Volume 2 Chapter 18 (1/2)
It was after 7:00 pm Her brothers had already had their bath and Mizuki was drying their hair
“Wait, it’s still not dry yet, hora hora”
With loud cheers, her brothers were scuffling They appeared to be having fun With a wry smile, Mizuki wipes away the moistureThey put on their paja room
She gets lasses At that ti room
“Riot…?”
“Eh?”
“No, on the news…”
Her father said with a dubious voice as he watched the news She peeked at the TV fro “Urgent News” A news caster read the report in a monotone voice At a station near the Tokyoplace There were even reports of a few casualties
“Moent news”
“…ara? Really?”
Her mother poked her head out of the kitchen As the three of the, reports came one after another It wasn’t just li all over the city The cause was unknown The number of casualties was also unknown
“For there to be riots in japan…”
Her mother muttered in a worried voice As the news continued, the name of a familiar place cahborhood Her father spoke with a dumbfounded expression,
“Isn’t it getting close……”
At that ti sirens could be heard outside their house It was froht at 5 o’clock to play children’s songs As the city speakers normally only cas, they were so you tuned out; but now, the three of them listened intently They turned off the TV, stood still, and kept quiet A broadcast started, and with intermittent speech, it told them to evacuate to a certain area immediately
(TL: The way the author wrote this paragraph was confusing, redundant, and unorganized I took the liberty of reconstructing it so that it makes more sense)
“…………”
The living room rapped in silence
Mizuki’s father stood up,
“Kaa-san, prepare rucksacks for everyone Mizuki, take care of your brothers”
(TL: The father refers to the mother as mother IDK if I should write wife, honey, mother, or what… so I just left it as kaa-san)
“Y, yes”
In a hurry, her mother stood and left the rooht,
‘Isn’t evacuation a bit over-kill?’
It wasn’t disaster-level news, and even if there were riots, they were still far away She didn’t think they would come out this far Mizuki took her brothers to their rooed from pajamas to outdoor clothes The brothers looked up at Mizuki and spoke
“What is ‘Riot’?”
“Eh? U—uht, I guess?”
“They’re fighting?”
“That’s right And fighting is bad, okay? Now then, you two get your bags ready, we are leaving now”
“Okay”
They packed a change of clothes and a towel in their backpacks, Mizuki also packed her own things With their bags over their shoulders, they went downstairs There, their father was preparing the car in the garage Plugging in the car engine, the headlights lit up the dark driveway
(TL: I think it is an electric car I have no idea how they work, so I did my best)
Seeing that, Mizuki was surprised The shelter was nearby the elementary school, it wasn’t so far away that you would need a car Even if you walked, it would only take about 10 minutes
“We’re taking the car? I think walking would be…”
“I have a bad feeling It is better to get there quickly”
Suddenly, down the driveway in the light, a man with an anxious look on his face could be seen It was Takasaki-san, the husband of the house next door Mizuki’s father stepped away fro with Takasaki-san
“Mizuki!”
Turning towards the voice, a tall boy with black hair could be seen standing there He was the only son of the Takasaki house and Mizuki’s childhood friend
“A-kun…”
“You’re evacuating too? I wonder what’s going on, with the riots”
“Yeah… I’m not sure but, my dad says we should evacuate just in case”