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~
After being rocked by the car, we arrive at Yorumiya’s house.
It was a Japanese-style mansion. From the huge gate, it was already very intimidating.
As soon as I passed through the gate with Mihato and Yorumiya, a woman who looked like a servant came to us.
“Welcome, Enami sama”
“Ah, yes. ……”
“Please come this way. The First Lady is waiting for you.”
I followed the servant’s lead.
I wondered what Yorumiya and the others were going to do.
When I looked back at them, Mihato and Yorumiya nodded as if to say, “Never mind.”
Do they have somewhere to go together?
…… I don’t have a choice. One person is much more uneasy, though.
I followed silently behind the servant, feeling uneasy.
“First lady, I have brought Enami-sama with me.”
I walk down a long corridor and eventually arrive in front of one of the rooms.
I glance sideways at several rooms as I walk, but this one is one larger than the others.
“Enter.”
I heard a hard, croaky voice. The servant slid open the sliding door.
At the far end of the tatami-floored room, a white-haired woman sat in seiza.
(Oh …… this is her grandmother?)
I recognized her immediately. This person was definitely the woman who had shed tears at Yorumiya’s funeral before the time leap.
She looked old enough to be called an old woman, but the atmosphere around her was tense and sharp.
Before the time leap, I had only seen her from the side and had no particular connection with her.
But now that I am face to face with her, I feel a sense of tension that almost overwhelms me.
“Enami-sama, come over there.”
The servant points to the room with her hand. A cushion is placed in front of Yorumiya Sae, the grandmother. She told me to sit there.
(……There seemed to be no escape.)
But I couldn’t just run away from the situation.
In the future, I will probably have to meet this person.
I think it’s probably just as well that we meet her here and now. Let’s go with that kind of mindset.
“Thank you for inviting me. I am Enami Shuusuke……”
I sat down on the opposite side of the room. The sliding door was closed behind. leaving the two of us alone in the tense atmosphere of the room.
“Shuusuke san. First of all, let me apologize. Thank you for coming despite my sudden summons.”
I am a little surprised when she suddenly bows her head. The tone of her voice was a few steps softer than I had expected, and I was conversely surprised. I wondered if she was going to be offended in some way.
“…… no, I’m fine. And it’s for Yorumiya …… Hina san’s sake.”
But I don’t know yet. I waited patiently for words.
“Also… you can just take it easy here. There’s no one who listen the head of the family’s room.”
“…… Eh?”
Sae-san said, as if seeing through my nervousness.
“I came here today because I wanted to confirm a few things and talk about a few things. I don’t want to force Enami-san to do anything at this point.”
Her tone of voice was only soft. And as she said she would make it easy for me, she relaxed her shoulders.
“Can you let me check a few things?”
“Ah, …… yes.”
“Yorumiya Hina san and I have agreed to be married. Is there any mistake in this?
“No. There is no mistake about it.”
I could nod my head to that without hesitation.
Yorumiya and I are fiancees. With that title, there are some things I can protect.
“I see.”
Sae san nods and closes her eyes slightly.
‘Thank you. So,…… are you in a relationship?”
“We haven’t become …… lovers yet,……!”
Suddenly, a new pitch came flying in, and my voice got really choked up.
What is she going to say?
“I understand.”
She nodded her head.
For some reason, I thought it resembled Yorumiya.
It felt like something was suddenly being said to me from outside my consciousness.
“I’d like to talk about …… Hina. How much do you know about Hina? About Hina in the main house.”
How much about Yorumiya?
I think it is to some extent.
“…… that you were being unreasonable.”
“Yes,…… I am aware that I have caused Hina a great deal of misfortune.”
…It doesn’t help but sound ironic that the word “unfortunate” comes from the acting head of the family.
As if sensing my thoughts, she looked down slightly apologetically.
“No matter what I say now, it won’t make amends.”
I don’t think she should apologize either. There is no way to make up for what has already happened.
“What the Yorumiya family once did to her is a fact, and it is also a fact that I could not stop it.”
“…… Yes.”
“In the past, I made a decision, knowing that my granddaughter would be subjected to such things”
“A decision?”
“After my husband’s death, I will help Hina. That’s what I decided.”
Sae san’s voice was calm.
“I do not intend to make amends for this. Hina will not accept my apology. That is why I thought I should tell you, her Fiancee”
“…………”
I am wondering how I should react to this.
What do you mean by “amends”?
“not a member of the Yorumiya family, but rather, my own personal policy. If you need help ……, please contact me through Mihato and I will lend a hand.”
“For example, what about ……?”
“If you guys are going to live together, we can at least work out the money.”
“N-No! I’m not going to live with her right now!”
She looked serious, so I hurriedly denied it. It really seemed like I could get at least some money.
(But …… I see.)
Before the time leap, Sae-san was in tears over Yorumiya’s death.
She probably had feelings for Yorumiya. But she was in a situation where it would have been crushed if she had stayed within the larger framework of the Yorumiya family.
Even after the death of the head of the family, the Yorumiya family probably would not be able to treat Yorumiya, the son of a wrongdoer, on par with the others.
What to do with Yorumiya? Will they try to use and destroy her unreasonably as they did in the past?
Among the choices, Sae-san chose the answer, “Ignore her”
That was probably the best solution.
Having been ‘ignored’ by the acting head of the family, Yorumiya is now free to some extent. With the hand of keeping her away, Yorumiya had been unknowingly saved by Sae san.
Sae-san’s expression is only hard. I can’t understand her well, but I can imagine that she feels sorry.
“Well, how can I say …… that I can’t give you any opinion about the past either …….”
I couldn’t do anything in the past either. I didn’t know about the situation in Yorumiya, and just lived my student life leisurely. This is no different from Sae san in the past. So I’m not in a position to give any answers.
“But now that Yorumiya has someone like this helping her, it must be a happy thing for her. ……”
But I am glad to know that there is someone here who can help Yorumiya.
“I would be happy if you continue to help Yorumiya. I will do my best.”
“Thank you, …….”
Sae-san looked slightly blown away. Really, ties are troublesome.
I’ll support Yorumiya more clearly! Eeei! I wonder if it’s possible to do something like that.
I guess not.
“If there is anything you need, please contact me. I will help you as much as I can.”
“Yes, thank you.”
“Now, one more point of clarification.”
“Oh, …… yes.”
Sae-san slid a sheet of paper that had been placed beside her to the front of the room.
It’s wrinkled and not very pretty. It’s just a piece of paper that looks like the back of a school printout.
Or rather, it’s on the back of the school printout.
(Hey, this paper looks familiar.)
After I brought Yorumiya back for Christmas, I hastily scribbled it down and gave it to Mihato.
I wrote it down in a hurry and gave it to Mihato-san, hoping it would help her in some way.
And the names I wrote down – before the time leap, it was a list of names of people who had been caught in scandals at companies related to the Yorumiya family.
“Can you tell me about the names written on this paper?”
(Come to think of it, I wrote something like that: ……!)
I apparently threw a bomb in there and left it there.
Maiban