"So, I wonder if my father is in the village"

I will repeat the same question again just now because the story was not going to go ahead for long.

Then Mother finally took her gaze off Garnett and turned to me.

"Is your father attending a meeting in the next village? I think he'll be back by night...... yes! So why don't you say hello to everyone in the village? You're staying tonight, aren't you?

"Right... you're good with that?

Even if this is the time to leave the village now, the sun will be set by the time we reach the next settlement.

It was definite to stay overnight when I dared to decide to stop by, but just in case I decided to confirm Garnett's consent as well.

Anyway, if you're just staying, even more so if you're walking around the village.

"Hey, wait a minute!

Garnett rushed back into the carriage for some reason, closing all the window curtains.

Repeat what the hell you're doing in there, the carriage weirdly shaking and shaking.

Eventually, Garnett, who reluctantly opened the door, was dressed in a girly outfit purchased in the Wang capital, not in a juvenile outfit until just now.

It was not clothes like the simple dress I wore in Wang Du, but clothes that the Sundial Chamber of Commerce looked over on the condition that it would be easier for me to spend my normal time in this village and Green Hollow.

"If you're going to walk around, I knew this would happen... if you got a strange misunderstanding or something, wouldn't it be troublesome?

Garnett looks at me shaken by embarrassment as she lowers the hair she was wrapping around her back of her head.

Before I could put my reaction to words, my mother shook her hand in front of my chest and raised her voice.

"Well! I knew a pretty girl would look great in whatever she wore!

"Mother, leave it at that. He's not used to being praised."

"Oh...?

"Well, I guess we'll both walk through the village for a while. I'll be home by night. You're not moving or anything."

"Absolutely. I'll be ready for your stay."

Garnett wasn't going to have it if it stayed like this, so I decided to break up with my mother for a second and walk with her.

- Yahari The village landscape hasn't changed much since fifteen years ago.

But it didn't mean that there was no change at all, and some parts were certainly changing.

Buildings that have long been old are older, or vice versa have been repaired and new, or houses have been built in places I remember being vacant.

"This place used to be empty. You played a lot with your friends."

"Heh. I can't imagine you as a kid or anything."

"Everyone used to be a child. What's so strange?"

Walking in chat with Garnett, the children playing on the side of the road stopped their hands and turned their eyes to see suspicious opponents.

I can't help but react. I guess those kids were born after I left the village, and in a village so small, all the residents look familiar.

For the kids today, I'm nothing but a stranger.

It is the people who live here who shift more easily than the buildings.

Fifteen years is never a short time.

Many of the old men I knew would have already had their tenure, and the children born in the course of fifteen years don't even have a chance to know I exist.

Even if not, more people should have moved to another land as a result of the development of the Kingdom's transport network, and vice versa.

My mother noticed me at a glance because I was a flesh and blood parent.

On the other hand, you might want to think this is your first land visit, not your hometown - my nostalgic voice was inadvertently thrown at me shortly after I started thinking about it.

"Oh, hey! You there! Could it be Luke!?

Looking back, the guardian-like man of the children earlier was looking at this one with his eyes open.

"You... are you Joey?"

"I knew it! Hey, I miss you! Has the adventurer quit and come back?

"No, it's just been a long time since I've been here to give you a status update this time. Looks like you took over your father's job."

"Whoa! He's the janitor of the village temple!

Joey was one of my friends who had just spoken to Garnett, playing in a vacant lot in the village.

He was the son of a common temple administrator who gathered the altar of God the villagers believed in, and as he looked at the clerical outfit, he was taking over the job from his parents.

"White Wolf's, you know him?

When Garnett asked him that casually, at the same time as me, Joey turned to you, so Garnett frowned like he had been faced.

He didn't seem to know how Joey had reacted either, but the reason is simple and clear.

"This guy says he's outside the village," Joey in the White Wolf Forest. "You're from the same village, so you have the same name."

"Ah...! Right... you're the only one who likes" The White Wolf's "over there. I was just kidding..."

"Wouldn't everyone look back if we called them that in the village?

That sounds interesting so I wanted to take a look at it once, but I'm pretty sure it's inconvenient the way I've been calling it.

"... Hey Luke. This kid is a little... or" status report "! That's what I'm talking about. Hey!

"Ha. I'm sorry, but that's what I'm talking about."

"Running out, Temehe! Lance and Eric both have possession, so either one of me loses or damn it!

Joey wasn't worthy of being old - he grabbed my shoulder and rocked as much as he wanted, roughing up his voice as if he were a teenager.

Not malicious caged anger, of course.

It's a genuine toss because it was the same, unexpected relationship we once had.

"And Temei... I don't care if you're a country girl around here... where you hooked me up, I'll give you a divine punishment..."

"You look more likely to be divinely punished. I mean, if I were God, I'd do it right now."

Young children are looking up at us strangely for nostalgic exchanges.

"Who is he?"

"Oh, I'm a teacher friend, and it's Luke, the village chief's son. I've been working outside the village for a long time, but I haven't been back home in a long time."

Soon Joey switched her standing and behaving, explaining the situation to the children in the manner she deserved as administrator of the temple.

I knew this guy had grown up in fifteen years.

"And that's Luke's wife over there. You're jealous. Let's hope Luke doesn't get too cool and frustrated on his way home."

"Hey, this is the priest. Don't breathe evil thoughts into a child you want."

- Correction. It may not be very different from the old days.