Atelier Tanaka Book 5: Chapter 2 (6)

Dark Continent (2nd)

Throughout your life, youll et new people and those sa people will eventually leave your life. This holds true even here on the Dark Continent. I must be getting more sentintal in my old age. My tears seem to fall much easier these days.

My surroundings remained the sa; thickets of trees no matter where I look.

Gicho gicho, gekokoko. Sounds created by strange, unknown insects all around . Occasionally, Id hear the faint sound of rustling grass and a small animal would run out past my feet.

Its been a while since I said goodbye to the herb goblin.

It was around a half hour later that I heard sothing other than the sound of bugs or rustling grass.

It was soone speaking.

Hehehe, its a human. A humans coming. Hehehe, hehehe. Look at its flat face. Flat faced human. Its skin is yellow. It really is yellow. A yellow human is here. Yellow human, yellow human. Hehehe, flat and yellow. A flat yellow thing is coming. Hehehe, hehehe. A flat yellow thing is coming, a flat yellow thing is coming.

Where are they? These people making fun of my flat yellow face.

I havent even seen them yet and theyve already started bullying .

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I continued wandering around the area for a while before I noticed movent in the corner of my vision.

Ah.

He found us. Weve been discovered. Hehehe, hehehe. The flat yellow one found us. It finally found us. The flat yellow one is looking at . Hehehe, its watching us. While we watch the flat yellow one. Hehehe, weve never seen a flat face with such a colour.

Fairy.

Theyre fairies.

They look like normal humans, but their bodies are tiny. Theyre small creatures, totalling 30 centitres in length. They had light green wings growing from their back that were so thin they appeared translucent. I was able to see the trees and other scenery faintly through their wings.

Their hair only ca in two shades, gold or silver, but in both cases, the colour was so faint it almost appeared white. Their skin colour was so pure and white that the contrast of my yellow skin made theirs seem to almost glow. Japanese won would do anything for their skin.

An even more interesting characteristic was the fact that they were all won. Even more important, theyre all naked. Perhaps the fairy culture doesnt believe in clothing. What strange creatures.

More than a dozen of them were gathered in the canopy of a tree.