The Tanaka Family Reincarnates: Volume 5 (eBook)

Choco (Autor)

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2025
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-1331-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Eastern Empire is so full of delicious Japanese luxuries, why would the Tanakas ever want to go home? All good things must come to an end, but that doesn't mean it's the end of the whirlwind of craziness that always surrounds this family. They'll have to deal with a most bewitching bombshell once they get home, but surely, they can handle it with just as much grace as they always have...right? Right?

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Chapter 74: A Look That Could Kill

White rice.

Monster-based cooking using soy sauce and miso.

A natural hot spring dug up by their adorable kitties.

“The Eastern Empire is heaven... I kinda wanna live here...” Emma muttered with utter satisfaction as she held a perfect traditional rice ball with umeboshi in it in one hand.

“Yeah. That might be the move,” Leonard responded, and the rest of the family nodded in agreement.

“Lady Emma, I’ve prepared some tea.” Joshua gently served Emma a tea they called “ryokucha” in the Eastern Empire. While he was initially surprised by the green color of the tea, after seeing Emma drinking it so happily, he’d bought the tea leaves without any hesitation and learned how to prepare it himself.

“Thanks, Joshua! The tea you make is always so tasty. And I mean both your black tea and ryokucha. I wonder what makes it so different?” Emma grinned, now with a rice ball in her right hand and freshly poured ryokucha in her left. “Man... Rice balls and ryokucha really are a match made in heaven...”

“You can say that again...” George and William responded with expressions of pure bliss.

The Tanakas were currently enjoying their lives in the Eastern Empire to the fullest. They couldn’t have all the rice they could eat, but they still were able to have it once a day.

The Eastern Empire really was heaven.

“Lady Emma, I’ll gladly serve you tea every day for the rest of our lives!” The reason Joshua’s tea was so delicious was that he was using the highest-quality tea leaves he could procure in the Eastern Empire (even with its food shortages), preparing it perfectly by the book, then serving it at the exact temperature and steep time that Emma liked. For Emma’s smile, Joshua would not skimp even on tea preparations. That was just how Joshua was; he would keep up the hard work until Emma realized she simply couldn’t live without him. In fact, he’d be pampering her even more once she did think that. What made Joshua’s tea so different was the intense affection he felt for her.

“Hee hee. You say the funniest things sometimes, Joshua.” Unfortunately for him, Emma didn’t notice it a bit. He might as well have been proposing to her with that declaration, but she ignored it spectacularly. Emma/Minato Tanaka, the woman who lived to thirty-five years old without ever having married, was truly a force to be reckoned with.

“Lady Emma’s smile...is just so angelic...” Yet all of Joshua’s myriad efforts were paid back in kind with the utter bliss he felt upon seeing a single smile from Emma.

“Quit your relaxing, dammit!!!”

Oliver, the man who had accompanied the family as a diplomat, was the one to destroy their peaceful, relaxing vibe. His frustrated screaming was understandable. In fact, it had already been over a month since they’d defeated the owatas. They’d achieved what they came to the Eastern Empire to do a month ago, so they should have been able to go back to the kingdom a month ago. Yet here they were, still in the Eastern Empire.

“Oh. You’re here, Oliver.” Melsa shot a dirty look at the diplomat. She’d wished he’d quiet down while they were trying to eat.

“I’ve been here the whole damn time, Melsa! Do you have any idea how long it’s been since we got rid of those owatas?! Even if we leave right here and now, the social season in the kingdom will be over by the time we get back!”

The family had defeated the owatas lickety-split, so Oliver had been hoping he’d actually be able to get home for the social season he’d initially given up on attending that year. Unfortunately, that hope was dashed, so he was extremely displeased.

During the social season, every envoy and merchant from the Western Empire would come to the kingdom, and it was the perfect chance for the kingdom’s nobles to make connections with people in the Western Empire. If they did well enough, they might have been able to get the Western Empire’s major export of cotton for cheaper than the market price. In doing so, the nobles could get a little pocket change by selling it within the kingdom afterward. Therefore, lords who were trying to compensate for the harsh financial situations they were in gathered in the capital, and it was packed so full the people looked like little bits of trash. But this meant that Oliver, as a diplomat, had missed his chance to make an impression on the envoys from the Western Empire who had been staying in the capital.

“You could’ve just gone on ahead without us,” Leonard sneered as he tried out Emma’s freeze-dried miso soup. He was none too happy with Oliver being so rude to his wife.

“You think a diplomat can just waltz on back home by himself?! They’ll think I’m just some coward who couldn’t handle being in the Eastern Empire!” Oliver’s face was red with shame and fury. He’d been a diplomat for many long years, yet he was the only one who couldn’t get used to life in the Eastern Empire, and it was a major blow to his pride.

“You can go if it’s too hard on you, man. There’s nothing wrong with running if you wanna.” George put a hand on Oliver’s shoulder. Oliver had gotten quite haggard over the two months they’d been in the Eastern Empire. After all, he was surrounded by people who didn’t speak a lick of his own language. He thought that if the Stewarts could do it, then surely he could do it too...but reality was cruel. No matter how long he was in the Eastern Empire, no matter how much he surrounded himself with the Eastern imperials, no matter how much he put himself in places where the Eastern imperial language was used, he hadn’t gotten the slightest clue how to speak it. He was still far from understanding it, and he couldn’t even pronounce simple greetings correctly.

It was so hard. It was so painful that of course he wanted to just go back home. And yet...

“Why won’t you people just go home?!” Oliver was suffering from a major case of homesickness for the capital. “The food here isn’t terrible, but I can’t get used to it. And all their weird customs like taking off your shoes when you go into a building? And all those weird chhkk chhkk sounds I keep hearing every single night?! And it’s smaller and closer to the border than the kingdom, so I’m constantly terrified monsters are going to show up... I mean, aren’t you all?!” After bottling it up for so long, Oliver had reached his limit and exploded. Unfortunately, nothing bad had actually happened to him since he’d come to the Eastern Empire, so he was just lashing out in general.

“The rice here is like...the best ever, though?” William said, puckering his lips at the umeboshi in his rice ball.

“It’s more hygienic to take your shoes off indoors too, isn’t it?” Melsa responded, reaching for her second rice ball.

“Having monsters nearby is normal anyway, isn’t it?” Leonard and George said as they each reached for their third rice ball.

“Grrr... What is with you people?! How can you be so callous?! What about you, merchant boy?! You want to go back already, right?! You had some serious nerve leaving the capital during the social season! You can’t seriously think now’s the time to be dawdling in the Eastern Empire!” The Stewarts seemed like they were actually living it up more than they were in the capital. If Oliver couldn’t get through to them, then it was time to shift targets to Joshua.

“Hmm? Well, I’d heard that the quality of cotton in the Western Empire this year was atrocious, and they were trying to sell it at exorbitant prices too. If we’d just bought their cotton like they wanted, we’d be sitting on a major loss right about now. I think you’ll see when you get back, but I think it was for the best that you weren’t in the capital this year, Lord Oliver. That being said, I’m happy as long as I can be by Lady Emma’s side.” At that, Joshua dutifully put himself by Emma’s side and refilled her tea. His actions practically screamed, This is the perfect chance to get a leg up on all my romantic rivals too!

“More importantly, Lord Oliver! Can you tell me more about the weird sounds you were hearing?” Emma completely ignored Joshua’s honeyed words to latch onto Oliver’s whining instead.

The family was currently not in Edo, but rather staying in the little village (camp) they’d made out of owatas, so this was the first time they’d seen Oliver in a while. Even though they’d defeated the owatas, the majority of buildings in Edo had been destroyed, and it would take some time to go back to the way it had been before. It was also easier to receive food from the distribution system in Edo, so many of the Eastern imperials were still living there. As such, the family decided it was probably for the best not to let the citizens see the cats and amblypygids. Or rather, after seeing the emperor’s and shogun’s reactions, they realized they had to hide them. Therefore, the Stewarts were simply taking it easy in the village they had made, hunting monsters from time to time, and making can openers and the like.

However, unlike the Stewarts, Oliver, whose distrust of others was only exacerbated by being in a foreign country with a language barrier and a culture and way of life he didn’t understand, found even being in the capital with all the other...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2025
• Reihe/Serie: The Tanaka Family Reincarnates
• Illustrationen: kaworu
• Übersetzer: Sasha Schiller
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• Schlagworte: Cats • Comedy • Family • High Society • light-hearted • Light Novel • Low Fantasy
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-1331-4 / 1718313314
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-1331-6 / 9781718313316