Chapter 326: Morning and Bonding (1/2)

“Good grief, it is because you said something like let me meet Boss that things ended up like this.”

“…”

“Look, here. Who would see this and think it is an orphanage?”

“…..”

“And can you guys say ‘this is the Weitz Orphanage’?”

“…..”

“The surroundings have cleanly changed too. Haaaah…”

A long sigh from Lime Latte.

Rooftop of the Weitz Orphanage.

The sky still isn’t bright, but it will soon be.

It is that hour of the day where there’s still slight darkness of the night.

“…What? Don’t you like that the orphanage is pretty now?”

A staff member of the orphanage and the childhood friend of Lime pouts.

“With the Boss moving the Kuzunoha Company in such a flashy manner, you are already residents of hell, you know?” (Lime)

“I understand that this can’t be considered a small remodeling… Are they going to be asking for money later?” (Seina)

“As if we would do such a trifle thing.” (Lime)

“Then what’s this ‘hell’ you are talking about?” (Seina)

“Big Sis Tomoe has told you a variety of things, right? The demands of that woman are rough, you know.” (Lime)

“A ‘yoseba’, was it? It is something about having children get jobs and have them study.” (Seina)

“That’s right. You won’t be able to just simply look after the children as you have until now.” (Lime)

“…? Teachers will be brought from outside by the Kuzunoha Company, right? Including you.” (Seina)

“You are one happy-go-lucky person… There’s no way a teacher can look after their studies and their training, right? You guys will be studying like crazy too from now on. You probably don’t understand the implications of that yet though, Seina.” (Lime)

“What’s with that.” (Seina)

‘Isn’t the fact that we can learn stuff a really good thing?’, is what Seina’s face was saying.

“All the people of the Weitz Orphanage have been pushed from a damn crazy high cliff.” (Lime)

A cliff called the Kuzunoha Company.

Lime Latte is a person that experienced this from a pretty early stage as a hyuman.

He was a person ranked at the top of the tops. His resilience is on another level.

There’s also Toa and her group who are on the tops of Tsige, but even with Lime getting the blood of a dragon and not being hyuman anymore, he was still falling.

The difference between falling and climbing was truly clear.

“Don’t say silly stuff. I would say the orphanage as a whole is climbing up from the very bottom. It has been like that since the time we began receiving the support of your place.” (Seina)

“Listen here, Seina.” (Lime)

“?”

“Climbing is something that you can stop by yourself. But there’s normally no way for the person themself to stop from falling.” (Lime)

That’s right, the difference is whether you can stop by your own will or not.

The end of a fall is crashing.

The Weitz Orphanage can do their best to make it a hard landing or a soft landing, but the choice to turn back doesn’t exist.

“…”

“There’s already no choice but to go as far as it will be taking you. You might be learning a spell or two after three months.” (Lime)

“Stop that. There’s no way that’s true. You are right that Tomoe is a strict person, but isn’t Raidou a kind person?” (Seina)

Seina looks at the big tree.

The tree that suddenly grew at the rooftop of the orphanage.

The children will most definitely grow noisy at this surprise once morning comes.

She doesn’t acknowledge that action of Raidou. Rather than calling it kind, it is more soft. She didn’t even try to hide that dissatisfaction in her face.

“…It is true that he is kind, I can testify to that. But…he is far more dangerous of a person than you can ever imagine.” (Lime)

Lime looks at the tree that Seina was looking at, and gets close to it.

He lightly kicks the trunk, but the big tree doesn’t budge at all.

By the way, Seina has already punched and kicked it several times.

“What part of not killing Rio is scary?” (Seina)

“It is because he doesn’t allow him death that makes him scary.” (Lime)

“?”

“You know, even when he has become a tree, he is still conscious, you know?” (Lime)

“?!”

“Rio can tell that you are punching and kicking him.” (Lime)

“Being turned into a tree while still retaining your self might be a bit creepy.” (Seina)

“Fuh!” (Lime)

“! Why are you laughing?!” (Seina)

“Because it is deviated. Rio is an elf. His way of viewing time is different from us.” (Lime)

“…Yeah.” (Seina)

She has been threatened plenty of times.

When she becomes a parent, when she becomes a grandma.

It is true that the elves and hyumans have completely different views of time.

“That’s why, even if he may be slightly inconvenienced in movement, for Rio, just becoming a tree isn’t that much of a pain.” (Lime)

“…I see.” (Seina)

“Aah, you have heard about it, right? There’s apparently something like a secret elf ceremony where you become a tree out of your own will, and pass the rest of your life as a member of the forest.” (Lime)

The original of that secret ceremony and the one in the highest of spots is the Tree Punishment.