Part 1
The inn Paul was staying at was the 『Dawn of the Door Inn』. Next door is a slightly larger than usual inn.
Inside is a circular wooden table with ten seats. I sit on one of them. Paul is sitting in front of .
Though it's still the dayti, all the seats are filled up. The guys I knocked out were healed by so healing magician allies of Paul, and they were sitting around as well. It goes without saying, but the looks they were giving weren't particularly good. It seems that everyone here is Paul's companion.
The one I notice in particular is the person behind Paul. Sitting there is a female warrior. Her hair is short and chest-nut colored, curling outwards. Her lips are a bit pouty and she gives a charming impression. Worthy of special ntion is her figure.
Large breasts, a slim waist, and a full butt, covered up by the so-called bikini armor. She's a girl in her late teens.
Indeed, it's the female warrior that Paul called Vera.
Even with one look, I can tell that she's got the kind of figure that Paul is fond of.
That bikini armor isn't very unusual in this world. It's a world where a small wound can easily be fixed with healing magic. Assuming that they'd just block attacks, they'd prefer light weight armors. Things like chainmail would get in the way. There are a lot of swordsn who think this way. It's likely that she's one of them.
Still, it's the first ti I've seen soone so lightly dressed. Normally above so thin clothing they'd wear armor on their joints, like their shoulders and elbows. Even if she isn't dressed that way because we're in a bar, she could have worn an overcoat or sothing. At the very least, the young won I've seen up until now on the Demon Continent were like that. Isn't she cold in a get-up like that?
I've heard that because of the 7 towers in Milis, the climate is always stable here. I wonder if that's why she's fine? Well, let's just assu so for now. It's eye-pleasing.
While I'm looking at her, our eyes suddenly et.
I was winked at.
I returned the wink.
"Oi, Rudi… Rudi?"
When Paul speaks to , the female warrior and I break off our gazes.
"Father, it's been a while."
"What, Rudi… you survived, huh?"
Paul spoke with a tired voice. How do I say this… he's really changed.
He hasn't shaved properly, his hair is a ss, his breath reeks of alcohol, and his whole body gives off a peevish impression.
He doesn't look at all like the Paul in my mories.
"Well… yeah…"
At any rate, my mind can't keep up.
Why is Paul here?
This is Milishion.
It's as far from Asura as Africa is from Mongolia.
Is he here to search for ?
No, he shouldn't have known that I was teleported to the Magic Continent.
In that case, for a different matter, huh?
What about his job protecting the Buina village?
"And so, why are you here, Tou-sama?"
Thinking that I should ask this first, in response Paul looked surprised.
"[Why?] you ask, you saw the ssage didn't you?"
"ssage… you say?"
ssage.
What ssage?
I don't recall seeing anything like that.
Seeing obviously confused, Paul frowned.
Could it be that I said sothing that upset him?
"Oi, Rudeus. What have you been doing up until now?"
"Even if you ask that, it was pretty rough, you know."
I'm the one who wants to know what's going on.
While thinking this, I recounted my journey up until now.
About how I had been transported to the Magic Continent, I had been saved by a certain Demon race person, how I beca an adventurer, and about the year I had spent with Eris on the Magic Continent.
Thinking about it, it had been a pretty fun trip. From the troubles we had at the start, as well as the half year we had lived as adventurers; we had experienced quite a lot.
It might have been because of that, but I gradually beca more talkative, and started to talk more passionately about the events that had occurred while I was journeying. Everything that I had said was completely non-fiction; a great big spectacle.
I had separated my journey into three parts:
The first was eting Ruijerd and becoming friends with him, and then the chaos at Rikarisu town.
The second was about the Great Magician Rudeus helping Ruijerd, and his journeying to reform the world.
The third was about how so cowardly Beast People had captured , and my desperate struggles in captivity.
Though I had dramatized a few parts, I began to speak more smoothly, and gradually my gestures beca more joyful and I started to tell the story while making exaggerated sound effects.
By the way, I had left out the stuff about the Hitogami.
"And so when we got to Wind Port, what we saw was…"
"…"
Around the ti when I had finished telling the second part, the 『The Journey of 3 Black-listed People Through the Magic Continent - Empathy Arc』, I suddenly stopped talking.
Paul had beco sullen.
His face had distorted into an irritated expression, and he was tapping his finger on the table.
I might have upset him sohow.
Without understanding, I was about to continue my story.
"After that, we headed to the Great Forest."
"That's enough."
In an irritated voice, Paul cut off.
"That you spent the last year gallivanting about, I understand quite well now."
I beca just a little irritated at Paul's words.
"I had quite a tough ti as well you know."
"Just what was tough about it?"
"Eh?"
When he had asked that in return, I let out a strange voice.
"From your tone, I didn't feel like you had even an ounce of hardship."
That's because I told it like that.
Though, certainly I may have gotten a bit carried away.
"Hey, Rudi. There's one thing I'd like to ask."
"What is it?"
"You, why didn't you gather information about the other people who had been teleported while you were on the Magic Continent?"
I stayed silent.
I had no choice but to stay silent.
Even if he asked [Why?] I had no way to answer.
There was only one way to reply.
There was only one reason.
It was because I had forgotten.
At first we had struggled with all our strength, however even when we had room to breathe again, I hadn't even once thought that there might've been people besides us on the Demon Continent.
"I-, I had forgotten… We didn't have the ti to, and…"
"Didn't have the ti? Even though you had the ti to help out so demon you didn't know, you didn't have the ti to concern yourself about the other people who had been teleported?"
I stay silent.
I had gotten my priorities wrong.
Now that he ntions it, certainly that may have been the case.
Still, don't ask this after it's already happened.
I had really forgotten at that ti.
I can't be helped, right?
"Hah! Without searching for others, without writing a single letter, together with that cute, cute ojou-san like you were on a picnic, living as an adventurer. Not only that, you had a strong guard to escort you. And then, hah, when you first ca to Milishion you saw a kidnapping, and put panties on your head and played hero?"
Paul sighs at in ridicule, and reaches for the jug of alcohol on the neighboring table. He drank half of it in a gulp, then spat as if to make fun of .
Because that gesture was unabashedly making fun of , I beca irritated. Though I won't tell him to stop drinking, aren't we in the middle of an important discussion?
"Even I've had to deal with one thing after another. I had decided that in a situation where I couldn't tell left from right, I would protect only Eris… Various things had happened, so it couldn't be helped, right?"
"It's not like I'm blaming you or anything."
He had spoken in a tone that ridiculed . Finally, I began to raise my voice.
"In that case, why are you picking a fight with !?"
I reached the limits of what I could endure. I don't understand why Paul is saying things like this.
"Why, you ask?"
Once again, Paul spits.
"I should be asking you that."
"What about ?"
I can't comprehend it. What is he trying to say?
"Was that Eris you ntioned, Phillip's daughter?"
"Eh? Ah, of course she is."
"I've never seen her, but she's definitely quite the cute ojou-san huh? Was not sending letters because you thought the number of guards around her would increase, and it'd get in the way of your flirting?"
"Didn't I just say that I had forgotten?"
I hadn't thought of anything but that.
Certainly, Eris really does have good standing.
The Greyrat family is huge.
Possibly, had we spoken to the lord of Saint Port, we might have gained one or two guards.
But I had explained that at that ti I had been caught by the Beast People and so… oh, I hadn't explained, huh? I hadn't gotten up to that part yet.
Even so.
I aid to do the things that I could, in my own way.
Though I didn't manage to do everything in the best way possible, that doesn't give him the right to bla like this.
"Leader. How about leaving it there? He's still young so even if he had said a little too much, it can't be helped, right?"
When I beca silent, the bikini warrior from before had co from behind and placed her hands on Paul's shoulders. Seeing this, I laugh in scorn.
In the end, it's this sort of thing.
Though this man speaks high and mightily, he's a man who won't discriminate when it cos to won.
He's that sort of man.
He isn't in a position to say anything to .
I haven't laid my hands on Eris once.
Certainly there were close calls.
There were tis when I was ruled by my desires as well.
But I never did lay my hands on her.
"When it cos to won, I don't want to be told this by you, Tou-sama."
"…Huh?"
Paul's eyes glaze over in irritation. I don't notice.
"What's the deal with the woman over there?"
"What about Vera?"
"Do Mother and Lilia know that you have such a beautiful woman nearby?"
"…They don't. There's no way that they would."
Paul's expression warps into one of regret but I don't see it. I was deluded into thinking that I was winning the argunt.
"So you're cheating as much as you like, then? You've had her put on quite the erotic outfit. It seems that the day when I get a new brother or sister is close at hand, huh?"
Before I realize.
Before I realize, I had been hit, and was on the ground.
Paul is making a vicious expression and is looking down at .
"Don't fuck around, Rudi."
I had been hit.
Why?
Sheet.
"Oi, Rudi. Since you're here, it ans that you passed by Saint Port, didn't you?"
"And what about it?"
"Then you should know, right!?"
I don't know what's going on anymore.
Just that Paul is hiding sothing, and that though I don't know about it, he's blaming because he thinks it's natural that I do.
Don't fuck around with .
Even I have things that I don't know.
There's heaps of things that I'd like to know about.
"I don't know!"
I raised my fist and struck at Paul.
It's avoided.
At the sa ti, I activate my demon eye.
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