It Seems That I've Slipped Into a Different World. Also, My Gender Has Changed. Chapter 90: Warning, From the Ancestor

Chapter 90: Warning, From the Ancestor

Translator: LynneSuzuran

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[Well then. There is sothing I need to tell you in just a bit.]

When the lunch was almost over, and just when the tea and the cheesecake dessert ca out, Mikoto-san opened her mouth again. All the mbers of the family have gathered in the dining room, and we asked the maids to withdraw from the room so as to protect this secret.

[Normally, the world matters don’t concern anymore, but this ti is an exception. Because I also want you to be more careful, so I especially told you this.] “As expected, is there sothing?”

[Mn.]

Oh my? Tou-san seed to have sensed sothing. Or rather, Kaa-san was also listening in seriously.

After looking alternatively towards both of my parents’ faces, Mikoto-san turned around to . Well, the one who’s the most poorly inford of this world is , after all.

[Seiren. Have you ever heard of the aning behind us, the ancestors going to visit the present world at the end of the year?] “Ah, yes. The god’s power is weakened around this ti, and the evil spirits are appearing to commit bad deeds, and the ancestors are coming to patrol, or sothing like that…”

[Mmhm. Well, that’s right.]

Amazing! My rough explanation seed to be correct, more or less. Well, though I don’t really understand of the god’s circumstances.

[Those evil spirits are, in short, the people who were good-for-nothing during their lives. When we were dead and were lined up in the row of the ancestors, those who underwent transformation to beco the so-called evil spirits, or so they were nad.] “I see. Ah, what would happen in the cases of people who—for example—were killed and died while holding grudges?”

[That is, well, it will be decided based on their hearts during when they lined up in the row of the ancestors. Well, there were people who managed to beco the ancestors by normally transforming despite them having committed evil deeds, and there are also cases of those who died normally, but since their reburial were ssy, they beca enraged and turned into evil spirits.]

So, that’s how they defined evil spirit in this world, huh?

…If that’s the case, I wonder what kind of treatnt do the people who couldn’t beco the ancestors due to their bad reburial receive?

[Anyway, those evil spirits committed evil deeds. To put it simply, they want to increase their numbers and convert the living humans to beco their friends, in order to surpass the God of Sun soday. Though their path still looks quite long-.] “Is it still quite long?”

[Do you think that the God of Sun will just let those guys alone? He frequently exterminated them.]

Towards my mother’s question, Mikoto-san answered with an uninterested face. By exterminating, are the evil spirits so bugs?

In a sense, they’re bugs, I guess. Even if we were to crush them, they’d appear from sowhere else, so obviously one would feel fed up with them. Nah, I’m not sure since I haven’t beco an ancestor, though.

Or rather, the evil spirits’ ambition or objective is that, huh? To pass over the god, what an ambition. Well, if they don’t do that, they won’t be able to do whatever they want, though.

…That’s why, they’re evil spirits, I guess.

[It’s just, no matter what, the God of Sun’s power is weakened during this period. Therefore, the evil spirits will appear as much as possible to commit evil deeds. Also, the first thing that they targeted would be the infants who were born in that year.] “Well…”

“Is that why the ancestors would co and visit the residence where the child was born at the end of the year?”

[Mn. It’s so that we’d be able to protect that child from the evil spirit.]

Kaa-san opened her eyes wide, and Tou-san asked a question just to make sure. Then, Mikoto-san nodded deeply.

Amazing, so the ancestors appeared with so sort of a significance. Nah, it’s not that the legend doesn’t ntion it, but it’s just because we’ve finally received a proper testimony.

Then, Mikoto-san turned her gaze to . In the first place, she ca here to see , so it was quite natural, but her gaze didn’t seem to be as simple as that.

[Once we protected the child, the child would be awarded with a mark to eliminate evil spirits although that mark couldn’t be seen with eyes. After that, it would depend on that child, though…] “…Ah, and then, there’s that thing about , huh?”

[Mn.]

Right. I left this world just one month after I was born. In any case, since I was born in March, I disappeared from this world around the spring. Obviously, I haven’t received the mark to eliminate evil spirit that Mikoto-san just ntioned.

[Because you were already not here at the end of the year when you were born, I couldn’t award you with the mark to eliminate the evil spirit. Therefore, the evil spirits who’re gushing out this winter would target you. Since you see, the next one they will target after the pure babies would be the innocent young won.] “That too, since everyone had the marks bestowed on them in the first place, the spirits won’t be able to approach them. Therefore, they would approach the people who harbor evil intention in the end, right?”

[That is right, Maya.]

Innocent young won.

Eh-, ah-, in other words, that must be it, huh? Yup.

Nah well, Taiga-san has never made a move on . That kind of thing will co after I beco his bride. Well, as for the approach from my side, I wonder how about it…

[Well, that’s why I hastened to pay a visit this ti to protect her. Although if you have kissed even once, it could beco so sort of a protection, more or less.] “Oh dear, you haven’t done it, Seiren?”

“…”

Kaa-san, don’t ask here. If you heard Mikoto-san’s sigh being mixed into her lines, you’d be able to tell that I haven’t kissed, right?

Also, Saryuu is understandable, but why would Tou-san’s face turn red as well? As expected, did you feel bothered because it was after all your daughter’s matter?

“Uh-m, what kind of evil deeds will the evil spirits commit, specifically?”

[In here, it’s common and popular to intervene with the humans’ consciousness to have them act as an agent to commit misdeed. Babies still don’t have much consciousness, so they will be able to directly insert evil intention inside their heads.] “And that can be repelled by the mark to eliminate the evil spirit…?”

[That’s right. …It’d be nice if we could imdiately attach that mark, but it could only be done at the Week of the End of the Year. Sorry, Seiren.] “Ah, no. It’s already a good thing that we could understand the situation.”

Intervene the human’s consciousness, huh?

…I, when I went to Touka-san’s place at that ti, sothing weird happened, right? The people who were intervened by the evil spirits, could they feel like that and ended up attacking soone else, I wonder?

Scary. That was what I felt when I recalled that mont, though. I thought that I ought to do that no matter what.

I didn’t know why, but I ought to do that, I must do that.

I think that those people who attacked people under that condition, once their consciousness returned, they wouldn’t be able to understand how and why it happened, I guess.

It’s really scary.

[Ahem. Well, since there’s also Kasai Jigen in the Shiiya residence now, so there’s no need to be very anxious about it. However, just in case, I ca to warn you. I repeat again, be careful.] “Understood. Has Jigen already known of it?”

[It seems that he has already known about it even before I talked to him. Perhaps he’s refining a counterasure around this ti.]

My parents felt so relieved upon hearing Mikoto-san’s words. Is Jigen-san actually an outrageously amazing magician? Let’s put aside the thing about his age, then.

…Even so, Touka-san.

It seems that I’ve beco involved in sothing troubleso again because of you.

“…I give up, really. I wonder why must it be , each and every ti?”

“You’ve had enough of it, right…?”

“Although it’s difficult, we have no choice but to work hard.”

I returned to my room. Not having any willpower to continue wrapping up the cookies, I lied down on the sofa. It seems that the situation has been reported to Alica-san and Minoa-san, too, and Alica-san continued to wrap up the cookies while sighing. Minoa-san showed her fighting spirit for so reason. This person will show her willingness whenever it cos to physical work, huh? Nah, I’m saved because of it, though.

[Sorry, Seiren. As expected, the God of Sun’s power doesn’t reach the other world.] “No, no, it’s not God of Sun or Mikoto-san’s fault, after all.”

I properly answered Mikoto-san’s apology. Or rather, in this case, the one who’s at fault would be the Touka-san who harbored feelings for my mother and ended up becoming like her stalker. Although I was splendidly getting involved in that matter.

…Haa, if it’s like this, it won’t go as smoothly as to not influence Taiga-san at all, right? Even if it doesn’t show any influence, the troubles will continue at the Shikino residence when sumr and autumn co.

“…For now, let’s tell Taiga-san about it-…”

“There’s the possibility that he’d think, ‘Is Seiren fine-?’ and then he might fly here, would that be all right?”

Alica-san’s comnt is reasonable. If it’s still during the harvest ti, I can still imagine that the letter will co flying with the sa-day delivery service, but since it’s already winter, his work should have beco calr already.

B-but, there will still be people who can beco his ‘stoppers’ in the Shikino residence. That’s why everything will be all right… I guess?

“…If we’re talking about Taiga-san, it would seem like he’d do that, but I think I will believe in Saya-san.”

[Not believing in your future husband?] “That person, for so reason, whenever it cos to , he tends to get quite rash, after all.”

I only stated the facts, but why would everyone avert their eyes and sigh? Did I just say anything weird again?

[Your remaining self-consciousness has beco nonexistent now, huh?]

Eh-? No, wait, I really only stated the facts, though? Why did it co to that?

“…Does that count of speaking fondly of soone else?”

[That’s right on the spot. In short, you said that the young feudal lord would do anything for you.] “Aah, but it’s Taiga-sama, after all.”

“Although it’s better if he could calm down more, so that it would match his age perfectly…”

Even that kind of thing counted as speaking fondly of soone else, huh? When they ntioned it, I guess so. Also, Alica-san, Minoa-san. That’s sothing we all couldn’t deny.

Despite being around 10 years older than , he was already proactive from the first ti we t. He ca to save with all his might, and he took various things into considerations… Eh?

If one were to look at it from a third party’s point of view, certainly this is categorized as speaking fondly of soone else, huh? Whoa, I totally didn’t notice it, damn it.

For a mont, I feel greatly perplexed. Dear my ancestor and my maids, please don’t look at .