Housekeeping Mage from Another World: Making Your Adventures Feel Like Home! Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 10] by You Fuguruma

Author:You Fuguruma
Language: eng
Format: epub

The bell above the door rang as Shiori and Alec left.

“I really am glad, you know,” said Nils, smiling. “It’s so nice to see the two of them happy. And not just that—it also feels like the two of them coming together has had a number of positive effects.”

Eir twisted its body, as if it were tilting its head and asking Nils exactly what he meant. Nils smiled at the gesture, and touched the silver coin that Alec had paid with.

“Shiori was in an incident, and it cast a long, dark shadow over many of our hearts. We all knew she was in some kind of trouble, but none of us reached out to help her. The guilt of that inaction has worn away at us. It became a burden we carried, a burden which weighed us down in everything we did.”

Ever since the Akatsuki incident, the air in the Tris Adventurers’ Guild had felt stagnant. Everyone felt pity for Shiori, and guilt over their inability to act, but nobody said any of this aloud. This complicated atmosphere had made it so that none of Shiori’s friends could truly enjoy themselves. Perhaps it was merely the impression that Nils had in hindsight, now that it was all over, but as someone who had worked with Shiori and become her companion, that was how he remembered it.

“Zack, Clemens—it doesn’t matter who. I wish she’d be with one of them.”

This topic had come up more than a few times among Nils and the other adventurers. Everyone knew that the incident had pushed Shiori further into her shell and made her more determined to live alone. And yet nobody had the courage to save Shiori from her own solitude. If the two men closest to her had backed off, what more could anyone else do? This was the excuse that Nils and others had fallen back on, and as a result, Shiori had grown all the more lonely.

But the solitude Shiori was trapped in back then was not something she could have overcome on her own. She was trapped in a darkness so profound that she needed someone to pull her out. That was how deep her scars ran, and how horrible the incident truly was. However, because nobody wanted to see Shiori hurt any further, everyone put up walls—of hesitance, of distance between them. Nobody had an answer for how to heal her wounds.

“But perhaps the very problem was that our desire to heal was one-sided,” muttered Nils.

At the end of summer, Alec had returned from a long spell of work in another country. In what seemed like an instant, he had grown close to Shiori—he’d leapt the walls of hesitation, and approached her. He’d gotten to know her, and just like that, the walls had come tumbling down.

Nils now knew that Alec carried a deep pain of his own, and that his relationship with Shiori was not one-sided. He knew that theirs was a relationship of mutual understanding and support. Shiori

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