Hajime and Shia who left the village even while the villagers were reluctant to see them leaving were aiming straight toward the city of Puhang at the upstream.
They were stuffing their cheeks with bread that looked like nan with a lot of meat in between, given to them kindly by the villagers when the left. They were eating while they were advancing along the river that still had the coldness of the morning remaining.
「Delish- desuu. I missed the chance to ask, but what kind of meat this is?」
「I wonder. This feeling of overflowing wild taste, it somehow remind me when I was in Abyss……」
Hajime and Shia were going 'delicious delicious' in a display of gluttony regardless of the fact that it hadn't been a few hours since they received breakfast.
「In any case, they were a pleasant bunches aren't they. That……Wandam? Though I cannot say about the way he was looking at me.」
「It's Bantas-san. Certainly it was a beautiful spinning kick. Though it's still not at the level of a certain muscular actor.」
Shia laughed loudly. Bantas who fought a young girl to a draw after that got high spirited when Hajime and Shia exhibited a mock fight with sublimely advanced fighting style. He begged that he also wanted to have a match with Hajime by any means.
The way Hajime fought pared to Shia left an impression of boorishness that couldn't be erased. It didn't have the flowing elegance of "martial arts" that was backed with history like Shia who was adopting various hand-to-hand fighting style.
Although, Hajime's taijutsu that was sublimated by accumulating real battle after real battle where his life was on the line of life and death should be said as the height of rationality.
His figure perfectly handling the entirety of Shia's flowing offense that was like a surging wave using the minimum movement necessary made anyone who watched it felt beauty from it in its own way.
Not just Bantas, it also went without saying that the men of the village got their blood boiled.
「Hajime-san, sometimes you are strangely popular among the male, just like with Tou-sama(father) and others. Especially among the beefy people……」
「Stop it, don't say anymore.」
Recalling how the village's male were approaching him with their muscles twitching, Hajime shuddered while shaking his head. Shia raised a chuckle seeing such Hajime.
「They said that they wanted us to e again next year, they expressly gave us the invitation, so let's e again bringing a souvenir next time, okay Hajime-san?」
「……I guess.」
Shia expressed her happiness of the unexpected chance meeting in the travel with a wide smile. Her rabbit ears were also whooshing around.
However Hajime showed a bit of thinking gesture while agreeing. Shia thought 「Eh? He isn't enthusiastic?」 while she peeked at Hajime's expression with a bit of unease.
Hajime smiled wryly thinking that he was worrying Shia and he spoke while patting her head *pon pon*.
「Don't make that kind of face. I'm just thinking a bit.」
「Thinking……is it?」
「Yeah. I'm thinking that if you are enjoying it that much, then perhaps it's fine to make the travel date with just Shia a custom for once a year at least.」
「Hajime-san!」
Her rabbit ears stood straight *Pi─n-!* The lovely suggestion caused Shia's eyes to sparkle with stars of delight, then she leaped at Hajime while glittering with joy.
And then without pause she pouted her lips 「Nn~~」 and approached for a kiss.
「I get it that you're happy, so for now how about you clean up the food scraps around your mouth first?」
Shia's face became bright red and her body backed away gracefully.
It was a rare occurrence, but sometimes like just now Shia became a disappointing rabbit. Hajime watched fondly of such Shia with affection then he personally cleaned up Shia's mouth. Shia look embarrassed, but she kept her eyes closed.
Toward such Shia, Hajime brought his face closer to have the continuation of just now even though it was early in the morning. Shia who felt his presence also leaned her body forward in response……
「A?」
「Hmm?」
Both of them simultaneously turned their gaze toward deep inside the forest. *rustle rustle* The sound of feet treading firmly on vegetation resounded faintly.
「It's not some animal isn't it?」
「There was the talk about the youngsters of other village loitering around but……」
Now then, what could be the reason of they being here. The answer immediately became clear.
「So it's really true. There are foreigner man and woman here.」
「Oo, they got various pricey looking things on them.」
「The girl is drop dead gorgeous.」
「Whatever, as expected foreign tourists are idiot huh. Taking sight defenselessly in this kind of place like this.」
Just from that conversation it was clear that these are the insolent people the villagers warned them about.
The fighting festival was happening that merrily. Then surely the rumor about foreign couple with affluent look seeing from their nice belonging would quickly spread to other village too.
Tourists visiting dangerous place with sightseeing mood without really gathering information about the local, without even the self-awareness of how ignorant and rash and reckless they were acting, and holding a groundless optimistic view that it was impossible for misfortune to befall them……
These rude bunches were surely ing to aim for that kind of tourists who were just begging to get robbed.
With a grin on their face, the robber look-alikes were gathering while showing something that looked like rifle even though they looked old.
「This kind of people exist no matter what world it is isn't it. Well it doesn't matter. Right her with the fist of Uga that I had just learned I will teach them the harshness of socie──」
The moment Shia clenched her fist to give a lesson,
──*DOPAN-DOPAN-DOPAN-DOPAN-*
Consecutive gunshot sound echoed inside the forest. At the same time, the young men showing up from inside the forest were disappearing into the forest as though in a video playback. More accurately they were sent flying, or perhaps it should be called as knocked flying.
「Wha-, wha-, this guy──」
「He is carrying gun! Run──」
「Sto, stop! We aren't planning anything! Look, I'm putting down the gun! So don't sho──」
Everyone peacefully returned back deep into the forest. There was no exception.
「Be thankful tearfully that you guys at least don't get returned into earth.」
Mercilessly, no, just using stun bullet was already merciful but, Hajime-san shot everyone without caring whether they were escaping or raising their hands in surrender.
It didn't even take five seconds until the figure of about ten people of the bunches vanished from view.
「Ha, Hajime-san?」
At earth, Hajime fundamentally didn't pull out Donner, if it was only someone picking up a quarrel he would deal with them using his bare hand (he used his left hand without reservation), but here he chose gun without an instant of hesitation. Shia's eyes turned round seeing Hajime's reaction that was different from usual.
Hajime shrugged his shoulders and he stored back Donner into the holster on his chest while,
「There is no one watching after all.」
In other words, it seemed if it was a place where there was no witness, he wouldn't hesitate to use Donner in order to settle the problem in a flash. For the insolent people who encountered Hajime in a place outside of public gaze, it was a dangerous place instead.
Hajime who normally said something like 「I'll ply to law and ethic that is appropriate for a citizen of a constitutional country. After all here is different from Tortus you know, pared to Tortus」, was shooting unhesitatingly……
「Hajime-san. The way of thinking that it's okay to shoot if there is no witness, feels like it's normally outlaw though.」
「Oi oi, how can you say that to a virtuous and exemplary Japanese person like me.」
A virtuous and exemplary Japanese person was surely a person who would modestly respect propriety, avoiding act of violence and honored the law to the best of their ability, that was how she felt……Shia's expression turned really plicated.
「Before this Myuu-chan said "innocent until proven guilty. Everything is legal if it's not leaked out
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