceded by his father.

Rigel, who was heading to the table and doing his arithmetic homework, glanced up at Subaru, who was taking steps left and right to wait for a response,

"My father went mad again..."

"That's suddenly too much to say! You know, jumping over something crazy and making an instant crazy decision is too much! Besides, this time, my suggestion is nothing crazy or flighty or anything, is it? Instead, you're full of love!?

"I'm afraid I'm blind with overflowing love and I don't know what I'm going to do. I was born and raised in this house for ten years, and it was time for me to learn."

With his cold eyes and voice, Rigel pushes back the forehead of the stuffed Subaru. Then the boy went on to say, "In the first place,"

"Mother's birthday is still a servant, only intense trauma to the sound of the festivities. What do you expect from the odd festival customs of throwing beans and eating noori rolls..."

"Don't call it a weird festival. A weird festival. No, it's true that it's a weird thing to see just what you're doing, but I would have explained that it's quite well founded and profitable. In fact, thanks to that, we don't have to be unhappy at home."

"I see a lot of things every day, but what about that misfortune?

"That's not unhappiness, it's routine. And then when you take one thing, the guy who just cares what's wrong with the good and the bad side of things doesn't even make it out, and he's gonna be stressed out."

"Don't say it like I'm bad! Mostly, it's the fatherhood!

Yelling, Rigel stood up with his hands poked at the table. Then pointing out the window, he showed an outside street from which he could peek.

The street in front of the house, magic lamps and other struts are affixed with a number of flyers, where they say, 'Savings, come!' Along with the headline, an announcement of the event is given.

The date and time and the content of the event were noted. That also included the name of the person responsible for the sneak-,

"That odd festival, it was my father who raised the town to a scale I don't know about, right? I have a name for the person in charge... and I'm ashamed they told me to die in the study hall."

"Well, you were the one who showed me my arm as a planner. Don't hesitate to brag about it." My father is our hero, "he said!

"I would have done that if there wasn't an explanation for hitting a bean on me dressed like a ghost at the event!

Peel off one that is also affixed to the wall of the house, and Rigel points to the stated matter.

Below the section describing the customs, aims and contents of the festivities, there is the contents of the festivities event that will take place on February 3 (meaning), where the name of "Natsuki Rigel", the representative, is inscribed as a position to flee the town dressed as a ghost.

"Don't sell my son without getting an understanding! A ghost!"

"The ghost is you, my daughter-in-law. Well, I can't let Rem imitate that badly. Here is one, the existence that gave away my son in tears..."

"A ghost, you! No, it's a ghost, you!

"Don't be such a cuckoo. I'm not all that serious about people bumping beans, and there are other people in charge of ghosts just because the reps are you. I'll help you out."

Rigel weakens Svalbard, pointing his lips with an unwieldy face, saying it's useless.

In the first place, these discussions were repeated just before the content of this event became known. On top of that, Rigel was defeated, as he did every time, to celebrate the day of cheating and production to the present.

No further changes or discontinuations can be made. If it's a pressed role, the role entrusted to it must be fulfilled. - Being so common sense and hard-working physical condition makes it very difficult for a boy named Natsuki Rigel to live.

Whatever.

"Events are events, you accept them clean too. So, what I want to discuss with you right now is something else."

"... your mother's birthday, right?"

"Exactly."

To the words of Subaru, who rang his fingers, Rigel turns away with his nose ringing.

For whatever reason, it's a different day from the heavily minded festival event and the birthday of my mother, Natsuki Rem - a schedule that is finalised to celebrate my mother in a grand way and see hell the next day.

"In this mood, I can't even celebrate my mother's birthday as sunny..."

"Sure, it's an overcrowded schedule, but it's a happy thing to have fun twirling for two days in a row. Think more positive. Positive Thinking."

"... I can't even celebrate my mother's birthday in this mood."

"Is that it? Dejab!?

No dejabs, no shit.

My heart didn't move shards in the conversation, so it's natural that there won't be any change in the outcome.

"I know what it's like to be nervous about you before you save money. But you can't scorn Rem's birthday only once a year because of that. You're gonna miss Rem, aren't you? So let's switch. You can do it."

"-. -. -. - Yeah."

It took me too long to switch, naturally.

However, Rigel decides to be honest with me because we can't talk about it as we speak, and it doesn't seem possible to frustrate Subaru's mind no matter what.

"So, are we talking about your mother's birthday present?

"That's right. Actually, it's going to be a milestone this year, or my tenth wedding year. Especially since I don't have a wedding anniversary, I want to celebrate it on top of my birthday. I want to make it feel special."

"Well, that's good, right? Honestly, I know your mother would love anything your father does, but rarely do I honestly agree with that"

"Right? So, here's the real deal"

With a smile like an evil kid, he invites Rigel as Subaru invites him to wretch. In that posture Rigel bent his lips and had a full taste of the unpleasant hunch.

But that's how he makes Rigel hesitate, and Subaru invites him over and over again.

In the end, Rigel had no choice but to sigh and face its Subaru.

"I actually prepared a special gift for this 10-year wedding celebration project. I've already ordered this. I can't help it."

"... yeah, well, ok"

"For today, I used a trick and a military fund named Whiskers I saved. This is a good substitute. Listen, I'm surprised. I've got some jewelry for you."

- Hey, Jewel.

Surprised, Svalbard said, so I set myself up, but Rigel was doubly surprised because the content was truly surprising.

Basically, it is Subaru's way to make extra plans when doing something and consequently cause unnecessary confusion, but none of that appeared in this prospectus.

"A gem..."

In retrospect, Rigel's mother, Natsuki Rem, is a less dressed woman.

That would be purely a matter of Rem's own temperament, not for reasons such as consideration of household interaction. In the blind eye of his family, Rigel is secretly proud that his mother, Rem, is the owner of a very beautiful appearance as a woman.

However, it is also true that there was a slight dissatisfaction with my mother's way of making it good that she did not like to wear it from time to time and was also unrelated to jewellery and gorgeous costumes.

I wouldn't even call it pure poverty, but my mother isn't too keen on decorating herself.

But I can also be sure that if it is Svalbard, my father, who obsesses with such a mother without shame or outside information, and if it is a gift from Svalbard, I will never say no.

So Rigel did not hesitate to agree with his father's proposal to give his mother jewellery.

"I think that's great. What, you can do it once in a while, Dad!

"Oh, yeah. I can do it. The type... that? Isn't that strange? Isn't that some kind of parent-like eye exchange?

"Don't worry about that, it's a gift for your mother that matters, right?

"Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, that's right! What matters is the gift to Rem. Well, I thought it was for sure, but I was pretty sure I got it right with your big yes."

Gut each other in the fist, Subaru and Rigel nod at each other.

Then Rigel was concerned about the jewel's physical object of being given to his mother. Because a father's taste, even in the eyes of his son, is not something he can guarantee much.

"So, what about the gems? I'm worried about my dad, so I'm gonna ask a weird mechanic or something to finish up as a bad hobby."

"Don't be upset to see the stock go down in an instant!... but this is where the crux of this story comes from. Listen to me, son."

"Yep..."

Lurking his voice again, Rigel groans at Subaru, who has become a serious face.

Be careful when Subaru scratches off the play atmosphere from his voice with a seriously rotten face. Words pop up that are definitely not even busy - it's the trust Rigel has cultivated by spending ten years with this father, and it wasn't betrayed this time either.

Subaru struck Rigel in the face with an unpleasant hunch.

"- A merchant dragon car loaded with jewels to give to Rem hasn't arrived in town in trouble. There's talk of turning back, so I'm going to go get the real thing."

"... that, in time for today?

"Of course, I'm not willing to bust it with all my strength. - I'm just, honestly, a little nervous."

Pointing his fingers together, Subaru lowers his gaze while lowering his voice tone.

Rigel put his hand on his forehead at that appearance,

"If you're that anxious, shouldn't you put gems behind you? My mom says it's more sad without my dad than without a present on her birthday."

"I know that. I know that... I also think this gift makes no sense if I don't make it to my birthday."

"Oh no..."

Father's on his own, Rigel tried to say, and got stuck in words there.

Subaru's slight smile scratching his head with a pitiful face, stuck in the back of it is a vortex of unspeakable emotions, and Rigel is about to be pushed away just because he sees it.

It's a special, important emotion that makes you feel slightly present from a place where you engage something deep inside your heart - and it's an irreplaceable bond for your parents.

――――

Pinch your mouth and it's innocent, Rigel felt it.

And soon I sighed, scratching my head just like Subaru smiling slightly,

"So, what do you want me to do?"

"Will you listen to me, Rigel"

"You can't just not ask. Leave it in the stream and don't say it often! Talk to me before I turn into someone who can't read the air!

"Help!"

When he enters a position of accepting without choice, Subaru is fortunate enough to grab Rigel's hand and swing rampantly up and down.

Take it, and when Rigel glances at him, Subaru laughs,

"I will collect the jewels of my purpose. I'm gonna manage to come back during my birthday, but you're gonna have to delude Rem into why I'm not here. If I'm wrong, don't talk about birthday presents. Because surprises disappear."

"... if I didn't have a father for my birthday, that would be enough, I think, a surprise"

"Still, so. I'll be right out. I'll take care of the rest!

And, to be quick, Subaru leaves his full breadth of trust with Rigel on his own, he makes sure to fly, grabs his stuff and pops out to the front door.

When you roll out like the wind as it is, you panic to the town entrance - probably cross the prepared ground dragon and head under the dot with its jeweler.

Go home. This is it.

Critical, based on Subaru's appearance that he said, Rigel gave a hit that the estimate is probably more likely not to make it than it is in time.

What was entrusted to me was the defense of the Natsuki family, whose beloved husband would be absent on his birthday. Given my everyday love for my husband, it's not hard to imagine my mother upset.

"Isn't this supposed to rain blood or something...?

And, in horror of war, Rigel prayed for the return of his mother, who was going out, and for the earliest moment of his father, who jumped out.

Luckily or not, Rem's reaction to hearing Subaru's outing was completely calm compared to the worst Rigel could have imagined.

"That's why I had some kind of work problem or something. Look, it looks like some people are relying on only Dad after all... are you there? You're here, right? Well, assuming he's there, I think it feels like he jumped out because he's there."

"Why are you so anxious about Rigel, who's supposed to be being told? Now that you're ten, you have to be as good as a voicemail messenger. Totally."

After a meeting with the shopping and neighborhood, Rigel, who welcomed Rem home, described Subaru as aforementioned, who jumped out on a jewelry collection journey.

The lack of a meeting was an undeniable explanation, but Rem, who was told the story, is not surprised by the content or extremely grumpy.

On the contrary, the subtly detailed filling is enough to dissatisfy me with the sweet Rigel description. Now that my mother has a surprisingly Spartan policy, it is actually the inner feelings of the Natsuki family that I do not know from the outside that it can be Subaru who is sweet to the family.

Whatever.

"Nevertheless, has Subaru gone out...... too bad. I was going to have Subaru's favorite for lunch today."

and lifts the shopping bag and the lem lowers his brow butt just a little lonely. As soon as I did, a sense of purpose burned inside Rigel that I should not grieve my mother.

It's Rigel's sad habit, a man who gets motivated even in a pressed role.

"Is that your dad's thing? That was unfortunate...... well, didn't I certainly say anything else yesterday? Something like yesterday was just my dad's favorite..."

"Yes, it was Subaru's favorite meal tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, yesterday and before."

"Though in the home, you're sober!

Every day, every night, my voice goes higher without thinking about statements that I only make Subaru's favorite. but when I heard that, Rem shook his head sideways saying "no,"

"Don't worry. Subaru-kun's favorite dish is Rigel and Spica's favorite meal. Did Rem ever cook two disgusting rices?

"Well... if you don't ask me, is it such a miracle that I have all my family favorites? Isn't that right that people have their own food preferences?

"That's because from the time Rigel was just a baby, I brainwashed him to like it by letting him prolong Subaru-kun's liking in Rigel's ear where Rem sleeps"

"You tell me it's a lie!?

"Yes, it's a lie and a joke. You shouldn't believe this."

When Rigel peels his eyes at the shocking fact, Rem, who speaks his tongue out small, laughs that way.

Then my mother stroked Rigel's long hair the same color with her hands,

"I said Subaru-kun's all I like, but Subaru-kun tells me that whatever Rem makes is delicious, so you don't have to worry weird."

"That's, yeah, good, though. Isn't that worth making..."

"That's not true. Subaru tells me everything is delicious, but when I eat something I really like, my voice feels a little different and my cheeks move. She's cuter than usual. Phew."

Without knowing if he should smile at what he observes in detail, or be a little scared, Rigel smiles vaguely at Lem, who smiles happily.

Then Rem deposits the spica he was carrying with Rigel and heads toward the kitchen with his shopping bag.

"Damn, your brother's having such a hard time, you're so easy."

"Huh?

"Uh, no, really.... cute, what about Spica!

Showing off his brother fool as he hugs him, Rigel rubs his cheeks against a spica that rounds his eyes. Spica, who is drowned by her brother, is sensitive to affection, even in a face that knows nothing yet.

Fully in love with Spica, who looks like she tickles, her siblings go to the kitchen together. There I was in the middle of a lem that came in earlier spreading the shopping bag and moving the groceries onto the shelves.

"So, Rigel. Did your father say when he was going home?

"Uh, erm... you know, something that might take a little while? He said he was going home in a hurry. Look, there's a reason to hurry."

Rigel regrets saying something extra to Rem's question with his back turned.

I'm flabbergasted by the fact that I dug a grave, not even wanting to distract myself from the Subaru thing and the Lem birthday thing.

This is the detriment of Rigel's unconscious, 'honest personality that doesn't lie at all', but he doesn't realize his qualities like that, which are not suitable for mastery, and Rigel blocks his mouth loosely.

Imitating that brother's appearance, Spica also blocks her own mouth with a small palm. Lovely. But not if you're in love with it.

"Really? It could take a little..."

――――

"I'm in trouble. Rem will know why you're hurrying."

Without looking back, Rigel is forced to be nervous by Rem's remarks about continuing to organize the shelves.

The tone of my voice is what I usually do, but in fact, my cheeks are wet with tears, and I'm not necessarily so shocked that I'm likely to collapse even now.

Rigel's known lem is a strong woman, but there are some fatally weak parts, and that fatally weak part is indisputably the part that involves Natsuki Subaru.

In the first place, from what I'm saying now, isn't Rem also guessing Subaru is flying around on one of his birthdays? Originally, Lem, unlike Subaru, could care and read the air, and he felt that falsification and deception and hiding things were pointless in the first place.

"Uh, Mom, the..."

The more I think about it, the more I shrivel my nerves and the more I try to hide things. The honest one turns and is weak in his will to break the secret.

"Actually, he's my dad, but, uh, he's away, so don't feel bad about it."

"-? Of course. Even though it's your job, I don't do anything bad about Subaru going out with it. He works for my family."

"But look, things are a little different this time. You mean, there is?

"... oh, I knew it. That's what Rigel was worried about."

Looking back, I narrow my eyes just to say that Rem was satisfied when I saw Rigel looking awkward. I feel hidden in that reaction, and Rigel apologizes to Subaru in his heart.

No way, a defeat in about half an hour after I decided I was going to do something to hide.

Taking that fact pitifully, but not keeping it a secret anymore, I feel less guilty and light-hearted about hiding things from my family.

Again, we have to stay put. It's not even a little cold.

"It's okay, I know. Rem also has a slight feeling of anxiety. But it's Subaru's business, so you don't have to worry."

"As for that confidence, I honestly can't nod because there's a little temperature difference between me and my mother...... then, yeah, good"

"Yes. Lem doesn't know the right thing to do either, but I intend to tailor it to Subaru's instructions. Instead, you have to be excited to think that being entrusted with this occasion is a sign of trust from Subaru."

"... hmm?

A lem that solidifies and guts both hands all the way through.

The trick is like my mother's habit, I secretly like it with a bare gesture that somehow makes me feel young, but now it was just something that somehow stirred my anxiety.

The conversation now, it seems connected and not connected.

Rigel twisted his neck and said, "Can I have a minute?," he raised his hand toward Lem,

"What are you talking about?

"-? That, of course, is preparing for tomorrow's festive event. Because Rigel has a role as a representative of ghosts fleeing the whole town. Get the costume you deserve... Subaru told me and Rem was ready. I wanted you to confirm that."

"- Chickshaw, I didn't do anything busy. I knew it!!

At the stage where the unmeshing conversation meshed, Rigel raised his voice aware of the fact that neither the reason for the guilt he had, nor the fact that he had communicated anything before it.

Spica, firmly held by his brother, sneezed his face and laughed joyfully, imitating Rigel's distressed face.

- A few minutes later, standing in front of the mirror was Natsuki Rigel, who looked reborn.

"After all, there was no madness in Subaru's eyes. Rem is a sensation."

"Uh-huh."

And, in Rem's chest, which nods emotionally, the spica held by my mother shines her eyes.

So far, the degree of reproduction of the being standing before them was perfect.

――――

Trousers in yellow fabric with black lightning pattern vertical stripes. He weaves a vest of the same colour on his upper body, and underfoot he wears a ghetta manufactured from part of a carraragi.

If you grabbed a stick made of a hard-bottom that looked metal in your hand, wore fangs borrowed from a rental costumer in your mouth, and turned your hair a little rougher than usual, it was the perfect ghost figure no matter where you looked from.

Rem is impressed and pleased with Rigel's classic ghost style. Spica also has a heartfelt eye for praise for her brother's grandeur at the beginning.

Watched by the two members of that family, Rigel exploded as a ghost, confirming himself in the mirror,

"Hiya, this is it!

"Well, what do you say? Isn't that the finish that Subaru painted for me as it is? Rem can still praise himself for his self-portrait."

"This is the ghost? It's not a ghost, it's a barbarian mistake, right? Mother, as one of the few survivors of the ghost tribe, is she not this perceived and angry?"

"Whatever form ghosts are made known, that doesn't dictate the existence of Lem or Rigel. Fine. And I'm in love with the finish...... especially I think its eyes should be very ghostly"

"Only this part is me!!

Rigel reverses the body his parents praised him for.

Rem seems to be out of his mind for that reaction, but the bottom of his heart, out of his heart, is Rigel. Spica is blushing and laughing down at her exciting brother's condition, and the sound of the bell echoes home.

Ghost pants on a ghost vest, ghost eyes on a ghost gold bar, just the perfect finish.

"No, I haven't. Try putting out a corner at the end. So, it must be perfect."

"Hih, think it's other HR..."

"That's not true. It's about my child. I'm serious, sincere, thinking."

To Rigel with suspicious eyes, Rem said so only with serious eyes. Pressured by that attitude, Rigel turns slightly upside down and has no choice but to concentrate his consciousness on his forehead.

Inheriting blood muscles as ghosts, Rigel has proper ghost horns. However, there is one horn that is supposed to be two, and this is Lem's story, which seems to be caused by the diminished blood. Honestly, I'm not pinning that.

It's just...

"I'm sorry you can only have one horn for me,"

And the fact that my mother apologized to me a long time ago is vividly remembered by Rigel.

I can't forget my sorry mother's face and voice then.

For Rigel, the number of corners is not a big problem. Whether it's one or two, corners are corners. Benefits that make it easier for the body to move out of the corners, I think it's just a good deal for that.

"Yes, thank you"

When Rigel answered that way, lonely my mother just smiled bitterly.

I should have thought helplessly about that time. But since then, I haven't had the courage to talk about horns in front of my mother, and I've never touched her.

My mother's horn should be one too. Did you have any hard feelings about that?

――――

With such a sentiment to spare, Rigel's concentration of consciousness awakens the blood of the ghost and slowly begins to stretch the tip of the white horn on its forehead.

There is a sharp feeling of lightning running on my forehead, from which I feel the force poured across my body and my hands and feet build-up. At the same time, I have a painful urge on the deepest part of my chest, and my mother says my fighting instincts have been strong and strong appealing to Rigel's brain for instincts.

Shaking off a strange exaltation and comparable fighting instincts, Rigel stands there.

The mirror had the same outfit of itself as before and the horn of the apparent birth forehead of change. That appearance in his appearance, admitting it, Rigel looks back at the two behind him -,

"How..."

"Pfft... and very, splendid... splendid, yes, Rigel... Pfft"

"Will you give me back the grid until just now!?

As soon as I look back, I am greeted by my mother, swallowed by the impulse of an indelible laugh.

Rem was blushing his cheeks and pounding his knees and erupting on the spot, unable to stand the look of Rigel, who had established a totally classic ghost style.

What were the thoughts of the number of corners until a few seconds ago?

When they made me laugh so much just because I grew horns, Goto's time just turned into hard labor.

As he dropped his shoulders and Rigel weakened, he wiped the tears in his eyes so that Rem, who managed to get up, could regain his mind.

"And anyway, I think it's very well done. Subaru will convince you, and I think everyone attending the event will be thrilled. - Kuzu."

"Fine, I'll make everyone regret choosing me as a ghost. For the first time in my life, I will free you of your barbaric fighting instincts to sleep in me -"

"Of course, you shouldn't do anything dangerous that would hurt you from Rigel. If you behave violently, Rem will repress you responsibly. Nice."

"For the first time in my life, I will release my savage escape instinct to sleep in me -"

Whatever the rhetoric, change the nuances slightly and Rigel expresses his will.

Rigel sighs when he sees Rem snort satisfied with the statement.

"In fact, I know you're haunted by looking in the mirror... is this really okay? Don't you feel like it's going to be a ghost image down?

"Because ghosts as a race are almost doomed as well. You don't have to worry about anyone telling you anything worse right now. By the way, during the event, Rigel is set to be the leader of a bloodthirsty fierce ghost tribe. If you can't repel during the Festival Event, there will be massacres all over town and one side will turn into a hell of a picture…"

"I knew you were a barbarian as I saw you! No need to be a ghost!?

"It's valid as a conceptual enemy. Subaru-kun's for sale."

Apart from talking about dignity as a ghost, Rem doesn't really want to continue this story.

The ghost tribe is almost eradicated, which is what he learned as general common sense, and Rigel never heard it in detail from Rem's mouth.

In retrospect, not much about the parents' familiarity or past.

"... Well, I'll just give you a listen"

Sometimes, my parents - Subaru and Rem - find me strangely uncomfortable.

That's when you get to look at your homework, not just at odd festivals, but when you know the unknown knowledge of where it came from, or at the end of various occasions.

Whenever one of those two past scales is peeked at, Rigel will taste the strange itch. Anyway, that was synonymous with hidden traces of education in my parents.

The two of them are probably getting a proper education somewhere.

There was both my feelings as a son who wanted to brag about the fact and my parents' aversion to the attitude of not doing anything to hide it.

Will we be able to hear that story someday?

"But that doesn't look like it right now..."

How dare you conclude that, Rigel lags behind the suspicions that have arisen in him.

and, unaware of its insides, Rem slapped his hands, "Come on,"

"In preparation for tomorrow, let's get rid of the costumes. I'm afraid Subaru-kun hasn't confirmed it, but it means we're having fun for the day."

"Are you really going to run around wearing this..."

"I'm not ashamed of anyone who's a ghost other than Rigel because he's dressed like one. Of course, Rigel is the only real ghost."

Rigel gets anxious about tomorrow as he pulls his arm out of his vest and changes his pants.

To encourage such rigels, Rem gently strokes the shoulders of his proud loving son,

"It's okay. Rigel is a proud son of Rem and Subaru."

"But if it's just your mother, it's still your father's son, so come on..."

"I think that's more of a reassuring element. Instead, I'm worried that Lem's blood flowing in the rigel will pull my legs more..."

"This is an unfair evaluation, isn't it?

I like Subaru and respect him too much. He's a lem villain.

I'm not degrading myself, but at least I can't deny underestimation.

"I don't know if it's convincing to say it from my mouth, but I don't think there's anything wrong with my mother's blood. Instead, as I said earlier, you're more worried about your father's blood. Besides eye-catching, bad things are inherited."

"The eyes are lovely"

"But every once in a while, I just get my eyes on you and you cry girl..."

"I just haven't figured out how good a boy is yet. I'm just old."

How can that stubborn attitude of belief be extremely weak when it comes to you?

Actually, that attitude, it can also be a feeling common to Subaru, but Rigel couldn't mention it because he had never seen much of his father's weak parts.

Anyway, whatever that Rigel sentiment is,

"I honestly don't know why my mother would be anxious like that, as my son I just don't know... but should I prove it?

"Huh?"

"If I do what I do perfectly and win at tomorrow's event, exactly, with no problems whatsoever... do you know that I'm your father and your mother's child and I have nothing to worry about?

――――

"I've been wondering. I wanted to prove it."

In return for her eye-opening mother, Rigel affirms with dignity.

Love Natsuki Subaru as her husband and love her as the mother of Natsuki Rigel and Natsuki Spica, about a unsure woman named Natsuki Lem.

She said she was the most respectable woman in the world for Rigel.

"You don't have to worry about not matching your father, you don't have to do these shards or dust."

"Rigel......"

"My mother was the best in the world, and I wanted you to believe me."

I'm not sure and I've seen my mother just getting smaller, even though she acts happy.

That's why Rigel wanted such a mother to be more dignified.

I wanted you to love yourself, just as you loved your father and your sons and daughters.

Because Subaru, Rigel, and Spica, they love Rem.

Because we love Rem ourselves, just as Rem loves us.

"Don't make fun of my mother."

As hot as it got, Rigel quickly became a feather to taste the bad thoughts of the bat, saying it out with the same momentum floating in the heat.

What are you saying all of a sudden in a situation like this, dressed with no tightness?

I also took off my ghost pants and vest and now I'm just half naked in my underwear.

Seriously complaining about something in this state can no longer only be a comedy. I would have had more timing, though I pummeled what I wanted to say over the years.

"Uh, uh, now that's, uh-"

No, I tried to correct it, but I couldn't.

――――

To the lid, Rigel's head is tangled in stretched hands and held abruptly.

With his head buried in the soft feel, Rigel blackened and white his eyes for a moment. And soon I realize that I'm hugged in my mother's chest.

Hearing her hot, pulsating mother's heartbeat up close, Rigel blushed as soon as she understood.

I'm ashamed of being sticky and sweet with my mother. I've been away for years now, such as being touched like this, and soon I get a disgraceful rejection.

But...

"... Mom?

――――

Rigel stopped moving away at the tremor of his huggable arm and the appearance of his silent mother.

And I call my mother with me in my arms, and I realize how unresponsive Rem is.

"... ugh, eh"

What I heard was a whimper.

That's not the cry of a cute little sister I'm used to hearing for Rigel. It was very similar to that, but I've never heard of Rigel, another whimper.

As soon as I knew whose it belonged, Rigel was a little bloody distracted.

Something outrageous, maybe I said something to hurt you. If you hurt yourself with words that spit out as you momentum and as you emotion, that would be an irrevocable mistake.

So Rigel desperately tried to squeeze out with a confusing head about what to say.

But soon, I understand that the grip and agony are useless.

――――

Shake his neck aside reluctantly, and the little lem hugs his little son tighter than he is.

Emotions in trembling arms are not rejection or heartbreak, they are just deep affection. It was touched Rigel was the first to understand as true as anyone.

So, holding my sobbing mother back, Rigel gently stroked its back.

"Don't cry, Mom. - If my father sees me, he'll kill me."

"... I can't do that"

"Why?"

"I'm so happy, I can't stop crying"

Outreach, you're a crybaby, and Rigel exhaled at the appearance of her mother, who was supposed to have been dating for ten years.

Left on my mother's back, Spica stares at my mother and brother as they hug each other, tilting her neck. And Spica began to stroke her mother's back, with her little red leafy hands, to imitate her brother.

Slowly and slowly so that you can gently forgive someone who cries.

- My brothers and sisters kept stroking my sobbing mother's back.

- In the end, Subaru, who went to collect the jewels, never returned home while Rigel and Spica were awake.

"There's something about tomorrow, so Rigel needs to get some rest. You can't stay up late because you're up early tomorrow."

That's my mother's word back to normal, as I forgot I cried.

It just seemed to me that Rem's expression on Rigel's forehead, who said so and headed to the futon, was somewhere different until yesterday.

In the end, I couldn't touch the birthday stuff, but that also promises Subaru. I didn't dig it up and decided to leave the rest to my father.

In the first place, I have not had the courage to say any more embarrassing words today.

Enough already, because I spit out what I've been accumulating for ten years.

――――

Watch the demonic engraved crystals and point and count the time remaining until the date changes.

Will Subaru's return come true during Rem's birthday? Honestly, it's Rigel's knowing father who does some unscrupulous things to prove his love for his wife.

Is that why? Even if the time remaining ran out just long enough, Rigel had no heart to worry that he might not make it.

And in fact...,

"- Rem, it's late! He's back!

And Subaru jumped into the house to roll in five minutes before the date changed - even though it was five minutes to celebrate correctly, the promise was well kept.

"Welcome back, Subaru. But you can't make it so noisy. Rigel and Spica are already on vacation, so it's pathetic to wake them up."

"Uh, I'm sorry. I feel like I'm going away too..."

I heard Subaru apologize in panic for Rem's words, which he blames while working. I take off my shoes and I hear footsteps going up to the house, and Rigel hits me back in the futon.

I've already been in the futon for a few hours, falling asleep and waking up over and over again, but I'm going to clear up my worries and finally fall asleep.

If you think about tomorrow, you have to sleep fast, as my mother says. I felt like I just couldn't wait for tomorrow's event, which I shouldn't have been able to help until this morning because it was depressing.

I'm sure it's about tomorrow's event, because I promised my mother...

"Rem, I'm sorry I'm late, but that's not all, actually. I mean, I was working today, or I was out for personal use. On important business."

"For personal use, is it? Was it something special, too?

"There it is. You may not think you're very special."

I lean my neck and see my mother behaving like she really doesn't feel comfortable.

Not only do I underestimate myself, but I also have a bad habit of underestimating myself. So honestly, maybe I didn't even have to hide the gift.

As much as that, Rem was indifferent to himself.

"It's only two minutes away, but take it. - It's a birthday present."

"Birthday......"

The sound of a smiling lem interrupted Subaru's words.

That's like an understanding that had a verse in mind and a confusion that came at the same time, plus or minus, that I don't know which way to shake my emotions.

――――

Perhaps my mother has been given something by my father to let her gaze wander bewildered. How could it be Subaru who opened the box with Rem on his palm?

There was an opening sound of the box and I could see the lem looking at the contents was small and breathtaking.

"What is this..."

"Garnett... I don't know if I can call you that, but that's it. I was saving up the tips and the whiskers for this day. No, actually, I'm in a hurry. There's no point if it doesn't arrive on the same day, but the dragon car's turning back on the way. Come on."

――――

Rem remains silent in front of Subaru in a hard-talking attitude.

When he noticed such a Rem reaction, Subaru brutally scratched his head with a smile.

"I wanted to give you something that stayed in shape. Ten years, I had them spend with me. It's my birthday, and it's saving money, and you deserve it again, don't you?

"... is that okay, Lem?"

"Yeah?"

"Rem is so happy, okay"

To the tremor of the heard voice, Rigel hits her back and turns a thin eye on both of them.

The next room, but I can see what's going on in the other room over the half-opened barrier. Subaru and Rem were facing each other, and Rem was blinded by the red gem in his hand.

"Birthday...... I totally forgot. 'Cause I always thought... I didn't deserve to celebrate."

――――

"Rem put down his sister, who was born the same day, and thus... I know it was a terrible thing, but"

"Yeah, say anything. 'Cause I'm listening."

"- I've always thought I'd be so happy."

Tears, I heard that a few hours ago. Same as that, but darker in guilt color than that.

A word released from my mother's mouth, unfamiliar to hear, just a little surprised about it. Sister, and a statement that smells the past, but what surprised Rigel was the painful past of the father and mother, who lay deeply beyond the imagination of his son.

"Don't feel guilty, I know that's an impossible story. Me, too."

"... Yes"

"But I don't want to think that everything was wrong with that. Whether you know you're reopening it, or you know you've been running, I don't want to make it worse than what you got on the run."

"... Yes"

I was amazed at the voice of Subaru, which I can't imagine from time to time, really serious.

I feel something different in the voice of Rem, who nods over and over again, my mother, who can always count on me, and my mother, who sneers at my father and is furious with me.

There he was, just two men and women, sharing precious memories and bonds.

"Life in this town, Rigel and Spica, there's so much going on, there's me and you right now. I want to shape that evidence that it's happily connected. That's the jewel."

――――

"If you say it's still hard for you to take it, I'm not asking you to do anything about that gem right away. I don't mind if you treat me. But just give me a break to throw it away. I don't think you should do that."

Appealing, one step, Rem says nothing to Subaru walking over.

As Auntie and Subaru reach out, Rem is drawn as he is held in his arms. That's how Subaru gently strokes his head as he hugs Rem.

And as he was stroked, Rem buried his face in Subaru's chest with a small voice,

"Rigel told me today"

"Yeah."

"Rem... said he was the best mother in the world"

"Oh. You didn't know?

"... Yes, I didn't know"

Subaru answers Rem, who reveals the words from Rigel, as if they were nothing.

In that shameful response, Rem creaked his face and smiled.

Tears overflow from the narrowed cheeks and flow down through the white cheeks.

With tears, to wash away some unspoken emotion that was obsessed in her chest, created by the stiffness of guilt and happiness.

"Once before, you said it, didn't you? Rem said he was relieved when Rigel was born."

――――

"He said he was relieved to have a connection with Subaru that would never go away. I was so relieved that I could be a family. I don't like her."

"You don't like it, it's normal. I won't let my daughter-in-law speak ill of me."

"... heh. That's what Rigel really said."

"Huh? Is he talking about Rem, his own wife or something? That's too much mazacon, and you're a little creepy..."

"No, I'm not. Rigel says Spica's his own daughter-in-law.

"He's a Ciscon spy."

Dishonorable exchanges have been made, but Rigel silently left himself to the flow.

So, exchanging a smile like he remembered, and then exhaling for a long time, Rem looked up at that face from within Subaru's chest,

"Lem took it personally, and I thought he loved me unilaterally. I'm not sure, so I've been trying so hard to show that I like it."

"Wow, you're an idiot"

"Yes, it's awesome. It's stupid. - That's what Rigel told me."

Lem chuckles and holds his breath.

And Rem put his hand on Subaru's chest, and when he could gently push that body away, he made a distance between them, one step,

"Thank you, Subaru, for your birthday present. - Will you put it on?

"... okay? You don't have to hurry, do you?

"No, I'm not. On the other hand, Lem was on goal. So I just want to get that reward and prove it."

"Proof?"

"- That Rem is the happiest woman in the world, surrounded by the best husband in the world, the best son in the world and the best daughter in the world."

Lem, who was just grand and unsure, said with a confident face and voice.

When Subaru snorts at the contents, he immediately breaks his face.

Um, just a chest stretching lem. Subaru nodded contentedly at the attitude of such a wife, holding the jewel on the palm she offered, the pendant it had embedded.

And

"I love you, Rem"

"Yes, I love Rem too. Subaru."

Turn the pendant around your neck and the red gem gently shines on Rem's chest.

When they looked at it, they laughed at each other, and then their faces softly approached -,

- Oh, boy.

That's all I saw, Rigel hit a turnaround and turned his back on the next room.

Ahead, it's nerve-shattering to see a parent sneeze, and it's innocent.

My father and mother are still friendly and happy today. Isn't that okay?

And that has been and will remain the same, the Natsuki family's daily routine.

――――

Stay asleep, Rigel looks at Spica's bed, which should be asleep in the same room.

Spica, who slept in a crib, Subaru said, taking measures such as turning over, didn't cry at night as if she had read the air, and kept sleeping uninterrupted her parents' encounters.

Today is my mother's birthday, or has the date changed already?

Still, tomorrow or today is a festive day - a day when ghosts are the star, although in a slightly different format.

Yesterday or today or tomorrow for my mother, it's a day in the lead.

So full of dizziness and happiness, let's make you feel the love.

I don't want to hit you.

"Do I have to prove that I'm the best son in the world at a festival event?"

With the hurdle of proving up, Rigel sighed in the futon.

But that's not like the sighs that usually come out when you're heavy or doomed, when you're not tense or motivated.

- Tomorrow, under a sunny sky, I thought I'd play the best ghost I could, fall asleep in a healthy comfort.