Chapter 502 Chainsmoker Cat 6

Chapter 502: 502 Chainsmoker Cat 6

Today, a guest came to Penpen’s house.

She was a beastman with long black hair in a hime cut, and just by her impression, she looked like a fairly diligent high school girl.

Moreover, since she was neatly wearing a school uniform, she felt even more like a model student.

"Excuse me. I am Kaku Yomuko. I’m called Zikakineko. Yanineko-senpai is not at home, so I was about to go back, but they said she would be here, so I came to find her."

She blushed when she saw me and asked like that.

"If it’s Yanineko, she’s inside. Rest comfortably."

"Thank you."

"Zikaki, long time no see nya."

Zikakineko was in the middle of posting her self-written novels on a novel site called Kakeyome with a dream of becoming a professional novelist.

But I saw that her evaluations are very bad in the original and settings.

Yanineko was lying next to the air purifier, smoking and looking at her cell phone, and she sat in front of Yanineko and stared at her, as if she had something to say.

"Is there a bug on my face nya?"

"No, it’s the first time I’ve seen senpai reading writing. What is it about?"

"I’m looking at a novel posted on a novel site called Kakeyome nya."

At those words, Zikakineko clapped her hands and was extremely happy.

"That’s nice! I also love that site!"

"You didn’t ask nya..."

"Is it interesting?"

"I’m just reading it to kill time nya. But I’m starting to get tired of banishment stories and regression stories lately nya."

When Yanineko said that, Zikakineko strongly sympathized and began to talk at length about her own thoughts on web novels.

"That’s right! Cliché writings are like shit! It’s the harm of the ranking system. It’s human nature to ride trends to increase views, but because of desire for recognition, they actually lose creativity. Honestly, I think it’s impure. Moreover, since they’re not professional writers, isn’t the charm of web novels to write what you want?"

After saying that, Zikakineko glanced a little and brought up the main point.

"Actually, I... Ah, no... My friend is also serializing a novel on Kakeyome... I really want to hear senpai’s opinion."

She says it’s her friend, but she came here because she wants her own serialized novel to be evaluated.

Yanineko also looked like she noticed.

"You write novels nya?"

"Yes! Ah, no... My friend... The title is ’The Melancholy of Dragon Major’. I aimed for a full-fledged fantasy. For reference, ’Major’ is a job in that worldview."

"Just shut up and show it nya."

At those words, Zikakineko told us how to search for the novel she wrote.

So we went into the Kakeyome site and started to watch ’The Melancholy of Dragon Major’.

"This is... I can’t understand at all nya."

Certainly, as Yanineko said, it was packed with all kinds of difficult words, so you couldn’t tell what content was written.

In a word, Zikakineko’s writing was a novel where readability could not be found at all.

"Ahaha.... Th, that’s right? I knew it would be... It seems my friend hasn’t gotten the hang of it yet since she hasn’t been writing long."

At Yanineko’s evaluation, Zikakineko said that in a flustered manner.

"Tell her to write a banishment story nya."

At that time I said.

"Rather than just saying that, you should properly point out the cause. This novel, it seems like your friend’s first time writing. In a situation where tension is needed, she describes everything like how the breeze is, how the temperature is, how the surrounding landscape is, so I can’t concentrate at all. I wish she would omit what needs to be omitted and focus on important parts."

"I, I see..."

"Besides, even if you put in a lot of strange technical terms or difficult words like four-character idioms, readers will only think ’What the hell is this bullshit?’ You need to rewrite sentences to be more understandable. It’s a novel, not a technical book."

"Yes..."

I took out 10,000 yen from my wallet and handed it to Zikakineko.

"This is..."

"It’s a sponsorship. Somehow it reminds me of old times. Tell your friend. Tell her to buy snacks and do it."

I gave it because I remembered struggling writing novels in the Naruto worldview.

Without help or ability, I would have struggled like Zikakineko too.[Nano][Literature]

Zikakineko, when she received the sponsorship, her face that had hardened after hearing a bad evaluation loosened a little.

"Okay. I’ll try hard... No, I’ll tell her to try hard."

"Yeah."

Then Yanineko, who was watching from the side, said.

"Give me sponsorship too nya."

"What did you do to ask for sponsorship."

"So... I’m living hard, so there’s a need to sponsor for that nya."

I immediately gave her a honey chestnut for Yanineko’s absurd words.

Smack!

"Ouch! It hurts nya."

"Ahaha... Anyway, I’ll be going now."

"See you again nya."

Zikakineko left like that, but I felt like she would come often.

The next day, since it was a day off and she was bored, Yakuneko came to Penpen’s house wearing a straw hat and even holding a bug net.

Then she suddenly suggested going to the mountains.

"To catch stag beetles?"

"Yeah, in summer, it’s stag beetles!"

Unexpectedly, Yakuneko has gone through a lot, but still seems to have a childlike heart alive.

But everyone’s reaction was not good.

Aruneeko was sleeping after drinking alcohol, and Penpen Neko was in the middle of cleaning.

Moreover, Yanineko was not visible because she went to work part-time today.

"Hmm... Stag beetle... Okay, let’s go catch them. Since it’s hot, let’s buy ice cream too."

When I said that, Yakuneko’s expression became extremely good.

It seems she was rejected by all other beastmen.

Honestly, I also didn’t really want to go.

Because I didn’t really like bugs.

But since Yakuneko did that, it was hard to refuse.

She was a girl who lived in a not-so-good environment, but I wanted to keep the good parts.

We were moving to the mountains in Yakuneko’s car, the Alphard, and on the way, we saw Yanineko walking around in work clothes.

So we stopped the car and called Yanineko.

"Yanineko-senpai, wasn’t today your part-time job?"

"That’s really absurd nya. At the interview, they said I could smoke, but when I went today, the smoking room was under construction nya. So I took the opportunity and ran away nya."

If it were a normal person, they might have been dumbfounded hearing ’I ran away because I couldn’t smoke’.

But in this world, the story was different.

For beastmen, smoking was not just a preference but one of the indispensable welfare.

So in the case of hard and tough jobs, there were many places that lure beastmen with tobacco or recruit beastmen under the condition that they can smoke as much as they want.

"But where are you guys going nya?"

"We’re going to the mountains to catch stag beetles."

At those words, Yanineko also got in the car.

"Since I have nothing to do, I’ll follow nya."

Yakuneko was extremely happy that Yanineko also follows.

"That’s nice. This kind of thing is more fun when there are many people."

"But are stag beetles delicious nya?"

"Huh? It’s not for eating."

"If you’re not going to eat it, why catch it nya?"

"Stag beetles are so cool!"

I drove again to the mountain while hearing such crazy talk.

"This way!"

Yakuneko, who suggested going, was the most excited.

"There’s one over there."

"Oh, it’s a big one! I’ll catch it!"

I was helping Yakuneko catch stag beetles, but Yanineko sat under a tree and was smoking cigarettes.

I don’t know why this girl followed if she’s going to do this.

Then eventually an accident happened.

Because Yanineko threw a cigarette butt anywhere, a small fire started around.

I immediately found the fire and hurriedly extinguished it.

If I had found it a little later, it could have spread into a big forest fire.

Smack!

"Ouch! Violence is against nya!"

"This girl, you shouldn’t throw butts carelessly in such a mountain!"

Because of that, I had to check each place where Yanineko threw butts.

"It’s hot nya. Let’s go now."

"Okay, senpai."

In the end, we couldn’t catch for long and had to come down from the mountain again.

And then we went to an ice cream shop and bought ice cream.

"Delicious nya! As expected, in summer, soft ice cream is the best nya!"

"But, Jin, why do you buy so much ice cream?"

Yakuneko asked, seeing the many ice creams I was carrying, so I explained the reason while looking at Yanineko once.

"Because someone is eating up the ice cream at home."

"Ahaha... I, I see..."

"Anyway, let’s go back. It’s almost lunch time soon."

"Okay."

We returned without any particular incident like that.

But that evening, I got a call from Rani, the chieftain of Alpha Village.

She said it’s harvest season, so she told me to come to see the festival as well.

She said she will also share tobacco and wine produced in the village, so I decided to go the next day to see the construction progress as well.

"Ah, Jin was developing Alpha Village, I’ll go too."

When I told that news to those guys too, Yakuneko was very happy, as if she already knew Alpha Village.

"Ah, good. I’ll go too. Lately, I’ve been lacking content."

"Was that where Jin asked to help with work? I should go once too."

Hameneeko also decided to follow, saying she lacked personal broadcast content, and Kansai Neko, after hearing the story and realizing that it might be where she will work in the future, said she would go together.

"I’ll go too nya. It looks fun nya."

Yanineko also said she would go, but Penpen couldn’t go.

Because the construction company is Kujo Construction, which is an affiliate of her family’s company, there might be someone who recognizes her.

So she decided to stay at home and take care of Aruneeko.

The next day, we moved to Alpha Village in the Alphard, feeling like going on a picnic.

"Wow, this didn’t exist before, but the road is well paved and they’re building pretty buildings."

"Yeah, right now nothing is completed except roads and bathrooms, but they’re making it quickly, so by next year we should be able to operate convenience stores and factories. The hotel will take some time though."

"I see."

We looked around here and there at buildings under construction.

"Certainly, with this scale, a lot of people will be needed."

"That’s right."

"But why did you make the smoking room so big? Are you going to make a hotel for smokers?"

"That’s because many beastmen will use it."

"Aha! That’s what it was."

While I was introducing buildings one by one, Hameneeko was broadcasting hard next to me.

"Hello, Hamehame! It’s Hame-chan! Can you all see well? Today I came to Alpha Village tourist special zone! It’s still under development, but I’m going to look around inside Alpha Village, so please look forward to it!"

She was broadcasting with a slightly cringy line that gives goosebumps just by hearing, but since she’s originally a girl who broadcasts with that concept, I just let it be.

"There’s a pretty lake over here nya!"

"It’s really pretty."

This was also something I requested to make.

I was planning to create a pretty lake, do a fountain show, and make a walking trail around it.

Certainly, since I’m thinking of making it as a tourist destination, I thought there should be plenty of attractions.

"There’s a police station and a small hospital, and a fire station too."

"That’s right, after all, this is a tourist destination and it’s a bit far from the city. It’s being made at the request of city hall."

"I see."

In fact, the reason there is a hospital here is to prevent wild beast disease from spreading in Alpha Village.

But I felt a bit awkward to tell this fact.

"It’s almost lunch time. Let’s all eat."

We sat in a park near the lake and started eating with lunch boxes prepared in advance.

In fact, it was roughly packed from foods in the inventory, but since I made it a long time ago and kept it in the inventory, the taste was absolutely not inferior.

"Delicious nya! It feels like a picnic nya!"

"Yeah. Although there’s some construction noise, my mind feels peaceful."

"Sometimes doing like this would be nice. I wonder if we should have brought Aruneeko too."

"Yeah, we should have brought her. My mistake."

"I’m lucky to be able to work in such a place."

"Yeah, I’m glad I can work in a good place."

It seems it was good to show them.

Because they all looked expectant, thinking they will work here in the future.

We finished eating and entered Alpha Village.

"Did everyone wait long? Now finally enter Alpha Village and please look forward to it~!!"

Hameneeko was still broadcasting with a cringy line holding her phone.

"But what is Alpha nya?"

Yanineko didn’t care about anything other than tobacco, so she didn’t know anything about Alpha Village.

So Yakuneko explained.

"Don’t you know? It came out on TV and became a bit famous, Alpha is the beastman tribe that governs this area. You know that delicious tobacco I gave you before, senpai? That leaf is cultivated in Alpha Village."

"Ah, that was delicious nya."

"I know the chieftain of Alpha Village, so if I ask, she will share it."

When tobacco talk came out, she listened intently, as expected.

A girl whose brain is soaked in nicotine, as expected.