But God Forced Me to Reincarnate!

Chinosato City (1)

The next morning, we commenced the plan accordingly. After we prepared ourselves, we'd return to our "designated" rooms and went outside as the Rashad family. We would take the spacious table and sat just like a real merchant family, enjoying the breakfast.

And shortly after that, Mom and Meredea's figure could be seen. Seeing that the dining hall was quite crowded, Mom and Meredea noticed the empty spaces at our table, enough for them to join in—that's how the scenario works, and then, they would join us.

We would chat for a while and got friendly enough that we wanted to take walks together—as we have the same destinations, sightseeing to popular sites in Chinosato City.

...At least, that's what other people should be thinking when they saw us.

Well, not that it really matters, I mean, Mom and Meredea aren't wearing their robes, and we are not that flashy. We can just walk the streets while most people would ignore us and continue with whatever they are doing.

Now that I can take a closer look at the people here—most of them have dark hair color. Some even have small horns. Since this city is next to the Oni country's bordering town, I guess it can't be helped that the people here have mingled with Oni.

I never really see Oni or halfbreeds with Oni when I was Reinst, given I lived in the Western area that's closer to Elven country.

I feel like I'm observing a totally different culture here!

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"Let's play shadow tagging: police and prisoners version!"

When we came to the nearby park, I could see some small children—eeh, they are around six to ten years old. They formed a group of around 10 people and seemed about to play a game. Shadow tagging, eh? The one where one person shall be "it" and must step on others' shadows? But what's it about police and prisoners version?

"Eeeh, what is police and prisoners version?"

Oh, a child seems to be as confused as I am and stated her confusion.

"Ah, you're new here, so I guess you don't understand how we do it?"

"Let me tell you, one person will be the police or "it", and the others will be the prisoners, with one being the leader of prisoners. The police should chase the other prisoners and step on their shadows. Once stepped, the prisoner should not be able to move! And the leader of prisoners shouldn't get caught as having him getting caught means an instant loss for all prisoners. At the end of the game, when there's only the leader of prisoners, he would get the privilege of facing a shadow-stepping showdown with the police. It will be cool!"

Now, that's an interesting version of shadow tagging.

I noticed that Rupert—"my mother" came back with ice creams and gave me and Altaire one each.