“I-I see…just a bit more…”
Wakaba awkwardly shifts her position on her seat, looking around inside the extravagant limo, visibly nervous and sweating for god knows how many times today. Never in her 14 years of lifetime does she think she’d get to ride such a luxurious car. She feels terribly out of place sitting there, and she doesn’t exactly know how to act.
Seeing how spacious the inside of the limo is, she thinks this place might as well be a whole another world. It’s so big that it’s so empty with only the three of them inside. She can’t help but to be nervous.
Her family is just an ordinary family like any other. She just happens to practice using sword and was chosen as a hero, that’s all.
How did her descendant got such a car? Sure, she heard that Nogi family had become such a big family after 300 years, however, a limo is out of her mind. Just how big is the Nogi family now? Just how big is Sonoko’s house now? What happened in 300 years to change it so drastically? She can’t even begin to imagine.
Although scared, she is also eager to see the change and spend time with her descendants, now they have a free time.
“You’ll have to tell us what our family was like in the Christian Era, while I show you around~.” The elder Sonoko said with an eager smile. She’d heard a little bit about the Heroes in general back then when everyone first arrived, but of course the girl was curious to hear what her family would’ve been like 300 years ago, before they’d built up the wealth, power, and respect commanded by being descended from the leader of the first Heroes. Or, maybe they’d always been a more upper class family? Sonoko hadn’t ever looked in depth at her family’s personal history that far back. Either way, she was going to enjoy this time with her ancestor.
Coming close to their house and the car slowing down, Sonoko’s younger self poked her head out the window. “Hey, look~! It’s still so big~.” The girl said awestruck despite the fact the home looked almost exactly as she remembered it, all the while leaning outside the car window perhaps just a touch more than was safe.
To call the grounds merely “upper-class” would’ve been a massive understatement, even describing it as a mansion would’ve arguably been underselling it. A massive gate and wall lined the exterior of the house, leading into a sprawling interior landscape that seemed more like a mini park in scale than a front lawn, with all the greenery clearly well maintained. A few of the household servants could even be seen working around the place. The house itself was so large, it could’ve made a mansion seem like ‘only’ a large house in comparison. Sonoko’s household profoundly displayed just why the Nogis were the most affluent family in all of Divine Era Shikoku.
Wakaba is too surprised to react appropriately, only letting out a gasp out of her mouth as her entire body freezes in place, her eyes snapping wide open as she tries to swallow the sight in front of her.
Indeed, “upper-class” is a complete understatement for the building that might as well be a castle out of some Western movies. This is the first time she has ever seen this kind of building, complete with the luxurious atmosphere that makes her even more out of place. The limo doesn’t help, either. The number of servants working around makes her think this is a high-class restaurant or a five star hotel instead of a family house. The building stretches far wide, covering her entire view, and it doesn’t stop there.
Just what exactly made the Nogi family gain this much wealth? There’s no way being a mere hero can cause such thing, but she’s too afraid to even imagine. It might not be her future self’s doing, but her descendants’ instead.
Living in modesty is one of her beliefs, so seeing the luxury her family gets now is far too shocking. Is this even reality? Or is this afterlife? She pinches her cheek, the pain saying that indeed, this is reality, and she can’t run away from it.
Sweat falls down from her forehead.
If the outside is already this massive, just how luxurious would the inside be? She has to brace herself or she might collapse.
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