Published at 23rd of November 2020 09:54:52 PM
Chapter 20
The beginning: The fifth year 2
A little bit after dinner . As usual, Jyuugi nii-sama came to the room I had been given after notifying Oyaji-sama .
There’s something I want to tell nii-sama, who’s sitting on the cushion I offered him, eating konpeito(tn: little star shaped bumpy candy, what the little soot spirits eat in Spirited Away :3) and sipping tea .
Nii-sama . I’m really happy that you came, but is it really okay for you to come this often?
If I’m not mistaken, you’d come last night too .
Is what I want to say .
It seems like his visits had increased a lot since Rangiku left, but that’s probably because I’d let slip that I was lonely, which made him worry .
Damn, what a good man .
…well, no, that’s not what I want to say . What I really want to say was,
Jyuugi nii-sama, isn’t it about time you found some good woman?
That’s what I want to say .
Because your ban on romance has been lifted!!
It’s time to experience the spring of your youth!! (even though you’re 37)
Is what I want to say out loud, but can a little girl who just turned ten say that to someone who had long ago acquired the skills and wiles to tempt woman?
Yes, I don’t have that courage .
That’s why I’m in the middle of appealing to the nii-sama sipping tea next to me with my eyes .
AAAAAaaaah~telepathy!!Aiyaahh~aaaa~
“Come to think of it, Nogiku”
“! , Yes!”
Nii-sama said, suddenly turning to face me .
Oh!? Did it get through? Did it get through?
I’m so cool!
I have to brag to Oyaji-sama that my skills have increased tomorrow!!
“Seems like a girl’s just come in as a worker at Amatsuki”
“Oh!! Really!?”
That wasn’t what I wanted to ask, but putting that aside for now…a girl!! A real girl!? What I’d kept hoping for all this time has finally come to Amatsuki!?
O,Oyaji-sama, please let me go back to Amatsuki right away .
“Nogiku, you were picked up, right? Seems like Oyaji-sama picked up this girl too, but she’s already 12 and big already . It’s impossible for her to become a kamuro and be raised and to play…no, raising her is impossible . She’s a girl, first of all .
Helloooo, I am a girl .
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“So it looks like they have her working behind the scenes and gave her the necessities . When you were at Amatsuki, there wasn’t anything worrying that happened, and you got along well with everyone so they all thought that it would be fine even if there was another girl . ”
“I, I see,”
Wouldn’t it be weird if there was a problem with a little 5 year old? Oyaji-sama, your standards are messed up!
“is what Oyaji-sama seemed to think, but I think it wasn’t like there weren’t any problems,”
Nii-sama said, staring into my eyes meaningfully .
Hm? That right now was kind of cool . You were cool, nii-sama!
“All the brothers know, right? Even working in back, they’ll still meet at some point, right?”
“Yeah, maybe because of you, but there weren’t many people against it . But it’s just the back . So there really aren’t any chances to see the prostitutes . They said it was mostly laundry, just with futons the amount to do is insane”
I see .
In short, it’s because of me, right? Heheh .
But Oyaji-sama . What happened to the sense of danger and the “it’ll disrupt the order!” when we first met? I feel like Oyaji-sama has gotten soft in a lot of ways as he gets older . Must be age .
But accompanying this, it seems like the rules of Yoshiwara have gotten more lax lately too . The prostitutes are now allowed to go outside on the two days of vacation they get a year, and while there’s someone watching over them, they’re more free than before .
And during the afternoon, when there aren’t any customers they’re now allowed to go into town and go to Yoshiwara’s cafes or accessory sellers, stores lined with books, and others . When you left your brothel, you would carry a note from that brothel with you, and then when you came back you would be like “I’m a prostitute of this brothel!” and then the place’s clerk would check the note and let you back in .
Fun fact, the only way to get out of Yoshiwara was a single large gate . Women could get in and out, but apparently men couldn’t get out easily . Getting in wasn’t really a problem, but to get out you had to have something to prove your identity otherwise you wouldn’t be let out, being suspicious; like “aren’t you a prostitute somewhere?” and until you could prove who you were, it would take at least two days before you were allowed to go home .
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And all around Yoshiwara there was a tall wall, and here and there muscular guards were posted so running away wasn’t possible either .
Someone like Jyuugi nii-sama, who retired from being a prostitute and worked a different job under Oyaji-sama should have something to prove their identity so it should be fine but… .
So Jyuugi nii-sama . Let’s go and find the spring of your youth .
“I see…so that’s how it is…”
“Yeah . Well…I’m glad you’ve got a fellow girl now . You’ll only be able to meet her in two years, but look forward to it”
“Yes!”
“Oh, Nogiku, you look so cute when you smile~, here”
“oof,”
My cheeks were pinched by two hands . Oooouch .
“Hwhwat hinda hirl ish ith (what kind of girl is it)”
“Let’s see…Maybe kind of like a kitten?”
“Hoh! Leish a widdle hiddy? (Oh! Like a little kitty?)”
Little kitty, c’mere!!
Ah, come to think of it, girls… which means she should know how to deal with periods!! Yes yes, that’s right . When I go back to Amatsuki that’s the first thing I’ll do . If I remember right, this time period didn’t call them periods…Then, “Nice to meet you! Um, what do you do about the blood that comes out of your butt?” … . yeah, no, uhh…
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But the problem was to not become a bloodstained mess before then . I’ll have to suppress my female hormones? for two more years…
M,maybe I’ll just get really buff~ . I’m becoming a guy anyway? And plus Shuusui’s told me that “you’re not a girl, are you” before, so I probably have the talent . I’m gonna be a guy .
… . wait, I’ll change the subject for a bit but there’s something that bothers me .
Holding back the hands that were even now still rubbing my cheeks, I decided to ask .
“That girl, what does she do for baths and stuff?”
“Ah-, seems like she goes to a public bathhouse that’s right outside the front gate”
What!! There was such a place!?
I didn’t know that!!
“I know this is a bit late, but can’t I go there too?”
“Mm, there’s no way”
“Oh, is that so”
“Here—”
“*squish*”
Ooowww .