Chapter 92 - Volume 6 (1/2)

Volume 6, Chapter 3: Turned into a mob character, Part 1

On a quiet piece of land in Kamakura, an old man lived away from his family.

The house wasn’t as big as the ones surrounding it, but for a single person, it was extensive, and could even be called a mansion.

Originally, this house was prepared for the sake of spending the rest of his live together with his wife after he relinquished his company to his son.

But his wife had left him and the world a few years ago and risen to heaven.

Written on the nameplate of the house was [Toukaki].

When he was younger, he’d started his business together with his wife, and by luck, they had gotten acquainted with the heir to a large corporation, and the company grew immensely in one generation. But that was also because his wife was beside him and supporting him.

He’d met his wife around the age of 20. And the moment he saw her for the first time, he knew that she was ‘the one’.

At that time, she had just lost her fiancé, and after healing her heart for three years, he was able to marry her.

He’d founded his company, and had children, and it was a smooth life, though busy. Hence, he’d always wanted to live with his wife together quietly when they grew older.

But after giving up the company, and beginning to live in the world of their own, he’d lost his wife to illness.

Unable to fill up the sense of loss, he lived alone in this house that he’d set aside to live with his wife, away from his children and grandchildren.

“…………”

He gazed at the garden idly.

Every day, the housekeeper would come by to prepare the meals, but he despised interacting with people, and never ever had a conversation.

‘(…… who was the last person I talked to?)’

To him, though, that wasn’t a big problem. He didn’t want to disturb the memories of his wife in his mind, and forget the time when he was happy.

However, he recently found something strange in his memory.

He had met his wife when he had become an adult. But, when he plumbed his memories, he would remember the look of his wife as a child.

The eyes of his wife when they were young, staring at him……

“……!?”

When he had noticed, there were a pair of ‘eyes’ that were the same as his wife’s staring at him from the garden.

Eyes that closely resembled his wife’s…… but it wasn’t the phantom of his wife as a child. And, dredging up his memories, he remembered his granddaughter, who greatly resembled his wife.

“……Yuzu…… is it?”

“That’s right. Grandfather…”

Yuzu said, as she smiled.

After not meeting his granddaughter for many years, she had grown much larger than she had been previously. Why was Yuzu here?

Yuzu smiled, and held out one hand towards him.

She grabbed a little black chain that shone in her hand, a chain was linked to his chest.

“……aah……”

In that instant, he remembered.

What had happened before he’d met his wife… what had happened in his past life. And of his life before that.

And when he saw the light in Yuzu’s eyes, in the same light, the shape of a beautiful [Golden Demon] appeared before him.

“You remember everything…?”

“……No, I remembered the reason why I am here”

With a gentle smile, he bowed deeply towards his granddaughter.

“Thank you… Yuzu. Grandfather was able to be happy.”

When he raised his head, his granddaughter was nowhere to be seen.

＊＊＊

No way, another one of the chains was connected to my grandfather……

I wonder what ‘I’ did before my memories was messed up…? But the new one seems like a long term contract… Un~.

Well, whatever. I noticed something recently.

What was with me taking math for sixth-graders?

Even though I thought it was strange, but the ordinary classes learned mathematics for third-graders. The curriculum is different only in this class with Kouki-kun and Kako.

Apparently there was one class in the entire grade, a class for special children, which has been adjusted to be of the same difficulty as a special class for those who were trying to skip grades.

Right now, it’s a lesson of a junior high standard, but thanks to having a tutor, I managed to still get into the fourth grade safely.

I am already quite a woman. A young lady, if you will. I refuse to be called a little girl. I’ve started to swell a little.

“Yuzu-chan, would you like to study with me?”

It was Ouji-kun that spoke to me.

He had already become completely slim, and even if you looked at it from any angle, he was already getting flocked by the all the Onee-samas who were in love with him.

Amazing. It was no longer stomach-pain-inducing like when the prince-like Kouki-kun called Ouji-kun [Prince] that time. I really am a Demon.

“Really? I would be happy if Ouji-kun would help me, but where……”

“Would you like to come over? My parents aren’t home on the weekdays.”

“……eh?”

Of course, it’s not like I’m nervous that his parents won’t be there. I was just thinking about what he said, but since he spoke all of a sudden like I was his junior high or high school girlfriend, my voice leaked out unconsciously.

“D-did I say something wrong? My younger sister Minako-chan wanted to meet Yuzu-chan, so…”

Ouji-kun also noticed what he’d accidentally said, and flushed red as he shook his head hurriedly.

Minako-chan, is that one who was originally going to be Venus-chan? Ouji-kun showed her to me on his cellphone, and she was saved from the fate of a storyboard (of doujinshi and manga). She was a cute child, like she belongs at a ball.

Well, since she’ll be a first year in Takamine Elementary School this year, I’ll be able to meet her anytime.