The 101st me, the 35th you.-5

…my mind is hazy.

It was unclear whether he was holding the sword himself or whether he was fighting.

Took.

It wasn’t until the blood from my forehead dripped down and landed on my arm that I realized I was sitting against the wall.

It’s a shame that a few people ran away during the fight, it would have been pretty difficult if they all attacked me.

I should have considered that my body wasn’t finished yet.

Still, Mirazen survived, so she smiled lightly and looked up at the sky.

In fact, there was no sky at all. It was just a gray ceiling, and when I looked down at the floor there was red blood all over it, so it was better than that.

“ha.”

Even breathing was quite difficult.

He frowned at the sharp pain he felt in his chest, then wiped his forehead as he barely let out his breath.

The problem was that he used his mana to the point of exhaustion.

Catch Temuchin, and deal with those who attack again. Because he was attacking more than he thought, he scraped to the limit and used his mana. I had to say it was self-employed.

I would have to go out, but it seemed like I was going to be stuck until Adele was here.

Looking at Adele’s sword, it was clean without a scratch. I can’t stand it even if I use it like this.

Is a famous sword a famous sword?

Even though I couldn’t keep my promise not to get hurt, I was fortunate to be able to return the sword.

And the fact that he properly saved Miragen.

While fighting, he continued to sense the presence.

If a foreigner had gone near Mirazen, he would have noticed, but Mirazen seemed to have escaped through another passage.

Perhaps the aliens who remained outside would have come in to catch me, so if I had gone out, I wouldn’t have been caught.

I would have joined Adele by now. What I was going to do now was simple.

Preserve your stamina here and hold out until Adele comes.

Feeling the blood flowing from my shoulder, I tore my shirt to stop the bleeding.

It left quite a few scars. Even after we go back, we should avoid moving for a while.

It may look serious from the outside, but in fact, he was not seriously injured.

It would be more accurate to say that it was close to exhaustion.

Take a deep breath, then slowly close your eyes.

A few times I want the cold wind to blow and touch my cheek. Then, from afar, I felt a presence coming towards me.

“Robert, are you there?”

Laughing at Adele’s voice, she lightly tapped the wall with her head and made a noise.

Hearing a thump, a slight echo, Adele ran towards it with hasty steps.

Adele appeared in the bend in the hallway, and Adele, who found me, opened her mouth with a wrinkled brow.

“…I must have said that.”

“You certainly didn’t keep your promise not to die, Cool.”

“You look like you’re about to die and say that very well.”

Contrary to the way he spoke, his hand brushing my cheek was gentle.

Adele wiped the blood from her face and looked at me.

Looking at the wounds that had formed all over my body, I let out a light sigh and opened my mouth.

“Are there any poison symptoms?”

“There is not. No one has been poisoned, and Temuchin is dead.”

“I won’t say I did well. If I get hurt like this, I have nowhere to go and use it.”

Adele, who was grumbling, tore the hem of my shirt, then frowned slightly.

In particular, it was a part with a lot of sword scars. Adele’s eyes turned to me as she saw the cuts and lacerations, bony wounds.

I thought he would get angry, but the corners of my mouth, which had been smiling slightly at the shaking eyes, went down.

“…It’s not a casual wound.”

“it’s okay. Because I was hurt a lot.”

“I am not okay.”

Chiik, Adele took out the bandage from her bosom, tore it off properly and began to wrap it around my arm.

There is no proper treatment. Just trying to stop the flowing blood, Adele silently wrapped her arms around me and glanced at me.

After making eye contact several times, my lips parted slightly, as if my calm face was bothering me.

“If it hurts, tell me it hurts. It’s my first time doing it for someone… I might be clumsy.”

“It doesn’t hurt. If you close it gently like that, I don’t think the bleeding will stop.”

“is it?”

Hmm, Adele, who had swallowed a small saliva, pulled on the bandage, causing a sudden excruciating pain.

I wrapped it too gently and told him to apply a little force, and when my expression crumpled, Adele, taken aback, withdrew her hand.

Even though I tried to laugh at the startled look, the pain I felt this time was real, so I just gritted my teeth.

“Gwa, are you okay? I did it because I was told to do it hard.”

The problem was that it was too tight and the wounds were touching each other.

Wouldn’t it be natural to feel pain when the cuts rub against each other?

Still, it couldn’t be Adele’s fault.

When I forced myself to say that it was okay, Adele stared at me for a while before carefully putting on the bandage.

“This is enough. Can’t you just stop the bleeding anyway?”

“…I’m not that clumsy in the first place. It’s just because it’s the first time.”

“Let’s do something like that.”

Adele, who glared at me for a moment at my words, relaxed her eyes and opened her mouth slowly.

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Joining the princess, killing all the aliens who ran away on the way to this place, and even coming to me.

His expression, which had gradually darkened, softened slightly as our eyes met.

“I’m glad you didn’t die. And you did something reckless, thinking of fighting a foreigner alone.”

“It was a choice to save Her Highness, the princess. Didn’t you come here for that?”

“…Even if you die, did you intend to do that?”

After watching Adele ask in a low voice for a while, she couldn’t answer.

I would have come even if I knew I was going to die.

Because the last day of the 35th was the regret I always harbored.

Perhaps realizing that the silence was positive, Adele’s eyebrows wrinkled slightly as she examined my scars.

Maybe she won’t understand.

The fact that I, who had no relationship with the princess, and who was not loyal to the imperial family, cared so much about Miragen.

It would look pretty awkward no matter who sees it.

It was a fact that only I in this world could understand.

When Adele’s eyes staring at me were distracted, she opened her mouth with a small smile.

“I have been blessed in the past. Her Highness probably won’t remember it, but it was an unforgettable grace to me.”

I didn’t want to hide anything from Adele. However, my return is something that cannot be easily explained, so I explained it a little differently.

Isn’t it true that Miragen doesn’t remember, and that it’s an unforgettable memory for me?

“Eunhyera, did something like that happen?”

“A lot of things have changed for me because of it. So, I paid it off this time. Just because I had the opportunity.”

“…is it.”

“If the Archduke is in danger, I will go alone. Are you still upset?”

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

When I replied playfully, Adele frowned and shook her head.

I laughed lightly at the funny expression on my face, and Adele, who had been looking at me like that, slowly stood up from her seat.

Now all the wounds were bandaged.

As I regained my stamina and tried to stand up, Adele sat me back down and opened her mouth.

“Sit down. Maybe everyone will be here soon.”

“Get some rest. Wouldn’t it take some time to come anyway?”

Then Adele glanced at the seat next to me and shook her head slightly in denial.

The only place without blood is the seat next to me. Maybe it’s because it’s quite burdensome to sit close to it.

When I said yes, Adele looked at me and continued.

“It’s not because I’m embarrassed to be with you. It’s just… that’s why I need to look around. You’re uncomfortable too, if you’re with me.”

“…Why are you uncomfortable? It’s not like we’ve only met once or twice.”

Saying so, he moved slightly.

I tapped on an empty seat so that Adele could sit next to me, and Adele stared at it.

“I am okay. Just sit down.”

It’s not once or twice that we’re together, so what’s the point of being uncomfortable?

As long as Adele was okay, I didn’t care.

In the previous episode, we had slept in the same bed when camping, so it didn’t feel awkward to say the least.

After hesitating for a moment, Adele slowly came towards me as I knocked on the seat a few more times.

Adele trembled as she slipped into her seat.

Perhaps realizing that my arms were touching, I sat down with a slight distance to the side.

As I smiled at that, Adele wrinkled her brow and started glaring at me. If you think about it, it was a strange place.

It was a horrible place with corpses everywhere, but she was feeling ashamed of sitting like this.

However, we are used to it.

Adele and I have always been together in places like this, at least from our time in the North together.

Adele settled down, and there was silence for a long time.

The blood had stopped and the dizziness was gone.

There were not many sounds that came from my clear mind.

The only sounds were the sound of melted snow falling toward the ground and the faint sound of each other’s breathing.

Then, when I turned my head, I realized that Adele was looking at me.

Even though their eyes met, Adele didn’t look away.

Rather, it was all about staring into my eyes and examining something.

Blue eyes like mine, but hers were much clearer.

Unlike me, who can’t contain any emotions anymore, the cool light used to feel rather cool.

The northern wind always reminded me of Adele.

It’s cold, but on the other hand, it’s more free than anything else.

It wasn’t until a little while later that she opened her mouth.

“…I feel strange when I see you.”

“What are you thinking?”

“Even though I’m by your side like this, I feel like I’m going to die soon. I can’t take my eyes off you.”

Are you even gossiping?

Around the time I was about to laugh awkwardly, wondering if it was a joke. Adele’s hand brushed my forehead.

I felt a little water in my blue eyes.

Like a calm shoal, the gently swaying eyes touched my face.

“Even if I touch it, it feels like an illusion. When you don’t open your mouth, I feel like I’m touching a phantom, so I can’t be relieved.”

Once again, I felt the touch of a hand on my cheek.

Isn’t it funny?

The hands of a woman called the Grand Duke of the North are so warm.

Adele’s lips softened as she stared at the blood on her hands.

As if to say something, Adele hesitated for a long time before opening her mouth again.

“…I saw the scars on your body. Not today, last time.”

“If it’s a body, ah.”

It must have been when they met after washing their bodies.

I ran into it when I was not wearing clothes, but I guess I saw everything.

The scars on my body are not ordinary.

Part of what Yuria wore and was punished by her father.

I didn’t pay attention to it because it was a natural wound to me, but in Adele’s eyes, there must have been a definite difference.

Unlike these sword scars, wasn’t it a wound that persistently dug into a vital point?

Adele’s expression darkened. As if he had roughly grasped the source of the wound, he let out a small sigh and continued.

“I bet the wound wasn’t inflicted for an ordinary reason.”

“…Yes.”

“I have no intention of asking what it looks like. You always have to be neutral, and if I found out about that, I’d probably turn against the Taylors.”

After saying that, Adele smiled bitterly. This was a common occurrence in aristocratic families.

Even if the robbery wasn’t as severe as mine, I’ve heard occasional cases of obsessing over family and harming the family.

Maybe the moment I saw the wound, I didn’t know. That the Taylor family was not as noble as rumors had been told.

Adele didn’t look at me anymore. I muttered so quietly while staring into the void.

“That’s probably why I feel anxious every time I see you. It also feels like it will suddenly disappear.”

“Why am I disappearing? I am not a fog.”

After saying that and laughing, Adele stared at me with a cold face.

I couldn’t say anything with a very serious expression.

I had the feeling that if I continued talking any longer, she would be angry at any second.

As I was overcome by that strange sensation, Adele whispered.

“…Don’t get hurt in the future. In front of my eyes, as far as I know. I don’t want to see you get hurt more.”

It was a sad eye. At least in my memory, a woman named Adele Ygritte has never built one.

It looked like it would burst into tears any second.

After staring at me for a long time with those eyes, she then muttered in a small voice.

In a very small voice that only I can hear.

“I’m not saying that I hurt you.”

Adele, who had a confused look on her face for a moment, slowly removed her hand. He chewed until his lips turned white, then let out a low sigh.

“I…don’t know why I’m doing this. Really, I don’t know.”

Adele leaned her head against the wall with her eyes closed.

Until Bunta joins the other soldiers, until Mirajen and I meet.

for such a long time

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