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[I’m glad for you. I wonder if I should also make a futon? The bed just doesn’t agree with my body.]
[I will also make a futon at my place. After all, it’s easy to tidy up. The room’s space will become wider, and it will be easier to clean.]
The Japanese reincarnators of the Reincarnators Association are excited. Futons sure are nice. I wonder if I, who thinks the same, am a Japanese after all.
The Reincarnators Association is generally equally divided when it comes to races. From White-, Black-, and Yellow-skinned race. It’s 1:1:1. This town’s population is 5000. Since one-tenth of the population are reincarnators, it means there are 500 people.
[This isn’t the only Reincarnators Association, a lot is scattered in the town. This town’s pretty wide, you see. If I’m not wrong, there should be about 20 of it.]
[The town is a clean square. Have you known about the intersection of the go board? Apparently the structure was based on a Chinese town, and this place is close it. In every 20 blocks of that intersection, there’s a Reincarnators Association.]
[This is the 12th association. Right now, there are 27 people. Since there are also reincarnators who don’t come because they’ve grown old, it’s not everyone. Those who have just reincarnated will also rush in here, and we also help with raising the children. But they naturally become distant after 20 years have passed after reincarnating, and they no longer come.]
[The Men’s Club, too?]
[The Men’s Club is different. It’s rare for men to reincarnate so even though there are 20 females, there is only one male. I wonder if there are only five male reincarnators including you as of now?]
[It’s rare, you know?]
Even though Tanya said it with sparkling eyes, I don’t feel happy even if it’s treated as rare.
[No, it really is valuable in a certain sense. Women have age limit to bear children, meaning there’s a season. But men can continue giving birth. I’m not sure if it’s because you don’t have menstruation, but men can give birth even if you’re 20 or sixty years old.]
[……………..]
[Don’t cry, aren’t you a man?]
[I don’t wanna give birth. Since I’m a man.]
[‘It is easier to bear(a child) than to worry about it’, don’t you know such expression?]
[I don’t even want to know.]
Or rather, I feel like it has a different meaning.
I received a shock at the Reincarnators Association, so I ran to the Men’s Club.
[It’s the truth.]
It was easily asserted affirmatively.
[Although we’re the only male reincarnators in the town currently at the moment, when I reincarnated, I heard there was another one. Also, that person has apparently given birth.]
That's right~, Haruka nodded after Allec brought up the topic.
[The reincarnators are being reincarnated roughly at 15-6 years old*. And, Allec also reincarnated about the same time I did. At that time there were hardly any male reincarnators, and there was no Men’s Club either. But, I also heard. Apparently there was another male reincarnator who gave birth at a place a bit far from here.](TN: Their reincarnated bodies, most probably)
[Although I’ve never met him, I also heard the same. That person seemed to have been about 70 years old when he gave birth.]
[Uwahh~]
I ended up being taken aback reflexively.
[But it looked like it caused a bad result…. after giving birth, it looked like he died before the baby is even 10 days old.]
Haruka sighed.
[It would have been fine if the husband looked after him.]
[That’s impossible~. The husband was 21 years old and that baby became their first child after all.]
Listening to Haruka’s words, I tilt my head.
[What do you mean?]
[Oh, you didn’t know? The transmigrated woman’s husband is the one who performed the ceremony and as long as nothing major happens they’ll be married for life, but male reincarnators get used around.]
[The man who performed the ceremony is the first husband, if he gets tired of him then on to the next husband, that’s how we go around. Male reincarnators belong to everybody, or something.] (TN: Hmm, I don’t like this information. -_-)
Duke jokingly said, but nobody’s eyes are laughing.
[I’m on my second husband.]
[Mine is my first.]
[Mine is my third.]
[I’m… on my fifth husband.]
[FIFTH!?]
I was shocked by Haruka’s number. What does he mean when he said it’s his fifth husband?
[Since it’s been ten years since I reincarnated, I have five husbands. But, well, Allec who is also in his tenth year like me has only one, though.]
[I also got sold once.]
[EH!? Was that so!?]
[Yes. In the seventh year after my reincarnation, the schedule for my husband’s ceremony was decided. But it’s such a waste to give it to the woman so I ended up throwing the money away.]* (TN: Not sure about this one.)
It’s probably their first time hearing it, Haruka, Kent, and Duke were shocked.
Allec smiled and continued.
[I got scolded. I was beaten until he got sick of it…. That was the only time he got that mad. That’s why I will give up if it happens again.]
Allec looked down for a bit, then he smiled faintly.
I wonder if I will also change husbands someday. If I do, I wonder what will happen?
It seems male reincarnators can be bought and sold.
The husband who has performed the ceremony sells him to the next man. Because the ceremony costs a lot of money, a person who can’t afford it buys.The market price is two thirds of how much it takes for the ceremony.
The price drops in the second-third round. The quality of the husband also drops as much. There’s a bruise on Haruka’s face. Anew one appears before the previous one disappears, they’re marks left after he was beaten.
If only he goes out as much as Duke and Kent, he will probably not get beaten as much. Haruka's physique is about the same as mine.
Will I also get hit? That guy’s arms were pretty thick. I hug my shivering self.
I wonder what I will do.
What’s going to happen from now on?
The sun sets beyond the straight road.
The sunset here is dark red and looks ominous, dying the town in the color of blood. It’s completely dark after I returned. Without the moon or stars, there’s nothing illuminating the night sky.