Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 5 [Parts 1 to 4] by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Acer.”

As I finished cleaning up the forge and stepped out of the forge, I was stopped by Aiha calling out to me. She wore a rather serious expression, which surprised me.

“Is something wrong?”

In response to my question, she grabbed my sleeve and pulled me along behind her. What was going on? I was getting the feeling she was angry about something.

She pulled me along to a spot in the middle of the dojo, a cool spot of shade provided by the trees that had been planted there. It was close to where the former members of the Yosogi School, including Kaeha, now rested. After stopping there, she finally spoke.

“Acer, are you leaving soon?”

She was right, but how did she know? I had only told Shizuki and Touki, as well as Souha since she was in charge of the forge. I was a bit surprised.

“Why do you think so?” Denying it would be easy, but I didn’t want to lie to her. I guess the same went for Shizuki and Mizuha as well...really all of Kaeha’s descendants.

But it seemed she took my evasiveness as confirmation, seeing how her face fell as she looked away. “Kairi told me. He said you were wrapping things up, as if you wanted to make sure everything would be okay if you left.” Even so, she answered my question.

Ah, I see. So it was Kairi. I guess he would be able to guess that based on my behavior in the forge. I had started making preparations there to keep everything running smoothly, so there wouldn’t be a huge gap left by my disappearance. I supposed Shizuki, Touki, or Souha might have even confirmed it for him.

Well, this was a bit of an issue. I’d gotten quite used to saying goodbye, but I still had trouble dealing with others who were sad to say goodbye.

While I hesitated to come up with something to say...

“Hey, Acer...did you love Great-Grandmother?” she asked. She had looked away before, but now she turned to face me directly.

Again, this felt like it had come out of nowhere...but it was a much easier question for me to answer. I had already answered this for myself, and that answer wouldn’t change for anything.

“Not quite. It’s not that I did love her. I still do.” I could say that with confidence.

Aiha blinked in surprise. “Even though she died a long time ago? Even before I was born?” She was clearly quite shocked.

Ah, now I understood. For her, the time before she was born felt like forever ago. The difference in our perception of time brought a wry smile to my face. From her perspective, it may have looked like the past was dragging me down, but that wasn’t true at all.

After all, someday even Aiha would be part of my past. There was nothing for me to do but hold that past close to my heart as I pressed forward.

“That’s true, but she’s still with me. Here,” I said, putting a hand to my heart, “and here,” then giving my sword a tap.

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