Nara turned out to be mostly shrines and temple visits as well.65Please respect copyright.PENANAtpG3gwEDzg
Honestly speaking, justtt as I was kind of getting fed up with it, there was a girl reciting the manyoushuu.65Please respect copyright.PENANACUdvj9H67V
The girls around her were giving her looks of respect.65Please respect copyright.PENANAXHviqXi9Pu
A primary schooler chanting poems from the manyoushuu. So this is what refinement is!? This is true refinement!?65Please respect copyright.PENANALvhrLOxDkk
I definitely want to follow her example!
Of the poems in the manyoushuu, the only one I remember is from my old life, Princess Nukata’s akanesasu.65Please respect copyright.PENANAa4BE7RzuQi
I’d play Princess Nukata with my friends and we’d wave our hands jokingly saying, “If you wave your hand so much, the guardsman will see you, you know~”65Please respect copyright.PENANAe9IIU6ICfi
It would be weird if I suddenly remembered Princess Nukata’s poem here when his place has nothing to do with it, and it’d be bad if I flared up her sense of rivalry, so I decided just to keep quiet and watch as they proceeded to display their refinement.65Please respect copyright.PENANAsstrKYyGJe
Apparently lots of other girls had the same idea, because from here and there, I started hearing “kaki kueba” and “houryuuji”. Far from refined, they just seemed silly.65Please respect copyright.PENANAINwimvcCqE
Naturally I didn’t participate.
Only, when we visited the Yumedono, I accidentally muttered “the Emperor of the Land of the Rising Sun”. The tour guide heard me and said I was wonderful, praising me, which in turn caused the girls around me to say “As expected of Reika-sama”.65Please respect copyright.PENANAUEfv0U6p3g
All I did was mutter the name of a shoujo manga though…65Please respect copyright.PENANA9y6kmPrZLE
But I decided against clearing the misunderstanding.65Please respect copyright.PENANAwvY0o7DIC2
At Nara Park, an incident occurred.65Please respect copyright.PENANA6KEt6VFrnF
I was walking gracefully about the park with crackers for the deers in my hand, when I was suddenly surrounded by a herd of them.65Please respect copyright.PENANA0vJo7d1XSN
The girls with me immediately ran, but I alone was too late to!
Huge! Deers, huge!65Please respect copyright.PENANAMQtMNBQkeB
Scary! Horns, scary!65Please respect copyright.PENANAMA2mD8hstN
Hurts! Being jabbed in the back! GYAHH! They took the crackers!
“Reika-sama, run!”
“KYAAA! A deer is, Reika-sama…!”
“Reika-sama, throw the crackers far away!”
I tried tossing the crackers far away, but they flapped in the air and landed right at my feet.65Please respect copyright.PENANAD2IOKbqXY9
GYAAHH!65Please respect copyright.PENANA6K5aVxM1Vs
I was being kicked, and rammed, and only when they realised I had no more crackers in hand did they finally look for for another target, one by one.
“Reika-sama, are you all right!?”
“Aahh! Poor Reika-sama!”
“…I am fine, everybody. Thank you.”
What the heck was that. A gang? A deer gang? A deer mafia?65Please respect copyright.PENANAmvdIZmEV4A
Weren’t they too damn rough…?65Please respect copyright.PENANAAIfDuyLjYo
Even though I recall them being more heartwarming when I came here in my last life, what the heck happened to them?
The girls around me helped my dust the dirt off my clothing, and just as I had finally managed to get my clothing in order and started to calm down, I met eyes with the Kaburagi, who was looking my way with a grin.
That guy freaking laughed at me…65Please respect copyright.PENANA0CSfUCADcJ
So mortifying! I wanna throw deer crackers all around him!
But right now I have a more compelling problem.65Please respect copyright.PENANAyn1zsy5aWS
Nobody has noticed.65Please respect copyright.PENANA8te81pmQUf
The fact that I stepped on deer poop.
“It is about time to return. Reika-sama, that must have been truly rough on you.”
“Right? To think that deers were actually so scary. Even though the ones I gave my crackers to were all so cute.”
“Does it hurt anywhere? GEEZ! None of the boys even tried to help! You’re all pathetic!”
While walking happily with everybody, I sneakily slid my loafers to get the poop off with absolutely nobody the wiser.65Please respect copyright.PENANAVCcntMRdpU
I made sure to hint that the reason I was walking like this was because I had hurt my leg when the deers kicked it.65Please respect copyright.PENANAk5mrQzqZ0v
After that, we went to Kasuga Grand Shrine, and I made sure to ask the gods to discipline those deers properly.65Please respect copyright.PENANA4FnPiNemXd
The place had cute deer fortunes and up until yesterday I would have flown right over to buy one, but the scars in my heart still hadn’t healed from that deer assault, so I even looked at the cute deer carvings with dangerous eyes.65Please respect copyright.PENANAo9OVyBTbcK
But everyone was making a fuss about how cute they were, so when they went to buy some, I went as well.65Please respect copyright.PENANAn74AJ6S5oD
‘blessing’65Please respect copyright.PENANABAcD0IpGHx
Again, not quite sure how to feel about this…65Please respect copyright.PENANAuqObIGjy7Q
The one good thing about the Deer Assault Incident was that it felt a bit like I was closer to the girls around me now.65Please respect copyright.PENANA1qlHqtdQYR
It’d be nice if they slowly turned from followers to friends.65Please respect copyright.PENANA3irZWasIEf
I decided to begin by casually playing up our friendship.
“Really, thank you for earlier. Friends truly are the most important thing, aren’t they.”
Everybody smiled happily.65Please respect copyright.PENANAN5g3dfChyH
Could it be that we’ve actually been friends for a long time now?65Please respect copyright.PENANAJBhyBRKPDL
But after the Deer Assault Incident, every time I passed by Kaburagi, his shoulders would start to tremble.65Please respect copyright.PENANAFZEgux6l6N
KIIIIIIIII!!!65Please respect copyright.PENANAqo8M4XnHfr
That’s it, I’m telling Yurie-sama on him.65Please respect copyright.PENANAuv83rUcJ5k
Laugh all you want.65Please respect copyright.PENANAzbu9yEHyTZ
When we come back to Tokyo, the one crying will be youuu.65Please respect copyright.PENANAf8cpKHvIyA
I had bought soaps from the inn, and some cute konpeitoh rock candies for Aoi-chan and Fukioka-san.65Please respect copyright.PENANAdJcc9HkeD2
I had originally been choosing between the traditional oil-removing facial paper or yatsuhashi, when my stylishness sent a flash of inspiration through me.
Yatsuhashi is a Japanese confectionery made from glutinous rice flour, sugar and cinnamon.
Apparently Fukioka-san told Akizawa-kun in advance to buy them a matching pair of romantic luck charms.65Please respect copyright.PENANAaPThv0owJn
Getting him to buy a pair of matching romance charms was apparently also part of the scheme to hold back the Zui’ran girls.65Please respect copyright.PENANAU0mWKYdUkS
As expected of you, Fukioka-san.65Please respect copyright.PENANAE5klt1Vt6M
Even though I bought Oniisama a safe driving charm, he refused to hang it on the car mirror, so I was a little dissatisfied.65Please respect copyright.PENANASEC5xKJa3H
He muttered “This is a little…” but why?65Please respect copyright.PENANAOJFoQDyyIA
Apparently Yurie-sama got mad at Kaburagi for not warning the girls around him not to cause trouble for others.65Please respect copyright.PENANAp9CHgW7QdB
Serrrvesss youuu righttttt. Ukyakyakyakyakya!65Please respect copyright.PENANAokhpTooUS7
And then the next day, through Aira-sama, I received a certain photo from Yurie-sama.65Please respect copyright.PENANAhw9Vk2gvcS
It was a photo of me being beaten up by a herd of deers.65Please respect copyright.PENANAGt6Q9bo5tG
Aira-sama ended up sympathising with me, and said “That must have been harsh. Yurie was shocked to see this too”.
UKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!65Please respect copyright.PENANAXNPXf9UJF9
IMPOSSIBLE TO FORGIVE!!