Author's Reincarnation in a Fantasy Setting

Chapter 262 Acceptance

As much as I hate to admit it, the time here passed and the vacations slowly came to an end. It was the last day of our vacation and our last day at home. Fourteenth of January, we were leaving one day prior because it takes about a day to reach Sofrora city.

"The time passed quickly, didn't it?" Ainge said. It was after breakfast and we all were sitting in the hall.

"Oh, my kids. I'll miss you so much!!" Ron said in his overly emotional voice.

"Still, it was kind of great. Taking a break from the academy, right?" Anya added.

"Yeah. Things were going at a pretty fast pace so it was nice to take a breather," I replied.

At this time Ellyn walked into the hall while carrying her bag on her back. She also wore a cloak just like Anya and I did.

"Are you done packing up?" Anya asked.

"Yep. All set," Ellyn said as she gestured at the bag she was carrying. I came to notice that it was a different backpack than the one she'd arrived in. This one was bigger so probably she changed it take back the clothes we'd purchased.

"I guess it's about time we should get going," I said, finally uttering the words no one wanted to hear.

It was natural. I didn't know about Ellyn but neither Anya nor I wanted to leave, but that was the way of the world. We had come here to spend our vacations and they were coming to an end, we had to go back and continue with our lives.

All of us stood up and prepared to leave. It didn't take time as we had done our packing already and were waiting for Ellyn, not that she was here there was nothing else left to delay us.

We took our bags and walked toward the main door and Ainge and Ron escorted us. No matter how much I wanted this moment to last, no matter how hard I wished for this distance to the door to never come to an end, no matter how much I wanted to take them with me and run away from here because I was scared of the calamity.

Things were still going to go the way they were intended to. This moment won't last forever, the distance to the door will eventually come to an end, and I couldn't run away with them because there will be no place left to hide as the whole world will burn.

And thus just like that, before I knew it we'd arrived at the doorstep. The three of us stepped outside and then stopped, Anya and Ellyn turned around and bid their farewell.

However, inside me, a burst of emotions were raging wildly. I had been confused about one thing ever since I came to this world. I was hesitating, as I didn't know whether I had the right to do it or not. After all the things that happened in my former life, I was scared to even entertain the idea that what will happen if things ended up the same way.

But then at the final moment, everything calmed down just like the sea does after a storm is over.

I knew what I had to do. This was a different world, and most of all I had already realized my mistake so I wasn't going to do it again. There was no possible way for things to end up the same way, thus there was no reason for me to be hesitating as well.

I took a deep breath and then turned around, there was a smile on my face.

"I'll be going now…mother, father," I said.

Except for Ellyn who didn't know what it was all about, the three of them were probably stunned upon hearing this as none of them said anything for a few seconds. But it was only a momentary astonishment.

"Take care," Ainge—no, mother said with a warm smile on her face.

"Oh, my dear son! I can't believe you are leaving this soon. I'll miss you so much," father cried out as he pulled me into a hug.

"I think you all should hurry now, or you'll be late," mother advised.

"Yeah, I think so too," Anya said.

"I agree," I said as I freed myself from his grip

***

After bidding our farewells we left the household and came to a wagon. It took us a while but once booking a wagon was done, it was an easy journey from there. We stopped and took breaks several times since there was no need to rush our way back to the academy.

***

It was night and we were expecting to reach the academy tomorrow. The wagon's wheels were rolling, Anya and Ellyn had fallen asleep but I was still awake. I didn't know why but I just didn't feel like sleeping.

Thus I was looking outside the wagon at the continuously changing scenery. It was not a dark night as the moon was gleaming brilliantly in the sky; you could walk fine without a torch with the help of the moonlight.

"Can't sleep?" I turned to look and saw it was Anya.

"Something like that. Did I wake you up by any chance?" I asked.

"No, I wasn't asleep either," she replied. If that was true then she was very good at acting asleep.

"Anyway, congratulations," she said, her voice was just a little more than a whisper as she probably didn't want to wake Ellyn.

"For what?"

"For clearly a hurdle. You finally called them 'mother' and 'father'. That's a big improvement I'd say."

"Ah, that. Do you think that they were happy about that?" I asked, this was something I had been thinking about since then.

"Of course, why they won't be? I'm sure they were more than happy to hear you call them that," she clarified.

"And what do you think?"

"I'm glad that you finally accepted it."

"I see."

'I had forgotten. No, that's not quite right. I was ignoring the fact that Anya knew about my reincarnation. That was because after a few initial ways it didn't feel like she was not my real sister.'

I looked back outside at the moon which stood proudly in the sky as the wagon rolled forward.

And just like that, our vacations came to an end…