Chapter 443: Konoka’s Haze

When I say that, Konoka makes an extremely disappointed face. Is this trying to keep mental balance by depending on me? It also feels as though she is in a manic state of manic-depression now.

Anyway, since Lily returned to a full smile, well, let’s proceed with this step by step. But how should I proceed? It feels as though Lily thinks that if I lay hands on Konoka everything will go well. But she probably thinks not to be clingy in front of her.

"Konoka, you want to return to your original world, right?"

"Eh, yes."

When it comes to this talk, Konoka makes a face that looks a little like she is about to cry.

"I have interest in travelers from another world, and have been reading the memoirs of people who came from another world the whole time. Among them there also seemed to be ones who researched trying to return to their original world. According to their memoirs, there seems to be a possibility of returning. I will also try searching if there is a method for Konoka to return. It might take time, but let’s do our best together."

At my words she startles,

"Thank you. I will not abandon hope, so I will do my best!"

she says. I do not really understand what she will do her best at, but it is far better than becoming negative.

Then one thing that bothered me,

"Konoka, I have been bothered the whole time since you entered the room."

"What is it?"

"Something hazy is visible around Konoka’s head, and I have been bothered the whole time about what that is. Did it not bother Rudolf?"

When I turn the talk to Rudolf, Rudolf shakes his head while,

"I cannot see anything."

Saying that, Rudolf looks at Lily. Lily,

"To me it still looks as though there is something. It is visible to Lord Robbie as well, right?"

"Yes, it is visible. Konoka, stay still for a moment."

I stand up and approach Konoka. Konoka is looking at me with eyes perfectly round. When I extend my hand and try to touch the haze around Konoka’s head, Konoka closes her eyes and shrugs her shoulders.

The moment my fingertips reached the haze, the haze disappeared. There is no sensation of touching, but anyway it disappeared.

"It disappeared."

At my words Lily is nodding. Rudolf has a face of what happened? However Konoka while shaking her head,

"Ah, my head became light... I feel refreshed... My head had been hurting the whole time, but it cleared up. This is the first time since coming here, feeling this refreshed..."

she said.

"Had your head been hurting the whole time?"

"Yes, actually it had been so the whole time. I have migraines and my head hurts terribly at the changes of weather, but since coming here it has been hurting the whole time, on the head or rather, it felt as though a band was directly put on the brain and tightening it. It feels as though that suddenly disappeared."

Konoka began to cry. Had it hurt that much.

"No matter what I was doing it hurt, and even if I thought I had to think about living in this world, my head would hurt and I would become unable to think. Even when Her Majesty the Queen came before, from midway my head began to hurt, and I could only think in a bad direction, and I became strange. But now, no matter what I think my head does not hurt anymore."

Konoka says while crying and laughing.

"I see, that’s good."

"Yes, thank you."

While wiping the tears around her eyes, Konoka lowered her head.

Because Lily is visible beyond Konoka, when I say "Curse?" without making a sound, Lily is also saying "Yes," and Rudolf is also nodding with a face as if he understood.

Here there was something I noticed again. The color of the hairline at the top of Konoka’s head is changing from blue-green to brown.

"Lily, Rudolf, look at the color of Konoka’s hair. Look, isn’t the color changing?"

"Eh?" "Is that so?" "Please show me."

Three different reactions, but because Konoka cannot see, Lily and Rudolf look at the top of her head,

"It’s true."

"As you say, the color is different."

"Is it true?"

The last voice is Konoka.

"I was wearing a blue-green wig over there, and it came over here as is, and for some reason it would not come off. So has it finally returned to the original color?"

She places a finger on the top of her head and twirls the hair.

"Is it natural hair? Isn’t natural hair black? It’s quite brown, though?"

"Ah, my natural hair is brownish, and even in high school I was often guided by teachers, and my mother wrote a certificate for the brown hair, but in the end I dyed my hair black and went to high school. So I think it has probably returned to the color of my natural hair."

Lily and Rudolf have faces of what is this child saying, but I understand well.

Thinking that then,

"Konoka, show me your eyes."

"Yes?"

"If the color of the hair changed, won’t the color of the eyes also change?"

"Ah, maybe?"

While saying that, she looks at me, places a finger under the outer corner of the eye, and does an akanbe. Is this Konoka’s true self? Would showing her to Her Majesty the Queen like this be a little bad? It feels as though it would be better to convey by letter.

Anyway, when looking at Konoka’s eyes it feels as though the color is indeed changing. Isn’t the blue-green color fading a little?

"No, already no good! Sorry!"

Suddenly Konoka turns her face bright red and moves away from me.

"What happened?"

When I ask, Konoka while shaking her head looks at Lily’s face. Lily

"Lord Robbie, your face is too close. And if stared at that much, a woman cannot endure, I think."

says, and

"...Yes, it is."

Konoka continued.

"Lord Robin, you are too handsome. Your face is close, um, I cannot endure. I am sorry."

Ah— I see, understood. I will be careful from now on.