The Tanaka Family Reincarnates

Chapter 381

The Countess’ Counters [Part 3]

“Pant, pant… Y-Your Majesty! Are you alright…? Huh, this is…?!”

The knights chasing after the king, who ran off alone on his own, arrived one after another, and their eyes widened as they noticed the changes in the campsite. Then, they were amazed. The urgent task they had in mind (preparation for immediate retreat) had already been completed by the time they arrived.

Then…

“We’re back~!”

“Meow~!”

Emma and the twins on Koumei’s back, Francesca and Marion, Arthur and the prince, George and William, who was being carried under his arm, and Leonard, Arban, and the Monster Science teacher, who served as the rear unit guards, arrived.

The knights and hunters looked relieved that they could return without any casualties, even after having that situation.

“Ohh! As expected of Mother! Nothing gets past you!”

Some knights had arrived earlier, but William was the first to deduce the situation without having to ask upon seeing the campsite with no extracurricular lessons students in sight.

“Y-Y-Young Lady! Please get on the carriage quick… Wh-WHAT IS THATTTT!”

The guardian from House Simmons, who had been eagerly waiting for the twins, went mad upon seeing them.

“My, how anxious is he, huh, Caitlyn?”

“My, he sure is anxious, Catherine… Oh?”

The twins on the fluffy Koumei’s back looked at their guardian with dissatisfaction and tilted their heads. Their guardian’s face was as white as a sheet.

“M-M-MO-MO-MO-MONSTER?!”

The guardian couldn’t take his eyes off Koumei, who was giving the twins a ride, and pointed his shaking fingers at her with chattering teeth.

“Ah, this is our cat.”

Emma had been saying this same sentence so many times today that she started getting a little tired of saying it. She just told them the fact roughly that it was a cat, not a monster.

“Meeow!”

And Koumei sincerely meowed to even such a sloppy introduction from Emma.

“Ah! It meowed! It’s a cat! No, that’s not it! The size is wrong! But it meowed just now… huh?”

It wasn’t just the guardian from House Simmons. The knights and hunters in the campsite were also confused. Meanwhile, the hunters and knights who entered the forest looked at their fellow comrades with lukewarm eyes while nodding to themselves, ‘We understand how you guys feel. We truly do.’

“Mew…”

The one responsible for the uproar, Koumei, ignored the noisy guardians, knights, and hunters and sat down in a loaf position so that Emma and the twins could descend from her back easily.

“Oh! This is the cat-loaf! Which means… it’s a… cat…? Gasp! No, that’s not quite. Again, the size is wrong! That’s not a size a cat would have!”

The poor Simmons guardian couldn’t approach the huge beast, which everyone insisted was a cat, because the one explaining was too tired to give a more detailed explanation.

“Huff!”

“ “Hup!” ”

Emma and the twins, who didn’t care about the conflicted minds of those in the campsite, got off Koumei’s back in turn, and George, Marion, and Francesca reached out their hands to support them.

“Oh, thanks, Nii-sama!”

“Fufu, thank you, Francesca-sama.”

“Fufu, thank you, Marion-sama.”

“F-Francesca-samaaaa!”

The twins’ thanks were drowned out by the guardian from House Delacour’s call. It was because Francesca got very close to Koumei to lend a hand to Catherine.

Sticking to the duty of being Francesca’s guardian, the guardian from House Delacour wanted to keep Francesca away from the huge beast everyone claimed to be a cat. Despite that, Francesca approached that beast on her own, so it couldn’t be helped that he yelped in panic.

“Huh? Again, like Emma-sama said, Koumei-san is a cat, so it’s fine.”

“No, that’s not—! That’s certainly not it! Please wake up, Young Lady! A cat can’t carry three young ladies on its back!”

Francesca moved away from Koumei helplessly and went to the guardian’s side to… soothe him.

“Huft, you’re such a worrywart…”

And behind them,

“Hey, let me go! We can walk on our own. Right, Caitlyn?”

“Hey, let me go! Right, Catherine! We can walk on our own!”

The guardian from House Simmons carried the twins on each arm.