The Elf Is a Freeloader

"Tired -"

"Yes, sir. Good luck to you, Yasushi."

At the same time as greeting a well-loving store manager with a thick physique, he pushes the entrance and exit doors. Overhead, Kakomori and Cowbell played a pleasant sound, and Kang (Yasu) Gui (Takashi) followed the coffee shop "A ~ M", which was a part-time destination.

The season is mid-May. Golden Week is also past and one of the easiest seasons of the year.

Still, after 7pm, it was already dark around. Through a passable and accustomed path illuminated by street lights, Yasushi takes a relaxing journey to his house.

Dinner is at the coffee shop where I work part-time, and I ate something fine, so I don't need it.

When it comes to what I do when I get home, it's just about doing my homework and taking a bath that I was given at school.

Besides, my parents have been on assignment out of the province since this spring due to their work, and I don't have to panic because there's nobody home.

In the night breeze, Yasushi walks slowly in the familiar landscape.

This is Nishijin, Aichi Prefecture.

A town so close to the countryside rather than the city.

Towns that are not as rural as the countryside, and not as urban as the city.

It is a land of about 30 minutes by train from the city of Nagoya, one of Japan's leading cities, a town that has flourished to some extent in the past few years.

Still, nature leaves a lot to be desired everywhere, and fields and fields can be seen everywhere.

From the front of Nikkan Station, the town centre, it is about sufficient to fifteen minutes on foot. There is his house where he lived with his family until not long ago.

Looks like it was his grandfather who built this house. The old house is well remodeled on the inside and not uncomfortable to live in, Yasushi thinks.

I'm home.

Yasushi, knowing that no one will respond, says so unexpectedly when he returns home due to years of habit.

His house, which is old but only big enough. Until a while ago, when I got home, the lights were on, and there was a response from the back of the house from my mother.

But now it's naturally dark if you go home. While I miss that a little bit, Yasushi aims to live in the living room when locked tightly in the front door.

In a house I've been used to living in for years, even though it's dark. When you enter the house without getting lost, turn on the lights in the hallway first.

In an instant the darkness is driven away and a warm light with a little yellow illuminates the hallway of the house.

I'll be in the living room in a minute. Even though it's huge, it's only a house that goes into the size of a general dwelling. It is obvious, as it is not a mansion that would take more than a minute to arrive in the living room.

Then open the living room door and press the switch on the light next to the door.

The darkness that was panning in the living room also vanished in an instant, and the white light swept through the living room.

"........................................................................... Huh?

In the living room illuminated by its white light, Yasushi discovered something unfamiliar.

The living room itself is as usual.

Sofa set in the center. A slightly larger television is placed at the window, and beyond it a larger window with a view of the garden. It's also possible to get out of here into the garden, something that my mother used to dry her laundry on the drying table in the garden through here a lot.

In the back of the living room is a face-to-face kitchen. Four dining tables and chairs to go with it. A common living room with other cabinets, cupboards, and nothing unusual to install.

It should have been.

"……………………………………………… Yes?

Yasushi will check inside the living room again.

Yeah, definitely. This is my living room.

I squeal in my heart and stare at it again.

In the living room, it's clearly different from a few hours before I went out for a part-time job.

No, there was only one thing that was different.

"…………………………………………… Yes?

Long, pale golden hair that reflects the light of the lights to sparkle.

Unfamiliar material and design clothing. Somehow, it was clothes that seemed familiar to me and were going to appear in comics my best friend used to read.

Is he about fifteen years old in appearance? It would be the same as my high school year self, or a little down there or something.

Sleek white hands and feet. The meaty one is thinner in one way or another. At least, the ups and downs all over the body seemed scarce than the other childhood familiar who also eats to the top in good proportions in school.

I don't know the color of the eyes behind the closed eye lid, but still on a level I can call pretty enough or something.

And most of all, the characteristic is the long, pointed ears.

"Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep!?"

I'm losing my mind in the middle of the living room of the house - maybe I'm just asleep - and when I saw the girl, Yasushi raised an odd voice unexpectedly.

I wonder what the hell this is all about.

Yasushi thinks desperately as she gazes at the girl falling on the living room floor - the flooring tension.

When he came home, the front door was definitely locked. That's why I opened it, no doubt about it.

So, did this girl come in through the window?

Move your gaze and look at the window leading from the living room to the garden.

The curtain remained open because it was still bright before I went out for a part-time job. As a result, it was confirmed that the window keys were also securely locked.

Of course, it doesn't look like he broke the glass around the key and unlocked it.

So, another window? Back entrance or from upstairs?

Various possibilities run through your brain. Should I go check on them, or should I keep an eye on this girl?

Minutes of trouble with this as he stood at the entrance to the living room.

Yasushi finally came to a serious conclusion at this time.

That means that the girl who is falling in front of you is alive and fulfilled.

"But maybe... this isn't a residential trespass or something, it's a body abandonment case...?

You have to touch this girl to see if she's alive.

But can I touch her body in this situation?

Assuming this girl was a corpse, wouldn't it have fingerprints or something on it if I touched it? Would I not be suspected of being a suspect from there?

"Yeah... but... we can't just leave it like this... right?

The choice to call the police at this point, somehow did not come to his mind. On second thought, if you call the police, it'll all fit in circles.

The reason for this would still be because it was the pretty girl who was falling down. If this was a distressed old man, he must have discovered it and reported it instantly.

For some reason, Yasushi is getting closer to the girl who is falling down one by one.

Along the way, a floor cleaning wiper for cleaning the living room floor was placed on a nearby wall.

Yasushi reaches out and takes the floor cleaning wipers. And with the pattern, not the wiper side, I poked just a little bit at the body of the girl who was falling.

To the clap, the falling girl moved herself.

The girl, who was falling on her side, takes a leaning position. At the same time, her long, tipped pointy ears moved tingly.

Apparently, he's alive. Yasushi was just a little relieved.

"But... ears... right, this...?

Yasushi takes a look at her ears.

To mankind - at least mankind on earth - does not have ears of this shape.

Maybe something like stretching your ears long in some tribe or other custom, in which case it should be easier to stretch them down according to gravity instead of stretching them up.

"... maybe... aliens... or something?

Speaking of which, I remember watching an SF movie with pointy ears coming out back in the day.

If you think so and look closely, you can't even think of the clothes she's wearing or the uniform that the crew of the spaceship will somehow wear.

"A spacecraft was in an accident, and it didn't arrive around here...?

It's a common pattern in SF objects. And from the emergency spacecraft, suppose he showed up in this living room as a result of an emergency transfer, he can also nod that this girl had fallen inside the locked house.

"If you do... aren't you hurt or something?

Fear, Yasushi reaches out to the girl who is falling.

At that time.

Her face, lying on her back, turned to Hikaru.

At the same time, the eye lid, which remained closed, crackled.

Eventually, the eye lid was slowly lifted and the pale eyes hidden behind it dew.

"Oh, um... are you okay? Are you hurt or something?

The girl's pale eyes gradually focused, and the focus was directed towards her face.

Her gaze is then directed at Yasushi's hand, which remains stretched out toward her.

After that, the girl's gaze came and went with your face and hands again and again.

And when her expression unwittingly tightened, she suddenly woke up on her upper body.

"Yaaaaaaaaaa!!"

The girl shouted with all her strength.

With her hips down, the girl uses her hands and feet to desperately stay away from you.

And that back hit a glass window that led to the garden.

You thought her back was cut off. She rushes to check behind herself. And when I made sure there was a dark but large garden across the glass window, I rushed up and tried to get out into the garden.

But.

Apparently, the girl doesn't know how to open the glass window, and although she desperately pushes the window, the glass window, which is supposed to be the drawer, can't open either.

Eventually he realizes the presence of the key attached to the aluminum sash of the window, and begins to squeeze the key desperately without even knowing how to open it.

"Er... you're not gonna open up if you make it that rambling? That window, it's locked, so we need to unlock it first..."

Village speaks with the utmost serenity to the girl desperately trying to open the window.

The girl looks back in surprise at the voice. There was an obvious fright in that face.

"Oh, um..."

"Yalau!! DEAKEL SEITENG SELAUNEN!!"

Fearing the hand that Yasushi had stretched out, the girl turned herself over.

"Hey, are you hurt... or what? If you seem to be injured, I can give you a little help..."

"Gahki......? Aarten......?

Apparently, the words don't make sense. Yasushi, who decided so, wonders what the problem is.

"Injury. Handling. Don't you see?

"Gahki...... Aarten......"

Yasushi looked at the girl in front of him again.

He is slightly less tall than himself at 169cm. Probably around 160cm or so.

Hair stretched straight to the middle of the back is pale gold. But because he was falling, his hair is all messed up.

The color of the large eyes is a beautiful pale. It is indisputable vigilance that is floating in its eyes staring at itself.

The girl does not try to get away from the glass window that leads to the garden, as if that were the only safe zone there.

You're like a wildcat who came all of a sudden lost in the house.

Yasushi had that feeling somehow.

And I associate it with what comes from the word wildcat.

"Hey? Maybe you're not hungry? I'll make something simple if you like...?

Yasushi, whose parents had been working together for a long time, was sometime better at chores. Now its arms have improved enough to be raised as one of the stunts.

Being such a Yanggui, his parents could safely leave him for duty out of the province.

Yasushi smiles at the girl and goes straight into the kitchen and opens the fridge.

When I made sure there was sliced cheese there as I remember it, I removed the bread and mayonnaise, and the lettuce from the vegetable room.

"Wait a minute. Because I'll make it right away."

Yasushi breaks six slices of bread even thinner with a knife and stretches the mayonnaise thinly over the broken section.

And I sandwiched it with sliced cheese and lettuce and cut it vertically with a knife to make it easier to eat.

I made about two more such cheese lettuce sandwiches, cut them vertically in the same way and put them on a plate, and transported them to a table for meals.

Yasushi pulls one chair out of the table and points to it.

"Look, sit here. You can eat this."

Point to the chair, then show it sitting in the chair yourself. And at the end of the day, finger the girl all the way.

As for Yasushi, I meant to indicate in my body language, "Sit down, just like yourself," but whether it is fulfilling or not.

As usual, the girl doesn't try to get away from the window, but that gaze is nailed to a cheese lettuce sandwich on the table.

Besides, around with one hand on his stomach, he's apparently hungry.

"Here. Don't hesitate."

Yasushi, who said so peacefully, smiled a little away from the table.

As he leaves the table, the girl releases herself from the jaws and glass windows.

And stay alert, slowly approaching the table. At this time, her gaze comes and goes between Yasushi and Cheese Lettuce Sandwich many times. If he goes into suspicious behavior, he'll get away with it.

Looking at her like that, Yasushi is really like a cat, I laugh bitterly in my heart.

Eventually she reached the table, without breaking her guard, but still reached for a cheese lettuce sandwich and slowly began to eat it.