Kays Translations
Just another Isekai Lover~
Chapter 232: The Former Queen Dowager Is a High School Girl
After solving a simple riddle and opening the box, Rest found himself in a rural bus stop somewhere in Japan.
On the bench sat a high school girl in a sailor uniform, drinking juice through a straw while staring at him.
“You… what? And, where am I?!”
“You don’t have to be so surprised. Hey, want to sit here?”
The mysterious high school girl patted the space next to her on the bench.
“If it’s fine to drink something halfway, I can give you this. It’s strawberry milk!”
“U-uh, I’m fine, but… huh? Am I back in Japan?”
“Hmm, not exactly. It’s a long story, so just sit down. It’s hard for me to talk if you keep standing there.”
“…………”
Rest hesitated but began observing the girl on the bench.
She was a high school girl in a short-sleeve sailor uniform, probably around high school age.
Her hair was brown with a wavy perm, and she was holding a carton of strawberry milk in her right hand.
(I can’t use magic…!)
When Rest tried to scan the girl with magic, he realized that his magic powers were gone.
There was no feeling of an endless, inexhaustible source of magic. He couldn’t use magic at all.
(This might be a pretty bad situation… but I have no choice.)
“…………”
For now, he didn’t sense any hostility from the girl.
He cautiously sat next to her.
“There you go. So, can you tell me your name?”
“…………”
“Oh, are you going to be all samurai and make me say my name first? It’s fine though~.”
As Rest stayed silent, the girl laughed loudly for no apparent reason.
“My name’s Shoko Sanada. As you can see, I’m a fresh, vibrant high school girl!”
“…High school girls don’t call themselves vibrant.”
Rest said with a slight chuckle before realizing something.
Sanada Shoko.
Wasn’t that the fake name the former queen mother used in this land?
“Oh, you can talk. I thought you were one of those people who couldn’t speak since you stayed quiet for so long.”
“I’ve been talking all this time. And what is this place?”
“Rather than asking about that, shouldn’t you tell me something first?”
Shoko Sanada leaned in toward Rest’s face, staring at him meaningfully.
He opened his mouth to ask what she meant but stopped, realizing something.
He hadn’t introduced himself yet. Since she had given her name, it would be rude not to return the favor.
“I am… ○○○○.”
After saying the name out loud, he widened his eyes in surprise.
He had meant to say “Rest,” but the name he had spoken was the one he had used when he lived in Japan.
“Ah, ○○-kun, huh? Can I call you Whoopie?”
“…………No.”
“Then, Whoopie, about this place…”
Ignoring Rest’s protest, Shoko Sanada continued with the conversation.
“This place is… inside the memory of… Frederica Iwood.”
“Memory…?”
“It’s called Zanryuushinen. I don’t really know much about it, though.”
Zanryuushinen. Residual thoughts.
In other words, the girl in front of him, who called herself Shoko Sanada, was actually the memory and personality of Frederica Iwood, the former queen dowager.
“…I suspected that the former queen dowager was a reincarnator from Japan, but this is not what I imagined.”
In the Iwood Kingdom, the former queen dowager was, for better or worse, a historical figure.
She had led many nobles to overthrow a tyrant and rebuild the Iwood Kingdom with remarkable skill, and at the same time, she was the one who raised the foolish prince, Rodel.
Rest had imagined someone like a wise and beloved woman, or perhaps a villainous mastermind plotting something sinister.
“I thought she’d be like Hojo Masako or Queen Elizabeth…”
“I’m made from Frederica’s previous life’s memories, you know? The real me is much cooler and more mature, though.”
“…I see.”
“So, what about you? What brought you here? Since you could come to me, you must’ve gone into the villa and opened the box, right?”
Shoko looked at Rest with interest.
Since she moved closer on the not-so-large bench, a glimpse of her pink bra and deeper cleavage peeked out from the sailor uniform.
“D-Don’t get so close!”
“Tell me about yourself, and I’ll tell you about me.”
Shoko gave a mischievous smile and said that.