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.
