108 – Memories

”So what did you want to do…”

He rubbed his sore wrist and glanced aside for a moment.

Right after that, the person who caught my eye was Dauna in a nursing uniform, crouching aloof like a bean worm, covering her flushed face with both hands.

A shabby look that can’t even find a trace of the bold side of a moment ago.

While I was happy to finally meet the Downa I knew originally, the question of why she had acted like that was inevitable.

”What the hell was that? Are you imitating the warrior?”

”Joe, be quiet…”

His voice was so low that it couldn’t even reach the sound of an ant crawling.

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Judging by the split syllables here and there, it seemed that his throat was a bit rested.

Whenever I rang my neck resonantly with my limbs tightly bound, and as soon as I undid a few buttons on my neck, I immediately felt dizzy. Downa’s behavior was obviously suspicious.

However, it was not uncommon for her, who has a thought circuit dozens of times more complex than others, to occasionally show off her actions with several leaps in logic.

For now, I made up my mind to wait patiently for her to calm down some of her thoughts.

”·····”

”·····”

how long has it been like that

Unable to endure the uncomfortable silence that seemed to continue endlessly if left alone, I finally spoke first.

”Now that I’m doing this, it reminds me of the old days.”

Downa’s black pupils, which were hidden by the walls of her fingers, cautiously turned to me.

It wasn’t a noticeable movement, but it was a slight movement that could confirm that she was willing to listen to me.

After clearing his throat a few times, he spoke again.

”When I was in the academy, I often skipped classes, and I used to lock myself in a corner where people couldn’t reach me like this. You know very well that Downa really just went out at that time, right? When we first met, he said that he would give you the right to tell him the secret to making friends. hahahaha, even the noble ladies who grew up like flowers in a greenhouse wouldn’t say that.”

”uuu…”

The cracks between the slightly open fingers closed in an instant.

That feeling was completely understandable.

The feeling of being forced to dig up the dark history you want to bury will be indescribably terrifying.

If the position had been reversed, I might have struggled on my legs recklessly, with my face buried in the pillow, just like the current Downa.

Dauna’s talent for manipulating magical powers was so outstanding that even the savvy elders of the Magic Tower stuck out their tongues, but even the brilliance of such a brilliant talent was not enough to cover her eccentric personality.

A prodigy of the century whose name will surely be engraved in history in the distant future.

The sight of the swarms of ants flocking to suck the honeydew cut in half every time she uttered a word was truly spectacular.

I was once a member of the ants, so I could still see the eccentricity of Downa, who seemed to be looking at an unworked mineral.

On the day Dauna skipped the academy, I dare to say that the screams of an unknown female student who, after giving the wrong invitation to eat, got her armpit hair enchanted to grow pink for half a year, rivaled the screams of a 100-year-old Mandragora. there was.

Because of this, it was only natural that Dauna, who committed such atrocities like eating, would be bullied among her academy students.

Even I, who can be said to have the closest relationship with Dauna, had to spend a considerable amount of time realizing that her actions were an erroneous expression of shyness.

Of course, it wasn’t the time I wanted.

An unwanted bond created by her one-sided clinging to me, who was desperately trying to run away.

It was a so-called wrong meeting, stemming from her hasty judgment when she misunderstood me as having a lot of friends when I was farting all over the place in order to get congo water from the children of aristocrats who had a lot of things but were empty-headed.

”At that time, being alone like this was a daily routine. It’s completely noisy now. Right?”

”Wow…”

At that time, the process of slowly transforming the eyes of the people around me toward me, who had always been with Dauna, from the eyes looking at the poor lab rat to the eyes looking at the finished homunculus was a bit embarrassing.

That discomfort didn’t last long because I dropped out of the academy not long after that.

So, when I happened to run into Dauna, who was working at the Magic Tower while working as an adventurer with the hero, I was so surprised that I wondered if my heart was sinking.

It was to the point where I was acutely aware of the cruel flow of time when I saw the kid who was not even taller than my waist, and suddenly grew to the size of my chest.

Although my memories after that were quite vague because of Dauna’s sudden action that struck my face with lightning magic as soon as he saw my face.

I still remember the emotional expression of Downa, who even shed tears and was delighted at the reunion.

Even after Dauna somehow became a colleague, the laughable happening of the day was often talked about as a good side dish for our party.

”Are you worried about something?”

”····!”

After loosening up the atmosphere to some extent with an unassuming introduction, he slowly brought up the main topic that had been left unattended.

It was not difficult to guess that she was holding on to worries and concerns that she couldn’t easily tell others, even without having to talk a lot.

”You still have the habit of constantly wiggling your toes when you have a problem.”

”Mu, mu! What!”

As if pricked by a needle, she suddenly raised her crouched body in a hurry.

It was very funny to see him desperately looking around at his toes with shaky eyes, but it was clear that if he laughed here, he would no longer be in the mood for counseling, so he gritted his teeth and endured it.

”Wow, you’re looking so closely at the toes of a young girl who just turned 20! Lo, Rowville! You are Genga without shame!”

”No, I heard that there’s nothing like curiosity to grow the mind.”

The high-pitched voice stirred up my conscience, but perhaps because of her cracked neck, such an attitude of Downa did not make me feel intimidated, but rather only stimulated sympathy.

”Please don’t specify. Say what the hell is there to distance between us. Isn’t it?”

”···· oops!”

Downa’s movement, which was about to slam it at me right now, with a firm grip on a nearby pillow, came to a halt.

After slowly putting the pillow she was holding onto the bed, the sight of her looking up at me with teary eyes at first glance seemed like she was holding a white flag.

”Ro, Low Bill…”

Immediately after hearing that moist echo, after stopping the urging, I slowly took the posture of listening.

Because there was no small possibility that it would become a long story. I also forgot to sit down in a position that doesn’t strain my joints.

”Now, you…”

It was then.

It was around the time that Dauna, who had hesitated for a long time while holding the blanket tightly with both hands, was about to carefully let go of luck after making a decision.

Quaang!

”Le, Rage’s priest—!!”

Along with the noise of the door opening hastily, someone’s urgent voice entered my consciousness in an instant like thunder and lightning in a dark cloud.

”Sister Marianne?”

The identity of the visitor who burst into the private room was Sister Marianne.

Even though his sweaty clothes and hair were clinging to his skin, he seemed so exhausted as to be someone who had just run a marathon.

That pale complexion seemed to explain to me a step ahead of how devastating the news was about to slip from her mouth.

”I’m sorry during the hospitalization! ha, but! Whoops! Ugh!”

”Ji, calm down! speak slowly! Downa, wait!”

”Oh, ah, okay…”

After asking for forgiveness from Dauna once, I ran to her in a month.

It was because she intuited something unusual from the behavior of Sister Marianne, who suddenly shut her mouth and began to sob.

”Huh! hehehe! Come on, Holy Lady! Whoops!”

”A saintess…?

After the wedding commotion, the name that had been put aside for a while echoed in my thoughts.

Come to think of it, after that day, due to various circumstances, I couldn’t even see the saintess’s face, let alone take care of her.

Could it be that I caused another commotion without me?

It was around the time that such carefree concerns were entangled in his mind for a moment.

Some news that Sister Marianne gave me with trembling lips instantly distorted my mind and body into astonishment, which I had prepared several times beforehand.

”Hush! Holy Maiden! nun, nun! Sister!”