Chapter 51.2 - Monsters? (2/2)

I contacted the President of the cleaning company and told them that I was traveling to Hokkaido. He told me that there were no problems with work so please enjoy.

When I contacted Mr. Yamamoto, it seemed that he was strangely fine from the beginning of the new year, and he seemed have a lot of motivation to work. It should be manageable even if I don’t help.

At the same time, not only did I feel relieved to hear the Presidents story but at the same time, I feel lonely that there will be no problem even if I am not there.

“This is the spirit of the company.”

…… Its supposed to be packed like livestock at work though.

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Though the rush to home happens on January 4th, the ferry is relatively vacant as very few people use it to return home.

The other customers were small families, single customers or elderly couples.

How do they see me and Carol from their end?

A dull man with a cute blond child.

Husband who has a foreign bride? It doesn’t matter how old she is. I don’t think my genes after mixing can produce such a cute child.

There might be a little possibility if the bride was ultra beautiful.

Reasonably, a beautiful foreign bride is remarried who already had a child. This is it!

Carol might have not noticed the strange eyes on her as she is just a child.

While assembling the excuse for the emergence purposes, I noticed the incoming call history of the smartphone.

“From whom, so much”

When I check it, my mother, father, sister and Seika.

Email and SNS are also there…

Since I have only started using the smartphone recently, I often miss the notifications of incoming calls.

Since its troublesome to call everyone, I write a SNS to the group of my family and Seika. [2]

“I’m on the ferry right now. Destiny is fine.”

I talked to my family about going to the village in Hokkaido. However, I asked Seika to keep Carol a secret. The extra prying from my family is troublesome.

The family believes that I am traveling only because of the current situation with Destiny. I guess they will be angry later if they knew the truth.

I feel depressed about thinking about returning home, but for now I should give priority to the Villagers and Carol.

“Let’s see this together. Yoshio!”

Carol comes, grabs and pull my hands.

I raise my heavy waist and approach the railing of the deck.

My hesitation was blown away just by looking at the vast ocean.

“I’ll tell mom and dad and everyone what I saw here! “

“I see. So you have to look around at lots of places”

“Yup!”

The distance with Carol has shrunk considerably in the last few days.

At first, we were just friendly towards eachother but now they are good friends and their language has become closer as well.

“Hey, Yoshio! That, that!”

Carol who was laughing innocently a while ago, was now suddenly frightened. She grasped my clothes and pointed behind me.

Looking back at the familiar deck, there was a monster.

[1] Here

[2]“SNS” is an abbreviation for “Social Networking Service“. SNS is a language peculiar to Japanese and refers to social media services such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter in English. It is often used in Japanese news and business, and is often pronounced as “SNS, a so-called social network service.”