Chapter 5 "The daily life of Imuium - part 1"
On Earth - a small incident was about to take place in the early morning at the Masaki family home. As usual,Tenchi Masaki went out to work in the fields before breakfast.
He looked around some of the fields and checked on their the state of cultivation.
And then he screamed when he found that the crops he had picked that morning to bring home for later where suddenly missing.
He heard a strange young boys voice giggle, but there was no one in Tenchi's House or Masaki village to whom that voice belonged.
Of course there was a possibility that a child's had wandered in from the mountains into his home but the problem was where he was hearing the voice coming from.
(He's in the shrine's office ... .... That's my grandpa's room!)
With his powers it was an easy thing for Tenchi to sense at this time, he could even detect the source of the laughter to the exact point it came from, not just the general direction.
That is why he was confused by the fact.
However, he soon also heard screams, so he rushed to find out what was going on, he jumped in a straight like 500 meters long all the way from the field to the the company office.
"Grandpa, I'm coming in!"
Tenchi opened the sliding doors and entered the room where there was a boy who was about ten years old. When tenchi saw the strange boy wearing his grandfather's signature white yukata, he immediately realized it was his grandfather and immediately figured out who had done this to him. "... .... Washu-San?"
Actually, there was a similar incident before. Washu, who wanted to play parent and child with Ryoko, changed Ryoko into a child just like she did this time to Yosho. Of course, the body of the child wasn't the real body, their body was stored somewhere else. However, their consciousness was separated from the main body and linked to the body of the child.
"Oh my! Yosho-kun, You're as Terrible as always ~~~ ♡" There was a strange little girl who seemed to be a little older than the boy, she was clinging to the boy as they walked passed behind Tenchi and out the door as Techi stood stupefied. But who was the girl? He found out from the words that the boy said soon after. "Airi !?"
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"... .... so Airi's here so she wont intrude on Seina's vacation?" Tenchi returned to the Masaki family home with the Yosho boy and the Airi girl as Washu explained the situation to him. He had been listening to the two explain how Washu was the cause of this farce. The other people who were already inside the home surrounded the two in interest, except Noike who was making breakfast.
"Is that your older brother miss? He's cute." Sasami said
"Miya!" Ryo-ohki said "Ara ara ara ~ ~" Mihoshi who was half-asleep grabbed the young Yosho much to his surprise and nuzzled him. The Yosho boy gave a big sigh. But Sasami's words and Ryo-Ohki's attention and Mihoshi's half-asleep cuddle attack on Yosho didn't upset Airi, on the contrary it made her feelings more intense.
"Uhuhuhu, Yosho is so cute like this ♡ But Ms. Washu... I was fine as an adult, Some people really ..." "Why would I let something that unethical happen in front of Tenchi? Besides, isn't this almost the same as you were when you met." "Actually we were a bit more grown up than this, but I have fantasized about doing it with a young Yosho-kun again .... so well.... I guess it's alright, this feels pretty nostalgic and this is what I miss, but thanks for making us still old enough to be able to do it, uhuhuu "
"Airi, please don't make such crude a statement in front a little girl."
Ayeka covered Sasami's ears and Sasami covered Ryo-Ohki's as she held her.
"Oh, it's okay! There not old enough to understand us yet anyways ... Uhhhhhhhh! Wait a minute, Hey yosho if you understand, you should come with me back to your office!" young Airi said to Yosho. Ayeka gave up saying anything more.
"......Well I heard the first encounter between the two of the was at such an age, but I was not taught much about it though and I haven't seen any pictures or images." "Well, it caused a variety of problems, and for Ayeka, it must be a source of a lot of complicated feelings," Ayeka and Yosho were fiancees as was decided by their parents, and her feelings towards Airi were full of complicated emotions because Airi gave birth to Minaho only few years after she met Yosho. "I will not deny it, but I'm already over it." Ayeka answered with a cool smile. "Oh really, Hey what's that I smell?" Airi looked in Tenchi's direction quickly.
The young Airi girl had said that in an unnecessarily goading manner but with exquisite timing, Noike stuck her face out of the kitchen to say "Yes, everyone, breakfast is ready, please go to the dinner table!" And with that Tenchi and Washu even began to hop to their daily breakfast roles like it was a conditioned reflex.
"Oh my you sure took a long time to make breakfast today, Didn't you Ms. Noike?" The Young Airi girl glared at Noike with an expression like the one you would give your mean mother - in-law. "Please no talking till breakfast is done." Noike quickly got a large fried egg and shoved in on a fork into airi's mouth to shut her up. As Noike's expected, Airi, shut up and began chewing her eggs. (... ... That's one way to do it) Yosho was impressed with Noike 's ability to respond, while being amazed by the simplicity of Airi, he breathed a sigh.
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It was just before lunch had beem served that Seina woke up. "... .... mmmm, curry." The kitchen and cafeteria were at a distance from the central tree they laid on a foundation made from a flattened stone megalith about 2 meters away from the sea's surface, the inside the canteen reminded seina of Kai's house with its simple wooden roof. In the kitchen the smell of well made curry was drifting from windows and chimneys opened to exhaust the fumes and bring in the daylight. "Seina-onichan, how do you feel?" Neeju who was reading a book, put the book by her side when she noticed he had come in. "I'm good ... ... everything seems to be ok today. Thank you" Seina had gotten up slowly but he wasn't still tired. The smell of curry made his stomach rumble.
"Miah!" Fuku flew from the kitchen to Seina.
"Haha, you smell good like curry" Fuku's hair smelled of curry
"Mia! Miah?"
"Oh, it's all right now, Fuku. Neeju-chan, shall we go eat?"
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"Even so, it's not surprising that this is Seto-san's curry, Jurai's food is rather fancy, it's close to Japanese food." After the lunch, the female teams except Seina remained and relaxed while drinking cold tea in the dining room.
"Sasami taught me, I used a recipe from Melmas's."
"oh I see" There was no food like curry on Jurai. Perhaps she had learned it from Neiju.
"I knew Seto-sama's cooking was good, but I've heard Mikami has never even seen a kitchen ... ...." "Does that upset you?" "Well, to be honest ... Mikami, I just wanted to know, How does it compare to the food of Seniwa? "
"Oh... well if anything, Jurai's food is way better."
"Really!?" Everyone looked at Mikami with a sense of surprise.
Jurai and the Kuramitsu's way of making their dishes and spicing their foods were completely opposite. "I stayed at the Academy for a long time and I also had a relationship with Seto, and your right when I was in Seniwa, I didn't cook much, so back then I remember Jurai's cuisine taking a while to get used to. "
"Her sweets are also excellent ... ... I thought they were amazing when Noike-sama brought me some of them on Earth ..."
"Thank you, it was fun to make ... ... By the way, what on Earth is Seina doing?" their conversation ceased, they looked and saw Seina was outside hitting the seaweed with a flat stick.
The dry black epidermis of the seaweed was cracked by striking it with a stick and out spilled what looked like white cotton.
"Is that ... ... maybe"
"Oh Ringo-chan, do you know something?"
"I think that it is sea silk which is usually used to make cushioning and insulation materials.I've only ever seen big clumps of it so I don't know 100 percent ... ... but I'm pretty sure. "
"Cushioning material ... ... I have a bad feeling" The tree house had everything they needed. There was no need to go harvest sea silk. Seto walked towards Seina to check on the situation.
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"If you're coming to ask me what I'm doing then I'm getting supplies to I can go camping." Seina said to Seto
"Camping!?"
"I know I said camping, but actually I just plan to go sleep in that cave made of rock over there. I checked it out a little while ago, and the inside was quite cool and comfortable."
"...... Well ok, but ... ...."
"The rocks around are kind of porus, so it's nice and cold with moderate moisture, it seems like someone's lived there already, there's shelves and a place for water storage and a simple toilet. "
"But, Seina ... ...."
"It's fun to build a secret base"
"... .... Sure,iIguess that's could be fun ...... Ha ha ha" Seto gave up trying to persuade Seina when she saw him gladly speak with the sparkling eyes of a little child. Kiriko who was watching them also seemed frustrated and she had a complicated expression on her face.
"Is this also part part of Seina's ability to avoid crisis?" Neiju said in a low voice so Seto wouldn't hear, Kiriko nodded.
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"Anyway, I know quite a lot about sea silk I studied it in various ways before coming to Imium ... ... It's usually found offshore. This floating part seems to be about 2 meters in size at the most, it's interesting that there are some seeds even in a shallow place like this, I think we should try using it. " Seina said, the sea silk resembled a sponge whose outer crust was scratched till the inside puffed out, he got the hammer that he had borrowed from the management satellite and started hammering it until it was hammered into a knitted bag shape.
"Wow ... I'm surprised, It feels more comfortable than I expected" Seto and the other people who were interested tried feeling it after another praised it's surprising comfort. "Mia! Mia!" Fuku meowed While hitting the mass of silk as her bell rang. "Do you want me to make a bed for you out of it Fuku?" "Miah!" "Okay then!"
It's would be easy Since the large sea silk mass was about 30 centimeters in diameter, if it was cut into a cushion shape a bed for Fuku would be as good as finished. Seina made a pillow in the same way and made some bedding. Seina took it and went off to the cave with Fuku. "huh, I guess the competition to decide which one of us gets to sleep with seina at night has become meaningless." Mikami said with a bitter smile. "Well ... yes but, in a way it's convenient" "hmm I don't quite get it." "Trouble is something he must just enjoy" Seto responded.
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"Airi, will you come with me for a walk?" After finishing breakfast, Yosho talked to Airi who was lying down on the sofa and taking a break.
"What are you going on about Yosho?"
"I don't want to lose my dignity as an older person any more." yosho could bear the treatment he was getting from Sasami, Ryo - Ohki, Mihoshi, but the looks that Tenchi and Ayeka gave him were too much. Of course Noike's was just doing her best to ignore the situation and trying to hard to behave naturally. If he was with Airi alone, it would be far better for them to play.
Fortunately, since both of them seemed to be children, he thought that it might be easier for them to go running off on their own. "Besides, we can go do things that in our relationship we couldn't do publicly do in the past, so how about it, let's get out of here for a bit just the two of us?" "Alright. Let's go then, yosho-kun!" Airi lept up and out of the house as she took Yosho by the hand and dragged him outside.
"Miya!"
"Hey don't follow them!" Washu huged Ryo-Ohki who tried to chase the two. Noike held Mihoshi by the neck. "Ryoko, you leave them alone as well"
"Remember when I said that you and my brother had the same eyes. On the day I told you that, it was the same day as when your grandfather left jurai on his suicide mission."
"The summer sunshine is making mirages on the ground ... isn't it pretty?" Tenchi responded to Ayeka statement and looked back at the two with gentle eyes.
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Tenchi opened the sliding doors and entered the room where there was a boy who was about ten years old. When tenchi saw the strange boy wearing his grandfather's signature white yukata, he immediately realized it was his grandfather and immediately figured out who had done this to him. "... .... Washu-San?"
Actually, there was a similar incident before. Washu, who wanted to play parent and child with Ryoko, changed Ryoko into a child just like she did this time to Yosho. Of course, the body of the child wasn't the real body, their body was stored somewhere else. However, their consciousness was separated from the main body and linked to the body of the child.
"Oh my! Yosho-kun, You're as Terrible as always ~~~ ♡" There was a strange little girl who seemed to be a little older than the boy, she was clinging to the boy as they walked passed behind Tenchi and out the door as Techi stood stupefied. But who was the girl? He found out from the words that the boy said soon after. "Airi !?"
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"... .... so Airi's here so she wont intrude on Seina's vacation?" Tenchi returned to the Masaki family home with the Yosho boy and the Airi girl as Washu explained the situation to him. He had been listening to the two explain how Washu was the cause of this farce. The other people who were already inside the home surrounded the two in interest, except Noike who was making breakfast.
"Is that your older brother miss? He's cute." Sasami said
"Miya!" Ryo-ohki said "Ara ara ara ~ ~" Mihoshi who was half-asleep grabbed the young Yosho much to his surprise and nuzzled him. The Yosho boy gave a big sigh. But Sasami's words and Ryo-Ohki's attention and Mihoshi's half-asleep cuddle attack on Yosho didn't upset Airi, on the contrary it made her feelings more intense.
"Uhuhuhu, Yosho is so cute like this ♡ But Ms. Washu... I was fine as an adult, Some people really ..." "Why would I let something that unethical happen in front of Tenchi? Besides, isn't this almost the same as you were when you met." "Actually we were a bit more grown up than this, but I have fantasized about doing it with a young Yosho-kun again .... so well.... I guess it's alright, this feels pretty nostalgic and this is what I miss, but thanks for making us still old enough to be able to do it, uhuhuu "
"Airi, please don't make such crude a statement in front a little girl."
Ayeka covered Sasami's ears and Sasami covered Ryo-Ohki's as she held her.
"Oh, it's okay! There not old enough to understand us yet anyways ... Uhhhhhhhh! Wait a minute, Hey yosho if you understand, you should come with me back to your office!" young Airi said to Yosho. Ayeka gave up saying anything more.
"......Well I heard the first encounter between the two of the was at such an age, but I was not taught much about it though and I haven't seen any pictures or images." "Well, it caused a variety of problems, and for Ayeka, it must be a source of a lot of complicated feelings," Ayeka and Yosho were fiancees as was decided by their parents, and her feelings towards Airi were full of complicated emotions because Airi gave birth to Minaho only few years after she met Yosho. "I will not deny it, but I'm already over it." Ayeka answered with a cool smile. "Oh really, Hey what's that I smell?" Airi looked in Tenchi's direction quickly.
The young Airi girl had said that in an unnecessarily goading manner but with exquisite timing, Noike stuck her face out of the kitchen to say "Yes, everyone, breakfast is ready, please go to the dinner table!" And with that Tenchi and Washu even began to hop to their daily breakfast roles like it was a conditioned reflex.
"Oh my you sure took a long time to make breakfast today, Didn't you Ms. Noike?" The Young Airi girl glared at Noike with an expression like the one you would give your mean mother - in-law. "Please no talking till breakfast is done." Noike quickly got a large fried egg and shoved in on a fork into airi's mouth to shut her up. As Noike's expected, Airi, shut up and began chewing her eggs. (... ... That's one way to do it) Yosho was impressed with Noike 's ability to respond, while being amazed by the simplicity of Airi, he breathed a sigh.
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It was just before lunch had beem served that Seina woke up. "... .... mmmm, curry." The kitchen and cafeteria were at a distance from the central tree they laid on a foundation made from a flattened stone megalith about 2 meters away from the sea's surface, the inside the canteen reminded seina of Kai's house with its simple wooden roof. In the kitchen the smell of well made curry was drifting from windows and chimneys opened to exhaust the fumes and bring in the daylight. "Seina-onichan, how do you feel?" Neeju who was reading a book, put the book by her side when she noticed he had come in. "I'm good ... ... everything seems to be ok today. Thank you" Seina had gotten up slowly but he wasn't still tired. The smell of curry made his stomach rumble.
"Miah!" Fuku flew from the kitchen to Seina.
"Haha, you smell good like curry" Fuku's hair smelled of curry
"Mia! Miah?"
"Oh, it's all right now, Fuku. Neeju-chan, shall we go eat?"
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"Even so, it's not surprising that this is Seto-san's curry, Jurai's food is rather fancy, it's close to Japanese food." After the lunch, the female teams except Seina remained and relaxed while drinking cold tea in the dining room.
"Sasami taught me, I used a recipe from Melmas's."
"oh I see" There was no food like curry on Jurai. Perhaps she had learned it from Neiju.
"I knew Seto-sama's cooking was good, but I've heard Mikami has never even seen a kitchen ... ...." "Does that upset you?" "Well, to be honest ... Mikami, I just wanted to know, How does it compare to the food of Seniwa? "
"Oh... well if anything, Jurai's food is way better."
"Really!?" Everyone looked at Mikami with a sense of surprise.
Jurai and the Kuramitsu's way of making their dishes and spicing their foods were completely opposite. "I stayed at the Academy for a long time and I also had a relationship with Seto, and your right when I was in Seniwa, I didn't cook much, so back then I remember Jurai's cuisine taking a while to get used to. "
"Her sweets are also excellent ... ... I thought they were amazing when Noike-sama brought me some of them on Earth ..."
"Thank you, it was fun to make ... ... By the way, what on Earth is Seina doing?" their conversation ceased, they looked and saw Seina was outside hitting the seaweed with a flat stick.
The dry black epidermis of the seaweed was cracked by striking it with a stick and out spilled what looked like white cotton.
"Is that ... ... maybe"
"Oh Ringo-chan, do you know something?"
"I think that it is sea silk which is usually used to make cushioning and insulation materials.I've only ever seen big clumps of it so I don't know 100 percent ... ... but I'm pretty sure. "
"Cushioning material ... ... I have a bad feeling" The tree house had everything they needed. There was no need to go harvest sea silk. Seto walked towards Seina to check on the situation.
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"If you're coming to ask me what I'm doing then I'm getting supplies to I can go camping." Seina said to Seto
"Camping!?"
"I know I said camping, but actually I just plan to go sleep in that cave made of rock over there. I checked it out a little while ago, and the inside was quite cool and comfortable."
"...... Well ok, but ... ...."
"The rocks around are kind of porus, so it's nice and cold with moderate moisture, it seems like someone's lived there already, there's shelves and a place for water storage and a simple toilet. "
"But, Seina ... ...."
"It's fun to build a secret base"
"... .... Sure,iIguess that's could be fun ...... Ha ha ha" Seto gave up trying to persuade Seina when she saw him gladly speak with the sparkling eyes of a little child. Kiriko who was watching them also seemed frustrated and she had a complicated expression on her face.
"Is this also part part of Seina's ability to avoid crisis?" Neiju said in a low voice so Seto wouldn't hear, Kiriko nodded.
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"Anyway, I know quite a lot about sea silk I studied it in various ways before coming to Imium ... ... It's usually found offshore. This floating part seems to be about 2 meters in size at the most, it's interesting that there are some seeds even in a shallow place like this, I think we should try using it. " Seina said, the sea silk resembled a sponge whose outer crust was scratched till the inside puffed out, he got the hammer that he had borrowed from the management satellite and started hammering it until it was hammered into a knitted bag shape.
"Wow ... I'm surprised, It feels more comfortable than I expected" Seto and the other people who were interested tried feeling it after another praised it's surprising comfort. "Mia! Mia!" Fuku meowed While hitting the mass of silk as her bell rang. "Do you want me to make a bed for you out of it Fuku?" "Miah!" "Okay then!"
It's would be easy Since the large sea silk mass was about 30 centimeters in diameter, if it was cut into a cushion shape a bed for Fuku would be as good as finished. Seina made a pillow in the same way and made some bedding. Seina took it and went off to the cave with Fuku. "huh, I guess the competition to decide which one of us gets to sleep with seina at night has become meaningless." Mikami said with a bitter smile. "Well ... yes but, in a way it's convenient" "hmm I don't quite get it." "Trouble is something he must just enjoy" Seto responded.
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"Airi, will you come with me for a walk?" After finishing breakfast, Yosho talked to Airi who was lying down on the sofa and taking a break.
"What are you going on about Yosho?"
"I don't want to lose my dignity as an older person any more." yosho could bear the treatment he was getting from Sasami, Ryo - Ohki, Mihoshi, but the looks that Tenchi and Ayeka gave him were too much. Of course Noike's was just doing her best to ignore the situation and trying to hard to behave naturally. If he was with Airi alone, it would be far better for them to play.
Fortunately, since both of them seemed to be children, he thought that it might be easier for them to go running off on their own. "Besides, we can go do things that in our relationship we couldn't do publicly do in the past, so how about it, let's get out of here for a bit just the two of us?" "Alright. Let's go then, yosho-kun!" Airi lept up and out of the house as she took Yosho by the hand and dragged him outside.
"Miya!"
"Hey don't follow them!" Washu huged Ryo-Ohki who tried to chase the two. Noike held Mihoshi by the neck. "Ryoko, you leave them alone as well"
"Remember when I said that you and my brother had the same eyes. On the day I told you that, it was the same day as when your grandfather left jurai on his suicide mission."
"The summer sunshine is making mirages on the ground ... isn't it pretty?" Tenchi responded to Ayeka statement and looked back at the two with gentle eyes.
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End of chapter