CH 180

Three mornings after the wedding, I packed my things and cleaned my room as planned. Nina told me to clean up my room a long time ago, and I’ve been trying not to make a mess ever since, and I’ve had a lot of friends over, so there’s not much to do.

“…… I guess I should take this one too.”

I took the jacket I got for winning the first year’s class competition out of the closet and stuffed it into my bag. It’s already packed with a change of clothes and medicine, but I still want to keep it with me.

I’ve heard that there are magic bags out there that hold more than they look, but I can’t beg for something I don’t have.

I secretly asked Leor-san for one, but he couldn’t find it.

“Good morning, Lars-oniichan! Are you going to Tigre-sensei’s today? I want to play with Tilia-chan …… Huh? Are you going somewhere?”

“Good morning, Aina. Yeah.”

Then I takes the bag off my shoulder and leaves the room with Aina. I turned around once and looked around the room, then I closed the door.

As I’m walking down the hallway with Aina to get breakfast, she jumps on my back and says.

“Is it a trip? I’m jealous since brother has money and can fly too …… Don’t tell me, you’re going Makina-chan? I want to go on the trip too!”

“Ah, don’t move. Anyway, how’s your skill, are you used to it now?”

Aina, who is now five years old, was also able to receive a skill. The skill is, surprisingly, [Summoning].

What the hell? Is what you might be thinking, but apparently it can summon anything that Aina has made a contract with.

The interesting thing is that it can be done with a “contract” for living things and a “marking” for tools. It seems that summoning is a rare skill, but it’s not that there aren’t people who have it, and it’s similar to brother’s [Charisma].

That’s good, but when it comes to summoning, in games, summoning magic calls monsters and mystical beasts, but Aina manages to summon inorganic substances as well. For example, if you forget your hat on a hot day, you can bring it back to your hand by marking it.

…… because this can be “seen”, I secretly learned it, though …….

“Yeah! I did the “contract”? with chicken and chick, so I’ve been practicing it sometimes! I do it a little farther away from them, because they’d be surprised if I did it suddenly!”

“Yeah, those two birds might be just right. What about Sarge?”

“I’ve been working with Saju! But I don’t do it often because I get tired when I call Sarge.”

I see, since it uses magic, its size may limit what it can do. Well, that’s how my little sister is growing up.

When I entered the dining room with Aina on my back while talking about that, everyone was already there. 　

“Good morning.”

“Good morning, Lars.”

“Good morning, Lars-kun, Aina-chan.”

“Well, then, please.”

Mom signaled the maids to start preparing breakfast, and I sat Aina down in a chair, and then I sat down, and Sarge, who was sitting in a tall, custom-made chair, spoke up.

“She said that if anyone can come, she’ll come to see you off. I met her at a wedding, but that’s about it. I’m thankful.”

“Muu-, so you’re really going out with Makina-chan! I’m coming too!”

Aina became angry as she stabbed a sausage with her fork. It seems that she’s making an enemy of my girlfriend, Makina. However, Makina is good at making a troubled face and softly rebuffing me, so we’re not on bad terms.

Then my mom blinks and says to me.

“Oh, you haven’t told Aina yet? Aina, Lars-oniichan is going to the royal capital today.”

“Capital? So he won’t be back for about seven days?”

When she was squirming my sausage with a puzzled look on her face, my dad opened his mouth.

“Hmm, so you’ve learned to count to seven days, that’s great, Aina.”

“Ehehe.”

Aina smiles at Dad’s praise, but the next moment her smile freezes.

“Lars is going to work in the royal capital. That’s why, I don’t know when he’ll be back. Well, we can go to the capital if we want to, and I’m sure he’ll be back from time to time, right? “

“That’s the plan …… Aina?”

Aina, who was pouting with a sausage sticking out of her mouth, finally understood the part about “I don’t know when he’ll be back” and let out a sound like a scream.

“Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh!?”

–Aina quickly left the dining room with her breakfast intact, and we quickly flattened it and went outside. I had decided to see my brothers off to the front of the house.

As I said before, it wasn’t like we were going to say goodbye for the rest of our lives, so I suggested that the front door would suffice.

“Be careful. If a stranger calls out to you, be suspicious first, okay? You’re rich now, after all.”

“Mom …… I’m not that much of a kid ……”

“Hahaha, you’ve only been to Luitzar aside from this town, right? This town is relatively peaceful, but it’s not impossible that something like a kidnapping could happen, although it’s a bitter story. Other towns and territories have a different aspect to them. That’s what your Mom is worried about.”

I nodded, wondering if that was indeed the case.

“See you! We’ll always be waiting for you.”

“It may …… not be hard for Lars, but remember that you can come back when it is.”

“Of course. Maybe I’ll be my uncle at that time then.”

“G-God …… Lars-kun you pervert ……! I’ll tell Makina-chan, you know!”

“Oops, that’s not good. I’m off then.”

I raised one hand and smiled, and right after that, the front door was opened and Aina was standing there, out of breath.

“What’s wrong, Aina? It’s not your favorite bag and clothes. I don’t really understand the hat …… and the bug net, but ……”

My Mom told Aina, and then she dashed towards me and hugged me.

“I’m going to royal capital too! I don’t want it that you’ll never come home again!”

“No, it’s not that I’m not coming back?”

“No! I want to be with Lars-niichan!”

Sarge said this even though he knew what was going on. I had a plan to leave without saying a word, but since there was a possibility that she might get violent later, I decided to make a play to rebuke her. By the way, I don’t know what to do with [Summon], so I decided that this timing was the best.

“Aina, I love this town, and I love you too. But there are some things I can only do now. Going to the royal capital is one of them. I don’t know if you understand it yet, but I’m going there for what I have to do.”

I squatted down and patted Aina’s head, and she clung to me and began to cry loudly.

“Don’t go! I’m coming too! Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh! Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!”

It’s just as I expected, Aina, who loves me, cried and cried. But I can’t take her with me, and this is the only place where she can get away from me.

“Aina has Dad, Mom, Brother, Nora, and Sarge, right? I’ll be back once in a while, so I want you to wait for me with the others. Aina is still a little girl and might be put in danger. So if you follow me, my brother will be worried.”

After patting her head a few times, Aina, who had finally calmed down, looked up at me and sniffed.

“Uhh …… Sniff…… Brother will be troubled?”

“…… Yeah. But it would be worse if something happened to Aina, I think? Okay, that’s why I want you to let me go.”

“Auuu ……”

When Aina still wouldn’t take her hands off my clothes, my dad came up behind her, put his hands on her shoulders, and smiled as he said.

“Look, if you do that, Lars-niichan won’t be able to leave, right? Your brother might come to hate you, you know?”

“!”

At my dad’s words, she quickly pulled away from me and took her in his arms. She looked at me with red eyes and tears welled up in her eyes again. Then Sarge flew in and took Aina’s hand.

“Sarge …… okay ……”

Aina nodded in agreement with her other brother, Sarge’s advice.

“Come back home, okay?”

“It’s obvious, isn’t it? I can’t do anything about it, but I’m going home to show Aina that I’m fine. So study hard and wait for me, okay? When you grow up, you might be able to go together with me. Look, you’ve ruined your pretty face.”

“……! Yes! I’ll do my best! I’ll ask Tilia-chan’s father and mother!”

I wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, and she smiled and turned into a face full of motivation. She was crying a lot just now, though.

–With this, the things in the house are okay now. This time I take a step back, put my hand on my bag and raise one hand.

“I’m off then!”

“Have a good day! You should at least send a letter!”

“Be careful. Well, ‘m sure Lars will be fine, though …… Make sure you protect Makina-chan.”

“I’ll take care of Aina.”

“I’ll make sure she doesn’t get lonely.”

I smiled and turned on my heel to leave the premises. At the end of the day, Sarge gave me a gentle shout on my back.

“…… Yeah, definitely.”

I clapped my hands over my slightly tearful face as I headed for the gates of the town where Makina was waiting for me.

Aina, I’m sobbing!

Or rather, I’m more concerned about the skill, but I’ll leave it here for now.

Thank you for reading!

[Afterword Theater]

“Aina is so cute. That’s why it’s so popular on other sites.”

Don’t say “other sites” ……

“Isn’t it precious to think that I and Soleil had a time like that too! Worship us!”

No, how were you born in the first place? …… from eggs?

“What am I, a reptile!?”