A trip to Bessekai

IX

Author's POV

Risse waved her hands as she felt something bothering her, she felt something poking her face and it was irritating. Her eyes were still close asleep and so was her senses. After some time of waving stupidly, the pokes somehow still comes back.

"Ugh!" She exclaimed while still waving her hands to make the annoying feeling go away.

But the pokes still continued and she heard little children giggling softly.

She opened her eyes slowly and saw children poking at her face with a stick. She immediately frowned at the kids but they laughed at her reaction.

"Hey Ròba! (Old hag) you look so ugly when you sleep!" The little boy said as he pointed at herself. The two children then laughed.

'Old hag!?' She thought to herself. Her blood was rising with this unmannered kids.

"Im not old!" Risse exclaimed as she argue at the boy. The children kept laughing at her.

"If you're not old then why did you sleep under the tree? You forgot where your bed is, didn't you! You're an old waman! O bāchan! (Grandma)" It was an endless tease with this boy. He sticked his tongue out to her.

The three laughed endlessly. Although she was angry and upset, she couldn't find herself hating these adorable children. So she acted up scary and covered her face with her hair and started to creep the three out.

"O-o bāchan?" The boy asked, obviously feeling fear.

She leveled up her acting and started to walk like a zombie.

"I am a yòkai (monster) and I punish bad little boys and girls!!" She exclaimed as she said with a husky voice and intentionally scary tone.

The children screamed and ran away, she chased them and eventually caught the three.

The children were obviously scared and were still screaming even though she stopped.

"Hey, hey Daijōbudayo, I'm not a yòkai, see?" She said as she fixed her hair and softened her voice. The children sighed in relief but were still tearing up.

"O bàchan, we thought you were a real yòkai" the girl said as her voice was still in scared state.

"Do I look like a monster?" She asked, the three nodded. And she glared at them.

She sighed as she comforted the three as they calmed down.

"Next time, you shouldn't treat people older than you like that, because o bàchan yòkai will definitely come for naughty children, understand?" She said to them and they nodded.

"We're sorry, oneesan (older sister)" they all said at once and bowed.

She pats their head and smiled at them.

"Ahh-a-hachu!" Risse suddenly sneezed so bad and the children laughed at her.

The three went home and Risse had to go back to the palace too. Everyone must have been worried about her. She spent the night sleeping outside.