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🕑 Added 2024-05-23 05:09:26 +0000 UTCGoing is Scary, Returning is ___? [Part 3]
“SHE’S AN ANGEL!” shouted the Lord of Skyte from the bottom of his heart.
No one refuted it.
There were only believers who were nodding so vigorously that it felt like their heads would come off...
No, two people… two brothers were shaking their heads, not vertically but horizontally.
“Hey, William? She’s def thinking, ‘The expression of a cool old man stressed from work is da best…’ right now, isn’t she?”
“She only voiced her concern to look at the cool old man from up close, didn’t she?” asked George to his younger brother.
‘Everyone around us is blind.’ George lamented as he looked up at the sky in the face of this phenomenon he had experienced countless times since he came to this world.
“Yes, no doubt about that. She only did that to enjoy the sight of a cool old man up close. Ah, c’mon, what’s wrong with this world!”
William, still being carried under George’s armpit, held his head in exasperation.
“Also, even if Nee-sama wanted to start a conversation, she didn’t have to say what she did, right?! ‘Nothing worse will happen,’ she said! She… She… Didn’t she just raise a painfully obvious flag by saying that….!”
Are there any novels, mangas, or animes where nothing truly happened after a character says such a line? No, there aren’t!
“Ah… Hey, she def did that on purpose, didn’t she?”
“Me here is also quite exhausted, though…” George, who got dragged here and there because of the King’s rampage, had a fed-up look on his face after hearing William’s point.
“Meo~w♪”
(But that’s just how Emma is, meo~w♪) Koumei meowed happily.
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whoom…
Around the same time, a circle of light appeared on the ground deep within the forest near the barrier. The source of that light was a magic circle, which no the Kingdom's people knew when, who, and why it had been installed in such a place.
Even though it was the current largest existing magic circle in this world, it had never been found until now, probably because of its location near the barrier.
The sheer number of magic stones used to make this magic circle was in proportion to its size. This magic circle was a memento of the era when the Empire thought it could mine endless magic stones from its land. It contained one-way teleportation magic to transport people or objects from the Empire to the Kingdom.
Screech…
Once the light from the magic circle subsided, what was once an empty place was now occupied by a humongous cage. It was the monster cage the Empire had sent. That very cage which was only unlocked just before it was teleported away. And one monster came out of that sturdy cage.
That monster was the most dangerous kind, even among all psychic-attacking monsters.
rustle rustle
“!”
Then, another monster pushing its way through the lush bushes in the forest appeared.
It was the rainbow raccoon who had narrowly escaped from Arban’s arrows.
“!”
A rainbow raccoon and the monster coming out of the cage.
Those two were the worst and strongest combination of monsters, a good fortune for the Empire and at the same time, a misfortune for the Kingdom.
“!!”
The rainbow raccoon knew by instinct that the monster before it would turn into its strength. And so was the monster from the cage. It knew by instinct that the rainbow raccoon would become its force. Each thought they had acquired the power to easily destroy a puny human country with both of them together.
Roarrrr
Pillars of fire rose high from the monster from the cage. The monster rejoiced at how it had become the strongest existence after its chance encounter with the rainbow raccoon. Because it could now burn down all the humans who had trapped it inside that damn cage.
The same went for the rainbow raccoon. For it could now drive the humans, who had destroyed its group a while ago, into insanity.
Both had a grudge against humans.
The pillars of fire emitted by the caged monster rose higher and more intense instead of weakening and began to cover the whole forest. The rainbow raccoon jumped lightly onto the monster's back, undaunted by the blazing pillars of fire.
‘I remember the smell of those humans. …They’re over there.’
The caged monsters squinted.
The place the two monsters headed to was in the opposite direction of the barrier. Or, to be exact, the campsite used for the extracurricular lesson.
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Author’s corner:
Everyone! Happy new year! Please kindly support “The Tanaka Family Reincarnates” this year too.
Crisis: Hey, Serious? Let’s go for our first shrine visit.
Serious: Nothing good ever happens to me even if I pray to God.
Sir Comedy: How gloomy, Serious. That doesn’t matter, let’s all go!
Crisis: Serious, c’mon, let’s draw a fortune slip.
Serious: I always draw “bad fortune” every time…
Sir Comedy: Wow, that’s something. I’ve only ever got “great fortune,” y’know?
Crisis: Don’t say anything more, Sir! Hey… Show me what you drew.
Serious: …
Crisis: Hm? What’s wrong? Is it another “bad fortune”?
Serious: tremble tremble
Crisis: Oh? Is it “great fortune”?
Serious: tremble tremble
Crisis: Hey, what is it… No way, could it be “great misfortune”? D-Don’t mind, Serious. Nothing can get any worse than now, so getting great misfortune is not that bad. A-Alrighty, lend me your fortune slip, I will tie it up for y…ou? Huh? No way, huh, it’s blank? What’s this? Huh? Nothing is written… on it?
Serious: WAAA cry
Crisis: H-Hey, wait, Serious! I-It’s fine, I’m telling you! See, uh… damn it, I don’t know what to say to this!
Sir Comedy: This year is gonna be another yet lively year, huh… Oh? Rom-Com Geeky Lady, you also came. You look good in that long-sleeved kimono.
Rom-Com Geeky Lady: Fufufu, I’m looking forward to the day the blank white Serious to be dyed in Crisis’ color…
Sir: Hm? And what color is that?
Author: Everyone, did you draw fortune slips? How did it go? The author drew “blessing to come (future luck).” I got disappointed and drew another one. …It was yet another “blessing to come” slip.
Translator’s corner: It’s said you should tie your slips to a pine tree if you get bad fortune and not draw another one cause you shouldn’t make light of the deities. From the author’s experience, I guess that’s true…
And why tie it to a pine tree? The words for “pine” and “wait” in Japanese are both read as “matsu,” so it is believed if you tie your bad fortune slips to a pine tree, the bad fortune will “wait” on the tree instead of following you home.
