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Reika-sama – 047

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Some foods to introduce first:

Takikomigohan
Takikomigohan is a Japanese rice dish seasoned with dashi and soy sauce along with mushrooms, vegetables, meat, or fish.
Nikujaga. A Japanese dish of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce.
Nikujaga. A Japanese dish of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy sauce.
Oden
Oden is a Japanese winter dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon, konjac, and processed fishcakes stewed in a light, soy-flavoured dashi broth.
Hamburg steak is beefsteak that is shaped into a patty to be cooked after being chopped. It is closely similar to the Salisbury steak.
Hamburg steak is beefsteak that is shaped into a patty to be cooked after being chopped. It is closely similar to the Salisbury steak.
Chawanmushi. A savoury egg custard meal. The custard consists of an egg mixture flavored with soy sauce, dashi, and mirin, with numerous ingredients such as shiitake mushrooms, kamaboko, yuri-ne (lily root), ginkgo and boiled shrimp placed into a tea-cup-like container.
Chawanmushi. A savoury egg custard meal. The custard consists of an egg mixture flavored with soy sauce, dashi, and mirin, with numerous ingredients such as shiitake mushrooms, kamaboko, yuri-ne (lily root), ginkgo and boiled shrimp placed into a tea-cup-like container.

Unfortunately this chapter isn’t really about food, but these do get mentioned, so I thought I would mention anyway.

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Now that I’m a middle schooler I can walk about on my own, and there’s a place that I’ve always wanted to go to.
The home that I lived in, in my old life.
The world that I live in now is almost exactly the same as my old world. Even the landmarks and station names and addresses are the same.
But there are some parts that are different. Naturally Zui’ran Academy is the first difference, and then there are the families, societies, and people that appear in Kimidol.
Only, aside from these, it really is just like the place that I knew. In that case, just maybe, the home that I lived in, and my family, might be here.

I’ve always, always thought it.
That perhaps, just maybe, I could meet them.

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The place I used to live with my family was a town just outside of Tokyo.
Together with my parents and younger sister, the four of us lived there in an apartment.
Dad was a normal salaryman. After getting out of the bath, he would wander about in his underwear and get booed by the rest of us. A dad who was just a tad hopeless at home.
Mum was a housewife, and she was good at cooking. Whenever I came back from a school trip or camp, she would always make the dishes I liked. Takikomigohan, nikujaga and oden. When it came to my sister, it was hamburg steak with ketchup, chawanmushi, and miso soup with nameko mushrooms and tofu.
So I would come back home in the first time in days, and opening the door I would smell the foods that I loved. I’d feel relieved at coming home.
What was it that she made when Dad came back from business trips? Aahh, it was always beer and the like. He’d say that beer was really something, and happily drink it.

In my old life I would always laze about at home, and Mum would get angry because of it.
Why was it that when people tell you to go study before you get to it, you lose all motivation?
When I wasn’t around she would clean up my room without permission, and we’d even fight about it. Even if they were meaningless to Mum, they were important to me, so how could she just throw them out, I would argue.
My little sister was a shrewd one.
She was smart enough to run away when she saw me getting yelled at.
Whenever adults told me to bear with it because I was the older one, or give things to her because I was the older one, I would always wonder why in frustration. Sometimes I hated her a little.
But on nights that we saw scary things on television, we would sleep in the same futon together. And when we went to the toilet, we would hold hands, and then wait outside singing songs to calm each other down.
For my coming-of-age ceremony, she gave me a bag and zori that she bought with money from her part-time job. With a laugh she told me to pay her back when it was her turn.
Dad was always lazing around on the couch. He was like a beached seal, really. Mum would tell me that I was like him.
But on weekends, even if it was just close-by, he would drive us places. We went to the ocean or the mountains to play. The road safety amulet charm that I bought on a trip would hang from the mirror of his car.

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I arrived at the station of my old town.
The front of the station seemed the way I remembered it. The large supermarket, and a few other little things were changed, but it was still a nostalgic view.
The distance to my home was ten minutes by foot. After leaving the main street and entering the residential zone, it was on the 7th floor of an apartment complex.

Just a little further. Just a little further. After turning this corner───

It wasn’t there.

In place of the familiar brick apartment complex, was an old, beige building.
Neither the home that I lived in, or the family that I lived with, had been there.

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I had the family car pick me up.
The first train ride in a while had been nerve-wracking. Having a car take me to and from is a lot easier.
Once I get used to this, I really can’t return to being a commoner.
Because this lifestyle is going to continue anyway. It can’t be helped.

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When I came home, Oniisama was there for once.
He’s been busy ever since he entered university, and lately I don’t even see him at dinner.
Because Oniisama was relaxing on the living room sofa, I sat down by his side and clung to him.

“Mn? What’s wrong, Reika?”

Nothing really. I just wanted to cling to you.
Please don’t mind me, and continue reading your book.

I rubbed my head into his arm.
And he sat there, silently accepting me.

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When I was there───
I knew it, I thought.
I knew that this was the world of a manga, so of course they wouldn’t be there.
But I had hoped.
If I could see them, once more…
I wanted to tell them that I loved them.

I should have had Mum teach me how to cook. I won’t be able to taste her food again. I never helped her do anything after all. This is my punishment.

I should have gone to watch baseball with Dad. Instead I wasn’t interested, so I just stayed in my room to read manga. Since I was just his seal daughter anyway, I should have at least lazed about in the living room with him.

I should have been kinder to my sister. When she used my accessories without permission, I seriously grabbed her and fought. I was the older sister, so I should have just let her.

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I’m sorry. I’m so sorry. I’m sorry for being useless.
I want to see you.
Just once more, I want to see you.
I’m so lonely.
I’ve always, always been lonely.
Dad. Mum. Yuka-chan…

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Apparently I had drifted off before I knew it.
I’d been laying on the couch with a blanket on me.
Was it Oniisama who covered it over me?

There wasn’t anybody in the living room right now.

It’s the Kisshouin house.
I’m Kisshouin Reika.
My family right now is Otousama, Okaasama, and Oniisama.

This time I’ll treasure them.
I’ll definitely protect them.
That’s what I’ve decided.

*imouto*

“Oh? You’re up, Reika?”

Oniisama came back into the living room.

“Ehehe.”

So I jumped at him.

 

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75 thoughts on “Reika-sama – 047”

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  6. Thanks 4 the chapter!

    *drip* *drip* *drip*
    Poor Reika, she missed her old family.

    *drool* *drool* *drool*
    Those food in the pictures looks delicious.

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  8. Heh, this time I’m eating already. I won’t be defeated by the food pictures!

    Also, sad chapter is sad. I wasn’t expecting that, but I guess a touch of seriousness isn’t bad either.

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  11. I have already eaten, so your pcitures have no effects on me !

    Reika-sama is sad :'(
    And Onii-sama saw it…
    Now he is going to go on a crusade to find, judge and purify whatever made her cry.

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  12. This chapter was a little sad and lonely…I even cry a bit ; w ; hope things get better for her!!!
    Thank you for the update!!!!

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  18. Wow, thank you o much for these 3 chapters!!! <3

    Oh my, that's quite sad but I hope she can live a wonderful live with her new loved once this time <3

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  32. Reikaaa~~ ;_;
    Don’t be sad, I’m a seal daughter too, and me n my sisters laze about in the living room together lol. Being a seal isn’t a bad thing.
    Thanks for the chapter :D

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  33. Man that was heavier than usual. I liked it though, it’s not often in these reincarnation stories that the author pays more than the barest lip service to learning from the protagonists old life – if it ever even comes up at all.
    Thanks as always for the chapter~~~

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        1. It’s quite simple, she is saying that in her past life she was a lazy person who procrastinated all the time and never did anything for her family. Seal daughter has the same meaning as couch potato does in America.

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  39. Dammit! Whyyyy?!
    Why yu do diiis..?
    I tried very hard losing these flabs…
    I did, I truly diiiid…
    And now I can’t even get into the sad mood of the chapter because I’m so hungry and my stomach is grumbling… (T□T)
    Huuuuhuuuunyemnomnom…
    *sobbing while eating cookies in bed in the middle of the night

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  40. thank you!
    wait! a sudden hit of feels right at the beginning! h-how could you…i feel sad for her, thinking about her family from the past…so many feels—! -tears up- ok, ok…-braces self for feels train chapter- at least takateru’s there to comfort her, just by his presence! i’m glad she still has a sibling, really! it really was a feels train! -lies down with feels and cracks in my heart- ah…what was that saying? ‘you never know what you have until you lose it’,right? i’m sad now! wah—!-sobs-

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  43. I like this chapter. We don’t get many of this kind of stuff in most tensai/isekai stories. Most of the time the MC just somehow just settles in and don’t bother remembering or missing their past life. Often they even outright hate their former life.

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        3. It was quite the odd feeling. Like, I was all excited about it until roughly 20 chapters in, when I realised the protagonist had no deep secret or interesting past. He was exactly what you’d expect from what you read about him in chapter 1; a typical Japanese gamer dude with no interesting traits. The person he ‘possesses’ is so much more interesting that it makes me wonder why she wasn’t just made the protagonist to begin with…

          And I suppose the answer to the question would be because Japanese people apparently love having boring, lifeless male protagonists there to narrate everything to them. They’re all Kyon failures. Kazuma(Konosuba) is a good example of how you’re SUPPOSED to do ‘average’ Japanese gamer protagonists.

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        4. To be honest I became disillusioned with the story only 2 weeks after I stopped translating (he was updating every day back then) but was worried about voicing my opinions publicly in case somebody interpreted it as me being butthurt over rejection lol. To be fair, the things that hooked me before (like the 7 Hero Kings being real versions of the player characters) still hook me now, and so I’m still reading it, but not without a massive sense of disappointment.

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        6. Ooophh. That’s too bad, and I totally understand what you mean. :(

          Such a shame, Ruphas seems like she should be such an interesting character too.

          Thanks for answering my question and explaining why. I still want to read it and hope someone else decides to pick it up eventually (a story could do worse than a Kyon wannabe), but I have suitably lowered my expectations.

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                1. I think you are really missing the reason behind it. In a lot of escapist stories the main character is suppose to represent the reader. It is a simple character that they could imagine themselves being. The main target for most of these books are boring Japanese guys. As such the main character will take on the same attributes.

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  51. Well, of course… We don’t know what really happened to her, right? Did she die then reincarnated? Did she just randomly fall into this world? This chapter reminded us that she left a family behind. Usually stories like this never give the MC the chance to go back to the place he/she lived to check if his/her family is still there… This was really hard to read. Be strong, hairdrills-chan!

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  52. Damn, man… I dunno what it is with these LN/WN translators, but they always gotta put nice pictures of food when us readers got an empty stomach… *sigh*

    But interesting thing about her past life, huh… I wonder if we ever do find out what happened to her…

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  53. i don’t feel bad for her at all. she sounds like a neckbeard or something close to it honestly. if it wasn’t for the knowledge that she will be ruined by that idiot then she would likely be a neckbeard here too.

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