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Chapter 10: What I wanted to do for 300 years\n \n" ---- is why."\n \nI told them about my circumstances.\n \nMy father was a very strict man, and he decided to
abandon me in the mountains.\n \nI told them that I survived in the mountains thanks to
my medicines and cooking knowledge.\n \nWhen I finished my story, a painful silence greeted
me.\n \nAs if our voices had been stolen, the Knights and I
remained silent for a minute or longer.\n \n"Can I ask you one last question,
Luciel-kun?"\n \nFletty broke the silence and asked me.\n \n"Yes..."\n \n"How long have you been in this hell?"\n \n"Eh? That's three hu............."\n \nAwawawawa.......\n \nWrong, wrong. Not that long.\n \n"It's three hu......?"\n \nFletty tilted his head.\n \nI hurriedly corrected myself.\n \n"Noooo. Eeto, 3 years. It's been 3 years."\n \n"3 years..."\n \nFletty try to digest my story.\n \nThen he stares at me.\n \nAs I look into his gentle green eyes, my heart starts
to throb.\n \nMy testimony is half true and half false.\n \nIt's true that my father abandoned me. Still, it's
difficult to believe that my medicine and cooking knowledge was enough to
survive in the mountains.\n \nThe fact that I was able to stay in the mountains for
300 years is obviously thanks to my improved abilities and the results of
eating the monster food.\n \nIf it's not for that, I would have been in a troll's
stomach a long time ago.\n \nHowever, there is no way I could tell him that I had
been eating monsters in this mountain. And I couldn't tell him that I made his
friends eat it too.\n \nFletty's stare pierced me straight through.\n \nI turned away in a panic, feeling as if he could see
that I was lying to him.\n \n"It must have been hard for you...."\n \nThe next moment, I found myself being hugged by Fletty-san.\n \nTears are flowing from his green eyes. I can't
understand why he is crying.\n \nHis chest is hard and smells a bit sweaty.\n \nBut I don't feel uncomfortable.\n \nIt is the first time in a long time that I feel the
warmth of human skin.\n \nNo, a long time is not the right word.\n \nHow long has it been?\n \nThe last time I was hugged by someone like this
.......\n \nI feel like it was a very long time ago since I was
hugged by my mother.\n \nThen what about my father?\n \nI tried to recall, but I couldn't remember.\n \nIt's not as if my memory has degraded over the past
300 years.\n \nMaybe not.\n \nI've never been hugged by my father.\n \nNow, being hugged by Fletty, I realized that for the
first time.\n \nAt the same time, I realized something.\n \nIt's not that I wanted to become a Sword Saint like my
father or that I wanted him to acknowledge me.\n \nMy research into cooking monsters was probably just a
way to disguise a desire that had been in the back of my mind for a long time.\n \nI've been waiting for this for a long time.\n \nFor 300 years, I wanted someone to do what Fletty is
doing for me now.\n \n".........!"\n \nBefore I knew it, my vision became distorted.\n \nAlong with the distorted view, the scene of my old
house overlapped.\n \nMany, many years had passed since that time.\n \nTears welled up in my eyes as I realized that my
father or mother would never be able to hug me again.\n \nMy father may be a devil to some people, but he is
still my father.\n \nI couldn't stop crying at the thought that I would
never see him again.\n \nI let out the emotions that were welling up.\n \nI am screaming like a baby.\n \nAll I wanted to do was cry.\n \nEver since I was abandoned in the mountains.\n \nI've been holding it in for 300 years.\n \nSo I soak Fletty's chest with every drop of tears that
I've been accumulating for 300 years.\n
