47 Episode 46 ~ Yamato no Kuni 3 ~ Looking at Tsukasa Sato






Asahina found the word "don" on a banner of a restaurant called Hiiragiya near Yingting, and the seven of us trickled into the restaurant.


We found an eel bowl!
And the seafood bowl!
I'm glad I'm alive. I'm glad to be out of the castle...


We cheered as we looked at the other guests eating their rice bowls.
The quality may not be as good as Japan's, but to us now, I'm sure my mother's special tempura rice bowl before payday would bring tears to our eyes.


What would you like to have, sir? From the looks of it, though, you've had donburi rice before.


An affable-looking woman came from the back to take our order.
The hair and eye color is different from ours, but the clothing is exactly the same as the Japanese before we were born, and the way we take orders is the same as we do today.


Do you have an order form?
Purging? What's that?


There is no bill of honor, it seems.
Mr. Hosoyama pulled himself together and asked again, "Do you have a menu, or rather, a list of items?


"Do you have a menu, or rather, a list of items?
Oh, the menu. The menu is here.


I thought the menu would be more accessible in terms of atmosphere, but apparently the brave souls of several generations are quite sketchy.
It's mixed in with the foreign language.


''Thank you. I think I'll have the seafood bowl.
Then I'll have some too.
I'll have a bowl of wasabi.
Shiori, that sounds spicy. Oh, I'll have a tuna bowl.


Everyone ordered one after the other.
Hosoyama-san's order was the only one I felt was strange, but I didn't care.
Come to think of it, Mr. Hosoyama-san has had some strange meals in the past trip, too...
No, let's forget it.
The gap between his face and mine was so big that my memory is quite vague.


I'll have Negitoro-don. Hey, the only one who didn't order more is Sato.
Oh, sorry. I'll have an oyakodon.
I'll take it.


I suddenly remembered that guy.
I wonder if Akira is eating well?
I'm not worried about it.
If you don't eat properly, it's not worth knocking down.
Also, I can't tell Akira's mother that Akira died of starvation when I get home.

Akira's mom, she's afraid to get angry.
No, people are all scared when they get angry.
But Akira's mother is different.
It's usually said that the quieter you are, the scarier you are when you get angry.
Akira's didn't remember me, but apparently Akira's mom remembered me.
The reason for the fight was my anger at Akira for not remembering me in the first place, so it's not unrelated.
At the time, I remember being more scared of being angry at Akira's mother than I was of my own mother.
Just plainly, she explained to me what was wrong with me and my behavior and what I should have done about it, smiling politely.
I was still very young and I just couldn't understand Akira's mother who was laughing at me even though she was angry, and I was just scared.


'Wait and see! Um, who was the oyakodon?
'Oh, it's me.'


Just as my thoughts were interrupted, my order arrived.


""I'll take it!"


And we eat rice for the first time in a really long time.


Yeah, rice.
I'm so glad you're alive.
You're just saying that, aren't you?
''It's delicious.''


I eat the rice bowl with a happy face, except for Asahina-kun, whose expression doesn't change as usual.


Akira loves rice, so I'm sure he'll come to this country no matter what.
Asahina-kun wants to join Akira, but I'm going to go ahead and let him go.
I'm going to take a big turn around the human race's continent from the east and ride halfway around the demon race's continent, and eventually the demon king's castle, while improving my skills.

The brave man is not Akira, but me.
I'm the one who has to accomplish this.
I'm sorry, Asahina-kun, but I'm going to defeat the Demon King before Akira does.
I'm going to defeat him, and then everyone can go home thanks to me.
I'm sure everyone will be grateful to me.
And of course, Akira too.