As he and his sister stood at the entrance to Sant Town to see Iori leave, he knew they needed to be on their own.

But looking at his sister's eyes full of anticipation and hope, he still swallowed his thoughts.

Leaving the town of Zant, Iori was never heard from again, and neither he nor his sister knew whether he was dead or alive.

It's just that the sister still believes that the man will eventually come back with a big smile, and the sister and brother will live happily with Iori from now on.

…… Until the greedy grown-ups stretched out their hands and pushed him and his sister into hell.

Every year, her sister would allow the men to take a portion of their property, in her words, at least to ensure that they were safe until Iori returned.

But he knew it was extremely dangerous. The appetites of those men were growing, and if Iori didn't come back in time, they would never see him again.

The facts also confirmed his thoughts.

He saw in his sister's eyes the process of hope crumbling, and from then on, hatred filled those gentle eyes, and there was no other brilliance.

He and his sister were separated, and despite the proximity, they could never see each other again.

Every day, every day, I am facing different people who come and go. Although each time it was a different person, and every time it was a different thing, he gradually lost hope, and spent each day numbly, waiting for his own death.

But a different day suddenly came.

In this gray and dim world, the silver white is extremely dazzling, illuminating his life in an instant, and also bringing more color to his later life.

He may be disgusted when he thinks back to his experience in Zant and the pain he endured in Roseos, but he never feels intimidated.

He and his sister were given a new name, a new life, by their redeemer. He believed in the woman named No. 4, and was even teased countless times by his sister about whether he had a crush on her.

Although he retorted with a straight face, he knew it very well in his heart.

He liked her.

He didn't know how much of this liking was the illusion of gratitude caused by being saved, and he didn't know how much of the fermented and inflated liking turned into family affection in the later days of getting along.

All he knew was that on the day he became "Fili", he realized that he and Rhine were fruitless, because Rhine only treated him as family.

If there was no miracle at the beginning of the most special time, there would be no more miracles after that.

So the "symbiosis" that appeared later was not something particularly unacceptable, but a little sad.

It's hard to finally have someone who will be with her, it's hard to be that person hurt her because of her own sluggishness, it's hard to ...... Looking at her happy appearance, she still felt sour in her heart.

Obviously, he is "Fili", and he is the person who should most expect her to have happiness.

Morfi was a strange family, not the same type as the people he had met before. The people of Sant Town are selfish and everyone only thinks about their own interests. But the people of Molfi are more concerned about the feelings of others...... It's kind of like Filly, but it's not quite the same as Filly.

The head of the Gula family is the strangest of all, and he seems to be very fond of taming beasts, but it would be too bad for him to bring the four people around him to show him great kindness just for this reason.

Why Nado Gula wanted to be friends with him, he never understood.

Iori re-entered their lives, to be precise, with a strong return to her sister's life.

He knew that it was not Iori's fault that the incident was back then, and that the other party had never forgotten them, but the damage had been done, and it was not a simple apology that could be ended.

Fortunately, Iori didn't really think that just an apology would be accepted by her sister again. So he watched Iori try to please his sister with a posture that was much better looking than Ilo Ganillo, and accepted Iori's overtures to him normally.

He knew that after too many years, the three of them had changed dramatically. It's not a good thing to rush to close the distance, and the way Iori takes is acceptable to him, but his sister, who has been grudging for a long time, is not so easy to convince.

He won't help Iori convince his sister, but he won't help her push Iori away. My sister doesn't need his kind of help, and my sister's soft personality doesn't mean that she really doesn't have opinions.

Despite all the things that happened, the delicate friendship between him and the Gula family never broke. One day, he finally couldn't help but ask Nadeau why he chose to associate with him, and Nado's reason made him even more confused.

"Just the first time I saw you, I felt that you must be a very important person to me, so I had to find a way to get close to you." 』

…… Despite that, when there was a conflict between the clan and the mercenaries, the other party chose the clan.

This was expected by him, but there was more bitterness in his heart than before.

I don't know when he was able to watch Rhine and Apaya's relationship calmly and even happily. His own personal time was always occupied by the five men of Gulla, who had always liked to be quiet, and he was accustomed to their presence.

Suddenly resuming a solitary life, I always feel a little annoying to be silent.

"I'm sorry, Bora...... It's all my fault because I'm completely immature...... I didn't want to alienate our relationship because of the conflict between Murphy and Fili, and I became anxious and instead took out this bad mood on you...... I'm really, I'm sorry......."

Nado's frustrated crying face and sincere apology made it impossible for him to keep a cold face, just as Rhine couldn't deal with Apaya who curried favor to her every time, and he didn't know how to deal with them.

…… No, this metaphor is a bit problematic, and sure enough, Rhine's words were taken away.

He also didn't understand what he was doing with the five of Gulla's, and the other four weren't just because of Nado, which made him even more confused.

If Nadeau is so easy to trust others because he is about the same age as Ellie and has the same naïve personality as Ned, what about the others? The approachable Litai and the smiling Dies, and even the brainless Logu, they didn't have much less bends in their hearts than Hua Shao - there was no derogatory meaning - he couldn't understand why they could accept him as a member of their small group.

But, perhaps, he doesn't need to understand either. As long as you protect yourself from injury, it is not a bad thing to accept the kindness of the other person.

He had heard about Nado's fiancée a long time ago, and it was not surprising to the people in the family, but it was the strangest thing that this fiancée had not appeared by Nado's side. He didn't believe what Rhine said, but out of some inexplicable mood, he still went to ask the person himself.

"Huh? Fiancee? Do I have it...... Ah, I remember, it seems to be my father or my grandfather or my great-grandfather...... Anyway, it was a marriage contract that was made a long, long time ago without knowing what was going on, and I don't even know what that girl looked like...... When the people of their family came to discuss the dissolution of the marriage, I was very relieved, and I wanted to tell them directly that they didn't need to be so careful......

The young man's confused expression as always, made him feel a little ridiculous, and even spit in his heart for the nervous mental preparation he had made before asking the question. If you think about it, Nado is still young, and for the family, it is still very early to get married.

『“…… Although I don't have an idea of getting married or not...... But I'm not too small, Bora, I'm older than Yura, I'm only a little bit smaller than Iro...... I just look small! ”』

The puffing appearance of the boy made people laugh, but Nado's speech did take him by surprise. He had always thought that Nado, like Jura and Elian, was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and Iroh should be seven or eight years old, if not ten years old.

Although Nadeau claims that he is no longer a child, his behavior at the moment because he is mistaken for his age is no different from that of a child. He could only hide his smile in his heart and strain his expression to appease the grumpy teenager.

"If I was the first to touch Bora...... I'm going to make Bora a a part of Gullah. ”

After all the unrest that shouldn't have been resolved was resolved, Nado suddenly said this to him. Immediately afterwards, Dees and Litai happily joined the conversation together, as if he could really become a Gula.

"Nado's parents rarely appear in Nado's presence, only animals accompany him, so he wants to learn about taming animals, but not to make them his slaves, but to be his friends.

Ned was raised by animals in the forest, so he saw them as a family. The forest he grew up in had been destroyed by a family...... Nado had saved all the creatures he could in the forest, so Ned willingly followed him to Gulla.

"Dees is a dirty boy that Nado picked up outside when he was a child, and he was a little bit like Huck when he was a kid, but after all, he was brought back by Nado, so his growth trajectory is completely different.

"My words...... Our family has been in the Gula family for generations, and even if the head of the family is always held by people with different surnames, as long as they have the last surname of Gullah, we will serve them. Nadeau didn't like that at all, and he didn't like the kind of respectful attitude I used to have towards him.

"Actually, I don't like it myself...... It's just that obligations and responsibilities will always be more important than personal preferences. Since I like Nadeau's personality very much, then it doesn't take a long time to become his subordinate, it's as simple as that.

"We are here because of Nado, and because of Nado's choice, we are where we are now. Since Nadeau wants to be friends with you, then we trust his choice and get to know you from our own perspective, which is what Nadeau hopes for the most.

"So we're all here because we like you, not just because of Nado." 』

What Litai had said to him, he didn't understand at the time. But now that he's been through so much, he seems to be beginning to understand a little bit about the Gula family.

…… Even if he was a Fili, it wouldn't prevent him from becoming a supernumerary of Gullah, right?