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-I wanted to live, but only because it was with you.
Lianna awoke with resentful words.
Lianna also returned to her homeland, the Kingdom of Dragoire, and many people were pleased to see her return.
But the joy was only for a few days.
The place was a training ground.
Lianna, swinging her greatsword, looked around her. She asked the soldiers in the castle who were proud of their skills
“….Next, do I have anyone to fight with?”
“…..I-I can’t, Lianna sama.”
Lianna was… feared. Just like when she left the Kingdom as a hero, Lianna was feared even more than that time.
The soldiers in this castle were already outmatched by the power that she originally possessed as a dragoneut, as well as the high level of combat ability that she had gained from her experience as a hero
Even so, Lianna’s lips were tightly knit as she asked
“Whoever it is, I don’t care. I want to …… fight.”
“….. please don’t say that, Lianna-sama. There is no one in this country that can compare to you,……. It’s impossible for anyone but the heroes to do so,…….”
“……”
Lianna knew that too. In the past, she used to get discouraged because she didn’t have anyone to deal with, but now she’s grown up enough to understand that she was making unreasonable demands.
“I don’t care who ……still. I want my next partner.”
Still, Lianna wanted to keep her body moving. Since her return to the kingdom, Lianna has continued to move her body every day in her spare time.
If she didn’t do that, she would think about all the things she didn’t want to think about.
After forcing the soldiers to participate in training, Lianna received a call from her father, the king.
He had been forcing her to train recently. With a slight warning about this, a proposal was made.
“…… Lianna. I know you are sad that your guiding hand is dead. But we have to move on.”
“…..I know that.”
Even Lianna thought that she shouldn’t stay depressed forever. Even the letter from Shuji had said something along those lines.
Seeing that Lianna nodded, the king slowly opened his mouth.
“I’ve received an offer…… for a marriage proposal. Why don’t you come and see each other at least once?”
“……”
“….There are many men in the world. I’m sure there are more attractive men out there—“
“……”
Lianna stared at the king, and he lifted his shoulders with a start.
Because Shuji remained deep in “ianna’s heart.
However, she thought that she couldn’t leave it like that.
She had to move on, and move on, and move on—
“…… got it.”
“R-really? Then they are going to come tomorrow! The other party is from a neighboring country–”
Then, the king was happily talking about the profile of the other party, but Lianna didn’t remember it very well.
She was not particularly interested in it.
The next day. Dressed in a dress she had rarely worn, Lianna met the man.
“It is a pleasure to meet you, Lianna-sama. My name is Aresd Blukert of the Marquise Blukert.”
Aresd, who smiled along with his smile, was a man of good looks. He was a perfect man in terms of family background, personality, and appearance, elements that many people in the world would be looking for, but Lianna listened to his self-introduction with her usual unchanged expression.
Lianna stared at him, then held out her hand.
“You came here to marry me”
“…… Eh? Y-yes, of course.”
“Then I want you to hold my hand.”
“……eh?”
The moment Lianna quickly held out her hand, Aresd jumped up on his shoulders with a start.
Rumors of Lianna’s power and strength have been flying around the various countries.
There were amusing tales of her cracking the ground with her fists, of her collapsing cities just by walking, and of her destroying houses in the blink of an eye.
Lianna listened to Aresd’s stories and looked him in the eye the whole time. He always looked frightened of Lianna and did not look at her at all.
That was why Lianna made that suggestion, but Aresd shook his head.
“I’m sorry …… that, that …… is impossible.”
“Well, then, we’re done.
I’m going …… home.”
“L-Lianna sama!”
Lianna immediately broke off and left the room. The subordinates called for Lianna, Lianna turned to look at them.
Once she blinked, a great wind was created and pushed the servant away.
No one followed her any further as she glared at them intimidatingly, and Lianna went to her room.
“….. about me, the only one who held my hand without a care in the world was Shuji.”
Lianna remembered that day when Shuji was summoned.
“I don’t know …… well, but I’m a hero’s guiding hand. Pleased to meet you.”
Shuji held out his hand to her in a somewhat sulky manner.
At the time, Lianna was still unable to control her power well, and no one wanted to approach her. But Shuji didn’t care about anything and held out his hand to her.
She was happy to know that this was her guiding hand, and held out her hand.
And then..,
“Huh? Didn’t I just hear a great sound?”
“…… hand.”
“My wrist, it’s going in a weird direction! this is going to hurt a little?! How come !? Heroes hand!”
“…… linked”
“Wow, this is really crazy! Can’t we treat this? ?!”
“…… my first.”
“Are you listening to me? Heyy!! Why do you look so impressed!?”
“I’m …… happy.”
“Oh! Don’t hug me! Spine! You’ve broken everything!”
That was the first meeting between Lianna and Shuji.
From then on, Shuji treated Lianna normally.
They held hands and sometimes hugged, but Shuji never really disliked it.
“There is no one like …… Shuji who treats me without being frightened of me. There is no …… one anymore. No, even if they are there,…… Shuji will never …… disappear from my mind.”
Even as she is doing this now, time is passing.
–If we could come back together and live.
–I introduced Shuji to my father as my marriage partner. But maybe Leticia and Ferris will get angry.
Maybe there was a future where she would take him like that.
Imagining a future that would be erased and never visited anymore, Lianna wept.
Shuji’s face came to mind again and again, and then disappeared. The volume of her tears increased as she became aware of the early days of their journey, the detailed interactions that she could not clearly recall.
As time goes by, she wonders if these memories will fade away and be forgotten.
“I don’t want to …… forget.”
With this in mind, Lianna immediately spoke to her father.
There were various offers of marriage and arranged marriages, but Lianna rejected them all and quickly ran away from the castle.
“I was selfish, Shuji was first. …… I won’t move forward. … It’s in the past, in my memories, and I’ll continue to live in it.”
Lianna complained to Shuji and began her journey.
“–I’m going to imprint on this body all the memories of my journey with Shuji. All the conversations I had with him, all the places I went with him, all the places he touched me ……, all of it. I will travel again and re-engrave …… everything about him in all of this body. That way, we’ll always be …… together, right?”
Lianna hugged herself tightly, her body shaking.
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The Dragon One is actually the most sane out of all of them. Genuinely surprised.