Gakidomo！ first episode English version
Gakidomo！ first episode
The precincts of the temple are crowded with many worshippers in New Year period.
There are a lot of street stalls where food such as takoyaki, cotton candy, toffee apple, and grilled squid are sold, and it smells good around.
Weak voice is heard in the hustle and bustle.
"I'm hungryyy"
It's a small preta named Natsumi who said that.
"So am I, and it's very cold."
Suguru said it. He is small preta too, and height is 60 cm, just as Natsumi. He is also a small preta.
"Same here, hungry and cold." I said.
I'm a small preta, too.
We hadn't eaten anything for four days and were naked.
But no one cares because we are invisible to the human eye.
Just then,a little girl has dropped one of Takoyaki.
Takoyaki is a Japanese standard snack that contains a piece of octopus in a small round roasted flour.
"Yippee! Takoyaki."
Suguru said with delight.
"Oops! It's mine"
Natsumi pushed Suguru away and took the Takoyaki.
But, in spite of her effort.
Surprisingly, the Takoyaki has burned with flames.
"Ouch, I accidentally burned my tongue!"
Natsumi screamed and threw away the Takoyaki.
"What happend ? "
She lamented the terrible situation.
The little girl was surprised to see Takoyaki suddenly burned.
Just then, female voice was heard from behind.
"It's no coice, you are preta.So you can eat only food that’s rotten or past the expiration date."
When we looked back, a celestial maiden was there.
"Oh! celestial maiden" I am surprised.
Her name is Amane Hirahara. It seems that she has once been a Shibuya gal in her former lifetime.
She was the celestial maiden in charge of this area.
I prostrated to the celestial maiden and urged Suguru and Natsumi to bow to her.
"Why do I have to bow to such a woman … ribbit"
Suguru, who said something irreverent to the celestial maiden, was transformed into a frog by a mysterious force.
"Eek!" Natsumi screamed.
"If you say bad things about celestial maiden, you will be a frog, but it will soon recover," Amane said.
As per her advice, Suguru was quickly restored. But he made another mistake yet.
"Say it first, this stupid celestial maiden… ribbit"
Suguru was transformed into a frog again.
"Therefore, you should always be careful in your speech, my friend."
I warned him.
"By the way, celestial maiden, what is the nature of your coming today?"
I asked her politely.
"Yes, I forgot. Today I came here to give you a new name." Amane said.
"Is it a new name? But we already have a name." I told her.
"Don't mind, thanks for your kindness, but I have the name Natsumio."
"I have the name Suguru. Thank goodness!!"
They said at the same time.
"But that's the name when you were human, isn't it?"
"That's right."
"Now you are preta, not humans, so you need a new name, Right?"
"Yes, I understand." I had no choice but to answer so.
"So your new name is Perrotin. Natsumi's new name is Pippi. And Suguru's new name is Punpun, because Suguru gets angry soon."
Amane sloppyly decided on our name.
The moment she named us, a Sanskrit characters emerged on our forehead.
"What's that cheesy name? Better yet, name it Jane Doe… ribbit."
Pippi, ex-Natsumi, was transformed into a frog.
"I'm sorry, but you guys became preta in the lottery."
She let the cat out of the bag.
"Did you say lottery now?"
As much as possible I asked calmly.
"Oh shit! " She was clearly upset.
"Well, I'm sure it's all come out in the wash. Didn't you draw a lottery when you died?"
Amane asked us.
"I did draw a lottery, but what is that?"
"What color card came out?"
"I drew a brown card." "I was also a card of the same color." "Me too."
We answered Amane.
"Yeah. After death, the probability of becoming a preta in a lottery is 1/500. There are a total of 9,000 pretas."
"Oh my God! That's incredible!!" I was very surprised at her words.
"Incidentally, I drew a pink card, so I became a celestial maiden. This is a 1/10000 probability!"Amane went on to say that.
"In other words, was it the result of the lottery that we were preta and that you were a celestial maiden?" I asked her for confirmation.
"That's right. According to the Queen of celestial maiden, in Japan today, everyone is gluttony and she can't blame anyone. Therefore, who will become a preta will be decided by lottery." Amane said plainly.
My blood pressure rose to hear that.
"Let me be clear. It seems that the rules was not decided by queen of celestial maiden, but wise ancient monks did it." She said calmly while eating cotton candy.
Finally, we were furious.
"Where is the fucking monk who decided such a playful rule? I was also a monk in my lifetime, but I've never heard of such a stupid rule…ribbit!"
"I can't eat it, I'm naked, but you wear a fine kimono. I can't be convinced… ribbit."
"Don't eat a cotton candy in front of us. Stupid celestial maiden… ribbit."
We were transformed into frogs at the same time by mysterious power.
"I didn't do it," Amane made an excuse.
"Well, I'm back because I've played a role." She rushed home.
"Fuck it!" Punpun said.
"AAAAAA! I hate pretas" Pippi cried.
But I was thinking about something else at that time.
"Hey PunPun, Amane said that there is a 1/500 chance and that there are 9,000 pretas."
"So what? It’s just there are a lot of unlucky guys."
"I didn't mean it that way. Do you know how many people die in Japan every year?"
"Who knows?"
"In my memory, that was about 1.5 million people.If so, 1/500 of the dead would become 3000 people." （To be exact, 1376,000 people in 2019）
"What do you want to say?"
"In other words, the total number of pretas is 9,000, and the addition of 3,000 newcomers a year means that the term of pretas is three years. Is that different?"
"You're right."
"If so, my term will be two years and three months." I said.
"By that calculation, my term is two years and six months!" PunPun shouted.
" AAAAAA! In my case, it last two years and nine months more! " Pippi lamented.
Anyway, we somehow found hope, and we thanked the silly celestial maiden a little.
The end
I want people from other countries to read the novels I wrote.
So, I translated the first episode on the book published by oneself (for the title, GAKIDOMO) into English.
I'm extremely worried about whether this translation sentence can hand the meaning to you or not.
