Lily's Wounds

Translator : Elizabeth

Even the higher-ups who created the department called the Interdimensional Transferee Settlement Support Division have their own evaluation criteria for evaluating employees.

The most important among them is to ensure that the transferee who has flown into our world complies with the education we provide and accepts the culture and systems of this country well to become integrated.

And to make the transferee accept it well and feel that living in this world is not uncomfortable but satisfactory.

Having been transported to a whopping four worlds, I knew very well what was uncomfortable when first landing in another world, so I designed the curriculum to focus on caring for those parts.

Probably, the Interdimensional Transfer Countermeasures Headquarters put me in this position because of that point.

In short, providing an environment where transported people are not uncomfortable and can be satisfied with this world!

That is the most important job for me.

Therefore...

[Then come to my room there's a problem here]

This text message Lily sent saying there is a problem means it is absolutely a very important matter that cannot be overlooked.

Problem with the transferee's accommodation = The transferee might find this current life uncomfortable = This world is uncomfortable = Reflection on performance evaluation!

Even if any other transferee had said this, I would have had to run immediately to check, but it's even Lily, my wife, not just anyone else.

I explained somehow the fact that I didn't run away but was transported to another world, but from Lily's perspective, the fact that her husband disappeared on the first night of their honeymoon hasn't changed, so the wound she received from me must be great.

It was also an opportunity to soothe such wounds and score points again.

As soon as I received Lily's text, I immediately packed the tools necessary for repairing room facilities and moved to her accommodation room.

Knock knock knock

— It's not locked.

As soon as I knocked, Lily's voice came from inside saying the door wasn't locked.

As I opened the door and went inside, I saw Lily lying on the bed with her body submerged under the blanket and only her head sticking out.

"Were you trying to sleep? Which facility has the problem?"

"I didn't say there was a problem with the facility."

"......?"

Looking at me who didn't understand, Lily tossed out a word.

"Turn off the lights."

"......"

Did she call me because she doesn't know how to turn off the lights? This girl who already knows how to send texts with a phone?

No, that can't be.

Lily is the type who always bragged about how she learns things like using her brain or memorizing something faster than anyone else, even if she doesn't know about physical work.

I taught her once how to use the accommodation facilities, and even if it were someone else, there's no way Lily would forget that.

I wanted to give her a flick on the forehead for calling someone to turn off the lights because she didn't want to get out of bed, but since it's her first day transported, she must be psychologically very unstable, so it's right to do everything she asks for now.

I turned off the fluorescent light switch and said with a smirk.

"To think the great Lily Amarua couldn't think of using magic to turn off this switch, you must be very anxious after the dimension transfer and finding it hard to think about this and that."

"What? Do you take me for a fool? Do you think I couldn't utilize that level of basic magic no matter how psychologically unstable I am?"

I see. Then why did she call me here?

Harboring a huge question in my heart, I tilted my head and answered.

"Anyway, well, the lights are off and there's nothing wrong with the facilities, right? Then I'll be going now—"

"Where are you going. Come here and sit."

Lily turned her head to the side and indicated the chair placed next to her bed with her eyes.

At the same time, I felt something invisible pulling my body.

"Uwaak?!"

Lily had grabbed me with magic and pulled me toward her.

I was forcibly pulled and ended up taking a seat on the chair next to the bed where Lily was lying.

I saw plenty of Lily's attack magic earlier during the day when persuading her with the loudspeaker, but I didn't know she could still use magic this freely even after the transfer was completely finished.

Since it's a world without magic, I thought at least the power would have weakened, or she would have difficulty casting magic.

"It seems there's no problem using magic in our world either. I thought it might be hard because there's no mana."

"What are you talking about. Why wouldn't there be mana here? It's overflowing with mana. It's just that you guys have zero mana sensitivity, so for someone like me, there's absolutely no problem."

So that was it! There was mana in our world too!

I realized the truth belatedly, but actually, just because there was mana didn't mean I could exert tremendous power like when I was in Astraia.

In Astraia, I could also feel and utilize mana, but here, just like when I lived before, I didn't feel anything in particular and was just an ordinary person itself.

Lily asked while still lying on the bed and turning only her head to look at me.

"But it's strange? In our world, you were quite strong, so why are you like that here? At first, I hardly felt any mana from you, so I didn't know it was you even after hearing your voice."

"Well, even if you ask why, I was originally born and raised in this world, so I don't really know the reason. I guess people born in this world are just constitutionally unable to use the mana of this world or something."

"Heh, too bad, huh? If it were like when we were in our world, you could have swaggered around alone all you wanted."

"Am I you?"

"When did I say I swaggered around?"

Chatting while bickering lightly reminded me of the time we traveled together as members of the Hero's Party.

Perhaps Lily had similar thoughts, as the emotion called longing filled her eyes looking at me.

"Reminds me of old times. Right?"

At my words, Lily nodded lightly.

"Back then, other kids said it was noisy because you and I fought every day and told us to go outside and fight."

"Who knew we would end up getting married."

Then suddenly, Lily glared at me with her eyes flashing.

"What do you mean, when did we get married?"

"... Huh?"

"I've never been married. Who treats something like that as marriage? It's an annulment, so I've never been married. I've never had a guy like you as a husband either."

"Uh... O-Okay."

It seemed the wound from my disappearance on the first night was too big for Lily.

Hearing words denying the marriage itself from Lily's mouth made my insides feel very sore, but compared to the emotions Lily must have gone through...

After chatting about this and that from the old days for a while, quite a lot of time had passed, and I prepared to get up slowly.

"Then Lily, there are no problems now, right? I was worried thinking the accommodation facilities were broken and I might have to do some hammering in the middle of the night, but since you say there's no problem, I'll take my leave—"

Just then, Lily slightly grabbed my sleeve as I was about to get up from the seat.

"Don't go, stay here."

She said while looking at me with pitiful eyes like an abandoned dog.

Sometimes when she was anxious or mentally having a hard time, she used to make those eyes, and I was quite weak to that.

Comforting Lily by her side when she made those eyes led to our relationship developing into lovers at some point.

I sat back on the chair next to the bed and grinned.

"Why, because it's the first day and you're anxious?"

"... Something like that."

Saying that, Lily held out her hand.

"Hold my hand. And stay by my side."

She said she never got married and told me I wasn't her husband, but in the end, did she need her husband's warmth?

Feeling my lower body stiffen, I held Lily's hand.

And I tried to slide into the spot next to Lily on the bed...

Po-ong!

As soon as she noticed I was trying to squeeze into the spot next to her, Lily created a gust of wind around her body and bounced me off the bed.

"Uwaak! What are you doing?!"

"Who told you to climb onto my bed."

"You asked me to stay by your side!"

"I told you to stay by my side, I never told you to come to the spot next to me in the bed."

"What the..."

Muttering in absurdity, I took my seat on the chair next to the bed again.

This time, Lily didn't push me away with a gust of wind.

... No, then you're telling me to just keep sitting on the chair here?

Even though she saw me being dumbfounded, Lily didn't care and asked, poking only her hand out of the blanket.

"Hand, aren't you going to hold it?"

"Yes, yes. Anyway, I don't know if anyone knows how much I suffered trying to match that fickleness of yours since long ago."

I placed my hand on Lily's hand that was extended out of the blanket.

Warm warmth was conveyed through each other's hands, and Lily turned her head slightly to the side and tried to sleep.

After about 30 minutes passed, feeling Lily's breathing stabilize, I slowly withdrew my hand to return.

Squeeze—!

Then suddenly, something invisible restrained my body again and forcibly held me on the chair next to the bed.

"Where are you going?"

"Ah, you weren't ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠sleeping?"

"I told you to stay by my side. Don't pull your hand out either. It might have been similar in Astraia, but it seems I'm much stronger than you here, you know? Listen when I say it with words?"

"Anyway, that personality of yours."

"Hmph."

Once again, I ended up guarding Lily's bedside while holding her hand quietly.

This time, well over an hour passed, and Lily's breathing became much thinner than before, as if she had really fallen asleep.

"... Lily, are you sleeping?"

"......"

I don't know if she's pretending to sleep or really sleeping.

"Hey, you weakling spellcaster. Are you sleeping?"

"......"

Even though I brought up the word 'weakling,' which was Lily's reverse scale when we were in the Hero's Party, she didn't react.

If she was pretending to sleep, she would have jumped up and attacked me the moment she heard the word weakling.

Confirming that Lily had really fallen asleep, I prepared to get up by withdrawing my hand slowly, bit by bit.

When I had almost completely withdrawn my ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠hand from Lily's hand.

"Don't... go..."

'She was still not sleeping?'

Startled by Lily's muttering, I stopped getting up.

However, Lily's reaction was a little different from earlier.

Sniffle... Sniffle...

Suddenly, the sound of sniffling began to fill the room.

Lily started talking in her sleep with a voice suddenly full of tears.

"Hans... Where ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠are you... Hans... Hans... Where did you go... Don't go..."

"......"

It seemed that my sudden disappearance after spending the first night together remained a severe trauma for Lily.

She said 3 years had passed in her world, and I felt like I knew with what heart she had lived for those 3 years.

Feeling my ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠heart becoming heavy as well, I felt a bitter taste in my mouth endlessly as I moved the chair away and just sat on the floor, leaning my body against Lily's bed.

"Hans... I miss you... Where are you..."

I lightly caressed the cheek of Lily, who was talking in her sleep while crying.

"I won't disappear now. Don't cry."

We did much more than this on the first night, but for some reason, it felt more embarrassing than back then.

Overlaying my two hands on Lily's hand as it was, I leaned my body slightly against her bed and tried to sleep in that state.

Lily woke up feeling human warmth in her sleep.

Hans... The man called Jung Hyun-soo in this world.

The only man she loved in her life and to whom she gave everything, even her body and heart, but simultaneously the absolutely unforgivable bastard who took only her purity and disappeared.

Despite waking up in the morning, feeling that man's warmth, Lily felt a tremendous sense of relief for the first time in 3 years.

Squish squish—

And a quite foreign sensation felt on her chest as well...

"Hiik?!"

Opening her eyes wide and looking around, she saw Jung Hyun-soo, who had fallen asleep leaning against the head of her bed, putting one hand under her pajamas and fondling her breast.

"Ehehehe... Playing hard to get... Come here..."

"Y... Y... You son of a bitch!!!"

Kwa-a-ang!

"Kkeu-heong!"

Lily impulsively created a strong gust of wind and pushed Jung Hyun-soo far away, and he flew all the way to the hallway while stuck to the door that had fallen off.