Chapter 3 – Dragon Girl (2)

“Good afternoon”

“Ah, good afternoon!”

A cat-eared auntie bowed her head at me. I was flustered and also bowed. I was kinda well known in the town I used to live in, so it’s been a while since I’ve been greeted like that.

“…There’s a lot of beastmen, huh.”

I could see members of the cat and bird tribe here and there. Was this town where the “Other Side” left-overs remained? Since a large part of West Kanto’s terrain was changed, I’ve heard that there’s a lot of people from “there”. Well, there were a lot of them living where I used to live as well.

I’ve already been walking for 10 minutes. I walked up a gentle hill, stopped and looked in the direction of my house. I could see an extensive view of the surrounding area from here.

An enormous inverted triangular boulder was pierced into the ground. It was easy to understand that my new house was at the base of that boulder.

Half a year ago, I was surprised when my old man said that he wanted to buy a house. After all, it was right before Shouhei was going to the sixth grade and I had just enrolled in high school. Of course, we opposed it. Strangely, the old man wouldn’t concede.

Our Kazamachi household was a democracy. The majority rule was absolute, you had no choice to give up if your idea was rejected.

That rule was established by my old man. That old man disregarded the majority rule. It was the first time that it happened.

There had to be some reason for it, so we pressed him for an answer. Our old man who had long since reached middle age confessed with a bright red face.

Our parents visited this town on their honeymoon. A rural town with a mid-sized hot spring district and hidden tourist spots. It seemed like our mother was extremely delighted with it.

It was a rural town with a mid-sized hot springs resort and hidden tourist spots. It seemed like mother was very delighted with it. My mother, full of excitement, told our old man, “One day, I’d like to live in this town.”

Our old man who was crazy about his wife and couldn’t conceal it had remembered it all this time.

Ever since that day, he spent some time every day to check whether there was any cheap land for sale on the internet and the like.

Around last year’s summer, the old man was overcome with joy.

With his income and savings, even with our tuition and living expenses in mind, he was barely able to get his hands on a rights to a property that was auctioned

After that, everything went quickly.

Our old man who had a construction related job, first used all his connections to control the auction, then told us about it. In a situation where he couldn’t retreat, he forcibly persuaded us.

We brothers, to be frank, love our late mother. Since it concerned our mother, we could not reject it.

We were sorry to everyone in our old school, but we prioritized our mother. Ah, I didn’t have any lingering attachments to our old school or anything, since I had no friends anyways. Oh, well there was a bunch of troublesome guys that were my self-proclaimed friends. Not that they ever talked to me.

Well, it’s like that. Neither Shouhei or I, was at all against going to the town that our mother wished to live in.

“The air is clean and the scenery is also amazing”

I muttered to myself while reminiscing.

The lush green rural landscape and the modern residential area.
A splendid mountain range within the scope of where one could see.
A large flowing river nearby.
An environment perfect for living a peaceful life.

The inverted triangular boulder that was stabbed into the ground behind our hose was a symbol. What’s amazing is that, it’s estimated to be close to 100 meters. That big boulder.
It was to the north of our house, so it never blocked the sunlight.

Okay, break’s over. Let’s quickly go shopping and return home. Our Kazamachi house was composed of 3 males, so we didn’t bring a lot of things when moving.

Since Shouhei prioritized the kitchen and dining room that was assigned to him, he probably hasn’t cleaned his own room yet.

Let’s finish lickety split and do it for him.

I started walking one more.

However, I failed to notice a huge shadow that leapt off the giant boulder.

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