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Chương 48: A club.

"Spring had come… The trees that lined the side of the path to the school were in full bloom. The fresh scent of flowers, butterflies, and the first batch of crops ready for harvest- the atmosphere was perfect.

Beautiful even. Is what you're thinking in that protagonist syndrome affected brain of your's aren't you? Maooo~" Yuuno was very happy this morning. Having become a year worth stronger than before in one day.

"Quiet, wench. I never once thought that. Plus I hate butterflies. They fly around like they're having a seizure. There at a spot one second and the next, they're somewhere completely different. No pattern whatsoever. Disgusting things."

"Didn't you do that too? All those years ago." Huh? "You know when you teleported around." She whispered.

"Shhhhh-!" What if someone heard her?!

Well, they wouldn't believe her. But still!

"Can you two stop fighting for one second? I'm tryna have some tea in here!" The old man complained while flipping through his newspaper while sitting on the couch.

Let me reiterate. He did not use modern lenses as we do. Or phones like Dad does. He was still stuck on newspapers.

Ancient.

"What are you on about gramps? We are getting along just fine. Just like yesterday, when Mao slept on my lap." Yuuno was not affectionate. Or trying to tease me. She was just smug. Really damn smug.

It was vexing.

"It was a mistake!" Not to mention one that happened because of her! "It wasn't like I enjoyed it? It felt like lying on a mound of fish bones!" I told her the truth outright!

"Yeah yeah whatever you say Maooo-kuuun." Her smugness didn't budge.

"Urghhhh!" This was gonna be a chore. "Bye folks, I'm leaving!" I didn't know how to refer to the two of them collectively even after the while we spent together.

Were they like my grandparents? Well, Baa-chan treated me like her grandson. JiiJii was a grumpy grandpa in a way too.

But 'bye grandparents' didn't roll off the tongue quite as well as 'bye folks' did. Today, though, I was referring to Yuuno and Luha as well, while I left. I was angry this morning, exclusively at Yuuno.

I essentially ran away from the conflict caused by that kid's smugness, but the conflict- Yuuno followed me.

Behind us, Luha also trodded along. "By grama grampa!" Well, she had her relationship with the elderly couple figured out.

We jogged along the path. I tried to avoid Yuuno, but that was physically impossible; she could probably run to the school and back 7 times before we even got there.

I had to deal with that pest for the entire walk.

A path covered by cherry blossom on either side. We approached the school.

So cliche.

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"It is April already!" Our class teacher announced. Yes, the one with a large stature and long black hair. Her. "Do you know what that means?" No, I did not know what that meant. "It means that it's club joining time!"

Wut?

A wave of mutters started circulating around the class.

"Yes, clubs. The gathering you see outside practice stuff or build stuff. Those clubs. After school ends, you will head down and pick which club to join. They should have their flyers up on the bulletin by today."

The reality of the situation dawned on me.

'Clubs? God damn it!' I couldn't have been more distraught. It was like my world crumbled apart. I definitely under no circumstances wanted to be part of the cool club thing I saw in all the school anime that I watched. That would be soooo boring. Yes.

I just wanted to be part of the going home club~

Wow, it really was such a shame that I had to join a club.

'A heads up would have been real helpful in this situation, Yuuno!' I couldn't even look spitefully at her cuz we were in separate years and not in the same class. What a shame indeed~

"Which club are you picking Mao-kun?" Luha asked from the desk over.

"Which club do you think I'll go for? Of course, I'm picking the going home cl-"

"Before anyone has any stupid ideas like joining the Going Home Club, I'll tell you that clubs are compulsory."

HECK YEAH!- I MEAN CRAP! That is so sad! What should I do now? Looks like I have to join a club. This sucks soo much! The cool and indifferent me forced to join a club.

What can I do I really wanted to go home and waste the rest of my day away~ But it seemed that I had to find my calling while enjoying what everyone called youth.

Anyway, should I join a sports one or a cultural one? Art may be good too. A decent change of pace.

"Luha… which club are you joining?" I enquired. She looked sure.

"I was thinking the mech club. I heard about it from a senior near my district." District probably being the land her family looked after.

But wait… There was something as cool as the mech club?! That was perfect. There's no way I'm not smart enough for making mechs.

We could probably even have mech battles. Or build mechs powered by a motor which don't work on the first day of trial. Maybe JAXA would step in too.

This was great!

I mean... mech club? Sounds like such a choreee... But I don't have a choice so I might as well join it~

"I'll join that too then-" Just as I was about to say that-

"Ah, Asama-kun… You'll be in the volunteering club." The large woman up at the front said.

"Nooowww what?!" I turned around exasperated. ME? NOT JOIN THE MECH CLUB? Blasphemy!

Sure I didn't know that it existed two seconds ago, but I was really pumped up just now!

"The P.E. teacher called a bid on you yesterday so, you're his." P.E tea- ah JIIJII THAT GEEZER!

"WHYYY!!!"

What was I? A slave?!

"Do I have to join that?" I complained.

"If you want to maintain your grades." Wow, I was really getting dragged through the mud just for some stupid sports grades?

I didn't care about them all too much but it was a matter of pride.

I really wanted to swear then and there. It took everything I had to stop myself from saying inappropriate by children standards.

PE was a class we didn't usually have and even if we did the teacher was some muscular 40-year-old man. That old artefact of a human was not even necessary to the school? Why did they keep him around? Moreover give him the ability to alter grades?

I hated this. I hated this so much.

But I had resigned to this bullying. No, since it was done by adults to a minor, this was child abuse.

I will tell on this town to Mom, Dad, Alez, and Hime-nee. They will take care of everyone here accordingly.

'Just you wait. You fossil.'

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The school ended and the class dispersed.

I- too, reluctantly and with heavy steps, headed outside.

Right on the grass field, next to the tiny garden pit stood the perpetrator.

This was the first time I ever saw the old man inside the school premises.

"Why did you sign me up for this club?" The first thing I did when meeting him was whine.

"Well, since the tilling ended yesterday, and I knew you were free so I thought you could help us out." The geezer grinned. He was totally enjoying this.

"Just sign me off! I want to join the mech club."

"Mech club?… Oh, that ancient artefact! Don't worry about it, it's pretty bad." The kettle calls the pot black.

"Still!"

"Oh look! The others are here!" He expertly switched my attention.

I turned around and there were others there. A rather plump guy. A skinny guy. A guy that looked like he chewed rubber to get that jawline of his. And a girl you'd imagine picking apples up from the orchard. They were clearly not from the same school body let alone the year.

Two looked like middle schoolers, one looked like a junior high girl, and the jawline dude looked like he was 30.

"Introduce yourself to the kiddo here." JiiJii tapped his stick.

"Hi, I'm Pepe and this is my brother Popo. We are nobles from Sendai. 3rd-year middle school." The skinny guy pointed at the plump one.

"Heya~ I am Yuri. I like apples and anything farm. 2nd year Junior High." The girl who looked like she would wear suspenders said.

"I am Greg. Elementary 3rd year."

.

.

.

Wut?

"What year?"

"Third year."

"High school?"

"Elementary school."

With that chiselled jaw of his? He could probably chew through concrete if he wanted to. And he was 9?!

"Moving on!" The old man said. We were moving on already? This was a revelation in child morphology and anatomy!

"Let's start with today's first job!"


next chapter

Chương 49: The first job. *

"This is a barn isn't it?" I asked.

We were all stationed in what could only be called a ginormous barn. Roosters to one side, pigs to the other, and an entire herd of cows segregated by herds. It smelled almost as bad as you would expect although a part of me was almost able to find a tinge of sweetness in the air.

This was apparently the location for our first job.

"Yep."

"This is also not on the school premises. Club activities from what I can tell all take place on school grounds."

"You're right about that too." Yuri nodded.

"Then why are we here?"

"To volunteer." Pepe answered.

"Our school isn't responsible for anything outside the premises!"

"Now now, Mao-kun. You can only grow if you expand your horizon." JiiJii smirked.

"Or at least that's what you say after swindling a bunch of kids! I bet you get some sort of compensation for this! How about you share that?"

"I do... The milk you drink every morning."

KUK!

"Also the eggs that you put in your omelette."

"Stop making me feel guilty!"

There was no one to stop us from coming in and under the influence of a rather old man we did come in. Or rather barge in. Was this even legal?

"Let's start the job then!" The old man sat next to a cow and put a bucket under her.

"Yessir!"

"No wait! What do you mean job?" I was yet again the only one to protest. Not because I was whiny, but because I was clearly out of the loop.

"Boy, are you dumb? We are obviously gonna milk the cows." JiiJii pulled the udder. A stream ran down.

"On someone else's farm? Without their permission?" This wasn't right.

"We do have their permission. The old man from the ranch threw his back so he can't milk these for a while now. That's where we volunteered."

JiiJii was rather convincing.

He continued as the others took their places. There was one vacant cow left.

"You're on that one kid." JiiJii pointed. The cow was large, fluffy an- Wow for a second I sounded like a read 7-year-old trying to describe a cow.

Nonetheless, and rather reluctantly I took a seat. And then yet another issue hit me.

"I don't know how to milk a cow." I admitted freely. There was no shame in not knowing how to work cow boobies.

"Pch… city boys are the same. Oi, Pepe teach the kid how to do it!"

"Yessir!"

Everyone clearly treated him like a commander. I could never understand why. This man had nothing going for him except his age. He was practically a walking fossil that required the assistance of kids like us to thrive.

There was nothing to respect here. Maybe pity, and empathise. But not respect.

But that was just my rambling, the volunteering club was under JiiJii's thumb.

Heeding the old man's words, Pepe sat down next to me and put a bucket under the cow.

"Here give me your hand." He said gently.

"Okay??" His thumb and index wrapped around my wrist and my hand was on the cow's fur. It felt soft.

"First you make the cow feel secure."

"Unnhnn."

"Then you massage the udders."

The next second my hand was under the sac of the udder. That went fast. Get the cow to know you're not an enemy and then aim directly at its milkers. I mean, if that's what gets it in the mood... sheesh.

"Then tickle the things right at the bottom."

His fingers reached the orifice at the bottom as they started to move in an unwholesome manner.

Pepe forced me to follow.

"Ewww."

"Shh. The cow is enduring this for your milk. Get over it."

Well, that was a strange way to phrase it.

This was kind of weird feely but I got over it thanks to my teacher.

"Finally you pull. But be careful… just pull it as hard as I do."

He demonstrated like JiiJii did right at the beginning and a nice stream of milk started filling the bucket.

"You have to do all this for the first time to build up trust and then when the cows get used to you, you can just go for it." Pepe stepped back after his demonstration.

"You're pretty good at this, huh? Considering you're a noble and all." I thought all if not most nobles were pretty well groomed in terms of their hobbies. Milking cows didn't seem like one of them. In my eyes, the thought of an understanding and grounded ruling class was brilliant. I was neither of those... but it was still brilliant.

I could only imagine how the other nobles would react to this idea.

"Hehe… I used to help out around the county whenever I got the chance." Pepe chuckled before heading back to his cow.

I looked around and the others seemed to be enjoying this activity.

That was when I realised-

I wasn't fine with being in this club. Not because I minded the activities, I just thought I could be doing better stuff. Like finishing my plan to watch list.

Nah, who am I kidding.

I wouldn't watch that even if I had the time.

Point is, I could have been rewatching that one show that I loved for the 30th time instead of milking some cows.

After all, this is not how I envisioned my second life of retirement.

Even though I say all of that, I had to agree that something about this was therapeutic. Especially after Pepe had left and I had the cow to look after myself. I felt relaxed while pulling on the udders.

Maybe this wasn't all that bad. Many would put this on their retirement plan list.

I could just buy an island and do all this stuff there. That would be an ideal life. Not saying that it would be the penultimate ideal life... But just one ideal enough to consider as my future.

"Can I have another bucket please?" I asked after almost filling the top one. I left some gap so it wouldn't overflow.

"Nah, one bucket a day is fine. Multiply with the five cows, this will last us a week." JiiJii said.

We really didn't drink a lot of milk did we?

"Then can we head back now?" I still had plenty of time to go ahead and relax watching stuff at home.

"Well, after you keep the bucket in the pasteurisation room." He was rather polite.

"Sure."

I had given up to the old man's whims. This was just a measly request.

I took the bucket and left. The bucket seemed heavy cuz of course it did. For some reason any utensil filled with a liquid felt way heavier than it should. But it was still lighter than that damn hoe {a/n : the implement not the Female Lead} so the carry was easily manageable.

I kept walking eagerly to get out of this place.

Until a strange viscous liquid hit my face from the side. I immediately stepped back and put the milk safely on the ground. To my side there was a fat cow on her knees.

"WOAH WHAT ARE THOSE?! WHY ARE LEGS COMING OUT OF ITS ASS?!"

"Ah Ruru is giving birth it seems!" The country girl came. Yuri, I believe her name was.

Why was I the only one panicking? Why were the others just going on with there job?

"We need to do something?"

"Should we?"

I looked at the cow in front of me.

"Of course we should!" It looked like it was in pain. No I could vaguely feel it's pain.

"Nah, let's just wait this will sort itself out when she comes."

"WHO?!" Ughh! These people were useless! Pathetic even.

I rushed to the cow and grabbed the legs coming out of its butt.

"PUSH!" I shouted, completely forgetting that cows didn't understand human language.

It struggled. But this should be fine right? Cows give birth in the wild.

It wasn't fine. Five minutes had passed and there was no progress.

'Should I go towards the back and pull it? What if I can't? What if it falls on me and I die? That'd be a terrible way to die!'

'What do I do???'

All of a sudden, the doors to the ranch opened.

"Don't fear! The greatest member of the squad is here." And out popped a silver haired girl.

Everything became clear.

So that was why Yuuno didn't tell me about the clubs. That schemin- Wait! SITUATION!

"Yuuno pull the legs! Pull the legs!"

"Oh… ah sure."

She pulled the legs as I ran ahead and held the cow.

Then we worked like dogs.

It took a while. And a lot of labour.

Of course, Yuuno couldn't go all out because there were chances of a still birth had she used power too strong for a calf to handle. So Yuuno conservatively pulled regularly until the calf was out.

It was rhythmic and took what felt like an entire hour.

But it was worth it. The calf made it out safely and went straight into Ruru the cow's warmth.

The two animals lay against each other.

It was the first chapter of a new family.


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