I Went Back in Time to 10 Years Ago and Saved My Young Lady Childhood Friend and She Became My Fiancee ~She’s Honest and Cool and Looks at Me Like She Wants to Be Cared For~
“Young …… what’s this?”
I was surprised when I touched my face with a flattened hand.
What a fresh skin. My skin was supposed to be dry and rough.
My body also feels completely different. Especially, I feel shorter. My body as a whole is extremely thin. My hair is long and sloppy, and my eyes are hidden by long bangs.
It’s the same me from my school days, plain, dark, and mob-like.
Really, what happened?
There is no way this is such an elaborate prank.
I have a seizure, collapse, and find myself at my parents’ house, somehow rejuvenated.
“Seriously. ……”
What comes back to me is when I collapsed in pain.
I don’t remember much because it was blurry, but I think I thought, ‘I want to start over.’
I leave the sink and move to the living room. The living room is exactly the same as I remember it. Behind the dining table hangs a calendar. I was startled to see the year on it.
It was ten years ago.
(Have I gone back……? Back in the past? No way, Yorumiya too?)
I couldn’t feel anything.
“Ni-chan, I heard a thudding sound, what are you doing?”
“–Oh, wow!”
When I was stunned, a voice called out to me from behind and I screamed as hard as I could.
“Yeah, yeah, what ……? Sorry? I didn’t think you’d be that surprised.”
Rolling her eyes, a rough-looking girl with short hair peeked out from the side of the door.
“No, no. It’s okay. Sorry. Uh, …… Azusa, right?”
“What’s wrong? Are you …… sleepwalking?”
My younger sister, Enami Azusa, raised her eyebrows suspiciously.
Azusa is a good sister. She is bright, has great communication skills, and has many friends. She has a friendly atmosphere and is a little sister who is a waste to me.
I hadn’t seen her face in a very long time.
But compared to the last time I saw her, I had a different impression of her. She is still very young. She is shorter, her face has a somewhat innocent look, and her hair is different. She started dyeing her hair in college. The girl in front of me still has short black hair.
(When was the last time I saw her?
The last time was probably once after I started living alone.
There was the time she came barging into my house on my way home from working late. I told her not to worry, but I remember how worried she looked the whole time.
That’s right. Ever since I started working, Azusa had always had a worried look on her face.
“Hey, what is it? Do I have something on my face?”
Yes. The biggest difference is that the way she looks at me is not worried.
I immediately felt sorry for her.
“Azusa”
“W-What’s wrong?”
I bowed my head vigorously to the suspicious eyes of her.
“I’m really …… sorry for being a bad brother!”
“Eh, yeah!? What really happened? Did you have a terrible dream?”
Ignoring her panic, I keep my head down and make up my mind.
(I was in a time leap.)
I was once unable to do anything.
I spent my days in a state of emptiness and worried about everyone around me.
But – from now on, I’m sure.
（I will start over again.)
Let’s start from here.
I have to start again.
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I time leaped. I accept that as a fact.
But what should I do now?
For the time being, I should do something about my appearance. That’s a given. If I don’t do anything about it now, I’m clearly going down the road to being a “shady” person. First of all, appearance. I’ll cut my hair. New clothes. And above all, I will build muscles. Muscle is important.
(…..I’m suddenly eating cake, though.)
Azusa is peeking at me with worried eyes from across the table.
“Ni-chan, are you all right? Did eating something sweet cheer you up?”
“Oh, I’m fine”
“I’m glad! Don’t make me worry, okay?”
She saw me suddenly start apologizing and thought I was mentally weak.
Then she said, “When you’re weak, it’s time for something sweet! ” mand brought me a cake from the refrigerator.
My sister’s kindness made me cry.
It had been a long time since I had even received someone’s kindness.
At work, all I heard was cursing and anger. ……
“Where’s Mom?”
“She’s at work. I think she’ll be home soon.”
“I see.”
There are three people in my family: my mother, my sister, and myself. My father died when I was very young.
Mom was working at a graphics company at the time.
Before meeting Mom, I would like to regain some sense of those days.
If I talk in an atmosphere of tiredness from the company’s livestock, she might think I’m strange. ……
As I was thinking this, Azusa was staring at me with her eyebrows raised and her face close to mine.
“W-What is it? Azusa.”
“…… Something’s wrong with your eyes, nii chan”
“Eyes?”
“You usually have cloudy eyes like a dead fish, but ……”
“Eh….What is it?”
I fearfully ask her if she might be feeling uncomfortable.
She sat back down with a worried look on her face.
“I feel more clouded than usual today,…….”
“….. ah.”
“You should eat something sweet. I’m sure you’re tired from studying for the exam after all. Do you want a piece of cake?”
“……Yay”
I gently looked down at the cake that was offered to me.
The eyes that have been rubbed by the waves of society can’t be erased by the determination that I just made.
I thought
“Why are there so many cakes today?”
Usually, cakes are not always kept at home.
Sometimes my mother buys it for me, but it is usually for a reason. It’s someone’s birthday, or it’s a day of celebration.
“What are you talking about? Today is Christmas, right?”
Azusa said, tilting her head, and I stopped moving my fork.
“…… Christmas?”
It’s a night I’ll never forget, stuck in the back of my mind.
The day I had always regretted.
“What’s the matter, Nii-chan? You look kind of scary. ……”
“What time is it?”
I looked at the clock. It was about nineteen o’clock.
I think the chime should ring around here. ……
The doorbell rang.
I got up from my seat and headed for the front door as if to kick it away.
“Oh, Niichan!”
That day, I went to open the door thinking it was my mother. But it was someone else.
I opened the door.
There was a servant woman standing there, looking just like I remembered her, taking care of Yorumiya. Her name was Mihato-san. She must have been over 30 years old, but she had a well-defined face. Her expression is tinged with anxiety.
“Enami-san,……I wonder if the young lady has come this way?”
“She’s gone, isn’t she?”
“Eh….. yes. It should be time for her to be home by now. ……”
I figured it all out.
This was the day Yorumiya was hit by a car.
(Hey, I said I wanted to start over, but not on the day ……!)
I want to complain about time leaps. I said I wanted to start over, but that was too direct. On Christmas Day, Yorumiya gets into a car accident. There’s no grace in being sent popping back on that day.
“She hasn’t been here.”
“I see, then where on earth did she go… It seems like her cell phone is turned off as well… and at a timing like this…”
Mihato-san thinks worriedly. But she doesn’t seem desperate yet. It seems like she’s not sure what to do because she doesn’t know the current situation.
And if it is the same as before the time leap, Mihato must have a reason why she can’t move right now.
Normally, Yorumiya lives alone in a nearby apartment. Mihato-san visits Yorumiya’s house on a certain day of the week to prepare meals and do other household chores. But today is not that day. Normally, she would not be here.
I said.
“I’ll take her home. So, Mihato-san, please get ready.”
“Ha……?”
“You were told to bring Yorumiya back to the main house, weren’t you?”
Mihato-san’s eyes widened.
“Na…… why?”
-After all, the other event that will happen today has already happened.
Yorumiya’s family is an old and distinguished family.
Including group companies, total assets are well over 100 million yen. A wealthy family.
In other words, Yoramiya is a daughter of the family.
But today, the head of the Yorumiya family, the grandfather, Yorimiya Shido, passed away.
He is still in critical condition, but probably the same.
At about the same time he dies, Yorumiya is hit by a car.
In the past, which is the future from this point of view, Mihato-san was regretting.
I remember exactly what she told me in tears.
–I should have taken the young lady and run away.
I put on my beloved sneakers. A cold wind was coming in through the open door. It was cold. I can even see snow. But now is not the time to worry about that.
“Hey, Ni-chan, are you going somewhere? What’s wrong with you and Mihato-san too ……?”
Azusa arrives late and asks. It was a carefree voice.
That’s right. At that time, Azusa, Mihato-san, and I had no idea it would become such a big deal.
It was a big regret that I had been harboring for a long time.
“I’ll go find Yorumiya and start over.”
I absolutely have to make it in time.
Maiban