Leon Greyrat: The Second Son - Mushoku Tensei OC

Chapter 88 - Peaceful Days

— Roxy Migurdia —

I was currently reading outside, which is how I often spent my time on such a beautiful day like this one.

While the winter months were cold, as were most of the months here in Sharia, with a warm coat wrapped around me and the sun shining above, it was a pleasant time nonetheless, and it served as a good way to get out of the house.

Sitting in a chair next to the well-tended grave of Leon's late mother, I took a deep breath of the fresh, crisp air as I began to reminisce about the past year.

I now had a daughter.

If you had asked me three years ago if I could imagine myself in such a situation, I would have firmly denied the possibility.

Actually... embarrassingly enough, I did have a few fantasies about the grown up Leon and me at that time... so perhaps it would be better to say ten years ago.

Yes, ten years ago, I would have never thought that having a child would be possible.

After all, back then, I hated children.

They were annoying, they didn't listen, and they couldn't care for themselves at all.

But now... well, I had grown, you could say.

Aria... Aria Greyrat.

She was... beautiful.

With her endearing brown eyes from her father, and her blue hair that she got from me, she was extremely pleasant to look at, and it filled my heart with joy each time I did.

Of course, I was still saddened by what Aria might face in the future due to her hair colour, but now that it was beginning to grow longer, I couldn't deny that it was extremely adorable.

Especially when she tried to copy my fidgeting... that was simply the cutest.

I wonder, when it grew a bit longer, would she want to have braids like me?

I hoped so, and if she did, I could leave that to her father, much like I had been leaving the care of my own hair to him lately.

Anyway, while I liked teaching Rudy and Leon when they were kids, and even that prince when he wasn't trying to grope me, seeing Aria grow each passing day filled me with a completely unmatched sense of fulfillment.

And the love I felt for her... it was inexpressible.

It was a warmth different from the one Leon gave me, and it was different from the one I felt for him.

It was much more... pure and... unrequited.

That love... it must be what my parents felt for me, huh?

I always knew that, and despite hating my homeland, I always loved them.

But coming home to see their faces of despair as I would lament about my loneliness... it was heartbreaking for me.

And so, I left. Beginning my journey across the Demon Continent that then led me to Ranoa.

I never regretted it.

After all, because of that, I was able to experience so many new things, and that path led me to now, where I had a lover, a family, and a home... a place where I truly felt accepted.

But now that I had a daughter... I could also imagine her leaving, and how agonizing that would feel.

My parents, did they... feel that way?

I had decided to run away to lessen their pain, but... did I just make it worse?

Either way, now that I had matured, I did want to visit them.