86. A woman who used to be an employee became my boss and went on a business trip to the island

After returning to the village from the government building, we were able to confirm that there were more people than before.

“It’s more lively than before.”

Doha looks around, covering the sunlight with his hand.

A lively? To see it as lively, everyone walks around like zombies.

You must be saying that the town earlier was strange enough to feel lively just by seeing people.

“Shall we hold on to each one and ask?”

“I don’t like working from the start.”

“Then come up with a good plan.”

Have you seen this brazen woman? Am I going to die? …Am I right?

It’s a good plan, but people’s expressions are all stiff, so it’s burdensome to approach.

I feel like I’m going to be treated coldly if I say the wrong thing and the cold wind blows.

“Let’s look at the liver first. It’s not something that can be done quickly.”

“How are you going to look at the liver?”

“How do you see it? I’ll watch it slowly.”

I dragged Doha with a question mark above her head and walked forward to merge into the street.

As I recklessly started walking down the street, Doha, who was following me, stabbed me in the side.

“What?”

“Listen. You’re a good listener.”

“What…”

At my words, Doha frowned and opened her mouth, then began to slowly roll her eyes and look around.

In a place we used to watch from a little far away, when we went inside, more colorful noises stimulated our ears.

Most people didn’t speak out loud.

To the extent that I wonder if it is considered that if I speak loudly, it irritates others.

The sighs of middle-aged women in groups of threes and fives.

A young couple looking at the food in the basket and making a spending plan.

A child who begs his parents to eat snacks.

Fishermen worry about whether they should overdo their fishing even on the coast.

“Can’t you hear something now?”

“Hmm. What. Roughly.”

“Among the stories that sound like this, I’m going to go to the far side.”

As soon as I snapped my fingers, satisfied with a decent plan, Doha shook her head.

Doha shook her head but didn’t deny it.

I wonder if 10 minutes have passed since I walked down the street like that. We heard a voice of determination unlike anything we had ever heard before.

“Who lives here?!”

“Grandpa, I told you yesterday and the day before yesterday.”

“So who?!”

A raspy old man’s voice. There was also a scratching noise, as if phlegm was stuck in the throat.

We stopped for a moment and paid attention to the conversation between an old man and a middle-aged man who were arguing in a butcher shop about 30 meters ahead.

“Tasha yo Tasha! I’m Alberto! You’re a butcher here! You bought meat yesterday too!”

A middle-aged man who answers loudly into the old man’s ear, perhaps because the old man’s hearing is bad.

“Do you know where Gunta went! He used to sell meat here!”

“Gunta is my father! He died three years ago, and you came to the funeral!”

The old man nodded while listening to the shouts of a middle-aged man with a frown on his face as if he was frustrated, then laughed and patted him on the back.

“Heh heh heh! Draw and draw! Sell a lot and a lot!”

“Yes yes go in!”

After completing the household survey, the old man waved his hand at the middle-aged man and pretended to go in and turned around.

Wanting to go back like that, the old man went straight to the flower shop on the other side.

“Natasha! Natasha! One lisianthus, please! Natasha!”

An old man who screams in front of a flower shop.

A woman rushed out of the flower shop to the old man’s basket, and she put flowers in his hand.

“Grandpa Ayu! Mother doesn’t go to the store anymore~”

“Eww?! So who’s the young lady?”

“Sista, sista~ Because I’m your daughter~ I gave you flowers yesterday too, right~?”

A flower shop woman who seems to have a better personality than a middle-aged man calms down the old man.

“Natasha has a daughter? Is that Natasha getting married?!”

“Ahahahaha! Her mother’s personality is a bit like that, but she’s living a good life.”

“Did you draw? Hey… Yes, did I give you the money?”

Did you feel the impermanence of time? The old man’s expression contained a calm sadness for a moment, and then I saw it pass.

The flower shop lady and the old man talked to each other in a lower voice, and the old man paid for a single pink-leaved flower.

“You have to come tomorrow too~ Please remember my name tomorrow~!”

“Draw it! Sistar!”

The old man, holding a flower in his hand, began to walk from house to house with a chuckle.

An old man who knocks on each door from home to shop without skipping a single one or calls people out with a loud voice.

Those who are annoyed, those who greet you with a smile, and those who are frustrated and eager to explain.

There were many people, but one common thing was that no one kicked out the old man.

“Is that it?”

Her doha released her hands from her arms and placed her hands on my shoulders.

You don’t have to think too long about her question. Anyone can see that he is not an old man with dementia.

One of the common reactions of people was to explain what happened yesterday.

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Not just yesterday, but the day before yesterday, three days ago, four days ago. There were also those who explained times older than that.

“Dementia.”

As soon as I recited the name of the old man’s illness, Doha’s fingers tensed up a bit.

“Why?”

Feeling her subtle grip on her shoulder, I turned to look at her, her somewhat uncomfortable look on her doha expression.

But even when I asked why, he kept a firm face and refused to answer.

Why is he like this?

Even while we were doing this, the old man was diligently wandering around and conducting household surveys.

Still, Doha didn’t say a word, just watching the old man’s every move.

I wonder if another 20 minutes passed like that. The old man, who was getting closer and closer to us, stopped to see if he had finally found Doha with me.

Then the old man, who had been staring at us with his eyes narrowed, began to approach us at a brisk pace.

The old man who stopped right in front of me and Doha seemed older than I thought.

Two cloudy eyes, white eyebrows and hair. The fine wrinkles and the flesh that had not overcome the years drooped down.

As if his delicately bent back hurt, the old man tapped his lower back with his hand and looked at me and Doha alternately.

“Ehh? It’s the first time I’ve seen you guys.”

“Oh, hello.”

“It’s not a greeting, it’s who!”

What is this old man like?

I couldn’t help but be taken aback by the old man’s threatening attitude.

An attitude unthinkable for an old man who treated the villagers with a friendly smile and chatter.

The old man’s expression started to become more and more stern, and his back began to straighten up in proportion to it.

“How dare these damn bastards come here!”

I feel an intense shock that shakes the five organs and six organs.

Thunder.

The old man’s voice was literally like thunder.

The thunderous voice of the old man struck from the sky pierced the eardrum and shook even the spirit.

I was startled and backed away from the tremendous sensation, wondering if it would feel like this if I was struck by lightning.

What was even more surprising was that Doha, as if surprised, grabbed my shoulder tightly and backed off together.

“Wouldn’t it be possible to get rid of it right away on Kagera Island!”

The gray-haired old man, his back fully straightened, gave off a handsome look.

I couldn’t understand what it was and I couldn’t keep up with the situation, but there’s only one thought that pops into my head right now.

Let’s bounce first.

“Sorry, sorry!!”

“Excuse me!”

I barely threw an apology at the old man, and at the same time ran away from the old man in a hurry.

Even as we run away, we can hear the old man running wild, unable to hold back his anger, and the sound of people coming out after hearing the riot holding on to the old man.

How far did you run away?

After running frantically, I came to my senses and found that we were on the seashore where the seawater was rushing in.

“Yaya! Stop stop!”

I still hold on to Doha’s arm as she rushes out without hesitation and forcibly stretches it.

Doha, who had been running after hanging me for about a meter, looked back at me with wide eyes as if she had finally come to her senses.

“Me. Why did I do that? Me.”

Even though he stopped, Do-ha stutters to the end to see if his heart hasn’t calmed down.

Is he scared right now?

It was the appearance of Doha that I thought I would never see, but unexpectedly, the more she panicked, the more her mind calmed down.

However, even though I had calmed down, her still uneasy eyes and frightened expression seemed to indicate that my feelings did not reach her.

And since the confident and bright woman always showed the opposite side, something like paternal love boiled within me.

I pulled Doha at once and put him in my arms and hugged him tightly. Doha, who was making her excuses, wrapped her arms around my waist as soon as I hugged her.

It is weak. Jericho is weak.

To my surprise, Doha was shivering.

“I’ve never been like this…”

“Come on, calm down. Nice.”

Do-ha makes unnecessary excuses as if she doesn’t want to believe that she’s scared.

Gently caress her back and the back of her head.

“Right, right.”

I take a deep breath to see if the trembling in Doha has subsided and to what extent I have stabilized.

“What a shame…”

Doha put strength into the arm holding me and clung to it even more.

What the hell was that old man like? Doha is in such a state because of the old man with dementia.

What a dragon. A dragon is not an ordinary dragon, but a light dragon, the daughter of the Dragon Lord and praised as the strongest.

An old man with dementia who kicks out the light dragon with a shout? He keeps stepping on his eyes.

“Are you okay now?”

“Uh.”

“Then will it fall?”

At my words, Doha rubs her face left and right against her chest.

You mean you don’t like it? I don’t think anyone will come to the beach anyway.

Looking around the beach while hugging Doha. The waves that came in calmly came out again as they broke into white.

The warm sunlight still shines on the ground, and the grains of sand reflect the light and glisten.

On the far horizon, black storms and thunderstorms rage like a seizure… But anyway, this place is fine as if it were another world.

“Let’s rest today. It’s about to be evening.”

“Yes.”

Doha nodding her head obediently against my chest. It’s unnecessarily cute and crazy.

“That’s why I’m not going to go like this.”

“Yes, but…”

“Wow!”

Doha took a moment to breathe, and then suddenly she let go of her body.

Thanks to her, I couldn’t stand her sudden weight, so I lost balance with her and tumbled onto her sand.

“Toot! Toot! Hey! The sand is all in!”

Spits out the sand in its mouth. It’s me, the sand that jumped up was a bit stuck to my body, but the river beneath me was completely covered with sand.

Should I praise Doha for sticking like a cicada without loosening her hands?

“It’s a mess.”

Doha As she brushed off the sand clinging to her hair, Doha’s arms wrapped around her waist loosened.

With his arms loosened, he got up, brushed off the sand, and reached out to Doha, who was still lying there.

“Let’s go. Find a lodging quickly and wash up.”

Doha reaches out but doesn’t hold my hand.

I looked down at Doha because I wanted to do something, and I saw a Doha with a large (大) character looking up at me.

“What are you doing? Don’t catch me.”

Did he suddenly become a field of flowers inside his head? You’re not going to enjoy a romantic date here.

For a moment, I thought of lovers’ pranks on the beach, but when I looked at Doha, there was no such sign.

Doha put her fingers together on her stomach and wiggled, then finally opened her mouth in a small voice.

“My leg is loose.”

“What?”

When I asked again, Doha with blushing cheeks looked at the horizon in the distance.

“My leg is broken. I can’t go. I can’t walk.”

Then he stretches out his arms towards me. Like a child begging for something.

“Carry me.”

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