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But It's Cold
After properly putting on winter clothes and fnished getting ready, we left the mansion and headed toward the East forest. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
The inside of the forest is pure white. The trees in the forest are adorned with fallen snow.
The place that doesn’t have a lot of snow piled on top stands out as the outline and it looks pretty reminiscent of a paper-cut artwork.
Each time I step forward my feet step on the piled-up snow. The soft snow makes crunching sounds and it feels fun.
And the treaded snow stops my feet.
Sometimes the piled-up snow is deep and there are also times when my feet go so deep, but that’s part of the charm of walking in the snow.
「Boy, walk on the place I have walked on as much as possible, okay? Otherwise, you’ll get stuck at an unexpected place and get hurt, you know?」
Bartolo warned me about it when I played around and stepped on the snow.
「Sorry sorry, I was just enjoying the feeling of walking on the snow」
「Is it fun to step on the snow?」
「It’s fun you know」
Eleonora-neesan tilted her head in puzzlement as if not understanding the reason when I clearly answered her.
Well, it’s difficult for children to find joy in this kind of thing. I think there will come a time when Eleonora-neesan understands this when she grows tired from work and wants to relax for a bit.
The inside of the forest is really quiet. This is probably because most of the creatures in the forest are hibernating due to the snow. There is not much sign of life compared to other seasons.
「Ah, it’s a deer」
Eleonora-neesan whispered when I was looking around the surroundings checking if there were any animals. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I couldn’t find any deer when I followed her line of sight.
「Where is it?」
「It’s between the trees over there. It’s covered in snow and camouflaging itself so it’s hard to see」
When I tried to put mana into my eyes after Eleonora-neesan said that, I really saw a deer there.
However, I guess the deer already noticed us when I looked at it since it ran off into the distance.
As usual, it’s amazing how she can find something so far away.
I tried not to be inattentive and walked by following the path Bartolo had stepped on.
Bartolo’s feet are so big I feel like it won’t be a problem even if my feet are two times bigger.
It’s like I’m chasing a dinosaur’s footprints.
「Hm? There are other footprints other than us if you look closely」
It’s a little hard to see since they are covered in snow, but there are faint footprints left other than us on the ground.
「Yeah, the villagers are probably also catching warasabi like us」
「I see」
It’s a rare time when you can eat delicious small fish. The villagers may have also decided to come together.
It’s probably not going to be lonely with just the three of us fishing in that case.
And as I walked, the snow in the distance fell suddenly with a thud. Then the icicles that had stuck on the branches also fell due to the weight of the snow.
Bartolo suddenly stops walking seeing that. And when he started making snowballs, I guessed what he wanted to do.
Then Bartolo throws three snowballs at the three in front.
The fastball snowballs thrown by Bartolo hit directly right in the middle and the icicles fall to the ground.
「Yosh!」
Apparently, he intentionally aimed and hit just the middle.
I also did it often back in my previous life when there was a lot of snow piled up. Dropping icicles with snowballs. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I used to run around the neighborhood and hit icicles on the houses’ roofs with snowballs. Sometimes I would hit the walls or windows and get scolded for that.
「I will also do it!」
Bartolo’s little play stimulated Eleonora-neesan’s childlike mind.
My childlike mind also got stimulated and I silently made snowballs.
「Then, the miss will go for the right while the boy will go for the left side. Hit it right, okay?」
After Bartolo said that, Eleonora-neesan and I aimed for our respective sides.
I want to hit it accurately, given that I will be made fun of if I were to make a mistake.
However, it’s too difficult to beat Eleonora-neesan in this kind of contest.
If it comes to the point where Eleonora-neesan hit them accurately, then I will probably miss them at some point if it continues.
So I decided on a plan.
「Can I throw first?」
「Sure」
Eleonora-neesan accepted it without realizing the first step of my plan.
After this, I will be able to win if I can hit the icicles accurately.
I measure the distance of the icicle with my eyes. Maybe it’s because of using Space magic’s Teleport that my ability to grasp space is sharp.
After fully grasping the distance to the icicles, I just need to throw it and hit the area where the icicles are.
And after simulating the trajectory of the snowball many times in my mind, I throw the snowball.
The snowball I threw flew *hyuu* and directly hit the left side of the icicles.
The snowball flew to the right and hit even Eleonora-neesan’s icicle in the process.
「Ooh, you’re aiming for a double takedown eh, boy!」
「Yosーhh, it’s my win!」
「Haa!? What’s that!? I haven’t even thrown my snowball though?」
Eleonora-neesan protests as she raises her voice when I declare that after dropping two icicles.
「I mean, there are no more icicles for Eleonora-neesan to drop. In the end, Eleonora-neesan couldn’t drop any, so it’s my win, right?」
After I told her that, Eleonora-neesan made a motion to throw a snowball at me while smiling brightly.
And as I ran away thinking it would hit me, Eleonora-neesan’s thrown snowball continued to fly in the wrong direction. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
It’s strange Eleonora-neesan can miss at such a distance, or so I thought, but then I saw the snow above me fall on top of my head when I looked up.
「Uwaa! Cold!」
The snow went inside my clothes through the gap in my clothes, probably because the snow fell on top of my head.
Eleonora-neesan watched me with satisfaction as I tried to remove the snow from my clothes in a hurry.
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We arrived at the lake after walking along the snowy road. Before, this place was a resting and drinking place for herbivores and other creatures, but that scene can’t be seen anymore.
「It’s just as Bartolo said, there are a lot of villagers here」
「Right」
It seems like the villagers are fishing the warasabi by making a hole on top of the frozen lake.
It’s a quiet scene in the forest, but here it was faintly lively.
「Looks like it’s frozen completely」
Bartolo steps on the frozen lake as though checking on it.
Even a man as large as Bartolo doesn’t make the ice crack or anything when he steps on it. The lake is probably frozen solid.
We walk on the ice following Bartolo.
I don’t have to use Ice magic right now since we can walk on the lake. Although, I couldn’t observe the fish swimming leisurely in the water. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Maybe because of how thick the ice was, it’s impossible to see what the water below looks like.
「Okay then, where should we do it?」
「Where are the warasabi? That’s the important thing」
「Ohー! Isn’t it Al and Eleonora-sama!」
Just as I was talking with Bartolo about the fishing point, I heard a familiar voice calling out.
Looking back, I saw Torr, Asmo, Ema-oneesama, and Sheila hanging fishing lines into the hole over there.
Torr waves his hand as though to tell us to come there, so we approach them.
「Ohー, Torr and Asmo. Been a while」
I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Torr and Asmo somehow.
Guess it’s because I’ve been busy with the harvest festival, kotatsu, and making battle pencils.
「That’s because Al doesn’t come out of your house」
「We’ve called you over and over you know. You shut-in」
Even though it’s a long-awaited greeting, quite a bunch of thorny friends.
Certainly, I’ve received invitations to play from Torr and Asmo many times before. However, I declined them all because I’m busy.
These two are probably holding a grudge against me because of that.
So I clearly tell them while understanding that.
「I mean, winter is cold after all」
Torr and Asmo shrugged their shoulders as if giving up at my brazen words. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
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