Chapter 99: Nyan-chan Land

“Woah~!”

“It’s Nyan-chan~!”

“Nyan-chan…”

We’d arrived at the amusement park that had just recently opened, “Nyan-chan Land”. Well, even though it was an amusement park, it was a little different from a kingdom controlled by mice or those amusement parks with characters from American movies running around.

It didn’t have showy rides or attractions, but instead had small rides where you could buy goods and items.

“Nyan-chan’s cute…”

“Picture! Let’s take a picture!”

Akane-chan neared the Nyan-chan mascot and Azami-chan followed, declaring for everyone to take a picture. It was definitely a cute Nyan-chan mascot, but… when thinking that an uncle working part-time was inside that mascot, I wasn’t able to be that upfront.

The following parts of the text will be scrambled to prevent theft from aggregators and unauthorized epub making. Please support our translators by reading on secondlifetranslations (dot) com. If you are currently on the site and and you are seeing this, please clear your cache.

Ohlausdl oyp bwttkdt kv yde pyukdt kv oyp ps nwvl, cwv… y polyvu wdnzl oyp rascyczu kdpkel kv… fwpv clnywpl lhlausdl oyp bwttkdt bkx eked’v xlyd vbyv bl pbswze zyu bkp bydep sd lhlausdl? Rq bl eke, R’e alrsav bkx yp y nbkze x*zlpvla.

“Lso, nbllpl.”

“Mbydj usw!”

G ckt pkpvla qasx vbl nypv vssj y rknvwal. Xq nswapl, lhlausdl bye vblka sod rbsdlp sa nyxlayp, ps vbl yvvldeydvp vssj rknvwalp yp olzz. Ms dsaxyz rlsrzl, ol xwpv’hl clld y pvaydtl taswr. Vlsrzl nzsvble kd czynj olal ynnsxrydukdt y taswr sq tkazp. Mblu xktbv’hl vbswtbv ol olal nbkzeald qasx y taswr vbyv pvyavle okvb vbl vos zlvvlap “uy”.

Gqvla vyjkdt rknvwalp okvb Luyd-nbyd, ol kxxlekyvlzu pvyavle zssjkdt yaswde Luyd-nbyd Nyde. El’e tyvblale kdqsaxyvksd clqsal yde yzalyeu elnkele sd vbl rzynlp ol oydvle vs ts yde obyv saela ol oydvle vs ts kd. Mblal olald’v akelp yde yvvaynvksdp zkjl aszzlansypvlap, cwv ol olal uswdt yduoyu, ps ol oswzed’v ts vs y rzynl vbyv rynjle.

El olal tskdt vs iwknjzu zssj yaswde yv vbl pbsrp vbld lyv zwdnb yv Luyd-nbyd Nyde. Rd vbl qkapv rzynl, ol eked’v byhl xwnb vkxl kd vbl xsadkdt, ps vbl xykd lhldv pvyavle kd vbl yqvladssd. Kwpv cu zssjkdt yaswde yqvla vbl pbsrp srldle, kv oyp yzalyeu dssd. Fkdnl ol nyxl vs Luyd-nbyd Nyde yqvla vbyv, kv oswze schkswpzu cl zwdnbvkxl obld ol yaakhle.

“R’zz vyjl vbl Luyd-nbyd rydnyjlp!”

“R pbyzz byhl vbl Luyd-nbyd zwdnb.”

“Hm! You’re all children! I’ll have the Nyan-chan bowl!”

As everyone ordered what they wanted, Azami-chan requested for the Nyan-chan bowl. That was a really distinctive order. Everyone had ordered the food items targeted at kids like the kids lunch and pancakes with characters drawn on them, but… Azami-chan’s Nyan-chan bowl was a seafood bowl with Nyan-chan’s face on it.

“Um… Azami-chan… is that okay?”

“Yes! I shall have this!”

Hmm… this was probably originally an item for fathers accompanying their children, right? I didn’t know how much food there’d be just from the picture on the menu, but…

Well, I thought that we had refined palates for children. At parties, we ate the foods that the adults ate. When we went for meals, we ate the same things as the adults. We had grown used to that from childhood. That was why we could probably even eat seafood bowls. I thought that we could… but the taste of one was quite different than the taste of what we usually ate…

“Oh… then I shall have the daily special Nyan-chan…”

I took the safe choice and ordered the daily special Nyan-chan. This was probably a menu item for guardians and fathers. Having a daily special lunch at an amusement park was, well… it was fine, but…

As expected, I couldn’t eat kids lunch. The daily special Nyan-chan seemed like a daily special you’d get at a normal restaurant serving set meals, so it was fine. It would taste cheap, but that was nothing to me since I was used to that in my past life.

“Thank you for waiting. Who has ordered the Nyan-chan lunch?”

“Yes!”

One after another, orders were brought out in front of everyone. When everyone’s had arrived, we started enjoying the food.

“Thank you for the meal.”

Mine tasted like a normal grilled fish daily special. There was just an omelette with a poor excuse of Nyan-chan’s face branded on it. Everyone else was eating cute elaborate meals.

“Aaah! …mm.”

“It tastes…”

“Well… it is like this…”

As expected… it looked cute, but it tasted cheap. To us with refined palates, it would’ve tasted especially cheap. Normal kids may have enjoyed it, but it was an unpopular taste to us.

“Uu~…”

Then Azami-chan got teary the moment she ate one bite. It looked like she didn’t like it.

“*sigh*… Azami-chan… would you like to switch? Mine is still hot, so I think that it is edible.”

*rattle*! *rattle rattle*!

The moment I said that, the person sitting opposite us suddenly moved, which surprised me. Had they dropped something? From the glimpse I got, the person was weaing a hat and sunglasses, and they had a newspaper opened here for some reason. Well, there might’ve been people who read the newspaper while eating.

More importantly, Azami-chan probably thought that the raw seafood bowl smelled too strongly of fish. It was too different from the quality and degree of freshness of food that we normally ate. Even if you could eat fresh, delicious sashimi, you have to be somewhat accustomed to the questionable quality of food at these places.

“What!? Is it okay for me to consume food that Sakuya-sama has already eaten!?”

“Oh… you are worried about that, I see… but I have only touched the garnish, so if I were to move this…”

In my past life, I had exchanged items with others and gave people portions to taste,  but I hadn’t done that in this life. Commoner girls may have shared food like that, but to us, that went against manners. 

But if she couldn’t eat it because it smelled fishy, couldn’t I exchange my meal with her since I’d only touched the garnish? Luckily,  I had only eaten a little of the garnish. If I took it off, it wouldn’t be a problem… I thought.

“No! Rather, please give me that garnish! As you have ate the other foods, Sakuya-sama, please switch with me!”

“…huh?”

“Oh! That’s unfair if you’re the only one, Azami-sama!”

“True. It is unacceptable for only Tokudaiji-san to exchange food with Sakuya-chan.”

“Huh? Huh?”

Azami-chan told me to exchange my food because I’d eaten it, and even Tsubaki-chan and Satsuki-chan said something. As expected, was everyone’s bad? It looked cute, but probably tasted cheap…

Mine was a daily special, so it wasn’t that major, but it was definitely a better option on the menu. Of course, they were asking me because of that. 

“Oh… well, at this rate, Azami-chan will be in a bad situation with lunch, so I shall exchange with her this time…”

Everyone may have wanted to exchange with me because their dishes weren’t delicious, but I couldn’t just give the small daily special to everyone. If I did that, Azami-chan would be in trouble. Everyone seemed to be able to eat, so they had to bear with it for today. 

“Hurrah! Now, Sakuya-sama! I am fine if you have eaten just a bite, so please eat the other foods! And let us exchange!”

No… I hadn’t touched this food at all, but why were you telling me to leave all of it half-eaten? Couldn’t we just exchange the food like this…

“No, let us exchange the food like this… I’d not, we shall not exchange it, and so…”

“Agh! That would trouble me! I understand! I will content myself with that garnish, so please exchange it!”

Azami-chan… that seafood bowl must’ve been pretty bad… poor her… that was why I asked if it was ok to share something like that, but…

After that, the atmosphere amongst everyone got weird somehow and Azami-chan and I exchanged items. My opinion on Azami-chan giving up on eating the seafood bowl was… well… that was normal. It was something that would make me think “Well, that’s normal,” in my past life, when I was a commoner.

　　～～～～～～～

After lunch, we went to the actual Nyan-chan Land. In the first place, it was originally intended for a younger crowd, so there were no fancy rides and you didn’t have to worry about throwing up after eating.

“Next, let’s ride that!”

“Akane-chan, you have been quite happy since we have entered here.”

For some reason Akane-chan, who normally didn’t open up to me at all, was quite open even in front of me. This might be an pppodfunify for us to get closer.

“Wait! I am beside Sakuya-sama!”

“Tokudaiji-san, you were beside Sakuya-chan earlier, yes? We are taking turns.”

Azami-chan and Satsuki-chan were having a weird fight. If you wanted to ride at the very front seat, sure, but I didn’t think it was worth fighting over who was sitting behind me and stuff like that, but…

“Now, now! Azami-chan, Satsuki-chan. It is your turn to board.”

We got on in tennorder that we lined up in. Azami-chan and Satsuki-chan were fighting, so they were beside each other. Maybe they’d become a little closer after sitting beside each other. 

“Hold on… why am I beside her…”

“That is what I wish to say…”

Yes yes. The conversation that the two of them were having was very pleasant.

“It is our first time sitting beside each other.”

“Y-Yes it is…”

Sitting beside me was Akane-chan. This was the first time we were sitting beside each other.

“Now, the Nyan-chan truck is moving~. Nyan-chan truck, depart! Have a safe trip!”

After checking that everyone was on, the cast member announced our departure with a mic. We seemed to have gotten on a slow-moving truck, so the point was probably to see the characters as we travelled along the course.

“Let‘s go into Nyan-chan’s world with everyone…”

The truck continued moving, and characters started moving with Nyan-chan’s narration accompanying it.

“Woah! So cute~!”

“Fufu.”

Akane-chan’s eyes were glimmering and she’d gotten absorbed as she looked at the characters. To me, Akane-chan was cuter, though.

The truck continued slowly and on the way characters moved, music played, videos played, and quite a lot that was suitable for children happened. Then, the truck and the story started nearing the climax.

“Aaah! Nyan-chan’s in trouble! Everyone, please be careful!”

“Aaaah!”

At the very last moment, the truck started shaking and suddenly dropped. The kids on board screamed. Akane-chan, sitting beside me, gripped my arm tightly. She really was cute.

“Nyan-chan just managed to safely overcome the danger…”

“Woah, that was surprising~!”

“Hold on! Saionji-san! Don’t cling onto me!”

“Tokudaiji-san, that is what you are doing!”

I glanced over due to those voices behind me and saw Azami-chan and Satsuki-chan hugging each other. It was very charming.

“Oh! I-I… sorry.”

“No. I will always lend this arm to you.”

Akane-chan, who noticed that she was hugging me, let go. It was a little unfortunate, but I felt like I couldn’t say anything. The truck, which had overcome the climax, slowly moved and arrived at the drop-off point.

“Oh, the ending was surprising!”

“It really was…”

At Yuzuriha-chan’s words, Azami-chan answered while pressing down on her chest. Was her heart still racing?

“It’s about time for us to head to the souvenir store, right?”

“That is true.”

Since Renge-chan said that, we checked the time and saw that it was already quite late. I thought we went on all the rides we planned to go on, so we were now going to go back out and look at more shops. Unfortunately, we had to leave Nyan-chan Land soon.

“This is cute.”

“Oh, but this is cute too.”

Everyone entered the convenience store last. We were all picking something to buy, but we couldn’t really decide.

“What about this keychain?”

“Hmm… you could buy that outside of here too, though~…”

“But if you say that, we can’t decide, right?”

Everyone was talking and saying not this or that.

“Sakuya-sama, which do you think is good?”

“Huh? Oh~… I think that Akane-chan will be more knowledgeable than I… Akane-chan, is there something good here?”

I wouldn’t know anything if you asked me about Nyan-chan goods. Akane-chan wanted to come here from the beginning, so I thought that she knew more than I did. 

“Oh! …um, then… I think that… this is good.”

Akane-chan had indicated a Nyan-chan key holder strap. It looked like you could buy this type of thing anywhere, though…  

“Oh! This is definitely a rare item, right! Akane, you have good eyes!”

“Then, shall we go with this?”

“I did some research beforehand and decided to buy this, then go home, but…”

Oh? It seemed like they’d found something good. From my perspective, I couldn’t understand the difference between it and a normal item, but it seemed to be rare. Everyone bought matching straps.

“Aah~! That was fun~!”

“Yes, it was.”

Renge-chan answered Yuzuriha-chan. A lot had happened at lunch, but even with that included it was fun. I was wondering if I, with the mentality of an adult, would enjoy this institution targeted towards young children, but I had quite a lot of fun even as an adult. That might’ve been because everyone was here, but…

“This is still not the end. We may have exited Nyan-chan Land, but we are still going to purchase items at those shops.”

Tsubaki-chan continued walking a little aggressively. Come to think of it, Tsubaki-chan had said she wanted to go to the next place.

We spent the rest of the day outside Nyan-chan Land looking around the stores, and then dispersed before nightfall, though we were sad to leave.