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Tooru Suffers a Direct Hit

Tooru here.

Recently, I have decided to visit Karted with Master.

After Makia’s big tantrum, we ended up deciding to travel back and forth between Delia Fields. Even so, Makia was still fiercely opposed to me making the trip.

She rarely screamed or throw tantrums in front of the Master and the lady, [1] they clearly don’t know what to do when she eventually stomped off to hide away in her room.

“... Hey Makia, I’m coming in”

I knocked on her door but did not get a reply. I sighed and entered.

This clearly startled her as she suddenly sat up in bed. [1] Her red hair was all puffed up as she popped up between her puffy blanket fortress.

“....”

Hey, are you a kid or what?!

“Uhmm… so, Miss Makia, are you awake?”

I touched the puffy blanket fortress and gently called her name. [2] A leg suddenly shot out from the under blankets and plunged into my stomach.

“Ouch… Hey you… What’s up with the surprise attack?”

“Why… [2] why are you going to work in Karted with Father?”

Makia’s voice and words were rather fierce and piercing.

“It can’t be helped. I can’t let Master go alone… you might not realise this but Karted is pretty dangerous.”

“That… that’s… but if you go, I won’t see you for a whole month!”

“... hey…”

I got up from the floor, Makia’s kick was really hard, and tried to pull her blanket fortress apart. However, she stubbornly buried herself back into the thick blankets. No matter how I pulled and twisted, [2] I can’t see even a bit of skin or red hair.

“Oi, Makia. Aren’t too old for this kind of antics? It’s not like I’m leaving forever!!”

“I’m still 13 years old!!”

“Oh my god, you… After all of this time, you want to act like a child?!!!!!!!”

There were times it was easy to forget that we had ever inherited memories from our previous lives.

To avoid suspicion from people around us, we have to be careful and occasionally act our physical age. [1] However, sometimes, one or the other of us tended to go overboard.

“Back on Earth, you were a lot cooler and mature. You did not act like an actual child. Not even when your actual parents in that world pass away…”

“Shut up! Shut up! Isn’t it because we’re always together all the time!?”

Her legs popped out from the blankets once again.

Unfortunately for her, I am not so incompetent as to fall for the same trick twice.

“Alright, got you!”

I grabbed the offending leg and dragged it out of the blanket.

“Wahaha, I caught a big fish!”

“Kyaaaaaa, stop it!! My skirt! My skirt!! You big pervert!!”

“Oi, enough about that. I have no interest in little 13-year-old girls.”

As expected, Makia let go of her blanket to push her skirt down.

[1] When I finally got her out, Makia’s bright red hair was a complete mess from being under the blanket fortress.

“W-Woah… The legendary Crimson Witch really is a mountain witch…”

“Shut up and die!!”

Makia shook her foot [1] nearly kicking me in the chin with the other foot, landed and threw the blanket fort at my face.

She had always been a rather violent woman.

“Oi, oi, oi, still wanna fight?”

“Humph, good for you. Do as you like, I don’t care anymore.”

Makia combed back her hair, which had really exploded around her like a mountain witch’s hair. She was being rather tsun-tsun [3] now.

“Sure, I understand. I’ll be going now.”

“... …”

When I turned my back to her, I felt intense killing intent floating towards me even after she told me to just ‘do as I like’

“... What?”

“... …”

“... What is it, Miss Makia?”

“Nothing,”

“... …”

Oi, oi, stop that. Don’t be so quiet all of a sudden.

Don’t be all meek now!!

“... Haah… What is it? Why are you so uneasy?”

“Because… We won’t see each other for a month.”

“I’ll return every night though.”

“I’ll be asleep at night.”

“Oi,”

Makia climbed back to her bed and curled up.

Looks like she’s really against my going, but could also understand that there’s nothing she could do about it. [2] Look at her all sulking with her arms tucked around her knees.

Where did [2] the dignity of the Crimson Witch of the West go?

As expected, after many years of association, I cannot leave her alone like this. I dropped my shoulders and sat down on her bed.

“What is it? Are you lonely?”

“... Humph, don’t think too highly of yourself. Even without you around, nothing changes. You weren’t here until I was 7 years old.”

“You say that, but the truth is you still feel lonely~~ Really, Makia~~”

[2] Now that it looked like she had finally calmed down, I leaned over to tenderly stroke her head.

However, like a cat who had suddenly decided she hated being stroked, her claws suddenly stretched out and scratched my face. Too surprised to react, I immediately suffered the full brunt of her sudden attack.

“Ow ow ow ow ow!!! You, what, stop it! Stop it!!!”

“Shut up!! You should just die, you idiot!!”

Makia was back in action.

From here on, my suffering was so acute that it was no longer cute.

First, she violently kicked me off the bed. Then, she jumped on me, scratched every bit of my skin, pulled my hair and even bit me when I tried to protect myself.

It was as though I had been attacked by a frightful Crimson Witch. Her tangled wild hair looked like a pile of writhing red snakes as she continued to attack me.

Makia had really snapped. It had been a long time since I had seen her this mad.

“Enough!! I won’t be speaking to you for a whole month!!”

“Huh, you’re just tightening the rope around your neck…”

“Aaugh!! Annoying! Annoying! Die!! Just leave!!”

I had no idea where she has gotten the strength from in that little body, but Makia easily kicked me out of the room.

Finally, the sound of a lock turning in her door sounded for the first time ever.

It had really been a long time since I’ve seen Makia lost it like this.

“What the heck…”

Ahh, my whole body hurts. It’s kind of humiliating, but I just got my ass kicked by a 13-year-old girl.

“Hey, are you really not going to speak to me for a whole month?”

“... …”

I called out from the other side of the door, but there was no reply.

Looks like ‘a month without speaking’ had just begun.

“Alright. If you’re fine with that… I guess I’m fine too,”

To be honest, I was pretty mad too. If she had asked me properly to not go, I would have made arrangements with Yodel and have him look out for Master at Karted with me only going occasionally to make sure things were going well. However, now that we have reached this point…

Let’s work the whole full month!

“... Geez…”

After a final glare at Makia’s closed door, I looked down at my scratched and bitten body, and left.

[Gumihou: I try not to let things overlap too much and to use different language styles for each character. The original was closer to bland.]

[1] Filling in the ‘Unspoken’. Often, when it comes to Japanese novels, the translation might be a bit lacking since the author deliberately chooses to use less words and let the reader fill in the blanks through a preset cultural understanding.

If the missing info looks too sparse, Gumi will fill in some of the blanks. This is not to imply that the writer’s craft is lacking, but we do have a cultural gap. Gumi will try to fill in these gaps unobtrusively.

[2] Adjusted language for drama. Japanese can be quite literal. When translated into English,

‘she instantly kicked me away. I got hit pretty hard in the stomach’

could probably be more dramatically written as

‘A leg suddenly shot out from under the blankets and plunged into my stomach.’

[3] tsun-tsun of tsundere - if you don’t know this term… erm, here’s a link for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundere