It Seems That I've Slipped Into a Different World. Also, My Gender Has Changed. Chapter 44: The Spurious Talk About the Past’s Secret

Chapter 44: The Spurious Talk About the Past’s Secret

Translator: LynneSuzuran

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Silence ensued, and it was not because we were in a graveyard.

It’s because we ca to understand various things, but they are not sothing comparatively fancy. That’s why, nobody can utter any single word.

However, sothing suddenly ca to my mind. Could it be that the [timing] Jigen-san talked about was referring to this right now?

That is why I abruptly shifted my gaze towards Kuon-sensei. When I did so, Kuon-sensei gazed back at and slowly nodded. Deep inside her eyes beneath the glasses, she seed to be saying that it would be all right.

Yosh.

“…Uhm.”

I raised my voice daringly. I can easily understand how everyone present in this place quickly shifted their gazes to all at once.

“There’s sothing that I would like everyone here to hear. Including Taiga-san, too.”

“ too?”

“Yes. Since it’s about your father.”

Taiga-san, whose na I ntioned, turned around to face as he seed to be surprised.

Normally, it wouldn’t be so weird if I were to say that this was a talk addressed only for those who belong to the Shiiya household, but it can’t be helped since the content of the talk is related to him.

That’s why, I think it is better for to inform this matter to him at the sa ti. Besides, Taiga-san also disclosed so information about his own family because he considered that it might be related to .

“…Understood. Let’s listen to it.”

“Seiren-sama, go ahead. It will be all right.”

Kuon-sensei replied after Taiga-san nodded, and then smiled. …since she is Jigen-san’s granddaughter, I can’t help but wonder if there is sothing. Even so, I can’t understand what.

“Ane-sama?”

“Seiren?”

The n of our family are sohow wearing the sa expressions on their faces. After living as a parent and child for so many years, they have beco so much alike, huh? anwhile, my mother was staring at . She had the expression that said, ‘I will accept anything, so co and say it.”

In that case, I would just go and say it.

“…Actually, uhm…”

Tentatively, since Taiga-san was here, I skillfully omitted the explanation about how I grew up in a different world. In other words, I only explained how the person who raised had the sa na, sa face, and the sa voice as Taiga-san’s father.

Nah, as expected that both my parents and Taiga-san’s expressions all went blank. Especially mother. Suffice to say that my mother was childhood friends with Touya-san.

“Father and that person are really that alike?”

“Yes. And so, the mont I first saw his face, I couldn’t really comprehend what was going on.”

“Ane-sama rested lightly afterwards. Even when I talked with Father Shikino for a while, I couldn’t help but be worried about Ane-sama’s condition.”

I nodded and answered Taiga-san who furrowed his brows as he asked for my confirmation. Based on Saryuu’s way of speech, it seed that Touya-san didn’t say anything particularly strange yesterday.

Then, Kaa-san opened her mouth as she was reminded about the thing that happened yesterday.

“Yes, and then your condition turned worse. Sorry for not noticing it, Seiren.”

“No, the one who should apologize is . Tou-san, Kaa-san, I’m sorry. With the circumstances being like that, I wasn’t sure whether I should say it or not.”

“…that’s right. If the circumstances have unknown aning and reason, it isn’t the kind of story you would want to spread too much.”

My father had a complicated expression on his face. After all, it might turn into a totally aningless story, or it might turn into a big trouble. At the very least, I think I understood that aning behind his words.

My mother put her face down as if she was absorbed in a deep thought. I think she’s listening attentively as she observes everyone’s reaction.

Taiga-san whose expression was a similar thinking expression raised his face and said, “Understood.” Ah, his face is showing a resolute expression now.

“I think I will try to investigate the things here. At the very least, it’s because only I can investigate the stories that are inside Shikino family.”

What?

Ah, no, obviously we’ll be saved if he helped us investigate it. However, if it was found out, then wouldn’t the situation be bad? It’s the risk for us, mbers of the Shiiya household, but if it becos a serious matter, then the one who’ll be put in the most dangerous situation would be Taiga-san himself.

“Is that all right?”

“For sharing this conversation with ans that you trust even a little bit, right? I have to repay your trust, as a person who’s going to succeed the Shikino family.”

Towards my question which only consisted of a few words, he answered it clearly. Ah well, certainly if I don’t trust you, then I won’t disclose this thing with you. Still, I wonder if it’s really okay? Although this is just my excessive self-consciousness if I don’t have anything to reward his story earlier. Even so, well…

“…I’m sorry. Although this is my personal matter.”

“No. If nothing will happen, then it’s good. But if sothing were to happen… well, let’s deal with it at that ti.”

Taiga-san smiled as if it was a matter of course, and I don’t know whether or not he knew that I was thinking about it.

After arriving at the graveyard village’s entrance, Taiga-san rode in a separate carriage. When we started to move, Tou-san suddenly opened his mouth.

“Seiren. The person who raised you… was he a person from the world in which you grew up?”

“Yes. He is also the one who nad Seiren from the embroidery in the clothes I wore when I was a baby. One of the letters used in the other world was similar to this world’s letters, that was how he could read it as Seiren.”

“I see…”

Hearing my answer, he thought about it for a little while. Then, my father moved his line of sight towards my mother, who was sitting next to .

“Maya.”

“Yes?”

“Have you ever t Touka-dono?”

Oh my?

It’s about Touya-san’s little brother, Touka-san? Well, certainly he is quite weird based on Taiga-san’s story just now.

However, since my mother was Shikino family’s neighbor, I thought that she would have t him at least several tis.

“…Only about one or two tis. Since it had been officially decided that the successor of the Shikino family at that ti would be Touya-dono, and to avoid any future dispute, he was protected in another distant villa.”

“Protected, was it?”

Saryuu asked in his curiosity. Ah well, I also thought of that, too.

Ah, but that was also the case, huh? It was sothing about how they wanted to isolate him because they didn’t want the family trouble to turn into sothing big, right?

“Well, there were lots of things going around. It was a story that I heard from soone else, but Touya-dono and Touka-dono were brothers separated by only a few weeks.”

My mother gave such an evasive answer, but that might be true. The child born later was the legal wife’s child, so it would certainly be a material to bring about future family troubles.

“But, I felt like the Touka-dono I t seed to resemble Touya-dono very much. It was a talk of 40 years before, though, so I couldn’t really rember it well.”

“Is that so…? Fumu.”

Father, who listened attentively to her words until its very end, nodded as if he was agreeing with sothing.

Or rather, it won’t be so strange for siblings to resemble one another. Even when their mothers were different, half of their genetics was the sa, after all.

While thinking about it, my father looked at again.

“Seiren, have you told this to another person?”

“I have told this to Saryuu, Minoa-san, Oriza-san, and then Kuon-sensei who passed it to Jigen-san. Only to them.”

“Since Kanna accompanied , there’s a probability that she heard about it, too.”

“Fumu. Then, let’s leave the investigation on our side to Jigen.”

After I answered, Saryuu added. After hearing us, my father concluded this case in a simple approach. Jigen-san can be greatly relied on, huh? Well, since he has done such a great feat as bringing back from the other world.

My mother seed to agree with that conclusion, as she nodded and looked at us sternly.

“That’s right. Seiren and Saryuu too, you can’t let this talk get to the public.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“Yeah, of course.”

That’s a given. There’s no way I can let this kind of story to be distributed to other people more than this.

In the first place, just how many people will believe the kind of story that involves things such as the other world?

I get the feeling that it was a crucial matter when I talked to my father and Taiga-san about it.

“Co to think about it, Tou-san. What happened to the magician who disappeared at the sa ti as my disappearance?”

I tried asking as it made curious. Then, my parents exchanged glances at each other. Ah, sothing happened, huh, certainly?

“Well, normally he would be suspected as the criminals who kidnapped you. However, that suspicion was quickly cleared up. At that ti, though…”

“Eh?”

“That night, we discovered sothing. At the back of the mansion, there was so trails of blood.”

“That he was unable to protect you… written in blood…”

Both my parents stopped talking at that point. However, after listening to their words, I could understand what happened afterward without thinking.

I see, he died, huh? The magician. Based on the situation, I thought that I really couldn’t do anything about it.

Based on how my mother spoke, perhaps the cri scene wasn’t shown to her, as it was barely one month after she gave birth to . No, even without it being shown to her, the damage had been done.

However, since I went to the other world, the possibility that the magician did sothing else was brought back again.

Perhaps father’s [At that ti] was referring to it.

Even so.

Still…

The magician who died after leaving the writing of how he was unable to protect .

I wonder if I managed to stay alive at the price of that person’s life?