Chapter 37: The day I went to summer festival. (1)
The story so far.
A new and refreshing spring has arrived for Ryuusei who strives to be a good parent.
He met weird people and works in weird workplace. All also while spending his every day together with Misaki, there’s also bento-making day and sports meeting day. Each of his days are never the same, and he even participated in “Parents meeting” too.
There he had talked with various kind of parents, and when he saw them he thought about various things. Surely each on of them has their own way to realize the so-called goal of being a good parent. Or so that’s what Ryuusei thought, but as time goes on the questions start to appear in his head.
Also, he can’t shake off the image of Yui-chan’s lonely face when she watches other parent and children couple from time to time, and sure enough he got curious about her parents that he never met even once.
Enough story about the adults, Yui and Misaki is the same as always.
After learning how to deal with the heat, they’re in perfect condition even in this summer!
And that’s where the story this time will begin……
Right around the end of July.
After I pick Misaki up and is on our way back home, I stopped my feet in front of a poster.
Summer festival. Although I knew that it’s held near here every year, I never attended it even once since I started living in this town. I’m not that really interested in it, but this year the situation is different.
While I’m still looking at the poster like that, I called Misaki.
“Misaki, do you want to go to the summer festival?”
“Festival?”
Misaki instantly replied back. Though her words are still few as ever, maybe it’s because her vocal practice has finally bear fruit, but recently her response has become faster.
Turning my eyes toward Misaki who’s near my foot, he asked her with stupefied face.
“You never been there before?”
“……Un.”
“I see. Then, wanna go?”
“……Un.”
Feels like she’s not that enthusiastic about it. It’s something along the line of, ‘Well yeah I’ll go for the time being.’ king of feeling. Or is it because I’m feeling that way?
Usually I’ll talk about this or that in order to make Misaki excited about it, but since I have only been to festival once so…… Moreover the only thing I remember from that time is only that I only walked around while eating uselessly expensive foods.
“……Tonight, at six o’clock or so it seems.”
“……Un.”
In the end, I couldn’t think of anything.
And so we ended up dragging our foot to this festival. At first I was going to invite Kohinata-san too, but since recently I saw her being kind of busy preparing her festival or something so I refrained from doing so.
The festival this year is held in the square along the river, usually this place would have only one bench just sitting there alone, but today there’s a lot of food stalls lined up.
And in the place quite a distance from the said square, are Misaki and me standing unable to move.
……What the hell is this, all these people.
The path doesn’t even exist anymore. Or rather there’s so many people that you’d think the ground has risen up to the height of the people here.
I turned my eyes toward Misaki while still trembling. What? Misaki blinked her eyes repeatedly as if to say that. In my mind it’s thinking that, if by chance Misaki jump into that crowd of people, she’ll definitely got devoured in no time.
Perhaps we can still return back to the road we came.
But, since I’m already determined to attend this festival I might as well go all out.
There’s only one problem here, and that is Misaki’s height. If so then!
“……Un?”
I crounched down, matching my eyes height with Misaki’s.
“I’ll give you a ride.”
“Give a ride?”
“Yeah, shoulder ride.”
After I lightly arranged my breath, I grabbed Misaki by her side and lift her up in one moment. Then I manage to make Misaki ride on my her shoulder while she’s struggling for a little bit since she’s surprised as it’s too sudden for her, her little legs tightly squeeze my neck, and she also grabbed my hair at the same time.
“Misaki, calm down, it’s okay!”
“……”
Misaki’s hands shiver, and my hair root starts to cry for help. Fuu, But no problem. My hair root isn’t so weak that it can’t support one Misaki after all.
“But it still hurts a little! Misaki, calm down please!”
“……Where?”
In all of this noise around us, a super small voice reached my ears.
Where you said, I’m under you! Your Ryo-kun is down here you know!
After I lowered Misaki down and explain about how the shoulder riding works, I lifted Misaki up again. This time she didn’t struggle, but my neck still got squeezed tightly. And the way she grabs my hair is still no good, but if I treated this as one of my training then it’s no longer a problem.
“Alright, let’s go then.”
“……Un.”
I couldn’t hear Misaki’s little voice, but I instinctively knew that she nods just now. I hold on to Misaki’s foot firmly, and walked right into the crowd of people.
Looking from the outside there seems to be so many people that you’d think you’d be sick of it in an instant, but once you actually manage to get inside of the crowd you’ll realized that isn’t the case. Maybe it’s because of my height that’s taller than the average people by around one head. Since my visibility is great, I can look for our next destination clearly.
“How’s it Misaki, is there any stall that interests you?”
I called out to Misaki who’s on top of my head. Though I can’t see Misaki’s face since she’s sitting on her special seat, but through her skin I can feels the vibration of her movements, and thus I knew that she’s currently looking around restlessly.
“……”
“Sorry, did you say something?”
I think I heard her small voice, but because of the noise around us I can’t hear it very well.
Turning my sight upward, Misaki’s hand entered my field of vision. Following along where her finger is pointing, it leads to the goldfish stall.
“You wanna try that?”
Instead of replying, Misaki tap tap on my head. Seems like she wants to try it.
Few minutes after flowing along the line of people, I’ve arrived at the stall.
” ‘elcome! Wan thyme wan hund’ ‘en!” (One time one hundred yen.)
What language is that you’re talking in old man.
“Misaki, I’m going to lower you down alright.”
I fumbling around with my hand trying to grab Misaki by her side just like when I give her a ride, but then I felt a little resistance from her.
“Misaki?”
Suddenly, I remembered the time when she first ride me. Perhaps Misaki isn’t good at dealing with height. While I’m apologizing in my heart I crouched down, after I curled my body up so low that my face almost hit the ground, Misaki slowly get off of me.
“Wan hund’ ‘en, ye!” (One hundred yen, yeah!)
I still don’t understand what he’s saying, but next to the old man there’s a sign board saying one time one hundred yen written on it so I can kind of guess his words, so it seems like he’s asking for us to pay.
I take out two one hundred yen coins and hand it over, and the old man give me and Misaki a bowl filled with water and a paper scooper. 1 I received it, and just like me Misaki also receives it too.
Misaki spins the paper scooper around as if she’s looking at something rare.
“Misaki, this is called goldfish scooping game.”
“Goldfish?”
“Yeah. You use this paper scooper, and try to scoop the goldfish up with it. Watch that.”
We watches a couple of man and woman that receives the paper scooper right around the same time as us. Alright here I go said the man holding the paper scooper, and quickly scooped up a lone goldfish. the woman who saw that praise him with that’s amazing in high pitched voice.
“……”
“……Ryo-kun?”
I took my eyes off that couple, and stares dead at the goldfishes.
“Misaki, watch this.”
“……Un?”
First, I created an image in my mind.
An image of me scooping the goldfish up.
And then an image of Misaki looking at me with her eyes shining.
After instilling this image into my mind to the point that it has becomes a part of my mind naturally, I take a look at my preys again.
……In this content, I shall not lose.
I hold the paper scooper, first thing to do is observation. There’s a lot of goldfishes in the water tank, and each one of them is of different sizes. And other than the sizes, their movements are also different. There’s the one swimming around energetically, the one that just gulping around on the water surface, and the one that just stares at me dead in the eyes on the bottom of the tank……
……The staying-still one is no good. They reeks of their immense strength that they’re hiding. The one that swims energetically is also out of the question. So the only one left are the guys that’s provoking me on the water surface huh. These guys, why the hell are they doing that stupid gulping for?
I don’t understand the reason for their action but, if they want war…… I’ll give ’em war! Since I’ve already paid money after all!
Here I go! It’s you versus me you goldfish!
I bring my paper scooper close to the goldfish who can only gulping stupidly in the water tank.
Once my paper scooper get close enough, my concentration is increased multiple folds.
Until all the noise disappeared, the colors disappeared, and there’s only just me and the goldfish left.
……It’s so quiet.
The goldfish’s movements, the rhythm that its mouth moves, its timing. I can understand all of that as if it’s in my hand.
Believing in my intuition I sneak in the paper scooper under the goldfish, and instantly scooped it up.
The goldfish that I scooped up brilliantly is now on top of the paper and it twitches it body once, before stopping all of its movement as if it admits defeat.
……Ahhh, I can hear it. The voice of Misaki praising me, I can hear it in my mind.
“Well, it’s something like this.”
“……Un.”
Misaki nods, and she holds her paper scooper.
Ah, eh? That’s all of her reaction?
My shoulder dropped in dejection.
Amazーing! Doubly cool! All the while I’m imaging those voice, I heard the sound of the goldfish on top of my paper scooper fall back into the water tank, at almost the same time.
And while I’m watching her still feeling a little downhearted, Misaki brings her paper scooper close to the goldfish.
As expected of Misaki, she manage to scooped the goldfish up splendidly after learning just by watching only once.
After that she swings her paper scoop around lightly and the goldfish fall back into the tank.
“……”
After taking my eyes off of her broken paper scooper, how’s it? Misaki look at me as if to ask that.
As expected of Misaki. She faithfully follow every steps of my movement…… Wait, this isn’t how you play it you know.
Chapter 37: The day I went to summer festival. (1)
The story so far.
A new and refreshing spring has arrived for Ryuusei who strives to be a good parent.
He met weird people and works in weird workplace. All also while spending his every day together with Misaki, there’s also bento-making day and sports meeting day. Each of his days are never the same, and he even participated in “Parents meeting” too.
There he had talked with various kind of parents, and when he saw them he thought about various things. Surely each on of them has their own way to realize the so-called goal of being a good parent. Or so that’s what Ryuusei thought, but as time goes on the questions start to appear in his head.
Also, he can’t shake off the image of Yui-chan’s lonely face when she watches other parent and children couple from time to time, and sure enough he got curious about her parents that he never met even once.
Enough story about the adults, Yui and Misaki is the same as always.
After learning how to deal with the heat, they’re in perfect condition even in this summer!
And that’s where the story this time will begin……
Right around the end of July.
After I pick Misaki up and is on our way back home, I stopped my feet in front of a poster.
Summer festival. Although I knew that it’s held near here every year, I never attended it even once since I started living in this town. I’m not that really interested in it, but this year the situation is different.
While I’m still looking at the poster like that, I called Misaki.
“Misaki, do you want to go to the summer festival?”
“Festival?”
Misaki instantly replied back. Though her words are still few as ever, maybe it’s because her vocal practice has finally bear fruit, but recently her response has become faster.
Turning my eyes toward Misaki who’s near my foot, he asked her with stupefied face.
“You never been there before?”
“……Un.”
“I see. Then, wanna go?”
“……Un.”
Feels like she’s not that enthusiastic about it. It’s something along the line of, ‘Well yeah I’ll go for the time being.’ king of feeling. Or is it because I’m feeling that way?
Usually I’ll talk about this or that in order to make Misaki excited about it, but since I have only been to festival once so…… Moreover the only thing I remember from that time is only that I only walked around while eating uselessly expensive foods.
“……Tonight, at six o’clock or so it seems.”
“……Un.”
In the end, I couldn’t think of anything.
And so we ended up dragging our foot to this festival. At first I was going to invite Kohinata-san too, but since recently I saw her being kind of busy preparing her festival or something so I refrained from doing so.
The festival this year is held in the square along the river, usually this place would have only one bench just sitting there alone, but today there’s a lot of food stalls lined up.
And in the place quite a distance from the said square, are Misaki and me standing unable to move.
……What the hell is this, all these people.
The path doesn’t even exist anymore. Or rather there’s so many people that you’d think the ground has risen up to the height of the people here.
I turned my eyes toward Misaki while still trembling. What? Misaki blinked her eyes repeatedly as if to say that. In my mind it’s thinking that, if by chance Misaki jump into that crowd of people, she’ll definitely got devoured in no time.
Perhaps we can still return back to the road we came.
But, since I’m already determined to attend this festival I might as well go all out.
There’s only one problem here, and that is Misaki’s height. If so then!
“……Un?”
I crounched down, matching my eyes height with Misaki’s.
“I’ll give you a ride.”
“Give a ride?”
“Yeah, shoulder ride.”
After I lightly arranged my breath, I grabbed Misaki by her side and lift her up in one moment. Then I manage to make Misaki ride on my her shoulder while she’s struggling for a little bit since she’s surprised as it’s too sudden for her, her little legs tightly squeeze my neck, and she also grabbed my hair at the same time.
“Misaki, calm down, it’s okay!”
“……”
Misaki’s hands shiver, and my hair root starts to cry for help. Fuu, But no problem. My hair root isn’t so weak that it can’t support one Misaki after all.
“But it still hurts a little! Misaki, calm down please!”
“……Where?”
In all of this noise around us, a super small voice reached my ears.
Where you said, I’m under you! Your Ryo-kun is down here you know!
After I lowered Misaki down and explain about how the shoulder riding works, I lifted Misaki up again. This time she didn’t struggle, but my neck still got squeezed tightly. And the way she grabs my hair is still no good, but if I treated this as one of my training then it’s no longer a problem.
“Alright, let’s go then.”
“……Un.”
I couldn’t hear Misaki’s little voice, but I instinctively knew that she nods just now. I hold on to Misaki’s foot firmly, and walked right into the crowd of people.
Looking from the outside there seems to be so many people that you’d think you’d be sick of it in an instant, but once you actually manage to get inside of the crowd you’ll realized that isn’t the case. Maybe it’s because of my height that’s taller than the average people by around one head. Since my visibility is great, I can look for our next destination clearly.
“How’s it Misaki, is there any stall that interests you?”
I called out to Misaki who’s on top of my head. Though I can’t see Misaki’s face since she’s sitting on her special seat, but through her skin I can feels the vibration of her movements, and thus I knew that she’s currently looking around restlessly.
“……”
“Sorry, did you say something?”
I think I heard her small voice, but because of the noise around us I can’t hear it very well.
Turning my sight upward, Misaki’s hand entered my field of vision. Following along where her finger is pointing, it leads to the goldfish stall.
“You wanna try that?”
Instead of replying, Misaki tap tap on my head. Seems like she wants to try it.
Few minutes after flowing along the line of people, I’ve arrived at the stall.
” ‘elcome! Wan thyme wan hund’ ‘en!” (One time one hundred yen.)
What language is that you’re talking in old man.
“Misaki, I’m going to lower you down alright.”
I fumbling around with my hand trying to grab Misaki by her side just like when I give her a ride, but then I felt a little resistance from her.
“Misaki?”
Suddenly, I remembered the time when she first ride me. Perhaps Misaki isn’t good at dealing with height. While I’m apologizing in my heart I crouched down, after I curled my body up so low that my face almost hit the ground, Misaki slowly get off of me.
“Wan hund’ ‘en, ye!” (One hundred yen, yeah!)
I still don’t understand what he’s saying, but next to the old man there’s a sign board saying one time one hundred yen written on it so I can kind of guess his words, so it seems like he’s asking for us to pay.
I take out two one hundred yen coins and hand it over, and the old man give me and Misaki a bowl filled with water and a paper scooper. 1 I received it, and just like me Misaki also receives it too.
Misaki spins the paper scooper around as if she’s looking at something rare.
“Misaki, this is called goldfish scooping game.”
“Goldfish?”
“Yeah. You use this paper scooper, and try to scoop the goldfish up with it. Watch that.”
We watches a couple of man and woman that receives the paper scooper right around the same time as us. Alright here I go said the man holding the paper scooper, and quickly scooped up a lone goldfish. the woman who saw that praise him with that’s amazing in high pitched voice.
“……”
“……Ryo-kun?”
I took my eyes off that couple, and stares dead at the goldfishes.
“Misaki, watch this.”
“……Un?”
First, I created an image in my mind.
An image of me scooping the goldfish up.
And then an image of Misaki looking at me with her eyes shining.
After instilling this image into my mind to the point that it has becomes a part of my mind naturally, I take a look at my preys again.
……In this content, I shall not lose.
I hold the paper scooper, first thing to do is observation. There’s a lot of goldfishes in the water tank, and each one of them is of different sizes. And other than the sizes, their movements are also different. There’s the one swimming around energetically, the one that just gulping around on the water surface, and the one that just stares at me dead in the eyes on the bottom of the tank……
……The staying-still one is no good. They reeks of their immense strength that they’re hiding. The one that swims energetically is also out of the question. So the only one left are the guys that’s provoking me on the water surface huh. These guys, why the hell are they doing that stupid gulping for?
I don’t understand the reason for their action but, if they want war…… I’ll give ’em war! Since I’ve already paid money after all!
Here I go! It’s you versus me you goldfish!
I bring my paper scooper close to the goldfish who can only gulping stupidly in the water tank.
Once my paper scooper get close enough, my concentration is increased multiple folds.
Until all the noise disappeared, the colors disappeared, and there’s only just me and the goldfish left.
……It’s so quiet.
The goldfish’s movements, the rhythm that its mouth moves, its timing. I can understand all of that as if it’s in my hand.
Believing in my intuition I sneak in the paper scooper under the goldfish, and instantly scooped it up.
The goldfish that I scooped up brilliantly is now on top of the paper and it twitches it body once, before stopping all of its movement as if it admits defeat.
……Ahhh, I can hear it. The voice of Misaki praising me, I can hear it in my mind.
“Well, it’s something like this.”
“……Un.”
Misaki nods, and she holds her paper scooper.
Ah, eh? That’s all of her reaction?
My shoulder dropped in dejection.
Amazーing! Doubly cool! All the while I’m imaging those voice, I heard the sound of the goldfish on top of my paper scooper fall back into the water tank, at almost the same time.
And while I’m watching her still feeling a little downhearted, Misaki brings her paper scooper close to the goldfish.
As expected of Misaki, she manage to scooped the goldfish up splendidly after learning just by watching only once.
After that she swings her paper scoop around lightly and the goldfish fall back into the tank.
“……”
After taking my eyes off of her broken paper scooper, how’s it? Misaki look at me as if to ask that.
As expected of Misaki. She faithfully follow every steps of my movement…… Wait, this isn’t how you play it you know.
