Tanaka Family Reincarnates: Volume 2 (eBook)

Choco (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-1325-5 (ISBN)

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Welcome back to a world of giant cats, giant bugs, and giant screwups with The Tanaka Family Reincarnates! After the madness in the Vallery region, the Stewart family (formerly the Tanakas) are finally making their way to the capital. There, they will face their greatest challenge yet: school! Melsa has told them their primary goal is to not stand out, but that's no easy feat for this family. How will the Stewarts fare in the capital? Will they be able to make any new friends? Will high society make or break them? And what could the king possibly want to speak to them about? All this and more in The Tanaka Family Reincarnates Volume 2!

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Chapter 28: The Capital at Last

A single carriage rumbled into the capital in the middle of the night. The street was pitch-black, as the lights in town had been extinguished and the moon was hidden behind the clouds. The carriage flew by like a gust of wind, turning from the main street onto a smaller road, then coming to a stop before the gates of a manor.

“Mrowr!” The horse drawing the carriage let out a strange cry as if to let the carriage’s inhabitants know they’d arrived...except the beast wasn’t a horse. It was a massive cat with fur black enough to blend into the night.

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“Sis, I am begging you to give it a rest already!” William Stewart moaned the phrase that had grown so common, it might as well have become his catchphrase.

“Oh, calm down, William. We made it in time, didn’t we?” his elder sister Emma responded shamelessly.

“Sure, but only because we decided to have the cats pull the carriage in the middle of the night!” William groaned as he recalled their nightmarish journey. They’d nearly given up on a punctual arrival until someone had suggested letting the cats, with their superior night vision, pull the carriage through the darkness. From then on, they’d traveled day and night with hardly any rest at all, and had just barely managed to reach the capital in time.

They’d known it would be a long journey from the border region of Pallas, but under normal circumstances they would have arrived in the capital several days ago. They’d even left early to give themselves plenty of leeway, yet somehow it had turned into a mystical adventure of epic proportions that had them arriving with only one night to rest before they would have to hit the ground running.

“I wouldn’t call this ‘on time.’ Do you really think we’d be up this early setting up the bugs’ nests if that were true?” George, the oldest, interjected when he overheard his siblings’ bickering. If everything had gone as planned, they might have gotten to the capital in time to attend some afternoon and evening parties, thus getting to know some of the students at the school they’d be attending that year, learning about the classes they’d be taking, and most importantly, getting accustomed to the rules and conduct of high society.

Instead, all they’d “made it in time” for was a party that would be hosted that night by the royal family, celebrating the start of the school year. Unfortunately, even for this single event they still had a problem: Emma had no dress.

Who was it who’d said they could just deal with it when they got to the capital? How had no one foreseen them being this late in the first place? They had the very Herald of Hullabaloos herself in their family, and they should have expected the move would get her worked into a tizzy. They weren’t even supposed to need a nest for the insects, but she’d suddenly pitched the idea that morning, despite the fact that she’d had a carriage custom-made for her bugs. All one had to do was remove the wheels to make a perfectly acceptable insect hut. So what had happened on the way to the capital? Or more specifically what had Emma done to cause all this?

Emma was Emma. So obviously, she’d collected a massive quantity of new insects on their journey.

“Look, if there’s a bug I can’t find in Pallas, I’ve gotta add it to my collection so I can observe it!”

Emma was obsessed with bugs. There was no way she’d act like a well-mannered lady and suppress that love as they traveled. She’d heard there were rare butterflies in the west, so she’d grabbed her net. She’d heard there were giant earthworms swarming to the east, so she’d run off, shovel in hand. She was a problem child through and through.

The capital was directly north of Pallas. It should have been a straight shot from their home, but they’d had to keep zigzagging from east to west over and over again. Normally, her parents would have turned her down outright, but one look at the scar running from her face to her torso—the courtesy of a monster attack a year earlier—made it difficult for them to refuse her.

If their mother, Melsa, hadn’t wisely sent the carriage with their servants and furniture ahead, they might not have even had their own “nest” ready. Their childhood friend, Joshua, had wanted to stay alongside them until the very end, but he had a mountain of work waiting for him at the store he now managed, so he’d tearfully said his goodbyes to the family (mostly to Emma) and went on ahead as well.

So came the morning after their painstaking journey. If things had gone as planned, they would have been able to take a nice, long rest to recover, but now the whole family paid the price of the constant detours. Melsa was holding interviews for all the new servants they’d be hiring to work in their manor at the capital, on top of frantically managing all the various chores a new home demanded. Leonard was desperately trying to finish Emma’s dress for that evening. The three siblings were running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to take care of both the silkworms that were at the center of Pallas’s exports and the swarms of bugs Emma had added along the way.

Despite all this labor, the Stewart family were true blue aristocrats—counts in charge of the border region called Pallas. They worked themselves to the bone from morning to night—a far cry from the typically idle elegance one expected from aristocrats, though they didn’t seem aware of this idiosyncrasy.

The family’s obliviousness was entirely due to the fact that they had once been a family in another world. Despite the odds, the Tanaka family had reincarnated together. In their previous life, they were a completely normal family. If you looked up the word “average” in the dictionary, the Tanakas would have been there. They’d all recovered the memories of their past lives after eating matsutake mushrooms that Emma had found growing in their yard about a year ago—the matsutake’s natural deliciousness was just that transcendent.

The Tanakas, who were the most average of joes imaginable, had their work cut out for them in an aristocrat-laden area like the capital. The biggest problem was when their daughter Emma, who had always been a bit of an oddball, combined her memories with the Tanaka family’s Minato. These days, trouble followed her every step. She’d become a problem child of the highest degree.

Wherever great detectives lived, there would be crimes.

In worlds where heroes were born, there would be great villains too.

And wherever Emma was, there would be trouble.

She’d wreaked havoc in the relatively isolated border region she called home, so it was practically a guarantee she’d do the same in the kingdom’s capital.

To add to their unusual situation, all of the cats that the Tanaka family had owned throughout their lives had foreseen this reincarnation, so they also reincarnated—albeit at a massive size—so the whole family could be reunited once more. At this moment, the cats were patrolling their new home. The Stewarts’ manor in the capital was so very spacious that there was plenty of room for the cats to run about and find their own personal favorite spots.

“Lord George, Lady Emma, and Lord William!” Martha, Emma’s personal maid, called from outside. “Lady Melsa is calling for you! She would like you to meet her in the west wing parlor when you reach a decent stopping point!” Martha had come with the family from Pallas as well, and she was not about to set one foot in the bug haven that was the new Emma’s House, even if the space was originally intended for servant’s quarters. Martha was vital to the Stewarts, as she was the only person other than Melsa who would ever scold Emma.

“Okay, Martha! Thank you for telling us!” all three siblings replied, then hurried through the rest of their work. Martha couldn’t stop wondering what she was going to do with them—they were in the capital now. Normal aristocrats wouldn’t thank their maids, and they wouldn’t be caught dead taking care of insects, but nobody ever pointed this out to the Stewarts.

The silkworm larvae William and George were fervently rehoming were a massive fifty centimeters in length, but nobody ever mentioned how weird that was either. Truth be told, the two brothers were strange in their own right (unbeknownst to them), but Emma’s weirdness tended to overshadow the boys’.

“Oh, actually, Martha! Which one’s the west wing?”

“Every single part of our manor here is, like, way too big.”

“I’d be fine with a four-and-a-half tatami mat bedroom, personally... Honestly, it’d be nice to live here in the servants’ quarters instead!”

“You can say that again!”

The servants had all just finished telling the Stewart parents that they couldn’t say such strange things. Martha was beside herself with worry over how reckless the family was being here in the capital.

“I’ll draw you a map to the west wing. Just wait here.”

“Thanks, Martha!” the three siblings replied in earnest. All Martha could do was droop her shoulders over what handfuls they could be.

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The Tanakas held an emergency family meeting. Using the map...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Tanaka Family Reincarnates
• Illustrationen: Choco
• Übersetzer: Choco
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Cats • Comedy • Family • High Society • light-hearted • Light Novel • Low Fantasy
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-1325-X / 171831325X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-1325-5 / 9781718313255