The night some time after that.
Living room at home.
It was time to finish dinner and have a family reunion.
"Hey. Dad. Tomorrow, you want to hang out with me?
I've been suggesting it as Meryl pokes around on the table all the time.
"Excuse me. I'm on a mission tomorrow."
"Uh? Another assignment? You were there yesterday and today!
Move both legs butterfly as Merrill floats in dissatisfaction.
"My dad hasn't taken care of me at all lately!
"That won't happen"
"Compared to a typical family, I think you're perfectly understanding."
"Any other family is fine! Because the standards have always been mine! I want to be flirting with my dad all the time!
"You're having withdrawal symptoms because you can't be with your father..."
I smiled unexpectedly.
All these days, I've just been rolling out on assignments as an adventurer.
For this reason, he saved his work as a Knights teacher, as a part-time lecturer at the School of Magic, and as a tutor for the princess.
Thanks to that, I was spending less time with my daughters.
That's for one thing...
"That's good. My dad's having a late youth right now."
Anna, with her cheekstick on her cheeks, shrugged so smiling.
"The dreams of the S-rank adventurers I had when I was younger are coming to a position within my reach. I can't help being enthusiastic."
It was an opinion from a fucked-up adult point of view.
But yes. Anna's opinion shoots at the target.
I stand in front of a suddenly draped thread of hope. Lately, I've always lived as if I'd gone back in time.
Don't wave aside for anything else.
Just keep running for heights only.
That immersion is an emotion I've forgotten for a long time.
"Speaking of which, I've never heard of it before,"
"Hmm?"
"How did Dad become an adventurer?
"Ha. What? Suddenly."
Anna's words make me laugh unexpectedly.
"I was looking at my dad when I was with Regina, and I thought, My dad told me you were our age."
"That's right. I was a baby, I was a child, I was a young man. It wasn't like this all of a sudden."
Well, can't you imagine how your father looked when he was younger?
"The reason I became an adventurer was because I had no other choice. When I was little, I lost my parents when demons attacked me. Then I was raised as an orphan in the village."
"My dad's an orphan... was he?
"Oh. After my parents died, I grew up in a village facility I knew. That's your hometown, the village of Yuzha."
"So you're saying Dad's just like us?
"I wonder if it will happen in a precarious way."
It's the same thing that neither Anna nor I were raised by our real parents.
But there's something decidedly different about it.
"Well, in my case, it was because my parents were gone when I was a kid. I remember you two very well."
And -.
"... and the sight of you two being attacked and killed by demons right in front of me"
Signs of the daughters breathtaking came through.
"My parents run a sword dojo. I've been taught swordsmanship since I was a little girl. He was good enough to be a little rumor. So even when the village was attacked by a bunch of demons, I thought I could fight fine."
But it didn't work at all.
"When you actually confront a demon, it's like your body doesn't move. My parents protected me from the demons that attacked me..."
That's right. I won't forget.
In front of me, my parents were killed by demons trying to shelter me. I was smashed in the skull by a giant axe wielded by an orga.
"That's when I thought I was killed because of my weakness. If you stay weak, he'll make you strong, but you'll stay. That's why I wanted to be an adventurer. If you become strong, you don't have to be deprived of what's important to you. Be able to protect what you want to protect. Besides, that's all I had when I wanted to be a person with no family or learning."
"I've asked Regina about my old dad before. I told you. Back then, Kaisel said there was something exciting about him."
"I was an orphan, because I had nothing. I wanted something solid. Something that could prove I was stronger than I was that day."
I shrugged in retrospect of my old days.
"Anna's right, maybe she was a youth for me back then. I was desperate and unaware of it every day at the time, but I did enjoy it"
"Then now it's a second youth for both of us."
"The two of you?
"It's about Mr. Regina. There's nothing else, right?
"No, no. He wouldn't have the balls to think about that. Nothing. I don't think I've ever had any special emotions."
"Really? I think Regina thinks the same thing about her dad to me. Obviously, I've been softening my face lately."
"I don't think it's going to change..."
"Well. Can't a man see that? But if you look at the same sex, it's obvious."
and Anna smiled like a prospect.
"Something tells me that today's dads often find their classmates, who have been reunited for a long time at reunions, willing to get along deeply."
"Dad. Because you can't, can you? If you flirt with Mr. Regina! My dad has a cute little girl named me!
That's what Meryl told me to stab the nail.
"Ha. I know."
That's not how I related to Regina in the first place.
Me and her used to be buddies, and I think we're bonded by deep trust... However, there is not a single millimeter of intermediate elements between men and women.
I'm sure they'll return the same words over there.
"So my dad flirts with me!
"What's [so] what?
"Tomorrow, if you can't flirt with me on a mission, flirt with me now! Specifically, sleep with me next door."
Well, if that convinces you...
"Damn. I have no choice."
"Yay."
I was on my way to the bedroom with Shaggy Merrill.
"Elsa. What's up?
Elsa was staring at us.
"Yes, no..."
"Ah. Okay. Elsa wants to sleep with her dad, too."
"~! That's not what...!
Elsa was turning her face bright red and disputing.
"I want to take care of my sword before I go to bed. Excuse me for this. Father, and rest."
Leaving it at that, he left the spot to flee.
"? What was that?
When I'm tilting my neck like that,
"Doesn't that mean difficult times?
That's how Anna shrugged as she put her cheekstick on.
... No, you're the same age as Elsa. Anna is more than slightly overgrown compared to her generation of girls.
"Daddy, come on, come on."
Merrill pulls her arm as she mumbles. I looked at her sweetening up to Betta, and I grinned bitterly that this kid was a little too young.