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Nanana’s Buried Treasure Volume 1 Epilogue

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“Translator: Goma/Editor: TheNix”

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    After the phone call from my dad, I returned back home. I reported to Nanana what had happened that night, and immediately fell asleep. I was tired and injured, and when I woke up it was already way past noon. After I finished eating my late lunch, I rolled on my bed and thought about what I should do with my remaining holiday. I only had less than half of it left. I was looking at the thing in my hand.

「Hey, isn’t that the ((Lustrous Lie Detector))? 」

    It was Nanana who asked me, as she sat on a cushion and ate a pudding while smiling.

「Yep, that is right 」

「What happened to it? 」

「What do you mean? It was in our apartment the whole time」

「But didn’t you bring it out yesterday to use it for some deal? 」

「Yeah, but I brought it back」

    Indeed, what I passed to Ms. Yukihime yesterday night was a fake one. It was the same fake glass gemstone that I had passed to Tensai.

    Hehe, Ms. Yukihime. You had been careless enough that you assumed that I would not trick you in a deal, right? Well, I really did trick you……yes, sorry. It is a lie. In fact, I tried to do the same thing as Tensai in order to make a joke. Nonetheless, since Ms. Yukihime did not realize that it was fake, I could not tell them now.

    I really did not know what she might do to me if I confessed to her that it is fake at this point. Thus, I must keep it in this room for eternity.

    That being said, that accessory shop is quite amazing. As I had expected of an original brand in Nanae Island. The quality of their products was very good. On top of that, their price was quite affordable. Everyone was being tricked so easily.

「But won’t they find out that it is a fake eventually? 」

「That is fine. They can only tell if it is a fake if they actually use it, or if you tell them」

    The ((Eye of Kontholos)) was a gemstone, but it was a gemstone that was unique to this world. That is why it is impossible to figure out whether it is a fake. Since one cannot confirm that it is a fake, one has to assume it is the real one. Of course, if you examine it thoroughly you would be able to tell that it is fake right away. You can’t turn back.

    This is a hypothesis, but if Tensai had realized that the gemstone she had received was fake, she could not definitely say that I had taken the real one. It is because she could not deny the possibility that ≪Matsuri≫ had exchanged the real and fake ones before throwing it into the alleyway after stealing it.

    This applied to Ms. Yukihime as well. She cannot deny the possibility that the gemstone she stole from the Ikkaku estate was a fake. Well, my dad might find out, but that middle-aged man cannot enter this Nanae Island.

    That meant the real story was not known. The only people that know where the ((Eye of Kontholos)) truly is is Nanana and I who knew the hidden power.

    That being said, nothing was planned for though.

「You are actually quite a bad guy, huh」

    Nanana made a chilling remark.

「What, no! I really wanted to make a joke. It was definitely not because I did not want to part with it…… 」

「Really? 」

「……Sorry. Actually, I had thought it was kind of sad to part with it」

    Isn’t it amazing that you can tell whether another person is lying?

    I acted as if I was sorry. Nanana smiled.

「Well, I don’t mind if you have it」

    For some reason, she forgave me.

「What, what do you mean? 」

「Surely you would use it for good purposes」

    I wonder what sort of expectations or meaning was behind her words.

    I wanted to know, but sadly, this stone does not have the power to read another person’s mind.

    But can’t I somehow decipher something.

「Hey Nanana. Do you think I can dominate the world? 」

    In this way, I tried asking her

「Hm, maybe? 」

    The words she mouthed while eating a pudding seemed super thoughtless.

    Nonetheless, I was surprised and gulped.

    Why? It was because there was no black fog around her when I saw her through the blue gemstone.

「Why, do you think so? 」

「Because I think that you can find who murdered me」

    That was the promise I had made with Nanana. Of course, it was something I already made up my mind to carry out, but……

「How does that relate to this? 」

    When I asked her this, she sighed.

「Hey Jūgo, who am I? I am Ms. Nanana Ryūgajō, you know. You are going to find the person who tricked me and killed me, right. Then you must be even better than the criminal, and me. Then you can easily dominate the world」

    She laughed as if it was a joke, but it seemed that she really thought so.

「……I see, then maybe I will put in effort」

「Let’s go」I pretended to encourage myself while laughing. In fact, I was simply hiding my bashfulness.

    Honestly, I did not care if I could achieve world domination or not.

    Something made me happier than that.

    It was that Nanana really believed that I 『 would find the murderer, since it is Jūgo』.

    I felt how she 『really believed in 』 me, and I was super-duper happy.

    The reason why I was so happy was because honestly, I had no confidence.

    It was not a matter of whether I could do it or not. I am going to do it anyway.

    It was not that, but I had no confidence in what Nanana thought of me when I said I would do it.

    Besides, I had lost my passion for doing good deeds for others for quite a long time ago.

    That is why I was worried, 「Perhaps she is thinking that I am just trying to get her in my debt selfishly」or「Am I being creepy? 」.

    It was because I did not know she actually can tell that I said it with genuine good-will.

    I wanted her to know that I meant it from the bottom of my heart.

    It was not that I was scared of failure, but I did not want her to stop caring about me.

    I just could not believe in others, so.

    I put in effort for Nanana with such a wavering spirit.

    If my foundation was not firm, of course, I would worry.

    Yet, she just alleviated my worries.

    I now know that Nanana really believed in me.

    I am not going to waver anymore! I am not going to be indecisive!

    Our feelings are compatible, and we love each other!

    ……No, wrong! I am of course not talking about romance! I am talking about trust!

    I was unbearably happy that someone else believed in my feelings.

    I looked at the blue gemstone in my hand that had just proven this.

「The Nanana Collection is just amazing」

    I honestly was amazed by the treasure of the century that I was holding on to.

    I looked at Nanana who was eating a pudding right beside me. While looking at this earthbound ghost, I made a vow in my heart.

    That I would definitely find out who killed her.

 

    For a moment, I remembered the conversation I had with my dad on the phone earlier.

    My dad had asked me what I want to do on this island from now on.

    He had asked me so as not a son, but as a man.

    My answer was,「I do not know yet, so I am going to think about it for a little longer」.

    I had told him this because I genuinely believed it.

    I did not think like my dad, that I want to save the current world.

    This is because I don’t like the world that much right now.

    In the future, when I start to like the world when I start to want to fill the world with smiles when I want to save the world……

    I thought that it was not too late to think about saving the world then.

    That is why I decided to focus on what was currently in front of me. I am going to fulfill the precious promise in front of me.

    The important thing is that my own feelings that would never waver, say  「I am definitely going to do this」

    As long as I have this, I am never going to waver or get lost.

「I’m just joking」

 

    This is the story of just a high schooler who might change the world a few years, or a few decades later—

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