Chapter 5 - Dragon Girl (4) (1/2)

“Tanks rou beryy masdu!”

I bought the ingredients at a mid-sized supermarket.

It’s good to be lively, but I had no idea what the cashier just said, I gave him a nod and left the store.

Frequently seen in the countryside, the supermarket along the big national highway had a parking lot even bigger than the store. I spent some time to find this place.

No need to guess, I can feel that I walked a lot. It would be tiresome to walk this distance everyday.

However, although our house is surrounded by a forest, there’s a residential area if you just walk for a bit. I’m sure that if I search a bit, I can find closer shops or supermarkets.

“Shall I return?”

I had a bad habit of speaking to myself. It’s surely because I don’t have conversations with anyone except at home. I shouldered the shopping bag and left the parking lot. The big national highway was in front of me.

I waited for the traffic light to turn in order to cross the national highway.

This road with 3 lanes of traffic on each side was heavy with traffic. If you go straight like this, you can go to Kanto. Though, there were also a lot of dump trucks and semi-trailers, so it felt like there were more cars than there actually was.

“It really is long…”

After I pushed the button, it seems like it’s the type where you have to wait for a fairly long time.

My stomach was almost empty. I’ve just noticed, but it’s already evening.

As I thought about how I wanted to return home soon, I looked towards the big boulder.

I could see the big boulder even from here, it was right under a few approaching clouds.

The scenery looked like it was from a fairy tale.

I was admiring the scenery for some time, a cat-eared woman accompanied by a cat-eared boy stood beside me. Looks like a parent and child. They were holding hands tightly and talking with a smile.

“Mom! What’s for dinner today?”

“Didn’t you just ask earlier? Are you that happy? We’re having curry today.”

“Yay! Hurray! I love curry!”

How peaceful. The corners of my eyes loosened and I looked at the boy. How pleasant. I like obedient kids like that.

There was also a time where Shouhei was like that. Now, he’s just cheeky and uses reason to argue, so he’s not adorable at all.

Well, he’s handsome, so it’ll be okay. I don’t know what exactly is okay, that younger brother.

While I was grieving over the cruelty of the flow of time, the cat-eared mother who noticed me, moved back as her complexion changed.

Damn.

I forgot about my mean expression.

It’s not like I was looking at them with wicked thoughts. This kind of thing happens often. I’m tall, have rough hair and I’m well-built because I work out. My eyes are slanted upwards which makes it seem like I’m looking down on others, so I’m often misunderstood.

I’m already used to it. I didn’t live17 years for show.

That’s why, I’m not shocked at all!

“W-what’s that!”

I hear a voice from afar. It was a rough voice of a middle-aged man.

I looked over my shoulder and saw a middle-aged man wearing a uselessly flashy jersey. He was pointing at something.

His face was flushed red and had fright plastered over it, he had a face like one out of a nightmare. It was more harsh than the tiger face embroidered on his jersey.

At his feet, there was a small-breed dog that was made to wear a fluffy sweater and was barking. That’s a corgi, isn’t it? Somehow, I thought it was pitiful. Even, though it was already fluffy without the sweater.

The cat-eared mother confirmed what was in the direction that the middle-aged man was pointing in before me, picked up the boy and began to run.

At that time, I finally became bothered by it and looked in the direction of where the middle-aged man was pointing at.

“Ah?”

There were black clouds.

The abnormally low black cloud approached with a staggering speed while spinning. It was also scattering thick lightning.

“Eh?”

There was a massive downpour of lightning that I thought it was raining. I pitifully froze at this unrealistic spectacle.

The surrounding customers got onto their cars one after another or ran inside the shop to escape.

Is this what pandemonium looks like?

I was startled by a shrill shriek that I would normally find unbecoming, I finally took a step backwards.

Then, I noticed it.

A huge silhouette was approaching with the same speed as the black cloud.

It was very long, horizontally. The middle part was very thick, but it became more narrow as it got to either end.

My curiosity got the best of me. I stopped walking and stared at the silhouette.

This may be the first time that my life is in danger. A thick bolt of lightning struck a utility pole 20 meters away from me.

The ground shook and tore to pieces, a high-pitched sound pierced through my body.

An impact directly drove through my stomach and made my body feel unsteady.

Even so, my idiot self was able to get a view of the mysterious silhouette. Immediately below it, I saw a figure at around the same place of the silhouette.