Chapter 9: 9

Episode: 9 Lara, the Signboard Girl

Translated by AmaLynne
Edited by AmaLynne

 

「Ahh!! A dream…」

 

I had a dream for the first time in a long time.

It was only a few months ago, however.

I was a young girl living in a rural village, and my mother asked me to go shopping in a town some distance away.

When I returned to my village after buying what I had been asked to buy, I found that it had been destroyed.

The village was destroyed by the Magic Apes, monkey beasts called Maen.

Only I, who happened to be out shopping outside the village, survived.

Magic apes move in groups of several dozen and occasionally raid human habitats.

They are omnivores and eat human flesh, which is why they attack humans.

Because of their intelligence, magic apes stay away from towns with many people.

They know that many hunters and trappers can hunt them there.

In the end, they attack rural villages where there are few people and it takes time to call for support.

This is why several villages were damaged each year, and some, like mine, perished.

Thus, my home village was wiped out and I was left all alone, having lost all my family and acquaintances.

It is impossible to restore a rural village alone, and the lord would send new people to the destroyed village and that would be it.

The people who were struggling, and the second and third sons and younger who couldn’t own land in another rural area were immediately sent in, and I, the only remaining former resident, was put out of the way.

I left the village as if I were an outcast and drifted to the royal capital, gathering wild plants, nuts, insects, small animals, and fish along the way to stave off hunger.

However, there were so many people like me in the capital that I could not even find a place to work.

My mother had taught me how to do housework, but no one would hire a stranger with no relatives as a housekeeper.

The only thing left was to lose myself in a colorful town, but I didn’t want to do that, so I was living as a hunter-gatherer outside the royal capital.

Then Yukiko-san showed up.

She was a hunter-gatherer just like me and had arrived at the capital from the center of the『Dead Forest』.

It is a dangerous place where many strong magical beasts inhabit and criminals used to be banished to the『Dead Forest』as an alternative to the death penalty.

I was just amazed at Yukiko-san’s resilience, even though she is not that much older than me.

After I explained to her the situation in Royal Capital and the fact that we were both women, we quickly became friends and soon began to work together as a party.

Yukiko-san is not only strong, but also attractive as a woman.

I had been trained by my mother and was confident in my cooking, but Yukiko-san was even better.

She made many delicious dishes that I had never seen or heard of before, and I was simply impressed by how delicious they were.

『I’m going to open a restaurant!』

After a few months in Royal Capital, Yukiko-san announced that she would open her own store because she had reached her goal.

I am in a similar situation, but while I have yet to do anything, Yukiko-san is already moving on to the next step in her life.

I felt lonely thinking that Yukiko was going to start a brand-new life and I was going to return to a life of a hunter-gatherer by myself again.

But the kind Yukiko-san never gave up on me.

『Lara-chan, why don’t you become a signboard girl in my store?』

『Me?』

It was unexpected.

Yukiko-san, like me, had no family or acquaintances in Royal Capital, but she was going to be a store owner.

She could have hired someone with a solid background in Royal Capital, but she hired me.

I was so happy that I almost cried.

『But why?』

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『Lara-chan is trustworthy because she has a strong heart. She never took the easy way out as the other kids did, and was trying to live her own life.』

A considerable number of girls who, like me, drifted to the royal capital in their clothes, eventually end up living in a shady neighborhood because they could not make a living.

But a former village girl from the countryside with no education is not that valuable as a woman.

They work in the seedy stores and are fine when they are young, but I hear that many of them die before they reach the age of 30 due to illness or stress from their work, which leads them to drink and take drugs.

That is why I did not go to the red-light district easily.

I vowed to live long and be happy for my parents and younger brother and sister, who unfortunately lost their lives at a young age in a magical beast attack.

『I will do my best!』

『Let’s do our best, Lara-chan.』

Thus, I began working at the Yukiko-san store.

I was immediately recognized by customers as the store’s signature girl, which was exactly what Yukiko wanted, but there was one thing that didn’t go so well.

That is…

『It’s strange… actually, I was planning to be a paired signboard girl…』

Yukiko-san is young and has enviably fair skin, but she soon became known as the『landlady』by her customers.

She has the courage to set up her own restaurant as a woman alone, so that’s not a bad thing…

 

Yukiko-san herself seems to be quite dissatisfied, though.

 

「Ngh~hhh, I was dreaming of the old days… but not that long ago.」

In the morning I woke up on a big old bed.

It was a large but very old bed that had been provided in the room we rented, and one of the legs was broken, but Yukiko said,『It’s too expensive to buy a new one!』, so repaired it myself.

Yukiko-san and I live on the second floor of the building where the restaurant『Nihon』is located.

Renting another place would have cost a lot of money, so we lived in the same room and slept in the same bed, at least until the business of the restaurant got on track.

Yukiko-san said,『I’m sorry it’s so small』, but from my point of view, no problem!

Rather, it was a joyous moment for me to be able to sleep with Yukiko-san.

When I looked next to her, I saw that Yukiko was sleeping soundly.

Perhaps because of her image as the landlady who did not step back even from oyabun-san, strange rumors were circulating among some of the regulars,『The landlady might get a hell of a kick』or so, but Yukiko-san was quiet in her sleep, and her sleeping face was as cute as it gets.

I have a new nature that I never noticed before… No, no, no! I want to be a normal bride!

I’m in my wedding dress and Yukiko-san is in her tuxedo next to me… not that!

For now, let’s enjoy this happy moment, shall we?

「Umm? What’s wrong? Lara-chan.」

「No, it’s been a long time since I dreamt about the old days.」

「Lara-chan, are you okay?」

Yukiko-san knows my circumstances, so she was very concerned when I told her I remembered something from the past.

It had only been a few months since I lost my entire family, but strangely enough, I was not so sad that I could not do anything.

I think it was because I was so busy trying to survive until I drifted to the capital, and once I arrived there, I was able to enjoy my time with Yukiko-san.

So I will continue to do my best as the signboard girl of the popular bar『Nihon』.

Father, Mother, Mire, and Bucks that are in heaven.

I am so happy now!

「I lost my family, but I’m okay because Yukiko-san is like a mother to me.」

「―――!!!」

I meant to say this so as not to worry Yukiko-san, but like Bonta-san the other day, I seem to have offended her to the hilt.

 

Breakfast after waking up was very simple today.

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