Chapter 95: The Homeless Child/ The Ghost Girl (1/2)

Chapter 94: Homeless Child/ Veteran Beautiful Girl Chapter 96:The Master of both people/ Not a coincidence but inevitable

Translator: Nefarian

「What’s wrong Natsuno-kun?」

「I’m worried」

「About?」

「No matter how you see it, this only occurs after someone eats it.」

「Yeah, I think so too. Specifically, one person’s portion is gone and they even used the wooden chopsticks」

Aoba answers and the wooden chopsticks… that were split up were broken off badly and was of different lengths.

「So I heard from the waitress that this kind of thing happens “quite often recently”. But this is a tourist destination, don’t you think it’s weird?」

「I see, nearly all of the guests here are only staying at the inn briefly.」

「Yes, it’s hard to say just how long each guest stays in the inn, but normally tourist don’t stay over for such a lengthy period.」

「That’s true, I also thought the same.」

「Even though this has occurred for quite the long period, they still haven’t searched for the culprit. Furthermore, there hasn’t been anyone in particular that declared they hold a grudge against this inn.」

「Indeed….. This is a little mysterious. Natsuno-kun, are you bothered by it?」

「Yeah.」

Taiyou nodded.

Normally, this kind of thing is not something he would be concerned about, but for some reason this caught his attention.

Even if you asked him the reason for it, he wouldn’t be able to answer very well. Still, even though that may be, he was interested in how the food was eaten.

「I understand, then let’s look for the culprit.」

「Eh?」

「You’re bothered by it right?」

「That’s true but…」

「Then let’s look for them.」

Aoba was being proactive and Taiyou agreed to her suggestion.

Though he’s started to feel this way for the past several days now, he felt like Aoba was much more cheerful in mood than when she first met him. She barely gets angry or depressed and differing from the first impression he had of her, she was actually a very lively and beautiful girl.

「Though in saying this, how are we going to find the culprit? I don’t think that they would purposefully leave breadcrumbs or footprints pointing to where they were hiding…」

「That’s true.」

The two of them looked around their surroundings and found that there weren’t any easy clues.

「Then let’s start by gathering information, perhaps we may be able to understand somethings after.」

「Alright, I guess it’s better than doing nothing.」

「There’s no need to do that desuyo~」

When the two of them were about to walk away, Hera showed up from thin air. It’s been awhile since she last appeared so Taiyou went “Ohh” as he saw her.

「You were here?」

「That’s so mean of you desu~!」

Hera pushed up both her hands as she protested.

「Ahh my bad, it’s cause I couldn’t see you all this time, so I assumed that you were staying back at home.」

「I wouldn’t do such a thing. Besides, even if I was at home, Taiyou-chan and I are barrier-free nanodesu. No matter where Taiyou-chan is, I can immediately appear before him.」

「I remember you telling me that before.」

「Yes nanodesu, I exist for Taiyou-chan desu~」

“I’ve also heard that before” he didn’t say this thought out loud and instead asked about the first thing she said when she appeared.

「What do you mean when you said that “there’s no need”?」

「I know who the culprit is desuyo. I saw them after all.」

「Over here nanodesu.」

Being led by Hera, both Taiyou and Aoba arrived to this particular building. It was a building that was about 10 minutes away from the establishment and it seemed to be deserted. Completely different from the Japanese style inn they were in before, this building had its own atmosphere. It was like a house that someone lived in before but is now gone from this place, or the kind of place that kids made into their secret basement, or the type of place to be used as a test of courage by the neighborhood kids in a summer night, the building had that kind of atmosphere.

「Is the culprit in here?」

「Yes desu.」

「Na-Natsuno-kun…..」

Aoba who was very high-spirited moments ago was now tightly grabbing on to the cuff of Taiyou’s clothes. Her voice was trembling and it was obvious that she was frightened because of the atmosphere. It was the same way she reacted when the typhoon occurred just yesterday, but could it be that she was also afraid of the dark? Is what Taiyou thought to himself.

Seeing her like this, Taiyou naturally moved in to tightly hold on to her hand.

「I’m holding your hand, so it’s okay」

「Un…… Thank you.」

Aoba nods and squeezes back in return. After putting it to his mind that his top priority was to defend her if something were to happen, they both set foot inside of the building.

「Taiyou-chan, Taiyou-chan~」

「What is it?」

「Please wait here for a moment desu.」

Why? Just when he wanted to ask her this, Hera already flew inside of the building. He didn’t understand the reason but he had no choice but to reluctantly wait there.

Before a minute passes, Hera had already warped right in front of him.

「I found them, they are in the same place as before.」

「Where is that?」

「It is in the building around the side, inside the storage room desuyo~」

Hearing this Taiyou nods, silently looking towards Aoba he maintained his grasp and walked together with her. Making sure to keep quiet as they advanced through a garden that was overgrown with weed, they went around the side of the building. When they did they found this prefab type storage room.