Volume 2 Chapter 16 (2/2)

「You don’t need to be in a hurry of any sort, especially because I’m to bla」

「I-It’s definitely not your fault! I know you’re really busy, so don’t blame yourself!」

I satI earing clothes and not seehtly as I’d been just etif you’d like to share theot the usual letter for you too Feel free to read it at your leisure」

「Thank you! Thank you soyou always do for e Letter Yumis handed me and placed it inside one of my desks’ drawers I wanted to listen to its contents immediately, but decided that I’d rather spend time with her because of how rare an opportunity it was

「This letter will probably be the last I’ the spell, so you’ll soon be able to see your fae Letters you’ve been giving me have really helped me feel at home」

「Don’t worry about it I’ you really lonely these past few years, so it’s only natural I try helping you cope with it Besides, e Letter, so getting a few for you everydeal at all」

Yumis smiled in her usual, kind manner Her smile was so pretty that it charle ti? The tea will probably start getting cold soon if we don’t」

「Okay」

And so, the two of us spent a bit of tiether over tea Yumis was a really busy person, and had to rush around extensively, so we didn’t really have ether However, she’d always try to visit ardless

Though we’d only o, I couldn’t help but feel that she, my elder sister, was my pride

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I first learned that I was Yuo

The village I grew up in was a small, remote one to this city’s, Elmia’s, northeast It was surrounded on all sides by dense woods, and lay at the foot of a mountain

My faer sister

I didn’t have a father, a factup in conversation Despite that, we never really went hungry, in part becausetalent for olden blonde hair, fair skin, and the sharp pointed ears that you’d normally only ever find on Elves My mother had always told me that it was because her Grandmother was of elven blood

I also had an innate skill, one called “Scarlet Eyes” It allowed y even before it was formed into a spell It was a very convenient spell that helped cast e had been founded by adventurers, it’d always been a peaceful place that accepted both beastkin and dehadventurers I was never able to h for us to be considered wealthy, but I was happy nonetheless

One day, all those happy days suddenly caer sister, contracted a disease It wasn’t so that caused her to suffer constant, intense pain

It could be cured if we just had an elixir, but, that wasn’t so my family was able to afford no matter how far we stretched our finances

I tried, I tried my hardest to save up as h to buy the elixir we needed By then, we’d run out of options We’d even started considering whether or not we should just sell Shurumii off

And that hen I finally met Yumis, my older sister

I learned that my mother had once been a maid in the service of El so, caused me to be born Shurumii was conceived in the same way The lord’s wife, however, had hatedher a bit ofme, as just a child at the time, aith her That was how the two of us then ended up living in the village at the foot of the mountain

In other words, I’d learned that Yumis was my, our older half-sister

She had coical abilities Specifically, she offered to have e, she said she would provide the elixir Shuruh money to support my family for the rest of their days, and a promise to aid us in times of need

It was an offer I accepted without sothrough with the ritual would cause ical abilities, but that wasn’t worth nearly as ether with Yuer sister drink the elixir and recover

The ritual needed me to several conditions for it to succeed I wasn’t allowed to leave my room nor meet any of my blood relatives aside fro three years alone in my room would make me lonely, so she went out of her way to allow me the opportunity to interact with the rest of e Letter It was a really convenient item, as neither Shurumii or my mother knerite

She also went out of her way to spend tiet any fancy snacks even though she was busy with both researchingas the area’s teht me how to read and write so I hadme all the stuffed animals and books I could ever ask for It took no ti of her as my elder sister

Yumis told me that she’d have both ether as soon as I finished transferring ical abilities to her Apparently the lord and his wife had already moved into one of their manors in the royal capital and left all their duties to Yu back into the city

Yuize toas she had even though she was already doing so much for me

I couldn’t wait to finally be able to see boththeir voices alone wasn’t enough There was still lots that remained untold

I really wanted to see how rown She, didn’t seee, so I suspected that she rown to be even taller than I was

I also really wanted to eat my mother’s freshly made Ricol pie It was one ofI was sure Yumis would enjoy too

It would be just wonderful if the four of us could all sit down and have tea together soht of it ht thatjust as they would over the course of the past three years

But then one day, things once again changed, as I happened to catch sight of an odd looking ghost

Or rather, an odd looking spirit

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Note: This character says their own name instead of “I,” “me”, “my,” etc It sounds childish and cute in japanese, but like cancer in English, so I refrained from it

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