The Tanaka Family Reincarnates - Chapter 16
Chapter 16 – The Dead of Night
Emma/Minato’s POV
“Aaoo”
“Aaoo”
I woke up suddenly.
“Aaoo”
“Aaoo”
Koumei-san?
I wonder absent-mindedly.
“Aaoo”
“Aaoo”
That’s impossible.
Because Koumei-san passed away when Minato was in the last year of high school.
So that crying sound was not Koumei-san‘s, but another cat’s voice.
Another… cat?
At that thought, I got up quickly.
In this territory… no, in this country, it’s impossible to hear a cat’s cry coming from outside.
As soon as I left my room in a hurry, two doors also opened at the same time.
“Nee-sama!”
“Emma!”
It was George nii-sama and William. It seems they both heard it too.
I couldn’t contain myself.
“Aaoo”
“Aaoo”
It’s calling me. It’s searching for me.
Maybe it’s because of the dream, but I couldn’t help feeling like that.
Without hesitation, I ran outside.
“Ah, hey, Emma!”
“Nee–sama!”
As spoiled as she was, being a daughter of a Count, ‘Emma’ was prohibited from going out alone. It’s also the same for George nii-sama and William as sons of a Count. It was possible to go out with Father’s permission, but only when accompanied by a servant and an escort.
Going out late at night without permission was out of the question.
I couldn’t unlock the front door, so I ran out from the back door, and when I passed by my shed… a strange sensation fell softly on my head.
While running impatiently, I picked it off to find that it was my favorite violet spider.
“You… So you know how to escape, huh.”
The spider had grown to a size that couldn’t fit in my hands, perhaps because it ate not only its fellow insects but also the feed for the giant silkworms.
“Hold on tight, okay.”
I put the spider back on my head and resumed running towards the cat’s voice.
3rd person POV
“Wow, nii-sama! Emma nee-sama is running with a spider on her head!”
“Is she Nau**caä…[1]”
Emma’s pajamas today was a blue one-piece dress.
It’s only missing a giant silkworm larva… whispered George, as the distance between them and Emma widened.
[T/N 1: Reference to the titular protagonist of “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind”, a 1984 Japanese animated movie, who wears a blue dress and heroically saves a giant insect larva]
“Nee-sama is so fast!”
“She’s a thousand times faster than Minato!”
Emma would definitely be scolded by their father for going out alone. Emma’s wrongdoing is also the older and younger brother’s fault.
Palace county is relatively safe, but it’s hard to imagine children returning home in the middle of the night without any incident.
George, still in his pajamas and only equipped with his favorite sword, chased after Emma. He had fought monsters before, but humans… not with a sword. He fixed his grip on the weapon firmly and ran frantically after Emma.
“I thought things would get better with Minato here…”
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“Aaoo”
“Aaoo”
The cat’s cries could still be heard.
Emma sped up as if spurred on by them.
If Minato had been able to run like this, it would have been easier to escape from Love…
Before long, she arrived at a town a few kilometers away from the mansion.
Even so, Emma didn’t slow down.
George and William had been shaken off long ago.
Emma took no breaks from running. As she passed through the street in the town lined by many bars, anyone who looked could only see a fluttering figure flying by.
As the next day was the day off for the week, there were a lot of drunken men who noticed Emma.
“Hn-? What is the Young Lady doing at this time…”
*WHOOSH* Before the man could finish speaking, she ran past him.
“! So fast! What’s that?”
“O, oiii! Catch her-!”
The men yelled at other drunkards that were in Emma’s direction.
Haphazardly, the drunken men tried to catch Emma… but, *WHOOSH*, she passed them at such a speed that they wondered ‘Huh? Is that a human?’.
“I see how it is! Line up in a row, we will definitely catch her!”
The drunkards let out furious yells, then lined up to block the road.
Suddenly the spider shot a glowing purple thread, aiming at the faces of the men that had lined up.
Their vision obstructed, those men struggled to get rid of the thread, and at that time, Emma jumped over them with a *boing*.
“Huh-?!”
A group of strong men who drank away until midnight.
A girl who easily jumped over all the tall men.
A big jump of over 2 meters.
“Huh-?!”
On her head, a spider that’s too big to hold.
“Huh?!”
The men, who she so easily broke through, considered that they may have drunk too much and dreamed it all up.
It was such an unbelievable situation that even those men whose faces were covered in the violet spider’s glowing thread thought it was a dream.
The men muttered to each other in agreement that they shouldn’t get any more intoxicated than this and decided to go home.
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Author’s note: Emma’s… a beast…?