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| ==Chapter 4: Onsen!== | | ==Chapter 4: Onsen!== |
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| Finished with the greetings at the palace, by Zonmi’s suggestion, we went to visit the castle’s royal villa. | | Finished with the greeting rounds at the palace, by Zonmi’s suggestion, we went to visit the castle’s royal villa. |
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| The survival race passed down among the ghoul clan… The hundred deaths course was scheduled to be held three days from now. | | The survival race passed down among the ghoul clan… The hundred deaths course was scheduled to be held three days from now. |
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| Thinking about it calmly, the chance an event like that occurs is about 0. | | Thinking it calmly, the chance an event like that occurs is about 0. |
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| I checked the time on my cellphone. | | I checked the time on my cellphone. |
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| What entered my vision was a scenery of a stone bathtub surrounded by pine trees that overall overflowed with a Japanese taste. | | What entered my vision was an scenery of a stone bathtub surrounded by pine trees that overall overflowed with a Japanese taste. |
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| After lightly rinsing my body, I entered the tub. | | After lightly rinsing my body, I entered the tub. |
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| As for the essential bathtub… It was quite disappointing. | | As for the essential bathtub… It was quite disappointing. |
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| To sum it up in one word, lukewarm. | | To sum it in one word, lukewarm. |
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| Since it was made with the weak to heat ghoul clan in mind, that may be partly inevitable. | | Since it was made with the weak to heat ghoul clan in mind, that may be partly inevitable. |
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| These voices, don’t tell me… Iris and Kyouko!? | | These voices, don’t tell me… Iris and Kyouko!? |
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| Though belatedly, at that moment I understood the reason behind Zonmi’s actions.
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| It seems that, for an unknown reason, I was brazenly using the bath during the time slot reserved for the girls.
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| Because of that… Zonmi, who had noticed my presence ahead of time, so as to avoid the other girls running into me, submerged my body into the tub.
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| Be that as it may, that’s weird.
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| Before entering the bath, I had checked many times the time, so… What could have gone wrong?
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| … Don’t tell me!?
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| Then, a thought flashed in my mind.
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| What I had been zealously checking back then was my cell phone’s clock.
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| My cell’s clock… I had it set with the clocks of the hotel we were lodging at before.
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| Could it be that… As we’ve moved to the undead tribe’s continent, there’s a slight time difference!?
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| “Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
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| Still submerged, a voice I was used to hearing resounded in my ears.
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| Girls that suddenly yell like that, as far as I know, there’s only one.
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| As usual, the voice’s owner was Manami.
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| “Wait, you zombie there! Didn’t I tell you before that you shouldn’t enter the bath before me! I had even brought a PET<ref>PolyEThylene, the most common plastic bottles are made with after PVC was discouraged for that use.</ref> bottle…”
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| “… Is that so? My apologies.”
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| “Uu… Even though I thought I could drink after so much time oniichan’s after bath soup… Since the zombie has gone in, it’s been polluted and I can’t drink it!”
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| “…”
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| After so much time… You, did you usually do that at home?
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| … If we return to the human world, I must be really careful of not having a bath until my sister is done.
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| “Manami-sama… It’s a pity that thing about Chiharu-sama’s… Soup, but… Raising your voice inside a bath for public use is a lack of manners.”
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| “That’s unneeded assistance. Titty wo… No, titty monster<ref>As in “cookie monster”.</ref>!?”
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| “Why have you corrected yourself like that!?”
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| “That’s because… You see…”
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| “And why are you now staring at my chest!?”
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| “I… Manami-chan is out of the question, but I think that Lilith-san is lacking enough manners. The heck, what do you have to eat to grow them this big?”
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| “Wh-what is it, young ladies<!--misstresses?-->!? Could you not randomly cooperate and stare at my breasts!?”
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| “Muu… Now that thou mention it, certainly… The succubus’s mammaries are magnificent.
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| Well… L-let me check the sensation for when, in the future, my mammaries grow bigger too.”
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| “Hey. Iris-sama!? Please stop with the incomprehensible sophistry and touching other people’s breasts!”
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| “…”
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| G-girls talk<ref>Well, he explains it on the next sentence, but it’s an euphemism for what most Japanese males who never got a woman (i.e. a large part of Japanese males), and some who did, think it happens when two or more girls are together inside a room with no man on sight, especially when little to no clothes are somewhat involved.</ref>!
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| I never heard it happened in the real world, but it’s the kind of girls talk that is, for some reason, an over-the-top staple situation on the late night anime<ref>Name given to the Japanese animation, usually male oriented, broadcasted on TV in the late hours of night, from 23:30 to 30:00 (it should be 6:00, but Japanese people seem to think that if you keep adding, it’s still the same day). Usually they have spicy situations (from full nudity to pantyshots; I really wonder why TWGOK fall into this category. BTW as a bonus, both this exclamation mark and the previous one were originally a “ya”, which is the equivalent of an exclamation mark in Japanese poetry.</ref> world!
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| Moreover, it’s the comeback of the superb flow of events where the flat-chested character plays with the well-endowed character’s boobs!
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| I shouldn’t spit out the pattern<!--It says “template”, in English, but it didn’t sit right; he means he shouldn’t spoil the events by explaining the pattern they follow.-->.
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| I, right now, am feeling the beauty of this honed style…
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| “Chiharu… Chiharu…”
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| “…*bubbles**bubbles**bubbles* (W-what is it?)”
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| “Now it’s your chance, while they are caught with the succubus’s breasts! Try to leave this place by diving!”
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| “…*bubbles**bubbles**bubbles* (Understood)”
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| Thanks, Zonmi.
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| Thanks, Lilith-san’s boobs.
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| Even though there’s no ill will, if I, being a man, get exposed here, things wouldn’t end well.
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| ……
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| Slowly.
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| Slowly.
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| Without raising noise, I gradually parted from Zonmi.
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| I’m nearing the limit of my lung capacity, but if it’s some tens of seconds more, I should be able to endure it.
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| A bit more.
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| Now, if I remove my leg from within Zonmi’s thighs I can safely break out.
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| With the mission’s end almost on sight, just when I was feeling relieved, an accident happened.
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| A part of my body… The hardest place of my lower body ended up hitting Zonmi’s body.
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| “Hyau!?”
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| All of a sudden, Zonmi raised a coquettish voice.
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| “C-could you not touch me with weird places!?”
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| “*bubbles**bubbles**bubbles*… (No. The knee!? Wasn’t it the knee!?)”
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| “Uu… Chiharu, you moron… Pervert.”
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| “…”
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| Even though I tried to somehow clarify the misunderstanding, in this situation, it didn’t work.
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| “? Hasn’t the zombie suddenly raised a weird voice?”
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| “What’s the matter, ghoul? Are you feeling under the weather?”
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| ““…””
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| T-this is bad.
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| Even though Lilith-san managed at great pains to attract their attention, this accident just now gathered all stares on us.
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| And my lungs, like a tense string that got cut, suddenly demanded oxygen.
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| … It can’t be!
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| I’m at my limit!
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| Uooooooooh!
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| I can’t endure iiiiiiiiiiiiiit!
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| I can’t! It’s coming out! It came oooooooooooooooooooooooooout! (I mean the oxygen).
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| “… Buha!”
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| Reaching the limits of my endurance, I brought my face over the water.
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| ““““““…”””””
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| I’d say I won’t forget this scene in all of my life.
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| When, in the future, I’m a gramps and die, I think I want to peacefully breath my last inside a soft hospital bed while remembering this scene.
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| What I first saw were Kyouko, Iris, Manami, Lilith-san… Those four girl’s blank faces.
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| Zonmi, the only member who was aware of the circumstances, had her face totally flushed red in a daze.
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| And as I gradually shifted my glance down, I could grasp with my eyes the stark naked figures of the five girls.
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| If there’s a heaven in this world, right now I’m standing in front of it<!--Do you remember a similar sentence last chapter? Clarie would SO much hate Chiharu, way more than he already does, If he gets wind of this.-->, so I thought.
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| Some seconds after that.
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| Though there occurred the mysterious incident of the onsen’s cloudy water becoming dyed red as if by tomato juice, that’s yet another story.
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| “Good grief. No matter if there was no ill will, to brazenly enter the women’s bath… Reflect deeply on what you have done.”
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| “… Yes.”
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| After apologizing again and again to the girls, I was taking a stroll along the premises with Zonmi, after she bathed<!--not very sure about this-->.
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| “And what even more unforgivable… You got excited by my body… And moreover one part of your body even got hard…”
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| “Erm, Zonmi. By my honor, I tell you that was…”
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| “I-I mean, I’m… A sixteen… Years old girl.
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| That Chiharu got that reaction due to none other than me… Though it makes me a liiiiiiiiiitle bit glad… This and that are different stories. Carried away by your lust on such a public place… Shame on you!”
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| “Y.yup.”
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| What do I do… This mood…
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| Being too late to stop her misunderstanding, it was a troublesome atmosphere.
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| “… Now that I think of it, recently we haven’t had the chance to speak like this, just the two of us.”
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| Giving up on dispelling Zonmi’s misunderstanding, I boldly tried to divert the conversation’s topic.
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| “…Now that you mention it, that’s true.”
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| “If you like, this night… Could you tell me many things about you?”
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| When I asked, Zomi suddenly looked away, as if embarrassed.
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| “… W-what the heck do you mean by that?”
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| “I’ve fully realized since coming to this town.
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| That you had two little sisters. That you were the ghoul clan’s princess.
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| If you think about it… I didn’t know a thing about you, Zonmi, until I came here.
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| That’s why
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| Like what kind of childhood did you have.
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| Like why you thought about going to the human world, I want you to tell me about those things with as much detail as you can.”
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| When I blurted to her my honest thoughts, Zonmi showed an awkward smile,
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| “… It doesn’t matter but I have neither shared memories with you, Chiharu, like the Nephilim does, nor a tragic past like the red dragon. I don’t think there’s anything that could catch your interest, Chiharu…”
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| “? Don’t decide those things before speaking about them. By the way, I want to know everything about you.”
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| “…… Once again, thoughtlessly saying like that lines that set one’s teeth on edge.”
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| Looking down as if troubled by where to look at, Zonmi spoke bitterly in a provoking tone.
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| “That’s right, isn’t it? Occasionally reminiscing is not that bad…”
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| Nevertheless, as if resigning herself, Zonmi started to speak in an unconcerned tone to hide her embarrassment.
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| “First, about my childhood… As a child, I was, crudely speaking, a girl with no independence.”
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| “Is that so? How surprising.”
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| “Yeah. The me at that time was dedicated to studying as per my parents’ command and attended many different lessons. I feel that the me back then lived just to comply with my parents’ expectations.
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| And the expectations of those around me… Raised the hurdle to clear once I cleared it <!-- basically every time she cleared her goal, her goal will grow/ elevate into something even higher/harder that she needed to achieve -->. As my school results, different from a certain half-baked pair of siblings<ref>i.e. Chiharu and Manami.</ref> were excellent, the expectations on me grew at an accelerated pace.
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| At one point, voices appeared that endorsed me as the first queen in the ghoul clan’s history. Since at the time… My parents had yet to produce a male heir.”
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| “…!? Isn’t that amazing?”
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| “It is. The me back then… In the eyes of strangers may have looked like a child that could do anything perfectly with no effort.
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| However, since my conduct, after all, was a reaction born from a guilty conscience about the attention everyone had on me due to my excellent results… It’s not like it had any purpose.
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| That’s why I ended up snapping.
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| When my parents had their long-expected son, the expectations of everyone shifted from me to the baby in less than a month after the birth.
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| To me that was tremendously vexing… I felt like all of my efforts up to date got denied… My efforts until then were in turn exchanged in my heart for opposition against my family.”
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| “…”
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| I didn’t know.
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| Though not to the extent of Iris… Zonmi too has suffered bitter experiences in the past.
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| “Reached the turning point, about the human world… Was it once I graduated from middle school?
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| Though everyone naturally expected me to further my studies, I, overcoming the opposition from my family, chose the path of being a monster tamer’s partner.”
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| “Why expressly that?”
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| “Going straight to the point, it was to walk down the path that I myself chose instead of the rails set by someone. To me, the path of becoming a monster tamer’s partner… Looked like the perfect place where I could test my own power, without my lineage mattering in the least.”
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| “Was that so? How strong of you. Zonmi, you…”
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| Instead of the safe asphalt before her, she dared to choose the difficult path of cutting through by herself.
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| Only people with absolute confidence in their own abilities can attempt that stunt.
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| Zonmi, with a perplexed countenance, “haah…”, sighed,
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| “… What you’ve said also goes to you, Chiharu… No, rather, aren’t you the one who’s strong?”
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| “? What the heck do you mean?”
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| “I mean… You too… Despite having thousands of other paths, you chose by your own free will to walk down the path of a monster tamer.”
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| “… Ah!”
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| Now that she mentions it… Isn’t it like that?
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| Though I wasn’t too aware until now, My mentality of having accepted the unusual lifestyle of a monster tamer may be extraordinary.
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| “Besides, I, by no means… Was not the strong monster you think I was, Chiharu.
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| At first, I doubted if the path I chose myself was the correct one.
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| There were many night when I couldn’t sleep out of uneasiness.
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| However, since I met you, Chiharu, and we made the contract, I stopped having bad dreams.
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| Chiharu… How much indebted I am to you… I don’t think you’ll know it in your life.”
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| “… That, maybe… Is the same for me…
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| I too, if you were not with me, Zonmi, would live an aimless life without knowing even the kind of person I am.”
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| “…”
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| Zonmi looked down, in silence.
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| A quiet night where snow falls heavily and piles up.
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| There’s just a comfortable silence.
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| “… Fufu. It’s somewhat embarrassing. Chiharu, you shouldn’t let your body get so cold. Why don’t we continue with this story after we have succeeded in convincing my father?”
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| “… That’s right. Let’s do as you say.”
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| Overcoming her family’s opposition… I think that Zonmi’s determination of following by herself the path that she herself cuts through.
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| However, Zonmi was about to run into another wall.
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| Unless I achieve victory on this race without fail and convince Zonmi’s father… Zonmi will probably fall again into that bitterness.
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| Only that… Is the obstacle we must overcome.
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| Finished my night stroll with Zonmi, once I had laid down in my bed, I renewed my resolve.
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