Oneshot (1/2)
I have a person I love.
He’s my neighbor Ruka-kun, we have been born at the same hospital and have been together through Elementary・Middle・High school.
Because we were born in the countryside, we have often played together because there were no other children.
Ruka-kun is very strong and kind boy, he would often hold my hand, so I wouldn’t fall because I was a clutz.
Such gentle Oujisama, I have loved him.
Well, we could get along in the elementary school as my first love hadn’t come out yet.
I got estranged when Ruka-kun gradually started getting popular in the middle school.
Indeed, Ruka-kun’s appearances are beautiful.
Jet black hair and delicately carved facial features, slender and long, but appropriately masculine limbs.
Excelling in pen and sword, he’s a super boy. Convincing specs for girls to gather around him.
I didn’t want anyone to take him from me, I was self-conscious of my secret love.
Thus, my jealous heart grew painful and bitter, and there was not anything I could do.
I who is a shy person who doesn’t know what being a.s.sertive is, decided to take the last resort.
「Ruka-kun! Morning! You are lovely as always! I love you!」
「…」
I confess using the morning greeting which has become the daily routine.
However, getting ignored and briskly getting away with girls around him is recently the default (yes, he’s surrounded by girls).
He has walked away.
Right, I have decided to appeal like this every time.
If it’s thoughts of love towards Ruka-kun, I won’t lose to anyone!
Because I’m plain and simple, I have no other appeal points.
However, every time I misfire, the girls surrounding him start giggling at me.
I’m calm and composed in front of everyone, but as a matter of fact, I’m very embarra.s.sed.
I crouch and hide in a shadow today as well.
My cheeks get hot, and my legs and arms start shaking.
The moment I tried to clap my cheeks to rebuke myself,
I was surrounded by people I didn’t know.
A sphere of light which is sparkling like jewels under my feet slowly rises and disappears.
Looking around absentmindedly, the surroundings were characterized by a deep ocean blue stained gla.s.s.
It was so dark that I would believe even if I was told that I was in a church deep in the sea, it was a place where only a blue light came in.
「The summoning ceremony, success」
A beautiful silver-haired man said while shedding tears.
To my astonishment, I have been apparently summoned to a different world.
The world I was summoned to is filled with evil, and I was requested to purify the different world as a hero.
Of course, they treated me well and told me I could return when everything is done.
During that time, I could not help, but think about my beloved Ruka-kun and desired to return home as soon as possible.
But, the ordinary me with no redeeming features is saving the world.
Appropriate suffering, enduring, and pain were awaiting.
The purification of evil is done with a holy sword.
Of course, if the area is polluted, I have to kill magic beasts and people.
Although I say that, it’s not like they die when cut by the holy sword. It cuts only the evil, and the flesh will heal after the purification.
But, the feeling of cutting flesh didn’t disappear.
My hands became worn-out from rigorous swordplay practice, and I cried many times from suffering the mental attacks of the evil.
But, I endured the difficulties by thinking about my parents, friends, and Ruka-kun.
Besides, it wasn’t only painful things.
I made many friends, saw countless of different world sceneries and ate a lot of food… I have made many fun memories.
My friends were older than I, so they taught me and admonished me a lot of times.
To think that I would make friends could tolerate as much as my family, no perhaps even more than my family.
I think it was the firs time in my life and probably the last.
And now, I have separated from such irreplaceable friends.
And returned to the dearly missed j.a.pan.
「Something is different from usual」
「You think so?」
The air in my original world after so long feels heavy, it’s difficult to breathe.