My Every Day Is Supposed To Be Same As Always But...?! Part 1
NANAMI
Crash!
"Again, huh .." (¬_¬ ;|||)
I just sighed helplessly at another broken window glass.
How do you do? I am Momozono Nanami, 17 years old. Currently, I'm living in a rundown apartment with my dad.
"The money loaners broke the window glass again, Dad", I can't help it but pout while I'm trying to patch the holes of our tatami mats.
"Are you repaying the money properly?", I doubly asked him who is currently sitting behind me and busy with something.
"Don't worry Nanami! ", Dad exclaimed excitedly.
"With this 1000 yen betting ticket, I plan to repay all my debts in one fell swoop! \(☆▽☆)/ "
He waved the tickets in front of me with a wink and thumbs up. Horrified, I hurriedly checked the can that I secretly hide.
" Σ(°ロ°) Argh! This month's food expense that I put here....!! "
"You spent money betting on horse racing again....?!! ", I angrily shouted at my dad.
"I'll make 100 times of that money and give it back to you", he replied proudly.
(ﾒ' ﾛ ')ノ *kicks* ⌒(>。<) "You useless "Ack!" old man! 💢" ↑ ↑ Nanami Dad
Somehow, I'm coping with my everyday life while having to support my dad, who loves gambling.
~ʚĭɞ~
I put out my lunch box after the morning classes are done.
"Sigh... I'll have to cut down my lunch again", the thought makes me feel teary.
"Hey Momozono", a familiar voice rang behind me.
"What's with this lunch box?" Before I can react, the idiot Isobe sneaked behind me and took my lunch box.
"BWAHAHAHA! Hey, look at this everyone! ", he showed my lunch to the whole class while laughing like crazy.
"Her lunch box only has rice and a pickled plum! "
"GUFFAW! Σ(°ロ°) ", embarrassingly I sprang on my sit and tried to snatch back my lunch box to hide it away from everyone's sight.
" .･ﾟﾟ•\(Ò//д//Ó)/･ﾟﾟ･. GYAAH! STOP IT! ", I keep trying to snatch back my lunch box but this Isobe-guy doesn't stop until he got everyone one's attention and started murmuring about me.
"That's horrible"
"Wow, so much poverty"
"From now on, your nickname will be Poverty-san", Isobe continued to mock me and everyone's murmuring continued with their laughter.
"Ahaha"
"Hehehe"
But I believe, no matter how harsh and painful my life is right now...
...someday...
...a day will come when I can smile every day.
~ʚĭɞ~
"I'm home", I called as I enter our apartment but no one greeted me back from the living room.
Expecting that my dad is at home, I went to call him from his room, "Have you bought a new glass, Dad?"
No answer.
"Dad?", I opened the door of his room and he's also not here.
Instead, a sole letter was on the table.
"I'm going on a journey.
I'm sorry. Don't look for me"
- Dad
"What?!! Σ!(×△×) 🗯️ "
Bam! Bam! Bam!
I jolted from the shock when I heard someone banging on the door.
"Momozono-san ", a man's voice shouted from the doorstep.
"Please open up."
"You have an order of enforcement that requires you to vacate this apartment at all cost", the men on our front door said after I opened up the door.
When I came back to my sense, I was already evicted from our apartment...
And so, pitifully, I was thrown into the streets.
~ʚĭɞ~
"Damn my deadbeat dad! 💢 "
＼＼\\ ٩ (๑'△'๑) ۶ //／／
Growls ~
"I'm hungry", I hold my growling stomach with teary eyes.
I don't have any relatives or money. Just what should I do from now on?
"Woof! Woof! Woof! ", a dog suddenly barked not too far away from me.
"Someone help me ~ ", a pleading man's voice echoes in the silent night.
"Hmm?", it caught my attention and looked around until I saw the man who climbed up a tree just to avoid a little dog.
"Please take that dog away! ( ꒦ິ△꒦ິ ) "
"Shoo shoo", I brush the little dog away and it eventually left, making the man felt relieved.
"Are you okay?", I asked the bespectacled man in white after he went down from the tree.
"Thank you very much", he gratefully said to me with a smile.
"It's been a while since I came back to this town. To think that I got cornered by a dog as soon as I came back here... fufufu ... I'm sorry, I can't handle dogs", he added with a deep sigh. "Looks like I'm not welcomed by the local people here", then he laughed half-heartedly.
"Are you a local person here?", he faced me with a smile even though his eyes were still teary from earlier.
"Eh? Me? Σ(° _ ° ) ", I caught by surprise by his question. "Yes, but..", I helplessly smiled, "I already lost my house where I lived in, ahahahah"
Then, we sat on the benches and I told him what happened to our apartment.
"I see.. (╥﹏╥) ...so your father ran away from home.. You must have hated your father who ran away from home, right?"
"..well, he's always been a troublesome dad since long ago, so...", I tried to assure him.
*comforts* *sobs sobs* (っ'▽';)ﾉ (╥︿╥) "You cry so much" ↑ ↑ Nanami Stranger Man
"I'm ashamed to admit it", he suddenly cut off my sentence, "but I also.. abandoned my home."
He sighed deeply, "It's been decades since then.. I wonder how everyone in my family is doing.."
Then he hung his head lowly with a depressed face, "I'm sure that Tomoe will attack me as soon as that person sees my face.
"Tomoe? His wife? ", I thought.
"Even so, it's alright, isn't it? To have a home to return to is fortunate". Then I scratch the back of my head awkwardly, " ୧(' ▽ ' ；) Since I already lost my home, ahahah.. "
After hearing this, the stranger man seems moved by my words, "Nanami-san, in that case, I'll give you my home."
"Eh?!"
"I can't leave my home empty forever. Besides if you live there, I'll feel relieved of my burden", he said gleefully as he stood up and reached on my forehead.
"And most importantly, you're so much more suitable to be the master of that house than me", the stranger cleared away my bangs off before leaving a soft kiss on my forehead like a loving father. I can't help but hold on my forehead where I can still feel warm as I blush.
Then, he pulls out a piece of paper from his pocket and gave it to me, "Go to the place written in this memo. Just tell them that you came as Mikage told you to."
"I'm sure that everyone will welcome you as their new master", is what the stranger good man told me before his silhouette disappeared from the dark night as he walks away waving goodbye at me.