Chapter 24: Fishing ; Mysterious Self-Proclaimed Daughter (1/2)

”I found nothing. Perhaps it was just my imagination.”

In response to my words, Joijiro says,

”Okay. Let's go back now.”

I do as he says and follow behind him. While I'm doing so, I take glances around to see if the girl will pop up out of nowhere and shout something like ”Father!”.

I shudder just at the thought. Screwed. I'm definitely screwed if that happens.

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Once the time arrived, we woke the girls up.

After taking several minutes to prepare themselves, the girls finally come out of their tent.

”Let's go fish our breakfast!”, Nao immediately exclaims as she drags the fishing equipment we got behind herself.

We all then head towards a nearby stream.

Focusing my perception and vision, I perceive trouts swimming peacefully in the stream.

Once we've all readied our fishing equipment, we begin fishing. For this occasion, Misa has taken control of Yusa's body once again.

Several minutes later, Nao is the first one to catch something, and the moment she does so, she gleefully shouts,

”A rainbow trout! I fished a rainbow trout!”

Misa is vexed by this for some reason and says,

”Just wait, I will fish a bigger trout!”

Joijiro seems to enjoy the competition, as he fixes his glasses with the tip of his middle finger and states,

”I won't lose either.”

Ok, this somehow became a competition... Huh? What is that?

I sense the presence of someone in the bushes nearby. Why are they there? It doesn't matter. As long as they don't do anything suspicious, I don't care.

After a while, Joijiro and Misa both managed to get a trout while Nao got another one. As for me, I got nothing...

No way in hell I am going to let it end like this. I place my fishing rod to the side, attracting Joijiro's attention as he says,

”Giving up?”

I snicker at his comment and reply,

”Watch.”

As soon as I say so, I grab a stick nearby, take a throwing posture, and focus my eyesight on the trouts in the stream.

They all react differently to my actions. Misa watches me, amused by my actions, Nao furrows her brows, while Joijiro straight up begins laughing. Heh.

Recalling the rainbow trout Nao fished earlier, I find several of them.

Waiting for the right moment, I throw the stick with an incredible amount of force. Everyone is visibly stunned by the speed of the stick.

Laughing boisterously, I roll up my uniform and sleeves, then jump into the stream. Grabbing the stick, I slowly raise it for everyone to see.

At the end of the stick, there are two rainbow trouts. Hehe. These enhanced senses are sure handy.

”No way.”, Joijiro says in a defeated tone.

”Bullshit luck.”, Misa asserts.

Nao makes no remark but only grins. Impressed? Of course you would be.

Victoriously getting out of the stream, I suggest,

”How about we start cooking our game now?”

They all agree, and so we move to the river bank and set up a campfire. We begin preparing the trout and once it's ready, we dig in.

”Rainbow trouts are tasty. Here, Yusarin, have some.”, offers Joijiro.

”I'm not Yusarin!”, came a sharp retort.

”I'll let her have this one.”, she mumbles before relinquishing control of the body to Yusa.

As soon as she is back ”awake”, Yusa looks around like a curious chick, while Joijiro extends his arm offering the trout to her.