Chapter 434: Not all familiar faces are transmigrators

Uhh...this was...

Seeing me blinking awkwardly, the Mayor added without flinching. "Nothing romantically, of course," he said, turning his head to look in the direction of his house. "More like...how I see my children. No, it's not that too. More like...a nephew?"

Oh--I nodded swiftly. Yeah, I didn't feel like he looked at me in any weird way too, honestly. But people had been telling me I was too dense and whatnot, so I wasn't going to trust my own judgment about this.

Thank Mother it wouldn't be another case of the Hero.

And...to see me as a nephew...I couldn't help but smile from the warm feeling coming from my past. I wondered if the soul of Grandpa's subordinate somehow resonated with the Mayor. That man did feel like an uncle; he was the one who usually drove me to Grandma's house and picked me up a few days later.