Tenseishitarashii Nodesuga, Zensei no Kioku ga Mattaku Arimasen Chapter 1
TN: There might be some confusing lines here. I’m confused, too. Hopefully it will be cleared on the next chapters. Also, there’s a lot dialogues that it makes it hard for me to distinguish whose line is which. I’m sorry. ToT
P.S. This is also unedited. So will be the next chapters and english isn’t my main language so just comment below if you find some mistakes. (Please say it kindly, I’m fragile.) Kidding. But seriously, please say it kindly.
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[You really don’t remember anything at all?]
Overwhelmed by Hal-chan's attention, I gulped and nodded.
[I think he looks Japanese from his appearance, though. What do you think?]
Hal-chan asks the Chinese Urarchan who is sitting beside her.
[I think he’s Japanese. I can’t really say whether he’s Chinese because there are many depending on the location. However, the way he eats is Japanese. He closes his mouth as he chews, there's also the way he holds his rice bowl.]
[What’s certain is that he’s Asian.]
As if joking, Carrie said. Carrie is American.
There are girls around me, some of them are women, but everyone around me is making a ruckus and it’s lively. Men are probably unusual for them.
[Um, in the meantime, where is this?]
When I timidly asked, Hal-chan explained to me.
[This country is called the Lyp(リープ). There are apparently a lot of countries in this world, but exactly how many, we don't know. What was it again?]
[Reincarnation.]
Hal-chan nodded on Rei-chan's words and continued.
[That's right, that. We seem to have reincarnated. I was 100 years old and died happily. I was surrounded by my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and although a lot of things happened, it was a happy life. And then you see~, just when I thought I was dead I was alive, moreover, I've turned into a young girl. A new chance to live.]
Seeing Hal-chan as she laughs 'haha', I can barely see her as a 20-year-old.
[I also should have died at the age of 72. I had a daughter who didn't want to become a bride, and this child, even though I supposedly died while worrying whether she'll be alright once I was gone…. when I noticed, I felt younger than my daughter.]
'Me, too. Me, too.' was what everyone around me said.
[How much do you remember?]
She asked while tilting her neck.
[I don't know my name, I also don't know how old I am. The same as where I lived and such.]
[So, you also don't remember how you died?]
[Nope, there's none. But, I have a strong feeling that I'm not from here, so I somehow comprehended that this is a different world.]
When I said so, everybody went 'Yup, yup' while nodding her head.
[It can't be helped. Although its appearance didn't change much, there are still some differences.]
[In my case, I was surprised at the oil.]
[Oh, I was, too. You, have you cooked before?]
Without even waiting for me to shake my head, the old woman on the inside, the one who looks like a high school girl and an OL* makes a racket. (Office Lady)
[Isn't it a bug? Of course we'll get startled.]
[I thought my waist would give out because of the salt, too.]
[The salt! That was an amazing thing.]
[Also…. the bird meat. That wild thing, have you eaten it?]
[What's that?]
[It's because my husband is a peddler. He brought some back one time, I laughed at it.]
The women are laughing at things I am not familiar with. It looks like no matter where you’re born, the language will become the same once you've arrived in here. Both the Chinese and Western people can understand each other’s words.
[Excuse me, so…. I, what should I do?]
Although I'm afraid to cut into the group of women's conversation, what I must do from now on is something I must ask.
[You're asking 'what', there's nothing to do.]
[That's right. Speaking of our job here, we just give birth to children.]
[Children?]
[You were summoned here through a ceremony, right? At that time, there should have been another man aside from the priests. He is your husband.]
Husband….?
[I'm a man, though….]
When I pointed at myself while speaking, the women smiled.
[It's the same whether it's men or women. The reincarnated people give birth for the men here. That's the purpose for the summon, after all.]
When she declared it with a serious face, I didn't even have the composure to say, 'You're joking' and laugh.
[When did you arrive? In this place.]
[Yesterday.]
I answered half-dazedly. I was told something that surpassed my understanding and my head couldn't keep up.
[A man, there was one, right?]
[There was but…. the official made him take me to his house, and then, I was told to come here today.]
As I was speaking, the women nodded in a comforting manner.
[Here, look. Your husband has already been decided. Listen, okay? This is a world that only has men. There are no women, so children can't be born. That's why they do the ceremony and summon women from a different world.]
[What kind of person is your man?]
She tilted her head when she spoke.
[I don't…. really know.]
[What's he called?]
[What was it again…. if I'm not mistaken, Saine Ray(サイン・レイ), was it?]
[Saine!? You mean, that Saine!?]
Which Saine? Not understanding their meaning, I tilt my head.The old woman who said her husband is a peddler has shining eyes.
[Well, that's a relief! That man, my person has always been in his care. A man of valour. He's a good man.]
As the old woman said so, she was hitting my shoulder.
[Well, you don't have to try hard. Come here if you're troubled by something and tell us. As fellow reincarnators, we should help each other.]
Even though she looks young, she was a strong person in her previous life. Although she's gorgeous, it sounds like a conversation with my grandma once I close my eyes.
The girls' conversation jumps around here and there, I couldn't keep up. In the end, they weren't able to tell me anything. Rather, I don't know what I want to hear right now.
All I understand is that, I have transmigrated. And, the me from my previous life is dead.
Even if I say dead, I don't feel any emotions. I have absolutely no memories of it. But in this case, can it still be called reincarnation? At this rate, this is just amnesia.
I walk heavily towards the house. I'm worried whether I remember the way or not. Every house looks the same.
The road isn't paved, it's made of soil. The trampled soil is whitish. The the houses also have the same colored mud walls, and for some reason, the trees are also whitish.
I think this isn't the scene I'm familiar with. After all, there's an out-of-place feeling.
I'm surprised that a horse is walking, I ended up exclaiming 'Uwooh!'. The surroundings are all normal, so I guess I wasn't from this world after all.
Because there was a pig crying 'buhi buhi' while walking, I ended up dazing. Up till now, I'm not used to seeing pigs.
There was a cat on top of a goat, I ended up clapping reflexively.
I was being laughed with an 'uhihi hihi' from above my head and when I look up, there's a bird resting on a tree. Because everyone around me does his own thing with no change, I'm probably not being laughed at but it's this bird's normal cry.
But I think this is my first time seeing a bird call out like this.
I wonder what I should do from now on?
'We give birth to children.'
The words Hal-chan said resounded in my head and when it did, I decided to let it pass and not put it to heart.