Volume 1 Chapter 5 (1/2)
CHAPTER 5: HELP SEEKING PEOPLE
On the way to the house after leaving the coffee shop, a suspicious sight caught irl who looks around the area, looking out froirl I approached her and called out to her
”Mera-chan!”
”Wa a~tsu?”
I raised h to surpriseand looks backward slowly
”Oh, that, Ruche-onesan?”
”What's wrong ? Why are you alone in the place like this?”
”Do you know each other?”
Natta asked
”Yup A child that is always been taken care of at the childhood association ”Hiether is Mera-chan
The club that I belong to is the Children's Education Research Departed to the primary school which I has been taken care of until last year, and since this year I should be a junior to the secondary school that I attended
I have not seen you for a long time, have you been a little taller?
”Children's studiesI have been working properly”
”I a events at children's and nursery school”
”The name of the Education Research Division is a lot, but it is a type of club activity that is acting like a child volunteer”
There are not many people who have impressions like Natta because they are usually easy to talk while drinking tea
But, I' in a place like this?”
Question asked as gently as possible to Mera-chan who compares our face with the dark circle Mera-chan was quite an adult, a girl as e
”Do, do not tell rabseyes
”What's wrong? What happened?”
I was surprised at the strong tone that ”I did not knohat happened?” I thought that this was not a probleht, so I tried to ask the situation gently so as not to be forced
”I will not tell anyone, if you do not mind, please tell sister”
”You knohat,”
”Yeah”
”I a It is rare that I saw her talking to a boy even at the kids' party
Even though I thought that it was clearly stranded with friends
”Friend? Child of the same school?”
”No, I do not know”
Mera-chan took out a white handkerchief from the skirt's pocket
Freshly washed as it sood
The handkerchief is a solid white plain color, and it seeirl to wait
”Last ti with everyone, when going home alone, I fell”
The eyes of Mera-chan face doard There was a scab after her knees I was hurt that time Uu, painful
”When I cried alone, a boy I did not know lentfor the boy to return that handkerchief
”But ere you hiding?”
”Mom told me that I should not see him anymore”
”Well, why?”
Mera-chan's parents are famous for their harsh people
She has been particularly loved since she was little and she is being taught to be an official tutor by a private tutor
Because of such tough parents, it e boy to approach an ihter Mera-chan does not dislike her parents, but she told h studies
But I think it's good to return a handkerchief
”I was told that I should not talk to the outside children”
Outer child
In this case, it is like of that town/village other than Philia City and the Capital of Eteruno
The capital of the great power has gained the protection of Ohki Steelstone since ancient times, it prospered dramatically with the invention ofup in a place with a rough terrain such as Philia city, because we made a temple in a place where artificial brilliant steel stone can be placed
On the other hand, there is a big gap in the living standard froet the power tofrom us that already accustomed to machines, the outside life seems very inconvenient and poor, and from the outside it seems our life seems like a different world
There are castle walls around the city, and entry and exit is severely restricted
So, soainst others, and the consciousness seely as the former aristocracy people like Mera-chan's mother