Chapter Four

crying and crying yesterday. Even if I was told that it was rice, even if I got angry by dropping my parents’ futon on the floor, I couldn’t react to them and kept crying.

And this morning my eyes crying too much are swollen and hot, and my head hurts.

However, the heat seems to have dropped completely, and there is no sluggishness. By the way, I was pretty refreshed by the crying.

The family at the time of breakfast managed to touch the swollen things.

“The heat has gone down”

My mother touches my forehead with a cold hand that has just finished washing. By the way, it holds down the swollen eyes.

It is cold and very pleasant.

“Hey, if Mine is fine, should we go shopping together today?”

“Huh, mom, what is your job? Can I take a break from work even though I got down?”

Certainly, “Dyeing is the busiest job right now, so you have to go to work even if Mine gets hot?” Is that okay, a member of society?

When I looked at me leaning my head, my mother looked sadly.

“Turi is not just Mine’s nurse, but I feel sorry if I don’t let him go outside a little. I told you that it wasn’t, so people around me forced me to rest. “

sighed in words. It ’s a state that wants to dig a hole and fill it so that a 22-year-old mental age can’t be seen and keeps crying all day. When I get calm, I’m too embarrassed about what I did.

“I’m sorry, please”

“Mine doesn’t apologize, because when you are ill, it’s a thin heart.”

My mother comforted me with gentle strokes, but she seems to be crushed by her guilt.

I’m sorry. I cried with hopelessness that there was no book, but I never thought I missed my mother. Even though I was so worried and caring, I thought that I couldn’t find a book without Turi going out. I’m really sorry.

“Turi goes to the nearby forest with everyone, but I’m still unable to get sick, and will I go shopping with my mom?”

“Yeah!”

“Oh, you suddenly got well”

After all, I’m happy to be a mother, and my mother smiles happily.

I also smile and smile at my mother.

“Fufu, what’s fun”

My mother seems happy, so I don’t bother to solve the misunderstanding, but if I go outside, I can only find a book.

Today I go shopping and get a book.

It doesn’t have to be a thick book. For the time being, I want a book for memorizing a little. At this time, a problem collection for children is also acceptable. It can be an Aiueo table or an alphabet table.

“I’m sure I don’t feel lonely if I have a book. I’ll stay home for a long time.”

Ufufun, fun ~.

“Now, mom, I will go”

Turi smiled in full and looked into the bedroom from the door. Today, my mother is on holiday, so Turi will be released from my babysitter.

“Go with everyone, be careful.”

“Yes”

Turi carries a large kite and runs with a bouncy gait. It feels as if you are going to play, but this is also a great help. I picked up a kite. By the way, he seems to be looking for nuts and persimmons. Whether it becomes a cheap and delicious table depends on Turi.

Good luck, Turi! Add color to my diet!

There seems to be no school in the world of endlessness, and the children are all helping or working. At least in my memory I have seen and heard, there is no school equivalent. Children a little older than Turi begin apprenticeship.

I want to be a librarian apprentice or a bookstore apprentice if possible. Going out today is a place to gather information. Check the location of the bookstore, get along with the store, and become an apprentice.

You can praise me as a computationally expensive little girl.

“Now, Mine. Will we go shopping?”

This is my first outing since I became mine.

Wearing clothes other than pajamas for the first time. As usual, it is a rag and a rag, but the fabric can be layered with several thick clothes. Apparently it’s cold outside.

I was stepped out of my house for the first time, holding my hand with my mother.

Cold!

Narrow!

Odor!

Because it is a stone building, it feels like cold air is being released from the building itself, and cold air soaks into clothes that have been worn in layers.

I really want heat tech, fleece, and hokkairo.

Also, I want a mask to block the smell and prevent colds.

As soon as I got out of the house, there was a stairs. I have only the same physique as a three-year-old child, and there are narrow and steep stairs that scare me to step down.

Descending from the stairs of the board that crawls with the mother’s hand while turning over and over again. Only down from the second floor was a strong and beautiful stone staircase.

What is this disparity in the same building?

ぅ When I was rushing my eyebrows, I finally got out. When I counted it, the 7th floor was the 5th floor.

Honestly, for me who are sickly, small, and lacking physical strength, going out is quite hard work. I think it’s natural to stay at home in memory.

“Zee, ze … mother, breath, painful. Wait a minute”

Even now, I’m already out of breath. I had no physical strength and was about to fall down before I reached my destination.

“I’m still out of the house, are you okay?”

“No. All right. Go”

I want to check at least the location of the bookstore. I looked around while taking a deep breath and adjusting my breath.

Out of the apartment house, it looks like a small square with a common well.

Cobblestones are found only around the well, and some aunts can be seen washing while washing. It must be this well that Turi comes to wash dishes and draws water from the water bottle every morning.

“Mom did you wash it?”

“Yes, it’s already over”

Although all the clothes seem to be slightly dirty, they seem to be washing for the time being. Maybe the quality of the detergent is bad. Let’s think about soap processing.

The plaza is surrounded by high buildings like apartment houses on all sides, and there is only one road connected to the street. If you go through the road, which is never wide, you will come to a big street.

Wow, foreign cityscape.

An unfamiliar cityscape spreads out in front of us, and animals like wagons and donkeys crossed cappocapo and cobblestones, and there were shops on both sides of the wide road.

I completely felt like a sightseeing trip. Although there is no bookstore, it looks awkward.

“Why are you going to go?”

“Well, Mine. What are you talking about? What are we going to go to the market? The shops have little use.”

Apparently the store on the first floor of the building is basically for people who have some money, and it is not useful for poor people, and everyday shopping is on the market day It seems to do.

…… Does this mean that bookstores are on the first floor of such buildings?

When I looked around the bookstore and looked around, I saw an extremely large building that could be a landmark. It is a whitish stone, simple but dignified, or a conspicuous building.

“Oh, castle?”

“That’s a temple? If there are 7 mines, you’ll go baptismally.”

Oh, the temple. The temple. I don’t like religion. Try not to get as close as possible from yourself.

Somehow I feel like I want to keep a distance in religion. I don’t know whether it is acceptable in this world, so I looked at the wall at the back of the temple.

“Mom, what about that wall?”

“Castle wall. There are castles of lords and mansions of nobility. Well, it doesn’t really matter to us.”

“Fun”

Rather than a castle, you can see only high stone walls and look like a prison. Will it feel like that if you harden your defenses? I thought that a Western-style castle was something extravagant. Ah, but it was like that of a Western castle when it was used as a fort.

“Then, what about the wall over there?”

“That is the outer wall, the wall that protects the city. Is your father working at the gate just down the road?”

“… What is your dad?”

From the memory of Mine, I knew that I was working as a soldier, but was it a gatekeeper? I do not know that.

Even so, is there a castle with lords and surrounded by walls and outer walls, can we think that this is a city?

Even if you look at the area surrounded by the outer wall or see the people wave that crosses the street, it doesn’t seem like a big city, but it might be useless if you think about Tokyo or Yokohama.

Ah, the size of the bookstore should change depending on the size of the city, but I don’t know the essential standards!

This city is big! ? Small! ?

Tell me, great person!

“Mine, let’s go to the market. Good things will disappear”

“Yes”

While heading to the market, looking for a bookstore and looking around, the store signs on both sides of the road are basically illustrations. The signboard is a picture on a wooden board, or a picture engraved with metal.

It is easy to understand even for me who don’t know the letters, and it helps to find a bookstore, but cold sweat comes to my disgusting premonition.

That? There’s no character in the city, let alone the house? Is the literacy rate low? Maybe there is no character itself?

Suddenly drawing blood on my expectation after crossing my head.

There was no expectation that the characters themselves would not exist. If there is no letter, no book can exist.

“Mine, because there are so many people, you should not leave your mother”

“… Don”

While moving my feet stunningly to my expectations, I was arriving at the market.

When I jumped into my ear and raised my face, I saw a lot of lively street stalls lined up and crowded. The bustle reminiscent of Japanese festival stalls made me feel a little nostalgic.

I unintentionally broke my face and looked into a nearby fruit shop. I found something unexpected and pulled my mother’s skirt.

“Mom, that! Something“ write ”!”

A plate with a sign on it is stuck on the product. I couldn’t read it, but there were numbers or letters in this world.

I’m hungry for print so much that my face is flushed.

“Oh, it’s the price. You know how much you can buy.”

“What is written?”

My mother is surprised by the suddenly energetic daughter, but that doesn’t matter.

If you let the mother read the numbers that come into your eyes, you can see that the numbers you know in your head are connected to the symbol in front of you.

Yoshi, do your best! My synaptic circuit!

“Well, is this 30 lions?”

After reading a number of numbers, read the numbers yourself and look at the reaction of the mother.

It seems that the answer was correct, and my mother looked down while blinking many times.

“It’s amazing to remember so quickly, Mine”

“Nufu ~”

Since there are 10 kinds of symbols that seem to be numbers, the calculation method is definitely decimal. It was good not to be binary or 60’s. If you remember only the symbols that correspond to numbers, you can calculate without problems.

Oh, maybe the genius flag stands? “It ’s just like a person’s flag if it ’s ten and ten children and over twenty.