Shibuya Near Family chapter 142: Dad works hard as a crossing guard>I've always been introverted by nature.>So why am I, a person who very rarely puts serious effort into anything,>Pole: School zone>taking part in community activities like this...?>Sign: School route>Flag: Crossing in progress>Good morning.>Good morning, Ikko-chan's dad.>Thank you for the good work, sir.>It was all due to wanting the children to be safe,>as well as a certain sense of foreboding.
>*Beeeeeep*>Another suspicious person alert...>Date of sighting: O month, X day>Location of sighting: Near the school's front gate>Details: We have received reports of a man watching students going to school from the shadows, at around **:** A.M.>There's been a lot of them lately.>I'm a little worried... Could you go pick Ikko up from school?>Sure, but...>Don't you think you're worrying too much?>It's not like every suspicious person is going to turn out to be a criminal.
>If they *do* end up committing a crime, it'll already be too late.>Yeah,>I guess you're right.>Hey there, Ikko.>(*Freeze*)>Da...>Huh?>There was a suspicious person alert. We were worried, so I came to walk you home.>It's okay.
>You don't have to come with me every single time.>There really was a suspicious person there.>How scary...>I'll take her to school in the mornings.>You can handle walking her back home.>Sure.>(*Ding dong*)>There have been frequent reports of suspicious persons around here lately,>so make sure you stay vigilant, everyone.
>On that note...>Have any of you happened to see any suspicious people,>yourselves?>(*Silence*)>...No.>...Not really.>Nothing comes to mind...>The students said they haven't seen anything particularly suspicious.>Sign: Staff room>Well, most of the suspicious person reports come from their guardians, after all...>I see.>The students don't see any suspicious people...>But their guardians make constant sightings of them.
>This is, without a doubt,>the greatest mystery I've ever encountered as a teacher...>Even with this many suspicious person reports,>none of the students have seen anything.>Do these suspicious people...>(Hmmmm....)>Really exist?>I know it.>The true identity of the suspicious people...>As do>all the other students.>(*Beeeeep*)>Another sighting.>I'll go pick her up.
>Ikko!>Ack.>He's here again.>Hey, wait!>It would be embarrassing if my friends saw you with me, >so don't walk so close to me!>Is she saying I'm embarrassing to be around?>Or does she mean that it would be embarrassing to be seen as overly pampered?>Well, in either case,>I'll just have to keep an eye on her from a distance.>(*Staaaare*)>A->A suspicious person!>Huh?>*Beeeep*>Koen-dori Elementary School PTA - Suspicious person alert - We have received reports of a man with shaggy hair and glasses shadowing students near the school gate after school.
>The suspicious person>turned out to be me...!>In many cases, the "suspicious person" from a suspicious person report>turned out to be the worried father of one the students.>But, why only the dads...?>Probably because the don't usually participate in the PTA or other school activities like that.>I suppose, since the fathers don't know each other's faces,>Suspicious!>Suspicious!>they end up reporting each other as being "suspicious".>Yes...>It may be>that the most frightful thing of all...>Is humanity's ability to imagine dangers where none exist.>(Heh)>Uh, no... I think that would still be the *actual* suspicious people.>Shibuya Duty Diary - Seen from space, all humans look suspicious.>Sidebar: It seems that sensei also gets suspicious stares when he wanders around drawing pictures. Please take care not to report him.Thanks for reading! Do *you* often get mistaken for a suspicious person?
>>282577749That'd require me to be noticed to begin with. Thank you for translating, as always. This was a pretty down-to-earth chapter. It's good to see Ijin getting out more and becoming useful.
Chapter 141: Eru-kun awakens>>282577749Not at all. Apparently, people instinctively consider me to be trustworthy. So much so that I almost feel bad about it, considering all the ways I could take advantage of that. But I guess that I don't act on it is part of why they trust me in the first place.
And that's all for today. Thanks for reading!
>>282583045Thanks for typesetting as well. Pretty impressive of dad to go from that to >>282577544 in the span of a chapter.
>>282577633>>282577658>>282577679>>282577709>>282577749Wouldn't it be really funny if there was some insane plot twist coming up with this as foreshadowing? Haha, as if anything could happen in this light-hearted comedy, amiright?Kinda getting Enishi vibes from this chapter.
Ty op
Thank you anons
>>282583045Thank you for posting!
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