38 Episode 37: Stay Together

Me back home from Ninolich.

At the Buddha's altar, Ba-chan is double-pieced with a smile that makes her laugh.

Decorating both sides of the remains are flowers that Aina has picked.

Eina picked flowers every day even when she started working in my shop, and she gave them to me.

"Bye, you've been telling me, haven't you? If anyone's in trouble, help them."

The first time I was told was when I was just a kindergartner.

Ba-chan used to say this every time.

'Sergeant, if anyone is in trouble where they can reach you, help and snack as much as you can. Then one day, when the samurai are in trouble, the people who have been helping them will help them.'

At the time, when I was a kindergartner, I learned the proverb "pity is not for people" long after that.

"If you look at me - honey. I'm going to help you now."

There are people in trouble where I can reach them right now.

Besides, I'm not just in trouble.

Those who are in need at the crisis level of their lives without exaggeration.

"Come on, let's do it."

Ninolich has a population of 600.

Of these, about thirty people suffer from vitamin deficiency.

Five percent of the town's population is actually sick. Calculation.

I take out a hundred pieces of silver coins at the beginning of my hand.

"Equivalent Exchange Skill Activated!

Silver coins disappear slowly in front of you, and instead a hundred 10,000 yen bills appear.

I spent a million yen on drug stores to buy all kinds of vitamins.

All purchased vitamins will be stored in space and transported to Ninolich.

Back in Ninolich, I walked out of town handing out vitamins to people living out of town, with the help of town mayors Karen and Aina, as well as Ryer's "Pale Flash".

Secure food after distribution.

I buy vegetables from farmers and meat from hunters and adventurers with the money I've earned so far.

We cooked it out with Aina and the others outside of town after work every day and had a nutritious meal.

And a month passed, and the day finally came.

When I found out Aina lived out of town, it was routine for me to send Aina home after closing the store.

The evening bell rings, closing the store and sending Aina home.

When Aina smiled and opened the door of the house, there was...

"Welcome home, Eina"

Mr. Stella stood.

He stood alone on his own feet, without anyone's support.

I'm still a little flirty, but I'm sure that's because I fell asleep and lost muscle strength.

"Oka-san..."

"Ugh. Look, Aina, Mother, I can already stand. Isn't that amazing?"

Makes Stella smile so well.

By contrast, Aina said...

"Ah, ooh... oh kah... already, get up... ru?

"That's right. I can stand. I think I can even walk. Thanks to Mr. Shiloh for everything."

Aina sneezes and distorts her face, lowering her face.

The little back was trembling.

"... oka-san, are you... feeling better...?

"Yeah. I feel so much better that I'm in trouble."

"So... stay with Aina... will you sleep?

At Aina's feet, the puffiness and the Shizuku fall.

I'm trying to put Aina on her back like that.

Yeah. Right.

This (...) isn't my role.

That's what I thought. I go next to Mr. Stella and I slap her in the ear softly.

"Mr. Stella, please reassure Eina"

"Absolutely."

Mr. Stella whispered back like that and took just a little bit of my hand to Aina's side.

Aina is in tears.

Aina was going to be anxiously squashed the whole time.

The only person who can stop Eina from crying like that is her mother, Stella.

"Aina, let's sleep together every day from now on."

Stella graciously hugged Aina,

"Ahhhh... ohhhhhhhh!!

Aina cried.

As much as I can't imagine from the smart, hard-working Aina I know, that made me cry like a child of my age already.

"I'm sorry to keep you worried. Keep going..."

Ms. Stella also wept in her eyes and continued.

"Let's live together."

I gently close the door and go out alone.

The sunset was very beautiful.

Towards such a sunset,

"If Bha-chan were alive, would you have complimented me?

I shrugged alone.