Chapter 2 (1/2)
Farm Village Arc ② – My name
Wait, that’s dange-…! Mom, that one was pretty close! Please worry a bit more about me!
Right now I’m being carried on my mom’s back.
And while having me on her back, she’s simultaneously working the field.
Everytime she swings her hoe, it’s almost like her stick is about to hit me, how scary.
Hey mom, I don’t think you need to lift up your hoe that much, doesn’t that tire you out?
Every time the mother lifts her hoe, the baby’s eyes suddenly open and get nervous, that’s me.
Someway or another it’ll be four months since I’ve been born.
There are some things I understand, but there are still plenty of things I don’t.
First of all the things I’ve understood, it seems we’re living in a small farming village.
But it also seems like we don’t have good harvests here, everyone has become thin.
This village’s name is Garigari Village.1
Who was it that picked this name!
Of course the name should reveal something about the character of our village, but that’s way too blatant!
Go and pick a name that has a bit of a better feeling!
The second thing I’ve come to understand is my own name.
My name is Ryou. My family calls me Ryou-chan.
At first I thought that it’s a fine name for a girl, with a cool feeling, but after hearing my other siblings names I shuddered.
Starting with the eldest, let’s introduce my siblings.
The eldest Hajime2 (13 years old).
The second boy, Jirou3 (12 years old).
The third boy, Saburou4 (10 years old).
The fourth boy, Maru5 (6 years old).
The fifth boy, Shuu6 (3 years old).
Everyone, have you noticed?
The the eldest have easy to understand and simple names, but the fourth name is Maru.
Going with the previous flow, the name should be s.h.i.+ro7!
Is what I want to say, but Maru.
And the next is Shuu.
And I’m Ryou.
I was really taken aback when I noticed it. In other words, the naming sense of my parents spins the following story.
At the beginning it was Hajime, Jirou, Saburou.
Just like you would count.
However with the birth of the fourth the story changed to ‘let’s stop with having kids’ and they named him Maru.
As in full stop, the punctuation mark.
And with the birth of another one it became ‘this time, please no more kids!’ and Shuu had his name bestowed upon.
Nevertheless another child was born, that’s why I’m named Ryou.
As in Shuuryou8.
When I noticed this, I was shocked!
‘Cool! I like it!’ is what I first thought about my name…
I wish I had never noticed.
d.a.m.n it, sometimes I hate my own greatness.
Oh well, it’s no use thinking like this.
That’s my name.
The meaning of the it is one thing, but since it sounds pretty well let’s just forget about the meaning…
Yea…
Even so my parents keep me at their side, with the excuse to keep me from crying, and go at it every night.