Reiryuu Academy Student Council

153 Regret and Progress, Shulai Lo, ed.

I took the laughter for granted at dinner.

"... Ro, Ro, Ro"

"Uh... Daddy"

My father called me by name. Luo raised his face.

The boisterous Lailuo was putting a knife through the hamburger on the plate, even though it was already cut.

"Any thoughts?

"Something happened at school?

That's what I said, and my father and mother looked worried about Laila.

"Haha, I'm sorry. I was just thinking about it because I didn't know what to do with my homework."

That's how I said it, and Laila laughed deceptively. That's not what I was thinking. Of course, it was about bud grenades.

- Ru-chan's surrounded by such a good family.

The more I remembered the conversation I had with the bud grenade, the more indifferent the dialogue bothered Laila's head.

How the hell did my inadvertent words hurt my bud grenade? I get scared for free considering that.

I wonder how Lailuo, who has played the hero of tragedy, was reflected in the eyes of the bud grenade who experienced the real tragedy.

"Mom, Dad"

Lailao put a knife and a fork on the plate and called on his father and mother, who would sit in front of him. Then they said, "What?" I knew you'd come and laugh gently at me.

For a long time now, Lawrence had this smile. Precisely, it's the smile that's made up on the condition that Laila looks like a girl.

From the public, that's a strange family relationship, too. But as long as that condition was still fulfilled, the happiness afforded to Lailuo was real.

Bud grenades, no matter how hard they tried, couldn't even grasp their happiness. I'm sure if Bud Grenade had told me that if I dressed as a man I would have been recognized by Tojo's grandmother, I would have happily dressed as a man.

I wonder how painful the bud grenades were not even given such conditions. It should have been much harder than Lai Luo's. Just thinking about the spiciness of it was going to crush Lailuo's heart.

"You said I was happy. Today... somehow I thought"

Lailuo laughed lightly. Kaoruko, my mother, who heard it, smiled joyfully, and Spring Shen, my father, looked surprised.

As a result, it was my father who had made Lai Luo wear women's clothes all the time. I've been raising Laila like a girl by force.

Naturally I have never heard the word "happiness" from Luo's mouth before. My father knew that Laila kept cutting her hair and why.

"Mom and Dad, stay close... I'm happy"

Happiness makes that normal and I want more happiness.

I want you to accept yourself as a man. That wish remains unchanged, but I am most unhappy with myself sticking to it. Coming to the fact, Luo noticed.

"I wanted to be able to take good care of the happiness I have now."

All the missing happiness and desire to be accepted stood first, coming from happiness at heart. Luo was looking away. To assume that you are unhappy is just self-satisfaction.

"Mommy's happy to be here."

Kaoruko said so in embarrassment, and took a seat in the kitchen to pour more water into the emptied waterspout.

When Kaoruko is gone, Chunsen takes a serious look at Kaoru. To some sad looking spring minister, Lailuo laughed with a troubled face.

"Dad, don't look like that. I really thought so."

"... I'm sorry. What makes me anxious is evidence that the word 'happiness' has only come to me suspiciously."

Still, for the sake of family peace, Laila doesn't blame Chun-shen for choosing. Because I worried and worried and realized that it was the way my family was going to lean on me no matter how many times I made a mistake.

"But, Dad,"

"What?

"If one day... if I say I want to live properly as a boy, then I want you to admit it now"

That's what Lailuo says, and he looks at Chun-sen. I'm not talking about being able to answer "fine" easily. If I can answer that, I guess this is not how Laila is dressed right now.

"You're not. Admit it, even to your mom."

Lailuo laughed at his seriously troubled father.

"Now I still don't have the courage... but I'm sure it's when I really have to do that when I choose that path. So you have to admit it."

Lailao grabbed the fork and stabbed it in the hamburger he cut it off.

"Because any me is me"

Lailuo says so and mouths the hamburger deliciously. The figure of Lailuo, so cute that no girl in the world can beat him, is a testament to Lailuo's hard work. That's all I was determined to do when I chose to be cuter than anyone else for my mother, to abandon that path.

"... by then, I want to be strong enough to be on my side."

Come to that reply Luo rounds his eyes. And the next moment I smiled happily "I hope".

In doing so, Luo and Chunsen were greeted with a smile by Kaoruko, who had returned with a watermark.