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me tightly in his arms and seemed unwilling to let go of me.
As if he wouldn’t even leave a space between my body and his own for a grain of rice.

“You have to be by my side forever.
Whether it’s thousands or billions of years.
Whether it’s years beyond time.”

“… that would kill me.”

“Do you think I will let you?”

Merson’s confident words suddenly felt like a stone had been lodged in my throat.
For me, who had to leave this world soon and cross the dimension, I could not have this uncomfortable conversation.
I immediately brought up another topic to pass it on.

“Okay.
You’ll protect me well so I don’t die.
So, I will go to the market alone.”

“You don’t have to create a crisis from the beginning.”

“I hate being locked up.
It’s not protection, it’s confinement, it’s torture.”

Merson’s body trembled, and his arm, which had been holding me strongly, slowly fell and finally freed me.
Merson’s eyes that were looking at me were vibrating violently.
His expression of not knowing what to do is pitiful.

“What’s the matter?”

“… Did I just confined and torture Erina?”

“No, that’s not what it means…….”

Wait, this might be an opportunity to get out.

“That’s what I said.
But I just had a similar feeling! I want to go to the market, Merson.
Let me go!”

“But…….”

“You will protect me.
Right?”

“Of course.”

“Then I’ll trust you and go out.”

Merson lowered his eyelids and seemed to be struggling, but then nodded as if he had made up his mind.
Then he gently caressed my cheek and kissed me on the bridge of my nose.

“I’ll teleport you to the market.
It’s the same for coming back.
When your matter is over, return to the place you were teleported to first.”

“It will consume a lot of magic.”

“Don’t worry because Erina is here.”

Uuhh-

This is enough.
It seems that Merson himself has reached an agreement, so I need to keep pace with this.

“Good.”

As I answered, a sigh came from Merson’s mouth, and he smiled weakly.

“You have to come quickly.”

“Yes.”

Blue light surrounds my body and the space begins to warp.
And again, my stomach was rumbling.
I felt nauseous, uugh–

* * *

“I will die.
I have to get used to it quickly.”

The lively market street was crowded with many people.
I exchanged gold coins at the jeweler I visited once before and bought a handful of magic tools for dyeing.
Since I had a goal, my shopping ended in a flash, just as Merson had hoped.

I will show Merson after returning home so quickly and safely that he’ll think, ‘Oh, I’ve made a fuss for nothing.’

I walked, being careful not to drop the dye that was precariously piled up in a clunky paper bag full in my arms.

Carrying full bottles of hair dye through the crowded streets was not an easy task.
If even one fell off, I had to put all the dye on the ground and pick it up again.