Chapter 48 – Episode 8. Cherry Blossoms and Fireworks.
“Have I been doing it too long?”
“Iknow, right.”
She said she was going to get some luggage and an hour and a half had passed, so she might be suspicious, but Shinoe Misano had already thought of a good excuse. Indeed, it was not for nothing that I became a team leader because I made these preparations in advance.
Misano Shinoe took out the ice box containing various fruits and snacks from the trunk of her car and brought it to the cherry blossom viewing area. Gomen! She spoke to her team members.
“I prepared snacks and fruits like this yesterday, but I forgot to leave them at home and ended up going there.”
“Oh, I see. “I was worried why you didn’t come.”
Misano Shinoe told me to have a drink before leaving her place, so everyone was already enjoying the scenery of cherry blossoms while drinking alcohol such as beer, highball, or chuhai.
I also sat on the mat and enjoyed the surrounding scenery. The ground was crowded with people, but if you look up a little, light pink cherry blossoms fill your view. Seeing the cherry blossom leaves swaying and making a gentle sound in the occasionally blowing wind seemed to relieve my fatigue.
“Ah! The food stalls are now open! If you want to eat something, please buy it and eat it.”
Shinoe Misano said. As Japanese people have to bear the burden of having company dinners, there was no need to buy anything. Since alcohol was provided by the company, the team members did not seem to have any complaints. When we each got up from our seats and said, “I will get up and go,” And were about to go to the food stall, Mimata Chieri ran right next to me.
“Let’s go together~! “Junior!”
“Is that so? “Did anything happen while I went to pick up my luggage with the team leader?”
Chieri Mimata thought deeply about my question and said, “Ah!” She said and clapped her hands.
“It’s morning and they’re already preparing fireworks? Is that a lot to do?”
“Oh yeah? I don’t know much about fireworks either…”
Well, at least the fireworks display should be at 8 or 9 o’clock, so I thought it might be a bit early to get ready already. However, I am not a fireworks expert, so I couldn’t tell if this was right or wrong, so I decided to just skip it.
“The food stalls start from here.”
“Were there this many food stalls last year too?”
I suddenly became curious, so I asked, but when I thought about it, Chieri Mimata had just come here from another organization, the Taira Donation Foundation, so she didn’t know what happened last year.
“I don’t know much, but when I heard from other team members, they said a lot of people came last year as well.”
“Oh, is that so? “What do you like most, senior?”
We decided to skip the conversation that we didn’t know much about and asked Mimata Chieri about her preferences for festival stalls.
“I am… Um, how about dango (団子) and takoyaki (たこ焼き)? Ah! Chocolate banana too! “What do you like, junior?”
“I have ikayaki (a dish of whole grilled squid soaked in soy sauce) and chicken skewers.”
“I don’t like ikayaki. “The chicken skewers are good, though.”
While we talked, we first ordered some yakisoba in front of a yakisoba restaurant. Since I had just burned a ton of calories, I was thinking of trying out food from several food stalls. While I was ordering yakisoba, Mimati Chieri went to the chocolate banana restaurant next door and bought a chocolate banana and brought it to her mouth.
“Would you like to have a bite, junior?”
“May I?”
“Yes! Ah~”
Chieri Mimata held a bite of chocolate banana close to my mouth, as if telling me to open my mouth. I took it and ate it. Wow! With that feeling, the chocolate layer on the outside broke apart and the banana inside felt soft. Mmm, delicious. Well, it was a combination that couldn’t be less delicious.
“Shall we go to the next house?”
“Yes~!”
I received the yakisoba in a disposable plastic container and moved it to the next. The next stop was a chicken skewer restaurant.
“Negima (chicken thigh meat skewers) five salt flavors, momo (thigh meat skewers) soy sauce flavor five, kawa (chicken skin skewers) five soy sauce flavors, tsukune (chicken dumplings) five salt flavors. “Please give me a taste.”
“There are many other food stalls, can I order that much?”
Chieri Mimata knows how much I eat, but I know you eat a lot, but if you order this much here, what will you do at other places? It seemed like he was asking this question.
“One of each type belongs to you.”
“Oh yeah? “I’ll buy it for you at my next house, too.”
I received the chicken skewers I ordered in a plastic container, and Chieri Mimata bought me a container at the next Takoyaki restaurant.
“First of all, since I don’t have any hands, shall we eat and come back?”
“Is it so.”
We returned to our mats with the food we bought from the food stall. At the mat, there were team members who had not yet returned from the food stall and others who had already gone to the food stall and were drinking alcohol with simple snacks.
Shinoe Misano brought yakisoba and was eating it. Since I consumed a lot of calories, I need to eat carbohydrates.
I also sat down and handed one type of chicken skewer to Chieri Mimata and enjoyed the food one by one. Hmm~! As expected, the chicken skewers are stable and delicious. Should I take this home and give it to Yukiko Taira?
As time passed, the team members became more and more drunk, and around noon, there were more and more customers coming to see the cherry blossoms. Mimata Chieri was also full, patting her stomach and sitting with a listless expression on her face, so I got up alone to go to a food stall that I hadn’t reached yet.
This was my third time going back and forth, so this time I tried to choose something that could be eaten as a sweet dessert. I ate the chocolate banana earlier, so I passed it… Hmm, there is Tanghulu (a candy-like food made by coating Japanese pepper, etc. In taffy or sugar water and hardening it)?
I was returning to my seat after packing three strawberry tanghulu and three grape tanghulu.
Bang!!
The park, which was like a market floor, suddenly became dead quiet due to the sound of gunshots. What? A dozen people were standing there holding guns.
“We are the True Party!”
Exclaimed the one-eyed man with his head in a mohawk. They said they wouldn’t attack Tyra’s group. As people tried to run away with screams at the word Jinildang, gunshots were heard again and several people fell to the ground.
“If you run away, you will die!”
The one-eyed Mohican man who shouted like that took out a piece of paper and started reading something. When I heard about it, it seemed like they were saying something about establishing an emperor system.
“Miss, I’ll give you this.”
In case we got into a fight, I handed over my tanghulu to the most striking beauty with a hime haircut around me.
“Huh? Ah, thank you…”
I moved my neck from side to side to stretch and rotated my wrist to keep it from spraining.
“… Endless glory… Long live the Emperor!”
In the end, the conclusion is, long live the Emperor? And then he takes something out of his pocket and throws it. Uh? Did that appear in the game too? It was a bomb called K1m, mainly used by terrorist groups. It was the bomb that users called Kim by simply reading 1 as I. Although it was a bomb whose explosion range was only 10 meters in diameter, it was something that could have caused dozens of casualties in a crowded place like this.
The bomb thrown by the one-eyed Mohican, who must have undergone body strengthening surgery, flew very far. However, the direction in which the bomb flew was in the direction where our team was located. I urgently stretched out my hand toward the flying bomb. The bomb stopped in midair and rose into the sky at incredible speed. And wow! It exploded with a loud noise. Yes, these are fireworks.
I was fortunate to have been consistently practicing my telekinesis. Or was it a good thing that I had sex consistently and chose telekinesis as a level-up characteristic? Still, I must have overexerted myself a little, but my temples felt itchy.
“Chiit! “For this reason, kill everyone with a gun!”
“Aaaaah!”
Citizens started running away, bullets were flying, and it was absolute chaos. I rushed at the Jinildang henchman who was shooting closest to me. He switched his arms to block the bullets coming to his head, then ran forward and hit his side with all his might. There was a crunching sound and the side caved in. Jinildang’s henchman collapsed, vomiting blood from his mouth as his broken ribs tore his internal organs. This guy is now retired… I rushed to the next guy.
The bullets focused on me, as if they saw me knocking down my colleague. If she continued to be hit like this, no matter how much Yeouiju could reduce her damage, she would eventually die. I changed my mind and instead of rushing forward, I rolled over and hid behind a cherry tree. Then, it climbed up the tree, jumped, and attacked one person. As he fell, he gouged out Jinildang’s henchman’s eyes with his index and middle fingers and used the shadow to rip out his brain.
“Kaaah!”
A Jinildang henchman who died leaving behind only a scream of pain. I grabbed the back of the henchman’s neck and used it as a shield to block the bullets and approached one of the men again. He threw down the corpse shield, lowered his body, went under the gun, and hit his chin with an uppercut. Jinildang’s henchman, who was hit in the chin by an uppercut that concentrated all his body’s strength, fractured his cervical vertebrae from the impact and died. I was about to use this guy as a shield and rush at him again, but someone knocked me away with a push kick.
I spun around in the air and landed. I looked at who was kicking and it turned out to be a one-eyed mohawk. It seemed like he was very angry, as there were lots of veins on his temples.
