Possessed As the Butler of a Defeated Heroine

214 – Side Story / Ichinose Kanade Ending

“I miss you…”

The young man let out white breath and looked up at the sky.

It’s already been 6 years since Kanade Ichinose went abroad to study.

Everyone was in their early 20s and living their own lives.

Ryunosuke took the center exam normally and went on to higher education, and Sojuro was writing with the goal of becoming a light novel writer and often went to Ohana’s concerts.

Ohana, needless to say, became a famous idol. On the one hand, Hyunjin felt fortunate.

Soon after Amelia became an adult, she traveled between England and Japan, working hard to continue her family business.

Tsubasa was like that too, but she seems to have completely overcome the trauma of her past and the barrier that she was unable to overcome, she called her older sister her, and is now living a successful life as a wealthy local .

Hyunjin was satisfied that everyone seemed to be enjoying their lives in their own way.

She often stays in contact with other people, but she has never been in touch with Kanade.

I don’t know why, but she is intentionally refusing to contact me… It felt like that.

That would have been fine if Kanade was good, but Hyunjin felt that she was somewhat lonely in a corner of her heart.

“How are you doing?”

Since there was no contact, Hyunjin had no way of knowing.

Even though she tried to use some of Amelia’s, Tsubasa’s, and Ayako’s connections, she couldn’t find out anything.

“It would be nice if he was doing well like a genius.”

Are you eating well and are you going through difficult times alone?

Hyunjin went to see Kanade’s mother and asked, but she said she didn’t say much other than that she contacted her often and that they were doing well.

What does Kanade look like as an adult?

An unfinished story is bound to leave questions in the end.

Hyunjin continued to think.

We’ll meet again, or maybe we’ll meet again someday… By reminding myself of those things.

It was a useless thing.

“Me… Are you feeling sad?… ?”

Hyunjin wandered aimlessly with a blank expression on her face, heading to the place where she first met Kanade.

The rooftop of Hoshizora Academy.

To be exact, it was a classroom, but I think the opportunity for a proper conversation was the meeting on the rooftop.

Snow was falling slowly from the sky.

No matter how long I wait, it won’t come.

‘I already knew… ‘

It’s been several years already.

Why am I impatient?

You were a great person from the beginning, Kanade.

To the extent that you can’t even compare it to a guy like me.

Hyunjin thought so.

I decided to go back after quietly admiring the view from the rooftop along with the gently piling snow.

***

Just like that, once again.

Time has passed.

The cold winter passes, and the warm spring passes.

… Summer has come.

Since Hyunjin had money earned from working as Amelia’s butler, he lived like a gentleman.

She sometimes meets with Ryunosuke and plays games with him, goes to see Ohana’s concert with Sojuro, or goes to help out with the doujin circle that Sojuro participates in.

Nevertheless, Hyunjin just lived like Hanryang.

Smoking, drinking, eating, playing games every day.

She only occasionally communicates with people around her.

He was in a state of half-destruction.

I lost interest in everyday life… I didn’t know it would be closer.

Her well-maintained body didn’t seem strange to the point where it looked slightly chubby.

Because that’s what Hyunjin originally looked like.

It was a boring life.

She doesn’t work and just wastes her savings on a daily basis.

When I occasionally had drinks with Ryunosuke or Sojuro, they would talk about their dreams.

Sojuro was a hungry writer, but she was satisfied with it, and Ryunosuke had a simple dream of living a stable life.

Hyunjin had no dreams to the point where he felt like he was in danger.

She may have been like that because she was so far away that she couldn’t reach her dream.

The dream Hyunjin had was of a quiet, fierce, yet pitiful child somewhere.

What would she think if she saw herself now?

Hyunjin thought that way.

It was dishonest.

Kanade always felt like she had gone to a world beyond her own reach.

On a summer day, she was lying on the hardwood floor near her garden in her home, enjoying the fan.

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On a hot, sunny morning, Hyunjin was quietly looking at the pond in the garden while listening to the cries of the tsuura.

The pond rippled gently.

Is it okay to live like this without any problems?

“… “I don’t know.”

Now, let’s give up.

Seven years have passed, and what kind of fantasy was I chasing?

If there is a meeting, there is also a farewell.

The reason I didn’t give up was because I had the expectation that we could meet again.

Because I thought that even if she went somewhere, she would come back.

Hyunjin Joo Wook… Even though I had complicated feelings, I was waiting.

She lay down and closed her eyes.

Let’s give up and live on.

It was a time when I made that promise.

Suddenly, the shining sunlight was covered by a shadow.

“… ?”

Even if I closed my eyes, I could see something strange.

Well, wouldn’t it be even weirder if you didn’t notice anything strange if you heard the sound of a helicopter coming from above your mansion?

Hyunjin quietly opened his eyes and saw a woman suddenly rappelling from the helicopter and slowly coming down.

What appeared in front of Hyunjin.

――It was Kanade Ichinose.

“Long time no see… “Hey.”

The woman cautiously looks at Hyunjin, hesitating her words.

It’s messy, but somehow it looks foolish… The light-colored hair, bluer than the indigo color I remembered, was exactly as it was in her memory.

When the helicopter went somewhere and the sound gradually disappeared, Hyunjin opened her mouth.

“Ahaha… Still, still hasn’t grown up?”

“… Bad. It’s been 7 years since we last saw each other… Is that it?”

Kanade said, puffing out her cheeks as if she was slightly dissatisfied.

Hyunjin responded to Kanade’s words with a big smile and lightly rubbing her slightly teary eyes.

“Sorry sorry. Rather, Kana-chan made me… “I thought I forgot.”

At Hyunjin’s words, Kanade just lowered her head.

In reality, it was Kanade who rejected Hyunjin who tried to contact her.

“There must be a lot to talk about. Come in.”

Hyunjin took Kanade inside her home.

After she had Kanade sit down at her table, she asked carefully.

“What about meals?”

“Yes…”

“I just happened to not have breakfast… Well then, let’s show off our skills for the first time in a long time.”

She said that and went into her kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

Last night, I suddenly thought about buying ingredients for hamburger steak. I never thought that something I had in mind would end up being used like this.

Hyunjin skillfully combined the minced meat into a round shape.

Add oil to the frying pan and at the same time heat up the stone plate.

“How have you been? “For 7 years.”

“Me… Yes, I tried hard.”

“So, I’m asking what kind of effort you made.”

Kanade thought about Hyunjin’s question for a moment and then opened her mouth.

“I tried to make money so I wouldn’t have to work my whole life.”

“Why?”

“… There is a reason for that.”

I didn’t think there would be an answer right away.

Hyunjin quietly grilled the hamburger steak by rolling it in the frying pan and pressing it slightly.

Then, after turning it over with a flipper, a little bit of cheddar cheese and mozzarella cheese was placed on top, then it was moved to a heated stone plate and placed in front of Kanade.

“Okay, complete.”

“Even if I eat… Is it okay?”

Kanade looked at Hyunjin with sad eyes and asked in her hesitant tone.

Hyunjin smiled and nodded lightly.

“Yes, because I was waiting for you to come.”

Hyunjin also answered appropriately, then she sat across from Kanade and ate her hamburger steak.

Clatter, rattle.

The only sound I could hear was the clinking of dishes at the quiet table.

Hyunjin thought as he watched Kanade eating deliciously.

‘You still eat like a child.’

There was no culture or dignity.

Even so, it didn’t really matter.

After finishing her meal, Kanade suddenly got down from her chair, walked to Hyunjin’s side, and held her hand.

“… Let’s go.”

“Where… ” … ?”

“Quickly.”

Kanade was using her best strength to hold Hyunjin’s hand her her her her.

A strange flower-like scent tickled the tip of Hyunjin’s nose.

Can I go?

Before that thought occurred to him, Hyunjin suddenly got up and walked out of the house, holding Kanade’s small hand tightly.

…

…

Hyunjin and Kanade walked slowly but side by side.

I didn’t even ask where I was going.

“… “Nothing, don’t you ask?”

“Yes.”

“Why… ?”

Kanade cautiously asked Hyunjin.

“I just like being together.”

It was a really, really long time.

I thought she would have grown a little more mature during the seven years she wasn’t with Kanade.

Hyunjin just laughed at the appearance, which was not much different from the 15-year-old Kanade.

“What’s so funny… !?”

“Just, well… Because it doesn’t seem like anything has changed?”

“I’ve changed… ! He grew up to the size of a child… !”

Kanade was still puffing out her cheeks, perking up her feet like a rabbit, and stretching her arms as much as she could, showing with her body that she was that big.

One way or another, she was still like a cute little rabbit to Hyunjin.

Yes, walking like this was quite enjoyable.

When she sees a vending machine while walking down the street, she quickly drinks a drink, sits in the park to rest for a while, and then walks…

Hyunjin and Kanade repeated such actions.

Then, as I walked and walked, I arrived at the end of my journey at Hoshizora Academy.

Because it was late, there was no one on campus.

A slightly dark yet bluish night sky was greeting the two people.

“Wait a minute, Kana-chan… “Here.”

Hyunjin said, but Kanade still took the lead, holding her hand.

A familiar campus, slightly hot but with a cool breeze blowing towards the academy.

‘It’s been a while…’

Since last winter, I haven’t stopped by Hoshizora Academy.

Not only was there no reason to stop by, but more importantly, there was not much time to leave the house.

Kanade went inside the locked academy and took out her tools and opened it.

“If you do that at this hour, it’s trespassing.”

“Are you okay…”

As Kanade said that, she headed to the rooftop.

Under the high full moon, Kanade finally let go of Hyunjin’s hand and spun around.

“You know, Hyunjin. That… “

“Yes, tell me.”

“I thought a lot. So I tried. Therefore…”

Tell me.

Kanade didn’t say that, but Hyunjin vaguely felt that way.

“Won’t you join me, Kana-chan?”

Hyunjin smiled and held out his hand.

The moment Kanade thought she carefully reached out to grab that hand.

“No!!”

Kanade got angry and hit Hyunjin’s hand.

It wasn’t painful or anything like that.

‘Something… Was there something I was missing?’

Hyunjin looked into Kanade’s eyes with a blank expression.

Kanade wasn’t angry.

It was just that she felt like she was refusing to confront it because she didn’t get the answer she wanted.

‘…’

Hyunjin quietly caught his thoughts

I closed my eyes and remembered

The answer Kanade wanted was probably not this.

What she wants from Hyunjin when they reunite after 7 years.

It wasn’t Hyunjin’s idea.

To be precise, you should think from Kanade’s perspective, not from your own perspective.

The things she has always longed for.

‘One hundred yen, give me.’

Suddenly, I remembered the story that Kanade first suggested to Hyunjin.

“I remember… “You’re not doing it?”

Kanade asked Hyunjin a question.

Hyunjin came to his senses at Kanade’s trembling tone

“No. I remember it clearly. Why was I like this, why was I waiting for you?”

Hyunjin quietly extended her hand to Kanade and opened her mouth.

“100 yen, give me.”

What Kanade had always wanted from Hyunjin.

That’s it…

We exchange things with each other.

It is not one-sided, but mutual exchange of what one wants.

That is, giving and receiving hearts.

From the beginning, Kanade was attracted to Hyunjin.

However, Hyunjin did not urge or urge Kanade to give her, her heart, her

It was a mixed story from the beginning.

At Hyunjin’s words, Kanade’s face remained expressionless the whole time… Little by little, slowly, a smile began to appear.

Hyunjin closed and opened her eyes once.

Kanade, the girl who was noticeably shorter than Hyunjin just a moment ago, was not there.

It wasn’t even a fantasy.

A woman with light blue hair, now a full-fledged girl, was standing in front of Hyunjin.

The girl, no. The woman, the color of the sky on a clear day, took out a hundred yen from her pocket and handed it over,

“Hyunjin… Is there anything you want to change?”

When Kanade asks what she wants to change, Hyunjin answers her question.

“I want to change it. Right… “

Hyunjin quietly nodded her head.

“Change me who didn’t do anything.”

“Yes, I will.”

Under the starry night sky, Hyunjin and Kanade slowly approached and hugged.

Now, there was no girl there who was foolish and did not mature early.

It was a story of a summer when the night sky sparkled on a cool, windy day.