Chapter 95: The Homeless Child/ The Ghost Girl (2/2)
Taiyou silently looks at the storage room and after that looked to Hera for confirmation.
「Yes desu, that’s the place desuyo~」
Hera was talking normally and only Taiyou and the person he kisses can see her figure.
Taiyou nods and he heads to the storage room with Aoba. Unexpectedly his foot steps on a tree branch that dropped next to his feet.
a snapping sound resounded and the storage room shook as if in reaction to the sound.
In the next moment―――― The door of the storage room opens and someone from inside comes jumping out. The other party was agile and catches Taiyou off guard, however…
(Compared with Shirokiyami this is…)
He had enough surplus time to even think of this sentence in his own head. Comparing it to Shirokiyami who was able to leave afterimages from both the left and right, this person didn’t even seem like they were moving.
Taiyou extends his free hand and tries to catch the culprit. However,
――Squish.
This kind of sound effect resounded in his own brain. A soft feeling gets transmitted into the palm of his hand that tried to reach out to the culprit.
「Kyaah!」
The moment he understood what it was that he felt in his hand, a piercing scream in the night sky that seemed like it was going to tear silk apart resound.
「Sorry, sorry, I’m sorry, sorry.」
Returning to the inn, he bowed his head to the girl who was now in his room alone with him over and over again.
From her looks she seemed to be quite a young girl and it was likely that she was close in age to Taiyou’s group, she seemed to either be in junior high or perhaps a high school student. She easily exceeded a height of 160 cm and she was a tall kind of girl. Furthermore, the reason she screamed so loud just before is because she boasted an overwhelmingly large breast size. He had never seen this type of huge breasted girl before.
「Ahh no, if you apologize so much, I will feel bad going home.」
「You grabbed her boobies real good after all desuyone~」
「Please stay quiet in front of others.」
「Eh?」
When he suddenly swatted Hera who appeared suddenly in front of him, the girl was staring at him confused.
「Ahh, no nothing. More importantly, would you mind telling me your name?」
「Ah, Yes! My name is Pochi!」
「……Yes?」
「Ummm… Ah, yes. Mai neemu izu POCHI」1
「No it’s not about the language, moreover why did you speak your name so specifically the second time? 」
「After all it’s my name, so I’m used to saying it.」
「Is that how it is….? No that doesn’t really matter. Is that really… your name?」
Hesitating in calling this alluring girl by “that” name specifically, he wanted to clarify the matter.
「Yes! That is the name that my father gave me!」
「I see, for the time being let’s leave it at that. I have this one thing I wanted to ask you however…」
「Umm, yes…?」
She looked despondent. It seemed like she could already guess what Taiyou was going to ask her.
Even though he started feeling guilty after seeing her like this, he still boldly opened his mouth and decided to ask her.
「Apparently there is someone who keeps eating the dishes in this inn without permission, is that perhaps your doing?」
「Yes… That’s me. I’m sorry.」
「Why?」
「……」
She keeps silent. Placing both her hands on her thighs, she purses her lips and looks downwards.Perhaps she didn’t want to say why, or perhaps she couldn’t say why. No matter what it is, she must have her own circumstances, is what Taiyou surmised.
「I see. By the way, let me change the topic a little, but are you still hungry?」
「Eh?」
「We are about to go eat dinner soon. If you are still hungry I thought, we could prepare one more porti――」
「My stomach is empty!」
She declared it as if her life depended on it. It was enough to make you think that she led a life of hardship.
「I understand, then I will tell them to prepare more dishes. In the meantime please stay here――」
Saying that the triplets opened the sliding door and entered the room. Taiyou wanted to speak with his advisor so he left the room.
Outside was Kohaku, giving him a wink he headed outside to her direction. Before long they walked to a location that couldn’t be heard by the people inside of the building, Kohaku then proceeded to stand to a halt and turned around to face him.
「Danna-sama.」
The girl who talked to him was showing a strained smile. But it was hardly a laugh and it was more so filled with bitterness. When he saw such an unusual expression on her face, Taiyou thought something may have gone wrong.
After taking this Pochi girl home with him, Taiyou asked Kohaku to do an investigation on her background in private, so he deducted that her bitter expression is likely because of this fact.
「What’s wrong, did you manage to find something out?」
「I investigated it in a hurry jya, therefore it may be a mistake but…」
「You aren’t being articulate like usual, did something bad happen?」
「Rather than something bad… I would say it’s like an unknown experience? No even though I know this kind of thing exists, it’s an unpleasant knowledge jya.」
「Unknown? Knowledge? I’m sorry, but can you say it in a simpler way?」
「I suppose so. First I will start with the conclusion…. That girl does not have a birth certificate to identify her jya.」
「Eh?」
In a certain way. Saying this made her even more uncomfortable.
「She legally doesn’t exist as a person, she’s like a ghost girl jya.」
Looking at the deserted house, Taiyou was astonished. After hearing this story, his face changed in a similar way to how Kohaku’s looked right now.