214 6.8 The New Aircrewmen Of Fasuto Japan Airways Arrives. (1/2)
The sky was filled with floating yellow jackets (not a kind of hornets, mind you) but yellow floating gourds that filled the air heading towards Kitakata Town as it landed on the southern gate as Hoshi-sama led the group of Tanukis into town.
If Hachi had Hoshi-sama on his back, he could easily disperse the protective barrier around the town for the flight, but since he was leading the group of Tanukis which consists of different sizes (some fat, others are medium-sized) racoon dogs into town, the Tanukis felt a slight electrifying sensation as they entered the protective barrier.
In this manner, none of the Tanukis was able to change its form into a giant floating yellow gourd unless Hoshi-sama dispersed the protective barrier for a moment before taking flight.
When they reached the town and into our premises, we all gathered around at the meal area and the 'aunties' served dinner for us and was soon joined by the Wonder 8.
They were surprised to see even more Tanukis and a few of the smaller sized one knew Shippo and were chatting happily. There were altogether 14 new Tanukis members and all of the names ended with '-chi' behind it.
The group of Tanukis were all in the same family as Hachi as they were related as cousins and relative members. Hachi being the 8th member of that group easily relates the whole proposal by me to them and they agreed to be part of Fasuto Japan Airways.
Since there were a number of them that looked similar to Hachi, I decided to pen their names and made a kind of tag on the current vest that they wear, and a small bandanna over their heads with the name Fasuto Japan Airways that could be easily identified by the incoming merchants.
Hiko-sama related the whole proposal with Wonder 8 and they were thinking that it was a feasible and splendid idea. Too bad Shippo could only turn into a pink balloon and carry one passenger over a short distance, or else he would also wish to join Fasuto Japan Airways too.
After explaining to them that they may need to travel alone with the merchants and then return back alone here, some feared for their safety. Sango made a proposal for a Youkai Taijiya to accompany each Tanuki to and fro the journey and everyone felt elated having a companion on the return trip.
”It depends, however, if the load would be too much for a single one of you to lift, then it would be split so that 2 of you would be travelling together. The payment would also be split into two if you won't mind sharing the load and profit.”
They confirmed that they won't mind as helping other Tanuki would be a pleasure to them. Furthermore, it's their own kind and getting such an opportunity to earn more than what they normally get when they usually travel by rivers or streams to get passengers to get across or downstream, earning coppers at most.
”We have come to an agreement, Himura-San. There's no turning back and they are willing to leave their settlements and settle here in this town. Would you mind if they accommodate somewhere or maybe take up a house to accommodate these 14 of them?”
”As for me, I would still be with Hoshi-sama and he would need to be around to disperse the energies of the protective barriers before each of them could take flight.”
”That's alright. If they don't mind, we can accommodate them in the warehouse here temporarily as I will to the foreman of the building and construction to allocate a house just for our members if Fasuto Japan Airways.”
With that, I summoned for Kayu-San over to join for dinner and discuss the plans for the relocation of these new aircrewmen. Kayu-San appeared sometime later as he was also on the way back home and we discussed to accommodate one long house with 4 households within them. It's going to be a permanent fixture for them and I told Kayu-San that we would readily pay for the house.