Summer Days with Coo Page #2

I don't like it either!

Mom, don't be so negative. Here, take a look at it.

I don't want to!

It's surprisingly cute. Really!

I won't!

Please.

Stop it! Stop it! Don't come closer!

I said, please.

Stop it! That's enough! Otherwise, I'm going to get angry.

Don't... kill me.

What?!

Don't... kill me.

Save... me...

Kouichi! Place it back in the water! Quick!

Erm, sure.

Hey! It just spoke!

Pour water onto the plate on its head.

Apparently, a kappa is weakened if its plate dries.

Huh? It's true?

Erm, yeah... Now, hurry up!

So you could talk?

Did you feed it anything?

Yeah, I thought that kappas are usually associated with cucumbers, so I gave it a few slices of cucumber.

It's eaten a little.

Seriously, it's not an insect, you know.

You have to feed it with something that will give it more energy!

Like what?

Let's see... Something like... Erm...

Would it eat sashimi and the like?

Hey! Hey!

That's a good idea!

Here, open your mouth...

It ate it!

Wow! As expected from Mom!

Not bad, eh?

So, what shall we do?

Kouichi, can you really take the responsibility?

Sure, I will. Definitely!

Kouichi, for the time being, let's keep it a secret that we have a kappa in our house.

What? Why?

It's pitiful to place a kappa in front of excited crowds in its current state, don't you think?

Are we keeping it?

Your brother wants to keep it.

Really?

It's so weak. Why don't we help it?

Hey.

She's really annoying.

Get lost.

Seriously! That kid! I told him so many times last night too!

I'm coming in.

Here's your lunch.

It's your lunch. Can you eat it by yourself?

Thank you very much.

N-No problem.

Excuse me, but where am I?

What do you mean?

Is it close to Kurume river?

Apparently, in the past, Kurome river was called "Kurume river."

How far in the past was that?

Around the Edo period...

What?!

Hey, Coo was born in the Edo period?

Ah, you know, they wore their hair in a topknot, a top-knot.

What are you doing?

What about samurai? Swish!

Slash! Splatter!

Hey! Something's wrong with it!

What's wrong?

Hey, Coo, are you okay?

Is it the samurai? Are you scared of samurai?

Daddy was slain by that samurai...

I see. I'm sorry.

And after that, there was an earthquake.

I fell into a crack in the ground and got buried alive.

What?! So you've been buried till now?

How fortunate that you stayed alive...

Coo, relax. There aren't any samurai anymore.

Why?

Why? That's because...

A lot of things happened, and the era of the samurai ended more than a hundred years ago already.

I'm greatly indebted to you.

Thanks to your care, I've fully recovered.

I will be visiting you at some point with some fresh fish.

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