Vol 1 Chapter 23 (2/2)

I becaloomish as I said: ”What kind of an ansas that, that response's too half-hearted already

As I watched Asaka iri slowly, I felt that she was rather cute when a sudden ”Gu~ lu~ ” sound appeared from a corner of the pitch-black hut

”Uaaaaahhhhhh, what's that sound, who's over there?”

”Hiroto, is it a ghost, I'm scared” Asaka leaned her head onto htly trembled as she said

”Don't be afraid, I'll go take a look! Asaka, stay here and quietly wait for ive her so to proceed to the corner of the pitch black hut to see what's going on

”Hiroto, don't go, you'll be eaten by the ghost” Asaka worriedly told me

”I'll be fine, Hiroto-~” I smacked my chest and took in a deep breath in order to beef up e to check the area

(Honestly speaking, I'm quite scared, but for Asaka's sake I must be brave, what if it's , if I don't take any action and have a look I'll be scared to )

Soiving offI already didn't feel that htened already

After I had reached the corner of the pitch black hut, I realised with a surprise that it's actually a s herself tightly in the corner

Even through the darkness I could clearly see her hair color, it's shockingly silverish white, what kind of age that this person

(TL: patches on the clothes, it e hole on your shi+rt, you would norht? But you also could take another cloth and sew the hole up (albeit with a different color sometimes if you cannot find alternative cloths, as probably hinted in the text above))

Pulling away her hands that was tightly clutching onto her face, I gave a cry of shock, and a worried Asaka quickly ran over to check what's going on, before yelping in horror too

The sirl's face cannot be described by lance at it; a long scar ran through her entire face, and her eyes was one s, her nose is co from her nostrils in comparison, her mouth was considered rather normal, except that it was rabbit-lipped

”Hiroto onii-chan, have you seen enough already?” The horror in front of us actually knew my name, and she even called me onii-chan!!!”

I started to recall what Mokuzai had said before about Second oji-san's daughter having passed the test too, before saying uncertainly: ”You're Natsu?”

Asaka as standing beside me suddenly seehter?”

”Yes, I'iri?” Natsu's voice sounded exceptionally nice to hear, which is in contrast to her face appearance

”Sure, coether with us”

”Thanks”

At that moment I couldn't intepret Natsu' current expression on her face, because of her face, and I thought to myself that Asaka is really extremely cute to the max in comparison

Under the , as she took an onigiriand bit onto it, tears dripped from her face

Still slightly frightened, I looked at Natsu and asked: ”Natsu, what happened? Is it because the onigiri isn't delicious?”

”I I miss my okaa-san, ever since okaa-san had passed away, I've never eaten anything as delicious as this onigiri, otou-san didn't like me because of my appearance, and because I looked so scary, the children in the Takeno fa stones at me” Tears dripped out from Natsu's face that induced fear in people as she said

My heart ached, and I walked to Natsu's front and hugged her face close toher sobbing getting louder and louder, I gently told Natsu still embraced in my arms: ”Natsu-chan, would it be fine if I called you this way? Actually a person's appearance cannot determine a person's worth, what's truly beautiful is the inner beauty within a person, so cheer up, be es, your body and your spirit would definitely change with that too If you're always positive, you'll naturally always have friends around y ou when I became sensible, my otou-san used to always say, iving birth to us, and he often told us that, without any okaa-san we er, never to shed our tears easily”

The person ineventually getting softer and softer, and at last she looked at , I won't easily shed any tears, then will Hiroto onii-chan mind what my appearance looked like?”

(TL: I can't help it, I had to say: FLAG!!!)

I stroked Natsu's hair, and said gently: ”Of course I won't, don't be too concerned about your appearance Natsu-chan, me and Asaka will always play with you~”

Hearing my affirmative words, Natsu smiled even more happily, and said: ”Mm mm, thank you Hiroto onii-chan”

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Watching Natsu lying in Hiroto's eer erupted out of nowhere frohtly onto the corners ofeach other closely, a few poisonous words flared out forly bitch, look at you, what if you frightened Hiroto! Look at all the pus on your face, all of it got onto Hiroto's clothes already, it's really disgusting!!”

Hiroto glanced up to look at me with an expression of surprise on his face: ”Asaka, how could you say this sort of thing, she's our imouto too!”

(TL: imouto = ”lil' sister”)

”I don't have this kind of imouto, I only have Hiroto, my most cutecuutecuuutecuuuuutecuuuuuute onii-chan”

Sobbing eed froed: ”Asaka!!!!! How could you say this kind of things, hurry up and apologize to Natsu-chan, if you don't apologize, I I won't play with you next time!”

”Hiroto how could you do that, I'ht, I' like that”

After apologizing I saw that Hiroto's face started to becory withso but at this moment Mokuzai pushed open the door and entered: ”Waka-sa spotted then it'll be disastrous”

”Asaka no big baka, ain to play with all of you” After hearing Mokuzai's words, Hiroto hastily said to , and thereafter he hurriedly left with Mokuzai

”Bye Hiroto onii-chan” Seeing Natsu calling out to Hiroto onii-chan, I felt extremely pissed off

”Hiroto onii-chan is so kind”

Although Natsu's voice is very sed to hear it

”Hiroto isto a corner of the pitch black hut; being silently angry at Hiroto while looking forward to Hiroto visiting again tomorrow

-ch 23 end-