Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! Volume 8 by Hiiro Shimotsuki

Author:Hiiro Shimotsuki [SHIMOTSUKI, HIIRO]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2024-08-13T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine: An Undesired Reunion

After that conversation, we crossed over the rope bridge and walked for another ten minutes before Kilpha stopped.

“This is my grandma’s house, meow,” she said, pointing up at an impressively large tree house high up in a massive tree. It seemed to be roughly thirty meters off the ground—more or less the equivalent of the tenth floor of an apartment building.

“Your grandma lives there?” I asked.

“Yup. Oh, but it’s not just her. My mom, dad, and siblings live there too, meow,” she clarified.

“I see. So your whole family lives there, huh?”

I double-checked my clothes weren’t dirty and quickly combed my fingers through my hair to make sure I looked at least partly presentable before opening my inventory and taking out a couple of boxes of Nesca’s favorite chocolates. I was all ready to go. Kilpha and I nodded to each other, and we walked up to the door of her grandmother’s house.

“Grandma, it’s me, Kilpha, meow. I’m back, meow,” Kilpha announced.

The response was immediate. “Come in,” said a deep female voice.

Is it just me or does she sound rather angry? That’s definitely not the voice of a grandmother who’s happy to finally see her granddaughter again after seven long years.

“Follow me, Shiro, meow,” Kilpha said as she stepped inside the house, and I did as I was told.

The tree house was much more spacious than I’d anticipated. On entering, you were greeted by a large room that was thirty tatami mats big—roughly fifty square meters—and at the back of the room, I spotted a ladder that must have led to the floors above as well as the ones below. It hadn’t seemed so big from outside, but this place was at least three stories tall, possibly even more.

Whatever lay on those other floors was immaterial right now, however, for my full attention was on the three people sitting in the middle of the large room. The first was an elderly woman who sat cross-legged, her gaze firmly fixed on Kilpha and me. Her ears and tail were the same color as Kilpha’s, and her clothes were made with white fur, giving her an elegant and dignified air. The other two—a man and a woman—sat behind the elderly cat-sìth, and based on their facial features, I surmised they were Kilpha’s parents. Unlike the elderly woman’s cold and harsh gaze, their eyes were soft and warm, just like Stella’s grew whenever she looked at Aina.

“I’m home, grandma, meow,” Kilpha said, bowing slightly to the elderly woman.

As I thought, this woman was Kilpha’s grandmother. I’d asked Kilpha to tell me a little about her in advance, and she had said that, despite her grandmother not even being sixty yet, the deep wrinkles on her brow made her look much older than she was. I imagined these lines had been etched by the many years of troubles and responsibilities that came with being the head of the cat-sìths. She stared at us in total silence, which seemed to worry Kilpha.

“Grandma?” she ventured tentatively.

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