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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 1 Chapter 1.1

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“Translator: Goma/Editor: TheNix”

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「Can you just stop it! 」 

I shouted at my dad. 

「It’s already the 21st century! Our family business won’t become trendy any time soon! It is utterly unnecessary to continue this meaningless business of helping others! 」 

In our family, we have a helpless family business that has been passed on for generations. From my great grandfather to my grandfather, then to my father. This family business had been passed on in this manner. This means before I was born, it was already decided that the business would be passed on to me. 

That was why, from the day I was born, my life was predetermined. 

Before I was old enough to object, the preparation for me to inherit the business had gradually been in progress. From a young age I was trained in the special skills that had been passed on for generations, as well as the moral lessons that our ancestor has left behind. 

Really, it was for the best.

However, that was the opinion of the people around me. As for me, I did not like the whole thing.

Of course, when I was very young I didn’t question it. I was taught that it was natural. As an innocent boy that age, I did not question this at all.  

I had thought that it was a matter of course. 

However, as I grew up and became more knowledgable, I felt that something was off.  

Eh? Isn’t this wrong? Why do I have to inherit the family business? 

I didn’t like the path that had been set for me. I was not going to be restricted by it. I wanted to become a pioneer that ventures into uncharted waters. I did not intend to outright disobey and be a rebel however, I did feel a little uneasy with how my life was already predetermined. 

As I grew up and went through primary, secondary, and high school, I accumulated different experiences and went through various relationships. This feeling of uneasiness grew stronger every day, and recently, I had made up my mind secretly. That「I would never inherit the family business」 

Perhaps that was why the subsequent turn of events was inevitable. 

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That night I was called to my dad’s office and was listening to his endless talk about our family’s values. Due to work, my dad usually was not at home. Nonetheless, on the nights he was at home, he always called me to the office and taught me the values our grandfathers had left behind. 

To be honest, I had heard his talk enough times, and sadly I had already remembered the majority of the values that had been passed on in our family for generations. 

Nevertheless, no matter how well I had already drilled the values in my memory, my dad did not seem to stop going through them. Perhaps he could not understand what I was trying to say anymore. Or perhaps Dad was lonely, even though he was so old already. Or perhaps he just wanted to talk. Perhaps he wanted to just have a nice talk with his children. I wished he would just give me allowance money instead.

In this way, my dad’s long lecture started again that day. 

However, that day, things were a little different. 

I was just in a very bad mood. Not my dad, but me. 

To the extent that I could not hide my feelings. I could not ignore his long dumb talk any longer.

I could not take it that day because bad things kept on happening starting in the morning. It was like some kind of joke.  

Forgetting to set my alarm and being late, hurrying too much and forgetting to eat breakfast, being late for school and having to stand in the corridor, the love letter that I had written for the prettiest girl in the class earlier was being passed around in class, forgetting my lunch box, because I had panicked this morning I forgot my wallet, not just my friends but all of the boys in the class would not lend me money accusing me of betraying them by confessing to the girl, hence not eating lunch, that the R18 book that I had been hiding was placed on the table when I came back to my room, furthermore it was my sister that had found the R18 book making my reputation as an elder brother plummet, my sister being utterly disgusted at my slightly weird tastes, then as expected my mother found out and did not make me dinner……then, I had wrapped myself in my blanket in my dim room and contemplated a lot of things. 

Like how I did not want to go to my school where my classmates knew everything I had written in my embarrassing letter, or how my sister being in secondary school was quite sensitive to explicit content and her glare was beyond painful and simply scary…..ah, I can’t take it. But don’t give up. Surely, it would be alright. I encouraged myself. But 10 seconds later I reached the conclusion that the mending of all these relationships was impossible, no matter how much I brainstormed for solutions. Then I have no choice, huh. I would have to resort to turning back time……. 

This is the situation in which my dad had called me to his office and gave me an annoyingly long lecture. Of course, I would become angry. 

On my part, I had lost a lot of things that a typical innocent high school boy values in just a single day, like the reputation I had grown over the years and my pride. Furthermore, I had only had water to eat or drink since the morning. In such circumstances, I simply could not stand listening to such antiquated family values.

I had a mission. I immediately had to turn back the time.

By the way, the insight that I had gained from one day of fasting was that I can perform a special summon of the blue cat type robot. 「Would it work if I put tons of Dorayaki [1. TL Note: Dorayaki is Doraemon’s favorite snack. Doraemon is the main character of the anime/manga series who is a blue cat-like robot that can perform time travel inside the desk’s drawer] in my desk’s drawer? 」. This was the gist of my outrageously splendid epiphany, and I needed to test it immediately. I must run to the Japanese snack store nearby. 

I did not have the time to listen to this lecture. 

These thoughts had caused me to let loose all the pent up dissatisfaction that I had been storing all the years about our family business against my father.  

「—I’ve had enough! Please just stop! I am never going to inherit the business, alright!? 」 

I had shouted so much that I was almost out of breath. Yet, by saying out loud all the dissatisfaction I had been storing up all these years, I felt more or less refreshed. 

I was curious: how will my dad react? Perhaps I had said too much. I started to regret what I just did and looked at my dad. My dad simply silently folded his arms and pondered. 

Eventually, my father murmured. 

「I disown [2. TL Note: Disown in Japanese (Kandō or 勘当) is pronounced the same way as being emotionally “moved” by something in Japanese (Kandō or 感動)] you」 

「What is there to be moved about? Had what I said moved you so much? If so, good」 

「I was moved by how stupid you are, but I don’t mean that. I disown you」 

At that point, I realized that I had misheard what he said. Of course, I did. I had not imagined that he would cut familial ties just because I had told him that I would not inherit the family business. Besides, logically thinking, wasn’t that too rash?  

When I said so, my dad raised one of his eyebrows. 

「Then do you want to inherit the family business? 」 

「Definitely not.」 

In my mind, this was already decided. I definitely did not want to inherit such an antiquated business.  

「Then I disown you. Screw off.」 

He said so without any hesitation. 

I had forgotten something important due to the lack of needed nutrients for brain power since the morning. My dad was a super decisive middle-aged man and acted immediately once he decided upon something. 

That being said, I could not simply say, 「Alright, sure.」 

Perhaps the correct action for a youth who is right smack in the middle of his adolescence was to say, 「Sure, I don’t want to be a part of this family anyways.」, and just run away. However, sadly, I was not such a passionate person. I needed a plan before I could do anything else. In the end, I could not do anything.

Perhaps things would have been different if I had mentally and physically prepared to leave my house beforehand. I would have been able to say to my dad as according to plan, 「Bye!」Nevertheless, as things turned out, I did not know what to do next. 

I was ashamed of myself.  

While I stood there blankly, my dad said. 

「Stop being stubborn. You only need to obediently inherit the business after me.」 

「I won’t do that. I won’t change my mind.」 

Yet, I would be helpless if he kicked me out now.

「Well, what a half-hearted person you are. Even though you don’t have a plan, you are sure about what you want to do, huh?」 

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