TEASER
Volume 4 Chapter 3.1
Rampage at the Martial Arts Garden Part 1
When did I fall in
love with him? Maybe it was since that time .......
"Nozomu, Ken,
come quick~~! If you don't hurry, Musil will take over that place!"
"Hold on a sec,
Lisa! Ken's not here yet!"
"Haa, haa,
haa...... don't worry, he'll catch up to us later......"
During my days in the
Oire village, I would always race out with Nozomu and Ken after a day's farm
work.
Ken is a friend of
Nozomu's. His family is also a farmer, but unlike Nozomu, he has a large family
with seven siblings. However, he himself is a man of few words, and I remember
that he seemed quiet when I first met him.
Our goal is to reach a
single pine tree on top of a small hill surrounding the village. It is a
playground for the children of the village, where they can play for a short
while after the day's work is done and before the sun sets.
Like the adults, the
children have their own factions and clash over the best place to play.
Under such
circumstances, rules are naturally formed. That is the race to reach the single
pine tree. The first child to get to the top of the hill after the day's work
is done gets to play there until the sun goes down.
"Yay, we're the
first!"
"No, we're not.
There's someone else up there."
Unfortunately, there
was another kid that day. Behind a lone pine tree, a girl with freckles on her
cheeks was hiding there.
"Hey, isn't that
Mehilya, what are you doing?"
"Well, umm ......
I was drawing a picture."
At the feet of the shy
Mehilya was a picture of the Oire village landscape as seen from the top of
this hill.
Roofs of houses
illuminated by the sun, wheat fields just beginning to sprout, and horses, of
which there are only a few in the village, grazing on the side roads of the
fields with their carts loaded with goods. The landscape drawing on the ground
in only shades of brown seemed as if it were cut directly from the landscape
that I saw, as if it were about to start moving.
"Amazing .......
I didn't know you could draw such a great drawing!"
"I'm a little,
embarrassed ......."
Mehilya's freckled
cheeks flushed red. I don't think there's any need to be embarrassed.
In fact, both Nozomu's
and Ken’s eyes lit up when they saw her drawing.
"Tsk, you beat me
to it ......."
Right at that moment,
a disturbing voice drifted over the hillside. I turned back toward the path
leading to the village and saw five children, led by a tall, chubby boy. It's
Musil, the village's brat general who gets tangled up with me in all sorts of
ways.
He looks displeased,
as if he is disappointed that we were the first to arrive.
"Right. Why don't
you guys just go home?"
"Who decided
that!? I never said we would leave, did I!?"
I frowned at Musil's
words. Up until now, if we were ahead of them, Musil and the others would back
off, even though they were swearing at us. But today, they were different. Their smirking, condescending stares irked
me.
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