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| ==Chapter 4: Onsen!== | | ==Chapter 4: Onsen!== |
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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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| “…*bubbles**bubbles**bubbles* (W-what is it?)” | | “…*bubbles**bubbles**bubbles* (W-what’s 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!” | | “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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| “That’s right, isn’t it? Occasionally reminiscing is not that bad…” | | “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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| “…”
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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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| <noinclude> | | <noinclude> |
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