Asuna slept soundly in the white light of the morning. A steady melody suddenly entered her consciousness. It was the wake up call played by the oboe. Asuna was floating in the feeling before she woke up, and she was immersed in the nostalgic melody.
Not long after, the light sound of strings and clarines played the main melody. At this time, there was a slight sound humming a song…
Humming a song? Asuna instantly opened her eyes, and the black-haired girl in her arms closed her eyes, humming the same melody as Asuna's wake up call.
And the recording didn't drop at all, but this was impossible because Asuna had set the alarm to be heard only by herself. Logically speaking, no one could sing along with the melody that only played in her head.
However, Asuna threw this question to the back of her mind. More importantly…
"Ban, Ban, wake up quickly!" Without moving her body, Asuna called out to Uchiha, who was sleeping on the bed behind her. Not long after, she heard Uchiha make a muffled sound.
"Ohayo, what's wrong? Asuna?" Ban sat up in a daze and looked at Asuna helplessly.
"Let's not talk about this first. Look!" Asuna pointed at the girl. Ban looked over and saw that the girl was staring at him with wide eyes.
"That's great. You're awake?" Asuna helped the girl sit up and asked,""Do you know what happened to you?”
After Asuna finished speaking, the girl remained silent for a few seconds before shaking her head slightly.
"Is that so…What's your name? Do you know?" Asuna was disappointed for a moment before she became excited again.
"... Name... word... my... my... name..." The girl tilted her head, and a strand of shiny black hair slid down her cheek.
"Tie…clothes. He tied his clothes. My…name…"
"Is it a knot? What a good name. I'm Asuna, and he's Uchiha.”Asuna turned her head, and the girl named Yui followed suit. She looked back and forth between Asuna and Stripey and said,""Ya…Una, Wave of Rain…"
The young girl stammered and stuttered. The uneasiness she felt last night awakened in Asuna's mind. The young girl seemed to be at least eight years old. Adding the time since she logged in, her actual age should be ten years old. However, the young girl's indistinct pronunciation made her sound like a child who had just learned to speak.
"Jieyi, why are you on the twenty-second level? Do you know where your parents are?”
Yui looked down without saying a word. After a long period of silence, she shook her head hard." I…don't know…I don't know anything…"
Asuna carried the girl to the dining table and handed her warm and sweet milk. The girl held the cup with both hands and drank it slowly.
"Um, Yui…can I call you Yui?”Yui, who was originally facing the cup, raised her head and nodded.
"Is that so…then, Yui, just call me Ban.”
"Ban…?"
"It's Ban, Uchiha Ban!"
Yui's face revealed a difficult expression as she fell silent.""... Thin Plate of Fish..."
Stripey, who was laughing, patted Yui's head lightly."This might be a little difficult for you. Otherwise, you can call me whatever you want!”
Yui fell into deep thought again. Even when Asuna took the cup from the table, filled it with milk, and put it back in front of her, she did not react.
Finally, Yui slowly raised her head and looked at Ban's face. She said in a trembling voice,"…Daddy."
Then, Yui looked up at Asuna and said,"" Yauna…Mother!"
Asuna couldn't help but tremble. She didn't know if Yui had mistaken her for her real parents, or if she longed for parents who were not in this world.
However, instead of thinking about it, Asuna tried her best to suppress her emotions and nodded with a smile.""Yeah…Yui, I'm Mommy!”
Yui smiled for the first time when she heard this. The moment her black eyes, which lacked disgust, shone under her neat bangs, her doll-like face regained its vitality.
"Mommy!" Looking at the hand that was reaching out to her, Asuna's heart wavered.
" Woo…" Asuna tried her best to hold back her sobs and maintain the smile on her face. She picked up Yui's small body from the chair and hugged her tightly. At the same time, she felt a drop of tears mixed with various emotions flow down her face.
After drinking hot milk and eating a small bun, Yui seemed to feel sleepy again and began to doze off on the chair.
Asuna watched her from the other side of the table. She rubbed her eyes hard and looked at Ban, who was sitting on the chair beside her.
" I-I…" Although Asuna opened her mouth, she couldn't express herself.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what to do anymore…"
After looking at Asuna with a loving gaze for a while, Ban Cai finally murmured,""You want to take care of that child until she regains her memory, right? I understand how you feel…because…I want to do the same. Let's go to the Town of Beginnings to look for this child's parents or siblings. After all, she's such an eye-catching player. There should be at least a few people who know her.”
"..." That was the right opinion, but Asuna realized that she didn't want to be separated from this girl. Although this was her dream to live together with Uchiha and Stripey, for some reason, she didn't reject the idea of becoming three people. Perhaps it was because she felt that Yui was like her and Stripey's child. Asuna, who had been thinking about it casually until now, suddenly came back to her senses, and even her ears turned red.
“……？What's wrong?"
"W-Nothing happened!" She shook her head hard at Ban, who was suspicious.
"Just, just like that! After Yui wakes up, we'll go to the Town of Beginnings to take a look and publish it in the missing person column of the newspaper!”Unable to look at Ban's face, Asuna spoke quickly and cleaned up the table.
He glanced at Yui who was sleeping on the chair. She seemed to be completely asleep. However, perhaps it was a psychological effect, but her sleeping face looked different from yesterday. She looked more stable.
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