[Short Short] Simple Totem Pole Lunch

"Do you know what a totem pole is?"

"Something like that, right? A guardian deity with faces on a pillar."

"Yeah, that's it."

I spread my lunch out on the desk and unwrapped it as if to say, "Take a look."

"My mom sent me off today saying, 'Sorry it's something simple.'"

"Something simple... like a nori bento?"

"That's what I thought too. But nope. It's this."

I said that and opened the lid of the bento box. It was a square bento box filled with white rice, and on top of the rice were three thick burdock roots. Elaborate faces and patterns were carved into those burdock roots.

"...That's... a totem pole."

"...That's... a totem pole, isn't it?"

I somehow tried standing the three totem poles up on the rice.

"Oh, it looks like you're being protected."

"My stomach?"

"...I wonder what... 'simple' means."

"...I wonder what... 'simple' really means..."

While staring at the three totem poles standing on the white rice, we pondered the word 'simple,' guardian deities, and a mother's love.

By the time the lunch break ended, the totem poles were in my stomach, wishing for world peace.

End

I participated in Tarahakani-sama's weekly short short [Simple Totem Pole Lunch]."

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