episode_0063

After finishing various kisses with Helena, I got up from the bed.

“No, you can’t. You need to rest more.”

“Hmm? No, I’m healthy.”

I said, rotating my arms in front of Helena.

“Still, you can’t. You need to lie down on the bed a little longer.”

Helena’s hand wrapped around my waist, and she leaned back, pulling me along with her.

“Ugh, okay, okay.”

After spending another hour on the bed, I finally managed to get up.

“Helena, is there anything you want to eat?”

“Meatballs!”

“Why does everyone like meatballs so much?”

My meatballs aren’t anything special, just made according to the recipe, but Lily and Helena both seem to love them.

Moreover, I’m not sure if Lily likes the meatballs themselves or if she just enjoys me feeding her, but she looks happy eating them.

I started making meatballs slowly. Despite Helena hugging me from behind, I managed to make the meatballs well.

I bit into a cooked meatball to check if it was done perfectly.

From the texture to the juiciness, the meatball moved perfectly in my mouth.

“Ah, perfect.”

As I finished coating the well-cooked meatballs with the prepared sauce.

-Ding dong.

The sound of the dormitory door opening echoed.

“Lily?”

Huh? I remember the final competition taking a long time and ending late due to various events.

But the only people who can enter this dormitory are me, Lily, and Helena. And since Helena is here, the only one left is Lily.

Sure enough, Lily was in the kitchen. But something seemed off.

“Lily!?”

The red ribbon I always tied for her was messy, and the academy uniform I always ironed was also disheveled.

I don’t know what happened exactly, but at least Lily had been in a fight with someone. And she must have fought a strong opponent to come back this injured.

Could it be that she fought with that representative Emily that Mari mentioned?

First, I needed to prioritize treating the injured Lily, so I took her hand and led her into the bedroom.

“I’m fine…?”

Helena, who seemed worried about Lily’s condition, followed us into the bedroom.

“I’ll check quickly.”

“Oh no, could it be that Amelia is going to treat her directly…? Then quickly, the wounds…!”

Ignoring Lily’s muttering, I hurriedly began to undress her academy uniform.

How could Lily be this injured from such a small body?

As I quickly undressed Lily, I saw bruises all over her body. I laid her on the bed and brought the first aid kit I had prepared just in case.

I took out the ointment for bruises from the first aid kit.

There’s a medicine here that can treat bruises. By applying it, she can recover quickly within a few days. The medicine has a texture similar to oil.

To prevent Lily from being startled by the cold medicine, I squeezed it into my hand and transferred it from hand to hand to match my body temperature.

Once the medicine was warm enough, I started applying it to Lily’s body, starting with the areas with the most bruises, carefully and meticulously.

As I treated Lily’s body, Helena’s soft voice came from behind.

“I’m jealous… Should I get injured too?”

I’m not sure what she said because it was too soft, but it’s clear that she’s worried about Lily.

“Lily.”

“Ha… I feel good. Uh, yeah?”

“Are you feeling a bit better?”

“Oh, I still feel a little sore…?”

“Really? Just bear with it a little longer. I’ll help you get better soon.”

I applied medicine diligently to Lily’s body, filled with the desire for her quick recovery.

“Amelia, ah, it hurts here too.”

Lily pointed to her chest and said.

“What? Wait a moment. There’s a bruise here too!?”

Clearly, there was no bruise when I checked her chest earlier. Perhaps I was too anxious about Lily being hurt that I didn’t check properly.

I placed my hand on Lily’s small chest, working hard to make the bruise disappear.

After diligently massaging Lily’s whole body, Lily’s body became more relaxed.

“There, done. Now just rest and focus on recovering. Understand?”

“Is it already over…?”

“For today, yes. We’ll do this every evening until the bruise completely disappears, so keep that in mind.”

“Oh, we have to do it once a day?”

“Yes. It might be a bit bothersome, so please bear with it.”

“No, no, it’s not bothersome! Okay, got it. Every evening, right?”

“Yes. So for now, take a deep breath and rest. Got it?”

“Yeah, yeah!”

I decided to stroke Lily until she fell asleep. While doing so,

– Thud!

“Helena!?”

Helena collapsed in place. A loud sound that didn’t seem like it would end painlessly echoed around.

Lily also startled, raising her head abruptly.

Helena couldn’t get up from the floor.

I quickly approached Helena.

“Are you okay!?”

“Ah… I-I think I’m okay.”

“Where does it hurt!?”

“M-My… chest…”

Clutching her large chest, Helena was expressing her pain.

“It seems like she has a bruise.”

“Lie down next to Lily here quickly.”

I tapped Lily’s side, indicating for Helena to lie down next to her, and she followed suit.

I began to undress Helena, inadvertently leaving two beautiful women naked on the bed. But at that moment, my only thought was to quickly alleviate their pain.

“How did you fall so hard!?”

Helena’s condition was serious.

I never thought she could get this hurt just by falling on the ground. Helena’s chest was almost completely covered in deep bruises, and it looked painful just to see.

“I should have been more careful…!”

“I’m sorry…”

“Does it hurt a lot?”

“Yes. I hope Amelia can treat me quickly!”

It seemed like a voice filled with expectation rather than a subtly painful one, but I squeezed the medicine into my hand diligently to treat Helena.

Just like with Lily, as the medicine was squeezed for the first time, I warmed it up by moving it back and forth in my hand, then applied it to Helena’s bruised area, placing my hand on top.

“Ah…!”

“Oh, was it cold?”

“No. It’s just right.”

– Swish, swish.

I gently treated Helena’s wound with all my sincerity.

“Haah.”

I don’t know how she fell, but her entire chest is covered in bruises.

“She has bruises even on her lower chest.”

Did she fall 360 degrees?

==

Amelia said she would watch over me while I sleep and then leaned against the bed and fell asleep.

She picked up the sleeping Amelia and lay her down next to me. I could hear Amelia’s breathing beside me.

Certainly, even in the future, Amelia started oversleeping and making more mistakes from around this time.

I looked at Helena, who was touching Amelia’s chest while she slept.

What would happen if Helena also went back to the past…?

At that moment, chills ran through my whole body.

“Helena.”

“Yes?”

‘s heart, which Helena was touching earnestly, looked up and stared at me.

There was only a happy expression on Helena’s face. If Helena were to come from the past, what would she be like now?

It’s just a conjecture, but if the past and the future had changed, I think Helena’s two personalities would probably be in conflict. In that case, Helena should probably prepare in advance.

I decided that and opened my mouth to speak to Helena again.

==

Helena, who was deeply savoring Amelia’s heart, stopped her hand when Lily spoke with a more serious expression than usual.

Seeing Lily’s face, Helena thought that it was not an ordinary matter and stood up from her seat.

Lily, too, put on her robe and got up from the bed, moving to the living room.

The conversation that started like that was a bigger story than Helena had thought.

“So, Lily, you came from the future…?”

“Yeah. And… you were jealous of me, and in the process, Amelia died.”

Helena couldn’t make sense of Lily’s words.

She had incited a war out of jealousy towards Lily, tortured Amelia who had turned into Lily, and even killed her herself?

“N-no… You have no reason to lie. From knowledge to power. It can’t be a lie.”

The word ‘joke’ slipped out for a moment, but there was not a hint of playfulness in Lily’s appearance before her eyes.

Helena thought Lily was strange.

When she was staying in the annex, she just thought there was a child there, but suddenly she called a dragon to the family, became friends with the dragon, and awakened mana at the age of 10.

She felt that she was not an ordinary child. Moreover, after awakening mana, she surpassed herself in just a few months.

Was it all because of the knowledge from the future? Helena grabbed her head.

Okay. I can understand that much. But.

The part that she couldn’t understand was that Helena herself tried to kill Lily and killed Amelia with her own hands.

Her hands began to tremble, and her vision started to darken.