The abused merchant’s daughter – 24 | Sousaku – 創作

Chapter 1, Episode 24: Farne-sama.

　I've missed you for a long time.
　I wanted to hear your voice.
　Have the stew you cooked again.
　Blow at it with a fuu fuu.
　Sing me a lullaby. Take me in your arms and walk around the garden.
　In the luggage that was still in the carriage, there were a lot of picture books that had not been read to me.
　Farne-sama was supposed to read it to me when he woke up.

　And yet.

　I was seen defeating the bad guys who were after Farne-sama.
　I thought I had resolved to never let them reach Farne-sama.
　But one person went deep into the cave.
　I was beating him up when Farne-sama woke up.
　Cyril told me before. That Farne-sama doesn't like to kill people, so don't let him know. She said that the priests don't like to kill people. That's why I had promised Cyril that I wouldn't tell anyone that I had killed people.
　Farne-sama saw me kill someone.

　Farne-sama rose from the ball of light and staggered a little as he stood up.　
　His face was angry and I wanted to cry.

　Yes. Ahh, I remember it.
　My aunt, who used to bully me, was kind to me in the beginning.
　But when I did something wrong, she suddenly became violent.

　The faces of Farne-sama and my aunt at that time overlapped and made me want to cry.

　I was hated. I was hated.

　Farne-sama, whom I loved so much, hated me.
　What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?
　Will Farne-sama start abusing me too?

『Riese! Priest woke up! Thank God! 』

　Libelle says happily, but no, no.
　I shouldn't have let him see me like this.

"……Riese."

　Farne-sama held out his hand to me to say something.

　No. No. No.

　I don't want to hear it.
　
　Farne-sama will be the same as my aunt!
　He will lock me up and abuse me, saying he hated me.

　NO. NO. NO.

"Aaaa! ! ! "

　As I prayed for him not to get closer, the vines flew towards Farne-sama.

　It's wrong, wrong, wrong! !
　No! ! Don't attack Farne-sama! ! !

『Riese! ! Weird! ! Weird! ! Attacking the Priest! ! 』

　Libelle stopped the ivy from attacking Farne-sama by swatting it away.
　But the ivy of the holy tree is going towards Farne-sama even though I tell it to stop.
　
　I don't understand. I don't understand.
　I cannot understand.

　Please help. No, no, no, no.
　My tears welled up.
　Why? It wasn't supposed to be like this.
　I should have been happy that Farne-sama woke up.
　Why am I attacking him?
　It's wrong, it's wrong, wrong, wrong.

『What are you doing? Calm down! ! ! ! ! 』

　Suddenly I heard Cyril's voice. Immediately thereafter, I lost consciousness.

　□■□

　I heard a voice..
　
"The girl said.
　『Why do you have wings but you don't fly, Dragon-san? 』

　The dragon replied.

『Once upon a time there was a war.
　That's when I injured my wings and couldn't fly.』"

　Farne-sama's gentle voice.
　Yes, this is my favorite story about Dragon-san and the girl.
　It's a story about a dragon who can't fly anymore and a girl who becomes friends with him.

　I practiced reading it myself every day before I went to bed, every day to read it to Farne-sama when he woke up.
　I couldn't read the letters, though.
　But because Farne-sama read it to me every day, I remembered the contents.

　When Farne-sama wakes up…… I have so many things to talk about.
　I made new friends, like Cyril and Libelle, and my throat was healed and I was able to make sounds.
　I could walk, I could run, I could ...... I had so much to say.

　But now Farne-sama hates me.

"I don't hate you."

　I heard Farne-sama's voice.
　Is this a dream?

　How could Farne-sama not be mad at me?

　Because he looked so scary when he woke up.
　That was an angry face.

"……It was my own unworthiness that made you do what you did.
　If it showed on my face, I owe you an apology."

　I was awakened by a pat on my head as he spoke to me.
　When I opened my eyes, I saw Libelle and Cyril sitting a little in front of me, and I was being held by someone.
　
　It was always like this whenever Farne-sama read a book to me.

　I would sit on his lap and he would read me a book.

　I looked up with apprehension at the familiar warmth I had missed.

　There he was―― I had wanted to see him for a long, long time.
　Someone whom I wanted to hear his voice, to pet me, to be with me.

"Farne-shama."

　I say it out loud.
　The name I finally got to say after practicing it every day, day after day.
　My dear, dear Farne-sama.

"I'm sorry I've made you feel lonely.
　I apologize."

　He said and nudged me with his usual smile.

　I hugged his chest.

　I missed you, I missed you! I was lonely, lonely!
　Don't leave me again!
　My dear, dear Farne-sama! ! !

　Unable to stop the tears from overflowing, I started to cry out loud.