Volume 31 Chapter 9 (2/2)
”I think it ht be in our japanese textbook”
shi+mako-san had neither looked in a mirror, nor had eyes in the back of her head, yet she was apparently still able to recognize the style her hair had been put into During all this, she hadn't been distracted from her work either, as she cut the cocoa colored cloth to match the pattern, ironed the folds, stuck pins into the corners, and reached the point where she was ready to start sewing
”Textbook?”
shi+, took out her japanese textbook, opened it and handed it to the puzzled pair Then she sht?”
”Ah - that's it”
Seeing the actual article, they quickly agreed
”Hey -, the nauerite”
There was an illustration of it on the 'hairstyles' page, a pictures of hair parted in the middle, hair tied in the back and other japanese hairstyles According to the text, it was a Western hairstyle that had apparently been popular with young women around the year 1890 or so
”Even today, it looks good”
At the very least, it really suited shi+ht brown hair
”Say, shi+mako-san, do you take after your mother?”
Yu machine
”Huh?”
”I mean, since you don't really take after your father”
And, according to what Noriko-chan had told theo, she didn't really take after her older brother either Since her older brother and her father were so much alike
”Ah, right”
shi+mako-san smiled
While on that topic, they knew a lot about shi+mako-san's school-life, but notof second-year, she'd kept the fact that she lived at a Buddhist temple a secret But with that out in the open, it felt like they'd missed a chance to ask her about it
”And what drew you to Christianity in the first place? Was there some event that provided the spark?”
Unlike Yuht up in the Catholic faith since kindergarten, shi+ iven her family environment, it's unlikely Christianity would have been recommended to her
”Well, that's because,”
shi+mako-san answered
”When I was young, I was playing in one of the storage closets in our house, and right at the back there was a trunk Inside the trunk was a rosary I'm certain that's when the door to Christianity was opened”
”Why would there be a rosary in a shrine?”
It was an innocent question
From the Buddhist perspective, Christianity was just a foranisans used to pray
”It was one of my deceased older brother's possessions, so I suppose they couldn't bear to dispose of it”
”Your older brother's deceased? But, umm, that's odd Noriko-chan said shea cake at a kindergarten - ”
As she spoke, Yuly confused The time-line was all mixed up
shi+htened out the time-line quite simply
”The brother that Noriko-chan arten, who is just like my father is Masafumi In addition to him, there was another brother, called Norimichi”
And he's the deceased person So that's hoas, huh
”shi+mako-san, your parents had three children?”
Wait, there weren't necessarily only three For a long tiht that shi+mako-san was an only child, only to one day suddenly find out that she had an older brother Now it had been revealed that she had another older brother If this pattern continued, it was possible they s and five younger siblings, totaling eleven children in the family
”Yeah”
shi+ machine But then, almost immediately, she see, ”No”
Just as Yus:
”My father - ”
That was an unexpected way to start the sentence
”Yeah?”
Yumi and Yoshi+no-san both asked sihtened her posture, then continued
”Norimichi is my real father”
”Huh!?”
What the heck was going on?