TYHL SSS 05 🍷💫

~Special Side Story 5~

“It was a magical beast with a mind strong enough to overcome the trap’s interference on its own.”

“……”

“In short, it means the beast must have a very strong will to escape the trap.”

“That’s one hell of a shitty explanation.”

The large, sloppy old man muttered casually.

“So… if I sum it up,”

the silver-haired woman said, looking confused.

“He needs a powerful will to recover his memories, right? And by doing that, he can push the medicine out of his body…?”

Isn’t that just… the classic rule of recovering from amnesia?

As her younger brother’s expression suddenly turned cold, Liam hurriedly added,

“Of course…! I’m planning to research a neutralizing agent with Master Asha, little fairy…! Since there’s no data on applying this to humans, we’ll need about five days to confirm safety…”

“No way?! Wouldn’t it come back faster if we stimulate him?!”

Boing hammer, boing hammer…!

The silver-haired woman went wild again.

“Hey, booger! Calm down! Wouldn’t a frying pan be better?”

“Fatheeeeer~?”

“Ahem. Just kidding!”

“Hey, hey, Khalid. You’re going to pay back the money you borrowed from me, right? About a hundred million gold.”

“Voooid~?”

“I’m joking too~!”

“Mom! I really need the boing hammer! A daughter’s wish!”

“Ha, Ruby. Calm down… Rose? Where on earth are you pulling that hammer from…”

Bark bark, quack quack, meow meow.

It was a full-blown animal farm.

Khalid quietly watched the chaos, then stood up.

The noise stopped instantly.

“Khalid…?”

“Excuse me,”

he said in a flat voice.

“I should be going now.”

“Stop right there.”

Just as Leviathan reached out to grab Khalid as he passed by—

Khalid’s broad shoulders trembled slightly. Leviathan froze and quickly pulled his hand back.

‘Wait… just now…’

His mouth hardened.

‘Did he think I was going to hit him?’

There were traces of violence in Khalid’s reaction. And even though he thought he would be hit, he didn’t dodge…

‘…So if he dodged, he must have been beaten even worse.’

It left a bitter feeling.

All the good memories gone, wandering alone in some painful past.

Then Rubian stepped forward.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Khalid quietly looked down at her.

He had been thinking this since earlier…

She was unbelievably pretty. Beautiful.
He felt like someone like this shouldn’t even exist in the world.

He forced himself to look away.

“I haven’t gathered today’s firewood yet.”

The sun was setting.
If he stayed like this, he’d get beaten half to death by the mercenaries, and might starve for at least a week.

“I think you’ve mistaken me for someone else. Still… thank you for saving me.”

He assumed they had found him collapsed while gathering firewood in the mountains.

He didn’t know why his body had suddenly grown bigger, but…

‘My head hurts.’

His head had been throbbing for a while, making it hard to think.

He was a slave boy used by an illegal mercenary group.

That much, at least, he knew clearly—this place didn’t suit him.

“Oh my god… his memories stopped there?”

The silver-haired woman covered her mouth.

“…Isn’t that too much to lose…? How could…”

She bit her lips, fidgeting with her hands.

She looked completely shaken.

“How do I even begin to explain… ah.”

After thinking for a long time, she finally spoke in a dejected voice, her ears drooping.

“For now… would you try calling me ‘noona’?”

“Rubiaaaan~?”

“Huh—no, Mom. I really didn’t expect this…”

Her muttering echoed sadly.

Khalid quietly took a step back, creating a little more distance between himself and the woman talking to others.

So that the dirt that would have clung to him while gathering firewood wouldn’t touch her.

Without even thinking about it.

It seemed Khalid’s memories had stopped around his mid-teens.

‘He said he doesn’t even know when he was born, so I can’t be sure of his exact age.’

Fourteen? Fifteen?

I let out a deep sigh.

‘Once, when our mana mixed, I saw Khalid’s past… and that’s where his memories stopped.’

Khalid was born as the child of a low-ranking servant in a mercenary group.

His mother abandoned him and ran away early on, and from childhood, Khalid was treated almost like a slave by the mercenaries.

Severe abuse, exploitation, and the enormous mana he was born with pushed his body to the brink of death.

That was when he met the Dragon God.

‘Thanks to that, he survived—but in exchange, he was trapped in a cave.’

Then he met me, fell in love, regressed to save my soul, got trapped in the cave again…

‘And later, after my soul returned, I pulled little Khalid out of the cave and we ended up here.’

But now, he remembers none of that.

‘Why did only the good memories get completely erased?’

Honestly, I wanted to use a little physical force just to bring his memories back.

Being stuck alone in the past is lonely, after all.

‘And… you can’t marry a man whose mental age is fifteen…!’

What am I supposed to do with this guilt?!

Of course, judging by how his habits and way of speaking were still intact, he wasn’t a pure fifteen-year-old.

‘They say the body remembers—his language habits and tea manners were still perfect.’

The way he looked at me earlier also felt a bit… deep.

Though considering how he kept his distance, it was probably just my imagination.

‘Anyway, I’ll assume he’s a mix of fifteen-year-old Khalid and twenty-three-year-old Khalid.’

Alright.

Now… how do I deal with this situation?

“I can’t just sit here lamenting forever.”

First, I decided to explain what I had figured out so far—and our plan going forward—to my family.

Since it was late at night, I used an appropriate method.

‘Dad’ has been invited.
‘Mom❤️’ has been invited.
‘Grandfather’ has been invited.
‘Void’ has been invited.
‘Liam’ has been invited.

Void: What even is going on

Grandfather: Khalid ^^ calmed down earlier, had some tea, and fell asleep ^^ seems to have accepted the situation for now ^^

Mom❤️: You worked hard, Father. It wasn’t easy getting him to understand.

Grandfather: Mm, but when I patted his back like when he was little, he fell asleep quickly ^^

Void: He probably pretended to sleep back then too because it was annoying

Grandfather: Second booger ^^ annex building ^^

Void: Thank you for your hard work~ Grandpa!

Dad: So thㅡen what shㅡould we do next

Void: Ruby, Dad’s asking what we’re going to do from here

Um.
I looked it up, and apparently, giving proper stimulation to the brain helps with amnesia.

Dad: Boㅡing hammer is no

Void: He says the boing hammer is not allowed

Yeah. I got the gist, so I could translate it, brother.

Void: Okay but Rub, what about magic? That’s hard, right?

There are a few memory-related spells, but…
This is my first time dealing with a case like this, and I’m worried it might backfire.
I don’t know how it would react with the medicine in his body… and most of all—

Khalid refuses my touch, so I can’t even try anything ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Dad: Tsk

Anyway, everyone, Khalid is basically just a wounded mid-teen right now,
so please treat him as gently as possible.

Please talk a lot about past memories too—things that might stir his emotions.

He needs to desperately want to get his memories back!

Liam’s neutralizing agent is one method, but let’s all try together too!

Mom❤️: Mm, revisiting memories sounds good.

Mom❤️: But somehow… I feel like Khalid will really want his memories back if he sticks close to you, Ruby.

That would be nice… but you saw how he rejected me earlier ㅠㅠ

Dad: Tsk

Honestly, Khalid has forgotten that he loves me too…
so I understand why he feels uncomfortable.

If I think about it from his side, suddenly being told he has a fiancée would overwhelm me too…

So I’m planning to keep a reasonable distance so he doesn’t feel pressured ㅠㅠ

Dad: Tsk

Mom❤️: Oh my, my daughter, there there.

It’s fine—we’ll just seduce him again anyway!
Everyone, please cooperate!

Alright, let’s all fight!

Mom❤️: Fight!

Grandfather: ^^ Figh~t!

Void: Let’s go

Dad: Fiㅡght

Grandfather: …Son ^^ have you been typing with your eyes closed this whole time? ^^

Dad: Hah I really don’t get how everyone types so well with fingers this small

Grandfather: Just tap with your fingertips~ ^^ don’t rub the screen like a caveman ^^

Mom❤️: Maybe it’s because Leviathan’s hands are so big

Mom❤️: Cute hehe

Void: Mother… if you say that, Father will never fix it

Dad: Rose, whㅡere

Mom❤️: Garden~ hehe

Void: Um…

Void: I think this meeting is officially doomed

Grandfather: Keh keh ^^

Then, meeting adjourned~!

Liam: I struggled a bit making the neutralizing agent.

Liam: Is anyone there?