Chapter 122
In the night of the sa day, I was eating the dinner, after finishing my conversation with Ouka and leaving the mountain . I was worried about the different flow of ti since we were in a different dinsion, but luckily not much ti had passed since we were there .
“Your dinner is as delicious as ever, mom . ”
“I’m glad you still find it delicious . ”
My mom appreciated my grandmother’s cooking, as our whole family was sitting on a long dining table . As for my mom, she considers my grandmother’s culinary skills as the number one in the whole wide world, and also considers my grandmother as her role model . She is very devoted to cooking, and such she would never lie when it cos to cooking .
Even if she doesn’t say that out loud, I can tell just from the sll of the food, that it is well made . My grandmother’s skills are on the sa level as my mom, if not better . I kept on eating the food with my chopsticks while still praising her dinner in my heart . It looked like Karen was also finding it delicious, as she was emanating a pleasant ambiance .
“So, you went to the mountain today, Yato?”
“Yeah, we just took a stroll there . ”
After listening to my response, she showed a nostalgic expression, and gave a subtle head pat .
“It brings back mories . That place was my playground when I was at your age . ”
“Yeah, we used to go there every day . ”
Following my grandmother, my grandfather agreed with her as well . To be honest, I didn’t know that he used to go there every day in his past . I wonder if that is how my grandparents t each other . It looked like that both of them were reminiscing about their past until my grandmother seed to have recalled sothing and clapped her hands .
“Now that I think about it, there is a great fox who lives in the mountain . ”
It looks like my grandmother has already t Ouka once before in her childhood .
“I didn’t know that there are foxes there . ”
“By that, I don’t an a normal fox . I’m talking about a God fox . ”
“Eh? What do you an by that?”
I intentionally replied to her statent with a confused question in order to not raise any suspicion that I’ve already t that fox . Also, that fox is a Youkai and not a God . When I asked her that confused question, she tilted her head and declared a shocking truth .
“There is really a God fox there . I’m saying this because I have t him once . ”
“Eh?”
I let out a confused voice after listening to my grandmother’s remark . As soon as she announced that truth, Karen abruptly stopped eating dinner, glared at my grandmother, and then shifted her gaze to as if she were asking for so sort of explanation .
A Youkai can’t be seen by the people who don’t have enough magical energy and I’m sure that my grandmother is not the type who could see them . I wonder how she was able to et Ouka .
As I started wondering, my mom who got seemingly curious about the situation asked my grandmother for more details .
“Is that true, mom?”
“Yes . I t that fox when I was still a child . At that ti, I used to spend my day playing deep inside the mountain . One day, I heard a voice of soone which sounded like as if it were hungry . I took my lunch box which I brought with from ho, placed it in front of the small shrine, and asked if it were enough, then a voice replied back saying thank you . From that day, I started believing that a God fox is living there . Although, I was never able to et it again . ”
It looked like my mom was impressed by the story, as she was revealing an exclaid expression on her face, while my father expressed her feeling about how lovely her story was . Apparently, even I can’t deny that her story was an interesting one . To be honest, I was surprised to learn that she had already t the Youkai fox, even though she only heard its voice . Following that, I stopped moving and fell into deep thoughts before my mom addressed .
“I rember that ti when you told sothing similar, Yato . ”
With only with her single remark, my brain . exe stopped working there for a mont . I couldn’t hide my bewildernt after hearing those words I never expected to hear that from her .
Huh? Did sothing like that really happen? I can’t rember at all .
“Did I say sothing like that?”
“It was when you were still in the grade school . You probably have forgotten it now . One day, you went to the mountain just like today and ca back saying that you heard a strange voice coming from that small shrine and that you left your handkerchief there . ”
She also added her personal opinion about the handkerchief that I lost being still new . For so reason, I still couldn’t rember any of that . I tilted my head in confusion and fell into deep thoughts . If what she said was true, then that must be a rare case where a normal human can get involved with Youkai . My mom and grandmother continued their reminiscent talk while having the dinner, but I couldn’t concentrate on their talk since my head was already full of the Youkai story .
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I went back to my room, and tried to recall that story that my mom told about hearing strange voices in the mountain . She ntioned that it was around the ti when I was still in the grade school . I could barely recall anything about it, it looks like my mories are still fuzzy . I kept on reminiscing about the past for a while until I hear Karen’s voice coming from the direction of the sliding door of my room .
“Hey . ”
As I was called so suddenly in the middle of total silence in my room, I inadvertently flinched and promptly turned to look at the door .
Oh, dear little sister, can you please knock the door only for once?
Well, a sliding door isn’t exactly a door where one could knock on it .
“Yeah?”
“I just happened to pass by this hallway; are you still thinking about the story that mom told you?
She already guessed that I was still thinking about the story and asked about it .
“Well, yeah . ”
“About the God that grandma was talking about; that’s probably the big Ouka fox, right?”
“I think the sa too . ”
That’s the only conclusion I could end up with from hearing her story . Perhaps if we ask Ouka about it, she would shed so light on it . Anyway, I’m trying to figure out my past now . If what my mom told was right, it ans that I have already t Ouka once when I was a child . I wonder what I did at that ti .
As I realized sothing, I went back to working out my mind in order to bring back those mories, though right when I took a glance at Karen again, I rembered sothing else . I need to give her that thing . I took out the thing from the space I created using【Space Ti Magic (Extra Large)】and handed it over to Karen .
“Karen, take it . ”
“What is it?”
She tilted her head in a confused state, as she saw handing an object that I created and took out from the voice, it was a simple silver bracelet .
“This is a magic tool that raises your magic power . You can see Youkai while wearing it without the need to hold hands with . ”
(TLN: du*b*ss...)
(ED: pls turn off that Dense Protagonist skill . )
Karen reacted with a delight as she looked at the bracelet . As for the reason for having that bracelet in the first place, it’s because I created it on my own . Making it was rather an easy task; I first used【Skill Creation (With Restraints)】and created a skill called【Magic Tool Creator】and then I used that new skill to make the bracelet .
【Magic Tool Creator】is a convenient skill that allows to create any magic tool I want . Its drawback is the sa as【Skill Creation (With Restraints)】that is, it consus a large amount of magic . Moreover, it disappears after only one use . I got a little dizzy from the intense magic consumption, but I guess it was worth it since Karen had sparkling eyes while looking at it . It seed like she was pleased with it .
“You can now touch the foxes without having to stay by my side . ”
(TLN: stop it...)
I told her with an elated mood, but she suddenly revealed a displeased face while staring at the bracelet with a gaze that was different from the one she was showing just now .
“What is it?”
“... Nothing . ”
She averted her eyes from and left the room . She muttered as if she were thanking with an apathetic expression on her way leaving making doubt whether she was happy with the bracelet or not .
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Bonus
Dense Protagonist
“Master . ”
“Yeah?”
“Being a little dense is fine, desu, but you need to stay within the bounds . ”
“Wh-why are you suddenly acting this harsh with ?”
(TLN: this is not an edit . yeap . )
(ED: I swear this is not my doing this ti . )
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