That stupid runt who reunited with me after 10 years is now transformed into a beautiful and innocent high school girl - Chapter 27
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The revisit of a customer.
1.
Isamu Arizuki is a boy who is not compatible with insects.
No, more precisely, he’s “NOW,” a boy who doesn’t touch insects. When he was a child, he would go out into the mountains to catch dinosaur beetles and stag beetles, and locusts in the bushes (and more —).
<Moon Night Terrace>, the corner in front of the toilet. In the place beyond the potted foliage plants, there was something with an overwhelming presence.
“…”
It was dark and hard to see, but nevertheless, there’s no doubt.
A uselessly shiny body, the antennas just as long as its height, and an instinctive sense of disgust.
There was no doubt about it.
I didn’t expect to encounter him here in this place like this.
I haven’t seen it much in Tokyo, but it’s definitely different in the countryside.
The enemy of the entire mankind.
A demon with shining black armor.
‘The G.’
‘Taro-san.’
‘The black bullet.’
[Tl: isn’t this an anime… you mean to say, an anime commemorating the fear of cockroaches???]
There are as many nicknames given for him, which signify the hint of the fear mankind has had for him.
However, this <Moon Night Terrace> is a restaurant.
I can’t just let him roam about casually.
Suppose there’s even a customer finding out about his existence. In that case, there is a risk that it will lead to complaints and, eventually, loss of customers.
The current time is 4:30 in the evening.
My idle time was over, and it was also the time for the number of customers to increase. There are currently three groups of customers in the restaurant.
The old couple type.
The Young Lee-man type.
And the old aunts who come in pairs from the neighborhood.
Right now, I’m the only one aware of his existence. My mother is taking a break, and my father is cooking the ordered food in the kitchen.
I’d like to ask his father for help, but I’m afraid I’ll lose sight of him if I were to go away.
In other words, I have to deal with it.
Can I do this?
I’m not boasting, actually, but I’ve fainted dealing with beetles in the past.
“Excuse me. Can I go to the restroom?”
One of the aunt’s customers came to the bathroom.
“Eh? ah, I’m sorry.”
While saying that, I dodge her from the front and hide him behind, in her blind spot.
[Tl notes: here, the ‘he’ referred to is Taro-san; Cockroach.]
At this moment, that guy is just behind my right leg…
Just thinking about it makes me break into heaps of cold sweat.
Please. Just keep quiet and stay put.
Well then, what should I do from this point on? There were only two possible options I was available to my knowledge bank.
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- Maintain the status quo until the customer leaves.
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- I put him at peace so that it goes unnoticed by the customer.
No.1 would definitely be challenging. Since that is a living creature. It seems to be quiet and put at this moment, but I don’t know when it will start moving again, …and if I think about losing sight of him… I should put him to rest while I know where he is at present.
However, if I fail to put him to rest, he will, of course, run away. And at an incredible speed.
Suppose a customer should see him wriggling freely all around this restaurant. In that case, it will be the end of this restaurant forever.
The auntie came out of the bathroom, so finally, I could leave the side, hiding the flower pot.
All right, he hasn’t moved yet.
I look around.
There’s nothing around that could be used as a weapon… but.
The lockers where the brooms and mops are stored are in the back. I remember seeing an insecticide behind the counter as well. However, I want to avoid leaving this place at this moment.
So the only option available was to smash it with your bare hands…
No, no, no, no, that’s just a no-no.
Damnit, father, what kind of hygiene management are you doing to have such a guy like this appear in this restaurant?
“That’s it!”
I had a Eureka.
I would make a barricade under the basin bowl with something like a board and isolate him. Then when the customers are gone, I can take him out slowly and steadily.
Welp, a board barricade was something just too convenient to be true.
Damnit, father, hurry up and come back. If so, I could tell you with eye contact already.
In the worst-case scenario, should I perhaps trample it with my foot?
It’s definitely better than smashing it with my bare hands, but the sneakers I was wearing were new ones too, at that.”
What can I do?
What am I even supposed to do at this moment?
The entrance doorbell rings out.
“Yes!”
A beautiful girl whose name I couldn’t yet figure out was standing at the entrance.
2.
Th–This is bad. There is only one reaction when a girl sees him.
[Kyaa~ann]
Yea, she screams, determined to raise her voice.
And to top it off, we’re talking about a beautiful girl who seems to be living a life completely free from such insects. She will definitely be so shocked that she will start crying.
“We—welcome.”
“Hello, Isamu-san. What are you doing over there?”
A~h, even in an emergency like this, her cuteness doesn’t even drop a point. She’s like the personification of the concept of cuteness. If she were to see him at a place like this on this day…
“N—no, it’s all fine, trust me.”
I turn my back to him and block the beautiful girl’s gaze towards that.
“Are you hiding something from me?”
“Trust me, I–it’s really nothing. Hey, father, there’s a customer over here.”
“You’re suspicious.”
The beautiful girl suddenly turned her face to my side and then stared downwards.
“Ah”
Th—this is bad. She found it. I beg you, anything but scream…
“So that is what it is, huh?”
After that, what I witnessed was something absolutely unbelievable.
She, the beautiful girl, just squatted down, put her hand under the basin bowl, and picked him up readily.
“Hoi”
And that too, with a really agile movement, without any change to her complexion.
“EHHH!?”
“Mu~?”
The beautiful girl stands up and points him towards me with her hand.
Stop it, don’t show me his belly.
“Isamu-san. This figure is exceptionally well made, isn’t it?
“Hue? Figure?”
“Here, look.”
When I look at it closely in a bright place, it is certainly a finely crafted figure.
“Huh? What the heck?”
“That’s my line. What is even with this kind of situation?”
The beautiful girl tilted her head, confused.
3.
“Didn’t I tell you what to do when a cockroach suddenly appeared? I secretly tried to test whether you could put that into practice.”
Sayaka said, amazed.
“Oh, come to think of it, since it was a cockroach, my head wasn’t working properly because of my trauma.”
“Besides, we have an exterminator come into our house frequently, so there wasn’t really a cockroach in here in the last ten years. Right, ~? Dear.”
Shun silently nodded.
[Tl notes: Father: Shun, Mother: Sayaka]
“Isamu-san, so you’re not good with insects, heh.”
Come to think of it, Yuu-ni did faint once when a beetle stuck on his face?
“No, no, I think everyone is bad against cockroaches. Or rather, you picked it only because you realized it was a figurine, right?”
“Eh? No?”
“Eh?”
I mean, a cockroach is just like a female beetle flattened out.
Eh? Yuu-nii, why are you making such an astonishing face?
Did I say something strange?
Am I the crazy one over here?
??
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