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>>24923926

based fucking post

>>24342074
>ended up in that bamboo forest
>got predictably lost
>white-haired lady with a basket of bamboo shoots just stared at me before gesturing for me to follow her
>she seems friendly, okay
>followed her thru the bamboo
>eventually end up at the human village
>she takes one looks at me, sighs and gestures for me to stop before talking to a couple of older men
>can barely hear her and my Japanese is terrible, barely able to figure any of it out
>TL;DR they’re asking things like “can he stay here? Does he know how to speak our language?”
>she makes a joke about ‘oni-san is fine, besides you could use someone his size around for work, can’t you?’
>oni-san
>this does not go over well with the local humans
>end up fleeing back into the forest
>after a few hours looping around, end up at her home
>it’s actually quite nice, big enough for a family but it’s just her, seems like
>manage to use google translate to talk with her
>pretty up-front about the situation
>she starts laughing at it before realizing that no, I’m serious
>”Help me do my work and you can stay here until you leave or die.”
>I quite like farm/agricultural work and she seems nice, so I don’t mind
>turns into a few months of gradually learning her tongue ‘properly’, to the point where my brain just interprets it in English
>quickly learn not to question why I wake up to her in bloody clothes half the time after a very very long, punch-drunk tirade about “that bitch ruined my family” before she regains her composure
>eventually just stop wearing my armor, just sling my rifle and jam a magazine in my pocket before the work-day
>all in all, very comfy life
>make it a point to take up whatever I can to make her life easier as repayment for letting me live with her
>at some point, Fujiwara took to calling me ‘wanderer’, and scratched the kanji for it into my rifle stock