(EP.486)– For the world’s flimsy stories #3
taken from noblemt l
Gaiden – for the world’s clunky stories #3
Someday when I was living in the modern age.
it will happen someday
I’ve been to expensive buffets that wouldn’t fit my standard of living. If I had a meal there, it was the price that I could buy several boxes of ramen that I could usually eat.
─Unlimited beef steak… !
Anyway.
It was evening time.
There were a lot of foods I’ve never eaten or desserts I’ve never heard of. Also, even if you think that you can eat them for two hours without restriction, the price for one meal was too expensive.
If the boss of the part-time job didn’t give me money for a dinner party, it would have never been possible to find such a buffet with my own money.
Even though I was already full to find the original price of admission, I was putting a bunch of unfamiliar fruits like mangosteen in my stomach that I can’t usually see.
As I was getting so full that I was going to digest it slowly and looked around, I realized an unfamiliar fact.
Even though the entrance fee was an expensive buffet, there were a lot of children chattering inside.
Yes.
It was children.
Although there is a price difference between the entrance fee for adults and children, the entrance fee for children was also a burdensome price from my point of view.
Also, unlike me, who was a strong adult male, the children couldn’t even afford half of it, let alone the full price, because they couldn’t eat much.
But there were a lot of kids in this expensive buffet. They were all friends who came with their mother and father.
The children were busy fiddling with small game consoles, looking at their cell phones, or playing with their peers, not paying attention to fruits like mangosteen.
In the first place, such a thing as finding the original ticket for a ticket would not have been conceived in the minds of those children.
It was a very occasional dinner day for me, but for the kids it might have been just one of the regular eating out once a month, once a week.
A family I have never had before.
Thinking like that, I am envious, but on the other hand, what should I say… , I thought, what would it be like if it were me?
If I were that child, would I remember eating out at buffets as a child as a fun time when I get older?
Even if those children are the same age as me, will the memories of that time be a good support for them to live their lives with good memories?
At the same time, if I were to get married like that father, I wondered if I would be able to bring my children out and have them eat expensive food like that, or do such parental things well.
Why, because I lack such experience, I have to say that I was worried that I might become clumsy even in front of children… .
Of course, it never occurred to me that I would get married and have children… .
I didn’t know it was a human thing.
I am now the father of three children, twins to be born, and many more to come.
“Daddy is going to put the crucian carp caught by this Leonoi into the fishbowl… !”
Leonoi held a crucian carp half the size of his body in his hand and held it out to me.
I don’t know how they caught it, but Reinhardt, my maternal grandfather, fishing with Leonoi seems to have worked quite well.
I asked.
“Did you catch it by magic?”
“It was caught with magical skills… ! But this Leonoi was never satisfied with this little crucian carp. We must hold on to the owner of this lake… !”
swish.
Leonoi swished the crucian carp he had caught into a large bucket and ran to the fishing rod installed in the lake.
Seeing that, Elgar narrowed her eyes.
“I hate doing homework so much. I work hard at everything except studying. It wasn’t like that when I was younger.”
Elgar’s tone when he said that was as if Leonoi was subtly blaming him for not studying and slacking off because he resembled my father.
But I thought that Leonoi was different from me. He’s healthy and energetic, and he’s full of confidence in whatever he does.
If the current Leonoi goes to the buffet, he will be looking at the game console without looking at the main entrance fee or the mangosteen.
Thinking about it like that makes me laugh a little. Of course, Elgar said, “What? Why are you laughing all of a sudden?” he wondered. But I didn’t know how to explain this story.
“Ba-El.”
Then someone came up to me and held out a small hand. When I turned my head, the tiny Mirna was holding a struggling creature in her hand.
It was a crab with multiple legs and claws in its hands. Bael is a spider. Are you confused with crabs and spiders because they have many legs?
“This isn’t Bael, it’s crab. crab.”
“crab-.”
“Yeah, crab.”
“crab!”
“Here, put it in the bucket.”
fondant.
Little Mirna puts the caught crab into the bucket. At that moment, Stanoi, who was a little shy and reticent, offered me two crabs, one in each hand.
“I caught two Stanoys.”
“… … .”
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Nod, nod.
I took the crab from Stanoy, put it in a bucket, and patted the boy’s purple hair.
Then Stanoy’s short ears twitched, probably feeling better. This habit resembles that of my mother. That was then. Little Mirna said to Stanoi.
“Win-Bu!”
“… … .”
I don’t know for sure, but little Mirna seems to be envious of Stanoy, who was praised for catching two of them.
Soon the two children ran to a place full of small stones. It’s nice to see them grow up and down as sisters and friends of the same age, no matter what.
“So, Miss Mirna. It’s been a long time since I went on a family outing, wouldn’t it be okay if I stopped eating comfortably?”
I said to Mirna, who was squatting next to me, looking at the bucket, and frowned. Mirna didn’t look very happy even on a quiet spring day at the lake.
Buttinggi refused to go on this trip because we forced Mirna.
“I have a lot of work to do, and if I suddenly vacate the court like this, the situation in the country could become chaotic. If anything I can do, Narmi can do most of it.”
murmur murmur-.
Mirna whimpered like a cat in cold water.
I was aware that most of what she said was an excuse, and that the real purpose of this trip was to find her mother.
In fact, not only me but all the other young girls must know. Mirna probably didn’t even want to hide it.
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Narmi approached this place and raised her hand high.
“Sister, look at this! Caught it! so big! Let’s eat it boiled or grilled tonight!”
-Crep-.
In Narmi’s hand, a snow crab as large as half a human body was held. I don’t know how they got it, but it looked great for dinner.
“Sister, crab, you like it.”
Hee-hee, Narmi smiles. At that, Mirna’s slightly shriveled face loosened a little, though. Apparently, Mirna likes crabs.
“Ugh… .”
with a plop-.
Then, Stella, who was in the lake, appeared. Stella’s hand is holding a large tortoise.
“I got a turtle!”
“turtle! How did you catch it? Are you going to teach this Leonoi the secret… !.”
There are a lot of people, so it’s noisy. Still, everyone seemed happy. Even if we had a slightly longer schedule, it was good that we decided to stay overnight at the beautiful lake in the east.
* * *
Lake of Scales was quite a beautiful place.
There is a legend that in the past, large snakes and dragons trained at the bottom of this lake to ascend to heaven.
When the night falls, the scales they drop are reflected in the moonlight, making the lake twinkle.
I don’t know if the story is true, but it was really night, and the moon and stars were shining brightly and beautifully in the lake.
“Wow.”
Do you have such a beautiful scenery? I wanted the children to see it, so I looked for Leonoi, little Mirna and Stanoy, but the children were busy watching the crabs being grilled over the campfire.
“Does it look delicious… !”
“Leonoi, what did your mother say before dinner?”
“Cow, are you washing your hands… !”
“Yeah, come and wash your hands with your brothers. And tell Dad to eat. You can’t eat it before daddy eats it. okay?”
Elgar was strict as a mother than I thought. Are all the women of the Lioness family like that? As the Lioness family makes up a large family, it may be that they value family discipline.
It must be familiar because there is something that I grew up seeing at the Lioness meeting that we meet once a year.
still.
It was mostly thanks to Elgar that I was able to play the role of a father, even though I was a novice as a parent.
Because Mirnana, Narmi, Stella, and Ira were just as bad at raising children like me.
“Daddy is going to eat right now… !”
Leonoi, who had washed his hands, grabbed my arm. I grabbed Leonoi’s hand and pointed my finger at the lake.
“Look over there.”
“… … ?”
However, Leonoi did not seem to be very impressed by the starlit lake.
Is it because, unlike me, who lived in a building or concrete forest, it is natural for Leonoi to see the Milky Way in the night sky and the stars shining on the lake?
Rather, Leonoi seemed to have other interests.
“My mom told me, but my dad said that once upon a time, he had frozen a big lake like this… ! is that real… ?”
“Frozen the lake?”
“Of course, you don’t believe this Leonoi… ! Are you saying that freezing a lake the size of a soccer field is not easy even for Ark’s grandfathers and queens… !”
“I see.”
“However, if that Leonoi gets a little bigger, it becomes possible… !”
Leonoi seemed to have confidence in his magical skills that were developing day by day.
He said he was interested in who the most powerful wizard in the world was and what the most powerful magic was, so he went around asking questions.
I grabbed Leonoi’s hand and headed towards the campfire, showing how strong a wizard I was and how strong my enemies were.
“He was a very big and shiny god. it was a giant But when you go inside, there is a demon king. The Demon King and I just-.”
Then Leonoi laughs.
“I don’t know if it’s Stano or Mirna Jr., but that Leonoi is no longer deceived by such lies… ! There is no such thing as a giant giant or a demon king in the world… !”
“Well, it is.”
silkygoat was the goat. cry
No more now
Anyway.
We had a delicious dinner with the family. Time flies when you grill, boil, or dip the fish or crab you caught in a hot sauce or put butter on it.
“I’m sleepy now… . Mom, I’m sleepy… .”
“Leonoi, I need to brush my teeth with my brothers before going to bed.”
When it was time to sleep, the children gathered together in a small tent and fell asleep. It’s very cute and adorable to curl up and sleep with Little Lion Meow or Cloudling Yingying.
Shrimp, Shrimp.
When I think that the things I have suffered a lot in my life up to now were for this moment, I am not sorry at all.
Shh.
Then said Elgar, who was looking into the tent with me.
“It reminds me of the old days. I used to go out with my mom and dad like this a long time ago, ate and slept in a tent. It was before my brother was born. How old were you… . Were you around the same age as Leono now? .”
“I was very young, do you remember everything?”
“Of course.”
I was a little relieved at Elgar’s words. When these children grow up one day, they will recall the memories of today with pleasant events.
“Anyway, close the tent zipper and come. I have something to tell you about Leonoi.”
tuk tuk.
Elgar pats me on the back.