CH 58

dobelyuwai10-13 minutes 24.09.2022

Soen na Osananajimi to Isekai de wa Kekkon Shite Iru Yumewomita ga, Sorekara Osananajimi no Yousu ga Okashii ndaga?

Author: Kataribe Masayuki

Translated by MTL and Dobelyu Wai

Source: Syosetu

Quiet Talk Don't Make Promises......Let's Meet Again (Kagura Chisato Side)

Kagura Chisato, formerly known as Shirasagi Chisato ...... she was recently worrying about her daughter's education.

Recently, she and her daughter Momoe have not been getting along, and because of this, they have not been able to have more than the minimum amount of conversation recently.

Moreover, all the advice she was giving was from herself, and she was also hurt inside, thinking that her daughter must think she is "annoying".

That's ... she was a mother with a rebellious daughter you can find everywhere.

The cause of the disagreement in the first place began when she warned her daughter about her recent appearance.

She is so proud of her daughter, who is always at the top of her class in her studies and surrounded by friends she trusts, but she is worried about her daughter's future because of her recent tendency to dress a bit more flashy and flamboyant.

After the fall of the Shirasagi family, which used to be a well-known and prominent family in her hometown, she went through various hardships and experienced what is commonly referred to as the "ice age" of employment ...... She couldn't help but speak up when she didn't want her family to go through the same hardships she went through.

"I want to do whatever I want while I'm a student ............ It's not that I don't understand the feeling, but ...... "

Not wanting to be overly harsh, but considering that no one else would point that out except her ...... She has to say it.

While worrying like this, she heard the sound of the door of her home being opened.

Even without a special hearing, Chisato knew it was her daughter Momoe who had returned.

"...... Welcome home"

Don't be cold to me, don't be curt to me ...... Even though she thought a lot about it and talked about it, when she came home, Chisato thought such negative things, "I guess she will ignore me again today anyway .......".

However.......such a negative expectation is betrayed.

".......I'm home"

"Eh!?"

She got a reply.

Even though it was such an obvious thing, Chisato, who had not been able to have a proper conversation with her daughter since the Cold War, involuntarily looked twice at her daughter.

"Wh-What are you so surprised about......."

"Eh!? Ah, no.......nothing."

Chisato was then surprised to hear back from her daughter, but she was even more surprised.

"Hey, mama.......I got your letter for you."

"Letter? From whom?"

'Did she get it from the mailman at the doorstep momentarily?' That's what Chisato-san thought, but the envelope her daughter handed her did not have a sender or even an address on it, just a plain brown envelope.

"Is this a letter addressed to me? It doesn't mention anything......."

She asks while checking the envelope she received, but her daughter Momoe tilts her head and looks unsure ......

"Hmm~? I don't know...... Ama-cchi's...... My friend's boyfriend gave it to me, and I was told it was definitely addressed to Mama......"

"Friend's boyfriend? How old is she?"

"She is my classmate......Her boyfriend is also the same."

Same age as her daughter, in other words, a high school student.

Considering that she was of age and had no contact with that generation other than her daughter, Chisato-san felt some kind of doubt ...... Is this some kind of prank? She thought.

But after hearing her daughter's explanation ...... her thoughts stop.

"I was told that the letter was left 30 years ago at a coffee shop located at the foot of "Futatsumori" in the city. It seems that it was a different shop at that time ...... "

"............Eh?"

Futatsumori, it was a place Chisato-san knew well.

A place that she thought she would never visit again ....... because she herself lived there 30 years ago as the daughter of the Shirasagi family.

Although she came to the neighborhood after her marriage, it was not a place she would have ever dared to visit considering what was going on at the time.

But ...... The coffee shop at the foot of Futatsumori ...... Those words opened the door to Chisato-san's memories.

"Futatsumori's ...... coffee shop?"

"It's called Sword Mountain now, you know, and they inherited it from the previous owner. When a woman in a kimono with a cherry blossom hair ornament came, she asked them to give it to her ...... From a girl with blonde bob hair, and a miko costume......"

"!?"

The information about the sender brought by her daughter had been deliberately elaborated, but as soon as she heard the appearance of both the addressee and the sender, Chisato hurriedly opened the envelope.

"No way ...... that's...... "

Suppressing impatient feelings, she opened the letter with her naturally trembling hands ...... The handwriting that she saw looked like a young child trying his best to write ............ But it was definitely a letter from a girl whose memories had been lying in the depths of her memory.

Let's play together again.

I'll be waiting for you at the shrine.

Let's go to the tea shop at the bottom of the mountain together someday.

Konoha

"T-This is............Don't tell me ...... Kono-chan?"

The memories of her childhood come vividly back to her through the poor writing.

A childhood where she was confined and was not always allowed off the property and had no one to play with.

At that time, the only important friend who played with her .......

『Why ...... did I forget about such an important person....... 』

Chisato sat down helplessly ...... at her own heartlessness and the fact that this letter had not reached her for 30 years.

However, considering the reality of the situation, it was unavoidable.

She was about eight years old at the time, and with the downfall of the Shirasagi family, she was at the mercy of all kinds of adult circumstances at the time, and her memories of fun were painted over with those of hardship.

Especially the location of her former parents' house, a place that inevitably reminds her of the hardships she went through back then ...... It was understandable that she did not dare to try to remember.

"H-Hey, mama! What's wrong? Are you okay!?"

Seeing her mother in such a state, Momoe hurriedly rushes to her and supports her.

Momoe leans on her mother weakly, and the sight of her mother's frail appearance, which she had never seen before, makes her worry and panic even more.

Then ...... Momoe was so worried about her mother that she wondered what the recent cold war was all about, and said, "You should take the rest of the day off. I'll take care of the rest ......" She took the initiative and took over all the household chores.

Chisato felt sorry for her daughter who was worried about her, but ...... She decided to be spoiled by her daughter just for today ...... She went to bed much earlier than usual.

"30 Years, huh ............"

And when she closes her eyes alone, what comes up is a series of regrets.

There is no reason why anyone would wait that long.

Because she didn't want to remember ...... she thought so and even forgot about important things ......

With that thought in mind ...... her consciousness fades away.......

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...... It is a landscape that she must have seen many times in her childhood days.

The view from the mountains of Futatsumori, which she assumed would never change for any length of time without any evidence to the contrary.

"Here is ...... Maybe ...... "

Chisato-san was walking in such a place.

A single path through a wooded area, dressed in a kimono and a cherry blossom hair ornament ...... In the same appearance as when she was a little girl.

She never questioned why she was in the form of a child.

But then she realized one fact, one possibility, and she started to run.

"Maybe ...... if I go there!"

It was always the "promised place" where we always met up without making any promises.

The place with the red torii gate, where that girl was always waiting.

Eventually, a red torii gate came into view, and under it ............ was the girl.

Just like that time, a pretty girl with blonde bob hair ...... and a somewhat unworldly miko outfit was waiting.

"Kono-chan !!"

"Chi-chan!!"

Chisato-san ...... Chi-chan ran out as fast as she could and hugged her friend Konoha-chan.

The two girls cry for a while as they are reunited for the first time in thirty years.

As if to make up for the period of time they didn't see each other .......

"I'm sorry, Kono-chan! To suddenly disappeared !! I'm so sorry I forgot about you until now!!"

"It's okay ...... because we met again ...... "

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The following Sunday, the week after Chisato had a strange ...... nostalgic, and warm dream.

She and her daughter had gone to an old shrine in Futatsumori.

It had been a cold war for a while, and Momoe had only heard a few words from her mother recently about that matter, but she was reluctant to go along with her mother's first "request".

Chisato was surprised to find that she was not so conflicted ...... when she came to a place she had avoided so long ago because she thought it was too painful to remember the past.

"It's getting old......after all, it's been 30 years......"

But after all, the passage of time comes to everything equally.

Chisato felt indescribable at the sight of the shrine, which was much more decayed than she remembered.

But ...... in contrast, her daughter begins to get strangely excited.

"H-Here is ...... Could this be the place where Ama-cchi flirted with Amachi!?"

"Eh? Momo-chan's friends come to a place like this? That's a very interesting teenager."

"No, it's not like they were paying a visit or anything, look......"

"Hmm? Ah, Arara...... "

On the screen of the smartphone that her daughter showed, there was certainly a picture of them sitting together in this place and sleeping peacefully.

"These two are childhood friends, but they've been pretty estranged from each other until recently~"

Chisato-san is also interested in her daughter, who talks about it so proudly.

"Ara, what’s that, sounds interesting! Mama loves love stories too."

"Heh~...... That's a little unexpected...... "

Momoe is surprised by her mother's words, which she had assumed to be all seriousness.

Even though she's her own mother, there's still a lot she doesn't understand unless they talk...... it's a matter of course, but she feels like she understands it now.

"There is a coffee shop right at the foot of the mountain, isn't there? Shall we talk about it there?"

"...... The price of the information is a pancake, okay."

And as the mother and child finished praying together and walked down the mountain ...... the golden fox child watched them from behind the torii gate as they descended the mountain.