When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: Volume 9 [Parts 1 to 3] by Kota Nozomi

Author:Kota Nozomi
Language: eng
Format: epub

In the end, our cleanup did go by remarkably quickly once we’d actually started applying ourselves to it. It turns out that “less talking, more working” really is an efficient way to go about these things sometimes.

“With that settled,” said Umeko, “although it may be somewhat early for the task, I intend to depart to obtain ingredients for supper.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that!” I said. “You went out to get us lunch and everything, so I’ll handle getting us dinner!”

“No need to be bothered. I enjoy such excursions, and I do not dislike errands.”

“Are you sure...? It sort of feels like everyone’s been using—err, I mean, asking you to do all their errands for them lately.”

“I do not mind,” Umeko replied indifferently. “Although I may not let it show, I assure you, I am enjoying this so-called ‘ordinary life’ I have been granted.”

All I could do at that point was take her word for it and accept her offer. I put together a list of the stuff I wanted and handed it over to her along with the money she’d need to buy it all. Umeko grabbed her trusty cloth shopping bag and headed out to the neighborhood supermarket without missing a beat.

“Umeko’s really changed, hasn’t she?” I muttered after she left. “She barely talked at all back when we first met her, and when we asked her to do something, she’d just do it without a word of protest. She used to be like a machine, but look at her now...”

Now, she could express herself articulately and showed no hesitation to do so. She made the things she wanted to do clear to us, and if she thought we were screwing up, she would freely admonish us for it, like she’d just demonstrated.

“Oh, but you know...I guess it makes sense,” I continued. “She was only just born about a month ago, after all. Considering that, I guess it’s no real surprise that her personality would go through some big shifts.”

Maybe back when we’d first met, Umeko was more or less the same as a newborn child. She’d known nothing of the world back then, but now, over the course of this past month, she’d learned all sorts of things and grown as a result. I mean...maybe she’s grown just a little bit too much? She kinda comes across as an elder, actually. It feels like her mental age is way, way higher than mine, even.

“Bwa ha ha! She’s changed, huh?” Hajime said with a derisive chuckle as he skillfully sorted the manga he’d finished reading. He had the same cynical, posturing smile on his face as always. “Tell me, Hitomi—do you mean she’s changed for the better, or the worse?”

“Huh?”

“Development and deterioration, evolution and devolution—they’re all types of change, aren’t they? If you chart them out on a number line, one and negative one both come out to the same absolute value. A one’s a one, no matter what direction it travels in. Change and the lack thereof is a concept totally disassociated with the question of good versus bad.

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