Levelmaker

"I'm home."

On the way back, my busy father went to work, so the two of us came home.

I'm a little glad my dad looked a little lonely when we broke up.

"Well, I'll make lunch"

That's what my mother says. She stands in the kitchen.

"You... the... anatomy? She could have done it that way, couldn't she?

"Oh, wow."

"What kid?

My mother turned this one around just for a moment while I was warming the frying pan.

The face seems oddly full of expectations.

"Ah... no, what is it? Uh..."

"Cute?"

"Oh, well. Pretty much. Kind of like a dog."

"Heh."

I can only see behind you from here, but I guess you're nibbling.

"Either way, I'll bring you over one of these days"

"As I look forward to that...... how did you end up getting to know each other? Ye, your explanation wasn't enough."

"Oh."

Well, Ye deliberately blurred...

You can't say you're an ex-slave, can you?

"You don't want to talk about it?

"Hmm... well, a lot. I'll see."

"But from what I've heard from Ye, because the world seems to be in all kinds of danger with that anasm... Daimyo, don't you miss the kid you helped? Hit it?"

………

... It's a hit.

"Between now and now, you're a star. Aren't you annoying her all you want because you owe her? Are you okay?"

"Sa... come on. I don't know what he thinks... but he hasn't bothered... much."

Oh, I shouldn't be bothering you or anything.

... You're gonna be okay, right?

"Hmm, that would be nice"

Mother turned to this one chillily and looked at the paper she had on her desk.

"Well, let's not do that."

"Is that the guy who says, oh, you're an international student or something?

"Yeah."

I didn't know there was such a thing.

The system of taking over an orphan foreigner's smart, wanting to come to Japan for a certain period of time.

"Don't you have to stop? You're the one who's planning on coming to our school, aren't you?

"Mm-hmm, but hey... that girl, she's the same age. They're coming from Norway."

Of, Norway?

You're coming from an unexpected place again.

And you mean a girl?

"Wouldn't it be otherwise good? I don't care."

"Even if you don't care, your girlfriend named Lil might care."

"Ah."

Indeed.

If I told Lil that I was going to let the girl live, I would likely give her ears up, affirming with my mouth but snapping 'wahoo...' or something.

But.

"What's gonna happen to that kid? You're gonna get in trouble, aren't you? I don't know what else to do."

"Well, I thought you'd say that. Your father came to the same conclusion."

"Right."

Well, that's what my father would say.

"By the way, don't you know that kid's name or something? I'm a sophomore in high school... you even know I'm a woman from Norway, don't you? Any other information?

"Ah, so far, I don't know anything else. 'Cause we're still in the recruitment phase."

That's a surprise, too.

I don't think it's a good idea to publish a photo of my face anymore.

"Well, whatever it is, Sho can't do it if he gets his hands on her."

"I'm not giving you a hand."

"Ho, what do you say? Like you, I might still have been convincing if I looked like you, but you see, I just feel like 'Han'."

... I guess I'm a man when I'm a man.

My face is, yeah.

"... well, more than that. When are we going to the other world next?

Is Mother ready for dinner yet or is she serving it on a large plate?

"Uh, tomorrow. But I think Ip explained, because I'm going in a flash and I'm coming back in a flash. From outside of us."

"Does that mean you can enjoy life twice?

Oh, well, maybe if you think about it that way.

Our lives have doubled in time by simply thinking, haven't they?

... No, if there's that Amrita or anything like that, is it immortality, youth or anything?

... No, it's not immortal.

"I don't know if it will."

"Ho ho, well, I still don't believe it all, but I think you should do what you want, Mother. I have to make her sad."

With that said, my mother put the finished lunch in front of me.

... my favorite kimchi fried rice.

"Well, whatever. I've told you so many times, it's really good to have you back."

"Oh, don't worry about it anymore."

I snap kimchi fried rice with a spoon and take a bite.

Different from true cooked rice again, rice made by parents.

Ume.