The picturesque rice cakes are delicious today

The sound of cicada sounds like a twitch. I was in front of the library reading a notice of temporary closure. [M]

Sweats and sweats flow. It's hot. I came here in anticipation of a cooler interior, but it was a waste of time.

... I don't know what to do. It's a bone to go back to school again, and above all, it's not very comfortable there. "Someone who goes to junior high school different from me" is in school, so it's not very comfortable.

My name is on the top announcement of the results of the exam posted to the school. [M]... including that, I'm not very comfortable.

I wonder if it's crap. After all, I think you should study in the study room at the school. Even though I was secretly told, I think it would be better if you were more accustomed... to being normal.

... if that's what I was thinking.

Wow, it's closed!

A familiar voice raised a pathetic scream.

"You're lying, Library! Why suddenly? Only on the day I came out of this hot house! And for the next 10 days!

Like bending a thin, long body... the teacher is staring at the "notice of closure" stuck to the automatic glass of the library door that won't open.

"... Sensei"

When I gently called out from behind, the teacher turned around a little surprised... and glanced at me.

"Oh, it's you, Togo! How are you?

"Yeah, I'm fine.... where's the teacher?

"Me? I'm... I'm so fine. However, it is unhealthy. Look at this sunless body. This is the proof."

I can tell from the look. The teacher probably hasn't been out much this summer. I'm not sunburned. Wow.

"... oh, my gosh. I came here to change my mind and work in a different environment, but the library was temporarily closed."

"Yeah."

I nod when I see a teacher who somehow looks pathetic. [M] You'll see. That, too.

"But it looks like heaven didn't leave me alone!

The teacher gripped me with a smile. [M]

"So, Togo. You were temporarily suspended from the library anyway, right? You were gonna make the library a place to study, as usual, right?

"Yeah."

... I nod wondering what's going to happen after this. Then the teacher pulled my hand and said. [M]

"Then I will provide you with a place to study that is neither your school nor your home. Fully air-conditioned. Tea is served. Barley tea.... so, Togo. Will you come to my house?

... somehow, it was sudden and very surprising, but because the teacher was a full smile, I nodded without thinking.

What kind of place is the teacher's house?... I was just a little curious.

"Excuse me...."

The teacher's house was a normal house, close to a percentage from the library.

A little old looking house. There's just a little garden, and there's a little Edamame and a little mini tomato, and then there's a little Sukone-style flower and a little spilled flower. And weeds.

"Please, go ahead. It's a dirty house, but don't be shy for now. Waste of space is the problem."

"... Doctor, do you live alone?

"Oh, well, this house is for you. Yeah, in a house my uncle used to buy. But my uncle has gone abroad, so I can't help it. I'm letting you live because I can't help but rot your house."

Speaking of which, I think I've heard that before. Mm-hmm.

When you enter the house, it is soft and cool. I am very happy with this coolness this season.

"... ah, Togo. Sit down and study properly. I'll work here."

"Yeah...."

The teacher has the momentum to sing a nose song. Still, why are you in such a good mood...?

"No, really, you're in the right place at the right time!

"... Sensei, did you feel like watching the junior high school students you're studying?

The teacher smiled and nodded after asking.

"Ah, it's a very criminal thing to say, but it's true.... I took my leg to the library to observe it."

That would be satisfactory. Please observe as many as you can help.

... and I started studying.

The teacher gave me a whole dining table, so I sat there, opened my notebooks and reference books, and studied.

... the teacher was sitting on the sofa at the lowtable in the living room, sometimes looking at me, looking out the window, and staring at the void while he was covering his laptop. And sometimes I take notes on paper with a pen.

I didn't settle down at first. [M] I know about the teacher, but I don't know the teacher's house. I felt uncomfortable studying in places I didn't know.

... but when I started, I stopped worrying so much. The teacher also seemed to have eliminated the need to observe me, and he even handled the laptop, and I just started studying with a sharpen...

"Togo, it's time to hydrate."

I was told to put a glass of barley tea in front of me, and I looked at the clock.

... 16: 00.

Wow, it's been about three hours since I came to the teacher's house.

"You've been concentrating a lot. Oh, that's brilliant."

"Yeah... it looks like it's really calming down here. Progressed."

"Oh, I see. Above all else."

Somehow, I feel nervous because of the smell of other houses, so I wonder if that's good. But even if you're nervous, you can rest assured, somehow calm down... hmm, it's strange.

"Well, you're the type that can study in the library. I can't. He was the type of person who couldn't study unless he lived in the house...."

As I watch the teacher look a little distant, I wonder again. [M]

"I feel completely restless in the living room of my house. [M] My room calms me down a bit....."

"Ah... well, I suppose that's true for you. Yeah. No, it's really, really cruel. What kind of junior high school student doesn't settle down at home...."

The teacher leaned a mug full of barley tea... with a slightly headache on his face.

I also tried putting my mouth on a glass of barley tea. Very, very sinister. It's bitter... it tastes like barley tea that I left behind in a bundle of barley tea!

"Well, that's good. If the library is closed, then you have nowhere else to study, right?

Ah, yeah.

The teacher laughed when he was distracted by barley tea.

... um.

"... the truth is, you should study in the study room at the school. You don't have to go to the library."

Somehow, I didn't want to tell a lie, so I'll be honest with you. I'm glad I didn't bother you at the teacher's house, but I did.

"I think you should study in the study room at the school, but somehow... I'm uncomfortable."

And then, after spitting out the crap inside of me, the teacher nodded, fufu.

"Yeah, well, that's just fine. Togo, study here while the library is temporarily closed."

... eh.

Eh?

"Yeah, let's do that. That's good. I'm just about to change my mind. You remember where we are, don't you?

"Eh, ah, mmm... mmm?

I'm very surprised at the sudden offer.

... no, I mean, is it okay to bother you at home? Is it good to come so often? Uh, uh...

"Ah... well, you might be able to come to the house of someone you don't know very well, but... if you feel uncomfortable in the study room of the school and you're not so uncomfortable here, it doesn't matter here, either."

"I don't care what you say... I'm sorry, I'm surprised, that's not all."

"Oh, my God... Ah, it's been a long time. You don't go to a friend's house, you don't call a friend home much."

Yeah, that's right. But I don't think it's such a problem.

"Um... I really appreciate it, but I wonder if it's okay?"

"Hmm, I don't care."

Oh, I see. Um, but that's not true...

"... I still think I should be in the study room at the school."

... strangely, I'm more concerned about you than bothering your teacher.

"It's not good to be studying in a library. Using the school study room reduces the travel time, and you can spend that much time studying... I'm sure you'll forgive me, but the truth is, you should study more properly and normally..."

... I don't want to be there. I don't want to be here any more because they say, "Why don't you always study here?" I'm uncomfortable. But I don't think you should be here. I think so.

"So, is it okay for me to study in this cozy place by myself...?"

I say that without knowing what I'm saying. [M]

Then the teacher thought... tilted his neck.

"Besides, you don't have to suffer anymore. You don't have to suffer together because someone is suffering. That's good. You can study alone in a relaxing and comfortable place."

... okay, that's it. That's not normal.

"Roughly. There's a word for the right material, Togo. Fish don't have to live in the sky, and cats don't have to live in the water. It's best to be in the right place for that person, for that person, for that place."

Yeah.... Right. Um, but when I say that, I'm...

"And somehow... I think it's better to tell this to you, who is studying hard right now, but aren't you very suitable for this kind of thing? That's what I thought when I was taking my junior high school exam...."

... yeah. Yes, that's it.

"It's not good for me. I'm not really ready for the exam."

"I don't know.... no, I know it's perfect for my abilities. Last week, when I talked to you in the library, I heard the results of the simulation. I... I'm just a character or a goal..."

... yeah. Your personality is unsuitable. I know. I don't have a goal. And yet, I'm trying to take a high school exam at a high level. I know that too.

"... but I can't tell you that you don't have to do things that aren't right. Too irresponsible to say that."

The teacher drinks barley tea while roaring again and looks reluctant. No, if it's bitter, I don't want it to crack with water or something...

"But you don't have to suffer. And it's no virtue to be in a bitter place."

"... yeah"

Somehow, I think a lot too.

I don't have to go to a high-level high school, I wonder what I want to do when I get in there, I wonder if this is what I really want to do.

... but since I don't want to do it, it's just an excuse, after all.

"Well... a lot of things, I suppose."

Yeah, I'm thinking a lot.

"It must be painful. You are still a child. A child in an environment where you cannot decide your life by your will. [M] Sometimes you have to do what you don't want to do and live where you don't want to, a creature in such an irrational vortex."

... yeah. The teacher's words seem to trace my mind. [M] I thought, but things that can't be said come out as words by the teacher. This feels a little strange.

"So at least let's find meaning there. You need a reason to do something that you didn't decide or want to do."

That's what the teacher said and drank the barley tea all at once. Wow, that looks bitter.

"Puhah, it's bitter. One more.... and that's right. You are in pain now. [M] But if it's painful, it's because it's painful that you have to work hard to live. Someday, to travel, believing that there is a place for me."

"To travel."

"... set yourself the goal of getting ready to leave where you are now."

Traveling. To leave where I am now.... I'll do my best for that.

Somehow, when I think about it, I feel a little relaxed.

"You can go wherever you can, Togo. How to get there, well, narrow down your ideas. You can leave the house well for further education, or you can go to the library courteously under the pretext that your studies are progressing."

Yeah, well, it's a thick library.... that's how I want to be.

"For now, you won't be able to leave your parents or quit school... but it's not a bad idea to go somewhere comfortable for you. Besides, you said," You should study normally, "but" normally "can change depending on where you are."

So the teacher spread out his arms.

"Look at me. Am I" normal "?

"No"

No, really, no.

"You answered me straight away! Thank you!"

Yeah, the teacher's not normal. I don't think the average person would be invited to the house to meet a few people in the library because they've known each other for about three years.

"... but in my company, you're a normal person. There are many more unusual people. You just don't know."

... I wonder if there are any more strange people than you do. That's a little, no, that's really, really questionable.

"The world is wide, isn't it? Togo. Sometimes your normal place is unusual. Maybe there's a place where you've been painting forever and that's normal."

I wonder if there is. Such a place.

School, school, home, I'm not normal. I can't study normally, and everybody's place is uncomfortable, so I'm finally bothering you to come to the teacher's house. Such a place... I've been drawing pictures forever, is there such a normal place?

When I thought about it, I started to get nervous. I wish there were, but I'm hanging out with you.

"So, here it is. Togo. It's important from here...."

The teacher smiled at me and said softly, like revealing an important secret. [M]

"Man, especially good old adults. If you realize that where you live is a good place for someone outside, you have to reach out."

"... often, people who are in places that don't suit them don't realize that there are many other places. That's why it makes sense to show 'there are places like this'."

... that's when I finally remembered.

This place is kind of cozy.

There is no punctured gaze. There is also no posted report card. No one's anger, no groaning voice, no sneaky mouth, no sigh of disappointment at me.

There's just people here who don't care what I'm doing, there's a little unclean room, and there's just too much barley tea.

"... did you bring me home to show me that there are places like this?"

"Well, apart from the fact that your presence will make your job better, yes. You better know that there are a lot more places. [M] And even if you're there, you can go."

... the first room of my first home. You should know that there are places like this, and there are strange people like this. Oh, I see.

"So, what do you say, Togo? Until the library opens."

When the teacher asked me again, I... kind of threw out my guilt and all that stuff...

"Thank you for your help."

"Oh, that's fine! If I could offer you a place that's a little more comfortable, I would have wanted it too, Togo."

The teacher sang and nosed, and he said, "Oh, yes, there are boiled edamame beans, do you want to eat them?" and went to the kitchen.

... at a cozy dining table in the home of a familiar stranger at LDK, I just thanked him for looking behind my teacher.

I don't have to study in the study room of the school from tomorrow. It was a great pleasure. I was relieved.

At the same time, I'm a little sorry... but I feel that I'm sorry for something different, and I thought instead, I'd do the same thing as the teacher.

Someday, if I find someone uncomfortable, I want to be an adult who can reach out. I want to be the kind of person who can teach you, "There are some weird places like this."

... the barley tea I drank with that in mind was incredibly painful.

But it wasn't bad.

Chapter 7: Hey, don't be weird.

"This is so delicious! The guy I gave you before was a dandruff, but you can keep this moist!

"That's good."

I painted and served Carnelia and her cakes. [M] Because it is a corner, the tea request is a mochi. And the edamame, so the mochi.

I knew it was made from edamame beans, but I didn't know exactly how to make it. Should I crush the edamame and mix it with sugar?

I was so anxious that I decided to paint it. The good thing about the mochi painted is that even if you don't know the ingredients of the mochi, and you don't know how to make the mochi, if you only know the finished form of the mochi, you can make it. Convenient.

"That's an interesting taste. Hmm... the fairy liked it too. Let's try this for the next cake."

Claire, I hear you liked the mochi. Together, they surround the tea table and smile while eating chunky mochi. He's a woody Claire.

... and...

"... I don't know. Who is this kid?

Lian followed me, as if I were distracted. [M] Oh, I see. Lian doesn't know about Carnelia.

"Carnelia. Uh... I know him. The kid who ran away at the Dioren house when it was all over."

"Shupon...."

Yeah, the tail.

Did you hear us? Carnelia stood up gently and bowed in a beautiful manner.

"Hello, I'm Carnelia. I was a daughter of the Dioren family, but lately I've been a wandering nobleman! I traveled everywhere. I went to your mother's grave, and I met her father and mother!

Well... if Carnelia's journey had been good for her, that would have been great.

"But nobles are retiring today! I live in this forest! Nice to meet you!"

The prodigal aristocrats have heard of it, but the prodigal aristocrats have never heard of it. Really? Noble wanderer...

"So, this is Interlia. He's my knight."

"Interlia is also my former colleague.... well, he's not a bad guy. If you need anything, you can count on it."

When Laocles added the supplement, Lian said hello with a little bit of red and a small voice.... I wonder if you know anyone. Well, there are more people I don't know, so maybe so. I'm a little surprised.

"Um... Carnelia, huh? Do you like fairies?

On the other hand, Ange talks to Carnelia aggressively. Carnelia brightened her face.

"Yes! This forest is amazing! I didn't think the fairies were full!

"Hmm... fairy, with Ange and oniichan, I've had a lot of fun."

"Wow! Wow!... oh, fairies are stuck in your hair."

"Yeah... oh, and Carnelia."

... Carnelia seemed to be the type to see fairies, and Ange and I talked together. I'm glad.

Looking at that, Lian looked a little complicated. Maybe it feels like my sister was taken. There may be more of them in this forest because they have few children. Hmm... should I build a forest school?

Then the children began bathing in the spring. It's nice and lively to hear the chatter and chatter.

... the late summer forest is a bit moist, but it's not that hot. When I'm standing in the sun, I sweat, and when I'm in the shade, it's not that painful. Especially since it's a little cool in the woods, it's cozy.

I am soaking my feet in the spring in front of my house and eating edamame while cooling. [M] Next door is somehow a bird. This is bread. Edamame beans and bread are offered. Thank you. I'm glad.

"Hey, Corn!... it looks cool."

That's where Faye came in. Carnelia's eyes sparkle when the red dragon comes down. Yeah. So you've never seen a dragon before?

Because it is a corner, it seems that the red dragon was left to bathe together. The birds that infiltrate it further account for the majority of the spring, so the spring is much narrower. But this looks like fun for the kids. I'm glad.

Faye, this way, please.

"Nh. I guess I'm interrupting... oh. It's cold. It's very comfortable inside."

Fei also took off her shoes and sat next to me, soaking her feet in the spring. You know, it's comfortable inside. This is it. Whatever it is we're playing in the water, it's good enough to cool off like this.

"Now, this is a good report. Well, the knights have been increased, that's all. Interlia was also officially hired. Interlia originally belonged to the Knights of the Forest. Besides, you belong to the Knights to protect the city walls, right?

"Yes, thank you."

Read the paper Faye brought me.... wow, we've got 30 people here. I can leave this to the doorman to some extent. Thank you! Thank you!

Fei said that she was excited to imagine the plaster statues that would have gathered.

"... corn, you look delicious."

Fei, who saw me and the bird, smiled slightly.... I wonder how much it was on my face.

"I love Edamame."

"Oh, I can tell by the look on your face."

"... because it's delicious. Edamame, you've never had a fake before."

I see. I was worried. Which one..... "

Here's one, and when I presented the paper plate on which the Edamame was riding, Faye lowered her hips next to me and took one of the Edamame sheaths. And as I was doing, I put a sheath in my mouth... and I looked a little strange.

"... wasn't it delicious?

When I got worried and asked, Fay chewed the edamame with a strange face and swallowed it... and said.

"This is the ingredient of magic potion!?

... no!