The first love of the Spring Man of Tenkawa was when he was well-intentioned.

The other girl is a pretty girl the same age as Miharu Ayase.

I happened to have a house next door to each other, and I happened to be born in the same spring of the year.

Spring man because he was born in spring, beautiful spring because he was born in spring.

They grew up together and played together from the time of their baby.

Childhood tame.

Nothing unusual.

It's just a common relationship.

But for the Spring Man, Miharu was special.

I didn't know what love or love meant at the time, but Miharu was really special.

I just liked Miharu.

I don't care how you like her.

When she rejoiced, she rejoiced herself.

When she got angry, she got angry with herself.

I felt sorry for myself when she cried.

I enjoyed myself when she laughed.

Because I love that person, because Spring Man was obsessed with Mi Chun.

To what I liked, it didn't matter if there was a reason or not.

But it wasn't until I was seven that they were together.

The Tenkawa Spring Man was born into a mediocre family.

I have a father and a mother, I have a spring man and I have one sister.

It's a normal family.

But such a family collapsed when the Spring Man was seven.

My parents are divorced, Spring people are taken by my father, and my sister by my mother.

The reason for the divorce was asked when the Spring Man grew up.

From what my father told me, it seems to be caused by my mother's affair.

The Spring Sister was not my father's daughter.

But such a reason has nothing to do with the Spring Man at the time.

I couldn't imagine being apart from Miharu.

So the Spring Man weeps and begs his father and mother.

Don't get divorced.

My father looked at me like I'd chewed up a bitter bug and shut up, and my mother apologized to the Spring Man crying.

My sister didn't seem to know anything about it just yet, but she loved her mother, and I remember her crying when she saw her sad mother.

The two divorces were decisive, and the Spring Man trembled when he realized a desperate fate that could not be overridden.

I can't believe Spring Man would have been happy to have stayed beside Mi Chun, but it wouldn't even come true.

I mourned my helplessness.

Knowing that was reality, I regretted it, I was vain, I couldn't hide the tremors.

"Hal, you can't go!

When I said goodbye, Miharu cried.

Cry, don't go, I was begged.

I don't know what to do.

I can't do anything about it.

Unexpectedly, the Spring Man wanted to cry, but desperately strengthened without any basis.

You want me to see you again, or you want me to pick you up?

I said all sorts of things and tried to make Miharu stop crying.

Still don't stop crying at her...

"The next time we see each other, we'll get married!

And that's what the Spring Man said.

Then, once again, stop crying and Miharu looks up at Spring Man's face in a bluff.

"... No, I don't think?

Asked by Auntie and Spring Man.

"... yeah. Do. Do!

Miharu finally laughed.

I'm so happy about that...

Let's definitely make this promise come true.

That's what the Spring Man thought.

I don't care how many years have gone by.

Let's protect it.

Let's protect this smile.

I swear so, the Spring Man broke up with Mi Chun.

Now there was Miharu in front of Rio.

You can't be wrong to look at it.

Years later, she was reborn, because her face, which I saw only slightly in high school, can be remembered as painted.

"Huh..."

With the feeling of wetting her cheeks, Rio returns to me.

I don't know why, but right now, I have Miharu at the end of my eyes and nose.

That only made my chest hot and I felt happy.

Out of the way, I feel my heart pounding.

I almost lost me unexpectedly because of my joy, but I managed to stop.

It is now a prerequisite to get Miharu out of this place as soon as possible.

I have to protect Miharu.

Let me try to protect you from anything.

That's what I swear, because the Amagawa Chunmen have lived.

Riding into the carriage carriage carriage, Rio walked over to Miharu.

You shouldn't scare me.

So Rio laughs thinly...

"To help...... I'm here"

Gently, that's what I said.

I love it, I love it and I can't wait to scare Miharu away.

"Ah...... yes. Thank you."

Rio softly offered his hand to Miharu, staring at himself.

Miharu grabbed Rio's hand as the surrounding slave girls stared at the scene.

It was warm, soft hands.

White, fine, beautiful hands.

It's not like my own hand, which was swallowed by the sword Dako.

What is my hand that just killed people for the first time just now......

The look of the moment when a person dies, the scent of death that makes him nauseous, the feeling of the hand that killed him for the first time, burns in the back of his brain and doesn't leave.

But I can't turn back anymore.

I'm ready now.

Let me carry any hell.

Besides, we must protect Miharu from this cruel world.

Shaking her head small (wearing it), Rio smiled at Miharu.

And gently pull Miharu's hand.

"Aki and Yaman are waiting outside. Let's go."

That's what I said, trying to get him out...

"Oh, uh, they..."

Miharu said, staring at the slave girls around her left in the carriage.

Rio smiles like trouble.

"They are slaves. Perhaps, but unlike you, we are enslaved after due process. Help yourself and you'll be a criminal."

Slaves are treated like things.

So if you steal it, it's burglary, if you scam it, it's fraud, if you take it, it's blackmail or robbery.

"Oh no..."

Suddenly, Miharu sent her gaze to the girls.

Their gaze pierces Miharu and Rio.

"Let's go"

To pull him away from such a gaze, Kuru, Rio pulled Miharu's hand.

Be, but shut up and Miharu walks out.

As it was, Rio took Miharu and walked away from the carriage.

Never turn around and take him to the rocks that were nearby.

"Please wait here for a moment. Don't ever show your face because it's dangerous."

Saying, hiding Miharu in the rocks, Rio went back to the carriage again.

They were slave traders and escorts who had restarted their actions, but I was thrilled to see Rio come back.

"Hey, what...?

Obviously it looked wolfish, the slaver asked.

These men tried to sell Miharu off as a whore.

I can never forgive you.

Rio was seriously willing to kill.

But now I need to run errands and return to Miharu as soon as possible.

It's not if you're killing these men, and I don't want to do that to scare Miharu, who's nearby.

But I'm going to let you get sanctioned.

Rio was chilled to stab the slave trader to death.

"Hi, hi, no."

A slaver leaks a pitiful scream.

This is not the kind of fear Miharu and the others have suffered.

You can be afraid at best.

Rio thought so.

"You have the luggage of the three abductees, don't you? Give it back."

In a cold voice, Rio commands.

"Oh, oh! I'll give it back!

Answer, the slaver rushed into the carriage.

I'll be right back with my stuff and handing Rio three possessions.

"This must be it all, right?

Upon receipt of the package, Rio asks, looking at the slave trader with an emotionless eye.

"Also, of course! It's all in there! Or because I kept the money in too! Believe me!

Momentum shook his head vertically and the slaver replied.

A peek into the properly received bag does pack a small amount of gold in one of them.

Are you going to pay the compensation?

"Right. If he's lying, he'll come back."

Leaving it at that, Rio walked away from the spot.

I can't see Rio anymore, and the slaver's knee collapses.

"Let's go"

Returning to Miharu, Rio smiled slightly and spoke.

I can't even feel the chills when I'm dealing with slave traders.

It was a warm laugh.

"Yes, sir"

With such a look at Rio, Miharu finally gave me a horrible look, as she had returned to me.

"Oh, luggage, thank you! I'll hold the bag!

Miharu thanked us for realizing that they had retrieved their baggage.

And run over to Rio on a small run.

"No, I'll have it. I'll walk a little from here."

"But..."

"It's okay. Leave it to me."

"Uh, excuse me. So, can I ask you a favor?

"Yes, I'll take care of it"

Miharu decided to bow her head and ask for Rio's clarity, which was unlikely to give way.

And you two walk out.

Soon the sun is tilting, and the sky, which was blue and clear when I left Amando, is starting to stain the warm scarlet.

It's a very beautiful sight not to be seen in Japan.

Miharu thought so.

Rio walking ahead and Miharu following.

That's how Miharu walks three steps back behind Rio, who walks a little further.

Somehow, that was the natural distance.

Every time I feel like I can't keep up with Rio's walking speed, I make a small run and Miharu keeps that distance.

…………

There is no conversation between us.

I've noticed Rio spying on himself since earlier, but Miharu didn't know what to talk about.

That's the same with Rio, who from time to time looks up to the sky somewhat awkwardly except looking back.

Is this a dream?

Miharu felt like she was in a dream right now.

'Cause there's no realism at all about what's happened so far.

I can't believe I was in a strange meadow with no civilization present when I realized that I was wandering there, being held captive by the anachronistic, and actually being enslaved.

Very incredible.

But even if this is the world of dreams, it's true that Rio helped.

I want to thank you properly.

I strongly believe that, but I was scared that I was going to wake up from my dream the moment I tried to talk to Rio about why.

(Scared?)

Miharu wondered what she was afraid of.

Does that mean the boy in front of you disappears like this without being able to thank you?

I certainly don't like that.

But I feel a little different from that for some reason.

Fu, Miharu remembered the first time she exchanged glances with the boy.

The boy was whining about something bossy, but unfortunately he couldn't hear it.

I'm very curious about what the boy was saying and why.

What a blur and a lot of things to think about...

At two moments, Miharu realized that at some point she no longer needed to make a small run.

(Maybe...)

Miharu stared at the boy's back in front of her.

Wasn't it just to grasp Miharu's walking speed that I was looking back at with a flicker from earlier?

I found Rio's gait to be slower now than it was initially and more suited to me.

(You matched my walking speed, didn't you?

I notice such clumsy kindness, and Miharu grins with a crease.

I felt very nostalgic for some reason.

I wonder why.

But now it's better than that.

(You can't, I...)

I've been letting Rio take care of me for a while.

Realizing that, Miharu was ashamed of her immaturity.

Before you think about it, there must be something you have to do.

Let's hear your name first and thank you properly.

When she so decided, Miharu took a small breath, looking at Rio's back walking just a little further.

"Oh, um, excuse me. May I?

He spoke suddenly, and Rio's body trembled terribly.

Roughly looking back, the two faced each other.

"Uh, yes. What is it?

"I'm sorry all of a sudden. Um, my name is Miharu Ayase. May I ask your name?

Miharu asked, holding on to the heartbeat of her growing chest for some reason.

"Ah, yes. Uh... Hart,"

In an unscrupulous Japanese pronunciation, Rio replied.

Those eyes are caged with thoughts that you might expect somewhere.

"Hal...... t......"

Suddenly Miharu uttered Rio's pseudonym, no, once his name.

Give me the name of the boy who is Miharu's childhood tame.

"... what's my name?

"Ah, no, under the same name as my childhood..."

She smiled with a nostalgic smile and Miharu answered.

That smile seems to contain just a few visions.

No, Rio wanted to think so.

"Really, what... What a coincidence."

Laughing vaguely, Rio answers.

I almost said I was that childhood tame without thinking about it later.

I am Tenkawa Chun, dead but reborn, and I have lived thinking of you in this world.

Of course, assuming Miharu likes the others, she'll have to give up, but this thought must also be conveyed to confirm it.

Because the Spring Man of Tenkawa had long regretted running away from Miharu before he could share his thoughts.

But will you suddenly tell such absurd stories and believe me on this occasion?

Wouldn't it seem creepy?

If you do poorly, you could be treated like an abnormal person.

At least you should be confused.

Even if you believed me, wouldn't your feelings be too heavy to take Miharu?

Rio is aware that his feelings about Miharu are paranoid.

I have no one's confidence in my thoughts about Miharu, but I also knew that pushing it unilaterally was only stalking.

If you bump that thought without thinking, it will only frighten or offend Mi-chun.

Thinking about it, I suddenly got frightened.

She said she was so strongly thinking about what she wanted to see and tell Miharu, but when she had to be in front of her, she couldn't stand around well.

What a clumsy man, myself.

I just have to laugh because such a man likes people in public.

Rio wanted to strangle himself.

I think I need to calm my head down a little.

In the meantime, why don't we just slow down, slow down, get along.

Because this is how Miharu is in front of me now.

From now on, I intend to protect Miharu.

There is no need to rush yet.

"............ Yes. Right."

Miharu replied, often silent and smiling lonely.

Rio is about to be drawn to that laugh.

"So, uh, Mr. Hart,"

Called, Rio trembled.

I didn't know it was such a pleasure to be called a name, although it was a little different than it used to be.

"Yes!

Rio, who is soaring up sometime, responds with momentum.

Pushed by the momentum, Miharu wandered.

"Oh, uh..., what is it?

Realizing that she had surprised Miharu, Rio replies with a grin that her bat looked bad.

For some reason, Miharu started laughing when she looked funny about Rio like that and dull.

"I'm sorry.... I don't know what would have happened to me had it not been for Mr. Hart. And Aki-chan and Jasmine too. Thank you so much."

When she made a small apology for laughing, Miharu bowed her head deeply to Rio.

No, of course not.

Yes, of course.

Helping Mi-chun was as much before I took a breath.

As long as Miharu is around, as long as Miharu is around, it's just that I can feel so happy.

Perhaps the meaning of my rebirth is to protect Mi-chun today.

That's why I've lived in a world like this.

I can't help but think so.

"Thank you so much"

Thank you again, Miharu turns a soft grin on Rio.

I'm so happy about that.

"Shall we go? We can't keep you two waiting forever. Right there."

Remembering the highs in his chest, Rio told him to deviate a little.

"Yes. Right."

Smile and Miharu nods.

Then they walked out silently again.

But there is no such thing as a shamblessness as earlier, and some warm air is flowing between us.

The sunlight was gently illuminating the two of us by changing its color completely to scarlet.