Chapter 702: Intermission: Illness ~ ~ The Person who Changed Everything ~ ~ (2/2)

As I walked down the corridor dyed in the darkness of the night, pushing my cart, I stopped to look out the window where light streams in.

The large moon hovering in the night sky, with not a cloud in sight, illuminates everyone in a gentle light.

[……It's beautifuuuuul.]

As I stared at that beautiful scene, I remembered the words I had exchanged with Kaito-sama earlier.

Kaito-sama said that he had always been under my care…… but I think that he's really mistaken.

What I have done is something trivial. It's wrong to compare what I've done with the happiness Kaito-sama has given me.

Kaito-sama has changed everything for me. The moment I met Kaito-sama, I had indeed been reborn.

Thinking about it, what I've done for him isn't even enough to repay him…… because it really was just something trivial……

When I met Kaito-sama, my gaze, which had only been looking at my own feet since birth, looked forward for the first time. Thereupon, what do you know? That, which I thought didn't exist…… ”The path I want to walk” and ”the future I want to seek” existed, dazzling me with its presence.

After meeting you, everything in the world that seemed colorless until then began to look completely different.

I couldn't help but feel love…… not only you, but also the world in which you live in…… and the environment that brings the smile to your face.

I wish that you'd always be happy in the future, for nothing brings me more happiness than seeing you smile. Compared to the me back then…… I will always love this me who began to feel these emotions.

[……As I thouuuuuught, it's really goiiiiiiing to be a bit cold tomorroooooooow. It might be a good ideaaaaaa to bring him something warm to drink in the morniiiiiiing.]

Drawing upon this feeling of happiness dwelling within my heart, a feeling that is so vivid that I couldn't believe that I didn't understand it before, I pushed my cart again and turned my gaze forward…… only to be drawn by the moon floating outside the window once again.

[Kuhihi…… As I thouuuuuught, it really is me who has received sooooooooo much.]

You who lit up my world, and the one I love more than anyone and anything else…… You probably haven't realized it yet, right?

[At leasttttt, until I met youuuuuu…… I didn't know that the moooooooon above the night sky was so beautifuuuuuul.]

The scenery that I am looking at now with a heart filled with happiness, and the world that I have come to see as beautiful————- That all of this is something I received from you……

I dearly love you, Kaito-sama. I hope that the future will be one where you're filled with smiles…… And if it comes true————— I wish that I will be close by, watching your smile.

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [Guaaaahhhhhh!? Stop with the heroine power violence…… Seriously, stop it……]

? ? ? : [It's amazing how Illness was originally planned to be the crazy yandere. Well, there are remnants of her being such a person in the Intermission at the beginning……]

Serious-senpai : [Eh? Really? Then, why the change of plans?]

? ? ? : [The most recently added character at that time, Earth God, someone who was originally supposed to be quite majestic, evolved into an outrageous yandere, so it looked like Author-san changed the course.]

Serious-senpai : [……In a way, it's thanks to her that Illness isn't a crazy yandere…… I guess?]