The Elf Is a Freeloader

Two people say goodbye in front of the station, shoulder to shoulder and go away.

He stared at the situation with a complex look on his face.

And Ryu, who accidentally stood beside her, opened his mouth without ever turning the aye.

"... if you're going to confess, I think it's about time?

With a stiff look on his face, Aye looked up at Ryu's face only for a moment. But realizing his gaze wasn't on himself, he looks away at the boy's back again.

"... leave me alone..."

Aye's voice, so grunted, contained a slight tremor.

Aye is a much more thought-provoking boy than he was at a very young age. Until now, the opposite sex closest to the boy was himself.

No, I always thought so. I was guessing.

Ryu and others standing next to him now are the type that attracts nature and heterosexual gaze as long as they remain silent, because the boy is never the type to attract heterosexual attention.

Let's confess one day. I've thought of that many times.

Maybe he'll confess from the boy. How many times have I dreamed of doing so?

I have a real sense that I was spoiled for the position of being "childhood friendly" and close "friend" now.

But Aye couldn't help but step forward from that position.

As I shook my courage and stepped forward. For confessing to the boy.

But suppose the boy didn't respond to his own thoughts.

I might even lose my current position because of the creeps at that time.

That scared the hell out of me.

"Are you sure? Hey, you realize the distance between those two is shrinking day by day, too, right? If we keep this up, it's gonna be too late, okay?

"Oh, isn't it natural for those two to get along? Because those two will soon be sisters-in-law. Become a brother sister-in-law..."

"Sweet."

Denied his thoughts, Aye turned his angry gaze to Ryu.

But Ryu, as always, does not even try to see Aye, but merely pales out the facts.

"Adoption can always be dissolved if there is an agreement between the person who will be adopted and the person who welcomes them. Even if those two become brothers and sisters, you can always go back to someone else."

That girl who got the family registry of this country if she became someone else, it's not impossible to officially marry someone, Ryu continued.

"Oh, what about that kind of Ryu!? What do you think of that girl?!?"

"Me? I'm pretty sure she's Marvelous to me. A heterogeneous girl from another world. If you try being like that, fantasy maniac me, you're gonna have to say Marvelous, right? But I don't have romantic feelings for her. Of course, if you ask me if I like it or not, I like it, and if I have any problems, I want to help you. But that's just as a friend."

I can understand what Ryu is trying to say.

Hey, myself, I even think I can call her my best friend already. If anything goes wrong with her, then I want to help her as long as I can.

Aye and Ryu were still on the spot, even if they could no longer see their backs.

The two glances never interact, just words are exchanged.

"He's a really straight and serious guy, isn't he? That's right, about as stupid as it gets."

Even if they don't say it again, Aye knows that too.

"Since I was in elementary school, I've hardly seen him forget his homework or his submissions. Well, he's human, too, so there are natural occasions to poke around. I can't believe he almost finished his summer homework in July."

"Yeah... you and me... thank you so much for your help"

When it was the last week of summer vacation since I was in elementary school, I was bound to gather at someone's house to photograph the homework he was finishing in a big hurry.

I remember such a nostalgic sight, and Aye smiled small.

"It's him like that, I guess. What a girl from different worlds who suddenly shows up can laugh about being involved in troublesome things. Hey, hey. What if... what if the place where she appeared was your house... what would you have done?

Aye makes Ryu's words think again.

If the place where she showed up was her own house, not that boy's. What the hell did I do?

"............ right. My house is not his house, because my parents, grandparents and brother are home... first let my parents or grandparents know and then I'll follow their decisions."

That's the only way to do it, Aye, who is only a minor named a high school student.

Of course, there are aspects to it because you don't think the parents treat her badly.

"Right. I think I'm something similar. You can't just carry something that shapes the lives of every single one of us who's just a high school student. Because it's not the same as picking up a throwaway dog or throwaway cat. But he wasn't."

One day, suddenly, I carried one girl who appeared in my house with ease. That's something that Ryu and Aoi can't do very well.

"With my father's wickedness and the dedication of his father and aunt, the foundation of her life was almost ready. But... even if that didn't work out, he would have managed to protect her. I think that's what I was doing running away from home and running away with her. I would have gone out with you then."

Takashi says by deliberately deceiving the end.

"Straight enough for an idiot to follow, serious enough for an idiot to follow... and he's sweet enough for an idiot to follow, he is"

You don't have to say that now. I know that. I know too much.

Because she herself was attracted to him.

"That's what his aunt said, right? She's the cute girl who showed up, so she said she saved her life. But I don't think I am. I'm sure it's about him, so it's the man who showed up, but it's Grandpa, but I'm sure he was reaching out? Well, he's not a bottomless idiot either, so if he looked like a jerk, I'd just kick him out of the house, or call the cops if that's not possible."

".................. yeah. I think so, too. Because... that's what he is."

The world is turning blue through red. The herd of blue will eventually turn black.

Still, Ryu and Aoi didn't move.

"... I'm sure she trusts that much because she's that guy too"

Ryu was watching those two all day today.

She was intrigued and eye-catching by the train, going to a city overflowing with large numbers of humans, in front of many first-time sights, first-time eaters.

But.

"Did you notice that? She, at any time... that's what I always did next to him, except when I was choosing a bathing suit with you."

I noticed that too.

She always sat beside that boy when she boarded the train and when she sat at dinner.

Even as she walked inside the department store and in the basement, she was side-by-side with that boy.

If she had any doubts, that boy was the first to ask it, and even when she mistook the escalator thing for a trap, that boy was the first to pull it off.

There must always be that boy in her sight.

"How much she is an adventurer, strange world...... that's how even common sense can come to a different world and not feel anxious. So unconsciously, I guess she's beside the most trustworthy person."

Suddenly I was flown into a strange world, the first person I met. Besides, he broke my bones with this for himself, and he even takes care of my clothes, my food, and my home.

After all this has been done, it is also a natural accomplishment that she has come to trust him. In fact, if I hadn't relied on that boy, she'd have had to go down in this world as well.

"Maybe that's why. What she's trying so hard to become is this world. She wants to help him at all... and I guess she's desperately trying not to be a shackle to him"

Ryu thought it was all because she was studying so hard in this world and eagerly trying to learn Japanese.

Of course, there's the fact that it's inconvenient to live in this world if you don't. But more than that, I guess she will spare no effort to line up beside him and live with her breasts up.

"Now her thoughts on him are probably 'benevolence' or 'gratitude'. But not surprisingly, when did that change into something else? No, maybe it's already changing."

for her to do a little trick against him. to the look she gives him. I am also aware that such signs are appearing. That's why Aoi has complicated feelings about her.

"So if you're gonna go into action, I think you'd better hurry, huh? Aren't you still more advantageous now that you've built up history as a child? Besides... his preference for women seems to be more of a tight type than a slender one."

Ryu gives a deliberate expression and stares at one point of Aye's body.

I noticed Ryu staring at where his body was, and Aoi held him two or three steps away from Ryu to shelter his chest with both arms.

"Hey, hey!! Where are you looking?!?"

"No, with all that chest combat, it would be easy to haunt him," he said.

"Shut up!! You pervert!!................................. so, but is that true?

"Oh. Definitely."

Even that boy is a healthy high school boy of his age. Sometimes with his male friends, including Ryu, he gets excited when he sees the magazine Gravia and so on.

From what it looked like then, his preference seems to be a grown-up and well-styled type. Except for the extremely large chest owners, who seem to tend to be distant on the contrary.

"... hey. Can I ask you one thing?

Aye does not wait for Ryu to reply, but goes on ahead.

"Maybe... maybe? If I'm going to be aggressive towards him... will Ryu support me?

But the answer to the question didn't come right back.

Ryu finally opened his mouth when Aoi turned to Ryu in a hurry to reply that he had not returned for long.

Though Ryu's face was pointed to the ground, and he could not even look at it.

"I'm sorry, but I can't just support you. I'm going to be neutral on this."

"... why not?

"I don't want to push your feelings on him unilaterally. He has his thoughts. I can't tell you that I'm going out with you until I push it to death, can I?

Ryu had noticed that the boy's feelings were gradually leaning towards her coming from different worlds. Though now he doesn't seem to realize his own thoughts, either.

But I believe it's only a matter of time before he realizes it.

"To me, I think he and you are both dear best friends and childhood acquaintances. If you feel the same way, I'm not going to put your shoulders just one way or the other."

"Yes... then why are you saying things that only burn me today?

As usual, I can't see Ryu's face looking down from the aye. But I did see the shoulder shaking slightly.

"... that's... because I'm a coward..."

"Huh? What did you just say?

The little rumbling of the little rumble is erased by the sound of the car running down the driveway and not reaching Aye's ear.

"Nothing. Well, it's time for me to go home. Your house is right over there, so you don't have to send it, do you?

Turn your back on Aye, raise only your right hand and Ryu says goodbye.

Aye decides to seriously think about what he's going to do as he stares at Ryu's back, which is slowly getting smaller.

"But now go home and take a bath first. We have to think about this after we're done."

Aye turns his heel back and heads to his apartment at home in front of the station.

If my brother Takanora returns from the coffee shop, I'm sure he'll ask about the girl from another world.

So Aye went across the crosswalk, hoping his thoughts would be wrapped up before his brother came home and got annoyed.