In July, Shuki Tsetsi and his daughter Adriana came to the sea.

The lecture is a .

They took a week off and spent a day visiting the coastal village of Futla.

Standing on a promontory not far from the village, Shuki and Adriana looked out at the sea.

"Wow, this is the sea!　This is the sea, father!"

Adriana was excited to see the ocean for the first time in her life.

"Yes, it is. This is the sea."

It's been a long time since the last sea breeze. Shuki squinted his eyes and stared out into the blue ocean.

"It looks a bit like Ashizurizaki. ......

Shuki remembers the scenery of his faraway hometown to which he can no longer return.

Although there was no lighthouse, the scenery was very similar to Cape Ashizuri, the southernmost cape on Shikoku Island.

As a side note, when Shuki lived there, it was called , and the name was changed to in 1965. It has been called "Cape Ashizuri Misaki" since 1965.

"Dad, do you like this view?"

Adriana asks me, her golden hair fluttering in the sea breeze. Her brown eyes were shining with a bright light.

"Yes, I like it."

Shuki replies without taking his eyes off the sea. Adriana stares at his profile.

Adriana looked at his profile.

"It's so salty!

Hahaha, right?

Shuki and Adriana walk down to the beach from the cape and have a nice swim in the sea.

Adriana, who is now 13 years old, has a cloth wrapped around her chest as well.

Shuki gazes at his daughter and wonders if some day a man will come along and kidnap her .......

"Hey, Dad, let's go swimming.

Adriana invites Shuki, who seems to be in a daze, to go swimming.

"Yes, let's..." Adriana says. There are waves, so be careful not to get covered.

"Yes!"

Shuki's swim is basically a breaststroke. It is the best way to swim for a long time in the wide open water of the ocean.

"If your back gets sunburned, just cast a healing spell and you'll be cured.

"Yes, okay!"

A sunburn is a kind of burn that can be healed by elementary healing magic.

They started swimming side by side.

"Oh, really, it's so much easier to swim with your face out!

"Isn't it?　This is how long distance swimming is supposed to be done.

When Shuki was in elementary school, he once went for a long-distance swim as a school event.

The distance was about 10 kilometers, and each class swam in formation.

The neighborhood fishermen kindly provided boats for us, so we did not have to worry even if we were not feeling well.

However, those who dropped out of the class would fall to the bottom of the hierarchy in the class.

During the class, the school song is sung and there is a roll call.

During these events, heads are kept up, and all the children learn how to swim in this way.

"It's salt water, so it's a little heavier in specific gravity, right?　That's why it floats easily, right?

"That's right."

As they swam side by side, Shuki was pleased that Adriana was putting her knowledge to use.

Even though they were located far north of the continent in terms of latitude, the July sun was strong and the sea water was warming up.

They continued swimming leisurely for about an hour.

(......I wish this time could last forever)

(It's just the two of us. ...... I wish time would stop like this.)

Coincidentally, father and daughter were thinking similar thoughts.

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"Ouch!　My back is burning!

Adriana's screams echoed through the bathrooms of the inn that night.

"......<>!　<>!　<>!"

Adriana could not see the sunburned area on her back very well, so she cast a series of healing spells, and the pain finally subsided.

"I wish I could have gone in there with my dad. ......"

Shuki had not bathed with Adriana since the day she turned ten.

"......I wish I didn't have to grow up. ......"

Adriana wishes she could stay a child forever and have Shuki all to herself.

But that's impossible. Then...

"I'll have to enjoy this trip alone with my father, won't I?

Shuki sat on a bench in the courtyard of the inn, exposing his body to the night breeze after a hot bath.

Adriana had cast a healing spell on his sunburned back.

In reality, however, Shuki did not feel any pain.

The parts of his body that had been damaged by the car accident that nearly killed him in the other world were supplemented with magical elements, and those parts did not deteriorate.

Not only deterioration, but also any kind of change is not accepted.

They may receive wounds, but they do not become infected. It is a body that does not get sunburned by ultraviolet rays, although it gets burned by flames.

(But how long can that last? ......)

Recently, Shuki has begun to feel some discomfort, especially in his internal organs.

(If only he could keep it for a few more years, until Adriana comes of age...)

Shuki expected that it would be two more years until Adriana, his successor, would be complete.

Adriana was 15 years old at that time. In this world, she would be an adult.

（Until then, she would have to live on, even if she had to bite down on a stone.)

Shuki had just made up his mind once again to make such a pathetic decision.

"Father!

Adriana came out of the bath and hugged Shuki on his back.

"Hey, hey, it's hot in here!

"Oh, come on, it's hot..." "Be patient. You're only my father during this trip!

Adriana's carefree laughter makes Shuki smile.

"You'll always be a spoiled brat, Ad, no matter how old you get.

"That's because it's just the two of us."

With these words Adriana moves off Shuki's back and sits down next to him.

"The moon is beautiful, isn't it?

I looked at the eastern sky and saw that the moon had just risen.

"Yes, it is. The air is unusually clear for summer.

Usually the newly risen moon is reddish in color, but tonight it was shining white.

"But that moon is also a strange celestial body. ......"

"It waxed and waned in the world where your father was, didn't it?"

Adriana already knew that her father Shuki had come from another world, and she had been told that the moon in that world waxed and waned and understood why.

"Oh. It was bigger than it looked, too."

Adriana asked Shuki a bold question.

"Do you want to go back to ......?"

But Shuki quietly shakes his head.

"No. ......I used to want to go home, but now this world is my home. This world, with Adriana, is my home now.

But as he said this, Adriana sensed that Shuki's profile looked somewhat lonely. And then...

"Father, I'll do my best.

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