An hour later, Liliana was sitting slumped on a bench.
“Attractions where you’re at risk of dying shouldn’t exist,” she said, dropping her head onto Hajime’s lap.
Remia also dropped her head onto Hajime’s lap from the other side and muttered, “I’m sorry, Hajime-san...”
While Liliana looked defeated, Remia just seemed embarrassed. It was partly because she was resting her head on Hajime’s lap in public, and partly because he was gently patting her head.
“No, this is my fault. I was so desperate to bring Lily back to her senses that I focused too much on thrill rides.”
“Umm, Hajime-san, I never lost my sanity.”
“Then how do you explain your reaction when we stopped by that food stall?”
“I was just amazed at how much they can afford to upcharge people! Even though everyone pays just to get in here, they still—”
“So I failed, huh...?”
“Now, now, there’s still time,” Remia said with a smile.
Incidentally, Yue had cast healing magic on both of them before leaving so neither of them were feeling sick. However, the marathon of thrill rides had worn both of them out, so they were resting for a bit while Yue and the others took Myu on all the other rides she wanted to go on.
The reason Hajime was giving Liliana a lap pillow was because he’d seen her shooting jealous glances at other couples who were doing the same thing while they’d been walking around. Remia had also seemed quite interested in a lap pillow, so Hajime had offered to give both of them one, which had proven to be the correct decision.
“Man, all I did was make her twenty centimeters taller, but she looks completely different,” Hajime muttered as the spinning teacup ride came to an end and Myu dashed out of the exit and started running toward Hajime. Most of the other people who’d been on the ride looked dizzy, but Myu seemed completely unaffected. Since she was with Yue and the others, it was extremely obvious that she looked much taller than she was supposed to. Thrill rides naturally had height limits, and Myu certainly wasn’t tall enough for most of them. Hajime knew Myu would feel left out if she was the only one unable to ride, so he’d used metamorphosis magic to temporarily make her taller.
While that naturally made Myu look older, the effect was at odds with her still childish smile. But even then, it did feel like he was seeing his daughter grow up—even though she hadn’t actually grown yet.
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