Chapter 2

Saikyou Juzoku Tensei Chapter 02: Two years old

Two more years have passed since I have received my second life .

Recently I got to be able to walk around to a certain extent, but since we need to use a ladder to go upstairs and no one takes me out . Basically my world was the first floor of my house .

According to the information I gathered in last two years, apparently I was born as the eldest son of the Belek family of the Maren tribe .

My name is Abel . In full name, Abel Belek .

It seems white skin and red eyes are the characteristics of Maren tribe . I have same characteristic as Maren tribe . I guessed to some extent by seeing my parents, but I was stunned when I saw myself in the mirror for the first time .

At first, I was a little disturbed, but gradually accepted the present situation during the past two years .

In my previous life, in spite of being a single parent, the one who remained was a freaky idiot father, so I thought that living with parents seemed to be uncomfortable .

I have memorized words to some extent, but I still do not know where this country is located on the Earth .

I have never heard of this continent .

I wish I had studied geography more in my previous life, I thought such a thing . When I asked my father(current) was there any world map, but he answered me as, if there was such a thing I want to see it myself .

In the house, there are no electronic appliances, and more likely it was a place where they were not developed .

I did not think that there was such a place in the present time .

I miss my smartphone and TV .

My parents wake up in the morning and close their eyes towards the window in the bedroom, say "Pray to the spirit of our Maren's ancestors" and cut a cross in the air with your left hand .

They were strangely looking seriously and When I saw them for the first time I almost cried .

The current father often comes to me and tries to imitate this prayer "You also pray, Abel . "

I make use of age of being an infant and some how dodged the topic by saying I do not know well .

But this is also a matter of time .

Someday, I guess I will be doing it every morning seriously .

This prayer is not only when woke up in the morning, but also when we did bad things, we also had to say with the left hand a cross in the air and say "Spirit of Our Maren's ancestor, forgive me . "

I do not know much about it, but it seems that most of the ancestor's spirits overlook it .

Unexpectedly, our ancestors of Maren seems to have a big heart .

Also, food culture .

This was the most challenging .

Basically it was a meal that diluted the black stiff bread and the stew made from goat's milk called white soup .

Although it was good, sometimes I wanted them to stop giving me pig's head and serpent's blood .

It seems to be ritual food to eat on a certain day .

In here, the calendar was a combination of a number of discs called a date meter .

It moves manually, but the number of days count changes once every several laps, and there is a function to consider the leap year in Japan .

It was the same as Japan in terms of the date counting machine, which was one year and twelve months, but the basic day were 352 days .

When I learned of it, it became awkward to me that this place is not on the Earth .

Speaking of what I cannot accept outside of diet, next thing is Otem? [TL: Instead of Totem, Author made it Otem]

Otem is like a cylindrical doll made by carving trees . Even if I say dolls there are few things that are made without feet, mostly with hands or feathers with drums in place of their feet .

Otem were decorated in large quantities, both inside and outside the house .

They have a weird makeup, they are eerie and it can not be helped .

It was creepy, but the most creepy thing is that I do not know what they were for .

Sometimes I was chased after in my dreams .

When I thought that Otem was important to the religious viewpoint, my mother used it as the base for taking the books on the shelf .

No, but after finished using it, she cut a cross and asked for forgiveness in the spirit of our ancestors, so it may be important, after all .

No, but do not do it from the beginning, if you ask for forgiveness .

Because you are not a child .

"What's wrong, Abel? Looking at the Otem so much . "

My mother, sitting in a chair and reading a book, sees me .

I know that she is a real mother, but suddenly I get stuck if I suddenly face her .

How old is her? Perhaps, around thirty .

"Mother-sama, what are the uses of Otem?"

I stroked Otem and asked my mother .

"Ara~, Abel already interested in Otem? With this future is promising . "

Mother by saying that laughs happily .

What, do the people here likes Otem that much?

"Otem is what Zere-sama makes for magical training, they are also things for celebration and decoration . . . . "

Zere-sama, it is my father .

My father is named Zereto and I have seen neighboring people also calling him Zere or Zere-san and others . Zera is most likely a kind of nickname .

But, why my mother calls my father with -sama?

It may be a custom to set up as husband . In that case, they call each other with nicknames, but . . . well, this may be a gap with my sense as a Japanese .

Well, leave that sort of things for a moment . . . I never thought that my mother would say words like magic .

Maren is not only faithful, it seems that they also believe in magical things .

I cannot help thinking that they are behind times .

Is it really possible to return from this village of Maren to a country with a smartphone or television?

"And now Abel was stroking this(Otem) . . . for Gisel's celebration . "

My mother said so, closed her eyes and gently stroked her swollen stomach .

Yes, my mother was carrying a second child .

By the way, it seems that it is like a curse or fortune telling, and they seems know the gender as a girl .

I think that it was superstition, but it is strange that my parents already believed that fortune telling .

I am looking forward for what kind of face they will make when it gets wrong .

I go to my mother's side and put my hands on her belly after obtaining permission .

If this child also had a memory of the previous life . It would be great, we can talk about our previous life's while playing .

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