But Renji-san threw away his title as a hero, threw away the famous sword given to him by the king, and is living only with Ermenhilde in his hands. And that’s really splendid.
We hold the title of heroes. Renji-san continues to go around saving people. I feel that it’s very like him to do that. He might say other things but in the end he’ll always help. That’s how Renji-san is like.
Between us and such a Renji-san, which one is the actual [hero]……i wonder.
“Aya-chan, you’re always thinking of difficult things……”
“I wonder?”
“I’m just satisfied with the reason, ‘Renji-oniisan is amazing’.”
“……well, that’s mostly what I think as well though.”
But I want to explain that in more better words.
You’d think that way right? For the person you hold precious after all.
“Now then, let’s go shall we?”(aya)
“Already? Isn’t it still early?”(yayoi)
“I don’t want to make them wait.”
“Aya-chan, you’re the type who’d devote yourself to the man you like, aren’t you?”
“I wonder?’
I understand what Yayoi means to say but am I really like that……who knows?
I don’t.
I don’t really care about that either.
“That or the type that’d lead men around by a rope.”(yayoi)
“…….isn’t that completely opposite of what you said before?”(aya)
“Well, even I don’t know which is the real Aya-chan.”
Is that so? She laughed loudly.
Really, she puts up such a facade in front of others.
Even though she’s like this in front of us, in front of the others in class, she’s like a young noble lady who only speaks in polite speech.
“If you laugh like that, the number of fans of the [Saint] would decrease you know?”(aya)
“I don’t really care. I only heal those who are injured or wounded. It’d be tiresome if they made a sculpture or an idol out of me.”
“I agree on that. It’s really tiresome if you’d don’t have people with whom you can talk openly by your side.”
“Aya-chan has it easy. You have brother in your class. For me, my class is…..”
After that we talked about classes for some time then rememberred about Renji-san and finally left.
I made a final check at the mirror. Sprinkling a perfume slightly I checked the light scent. This isn’t indecent right?
When I asked that, Yayoi made a fed up face.
“It’d be nice if we can hear a lot from Renji-san.”(aya)
“Yeah.”
Just like before, we’d talk a lot with him.
Just like how we talked in front of that campfire. About me, about Renji-san, about the school, about his journey.
If we talk…..i wonder if I’ll get a bit more closer to him.
But—-
“I want to talk a lot.”
That person is definitely worried about today, I think.
4 deceased.
We heard of that as well.
We fought with monsters. Victims will emerge. When fighting against the demon god, we had seen many more people die. Tens, hundreds of people had died.
I don’t think we’ve grown numb to it. It’s a fact that our hearts ached at those numbers. But, if you get trapped in just that, the next to die would be you yourself. Our body and our mind understands that. Even if there are deaths, we’ll face forward. We have no choice but to do so. So that we don’t die.
But Renji-san is definitely lamenting over it, I think. Just like that time in front of the campfire. He must be looking downwards.
Because that man wished to protect. But doesn’t has the power to do so.
That’s why, I must tell him.
What he protected today.
What he protected again.
Thank you very much.
Though you couldn’t protect those 4, you protected a lot more.