Yuusha Densetsu no Uragawa de Ore wa Eiyuu Densetsu o Tsukurimasu: Oudou Goroshi no Eiyuutan

The city of Euberest was less crowded than at its peak, but nonetheless it was as bustling as the king's capital.

That's good, but...

"Hey, Mikage. Why are you walking so far away?"

I called out to Mikage, who was behind us three steps diagonally. I always walk side-by-side when I go out with you.

"Well..." I don't know how to behave at a time like this, because it was such an isolated life. "

Mikage with a mix of illumination and confusion. I let go of my hand once after I left the inn, but I've been doing this for a long time.

"In the meantime, I followed the custom in my hometown of 'Women follow you three steps back from you'... did you feel ill?

No, that's not enough.

It's not bad that it suits the condition of the lizard, but she herself seems to have "tried to refer to it for now".

"Hey, buddy."

Gram tried to pinch his mouth, but he didn't tell me.

I stopped my foot. Mikage leans her neck at me when I suddenly stops, but when I approach her without saying anything, I grab her hand.

All of a sudden, the lizard holding his hand makes a surprising voice.

"Yu, Yukina-sama?

"Yes, I will go on this (...) during the date."

I tied my hands so that I could tie my fingers with the lizard. The so-called "boyfriend connection". In fact, Mikage and I are lovers, so we're not wrong at all.

"Hmm, this is a little... no, it's pretty embarrassing!?

It's a corner date, let's start with the shape.

It was a lizard trying to eat even more, but I'll give you a laugh. After seeing it, the mikage murmured and eventually bent over his face. Still, she didn't like it because she was holding back my hand, which was connected again.

I dare say, I'm actually quite ashamed of myself. The feeling of walking around King's Landing with Cunei and Aina was so different. It was embarrassing, but also pleasant.

--Then we walked around the city of Eubalest alone.

It was a lizard who was ashamed of her boyfriend connection, but she gradually became accustomed to it, and her mouth gradually increased. At last, the atmosphere became like a date.

At first, I was sure it was a bit aggressive, but of those three, the deepest of them was definitely Mikage. Perhaps this much would have been just right.

"By the way, Yukina. Can I guess what you're going to do?

"It feels like you're walking around looking for a way to go."

"Fufu, is that so?"

I borrowed a little of the dialogue that some princess had spoken before. Apparently it was popular, and the lizard was laughing.

Perhaps, but if you have fun with someone you like, it's a date. Just walking side-by-side without a purpose, Mikage and I are dating.

Cool the open-air merchants you find along the way, or eat rare sweets and delicacies you don't see in King's Landing.

"Well... what do you think?

"Oh, it looks good on you."

An accessory store found on the roadside. That's where Mikage sold hair decorations that looked good. I bought it quickly and gave it to her as a present. As expected, it suited her silver hair well.

"It's really strange."

"Hmm? What's wrong?

While touching the hair decoration with my fingers, the lizard said it was sticky.

"I used to feel neglectful that I was a woman. I've thought about this man many times."

"Is that... the story of you leaving home?"

Mikage jumped out of his hometown and came to this far away arc to become a fellow brave man and name himself a martial arts artist. But it also included the reason that I hated being used as a tool for political marriage by my parents.

"If I had been born as a man, perhaps I would not have jumped out of my own home and would have continued to study kung fu in my hometown. But the house - no, the country didn't like women getting involved in Wu."

Mikage's hometown is a male-centered society. It doesn't seem that women are despised, but Mikage told me before that the idea that "women support men is strong".

"My father and grandfather were respectable martial artists. But they weren't happy that the women - I had the sword."

Political marriage may not sound good, but that's why it's not particularly bad. It must have been a way to strengthen the connection with other houses, but there must have been a kindness in wanting my daughter to be connected with a good partner. That's what Mikage said.

"I really thought about me, but even if I was dead, it still bothered me."

Rather than grasping happiness as a woman, Mikage chose to walk the path of a martial arts artist. That's why she jumped out of her hometown.

"But not now."

The lizard is holding my hand tightly.

The firmness of the swordsman and his softness as a woman. The feeling of the two hands together conveys to me more strongly.

"I met a wonderful master and was devoted both physically and mentally. And it gave me the joy of liking you as a woman."

The day I first got married to Mikage.

She gave me her sword and swore to me that she would be my katana.

That's what I told her.

It's not just loyalty. He wants to dedicate everything to the lizard. Katana is not the only one. It's not just women. As Katana or as a woman, she wants me to have them both.

It's not just the martial arts. It's not just women.

Because I am a martial arts artist and a woman, I am a lizard.

"I can feel it from the bottom of my heart now. I was born a woman."

That said, she had an unmistakable smile next to me.