Otherside Picnic: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 6] by Iori Miyazawa

Author:Iori Miyazawa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, mystery, sci-fi, available in print, anime, adventure, survival, yuri, creepypasta
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

“Was that good enough?” I asked Toriko on the way back to the station.

“What do you mean?”

“For reporting our status to Kozakura. That was our goal today, right? But the report ended quickly, and her response was disinterested.”

“It’s fine. The important thing is that we talked about it.”

“I don’t get it... Saying that we’re ‘going out’ sounds super vague, and yet by sharing that information we’re able to build a social consensus around it. It really makes no sense.”

“You keep on saying that stuff.”

“Sorry for being so stubborn.”

“The more important thing, Sorawo, is are you okay?”

“How so?”

“You seemed like you were suffering.”

Toriko apparently saw right through me. I let out a sigh, then confessed.

“I don’t really understand it myself. But seeing that Kozakura’s house had become a ‘home’ shook me up...”

I told her about it. The intense feeling of loneliness I’d felt in Kozakura’s kitchen. The isolation I’d felt when Kozakura talked about Kasumi’s education.

Toriko listened without saying a word, then suddenly stopped and hugged me.

“Egh,” I squealed.

“...”

“Wh-What? We’re outside, you know? Outside.”

While I was busy worrying that people could see, Toriko asked, “Do you want kids?”

I had to at least answer the question. Even I could tell that, for Toriko, who saw our relationship as something adjacent to a romantic relationship or marriage, the question was a serious one.

That wasn’t going to change my answer, though.

“Not in the slightest... Sorry...”

“Yeah, I figured.”

“Do you, Toriko?”

“Hrmm...” Toriko groaned as she moved away from me. “I dunno anymore.”

“Is that my fault?”

“You’re definitely the one who gave me cause to reconsider,” she said as she started walking again and gestured for me to do the same. “I always had this vague idea, even as a child, that someday I would get together with the person I loved, and we’d adopt a kid and raise them together. I like kids, and it felt natural to me to do that.”

“Yeah.”

For someone with Toriko’s background, maybe that made sense.

“But then you went and said you hate kids, Sorawo. I panicked a bit. Like, if a hardened criminal said they hated kids, I’d get it. But a nice girl like you? It didn’t make sense to me.”

“Isn’t it pretty harsh, saying you’d get it if a criminal said it?”

“Maybe it is. Sorry.”

“But I don’t think I said anything that strange. I mean, kids are noisy, and stupid. There’s not much to like about them.”

“Ahh...” Toriko gazed up to the heavens, unsure what to say.

“Like I told you before, I don’t utterly despise them or anything. I just don’t want them any closer to me than they have to be.”

“Yeah, that’s what I don’t get... Sorawo, you’re good around Kasumi. You don’t mistreat her.”

“I wouldn’t do that, obviously.”

“And when we went looking for her in the interstitial space at DS Research, you were really nice to her there too. Based on your actual behavior, your own statement that you ‘hate kids’ just doesn’t ring true for me, you know? Maybe you just convinced yourself you do?”

“It feels kind of off to me as well.

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