The Tanaka Family Reincarnates: Volume 5 by Choco

Author:Choco [CHOCO]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2025-12-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 80: Real and Fake

Emma was standing in a forest. She didn’t know why she was there, but Minato was crying in front of her. Emma thought she must have been having a nightmare about the time she got chased into the forest by Labbie.

“It’s okay. General Kongming will be coming to get you soon,” Emma told Minato, who was inconsolable. Kongming would be there to save her soon.

At her voice, the young Minato stopped crying and slowly looked up at Emma. “Who are you?” She cocked her head to the side, and suddenly was no longer a little girl. Suddenly, she was grown. That was just how dreams were, yet now that Emma got a better look at her, it seemed Minato was wearing a proper academy uniform and everything.

She was no longer young Minato but Saint Juana, who she’d seen from the hallway.

“Wh-Why are you here, Lady Juana...?”

“Upsy-daisy!” Juana ignored Emma’s surprise and stood up. “You sure you should say that?”

“Huh?” Emma had no idea what Juana was asking.

“You said Kongming was coming to get me. So then, what about you?” Juana asked with a grin. “Who’s coming to get you? After all, nobody needs a fake, right?”

Juana’s expression as she closed in on her was enough to make Emma want to punch her, even if it was her own face from her previous life. Yet even so, she couldn’t answer the question.

“Your family? They’re not coming. Why would they when I’m the real you?” Juana was gleefully saying all the things Emma was too terrified to even say aloud.

“You’re not. You’re not me.”

“You don’t get it, do you? You aren’t me.”

This is a dream. A really horrible dream.

Emma averted her eyes from Juana, who was grinning triumphantly, and looked at her surroundings. Looking for anything that could wake her up from this dream. Yet her wishes went unanswered, as she was surrounded by a black void. The darkness extended forever, and it was enough to make Emma wonder how she’d been in a forest at the start at all.

“Hee hee! Looks like she’s here!” Juana lifted her chin to signal the appearance of something surrounded by a dim light.

“Kongming!”

A little calico cat was sitting in the light.

“Myah?”

Emma ran up and extended her hand to the cat, but Kongming turned her head and instead rubbed up against Juana.

“Wha... Kongming, why?” Emma was shocked to see Kongming loving on Juana instead.

“Myaaaah!”

Kongming wasn’t looking at Emma.

She only looked at Juana.

“Kongming, what’s going on? Kongming!”

This is all wrong.

“How is it wrong? She’s smart enough to tell who the real and the fake are.” Juana smiled, as though she’d read Emma’s mind.

“But that’s not... It can’t be...”

There was no way that Juana was real and Emma was fake. There was no way that Emma wasn’t Minato. There was no way that Kongming would choose Juana.

The whole world went dark as if in response to Emma’s despair. There was no Juana or Kongming. Just her, alone in the dark.

“No... Please, no... Kongming, where did you go? Please, don’t leave me.

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