Chirping, birds singing.

The flowers are brilliant, the grass is green, and the industrious bees flutter their wings.

In front of me, the stream overflows, the water is murmuring, and it is clear to the bottom, but there are fish roaming leisurely, dotting the clear stream with colorful colors.

The breeze is blowing and the sun is shining, which is refreshing.

"What's going on? I was in the conference room just now, and I suddenly came here?"

Nanako, as soon as she opened her eyes, she couldn't help but be surprised to see such a beautiful scenery.

"Don't like it?"

Of course I do!

Nanako took a deep breath of aromatic breath, intoxicated by this warm beauty, and even forgot the reality that she was still being held by the young princess.

The young man is not too tired, isn't that pair of powerful arms trained hard for this time?

Nanako's eyes were intoxicated to admire, this is a valley, birds singing and flowers, pure and natural, there is no trace of human footing, it is a rare pure land in this world full of human hustle and bustle.

"Where is this?"

"Do you need to care?" The important thing is that he's here with her, isn't he?

This place, but he specially selected, is in the mountains of the Vortex Ancestral Land, because it is too difficult to enter here, so this piece of pure land is retained, because of the special landform, a special climate has been formed here, obviously the outside world is already cold and fluttering autumn, but here, it is as warm as spring.

This was the place he stumbled upon when he was bored in the Land of Vortex, and he felt that the heavens had prepared it for him and her.

Thinking about it, the young man's arms couldn't help but clench even tighter, and Nanako finally realized the reality of being held.

"Ah, put me down!"

"Don't worry, I'm not tired at all. ”

Nanako, who was speechless at "......", had to grit her teeth, grabbed the young man with both arms and supported it hard, turned over, and finally landed successfully with her feet, but her movements were a little inconsistent with the perfect image of the witch being gentle and gentle.

But it doesn't matter, in front of this guy, she has no image for a long time, and she can keep it.

"I'll walk around here with you, I found it especially for you. "It must be great to stay here in the future.

"Hmph, this scenery, it's enough for me to enjoy it alone, so I don't need you!"

Nanako's face actually appeared girlish, and she ran energetically on the grass.

She would bow her head and sniff the flowers.

She would show a smile and the birds would sing around her.

She would lie on the grass, lazily basking in the warm sun, like a kitten.

She would also sit by the creek and dip her two sparkling feet into the water, and the fish would come to peck them like a pilgrimage.

……

Now she is like an innocent girl, active and happy, with a clear heart, and all her troubles have disappeared with the lost memories.

Maybe......

Originally, she was a tranquil personality (at least after amnesia, returning to her origins), that's why she retreated to the Witch Goddess Society, but after all, she couldn't completely return to peace.

And here, she doesn't need to worry about anything, she doesn't need to care about anything, she can do whatever she wants, laugh when she wants, get angry when she wants to be angry, it's all pure and pure, all the visible and invisible pressures are gone, how beautiful.

Night falls.

She was tired of playing, and she lay on her back on the grass with her limbs wide open, but it was not ugly at all, because the vigorous vitality that erupted from her was more elegant than anything else.

Flowers adorn it, forming a most beautiful picture.

Not~

Sakaki groaned to show a sense of presence, and just lay down opposite Terumi, head on top of it, straight in a line.

In this way, no one can see anyone's expressions, only each other's breath, playing games with each other's noses.

No one spoke, and they didn't even move anymore, just lying quietly, as if no one could bear to break this tacit understanding.

The sky, also painting.

The stars dotted the night, each star shined with its own brilliance, together composing a long curtain of star waterfalls, a meteor dragged a long tail, across this beautiful picture, but did not cause the slightest damage, but like the finishing touch, making the sky this static picture, as if injected with some kind of great force, become vivid.

How beautiful, how astounding, how astounding!

"It's so beautiful...... Nanako's intoxicated exclamation is the best background music for this picture.

"Under such a starry sky, I always feel that many of the things I insisted on in the past seem to be meaningless. ”

The young man's voice sounded faintly.

"Yes, I feel that it doesn't matter what the witch-sama is, what the affairs of the vortex country are, just lying quietly under the starry sky, it's enough......"

Nanako's sincere tone still had an aftertaste, and the conversation changed again.

"Do you particularly want me to say that?"

"Huh?" finally provoked the topic!

The young man raised his eyebrows and moved, as if he wanted to come face to face with Nanako and have a good talk about this topic, but was stopped by Nanako.

"Don't move, let's just say that. ”

It's so good, no one can see each other, face the starry sky, let the starry sky witness all this.

"Your ability to suddenly disappear and appear, is it ninjutsu?"

"Well, it's space-time ninjutsu. ”

"You are so powerful, how can you be caught, and you are beaten like this, you did it on purpose, right?"

"I'm done with getting those guys out of the shrine and reassuring you, aren't I?"

"Isn't that all there is to you, and you have the bad intentions to be deliberately wounded by them, so that I sympathize with you and hate them?"

"That's the heart. The youth corrected.

"Hmph, I've debunked it, it's really calm enough, this kind of clumsy method, just want to deceive me......"

"Intentions are not to be deceived. ”

"Poof~" Nanako suddenly laughed.

"What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's just that I thought of another man...... "Nanako was thinking about that clumsy Saburo, "You guy, the only thing that is excellent, is that your mouth is hard, and it's so cute!"

"You need a little time to discover more. ”

"Hmph, Flim Flam. It was just a mockery, so don't think I'll forgive you easily. ”

"What you say and what you do are inconsistent! Since you have 'seen through' everything, why are you in a hurry to treat me at that time, and you are angry at me?"

"Whoever told you to be so open-minded, whoever comes with that kind of injury, this witch will take good care of it! That's why you're not special, and I'm not angry with them for you." ”

"Isn't it because they hurt me that makes you angry?"

"It's just about the thing, it's not about the person, and it's more than that. An innocent person is treated so viciously, so you can imagine that there will be more such things?"

"What a kind-hearted shrine maiden! I'll give you a positive answer, there are more to it. Let me ask you, do you think I was beaten badly?"

Nanako, remembering that the young man was covered in his body at that time, and there was no good piece of meat, and he couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes.

"It's miserable... Well, I'm just talking about things, don't expect me to sympathize with you anymore, you deserve it!"

The young man smiled and embraced her tsundere.

Do you know what they want to do to me? Whipping is only the most rudimentary method, and some punishments will make you uncomfortable without saying it, and they still want to kill me, but unfortunately they have touched me, and there is no use for bad water. ”

Light-hearted quips can't make Nanako embarrassed: "Why are they doing this?"

"Isn't that enough to punish me, a fellow who blasphemed the shrine maiden's holiness?"

"Your taunt, I received it!"

"I'm just letting you see the reality. If you think of this country as your own child, there is no doubt that this child has grown up and learned to think and act independently. ”

Nanako closed her eyes, and scene after scene appeared in front of her.

"Think about them, do they do exactly what you want? No, they already have their own minds, and they run the country in their own way, do you still want to control them?"

"No, I never wanted to control anyone, I just didn't want to see them do bad things. ”

"What a mother's voice! Unfortunately, your ideas are not a substitute for theirs. ”

"They're all good people. ”

"Don't mention the good or the bad, what do you think it means to this country?"

Nanako was silent, and the young man said on her behalf.

"Miko-sama, God, indispensable existence, without you, the people of the country will be destroyed?"

"yes, that's what I thought, what's going on? Everybody pushed me to that position, what can I do?"

"Don't be angry, I'm trying to make you understand that you're not as important as you think!"

The young people have already seen it.

"The ones who really run the country are those who are in high positions, and they really need a shrine maiden, a signboard called 'Shrine Maiden-sama'.

However, Mikometsu can not be you, but anyone else, after all, there is no need to be overly precise about signboards. ”

"......" is so ugly and heart-wrenching, but I can't refute it.

Nanako said in a harsh tone, "Are you telling me so much just to hit me? ”

"I just want you to give up your senseless 'sense of responsibility' to force yourself, you are not as important as you think, at least for them. ”

"At least...... , and what about you?"

"Uh-huh~" The young man no longer needed words to prove his intentions, "Let's make a bet." ”

"Bet?"

"After betting on the loss of you, the changes in the country of vortex, I promise that it will not become bad, the sky will not fall apart, and it will still operate calmly, just like when you were there!"

Nanako was silent for a long time before she spit out a word faintly.

"Good. ”

……