Arifureta Shokugyou de Sekai Saikyou (WN)

She had never laugh like this since the chain of incidents was starting.

Surely tomorrow would be the day where everything was settled. Nervousness, uneasiness, and pain that was the truth inside her heart. Actually, it was something that she was vaguely aware of. It was something she desperately averted her eyes from. The result was that all those were thrust before Emily now.

――If I am alone, could I endure it?

Thinking that, Emily shook her head inside her heart.

――Could I come this far, only with me and Vanessa?

As expected, she shook her head in her heart.

――In this time that is cruel, uneasy, painful, and difficult, even so would I be able to laugh just like this?

There was no way she would be able.

Emily glanced at the sullen Kousuke beside her, and then she smiled softly while wiping the tear gathering at the corner of her eye with her finger.

「Kousuke, thank you.」

「It’s still too fast for you to say that. Say it after everything is over tomorrow.」

Kousuke’s words were blunt and slightly filled with sulkiness that hadn’t disappeared. But, for Emily, those words felt ticklish somehow.

Emily stared fixedly at the side profile of Kousuke who was looking at far away with his chin resting on his hand. Kousuke seemed to notice her gaze and he looked slightly uncomfortable.

Emily was thinking ‘my body will get chilly soon’ while she resolutely made a request to Kousuke.

「Say, Kousuke.」

「Hm?」

「You see, tomorrow, when everything is over……I want Kousuke, to tell me about yourself.」

「About myself?」

Kousuke raised his eyebrow and turned his gaze toward Emily. Emily nodded to his gaze while her cheeks reddened slightly.

「Yes. Like, how come you are able to use that kind of mysterious power. Like, just what are the returnees. Those kind of things, various things about Kousuke.」

「……」

「Uh. I, I understand that it’s a secret matter you know? But, I absolutely will protect the secret. I’m serious, okay? Besides, next time something happen, perhaps I will be able to become Kousuke’s strength then, besides, err, besides……」

Seeing Kousuke who spontaneously fell silent, Emily added on her words with a little bit of fluster.

For Kousuke, he didn’t have any particular problem teaching her about the returnees. In the first place, they had honestly talked to the media, that they had been fighting the army of an evil god at another world. It depended on the other party whether they would believe it or not.

Emily had witnessed Kousuke’s power, so naturally she would believe and accept it. Therefore, it wasn’t anything that particularly needed to be hidden from her.

As expected, if it was known by the whole higher-ups of the government, it would cause hindrance to their private life and it would be putting the cart before the horse, so in that case, a large scale countermeasure like pulling out the brainwashing technique of the demon king (especially his wife) would be necessary, but doing something like telling individual like Emily, or Chief Magdanese who knew about the scariness of the returnees like Kousuke and wouldn’t easily act against them, there wouldn’t be any problem.

Then, if it was asked the reason why Kousuke was falling silent, that was of course because he was told something like「I want to know more about you!」by a beautiful girl. While that girl’s cheeks were reddening.

Sure enough, for someone with a lover, it wasn’t good for him to step further than this. He was deeply lamenting of why he didn’t immediately tell her about the existence of his lover. Thinking back, he wouldn’t be lying if he said that there was no timing to tell the truth. But, as expected it would be bad if he told the truth now. If asked what would be bad, of course it was about the possibility that Emily’s mind would turn into ash.

Kousuke instantly ended the mini Kousuke meeting inside his heart, and then he replied toward Emily who was still speaking in fluster.

「No, I don’t mind, doing just that――」

「Really!?」

「O, ou」

Emily’s body leaned forward from the veranda, with her sparkling gaze capturing Kousuke. Kousuke was thinking that if Emily wanted to know about himself, then he would inform her about how he had a lover at that time, but……

Seeing Emily whose whole body was radiating「I’m, happy!」, the mini Kousuke inside his heart was rolling around from guilt and various other emotions.

Emily noticed how because she was leaning forward, her distance with Kousuke was so close they were almost touching. She became flustered from shyness while pulling back her body.