About 3 days after he was released from the so called “Fluffy hell”, he wanted to go with me and explore the town.
We walked outside the hotel and onto the main street. For now, let’s head over to the market because that’s where most of the people are.
There were people displaying and selling various items. From food, to miscellaneous goods to clothing and items were sold there. Were there any good bargains to be had? People mixed around while searching for things they were looking for.
(『It’s pretty lively here isn’t it?』)
(『This is tentatively the center of town. You can buy things cheaply here so it’s a place that everyone comes to.』)
Kohaku and I didn’t hear us talking. Being that we were summoner and summoned beast, we could more or less understand what we were thinking. We didn’t really talk out loud because people would think that I was nuts.
Although Kohaku was in this form Kohaku was still a tiger. He stood out after all. But, everyone just looked from a distance, with the reaction of seeing something unusual and didn’t overreact at all. Occasionally some girls would pat his head as they passed by.
Because we were in the presence of other people, he pretended to be a tiger cub and Kohaku let out a “Gau gau” which in turn made the girls happily pat his head more. Since he had been liberated from our girl’s attention it was a disaster….
But it really is crowded isn’t it? We should try not to get separated. Well, even if we were to be separated, I would be able to feel where he was and find him easily.
People kept mixing around me and Kohaku was starting to get restless, it could be bad. I was starting to look troubled. Because of that I picked him up and held him. At first he didn’t want to, but shortly settled down.
Just like that we walked around then suddenly, Kohaku looked over to the right, in the crowd of mixing people.
(『Master, is that not Yae over there?』)
(『Eh?』)
Abruptly, I looked in the crowd and followed Kohaku’s glance, over at the edge, on the side where the flow of traffic wouldn’t be interrupted, Yae was squatting down. There was also a girl of about 4 years of age sobbing in front of Yae. Yae was working very hard to calm her down.
「What are you doing Yae?」
「Touya-dono? Kohaku is with you also, degozaru?」
After seeing our faces, Yae shows relief on her face. What happened? That’s an unusual expression for Yae.
「…This child is?」
「That is, she seems to be lost, degozaru」
A lost child? In this crowd it seemed to be easy to get lost. I looked around in the vicinity while thinking so. In this crowd, looking for the parents will be difficult.
「Ok, what is your name?」
「Uku…Feeee….Mommy….」
It’s no use. It’s not a place for her name it seems. If she doesn’t stop crying we won’t be able to ask her anything..
「I also tried to ask her things like her name, where she came from, but she wouldn’t answer at all degozaruyo.」
Yae sighed as she let out a worried face. Fumu, we need to get some kind of information.
I put Kohaku in front of the girl. The girl momentarily startled but pinched her face again and was about to cry again. I ordered Kohaku in my heart.
『What is your name?』
Kohaku speaks to the girl. The girl who until now was ready to weep at any moment looked at the tiger cub and blinked. Then blinked again, and had a puzzled look.
『What is your name?』
「…………Rimu……」
『I see, it’s Rimu is it?』
The girl gave a small nod to Kohaku’s question. Great, Kohaku guidance success. Of course, when a tiger cub starts talking to someone they become dumbfounded.. Now then, let’s take a look shall we?
「Search: Rimu’s family」
I activated the no-attribute magic “Search” I should know if they’re within a 50 meter radius. ………No response. Are they not close by?
「Any thing, degozaru?」
「No. At least they’re not within 50 meters.」
Un, what should I do? Use “Search” while walking around? The weakness of “Search” is the retrieval range is considerably small.
Huh…wait a second. To me if I were to look at a normal person I wouldn’t be able to determine if that is “Rimu’s family.” Isn’t it obvious that nothing would be retrieved using this method? To not recognize or if there really isn’t anyone one there, that isn’t something that I can determine using this magic. I don’t know the criteria.
It feels like the time when I did the poison search. I didn’t know what kind of poison it was, but if I were to taste it I would die, it was poison, and that’s how if found it? It was the same with Vanilla, because I knew what vanilla smelled like it was able to find it… it was something like that.
It was true that if a human was to tell themselves “that’s wrong” then they wouldn’t be able to judge it.
Let’s get a little more information.
『Who did you come here with?』
「Mommy」
『Your mother….do you know what the color of your mother’s clothing is?』
「Um…….Green clothes」
Kohaku asked questions and little by little Rimu gave Rimu’s mother’s information one after the other. Hair, brown, long hair; Green clothes, silver bracelet; Blue eyes; not fat. That’s good, it was possible to get a general image in my mind. With that information I might be able to recognize Rimu’s mother. One more try.
「Search: Rimu’s mother」
No response. It’s no good huh?
「Anything, degozaru?」
Yae asked but I shook my head. The search range is still too small. If I were able to use my Smartphone app to use it as my search range then it would be a lot of help. I wonder if someone would make me a “Search” app.
………………………..Wait a sec.