Chapter 227: Aoba / You Just Get Outta Here (1/2)

Chapter 226: Aoba / Dining Table of the Family’s House Chapter 228: Shirokiyami / The Scent of Crepes

Translator: Reflet

Taiyou and Aoba had been “kicked out” from the Miyagi household.

It seemed that Aoba hadn’t seen it from where she was standing, but before closing the door, Atsuko had stuck out her tongue and pulled down her eyelid, so Taiyou understood that even though he had been kicked out, it was a joke to some extent.

So he didn’t overthink it, tagging along with Aoba on the way home.

「……」

Aoba’s expressions didn’t seem to be brightening up.

She wasn’t drooping down exhaustingly, but was exuding a gloomy atmosphere.

There was no way that he could simply go from being asked to stay the night to being chased out.

Taiyou was considering what exactly he should do.

「Ta-ta-tadaaa, ‘tis me, coming forth」

Hera warped in front of them out of nowhere.

Taiyou welcomed her, celebrating her nice timing, as the fairy’s dictionary didn’t have the definition of “read the atmosphere” in it.

「Huh? Why are you guys outside? Were you not going to spend the night at Aoba-chan’s place?」

It seemed that the fairy really couldn’t read the atmosphere.

「More importantly, what about you? Weren’t you supposed to be at the house?」

「I was not at the house actuallyyy. I was just eating food outside with everyone」

「Outside？」

「Yes indeed. Kohaku-tan suggested that we eat out」

「Is that right? That’s rare」

「Kohaku-tan suggested that because Taiyou-chan was not at the house, there was no need to make anything, seee」

「Okay」

Nodding, Taiyou was satisfied.

He didn’t have any particular problem with that. Actually, he kinda wanted her to do that more often.

Kohaku had a bad habit. Whenever she proposed they go out somewhere, they had to choose between “rare” and “interesting” out of the various places.

If they went there, they could experience various things. The young/old girl who had lived out close to ninety years of her life was making various choices so as to give her family a lot of experience.

Also.

「And is Youran with them as well?」

「Yes indeed. Yuri-tan is with them as well」

「I see」

Recently she had become another one of Taiyou’s brides, and he was able to see similar tendencies from Youran as a fellow family member. Just like Kohaku, she would propose rare things, trying to take everyone along.

Even more so in her case, unlike Kohaku who had completely entered teaching mode, about ten percent of her reasoning for doing this was for bragging rights.

He could faintly feel her thinking “How is it? It’s great, right?”.

However, that was really only a bit――Percentage-wise it was only ten percent, so there was no issue.

Rather, seeing her boast to Taiyou was like that of a cat showing its catch to its master, enough to make him feel it was cute.

「Which means that everyone is still out, right?」

「Yes indeed. They might be returning a home a little late, which is why I came to tell Taiyou-chan. You can contact her not via house, but via cell and the like」

「Okay, then I guess I’ll meet up with them there. I have time after all」

「You had better not」

Hera immediately answered.

He looked at her, his face spelling out “Why’s that?”.

「That is what Kohaku-tan wanted to say」

「Wanted to say？」

「Yes indeed. If by any chance Taiyou-chan were to display interest in where they were, I was to say precisely this:『Aye, there be times when fellow brides must fight』、apparently」

Hera imitated Kohaku’s way of speaking.

「What kind of time could that be?」

Taiyou smiled wryly.

「But alright, I gotcha. Then could you tell Kohaku-san and the others that I’ll be heading back for today? They can do whatever they want though」

「Yes indeed！」

「Wait a sec」

Unlike earlier, Hera had made to fly away. Taiyou suddenly remembered something, calling her back.

「What is it？」

「Can’t you also warp over there when you’re flying？」

「The possibilities between Taiyou-chan and I are infinite, yesss」

「Ya really like saying good lines, don’tcha」

Taiyou gave a wry smile.

Hera had tried to gloss it over with one of her typical lines, so Taiyou decided to not pursue it any further.

He watched as she flew off into the night sky.

And then he looked at Aoba, who had not said a single word from when Hera had arrived to when she had left.

Her becoming further depressed……was not what had happened, but he also couldn’t see her cheering up.

She was still drifting languidly in the middle of a pond.

（Wonder what I should do about this）

Taiyou thought.

For the time being, he thought to ask her straightforwardly to break through the front wall.