Gegege No Kitaro: Le chasseur Yokai

Chapter 22

( On the side of Nuobi and Yinikin)

Nuobi (behind the door when Yinikin opened it): Uh ... Hi.

Yinikin: Hi.

Nuobi: I wanted to know if everything was fine on your side.

Yinikin: A little better .... You can come in if you want.

Nuobi (entering): Yes, of course ...(he looked inside Yinikin's home) I see that nothing has changed for you.

Yinikin: Hihi, yes. Always true to myself with the webs, the wires and the empty spaces.

Nuobi: I see that. I admit that I was always lost in your home.

Yinikin: Me too, every time I went to your house. Definitely, narrow tunnels like that, it's not my thing.

Nuobi (advancing with Yinikin, who moved on the webs and the wires): (sigh) I would also like to know what we are going to do now that Kunomi is dead.

Yinikin: I understand what you mean. He was our friend for a while but sometimes, given what he did to us and to others, I wish we had never met him.

Nuobi: It was a sad fate for both of us.... In fact ...

Yinikin: What?

Nuobi: I often tell myself that Kitaro and Neko-Musume are a bit like us before this whole story. I mean...

Yinikin: I imagine it is. They have that innocence, that loyalty and that confidence as we had long ago.(she lands on the ground) Our best memories of it all were before we met Kunomi.

Nuobi: Yes, it's really weird that it happened when we were still little children and that now we will soon enter adolescence.

Yinikin: To me, it's like it could have gone on forever. ( she saw frames showing photos) Oh, Nuobi. Do you remember these photos with this human tool called a camera?

Nuobi: Ah yes, when we were little, we didn't understand how it worked and so we took photos in a somewhat random manner. (he chuckled)

Yinikin: Hihihi, when I tried to take one, I couldn't hold it straight and each time, you helped me get up.

Nuobi (blushing): Yes, I ... I really wanted you to be able to use this tool well. (sighed) Just a shame that the battery doesn't work anymore, we could have used it for a while now.

Yinikin: I know, Nuobi, I know. (shelooked at a photo) Hihi, I remember this photo. You wanted to try to reproduce a spider web with branches.

Nuobi: I'm a little ashamed of it now.

Yinikin: Personally, I found it funny and ... (she blushes slightly) cute?

Nuobi: Otherwise, the moment when you were a little ashamed, was it not ...?

Yinikin: When I tried to imitate a normal dog ? Yes, ... I was ridiculous.

Nuobi: We each have our embarrassing moments as we say.

Yinikin: I don't doubt it for a second.(she saw another photo) Oh, this one, we tried the timer function where the photo was taken after a while.

Nuobi (looking at the photo): Yes, when we started it, we ran fast enough to set up ...

Yinikin (idem): But going too fast, we fell and .... (the two blushed while remembering what happened) Uh... We will stop there for this photo.

Nuobi (embarrassed): Yes, better.

Yinikin: Nuobi ?

Nuobi: ?!

Yinikin: Do you think even without my chelicera ...

Nuobi: Yinikin, of course I would always like you as a friend. After all, when we met, you saved me from death.

Yinikin: And you saved me from exile.

(The two hugged each other)