Making a Family Name

TUUUT!!!

Because I put too much pressure on myself, something creaked out of my butt.

"What are you doing?"

Hiyori stared at me blankly, at a loss as to how to respond.

"You said you had to put pressure on yourself, so I did."

"No, it's not like that. Ah, impossible… this is impossible."

She gave up on all this, and I kept doing the same thing, and the sound came out of my ass again.

TUUUUTT!!!

"I told you, what are you doing?"

"Pressing myself."

"I know it. Seen from any angle, you're pushing yourself to make that fart sound. Can you stop that now?"

"If you don't want to teach me, I'll just learn magic myself."

"No, it's not that I don't want to teach you magic, but indeed, you don't have magical energy in your body."

I knew that since my ability was judged by the crystal ball. Therefore, I tried to convince myself, whether the crystal ball was true or not.

And the result, it's been 2 days I just throw my farts here, near the entrance of the village.

"Anosa, I better just work. If I don't send the wood now, I won't be able to finance you and my imouto. That's why we're done with it for today."

The look on her face showed that she was exhausted, and it was so obvious in my eyes.

Well, she is indeed the one who pays for my living expenses here, even willing to go to the city several times just to buy me cigarettes. She worked alone, kept chopping wood from trees with her new ax, and I just watched her.

Every morning, she had started work. When evening came, she went into town on her horse, selling the lumber she had cut. At night, she came back with an erratic Zquid and gave me a cigarette.

She is quite independent for an 18-year-old girl.

And now, she has to take care of the man who didn't wake up, the man I picked up at Kevin's request at that time.

It's hard enough being who she is now, but instead, I continue to burden her by asking for cigarettes and practicing magic that I clearly can't do.

Looks like I messed it up.

"What about them?"

"Ah, they are fine after returning from the city to their village."

Without realizing it has been 2 days since Kevin was kidnapped. They, Fred and his son, Kevin, brought the Heirlooms to the city to be given to the authorities, the guild, and the guild gave it to the heads of the families who lost it, and they also reported what happened there.

They left the man as soon as they did, leaving it to us since only Hiyori had Healing Magic nearby. In their village, there wasn't a single half-tiger human who possessed a healing type of magic. Therefore, they handed the man over to us.

But even so, without me asking, they gave Zquid quite a lot to me for helping them, and Hiyori didn't know about it. I deliberately hid it to give Dinda a gift. Not that I'm stingy, but Zquid is true to be exchanged in the form of gifts to be given to Dinda later. And of course, the Zquid was for me to buy a new gas lighter.

Not having fire magic, made me have to buy a lighter which is quite expensive, 550 zquid.

I think this world doesn't make sense, how come the price of matches can be expensive when there is fire magic. This fact is so cruel.

"In that case, I-"

"Wait!"

She wanted to go, do her job, so I stopped her.

"Why?"

"This afternoon, may I come with you to town?"

"Umph, what do you want to do there? If you want to buy cigarettes, I can buy them. Or is there something you'd like to buy?"

I have decided this, made a surname.

I got information from Fred that making a family name had to go through the crystal ball. That's why I wanted to go there and destroy—make a family name out of the crystal ball.

"I want to make a family."

"..."

She was silent without a word, then suddenly came up to me with a happy face.

"Really?"

"That's how it is."

"Wow, this is so shocking, I didn't expect that a cold person like you would want to start a family. But are you sure? I mean, family is so important, don't take it for granted."

"Yes."

"…Ahhhh… why do I hate your cold nature anyway? You always take my word for it, without saying anything else. Just so you know, you are free to ask me this and that, so don't just say yes, that will end the conversation."

"Yes."

She suddenly thrust her hands towards my face.

"What are you doing?"

"Shield Defense!"

After she said that, in front of me appeared layers of spherical magic.

Pushing her hand towards me, I was pushed back like a bounce from the layers of magic, sending me down.

"Feel it!"

It was her defensive magic. The magic was once shown to me when I was daydreaming about looking at the well, and it pushed me into the well, so I wasn't surprised when I saw it.

The way the magic works is so easy. The magic layer that was outside, the layer that pushed me just now, was the reflecting layer. If I throw a stone at it, it will bounce off. And the layer of magic that was inside that, the layer that was between her hands, was the layer of thrust. If I throw a rock at it, it will be pushed forward and the stone will accelerate.

Even though the shape of the magic layers wasn't very big, only as wide as a glass tile, but it was useful for her. To her, it was the most special magic. Because of that, she was proud of that magic.

"Ah..."

I'm not angry at being treated this way. Because after all, she is the girl who has helped me. How could I be angry just because of trivial matters?

"Lolicons..."

"What are you saying?"

If that's the case, obviously I'll be angry.

"You're Lolicon."

After she said that, I pulled the tail.

"Ow. ow. ow. It hurts…"

"Try saying that again if you dare."

"Forgive me. Forgive me."

She judged me only from what she saw. Because of that, she judged me to be a "lolicon", someone who likes girls or small children.

It's also actually my fault because I do look like that, always being nicer to Dinda than Hiyori. But even so, that doesn't mean I'm a lolicon.

"Ah..."

Sighing and releasing my hands from her tail, I walked away from her just like that.

"Are you angry? I am sorry!"

In the end, she apologized for it with pitiful eyes, like a cat begging for food from its master.

"For today only..."

"Thank you."

I entered this village, kicking the messy logs on the ground, picking up an ax, and defending some wood quickly, without being asked to do the work.

"And for today, I will help you."

"Why only today? Why not tomorrow and so on? I am your Kutsuja, so you have to help me a lot."

Even though I've helped her, but she even arbitrarily.

Even so, I just sighed, continuing to chop these logs without replying to her words.

"I was curious until now, you're a good person, right? Then, why did you kill your father?"

I haven't told her the reason why I killed my father, so it's only natural that she's curious about it.

"You know what anger means?"

"Oh, I know that. Dinda often brings something obscure here, which makes me angry."

I don't think it's a big deal, so it's better if I don't respond to that.

"The best of humans must have emotions in their hearts. If someone you care about is killed just for fun, what will you do?"

"I will be angry."

"Oh, must be angry. At that time, I was really angry, maybe then I can destroy everything that stands in my way. My patience is running out, that's why I'm angry. If life only relies on patience, it will continue to be hurt and used."

"So, you're angry because your father killed someone you love? Who is that?"

"My mother and imouto."

"…Sorry, I shouldn't have asked that. I didn't know that your mother and imouto were killed by your father."

"Does not matter. After all, it's already happened and time can't be turned back."

"Sorry..."

Her face was full of regret, kept looking down.

I continued.

"Because I was angry at the time, my thoughts were only on my father. My heart aches, full of regret and sadness over the death of my mother and imouto. But strangely, not a single tear escaped from these eyes. It's weird, I'm already like a robot that doesn't have a sense of sadness, even though my heart was crying at that time."

Since childhood, I have been like two people. Since my mother decided to separate from my father because my father remarried, my custody was given to my father. My father wanted me to be a great soldier, not wearing people's pain and suffering, and that's what my father succeeded in doing.

But when I have time off, vacationing at my mother's house, I don't look like a cruel soldier, instead, I look like an ordinary human who loves his family. I was like two people, had different personalities when I was with my father and when I was with my mother.

When I was with my father, I was cold-blooded, bloodthirsty, not thinking about the families of the people I had killed. But when I was with my mother, I was like a human being full of love. So calm, I even forgot who I was.

Therefore, if I am kind and suddenly become cruel to people, it is because of my different nature and personality.

"Well, since it's happened, what can I do. I don't regret that either."

"Sorry..."

Since she kept apologizing with a downcast face, I threw this ax at the house and almost hit it.

"E-Eh… W-What are you doing? You want to kill me, huh!?"

"Noisy! It's enough to apologize once. You, if you keep apologizing like that, you're already like a loser. Instead of constantly apologizing, you better thank me for forgiving you."

"O-Okay. Sorry..."

Glancing at her white neck, intending to strangle her, I held back my emotions and tried to be patient with this.

Therefore, I burned my cigarette with shaking hands.

"Tch..."

"Sor—thank you for forgiving me."

"Ah, next time don't be like that."

"Sor—I mean, all right."

"Onii-chan and Onee-chan, look, look, Dinda brought something."

Dinda emerged from the entrance of this village, and the look on her face was so happy.

"Hey, what are you bringing now? Yesterday you brought a tiger, which turned out to be uncle, now what else? Anosa, what exactly are you playing, Dinda?"

"Look, Onee-chan! Look at this, Dinda is carrying a sack of rice given to him by Kevin's father."

I saw Dinda pulling something there with a rope that Dinda was holding.

When Dinda arrived in front of Hiyori, I could see the sack.

"Rice? What for? We have enough rice supplies."

"I don't know. But Kevin's father said that Onee-chan can take care of these rice for a while."

"Hah!?"

Curious about that, Hiyori quickly opened the sack. And suddenly, she screamed by lifting a little tiger up.

"This is not an orphanage! Why did you leave your children here, Fred!?"

Yeah, that's 2 tiger cubs, probably Fred's cubs. That's why she shouted.

Without guilt, I took the ax and went back to chopping the wood.

It turned out that he left his children, I thought it was just a joke. Maybe if I know this, I just refused his request.