The Ninja Academy's Incredible Legends (44): If You Feel Like You've Seen It Before, You Definitely Have

Although it was far from their original goal of catching monsters, searching for jellyfish and kudzu vines still counted as an adventure of sorts. Even so, the excited little girls were a bit disappointed.

After eating and drinking their fill, the three little ones copied Isaribi, carrying bamboo baskets on their backs and stirring the water with iron tongs. Whenever they spotted a jellyfish, they would clamp it and toss it into their baskets.

"Little Miyuki, are you close with that Sister Isaribi?"

Taking the chance while Isaribi was some distance away, Futaba Tsumugi leaned over and asked in a low voice.

"More or less. I heard she used to come to my house a lot when I was very little, but I don't remember any of it. I only know that she worked at my family's flower shop for a while, then I have no idea what she did afterward."

"I see!"

Futaba Tsumugi splashed the water with her tongs while her little brain whirred away.

The more earnest Nagi Gekko took off her shoes and diligently searched the shore for strange creatures. Before long, her bamboo basket was full of white jellyfish.

Feeling that the small basket was nearly full, Nagi climbed ashore and poured all the jellyfish onto an open patch of ground. By then, quite a few white, translucent aquatic creatures were piled along the bank, already close to drying out and dying.

The tired little girl stood up and stretched her slightly aching waist.

"Little Miyuki, Little Tsumugi, we've caught so many. I wonder why Sister Isaribi wants to scoop up all these weird things and kill them."

"I'm not sure, but there are so many that the whole water surface is almost covered. They probably aren't anything good, right?"

Miyuki picked up a jellyfish