I Found Ikarun and Ojisan and Totally Lost My Mind
“Now then, the next food storage is here.”
There’s still more warehouses?
“Gordon, what’s in the next one?”
“Items from the sea.”
“Huh? From the sea? There’s a sea? I want to see it, I want to see it! There’s a sea?!”
Yes! The sea! The sea! The sea exists~!
My excitement shot through the roof!
The gloomy feeling from earlier vanished the moment I heard there was a sea.
Does that mean I can eat fish? Are there shellfish?
Yessss! I’m so happy, seriously happy!
“I want to see the sea! I want to see it now!”
Like always, I pressed my hands together at my chest in a little pleading pose.
““Ugh! Too cute!””
Hey, Sebas, Gordon, you’re talking over each other.
It was kind of funny, so I snickered.
I grabbed the hands of the slightly frozen Sebas and Gordon and pulled them toward the next warehouse.
Huh? In the shade of that tree… maids.
Ohhh, bringing in the sheets?
Hey, you girls, come on, move those hands. Back to work. Don’t just stare at me and clasp your hands in prayer!
““““““Ahhh, Young Master is far too adorable.””””””
“Young Master in that fluffy, fuzzy gown, so round and puffy, he’s just too cute.”
“Yes, yes, but for me, it’s that excited, happy look on his face… ahhh, this is bad, I feel like some door inside me is about to open…”
“No, for me, it’s the cuteness of Young Master holding Sebas-sama and Gordon-san’s hands that… ah!”
“Eek! Hey, why are you getting a nosebleed?!”
“Oh nooo, are you okay?”
“Well, it just means Young Master is so cute it makes your nose bleed, right?!”
“““““Exactly!!”””””
“I wanna see the sea~!”
“I hope you’ll be able to see it someday.”
“Yeah.”
Creeeak!
I’d thought this with the vegetable storage and the meat storage too, but these doors were seriously heavy.
When the door opened, I caught a faint scent of salt in the air.
Could it be? Could it be?
I ended up breaking into a run, because this was…
Squid? Seriously? I’m so happy!
“What’s this called?”
“This is ikarun, it is.”
Gordon, you’re mixing your polite endings again. Still nervous? Why are you glancing at me like that?
“When you catch it, it gets angry and spits ink, see? Since it gets angry, it’s called ikarun. Just as it sounds. Makes you laugh, doesn’t it?”
Heh, heh, heh.
Gordon, you’re the one laughing.
Were you sneaking looks at me to see if I’d find it funny?
“Heh, heh.”
That’s all I said. It’s not funny at all, okay?
But squid, huh… grilled whole, that’d be amazing.
Tch. There’s no soy sauce. Don’t soy-say that…
… Wow, I just made a dumb joke to myself.
“Hey, what’s that over there?”
“This is ojisan.”
Huh? Ojisan?
“Yes, ojisan. Ah, and get this… pffft, the males and females are both called ojisan.”
You’re laughing again.
“Huh? That’s funny! What a weird name!
Ojisan? That’s strange. Pfft.”
Man, that reminded me of that weird What’s-his-name-san.
Just thinking about it makes me laugh.
This is kind of peaceful.
After that, there were horse mackerel, tuna, mussels, clams, lots of things.
It was a tropical region, but there were plenty of seafood from non-tropical areas too. And yet, seafood never showed up on my dining table. When I asked why, it turned out Papa just didn’t like seafood.
Seriously, Papa? What a waste.
All right. I’m improving our diet. Just you wait.
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