Maou na Ore to Fushihime no Yubiwa:Volume 2 Epilogue
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Epilogue: Wish to the night sky―
Where is this place…
Having exhausted my internal mana and becoming trashed, I fell into a pleasant slumber.
“My… My wish is…”
Besides me, the yukata-clad Kyouko from elementary school kept writing her wish on a tanzaku with glittering eyes.
This situation, this scene.
They seem vaguely familiar.
It seems like the continuation of the dream from the other time.
“… Finished!!”
Let’s see.
Now that I think of it, last time I woke up before being able to check Kyouko’s wish.
I’m a bit interested in what could have the Kyouko from childhood wished for.
Peeking at the writing on Kyouko’s tanzaku—
Let me become Chiharu-kun’s bride.
That was written in round and cute letters.
Oi, oi. A sudden marriage without going out first?
These elementary schoolers… Their scariness knows no limits.
“Eh.”
Suddenly receiving a reverse proposal, the me back then was left with his mouth agape but,
“… Marrying you? Whatever the circumstances, isn’t that too rushed? We’re still elementary schoolers.”
After a brief silence, she answered me with a quiet voice.
“I-it’s not rushed at all! Kids these days are precocious, something like this is normal!”
“…”
Kids these days are so precocious, either I’m mistaken or that’s not something a kid would say.
“… That so? But, my bad. As expected, something like marriage… We don’t know what future will bring.”
I gently averted it.
Nevertheless, with her face showing her displeasure,
“Liar.”
“… Yes?”
“Chiharu-kun. Meanie… Marry me… You’ve just promised me…”
“Wait a minute. When have I said that!?”
“… You didn’t say, you wrote! Chiharu-kun wished for us two to be together forever!“
“It’s true that that’s what I wrote on my tanzaku, but… Don’t tell me that being together forever=marriage?”
“It does. Being together forever, even after death… Being together in the same tomb[1]?”
“Eh.”
“In other words, it means marriage!”
“… You see, Kyouko. To begin with, that was only a simile… *COUGH COUGH*”
Kyouko’s glance filled with killing intent overcame me and silenced me.
Pathetic, even if I say so myself…
“So. I want to propose once again officially. Then, I think I’ll be able to endure Chiharu being far away…”
“…”
The me back then blatantly averted his gaze and ignored her. It seems he contrives to keep being silent.
Nevertheless. My intentions being futile, Kyouko, with a shadow cast over her face,
“Breach the engagement… And in compensation, 3 million…[2]”
She said those dangerous words.
Eeerrrm. What the heck is this kid saying?
Are you that? One of those women in their forties desperate for catching a husband?…
If left like this, it will bring problems in the future. The me back then decided to postpone the matter.
“… Understood. I promise.”
“Really!?”
“Yeah. But on the condition of it being once I’m an adult.”
“How much of an adult!? With how many years!?”
“If we say adult, perhaps… When I’m in high school?”
… That was easy.
If I had to make an excuse, I’d say that high school students seemed like very adult existences to the me back then.
The me of right now, having become a high schooler, could naturally be involved in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship… That kind of unsuspicious belief that’s not different from innocence.
Me from elementary school… I’m sorry.
Truth is… that couldn’t be.
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