The Tanaka Family Reincarnates

Chapter 378

Chapter 378

Going is Scary, Returning is ___? [Part 3]

“SHE’S AN ANGEL!” shouted the Lord of Skyte from the bottom of his heart.

No one refuted it.

There were only believers who were nodding so vigorously that it felt like their heads would come off...

No, two people... two brothers were shaking their heads, not vertically but horizontally.

“Hey, William? She’s def thinking, ‘The expression of a cool old man stressed from work is da best...’ right now, isn’t she?”

“She only voiced her concern to look at the cool old man from up close, didn’t she?” asked George to his younger brother.

‘Everyone around us is blind.’ George lamented as he looked up at the sky in the face of this phenomenon he had experienced countless times since he came to this world.

“Yes, no doubt about that. She only did that to enjoy the sight of a cool old man up close. Ah, c’mon, what’s wrong with this world!”

William, still being carried under George’s armpit, held his head in exasperation.

“Also, even if Nee-sama wanted to start a conversation, she didn’t have to say what she did, right?! ‘Nothing worse will happen,’ she said! She... She... Didn’t she just raise a painfully obvious flag by saying that....!”

Are there any novels, mangas, or animes where nothing truly happened after a character says such a line? No, there aren’t!

“Ah... Hey, she def did that on purpose, didn’t she?”

“Me here is also quite exhausted, though...” George, who got dragged here and there because of the King’s rampage, had a fed-up look on his face after hearing William’s point.

“Meo~w?”

(But that’s just how Emma is, meo~w?) Koumei meowed happily.

???

*whoom...*

Around the same time, a circle of light appeared on the ground deep within the forest near the barrier. The source of that light was a magic circle, which no Kingdom’s people knew when, who, and why it had been installed in such a place.

Even though it was the current largest existing magic circle in this world, it had never been found until now, probably because of its location near the barrier.

The sheer number of magic stones used to make this magic circle was in proportion to its size. This magic circle was a memento of the era when the Empire thought it could mine endless magic stones from its land. It contained one-way teleportation magic to transport people or objects from the Empire to the Kingdom.

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Crisis: Hey, Serious? Let’s go for our first shrine visit.

Serious: Nothing good ever happens to me even if I pray to God.

Sir Comedy: How gloomy, Serious. That doesn’t matter, let’s all go!

Crisis: Serious, c’mon, let’s draw a fortune slip.

Serious: I always draw “bad fortune” every time...

Sir Comedy: Wow, that’s something. I’ve only ever got “great fortune,” y’know?

Crisis: Don’t say anything more, Sir! Hey... Show me what you drew.

Serious: ...

Crisis: Hm? What’s wrong? Is it another “bad fortune”?

Serious: *tremble tremble*

Crisis: Oh? Is it “great fortune”?

Serious: *tremble tremble*

Crisis: Hey, what is it... No way, could it be “great misfortune”? D-Don’t mind, Serious. Nothing can get any worse than now, so getting great misfortune is not that bad. A-Alrighty, lend me your fortune slip, I will tie it up for y...ou? Huh? No way, huh, it’s blank? What’s this? Huh? Nothing is written... on it?

Serious: WAAA *cry*

Crisis: H-Hey, wait, Serious! I-It’s fine, I’m telling you! See, uh... damn it, I don’t know what to say to this!

Sir Comedy: This year is gonna be another yet lively year, huh... Oh? Rom-Com Geeky Lady, you also came. You look good in that long-sleeved kimono.

Rom-Com Geeky Lady: Fufufu, I’m looking forward to the day the blank white Serious to be dyed in Crisis’ color...

Sir: Hm? And what color is that?

Author: Everyone, did you draw fortune slips? How did it go? The author drew “blessing to come (future luck).” I got disappointed and drew another one. ...It was yet another “blessing to come” slip.

Translator’s corner: It’s said you should tie your slips to a pine tree if you get bad fortune and not draw another one cause you shouldn’t make light of the deities. From the author’s experience, I guess that’s true...

And why tie it to a pine tree? The words for “pine” and “wait” in Japanese are both read as “matsu,” so it is believed if you tie your bad fortune slips to a pine tree, the bad fortune will “wait” on the tree instead of following you home.