The Tanaka Family Reincarnates - Chapter 391
Super Burning [Part 1]
“Koumei-san! Your back, YOUR BAAACK!”
When the Fire Fox’s attack stopped, William slowly lifted his face and couldn’t help but scream in horror upon seeing the scene reflected in his eyes.
“Mew?”
However, the cat in question, Koumei, only tilted her head and looked at such a worried William in wonder.
“Wuu. Koumei-san is super cute when tilting her head suddenly like that!! *gasp* That’s not the point, Koumei-san, your back is burning!”
William’s chest automatically tightened because of the huge cat’s unbelievably adorable gesture, but this wasn’t the time for him to swoon over Koumei. Koumei, who covered the family and became their shield, had her back blazing with great flames.
“Mew?”
Upon hearing William, Koumei went, “Huh?” before turning her neck—at an angle impossible for humans—to check her back’s condition, and…
“Meow?”
…meowing a very positive response.
“No, eh? Wait, Nee-sama! Stop enjoying Koumei’s fluff and please translate for us!”
William had zero idea of what Koumei was saying and sought the cat language interpreter, Emma’s help. Emma, who had been burying herself in the cat’s fluffy fur during the entire attack, reluctantly peeled her face off Koumei.
“Koumei-san, are you okay?”
“Meow meooww.”
“Eh?”
“Meooow”
“…hm hm.”
“Meow meow~”
“I see…”
While humming, “Uh-huh, uh-huh,” to the cat’s words, Emma pondered over something.
“Nee-sama, what is Koumei-san saying?”
Getting impatient, William rushed Emma for an answer, but…
“Hm… She said that although it’s kinda burning, it’s not.”
After translating Koumei’s meows word-for-word, Emma also tilted her head in confusion while muttering, “I don’t really get it, though…”
“Huh? What’s with that puzzling interpretation that sounds like ‘It was a dream, but it wasn’t a dream’…” William held his forehead. If even Emma didn’t understand, no one would.
[T/N: From “My Neighbor Totoro”]
“Meoow, mew mew.”
“Uhh… It means(?) it’s neither hot nor painful.”
“Meow!”
“Yeah. So, again, what on earth does that mean?”
“…who knows?”
However, the two couldn’t afford to worry about Koumei’s explanation any longer as the situation was even more pressing.
“Marion-sama! Arthur-sama!”
After the attack ceased, George stood up to assess his surroundings. Upon witnessing the scene beyond Koumei’s back, he turned pale and immediately broke into a run.
“Your Majesty! Your Highness!” Leonard, as well.
“Arban!” Even Melsa also started running.
William and Emma’s short stature prevented them from seeing past Koumei’s body. But the rest of the family could clearly see that unlike them who went completely unscathed, the others received severe injuries from the Fire Fox’s attacks. Marion’s right arm, Arthur’s left leg, the King’s hair, and the prince’s side… were in flames. The knights, hunters, and even Arban, who should have been experienced in hunting, were also burning.
The attacks of the Fire Fox did not cease for a long time; however, the family didn’t notice this, as the cat protected them and they were entranced by its fluffy fur. No matter how the others continued trying to think of fun things and not feel fear, they would eventually reach their limit.
“Urgh… I managed… to think of other things… until halfway through ‘though…” Marion told that she was alright to George who rushed over, but her face distorted from the pain of her burning right arm.
“Yeah, never thought the attack would be that long…” Arthur, whose left leg was burning, nodded in agreement.
“! Report the casualties…” The prince grimaced from his burning side. Everyone other than the family was injured.
“Ahh, how pathetic. I’ve let my guard down.” The king, who was listening to the report of the casualties, was also burning. At this rate, only a few people could hold out if the Fire Fox launched another attack.
“Y-Your Majesty… Y-Your hair… I deeply apologize for failing to protect you.” Arban, whose right leg was burning, looked up at the King before bowing his head in regret.
“Your Majesty!”
“Your hair…!”
“Ughh!”
The knights and hunters also looked up at Arban’s voice and began worrying about the King’s hair, paying no attention to their own body conditions. The sight of his black hair, the symbol of this kingdom’s Royalty, burning proved to be quite a shock for the royal subjects.
The problem was that even if the Fire Fox’s attack had stopped, the flames ignited by fear wouldn’t disappear. And disassociating one’s consciousness from fear when one’s body was on fire wasn’t an easy task.
The only fast and easy way to put out the fire was to fall unconscious.
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Lord Rin
I guess those flames are also fake. Koumei said that they’re kinda burning but also not so it sounds like they’re illusions. Plus everybody that are supposedly on fire are able to more or less have a normal conversation.