Chapter 193: A Short Break (1/3)
Due to my sli experint being seen by the villagers, I ended up labeled as a Sli-Loving Weirdo in the village. Word spread quickly, and whenever I passed by people on the way back ho they would call out to with nas like ‘sli kid’ or ‘sli-kun’.
I don’t particularly hate the na, but I just can’t co to terms with it.
“I won’t deny my love for slis, but why do I have to be labeled as a weirdo? I’m sure more people would be interested in slis if they just knew their abilities. Personally, the more I learn about the slis, the more interesting they beco. Let’s take the poison slis as an example. Most people just see them as simple creatures that release poison, but just as I’ve shown today, they can fight perfectly fine without poison through the employ of spears. Slis are such useful creatures depending on the variant. Why don’t people get it?” [Ryouma]
“I’m pretty sure a normal poison sli only knows poison.” [Kai]
“That’s exactly why slis have potential. …If you still don’t get it, then maybe I just don’t have any talent in presenting things to people.” [Ryouma]
“I don’t get it either, but I’m pretty sure that doesn’t have anything to do with it.” [Kai]
“In any case, most of the villagers now know your plans. Thanks to that we won’t have to go out of our way to tell them about it and get permission.” [Kei]
That’s true.
Reporting, communicating, and consulting are important in all things. It’s not just because I’m having my familiars join the fray. Any new plan that involves the subjugation of the mud salamander require permission from the leader of the adventurers and the villagers to prevent chaos from spreading out in the fields.
Normally, we would have had to start with the leader of the adventurers and a representative of the fishern, then go to various places to explain things, but thanks to so many people gathering earlier, we were able to get through the explaining and approval process without a hitch.
Other than reminding not to let the poison slis use poison, they didn’t say anything else and agreed to let , my slis, and the mbers of the Wharf of Shikumu to defend the processing plant and its surroundings for a day.
If we do a good job tomorrow, the other adventurers won’t have to bother with the processing plant anymore.
That is to say that the adventurers will have less ground to cover, so they’ll be able to focus more on defending the fishes.
“Hmm?” [Peiron]
As we were talking while walking, Peiron-san suddenly stopped.
“What’s the matter?” [Sein]
“Soone is calling .” [Peiron]
Peiron-san briefly replied to Sein-san’s question as he turned to the path we ca from.
I followed his gaze and turned around, and… Who’s that? There, a boy was noisily running towards us. From his appearance, he looked like he could fit in the lower grades of primary school.
“Hah? Isn’t that Niki?” [Peiron]
“Wait! Sli oniisan!” [Niki]
“Huh? He has business with ?” [Ryouma]
The village boy that was supposedly nad Niki called out to , but I didn’t have an inkling as to why.
Despite that I casually walked toward him.
“Ah!” [Shin]
“Be careful, Ryouma-kun!” [Kei]
“Huh?” [Ryouma]
“—! I’m giving this to you!” [Niki]
As soon as my attention was taken by Shin-san and Kei-san’s warning, the boy threw sothing at .
It drew a parabola in the air as it ca flying at . It was small, round, and green. Based on its ball-shaped body that was dirtied with mud and the eight legs in the air, it seed to be so kind of octopus.
“Oh, uwaah!?’” [Ryouma]
When I received that octopus that ca flying out of nowhere, it suddenly spat ink at .
“Acha, we were too late…” [Shin]
“Are you okay?” [Kei]
“Yes. I wasn’t hurt or anything.” [Ryouma]
“Hey! Niki!” [Kai]
“Didn’t you promise not to play pranks on people from outside!?” [Sein]
When the boy saw covered in ink, he ran away as fast as he could.
“Ahh!” [???]
“!?” [Ryouma]
Then out of the blue soone cried out. Just when I was wondering what it was this ti, I noticed that a grandma was looking at from the corner of the street.
“Oh, it’s grandma. Were you chasing after Niki?” [Kai]
“I knew it! Little Kai, that kid was here, wasn’t he? Sorry about your clothes, boy.” [Grandma]
The grandma was apologetic, but I told her it was no big deal, and opened my dinsion ho.
I summoned a cleaner sli I was familiar with and had it suck the ink out of my body and clothes.
“Wow… That’s mighty convenient.” [Grandma]
“Oh yeah, you operated a laundromat, didn’t you?” [Sein]
“I forgot. I guess a re okuta’s ink is nothing to you then.” [Peiron]
When Sein-san and Peiron-san rembered that, they laughed.
The atmosphere beca a little brighter at that. I showed the grandma that my clothes were clean and again reminded her not to worry about it. Only then did the grandma heave a sigh of relief.
“Alright. In that case, I better get going. I have to catch that mischievous kid or who knows what else he’ll do. If he cos here again…” [Grandma]
“At that ti, we’ll be sure to catch him.” [Shin]
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