141 ギレンを思い、泣きました
身体がゆっくりと大気に透けていく。これから霞に変わるのだ......とボンヤリと思う。
この後に及んで脳裏に浮かぶのはギレン。一番の心残りってとこ?
しょうがないよ、『時戻し』されて記憶が消えて、ひとりぼっちに戻るのは結局のところギレンだけだもの。
私がこれからずっとギレンのそばで過ごすと知ったら、ルーは何と言うだろう。もれなく天敵アスもそばにいるから怒るかな?それとも付いてきてくれるかな?でも風になった私にはケーキを作れないわけで......私の魅力半減かも。
ギレンはその生い立ちゆえに上下関係でない人付き合いが苦手。だからすっごく傲慢な態度を取る。でも本当に傲慢だったことなどない。いつも私の意見を尊重してくれる。もっと言えば、私との距離感を計りながらおっかなビックリ接しているところがある。心配しなくても私はどんなギレンも好きなのに。そういうところがかわいいとも思う。アラサー転生の余裕だね。
私のケーキを食べたとき、ホッとした顔して、苦手なのに小さく微笑んでありがとうって言う。〈幸せ〉に臆病なギレンと私、ルーとアスを加えた私達には細切れの時間しかなかったけれど、一つ一つ大切で、かえがえのない瞬間だった。
ガレにいた時にリグイドからギレンの生い立ちを聞き出した。『野ばキミ』になかった、前世の私も知らなかったギレンの半生。
たゆたいながら思い返した。
ギレンは臨月の第三側妃である母親ごと刃物で刺殺されようとしたときに生まれた。犯人は既に皇子を生んだ第二側妃の手の者。母は死に、赤子のギレンは血濡れて生き残った。
守ってくれるべき母がおらず、乳母が死なない程度に乳だけを飲ませにくる毎日。権力から外れたとみなされ無視され虐げられ続けた幼年期。
やがて魔力検査により、今史最大級の魔力持ちと判明すると、ギレンにその地位を奪われることを恐れ、父皇帝自らギレンを葬ろうと暗殺者を差し向ける。
ギレンの瞳は凍る。危険を肌で感じたゆえに独学で反撃バリアの魔法を編み出し、常に身に纏う。すると行動範囲を広げることができ、書庫に出向き、系統立てて魔法を学び、アスの存在を知る。
ガレの霊鳥アスを〈使役〉させたのはおそらく7、8歳。そのあとはアスに魔法を師事し、武術の戦闘訓練をする。アスを使役したと知った皇帝は怯え、ひとまず様子見に態度を変え、自国の魔法学校に通わせた。
友人のフリをして近づく人間が食事に毒を盛るなど日常茶飯事。裏には皇帝の座を争う兄弟がいる。学校での攻撃は子供相手に大した反撃はできないと高を括られ、エスカレートする。腕に切り傷を負った時、グルリと周囲を見渡し学校中に火の矢を降らせ、教師も生徒も這々の体で怪我をしながら逃げ出した。
そのような苛烈な対処をしても、金で買われた哀れな襲撃者がとぎれることはなかった。
そうこうしているうちにガレではこれ以上学ぶ魔法はないという理由で、ジュドールの魔法学院に留学となる。目障りゆえに一旦国を追い出されたのだ。
そこでギレンは私と出会う。同じく聖獣を引き連れた、対等な私と。
初めから愛があったとは思わない。興味本位のところもあっただろう。けれどひたむきに私を必要としてくれた。
「留学から戻られた陛下は変わっておられました。何事も無関心で、自分を襲うものを容赦なく返り討ちにしているだけでしたが......皇帝を取りにいく明確な意思をもって帰ってこられた。てっきり死なぬための攻勢に出たのだと思っておりましたら......時折、アス様と口元を綻ばせて過ごされる様子を見ておや?と思いました」
リグイドが当時を思い出し、懐かしそうに語っていた。
兄弟を蹴散らし、敵対する派閥を潰し、徐々に影響力を増していく中、弟である第5皇子に寝込みを襲われ死にかける。
「ロミオ殿下は可愛らしく、魔力はさほどでもなく、陛下はそばに侍ることを許しておいででした。しかしやはり敵だった。私はもう陛下が表情を動かす姿など見ることはないと諦めました」
そして憂いを全て排除し皇帝となる。
「我々はいよいよ恐怖政治が始まると覚悟しました。これまでの陛下への仕打ち、皆後ろ暗いところがありますゆえに。しかし陛下はそういった臣下に全くの無関心で、何よりも熱心に姫を迎える準備を始められた。皇帝になったことすら、姫をつつがなく過ごさせるための手段でしかなかったのではないか?と思うほどに」
リグイドはニヤリと笑った。
「私は正直なところ皇帝は強くさえあればいいという思想です。どの国よりも強いことこそ肝心。しかし、時折陛下と姫が睦まじくじゃれあわれているのを見て......たまにでも微笑む陛下であるほうが、民は幸せかもしれないと思うのです」
「姫の登場以来、バタバタと規律はすこぶる乱れておりますが......私はこの一年、面白くて仕方がない。姫を見守り、驚き眼を見張り困った表情を浮かべる陛下は......非常に人間らしく美しい。こんなガレも......アリだなと......ふふふ。まあ、お二人がとんでもない強さだからこそ、私も許せるのですがね」
「姫よ、どうか、御身を大切になさいませ。姫に何かあれば陛下はゆっくりと壊れましょう。姫は陛下にとってようやく手に入れた唯一無二の憧れであり宝。その喜びを知ってしまった今、それを失った時の絶望は......計り知れない」
前世も今世も過酷な運命を辿ったギレン。次の世は、私が、最初から、アスが見つけるよりも早く、あなたを包んで温めてあげるから。今度は私が......愛するギレンの居場所になるの。うん、頑張ろう......。
いよいよ三柱の神がぼやけ、五感が鈍り、とうとう意識も朦朧としてきた。目を閉じて、覚悟する......。
なのに突如ガクンと身体に衝撃が走った!
身体がせっかく粒子となりパラパラ離れていくところだったのに、また集合して実体に戻っていく。どこか身近に感じられる魔力が私にどんどん流れ込む。再び身体が私の意思で自由に動かせるようになり、足が床につく。魔力の元を辿ると......天から注がれていた。
「『『『............』』』」
わからん。
「えーと、なんなの?これ誰の魔力だっけ?」
マガン様も上を見上げている。
『わからぬのか?セレ、お前の魔力ぞ』
私の?私、ここにいるのになんで?私魔力放出してないよ?
呪い
のようだな』
『何を言っている?セレフィオーネ、お前の呪いだろう?』
マガン様が不思議そうに問いかける。
「わ、私呪いなんて、かけたこと、ありません!っていうかかけられません!」
キラマ様がふむ、といって眼を閉じた。ミユたんの上司だけに呪いには詳しい感じ。
『そうか......これは随分と昔、そなたが童のころ、星の流れる夜にかけた呪いのようだ』
......え?それってあの、ギレンとの待ち合わせの美しい夜の?
「おまじないのこと?」
キラマ様が眉を寄せる。
も元は同じだ。人を陥れるためか、人を手助けするためか、用途の違いのみ』
ホントだ......字が同じ......。
私とマリベルは『オートパイロット』を除けば同じ能力だったんだ。
『まあ、セレフィオーネは人を貶める呪いなど、思いもよらぬだろうがな』
マガン様が苦笑した。
私は、自分のかけた呪いに連れ戻されてるってこと?
『......10年も前にかけた呪い、とな......我の奥義である『時戻し』をも打ち消すとは......マリベルといいそなたといい転生者の呪いとは恐ろしいものだ』
表情などわからないけれど、女神様、呆れてるみたい......。
「め、女神様!!!」
まさか私が神の決定を覆したことになるの?私は女神様の前に慌てて跪き頭を下げる。
『......過去に既に発動され完成された呪い、もはや我にもどうにもできぬ。自分のかけた『おまじない』、黙って従うがよかろう』
女神様は肩をすくめた......気がした。そして一歩前に出て、私の頭を鼻先でつつく。頭を起こし女神を見上げると、女神が大きく口を開けガブリと私の頭を噛んだ!
「うわあっ!!!」
私の目の前に輝く金の輪が出来て、スーッと縮み、私の頭の今出来た噛み跡にぐるりと吸い込まれて、消えた。何!?︎お仕置き!?︎
女神が目を細め、微笑んだ。
キラマ様、マガン様、そのどよめき、説明してくださいますか???
天空からの私?の魔力がいよいよ強力になり、全身が上に向け引っ張られる!
「わわっ!」
足が浮いたと思ったら逆さに宙吊りになり、慌てて眼下の神々に両手を伸ばす。
『セレフィオーネ、また会う日まで、達者でな』
「キラマ様!」
『セレフィオーネ、ルーダに......励め、と』
「マガン様!」
三柱とレモン色の世界が急激に遠ざかる。私の意識もプツリと切れた。
......鼻から吸う埃っぽい空気の匂いでうつし世に戻ったことを知る。
ズーンと身体が重く感じる。だるい。首の下でお兄様の強力な魔法が展開してる。お兄様が剣を抜いてくれたみたい。
そしてお父様の私のためだけに身につけた渾身の治癒魔法と、アスの魔力がグルグルと体内を移動してる。
身体の外は......もはや馴染みの過保護なコーヒーの香の、しなやかな体がすっぽりと包み込んでくれている。
意識を集中させて......なんとか瞳を開けると、初めて見る泣き濡れたギレンの顔がすぐ鼻先にあった。
私の顔にポタポタとギレンの瞳のようなアイスブルーの涙が落ちる。力を振り絞ってそっと手を持ち上げて、ギレンの頰を拭う。か細くはあるけれどなんとか言葉を紡ぐ。
「あの夜......星に......何を願ったの?」
ギレンも親指で私の涙を拭う。低い、切ない響きが耳に届く。
「......願いは今も昔もただ一つ......セレと
ギレンが苦しげに顔を歪める。
「セレさえいれば何も......」
絞り出すようにそうささやくとそっと私に口づけた。
ああ......願いは叶う。だって私はチートだもの。
ますます涙が溢れ出る。横からルーの空色の優しい瞳が視界に入る。ギレンの腕に乗ったモフサイズのルーが私の頰に額を擦り付けそっと私の涙を舐めた。頭を傾けルーの頰に自分の頰を重ねて愛する感触を確かめる。ギレンの胸に壊れ物のごとく慎重に抱きすくめられ、安心して目を閉じる。
月が高く昇り、あたりは柔らかな光で満ちた。
141 141 I Cried Thinking About Gillen
The body slowly penetrates into the atmosphere. From now on, it will change to haze.
After that, Gillen comes to mind. What's the best part of your heart?
It can't be helped, it's only Gillen that is "timed back" and his memory disappears and he returns alone.
What would Lou say if I knew I would stay near Gillen from now on? Would you be angry because the natural enemy As is also nearby? Or will you follow me? But I can't make cakes because I became windy ... maybe my charm is halved.
Gillen is not good at socializing because of his background. So take a very arrogant attitude. But I have never really been arrogant. Always respect my opinion. Furthermore, there are places where I am surprised while measuring the distance from me. Even if I don't worry, I like any Gilen. I think that kind of place is cute. You can afford Araser reincarnation.
When I ate my cake, she was relieved and smiled small and thanked. Adding humble cowardly Gillen and me, Lou and As, to Happiness, we had only a small amount of time, but each one was an important and irreplaceable moment.
When I was in Galle, I heard about Gilen's upbringing from Liguid. Gillen's half-life, which I didn't even know in Noba Kimi.
I thought back as I was.
Gillen was born when his mother, the third side of her third month, was about to be stabbed with a knife. The culprit was the hand of the second princess who had already produced the prince. Her mother died, and her baby, Gillen, survived with blood.
There are no mothers to protect, and every day they only feed milk to the extent that the nanny does not die. A childhood who was deemed out of power and continued to be ignored and oppressed.
Soon after a magic test reveals that he is one of the greatest magical powers in history, he fears that his position will be stolen by Gillen, and he will send an assassin to his father to bury him.
Gillen's eyes freeze. Because he felt the danger on his skin, he created the magic of a counterattack barrier by himself and always wore it. You can expand your range of action, go to the library, learn systematically magic, and learn about the presence of ass.
It is probably 7 or 8 years old that made Galle's aviator Asus . After that, he studied magic with Asu and practiced martial arts combat. When the emperor knew that he had used Asus, he was frightened, changed his attitude to watch, and sent him to his own magic school.
People who pretend to be friends are poisoning their meals, and they are doing everyday things. There is a brother behind the emperor's seat. Attacks at school are escalated because they are unable to fight back against children. When his arm was cut, he looked around Gururi and fired an arrow of fire throughout the school, and both the teacher and the student escaped with injuries with a crawling body.
Even with such fierce coping, the poor assailants bought by gold were not interrupted.
In the meantime, Galle goes to study at Magic School in Judor, because there is no more magic to learn. He was forced out of the country because of his eyes.
There he meets me. With an equal me who also brought the sacred beast.
I don't think there was love from the beginning. There may have been places of interest. But he needed me in earnest.
"After returning from studying abroad, His Majesty was unusual. He was indifferent and just relentlessly reprimanded anything that attacked him ... but returned with a clear will to get the Emperor. If you thought that you were on the offensive to not die, I thought you would occasionally see him spending his lips with As-sama. "
Liguid remembered the time and spoke nostalgia.
He kicks his brother, crushes opposing factions, and gradually increases his influence.
"Romeo was pretty, not very magical, and His Majesty allowed her to be with him, but he was also an enemy. I gave up on seeing His Majesty moving anymore."
And eliminate all his worries and become an emperor.
"We are ready for the fear politics to begin. Because of our past service to His Majesty, everybody is in the dark. I suppose that even being an emperor was just a way to make the princess live without messing around. "
Reguido smiled grinningly.
"I honestly believe that the emperor only needs to be strong. It is important to be stronger than any other nation. However, occasionally seeing her majesty and her princess being afflicted ... I think the people may be more happy. ''
"Since the appearance of the princess, the flapping and discipline have been extremely disturbed, but ... I've been so funny for the past year. My Majesty, who oversees the princess, looks at her with surprised eyes and has a troubled expression ... Beautiful. This kind of garbage is like an ant .... fufufu. Well, I can forgive me because of their tremendous strength. "
"Princess, please cherish yourself. If there is something in the princess, let her break slowly. The princess is the one and only longing and treasure that she has finally obtained. Now, the despair of losing it ... is incalculable. "
Gillen followed a severe fate both in the past and this world. In the next world, from the beginning, I will wrap and warm you earlier than Asus finds. This time it's my place for my beloved Gillen. Yeah, let's do our best ...
Finally, the three pillars of the gods were blurred, the senses became dull, and the consciousness was finally blurred. Close your eyes and be ready ...
But suddenly the shock ran into my body!
Even though the body had become particles and it was about to leave, it gathered and returned to the entity. The magic that can be felt somewhere flows into me steadily. Once again my body is free to move at my will and my feet are on the floor. When you trace the source of the magic, it was poured from heaven.
"['[.........]]'"
I do not understand.
"Well, what is this? Whose magic is it?"
Magan is also looking up.
"I don't know? Sele, your magic!
my? Why am I here? I'm not releasing my magic?
curse? Curse the Maribel
"It's like a curse"
"What are you saying? Selefione, your curse?
Magan asks a strange question.
"I have never cursed me! I can't say!"
She closed her eyes, saying that Kirama-sama hurt. It feels familiar to Curse only for Miyutan's boss.
"I see ... this is a long time ago, like a curse on a starry night when you were a child."
......e? Is that a beautiful night meeting with Gillen?
"Are you crazy?"
Kirama raises her eyebrows.
"Serfione, the curse and the curse are the same. Whether it's for trapping people or helping people, only for different purposes "
It's really ... the letters are the same ...
I and Maribel were the same abilities except for Autopilot.
"Well, Selfione is unlikely to curse a depressing person."
Magan smiled bitterly.
Am I being taken back by my curse?
"... the curse that I put on 10 years ago, ... Is it even to cancel my mystery," Return of Time "... The curse of Maribel, the good you, and the reincarnate is terrible."
I don't know his expression, but the goddess looks stunned ...
"Me, Goddess !!"
Did I upset God's decision? I kneel down and bow down in front of the goddess.
"... A curse that has already been activated and completed in the past, I can no longer do anything. "I don't want you to follow me silently,"
The goddess shrugged. Then go one step back and nail my head with my nose. He lifted his head and looked up at the goddess, opening her mouth wide and biting Gabri and my head!
"Wow !!!!"
A shining gold ring was formed in front of me, shrunk quickly, and was sucked into the bite marks of my head, which disappeared. What? Punishment?
The goddess squinted and smiled.
Kirama-sama, Magan-sama, can you please explain that throb? ? ?
Me from the sky? The magical power becomes stronger and the whole body is pulled upward!
"Wow!"
If you think your feet are floating, you will be suspended upside down and reach out to the gods under your eyes in a hurry.
"Selefione, until you meet again, be a master"
"Kirama-sama!"
"Selefione, Ruda ... Encouragement"
"Maghan!"
The three pillars and the lemon-colored world suddenly move away. My consciousness was cut off.
...... I know that I have returned to the world with the smell of dusty air from my nose.
The zune and the body feel heavy. Lazy. Powerful magic of your brother is developing under your neck. It looks like your older brother drew a sword.
And the whole healing magic that I wore only for my father and the magic of the ass are moving around the body.
Outside the body ... the supple body of the familiar overprotective coffee scent wraps around perfectly.
I concentrated my consciousness ... When I managed to open my eyes, I saw the face of Giren, who was crying for the first time and was on my nose.
Ice blue tears, like the eyes of Potapota and Gillen, fall on my face. Gently lift your hands with a squeezing force and wipe Gillen's . I'm spinning words though it is thin.
"That night ... to the stars ... what did you want?"
Gillen wipes my tears with his thumb. A low, painful sound reaches your ears.
"... I have one wish, now and in the past ...... I want to go to () and go to ()... (...)
Gillen distorts her face painfully.
"If you have a cellar, nothing ..."
I whispered softly as I squeezed out and kissed me.
Oh ... my wish comes true. Because I'm a cheat.
Tears overflow more and more. Lou's light blue pupil enters the field of view from the side. Moff-sized Lou on Gillen's arm rubbed his forehead against my face and gently licked my tears. Tilt your head and overlay your face on Lou's face to see the feeling of love. She is shrugged carefully on the chest of Gilen like a broken object, and closes her eyes with confidence.
The moon rose high and the area was filled with soft light.
The Reincarnated Young Lady Aims to Be an Adventurer
転生令嬢は冒険者を志す
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Action Adventure Fantasy Romance School Life Shoujo
Adapted to Manga Beast Companions Beautiful Female Lead Child Protagonist Cute Story Doting Older Siblings Doting Parents Female Protagonist Guilds Magic Magic Beasts Monster Tamer Multiple POV Multiple Reincarnated Individuals Ninjas Nobles Older Love Interests Reincarnated in Another World Reincarnation Royalty Sister Complex Strong to Stronger Sword And Magic Sword Wielder Transmigration Villainess Noble Girls
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小田 ヒロ