I left the mansion and paraded around town in a rough outfit.

　When I say rough, I don't mean just rough.
　It's a young hoodlum type of fashion that would raise an eyebrow if the old folks saw it.
　If this is the case, the old folks will not think well of him, they will think of him as the prodigal head of the family.

　However, there's no need for even the fiefdoms to hate him; if a revolt or rebellion breaks out, he can't be counted on.
　While keeping this in mind, I played the role of the prodigal head of the family, who was reasonably friendly.

　As I was walking at random, a sweet scent suddenly entered my nose.
　I stop and search for the source of the scent and find a fairly busy confectionery shop.

　I went to that shop.

Welcome - Ah, isn't it Hermes-sama?

　A well-dressed lady who knew my face gave me a friendly smile.

'Please buy something for me,'
Smell the sweetness of it.
Oh, as expected of you, Hermes-sama, you're very good looking. This is a sweet called dorayaki, which is very popular these days.
Dorayaki?
It's a fantastic snack made by a long time ago and has always been a mystery to me except for the fact that it uses powder and azuki beans, but the recipe was recently discovered in the ruins. From there, the popularity of this snack has exploded.
Yeah, that sounds interesting. I'll take one anyway.
Yeah, go ahead.

　The woman put the dorayaki between two pieces of paper and held it out to me.
　I took the dorayaki and took a bite.

I love it!　Yum!
See, these are the most popular snacks of all time.
It's no wonder they're so popular. Let's wrap some up.
Yes!

　The lady took out a paper bag and filled it with dorayaki.
　The deliciousness was real.
　Since it was my turn to buy one for my sister, I bought it for her.

　I took the dorayaki from the lady, paid for it, and resumed to wander around.

　The town of Pindos is still quite prosperous.
　I hadn't been out for a while, but many new things came out.

　For fun, I went around here and there.

"Oh, do you have any idea whose girl you're messing with?

　Suddenly, I came across some kind of struggle.
　There are two voices of a man shouting wildly and many onlookers surrounding it.

　It seems that two men are fighting over a woman.

　At first, one of them - maybe the interloper was being pushed around.

'I don't know!　He said he's not dating anyone.

　He kept on screaming at me and I got pissed off.

"Don't you lie to me.
Ask the other woman.
Shut up!

　The man snapped and drew his dagger.
　Until then, "Oh dear, oh dear! There was a scream from the onlookers who said, "I'd like to see a fight, but I'm not going to let it get to the edge of the blade.

　I'd like to see a fight, but I don't want to get into a knife fight.
　It's easy to understand the mindset of the onlookers.

　The other man is also pissed off, but he doesn't back down even though he sees the blade, he looks around and holds the square wood in his hand.

　The blade and the hornbeam, if you go at it with that, both of you will not get away with it.

　Oh dear, well, it's no use.

　I sighed and bent down to pick up two pebbles from the ground.
　After making sure that the onlookers were paying attention to the two men, I hooked the pebbles in my fingers and flicked them away like a deco pin.
　The two pebbles popped out, weaving between the onlookers and hitting the two men in the jaw with pinpoint accuracy.

　It was properly tame.
　The force was about the same as a grown man's punch.
　So the two men who were hit in the jaw collapsed from their knees almost simultaneously, falling and passing out.

　It's buzzing all around.
　The pebble flew on a trajectory that sent it flying to a completely unrelated place after it hit, so it must look like the two men suddenly fell down, to those around them.
　No wonder they were buzzing.

　We were both pissed off, but, well, it would have stopped by the time we woke up.

　That's what I thought, and I was about to leave.

''Well...''

　As I returned the kibisu, I noticed the girl staring at me.
　It's a girl, maybe five or six years old, looking up and staring at me.

'What's wrong?'
It's amazing.

　The girl imitated a deco-pin.
　Then she picked up a pebble herself, hooked it and popped it, but the pebble rolled to the ground in a parabolic pattern with a slop.

'Hardly...'

　And now you were looking at it.
　I thought I'd checked my surroundings properly, but I only checked at the same eye level.
　I had no idea that this little guy was watching me.

　This is not good, I have to keep my mouth shut.
　I didn't want him to see me, so I did it with a pebble, but when he sees it, he goes "wow" in reverse.
　I don't want it to spread and people will say, "I knew I should have taken it seriously.

　I thought about it for a moment, squatted down, made eye level with him and held out the paper bag.

I'll give you this. Don't say anything about what you just saw.
Wow that's dorayaki.
Do you like it?
'Yes!　It's so good!　But your mom said you shouldn't eat too much because you'll get cavities.
'Right, well, I'll give you all this then. Don't tell anyone what you just saw.
Yeah!

　I handed the dorayaki to the girl with a big smile on her face, and I quickly walked away from the place.

　　　　　☆

　A few days later, I was relaxing in the garden of the mansion.
　I was relaxing in an easy chair, feeding the dogs in the mansion, and playing "lazy head of the house".

　Then my sister came in.

'Yes, I was here for Hermes.

　My sister stood in front of me and held out an envelope.

'What's that?'
There's a rumor going around.

　For some reason, her sister was smiling as she spoke so.

''Rumors?''
You've stopped the lasciviousness, haven't you?
How did you know that?

　Ta-da!　And he got up from his chair.

'The kid in this letter told me that he just bleeped his fingers and stopped.
You ended up telling them off!
It's more of a force majeure.
What did you say?
The letter says. "This letter says: 'The dorayaki was delicious, thank you, lord uncle.'
Is that a thank-you note?
'Yes. I wanted to write that letter, so I learned to write and asked for the lord's contact information, and the adults around me would ask me why. So I answered them honestly.
Shhhhh...
'Even without that, it's impossible to stop a child from seeing something cool and talking about it with pride in the first place, isn't it?
Oh no....
"You need to give up and show the world that you mean business.
No.....

　He nodded disappointedly as he said this.
　It will spread, it will spread.....

　I can only hope that it will be taken as a child's megalomania at least.

　Nope.

I mean.....
Or is it?
To begin with, I'm not even an old man...
Oh, come on, you'll be a great-looking uncle when you get there.
Well if I'm your uncle, you're my aunt, right?
Yeah.

　The sister tossed the letter with a dynamic form.
　The envelope flew around and around like a disc - but

'Bow!'

　The dog in the mansion chased after it on instinct, caught it in the air, and came back with a "thank you, uncle" in its mouth.