The Case Files of Jeweler Richard Vol. 9 by Nanako Tsujimura

Author:Nanako Tsujimura [Tsujimura, Nanako]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2024-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Too many flights in too short a time always made me lose my sense of what was normal. For instance, I often lost track of the days or when it was day vs night while I was on a plane. Some other things, like my sense of scale, also got messed up. Many people who come back from trips overseas are often a little unsteady at first, like they’ve had too much to drink, and I don’t think fatigue is the only thing to blame. Some senses just get weaker, like your ability to judge where you are in the world, where you’re walking, what time it is, and what the weather is like. It all gets scrambled, and everything can take on a dreamlike quality.

“Over here, Seigi! Wow, you look amazing. You’re so tan.”

Things felt especially dreamlike right now.

It took me forty-five minutes on the bullet train to reach Shin Osaka from the Kansai International Airport. From there, the trip to Okayama Prefecture went without a hitch. I had been to England and lived in Sri Lanka, but never to Okayama, which was only halfway across the same island. I hadn’t been to Kyushu or Shikoku, either. One of these days…

A person was waiting for me in front of the statue of Momotaro that stared off into the distance at the eastern exit of Okayama Station. She waved at me.

It was Tanimoto. Shouko Tanimoto, my close college friend who had gone on to become a junior high science teacher.

She wore a plain outfit today: a white shirt, a navy skirt, and sneakers. Her hair was a little different now. It used to float down and around her ears, but now she wore it in a half-up style. It added a touch of maturity to her cuteness and made her facial features stand out more.

“Tanimoto! It’s great to see you after so long. And come on, am I really that tan?”

“Absolutely. You look like you do sports. You must get a lot of sun in Sri Lanka.”

“I wasn’t in Sri Lanka the whole time. I made a couple of trips to other places. Provence, the East Coast of the United States.”

“Tell me all about it. I can’t wait.”

“Of course!”

She giggled. “Let’s get going.”

Tanimoto was delighted to give me a guided tour of the neighborhood near the school where she worked. We took a bus from the station, and the view was so familiar it felt dangerously nostalgic. An old sign marking a school route. A bank covered in flowers a class might trek to for a field trip. The area around Okayama Station was as bustling a big city as anywhere in Tokyo, but once we left the central part of town, we stopped seeing so many people. It felt like a place where time passed slowly, unlike Sri Lanka, Tokyo, or Hong Kong.

“People tell me they used to have fireflies here until recently. That means the creeks around here are in good health. I’m supposed to be the teacher, but my students are the ones teaching me.

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