The Lily Blooms in Another World: Since My Engagement Was Broken Off, I Will Enjoy Living with My True Love, the Villainess! - Chapter 32

Overlooking the vast field of panacea—the Moonlight Grass—Fuuka was reminiscing about days long past.

The swaying curtains.

The maiden with tea-colored hair standing before her.

The image of that endlessly bright, forward-looking, and incredibly fortunate girl reaching out her hand amidst the swirling muddy currents.

…That was a story from many years ago.

“Fuuka-chan!”

A familiar, nostalgic voice called out.

Fuuka slowly turned around.

There stood Miyako, more mature and grown than in her distant memories.

With her tea-colored hair tied up, she was waving from atop a carriage.

‘Meow~, worked hard again today~’

On her lap was one of the Four Great Spirits—Undine, the Great Spirit who governs water in her cat form.

Umi was lazily swishing her tail.

A gentle breeze rustled Fuuka’s beautiful black hair, which reached down to her waist.

“Welcome back, Miyako.”

“I’m home, Fuuka-chan! I made a killing again today!”

After many twists and turns, Miyako had become a renowned merchant operating across the kingdom.

There was no product this merchant couldn’t handle, no market she couldn’t break into.

…She was such a skilled merchant that people would say things like that.

Even in regions plagued by civil war or discrimination, just Miyako’s presence in business dealings would bring smiles to everyone around her—some even called her bright personality that of a ‘Sun Goddess,’ or so it was said.

“Whew, Shanly’s customers are really tough, aren’t they!”

Her mentor was Shanly, a mysterious traveling merchant who came from the continent and maintained a girlish appearance even after all these years.

Shanly was now running around her war-torn homeland with her partner, which was why she had entrusted her customer base in the Nohin Kingdom to her disciple.

“Even so, since it’s you, Miyako, I’m sure you’re getting along well with them, right?”

“Well, more or less.”

That carefree smile, unchanged after all these years.

Fuuka felt her own cheeks naturally relax at that smile.

“…Welcome home, Miyako.”

“I’m home, Fuuka-chan.”

Their hands clasped together.

Fuuka, who had succeeded in cultivating the legendary Moonlight Grass panacea and was now a skilled healer—called the ‘Moonlight Saint’—was precisely Miyako’s place to return to.

The mansion the two used as their base on the outskirts of the royal capital, home to their pet cat… or rather, their pet water spirit Umi among other circumstances, was known as the 【Great Spirits’ Mansion】, but that’s another story.

“Oh, that’s right, Fuuka-chan. I have a present for you.”

“A present?”

“Yes, this.”

“…Oh my. I quite like this flower, you know.”

What she offered was a single white lily.

A slightly rare flower in this world, but one that in a few years would bloom abundantly under Fuuka’s care and be delivered throughout the world by Miyako’s hands—a pure, pristine white flower.