???: “Hey, what are you doing?”
A boy approached me who was sitting in the park while looking at a row of ants.
Reina: “I’m watching mister ants.”
Ryuuta: “Hmmm, what’s your name? I’m Ryuuta!”
Reina: “My name is Ichijou Reina, nice to meet you?”
He asked my name so I introduced myself as my mother told me that this kind of thing is important….my father for some reason doesn’t bat an eye everytime I greet him, though…
Ryuuta: “…Hey, I’ll tell you something much more interesting!”
Saying so, the boy…Ryuuta-kun ran and came back while pulling the hose which extends from the faucet.
Reina: “Is it alright if you use that without permission?”
Ryuuta: “It’s fine! More importantly, look…”
Ryuuta-kun plugged the hose into mister ants’ nest entrance and began spewing the water.
Ryuuta: “See!? It’s fun, right!? The ants are drowning and getting out of their nests, see!?!”
Reina: “Heee~”
Ryuuta: “It’s interesting to pour the water in, right? It’s more fun than just watching at them, you know!”
I see~, so this is a spewing 『play』? He taught me something nice.
Reina: “Hey, can I try it too?”
Ryuuta: “Sure! Here!”
Ryuta handed me the hose with a smile. My mother said that if someone is doing various generous things to me for our first meeting, then he’s either a good child or a dangerous adult, but Ryuuta-kun is not an adult so I think he’s a good child.
Reina: “Thank you, then I’ll try it too, okay?”
Ryuuta: “Yeah, but if we don’t look for it, the ant nest will be noーーーGAPHAA!?!”
Because I can’t see any other mister ants’ nest around here, there is no other way but to plug the hose into Ryuyta-kun’s mouth and do the 『Spewing play』.
Reina: “It’s truuue~ there are air bubbles coming out, I see?”
Ryuuta: “——— Gah hack?! ———— ??!”
Ryuuta-kun stopped moving within minutes of the 『play』that he taught. What happened to him? Is he dead like mister ants?
???: “…Reina? What are you doing?”
Reina: “Ah, mother!”
It’s that time already! Mother has come to pick me up!
Reina: “Mother, look! This boy, Ryuuta-kun told me about 『Spewing play』, see!?”
Mother: “You…!? I have to call an ambulance right away!!”
Reina: “? What’s wrong?”
After thinking that mother is contacting someone in a hurry, an ambulance came along with a loud noise and carried Ryuuta-kun away.
Reina: “You’re going home now? Bye-bye, Ryuuta-kun.”
Ryuuta’s Mother: “…………”
Greetings are important, but Ryuuta-kun’s mother just stared at me without replying……father was like that too, why? Why is mother apologizing to Ryuuta-kun’s mother? Did something happen…?
Mother: “We will pay the money afterwards… I’m very sorry for today’s event, it was an oversight on my responsibility.”
The ambulance went somewhere after my mother spoke a little difficult language that I could not understand.
Mother: “…Shall we go home?”
Reina: “Okay! anone anone! About today!”
I thoroughly told what I did today to mother with words that she can understand easily and then mother asked regarding Ryuuta-kun along the way.
Mother: “…Does Reina know what mister ants and Ryuuta-kun thinking when they were spewed with water?”
Reina: “? I’m not mister ants or Ryuuta-kun, you know?”
What answer does she want to hear? I’m Reina, you know? It’s a great name that my mother gave me, you know?
Mother: “…Then, what if they did the same thing to Reina?”
Reina: “I don’t want it, though?”
Mother: “Right? Then, why did you do it?”
Reina: “Ryuuta-kun said that it was fun, you know? I liked that 『Spewing play』.”
Mother: “…………I see.”
She said while laughing as if she was troubled.
Mother: “Does Reina like mother?”
Reina: “More than that, you know!”
Mother: “Then, Can you hear mother’s request?”
Reina: “Okay!”
Mother: “Then, can you promise me that you won’t do spewing play to others?”
Reina: “? Okay?”
Why bother prohibiting it? I thought it was fun, but I still don’t want to do it that often, though…?
Mother: “So, promise?”
Reina: “Yup! Promise!”
Mother: “Thank you Reina, I love you.”
Reina: “I also love you, mother!”
Saying so, we walked home while holding hands.
Reina: “…!………a dream, huh?”
It was a very nostalgic dream about my childhood… that was my memory with my mother before I was an elementary school student.
Reina: “It’s been a long time, mother”
Now then, I need to wash my face from the tear marks on my cheeks and get ready to go to school.
Reina: “I’m going, mother.”
I said my greetings to my mother’s photo and got out of the futon. Today is going to be a good day.