| Author: Achoo Germs | Original Source: SFACG | Character Count: 2269 characters |
| Translator: Richie | English Source: Re:Library | Word Count: 1556 words |
| Editor(s): Richie | ||
Kana, who rarely go out, don’t know the way home. Confused and disoriented in the big rain, she is dragged into a nearby inn with a hot spring by her mom.
Ako throw one of the inn’s bathrobe on the bed and tell Kana, “Go change out your wet clothes.”
Kana, who already sneezed a few times, immediately moved to change. She had only recovered from her fever, it wouldn’t be desirable to catch a cold right after.
“I will send the clothes to the laundry. Go ahead to the hot spring first,” Ako walked away, taking a few steps, before adding, “It is already dark, the hot spring should only have a few people at most.”
Kana never went to a public bath because she was scared of crowd, but, just as Ako said, after that farce was over, it is now in the wee hours. Kana hug her bath towel and go to the spring. There’s not even one person in there.
Kana wore her bathrobe and slowly enter the hot water, and she couldn’t help but to shiver. She simply tear off her bathrobe, and then lean down.1 She groaned comfortably.
A few moments later, Ako who had also changed also enter the hot spring, sit in front of Kana, and wrap a bath towel on her head. She exasperatedly said, “My head hurts. The proposal that I have cooked up for a long time was ruined by you.”
“My condolences,” Kana ridicule her, “I ruined your opportunity to be a b̲i̲t̲c̲h̲.”
“Be careful of your words, you little piece of s̲h̲i̲t̲2 ,” the mom kicked her daughter’s leg underwater, “I’m still you mom!”
Kana hadn’t given in, and continue ridiculing her, “So I have a b̲i̲t̲c̲h̲ for a mom? That sounds like a standard melodramatic modern novel plot.”
Ako, as if losing the will to argue with her, sigh and say, “You are still young, you don’t understand. In workplace, and especially the officialdom, women will always get the short end of the stick. A little sexual harassment is barely worth mentioning…”
“Of course it is a small matter,” Kana curled up her lip, “Sleeping with your boss is the right way to promotion, like that boss!”
Ako pull the towel from her head, angrily said, “You C̲u̲n̲t̲, I keep telling you, Satou-san is not my boss, I hadn’t slept with him either, are you stupid?”
“You are the stupid one!” Kana scolded, “subconsciously, you consider the body to be your capital3. What makes you different from a prostitute? Not to mention that you sold your body for a bad price. If you are not stupid, then what are you?”
“C̲u̲n̲t̲! How you f̲u̲c̲k̲e̲r̲ know that I got a bad price!” Ako was losing her cool4.
Kana reply, feeling disdained, “Where is the setting of “Adventure Tigers”? Western Europe! Whether you take the game version, the manga version, the anime version, Kamiyama city cannot adopt any of them. What would you develop to be the main attraction of the tourism? The residence of the author of “Tiger’s Adventure” which will be ready in one hundred years? That’s fool-ish!”
Ako is immediately dumbfounded. It’s true that she doesn’t know much about the otaku culture, only that Tokyo is holding some similar project. That’s the reason she has been pushing this project on, the very same project that Kana is now poking big holes on.
“Not to mention, did you really appoint a travel agency to be the lead on a project as big as this? Do you still not understand the efficiency of a government affairs?” Kana continue criticizing the proposal that is full of holes. She isn’t wrong. From her perspective, Ako’s tourism proposal’s main attraction is a load of trash, “Your election is coming up in a year, so you need this project to work, yet this project can’t be considered to be your achievement during this term. If you really want to develop this city’s tourism, make the government the lead, better if you make it happen yourself.”
“Make it happen myself, how?” Ako ask doubtfully.
“Inside the boundary of Kamiyama city is Kamigaito mountain range, there are a trove of travel destinations there, they have been sitting there, neglected for years,” Kana said, “In Shiragawa county sits Momoyama, a part of the Kamigaito mountain range. On Momoyama sits the Juumonji family’s Arakusu shrine. Juumonji family’s financial has been bad in the past two years, and it is sitting there costing more money than it makes. If we ask them to sell Momoyama to us, they will undoubtedly accept. On the foot of Momoyama is Chitanda family’s land. After Momoyama is developed, then we can slowly let the word of a new travel destination spread. That would be the opening phase…”
Kana shoot a flurry of words, as if slowly revealing a grand yet mature development blueprint in front of Ako. Ako suddenly think that compare to Kana’s meticulous and feasible reasoning, her own proposal was definitely naive.
It’s hard for her to believe that she have struggled for years, yet is still surpassed by her own daughter. Ako sat there, letting the sense of defeat sank in.
The room Ako booked has two big beds, but after they finished bathing and returned to their room, Ako wanted to sleep together with Kana no matter what.
“Get lost!” Kana persisted in kicking her out, but she wouldn’t budge.
“You were born out of me, there’s nothing to be ashamed of,” Ako said as she embraced Kana. Kana’s face was as red as tomato, because of her current… predicament.
The bathrobe is soaking after bath, and forgetting that this isn’t home, where her little sister will meticulously care for her, doesn’t have a sleepwear she can switch out to, so she can only sleep naked.
Ako hug Kana and stay silent for a long time. She suddenly say, “Hey, Kana. Kamiyama land development team’s deputy manager told me, if I should sleep with him, he would guarantee my political life.”
“Then go sleep with him, you are a b̲i̲t̲c̲h̲ anyway,” Kana ridicule her as naturally as breathing.
Pa!
“You f̲u̲c̲k̲…”
Pa!
“B̲i̲t̲c̲h̲…”
Pa!
Kana’s bottom have been slapped thrice that she is currently fully awake, and so her voice is exceptionally clear.
Ako whisper to her, “That feels good. Listen obediently, you don’t want me to develop a habit of it.”
The young girl feel humiliated and is fuming with rage between her gritted teeth.
“That fat man, the one that is greasy all day, retching to look at, what the hell he think he is, trying to sleep with me. That Satou isn’t better, and then that cultural officer, that stupid swine. They think that they are humans, but I can barely look at them…” Ako chatter and complain to Kana.
After listening for a while, Kana came to understand things. Ako was simply looking for someone to whom she can pour her heart out.
A strong woman by ordinary days, the status as a rising star amongst government officials gave her a tremendous pressure. Yukihiko is also busy with his own work, and Eru has a pure personality, so Ako didn’t have anyone she could confide in. The devious yet wise Kana was a perfect person that fit the bill.
After Kana didn’t say anything for a long time, Ako couldn’t help but squish her ample bottom, and ask, “Are you listening?”
“I am,” Kana begrudgingly said.
“Then tell me your stance,” Ako asked.
“All men are mentally deranged,” Kana concisely and comprehensively summed up.
“Exactly!” Ako approved.
“Hey, Mom…” Kana said.
“What is it?”
“I’m sleepy.”
“Oh, then go to sleep,” Ako pull up the blanket for her.
After some time, Ako suddenly said, “Hey, Kana…”
“What is it?” Kana say impatiently.
Ako pondered, “It feels awkward for you to be calling me Mom.”
“Then what do I call you?” Kana rolled her eyes, “B̲i̲t̲c̲h̲?”
Ako unexpectedly nodded her head, “That sounds more appropriate. This way, I can call you C̲u̲n̲t̲.”
Kana sneered, and repeat it, “B̲i̲t̲c̲h̲.”
“C̲u̲n̲t̲,” Ako say that fluently, and giggle, “Haha, it feels like we are sisters of an underground world.”
“Who wants to be sisters with a b̲i̲t̲c̲h̲?”
“Shut up, C̲u̲n̲t̲. Go to sleep.”
TL note: Yeah, you will be seeing more stars in this series. Mom won’t be appearing in the next several chapters as I far as I know. Is it funny or just annoying? Should I tone it down and make it more flowery? I’m currently just going for as close as possible. Comment below.
Footnotes:
- TL note: A part of the original sentence was censored, and I am drawing a blank as to what it could be, so I might be missing a detail.
- TL note: Actually, this is also censored in the original text (and you display too, I guess), so I don’t know the specific expletive they used. “B̲i̲t̲c̲h̲” wasn’t censored.
- TL note: As in a tool, what you can use in your work.
- Richie: Good thing Eru isn’t around for this “heated discussion”. By the way, sorry for the censorship. I would have toned it down if the original didn’t just explicitly swears. And kids, if you don’t know any swears, then be glad, because they aren’t pretty, and I mean ugly.


















































































