Editor: Narane
Hi guys, Dijon here. This translation took more-or-less 3 months. My goal is to finish volume 1 by some time in August or September. Let's hope I meet my pseudo-deadline!
I regretted taking Rangii grocery shopping with me 5 minutes after we had left the house.
"Sunghoon, Sunghoon! What is that? The power of lightning is running through that column!"
"It's called a utility pole. It brings electricity to every house through a wire......"
"Wow. What's this black thing? Is it a curse meant to weaken the power of the earth?"
"What do you mean a curse? It's called asphalt, and it's meant to make travelling more comfortable for people or cars."
"Amazing! I never imagined that humans would disregard the natural order to such an extent!"
"That said, you seem pretty happy. Shouldn't you be sad in this case?"
"Why do you say that?"
Rangii's beautifully braided hair quickly unraveled and formed into a question mark.
"Please act like a human when you're on the street."
"Isn't that why I hid my splendid ears and tail?"
Yeah. Her white tail and ears were hidden, so Rangii just looks like an adorable little girl in eye-catching clothes and...... it would be so great if I could say that. Just the color of her hair was attracting attention from pedestrians. Isn't having white, nearly silver hair with black stripes abnormal? And add to that her cuteness.
Her interesting hair color attracted the gazes of pedestrians, and her cute appearance kept their eyes on her. People would even turn around, stop in their tracks, or say things like she's so cute~ I want to take a picture~ I want to touch her~ before leaving. Thank God no one actually did any of this stuff.
With Rangii already attracting so much attention, just the thought of her making a question mark with her hair is terrible.
"Because even like this you're attracting attention."
"What does that mean, I'm attracting attention?"
When Rangii tilted her head and looked up at me, I think the people, who for some reason were following us, shouted out kyaa or uwaa. ......I'll ignore them.
"Hm? Sunghoon, what's wrong?"
She asked me while pulling on my hand.
"Am, am I dying of moe?"
"Hawu~. I want to take her with me~."
I can't hear them. I'll ignore them. I said I can't hear them. If I let this continue, something bad really may happen, so I should tell her the truth.
"It's because you're cute."
"Because you're cute......?"
Rangii suddenly went poof! and emitted smoke after she heard what I said. I'm telling you this beforehand, but that was a figure of speech. Her face went bright red and she spoke.
"Did, did you just say that I'm cute?"
"Yeah. You're attracting attention because you're cute, so don't do any......"
I wasn't able to finish what I was saying. Because Rangii jumped up with unbelievable strength and hugged her two arms around my neck.
"I'm happy! I'm so happy! You've finally fallen for my charm!"
It looks like you've totally fallen for a delusion.
"The hell's that guy?"
"Should we kill him?"
"Lolicon bastard."
Y-you too.
I don't know what these delusional people might do if this continues. Hey, hey. All of your eyes are scary. For now, we should run away for fear of our safety. I hugged Rangii, held her to my side,
"Uraaa!!"
And I ran.
It feels like I've been sprinting a lot these days.
It was right after I was able to escape from Rangii's impromptu fanclub that I realized. I had passed the usual supermarket I go to where I collected a lot of points. ......and this is all because of Rangii. Let's see if I go shopping with you again.
The cause of this situation was already on her feet and let out a carefree response.
"That was fun!"
"Ah, was it?"
I was about to die from exhaustion. Well, it wasn't Rangii's fault that I had to run like this so there's no helping it...... or is there? The problem is whether Rangii's at fault here or not, but I'll just think it's not. Yeah. Because that's the only way my sanity can endure this.
Moving on, it looks like I'm going to just go to the nearest market here and take empty back roads back home. Because otherwise I'll probably have to hold her and run like that again. I grabbed Rangii's hand and continued what I was unable to finish before.
"Moving on, if humans are living while ignoring the natural order, isn't that bad for phantoms like you? Aren't you all basically a part of nature?"
"That isn't the case."
Rangii said this without a doubt.
"We are children of chaos. If providence was broken and distortion increased, this would be a suitable environment for us. If the children were to follow me and no longer keep themselves hidden, this land would become a paradise for us."
Paradise of the phantoms? That's really bad. The person who's going to teach her what love is had better show up fast. Otherwise this place will become a phantom paradise like she said. And the one who was still on the fence about creating a phantom paradise or not said,
"......Why is there so much food on the street?"
Having seen plump chickens, I mean pigeons, walking on the street, Rangii began to drool and her hidden tail pointed towards the sky......
"Hey, hey!"
I quickly grabbed Rangii's tail and,
"Uu--haa!?"
"Put your tail back, you brat."
She put her tail back inside her clothes. With her hands covering her butt, she was bouncing up and down and shouted at me.
"Can't you touch it a little more gently?!"
"Nevermind that, what would you have done if someone saw you stick your tail out?!"
"......Did I do that?"
Rangii laughed, going heh heh, and scratched her head.
"I didn't know."
This time, should I overlook this? Since there's no one around here to have seen it. Instead, I should give her a proper warning.
"Also, you can't eat the things on the street."
"I can't eat them?"
I made myself clear to Rangii who spoke so disappointedly.
"That stuff is dirty. If you eat it then you'll get a stomach ache."
"......I don't like painful things."
I want to know what kind of phantom would get hungry at the sight of pigeons on the street, seriously.
[Die. Just stay there and die.] Because of that I was so scared that I didn't even think of calli