I donât know how to deal with an attitude thatâs too different from when I saw you before.
Years ago, though.
âI saw you with the kidâs adventurer. I wonder if that girl, Ivy, has been talking about lately.â
Shit.
Are you getting attention for being with me?
Tomorrow, but I have to tell Ivy.
How could I be⌠if I donât like being noticed?
Hold your hand in a good way.
âDruid?â
âOh, bad. Yes.â
âI havenât seen it in a long time. That look on Druidâs faceâ
Gilmouth told you, too, that youâre laughing naturally.
Is that so different?
âI remember the old days. When I told Shileela about it, she said,â You were a jerk until a while ago. I was taking that smile away from you. ââ
⌠Huh?
Mr. Sirella is that grown-up wife, isnât she?
Youâve only come to say hello once.
âWell, I did take that smile off the Druid, so you canât help it if itâs called scraps.â
âBrother.â
Whatâs the matter with you?
I would never have been the one to admit my mistake.\n
Are you sure itâs real?
âYou never let me take care of the shop, I talked to my father directly.â
Have you changed your mind?
Talk about the store?
Well, my fatherâs a good year, too.
Will it fit when I can leave the store to you next?
âMy father told me, âTry it for a month. You have to take a good look at reality.'â
Look at reality?
Whatâs this all about?
Is the store in danger?
I havenât heard anything like that.
âIn a monthâs time, I made my father admit I was going to take over the store. But a customer is honest.â
âGuests?â
âOh, I donât have many customers when Iâm the only one in the store. Even though itâs normal to come in with Cyrilla or my mother.â
⌠Thatâs because of my brotherâs character.
Youâre unconscious, because youâre willing to say things that look down on others.
Still, I settled down a lot compared to the old days.
Well, thereâs something that comes from the atmosphere, even if youâre careful not to put out words.
âI managed to do my best, but it didnât work out at all. I got frustrated and sprinkled by Sirella.â
Wow, maâam, that was tough.
âWell, Cyrilla told me she knew.â
Kind of sounds like you got a great guy for your wife, brother.
Mr. Sirella, you came to say hello, but you chased me back to say it would be tough if my brother could tear me up. \nI did something Iâm sorry about.
âYou must have even given me a surprised look. âMaybe you havenât noticed? You, as a merchant, no. It would suck if you saw it from someone else,â he said with a smile. I just didnât understand what they said for a second.â
⌠Isnât that just too much to say that you suck as a person?
âHahaha, no matter what I understand the meaning, what can I say? Instead of listening to the story and defending it, my mother tells Shileela,â Youâve often come to my sonâs wife like this. â
âŚâŚâŚâŚ
âIâm so flabbergasted.â
Thatâs well, you will.
But your brotherâs growing up, too.
If they used to make fun of me at all, I would have gone mad.
âI was in store the next day, and you had a pretty bad look on your face, and a regular Tokihi looked at me and he sighed a lot.â
Mr. Tokhihi?
Iâm the one who got adored, too.
How are you?
ââItâs always hard for customers to get in. Are you going to crush the storeâ? There was blood on my head the day before. Iâve ruined what I think.â
Brother, what are you doing to our guests?
âIâm trying, but I canât admit it, or you think this happened because the stars are goneâ
⌠Oh, can you still forgive me?
Turn your gaze softly to your feet.
A gripping hand enters sight.
I didnât realize it, but it seemed like a lot of effort.
My fingernails are eating into my palms.
Speaking of which, you always had a scratch on your hands when you talked to your brothers.
\nIâve been told, too.
âCertainly there are things that make it easier to do your job with your skills. If the stars were good, I would be able to do it a little better than people. But I can make it up to you if I make an effort. So think about your skills and your stars. â
Iâve seen my fatherâs efforts up close, so I guess I can say it because sheâs my mother.
âThis past month has made me think a lot. So I guess I was taken by Mr. Tokhihiâs words and those of his father and mother in a different way than usual. Nevertheless, to be honest, Iâm still bound by skills and stars. But thatâs not all I realized.â
I see.
Have you finally noticed?
My father and motherâs efforts have finally come to fruition.
Good.
âI told Cyrilla, âThanks to the disappearance of the stars, you were able to grow up a little as a person. And now you could have grown just a little bit more. Iâd have been divorced the whole time.â
⌠Mr. Siriella, I donât think you should judge people by their appearance.
It really feels like weâre adults.
âDruid, Iâm sorry. Iâve been too constrained by the stars to do much terrible things. I could understand that being a person sucks.â
âNo, it wasâ us, wasnât it? âHuh?â
When I saw my brother blocking my words, he looked a little bitter.
âThe one who was most saddened by my attitude and that of Dolgas was the Dolphins. I guess I wanted to do something about it. You were nice to us, too, haters. And yet weâve done a terrible thing to you because the stars disappeared.â
Iâm not.
âIt was for my father. I feel like my family is falling apart. So I canât say itâs for my brothers.â
âYou donât remember?
âWhat?â
âYou asked me, didnât you?â With fewer stars, can you be gentle with people? âAnd I donât remember what I answered then. I remember being asked. â
⌠have you ever heard of that?
I donât know, but if my brother says so, does he?