Vol 1 Chapter 21 (1/2)
Chapter 21 - Sealed Memories 2
I, who was supposed to drown together with Asaka, felt my stomach was being pressed down in a sequence, and the water I drank when I fell into the river was gradually being spat out from my mouth and onto the gra.s.s side beside me.
I opened up my eyes agonizingly; and as I saw the yellow-ish skyline above me, I knew that I had been saved, and my vision turned towards the guy in front of me saving my life; noticing that the person is wearing a green colored mask, as he still intently focused on compressing my stomach continuously.
”Is it Forest?”
(TL: it's the name of the person, yeah ik what you're thinking.)
”Coughcough.....coughcoughcough, Asa......”
”Waka-sama, you have awakened. Wind is currently saving ojou-sama, and she's about to wake up.
(TL: waka-sama = young master; ojou-sama = young mistress, and note that wind is speaking very formally here)
As if he understood my heart's worry, Forest stopped his hand movements of compressing my stomach and said to me.
Feeling that my right hand is still being gripped tightly by something, I turned to the right to look, to realize that the one gripping my right hand is none other than an unconscious Asaka. A lady wearing a blue mask is currently busying compressing Asaka's stomach, and I grinned my teeth towards her.
”Even if she's unconscious she still doesn't let go huh?”
I lowered my head again to see the uncounscious Asaka, and I finally broke free from her grip after exerting an unimaginably amount of effort; before standing up to sit onto the gra.s.spatch while kept looking at Asaka's cute face.
Out of the corner of my eye I noticed a distant figure of a man walking towards us. Bamboo who was standing beside us turned too to look at what I was staring at, before turning out a knife from his pocket, staying cautiously on guard.
As the figure approached closer, Bamboo suddenly knelt on the floor and shouted. ”Master.”
(TL: I can't remember the term for master atm, brain ded, so I placed this)
”Otou-san?”
(TL: Hirito was being formal)
A man who had his arm placed behind his back walked towards me, his eyes' glint as he stared over gave me some sort of pressure; that man is me and Asaka's father.
”Tell me, Hiroto, what exactly happened to the both of you.” Otou-san walked to right besides the still-dripping-wet me and asked.
I lowered my head to peek a glance at the still uncounsious Asaka, before biting my lips and saying: ”Otou-san, I secretly came out to the riverside to play with paper boats, then Asaka nee-chan came to find me, afterwards I tried to play around with her, before accidentally falling into the river; Asaka nee-chan fell into the river too as she tried to save me.”
Otou-san seemingly became rather surprised, he blinked before looking at me furiously: ”Is this true?”
”Y-.......yes it is.” Feeling that my face was slightly hot, I quickly lowered my head and replied.
”What's the fourth rule of the Takeno family?”
I immediately responded: ”Because of one's negligance that had caused a fellow family member to be harmed, even if the other person is the head of the house, he must go to the stone monument behind the hills of the Takeno's family and kneel there for a day and night.”
”Mm, well said, since Asaka seemed to be fine, tonight you shall not
eat anything then, firstly go kneel in front of the monument for one night. Go on, I'll wait here for Asaka to wake up.”
”Yes, otou-san.” I threw one last glance at Asaka lying on the ground, and walked away without turning back.