Chapter 90 - Volume 6 (1/2)

Volume 6, Chapter 1: I became a 3rd Grader, Part 1

Recently, I, Yuzu, the evil, soul-devouring Demon hidden in the Kanto district, was beginning to struggle with math classes.

I’ve safely become a 3rd Grader.

Ah…… oh, I’m sorry. Why was I having trouble with 3rd grade Math?

Even though I said this before, since I remembered various things I’m still organizing my memories, after all that… I originally thought I was a ‘reincarnator’.

Still, I couldn’t remember much about my true ‘identity’. Still, there were ‘memories’ that I couldn’t explain if I wasn’t a reincarnator.

I… Yuzu, had memories of having lived 15 years, around when [Yuzu] was born.

And I had died of illness when I was 15.

Since most of the memories were muddy, even though I had memories of the future, I couldn’t predict the future, and, in fact, it’s already changed quite a lot, so the parts I remembered were useless too.

When I went to elementary school, I should never have been in the same class as either Ouji-kun or Kouki-kun. And, as for the grade-schooler, Ouji-kun, I felt like he was supposed to gain weight……

…… Did I do something?

And anyways, how did the talk of an ‘engagement’ with Ouji-kun happen…… It’s troublesome.

By the way, why had I been turned back into five-year-old Yuzu?

I wonder if I’m a ‘rewinder’ instead of a reincarnator… Anyways, the reason that I thought that I was a reincarnator was because I had fragments of memory that I had spent as a [Demon].

Perhaps, after I had died at the age of 15, I had reincarnated as a [Demon].

Even with my fragmented memories, I didn’t think that reincarnation was so easy, but I wondered if my previous life hated dying that much. In other words, was it a reincarnation by sheer fighting spirit?

Why did I become a demon……?

Personality? Is it because of my personality?

Oh, I sidetracked. Well, err… In short, for some reason, Demon-me is living in the body of my previous life before I died…ish?

“……Hmm~”

“……What’re you doing, Yuzu?”

Onzada-kun, who was watching me deep in thought while he was wiping off his sweat, spoke up.

I didn’t like the smell of sweat, but the sweat of a hard-working man was pretty to look at. I understood the feelings of those girls who wiped off the sweat of others in those girls’ comics for about 2 milliseconds.

Onzada-kun was a sixth grader who seems to have been given the okay from his parents to train officially, but, as per usual, we were practicing behind the animal shed.

He’s grown a lot too, and now there’s a considerable height difference. He’s already totally like a full-grown man……

“……Hnn?”

“What’s the matter?”

Before I noticed, I had suddenly touched Onzada-kun’s face. Only one thing to do.

“Tei~”

“Owwoww”

I grasped a single hair and pulled it out.

“Yuzuu, what are you doing?”

“Ah, did a strand of beard hair grow out?”

“What!? My beard finally grew? Don’t pull it out!”

“……While I understand that you’re happy that it grew, please shave.”

“For a man to have stubble, isn’t that wild and cool? Women like Yuzu wouldn’t know.”

“Yeah, I don’t get it.”

But the current Onzada-kun is so smooth.

“Stop moving, you. Are you really a lady? Well, to me, I find that more comfortable. So, strange miss Yuzu, what was it you were groaning about?”

“eh, well~……”

“Are you not going to deny being a strange lady……”

“That’s not a problem…Well, a little while ago… I was thinking about my ‘engagement.’”

“*cough*, E-Engagement?”

Onzada-kun sputtered out his water and started coughing. That was a good reaction. Ah? Was this the first time I’d mentioned it?

“……What so you mean by engagement?”

“It’s a relationship between our families”

Although talk of engagement had come from Ouji-kun’s Nikuno Family, right now that was still ‘pending’.

Hey, we’re still elementary school students…… Wait, Kouki-kun and Kako were also still elementary school students. However, I’d be troubled if I was joined to such an old family. My family’s business was doing well, but it still felt like an ordinary household.

So, when we became junior high students, it becomes possible for us to have both ‘personal’ as well as ‘familial’ relationships, and get officially engaged.

So right now, my position is as Ouji-kun’s fiancée (provisional).

However, while our feelings are there on the ‘personal’ level, the ‘family’ part is most definitely a hindrance. In other words, the connections with the Nikuno Family,

‘[I want to continue to have business relations with Nikuno Ham, you know?]’

That’s what I was told. On my shoulders rested the lives of 500 company employees and their families in the Toukaki company.

Well, Ouji-kun recently has gained more friends, and I think that he’ll be fine because he seems to have become popular.

I wonder if Nikuno-san’s family really just wanted to know the secret to the dieting process that much……

“That’s why, it seems like the decision was ‘postponed’ until junior high.”

“……Isn’t it unpleasant?”

“That’s true…… If I said that I seriously disliked him, I don’t think the other party or Father would force me, but I would be the [Eccentric Mistress] who only thought of her own [Wishes], and it would be dreadful.”

“……But that’s not it.”

“Nn?”

“For Yuzu who’s easy to talk to, as a woman who can diffuse tension just by being around, people would love to have you be with them……”

What’s this, are you praising me? Are you looking for a fight? Am I some loose person?

“Uhmm…… Are you worried about me?”

“Ah, yeah. I said that I would protect you forever. You are weak, so if you stood behind me, I would be relieved.”

Forever… huh. I don’t think I will die at the age of 15 this time because I became a Demon, but how long will I live? Do I even have a life expectancy?

“That’s right… Onzada-kun, do your best.”

As I said that, Onzada-kun, who looked somewhat cranky up until a now, smiled happily and laughed.

“Hehe. I’ll be alright sticking by Yuzu even if you get into terrible trouble. I will bet my life.”

“……ah”