Confession

Epilogue

“…Uhn…?”

Lavia opened her eyes. Lying next to her, watching her, was Hikaru.

“Hikaru…! Wh-Why are you staring at me?” she said, covering half her face with the sheets, blushing.

“You just looked so adorable sleeping.”

Hikaru felt great, as he was able to say the top five lines on the list of “lines a guy wants to say to a girl”.

Which lines occupied the first to fourth spot was up to the imagination.

“…You dummy.”

Lavia hid her whole face under the covers, with only a lock of hair popping out. So cute, Hikaru thought. He couldn’t help but smile.

He was fifteen and she was fourteen. Yet Hikaru didn’t think it was too early. In this world, death was always just around the corner. He’d already died to begin with. He thought it was reasonable to find someone you love early and get together.

“Uhh…”

“What’s wrong?” Hikaru asked.

“It’s so embarrassing, I wanna die.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I… I wasn’t supposed to make a sound, but I couldn’t keep my word. Your voice was really gentle as well.”

Oh, crap. What do I do? He wanted to hold her tight and make her moan again.

“It’s all right,” he said. “No one’s staying in the rooms to the left and right, up and down.”

“Really?”

The lock of hair poking out from under the covers bobbed. Hikaru found it adorable.

“I’m sorry for wearing you out after all that happened yesterday,” he said.

“Please stop. You’re embarrassing me.”

Even her hands turned red.

“Ah, I mean, you were probably at your limits… You barely left the house, didn’t you?”

“To be honest, it was a bit rough for me. I feel like my body is in pieces right now.”

“I’m sorry.”

“You don’t have to apologize. My body may be in pieces, but my heart is filled with joy.”

It was Hikaru’s turn to blush this time.

Lavia seemed to be embarrassed by what she said herself as the hair that protruded above her head twitched. She walked right into that one herself.

Hikaru reached for her hand. “So warm,” he remarked.

When was the last time I went to bed with someone?

His parents were far away.

He couldn’t make friends.

He couldn’t even touch Hazuki.

Is this what she meant?

He thought he understood what Hazuki was trying to say.

I should find someone I could sincerely trust.

Lavia, curious about Hikaru’s silence, peeked out from under the covers and looked at him.

“What’s wrong?” she asked.

“Lavia.”

“Yes?”

Someday, he had thought.

Once he could trust her, she would tell her everything.

That day won’t come if I just wait… If I don’t reach for it, that day will never come. Lavia said she would give me her everything.

He regarded Lavia with determination in his eyes.

“You must be wondering how I make myself disappear… or rather, how I hide myself from others. I… I’m a bit of an outlier in this world.”

Lavia gave a start. “You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.”

“Lavia. This is my secret. I thought about sharing it with you someday. But any time should be okay. Whether today or tomorrow, whenever I want to feel you.”

“You want to feel me?”

Hikaru nodded. “Will you listen to my story? About my power, about myself.”

Lavia sat up straight, a solemn expression on her face.

“Okay,” she replied.

Hikaru was deeply grateful to her for giving him her full attention.

“I will do everything I can to protect you,” he said.

It was an expression of his determination.

“So please, stay with me,” Hikaru said.

“You don’t need to ask,” Lavia replied. “I will always be with you.”


Extra: The Receptionist Who Wants to be Appreciated

The morning sun was shining on the roofs.

Freya Heartland woke up around this hour. It would still be dark around this time during winter, but since it was summer, the sun was already out.

“All right. Perfect.”

She smiled at the dull mirror. She was wearing the same smile she always did. The smell of baking bread wafted up from downstairs. Her parents woke up even earlier than her. Eating freshly-baked bread every morning was the source of Freya’s energy.

G. Ponsonia was the capital of the Kingdom of Ponsonia. The name of the city meant “royalty”. The capital had many satellite towns, and Pond was only one of them. As such, the town was hardly the topic of conversations.

Because it was a satellite town, its residents shared the same thought: the capital was the best, and the satellite towns were a step inferior. There were many people in the capital who did not know about Pond.

Freya, born and raised in Pond, liked this place. Growing up in a town of about 6,000 people meant she knew most of the residents. She already demonstrated a brilliant mind since she was young, to the point that people said the bakers gave birth to a scholar.

She decided to work not at her parents’ bakery, a shop that lived with the town of Pond, but the Adventurers’ Guild, a place that dealt with wanderers.

There were a few reasons for her decision.

First, the high salary of an Adventurers’ Guild’s receptionist. Freya’s parents’ bakery, Heartland Bakery, was barely able to turn a profit. Although bread, a staple food, was consumed in large quantities, it was cheap. The residents of Pond, Freya’s family included, were not wealthy, so they couldn’t afford to raise prices.

Nevertheless, they made a decent living. The problem was: the deteriorating oven. They didn’t have the money to remake it.

Freya working in the bakery would not increase sales. So she decided to earn money somewhere else. Somewhere her parents would not have to worry about her, and where she could earn a lot—that place was the Adventurers’ Guild.

Her other reasons included learning about other places through adventurers, the only other place where she could do non-manual labor was the capital (leaving would make her parents sad), and that she could continue doing the job even if she got married.

“A perfect score on the exam. I can’t believe it,” guildmaster Unken groaned while scoring the papers.

The position of a receptionist was highly sought after. Not only were they well paid, but there were a lot of cases where rich adventurers fell in love with a receptionist and ended up marrying her. As a matter of fact, a hiring exam for the position of receptionist was held in Pond for the first time in several years because a receptionist got married to a Rank C adventurer.

There were 129 applicants for one position. All were women in their late teens to twenties, majority of which came from the capital, not Pond.

There were three main abilities required of a receptionist: memorization (knowledge of a myriad of monsters, plants, people, places), paperwork skills (handling the large number of commissions and completion reports that came in every day), and mental strength (the courage to remain calm in the face of extraordinary circumstances, such as the death of a person or a crisis in town).

Adventurers thought that receptionists were hired for their looks, but it just so happened that the ones who had all three of these qualities were often pretty ladies. At least, as far as Unken knew. “God grants people a couple of blessings,” was what the wise Unken said. It had a deeper meaning.

If Hikaru checked their Soul Boards, he would see that the majority of the guild’s receptionists had points allocated to Mental Strength. That’s how tough they were. Otherwise they wouldn’t be able to deal with the roughnecks that came in every day.

“A perfect score, and she lives in Pond. No reason to not consider her.”

Unken checked Freya Heartland’s records once more. The exam often contained questions about things found in the documentations owned by the guild, but there were also questions that tested common sense and judgment, as well as math. Overall, it was quite difficult. Unken had confirmed that Freya had been coming to the guild every day, holing herself up in the library even before the exam was announced.

The reason she had been coming here before the announcement was that she had gotten word that the receptionist had started dating an adventurer, and that they were getting married soon. After the test was announced, the Adventurers’ Guild’s library would be flooded with candidates, so she went to the guild in advance to make a copy of the materials.

She said that she would donate the information she had transcribed to the guild, regardless of whether she passed or failed the exam.

“No problems with her character…”

Unken flipped through Freya’s files. It contained the results of a test given to the top ten scorers.

This test was not announced in advance, nor was it revealed to be a test even after it was conducted. A guild staff from another town was invited to make contact with the candidates, intimidating them, harassing them, or even seducing them (there were a lot of male guild staff as well).

Freya’s result was “neither good nor bad”. Considering that the other candidates received “very excellent” remarks, hers was a step lower. The handsome staff who was in charge of the test described the result as follows:

“I posed as a beggar and tried to garner sympathy. She did not respond to seduction, but she also seemed overly compassionate about others. If faced with the death of an adventurer, she could fail at her job as a receptionist.”

Unken had a tough decision to make. The recruitment exam for a receptionist was a major event that the guild spent quite a bit of funds on. The guild did not want to hire a receptionist who would resign immediately.

“Compassion is a virtue. If she’s not motivated by self-interest, then there should be no problem. My intuition agrees as well.”

Unken thus hired Freya.


A year had passed since Freya became a receptionist at the Adventurers’ Guild, and she was just getting used to the job, when she met the boy.

At 17 years old, Freya was old enough to get married in this world. Because of her ample-sized breasts, she was often treated as an adult by adventurers—no, this was an overstatement. In the words of one adventurer, “Freya’s got huge tits and a baby face. So freakin’ hot!” The comment came from a man who was 38 years old. A sketchy character, in more ways than one.

Freya found the boy with the black hair and black eyes who appeared out of nowhere strange. He had the politeness that was uncharacteristic of an adventurer, clothes that suggested a good upbringing, and a lanky figure. She wanted to teach the boy—he introduced himself as Hikaru—on how to live as an adventurer, but she had a lot of work to do. With the senior receptionist on a trip back home, another on a business trip, and the last one on sick leave, she had to handle everything by herself.

By the time she noticed, it was too late. Hikaru had received a commission to gather glimmering poisonous herbs. You didn’t actually have to go gather the herbs from out on the field; you could clear the commission by simply handing over what you already had. It was her own fault for not fully explaining it, and more importantly, the Green Wolves that prowled the area where the herbs grew were dangerous to new adventurers.

Despite Freya’s worry, Hikaru returned. Along with a large amount of glimmering poisonous herbs.

He also completed his subsequent jobs. He cleared Gloria’s malicious commission, found a Goblin pack, and hunted down Red-Horned Rabbits, extremely rare creatures, with ease.

What an extremely lucky guy!

That was Freya’s conclusion. Somehow she had a feeling that that was not the case, but she ignored her hunch. Hikaru was an honest, hardworking rookie adventurer. To Freya, who could sense people’s dark intentions, an adventurer like Hikaru was precious, and he was one of the few people she could talk to openly.

When they were at a café pretending to be a couple, she thought, I-I just wanted to get to know him better as a friend. That’s all. Nothing else to it.

Freya felt great whenever Hikaru said “thank you” after providing him with knowledge. She had never had an adventurer thank her before. They simply acted like it was her job to give them information, or have this idea that her sharing information meant she had interest in them romantically.

She wanted to teach Hikaru more things. And she wanted to help him become a full-fledged adventurer. That was Freya’s genuine wish.

But there was something that bugged her. She wondered if Hikaru was hiding some important secret. Once the thought came, she couldn’t get rid of it. She didn’t want to doubt him, but she couldn’t help herself. She was afraid of losing the one person who interacted with her genuinely.

I don’t want to ruin this relationship…

So Freya acted like an older sister. Whenever Hikaru thanked her, she felt relief. He was still under her protection.

On the day they received word that the mission to escort the daughter of Count Morgstadt to the royal capital had failed, Hikaru showed up at the Adventurers’ Guild, looking paler than usual. He acted all nonchalant, and the change was so small that no one else would have noticed. But not Freya. She could sense others’ emotions. She could feel that Hikaru was desperately trying to protect something important.

“Any interesting commissions today?” he asked.

“Hmm… Not really,” she replied. “I’ll set aside the best commission for you, so rest assured.”

“Thank you.”

Hikaru left after scanning the available commissions. Freya felt worried as she watched him go, but all she could do was to cheer him on from the shadows.

It was not time yet.

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Comments (2)

  1. TheLunarCleric

    im really liking the changes with hikaru telling lavia this early and also freya knowing what happened

  2. PanzerMk72

    Ah a POV section from Freya’s perspective!

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