Fiancée of the Wizard Volume 8 Chapter 5 Part 6

Perhaps my questioning thoughts had reached her. Looking down at me, 『she』 shrugged her shoulders.
「I had thought so too. But, the situation became so bad we could not afford to be so, right? Perhaps that is why」
Her burnt brown eyes glared at me. I could not help but jolt upon receiving her glare. Then, 『she』 walked to me and stood on her knees. She flicked my forehead with her finger. It was more painful than I had thought. I could not help but hold my forehead with both my hands. 『She』 looked into my face with an exasperated expression.
「Really, you are so unbearable. What am 『I』 doing? 」
Her voice was in line with her expressions. After falling silent for a while, I looked away.
「I am…… 」
I was deeply troubled by such a question. 『She』 was right. Really, what was I doing? But, it was inevitable. The man was lost in front of me, because of me. He was gone somewhere, and I could not gain him back anymore.
Upon thinking so, something “black” flowed out of my heart once again and almost wiped me out. Nonetheless, this did not happen.
「Get your act together, 『me』」
「Ouch!? 」
She hit my head with the side of her open palm. Upon this impact, I felt like I could almost see stars twinkling in front of me. It was much more painful than the flick just now. I held my head and glared at 『me』. Then, I gulped at 『my』 expressions. She did not seem to be joking around at all. Instead, she had a surprisingly serious face and was staring at me.
「Hey “mother”, stop being a whiny drama queen」
I could not describe how much impact this word gave me; the word “mother”. Then, I finally realized that 『I』 was very angry. Her eyes filled with fury now looked at my stomach. I could not help but wrap my arms around my stomach as if to hide it from her gaze.
——But, I wonder why. I could not sense the presence that I had always felt from my stomach I was hugging. Don’t tell me this child had also. While I paled my face, 『I』 sighed.
「You fool. Haven’t you noticed already? 」
「What? 」
「Well, for starters, now is not the time to shut your ears. Can’t you hear? 」
Even though it is so loud? She seemed to question so in her playful gestures of shutting her ears. I opened my eyes wide open.

—–Can you please come home, my Filmina.

I lift my face upon hearing the voice from above. How could I have mistaken the voice? The familiar beautiful voice that was soothing to hear was definitely the man’s voice. Yet, I could not understand and simply froze. Then 『she』 smiled at me.
「The husband of 『ours』 you have mentioned before seems to be putting in a lot of effort. Probably it is because of him that I can come out as well」
「……Isn’t it, a lie」
「It is not a lie. Come on, go there. He has come to fetch you」
Pulling my hand up, 『she』 attempted to force me up. Then she pushed my back. I almost stumbled at the surprisingly strong push, and then stepped forward. Even if it was 『me』, wasn’t she a little too rough? When I turned around to complain, 『I』 was not there anymore. 『She』 was nowhere to be found. There was only darkness that filled my surroundings.
「……fetch, me……!? 」
Repeating what 『I』 had said, I was about to continue saying something. But I could not. At that moment, that instant, I was suddenly embraced by something warm from behind. It was a warmth that I could not forget, I must not forget no matter what; a warmth that I could not bear to let go of.

……How could I describe this sensation within me?

「——E, di? 」
「Yes, Filmina」

The mellow voice that was calm and soothing to listen to was directed only to me. Upon hearing it, I turned around warily. Since I could not move my body as I was being hugged, I turned my head over my shoulder.
Although my surroundings were filled with darkness, I did not care. Something more precious and important than this was clasping me into its chest. I was in its familiar strong arms. In the direction of my gaze was the morning glow colored eyes, the mixture of orange and purple. Upon seeing these enchanting eyes, I gulped.
「Edi」
「Yes」
「Are you really, Edi? 」
「Who else am I supposed to be? 」
The beautiful man plainly answered to my dumbfounded question. The man that I believed and never doubted that I had lost. The man smiled in a mellow way.
「I have come to fetch you, Filmina」
「!? 」
I gulped. Fetch, me. Fetch, me. I repeated those words told by the soothing voice. The moment I understood what he had said, I could not help but cry.
「Edi……! 」
The man’s clasp on me loosened. Using this to my advantage, I turned around in his arms and pulled out my arms that were dangling aside me. Then, I wrapped my arms around his back. The man also hugged me even tighter. He, hugged me. Although my tears wet his chest, I could not afford to care about doing so.
As if a fool, I simply continuously called: Edi, Edi, repeatedly while crying. The man gently embraced me. How precious was this warmth? How I love his warmth. I had almost lost this warmth that is more precious than anything else. I had almost done so. All because of my actions.
「Sorry, sorry, Edi, sorry……! 」
I knew that I could not make amends to my actions just by apologizing. Yet, I could only apologize. Sorry, sorry. I repeated so, while the man continued to rub my back. Then eventually, he wiped the tears that was wetting my cheeks with his white hands.
I did not want my messy face to be seen. Hence, I wiped my face roughly with the sleeve of my dress. Capturing this hand in his, the man raised my face up with his other hand. The man’s face that I could observe from close by was certainly that beautiful face of my husband’s.
「Don’t apologize. If you are to apologize, instead just call my name」
That is much better. The man said out loud. I almost cried again.
「……Yes, Edi」
When I said this name that was more precious than anything to me, I felt my mouth become so sweet as if I had eaten my favorite candy. I looked up at his softly narrowed morning glow colored eyes, and smiled. It was a smile that was very badly done. My face was so messy and I was almost about to cry. Yet I still smiled.
「Thank you for fetching me」
When I said so with a trembling voice, the man nodded. Then, he released me from his arms and raised his hand with his palms facing upward. I tilted my head at his strange gesture. The man said in a very gentle way that was vastly different from his normal cold voice.
「I did not come here only with my own strength. These guys guided me here」
「These guys? 」
Before I knew it, two orbs of light were floating on top of his hands. They were a small orbs of light that were barely the size of a clenched fist. However, they were shining with all their might to not be swallowed by the darkness. They simply looked adorable.
They were gentle, cute, and somehow adorable. The moment I thought the two lights left the man’s hands; they came to me.
When I gently reached out my hand and touched one, the other cuddle to my hand as if to not lose to the other. Both orbs were so warm I wanted to cry.
「Seems like I was not alone」
「Did you just realize? 」
「Yes……I want so say so, but I am a little wrong. Actually, I had noticed them all the time. I knew of them. I had forgotten about them」
「—It is my fault, huh」
「Perhaps you are right. But, you are also the one that enabled me to remember about them」
I finally realized. What the orbs of light were, and who they were. Yes indeed. I was not alone. My body was not mine anymore. I had these two. I had one, no, even two that was beside me all the time. The treasure that the man had given to me. The present that I want to give to the man. Our children that was most precious than anything. Our cute, cute babies.
Do you understand now? His eyes seemed to question me so while gazing at me. I did not reply to them, but instead wiped the remaining tears in my eyes, and laughed.
「What a terrible mother I am」
「Don’t say that. There is much more to come……me too, I still have much to do」