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You write to her the boy's location. He has done something wrong, and he must be punished, else the brat won't learn the lesson until it's too late... Right?

“Oh, thanks. I'll-” The teacher suddenly gets an idea. She gives you her weird hat and slowly steps backward behind a house, out of the boy's sight. “Please stay here and pretend that I am still talking to you. I'll catch him off-guard.”

What? You point out that you're-

*Tap!Tap!*

...Mute. Whatever. You inspect the hat: The shape of it looks weird, like a lunch box. You pass it to Sanae so she can look at it.

“I wonder where Miss Keine bought this unique hat... May I look at the radar that you dug up before Nobu?”

Uh, fine. You pass her the radar, and she starts examining it closely.

“Lady Suwako, is this the-”

“Yes Sanae, that's the device Nobu planted days ago.”

“I don't know what's wrong with it, Lady Kanako never tell me before about this... ”

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“That's Miss Kamishirasawa's hat... Is she talking to him? I should take a different path to-”

“Hello there Hiroshi. Where will you going?”

The teacher shows up from behind and holds the boy's shoulder so he can't run away.

“Aaaaahhh!”

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“Stop struggling! You're running away from your punishment, now tell me the reason or I'll call your parents!”

It seems she's successfully caught the brat. You and Sanae walk to them.

“No! Don't! I don't want to get hit again by my father...” He pleas. “I've made a promise to Mio that I'll show her some books that I have...”

“Mio? You mean the youngest daughter of farmer Himura?”

The boy nods. You haven't seen any farms around. Maybe it's on different side of the village?

“She wants to know how to read too after we met with an outsider that keeps showing us some words, so I promised to bring some books that I have this evening to her, but...”

“Hm, does the outsider look like him?” Keine points to you, and the boy immediately recognizes you.

“Hey, it's mister Outsider! Mister, please-”

Keine's stare shuts him up. Sanae also stares at you. What? You can only communicate with written words.

“If only he let his children attend my classes...” She sighs, then crouch so she can stare straight into his eyes. “Look, what you're trying to do is good, but that's no excuse to evade your punishment. If you do your homework earlier, you can go fulfill your promise, can't you?”

He slowly nods. Keine grabs his head and headbutt him lightly. The hell?

“Ouch!”

“I'll let you go, but you have to redo yesterday's homework along with today's homework. Is that clear?”

He nods again. The teacher smiles and turns to you guys. Sanae gives her her weird hat back.

“Thank you Miss Kamishirasawa!” The boy bows to her. She pats him and walks away, leaving the boy alone. You moves closer to the boy. “Hello mister Outsider! How's my toy? Have you fixed it?”

You nod and pat him on his shoulder. Better use this moment to introduce Sanae to him. You write to Sanae that he's the owner of the console that you're trying to fix.

“I see... Hello there!” She bows to him, and he bows back. Uh, that's too formal, but whatever. “My name is Kochiya Sanae. I'm this man's friend. What's your name?”

“My name is Nakamura Hiroshi,” he turns to you. “Mister Outsider, what's your name?”

Oh, right. You haven't introduced yourself to him on the other day. You write your name on the writing pad and shows it to him.

“'Nobu?' Is that your first name or your last name, mister? Miss Kamishirasawa taught me to call older person with their last name, or I will disrespect the person I talked to.”

“Uhm, don't worry about that, Mister Nobu is fine. Right?”

She punches your side, and you respond by nodding a few times to the boy, then write that his game will be ready tomorrow, and ask when he can meet with him again.

“Really? Thank you mister! My father hit me yesterday... He told me that I must not trust any strangers, because no one will know if they are a bad person or not... But you are not a bad person, are you?”

Oops. Now you're feeling guilty about it.... But he and the girl are the one whose asking you to prepare the toy for them. That'll teach him to not ask any favor from a stranger.

“Of course, he's the nicest man that I've ever known,” Sanae smiles. “Anyway, don't you have something to do right now?”

“Ah, the books! Excuse me Mister Nobu, Miss Kochiya, I need to go now!” He bows a few times and runs away. Heh, kids... Sanae takes a deep breath.

*Croak!*

“Let's head back, Nobu. I think it'll be dark soon.”

She lifts you up with the wind carefully and flies off. You see some villagers watching as you depart from the village. Is it really okay to just fly like that?