Escaping from reality
“…Takumi. Shouldn’t we be returning soon? Though… I understand how you could get carried away…petting a fenrir like that.”
“Oh…you just had to bring back to reality.”
“Guff?”
“I know that you like it, but we can’t just stay here… Unless Phillip wants to stay and pet you instead?”
“Huh!? Well, I have petted the fenrirs back at the mansion, but…”
“Guffu…”
I sighed and stopped petting the fenrir as I got up to my feet.
The fenrir looked at with a disappointed look, and so I made Phillip take my place.
He was used to being around Leo and even the other fenrirs.
Still, it seed like he still felt uncomfortable about this one.
Well, considering how tense things had been a mont ago, it could not be helped.
“So this is the grave of the person who raised you.”
“Yes. My grandpa’s grave. Grandpa, I know it’s been a while… But I brought soone today…”
The grave was slightly larger than the others. Perhaps it was because he was the foreman… And it was clean. The villagers must have a lot of respect for him even now.
Ms. Delia then squatted in front of the grave and started to talk to it.
The wooden sign read ‘Karuyakato,’ which must be the old man’s na.
“So his na is Karuyakato.”
“Yes. But I just called him grandpa. The others called him by his na. He was kind to everyone, not just .”
Apparently, he had a very calm and gentle personality… Unlike the current foreman.
“Uh… My na is Takumi.”
I squatted down as well, and introduced myself.
And because it was a habit, I closed my eyes and put my hands together.
When I opened them again, Ms. Delia was looking at strangely.
Clearly, there was no similar custom here.
“Thank you, Mr. Takumi. I think he is happy.”
“I hope so…”
I suppose if he was a kind and gentle person, he would not be angry about Ms. Delia getting close to .
In any case, she was wagging her tail happily. So I felt that coming here had been worth it.
I then thought of sothing that I could do, that would not only make Ms. Delia happy, but the other villagers as well.
“Ms. Delia. Do you have any custom of offering flowers here?”
“I have heard that other villages do that. But it is not done here. Though, since the forest and prairies are close, there are wild flowers.”
“I see…”
As the graveyard was a little far away from the village, there was no custom of planting flowers near it… Well, it was a lot of work.
But when I looked around, I could see that vegetables and other foods were placed in front of the graves, so it wasn’t like they didn’t bring anything.
Though, a lot of it seed to be serpent wine… I suppose it was a very Bleiyu village thing to do.
In any case, I thought the place looked a little too plain, and perhaps it could use so flowers to brighten it up…
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