Adriana's screams echoed through the bathrooms of the inn that night.
"......<>! <>! <>!"
Adriana could not see the sunburned area on her back very well, so she cast a series of healing spells, and the pain finally subsided.
"I wish I could have gone in there with my dad. ......"
Shuki had not bathed with Adriana since the day she turned ten.
"......I wish I didn't have to grow up. ......"
Adriana wishes she could stay a child forever and have Shuki all to herself.
But that's impossible. Then...
"I'll have to enjoy this trip alone with my father, won't I?
Shuki sat on a bench in the courtyard of the inn, exposing his body to the night breeze after a hot bath.
Adriana had cast a healing spell on his sunburned back.
In reality, however, Shuki did not feel any pain.
The parts of his body that had been damaged by the car accident that nearly killed him in the other world were supplemented with magical elements, and those parts did not deteriorate.
Not only deterioration, but also any kind of change is not accepted.
They may receive wounds, but they do not become infected. It is a body that does not get sunburned by ultraviolet rays, although it gets burned by flames.
(But how long can that last? ......)
Recently, Shuki has begun to feel some discomfort, especially in his internal organs.
(If only he could keep it for a few more years, until Adriana comes of age...)
Shuki expected that it would be two more years until Adriana, his successor, would be complete.
Adriana was 15 years old at that time. In this world, she would be an adult.
(Until then, she would have to live on, even if she had to bite down on a stone.)
Shuki had just made up his mind once again to make such a pathetic decision.
"Father!
Adriana came out of the bath and hugged Shuki on his back.
"Hey, hey, it's hot in here!
"Oh, come on, it's hot..." "Be patient. You're only my father during this trip!
Adriana's carefree laughter makes Shuki smile.
"You'll always be a spoiled brat, Ad, no matter how old you get.
"That's because it's just the two of us."
With these words Adriana moves off Shuki's back and sits down next to him.
"The moon is beautiful, isn't it?
I looked at the eastern sky and saw that the moon had just risen.
"Yes, it is. The air is unusually clear for summer.
Usually the newly risen moon is reddish in color, but tonight it was shining white.
"But that moon is also a strange celestial body. ......"
"It waxed and waned in the world where your father was, didn't it?"
Adriana already knew that her father Shuki had come from another world, and she had been told that the moon in that world waxed and waned and understood why.
"Oh. It was bigger than it looked, too."
Adriana asked Shuki a bold question.
"Do you want to go back to ......?"
But Shuki quietly shakes his head.
"No. ......I used to want to go home, but now this world is my home. This world, with Adriana, is my home now.
But as he said this, Adriana sensed that Shuki's profile looked somewhat lonely. And then...