88 – Creating Jess’s Tribe Plan!
“Wha, marriage? Jess, where did you learn such words?”
Upon hearing my words, Jess straightened up and raised his hand, chuckling. His ears twitched and his tail, which reached down to his calf, wagged.
“Teacher said that if you want to be with the person you love forever, you have to get married! That way, you can become a family!”
“Well…that’s true.”
“I love you, Teacher, and you said you love me too, so if we get married, we can become a family! So let’s get married!”
“But does that love mean…ouch!”
As I tried to explain the meaning of marriage to Jess, I felt a pressure as if my waist was about to break. When I looked back at Iris, who was breathing heavily, she was looking at Jess with a dangerous expression.
“Iris, surrender, surrender!”
“….!”
Since three years ago, when I said surrender before passing out, Iris became obedient when I said surrender. I feel sorry for causing her trauma, but I’m grateful that there’s finally a way for me to barely breathe.
Swoosh, Iris let go of the hand that was holding my waist and grabbed the edge of my clothes, looking gloomy.
Iris’s level of skinship was an indicator of her mood. Holding onto the edge of my clothes meant that she was not in a very good mood.
“Teacher! Marriage! Marriage! And a hundred babies? No, let’s have a hundred people!”
“Where did you learn such words again?”
As the Confucian spirit awakened in me and I shouted anxiously, Jess tilted his head and spoke.
“Teacher said that getting married makes babies! Let’s have a hundred babies and make a tribe!”
Only after hearing those words did my strength leave my body. Like a humanoid with rapid physical growth, except for his youthful face, I felt like I had seriously accepted the words “Let’s have a baby!” and “Let’s get married!” without even realizing it.
“It’s still a baby, just a baby.”
I want to become an astronaut when I grow up! I want to become a dinosaur when I grow up! I want to become Lian when I grow up!
“…?”
Something seemed strange in the middle, but anyway, Jess’s marriage and child remarks were no different from the things he used to shout without thinking when he was young.
“First, let’s correct any major misconceptions and gradually teach the rest.”
Thinking that way, I started explaining at Jess’s eye level. I explained that a child would grow old and die before having a hundred children, and that there was a separate kind of love for getting married.
“But…”
Jess made his tail round and drooped his ears, wearing a pitiful expression.
“Ugh! I need to be firm for the sake of education!”
Ignoring the expression that made me want to listen to anything, I barely raised my head.
“Tsk.”
“…?”
A sound that shouldn’t have been heard seemed to come from Jess’s direction. Reflexively, I quickly turned my head to look at Jess, but he still had a gloomy expression on his face.
“Did I…mishear?”
Jess, who was making such a gloomy expression, must not have clicked his tongue, so I must have misheard. Whether it’s true or not, it doesn’t matter.
“Now let’s go eat. If we’re any later, we might not be able to have breakfast.”
“Uh-huh.”
“Yeah.”
This time, I didn’t bother to comfort the downcast Iris separately. I needed to be firm when it came to marriage and physical affection.
“Maybe it’s because she has no one else to rely on since she was young… She’s in a state of separation anxiety.”
For the sake of Iris’s healthy independence, I needed to slowly distance myself from her. Since Iris was also entering adolescence, she might naturally distance herself from me without me pushing her away.
“…What if I don’t want to be in the same space because it smells?”
Suddenly, my shoulders felt heavy. With a gloomy mood, I headed to the restaurant. Nero, who was having a meal at the restaurant, asked me and Jess and Iris, who looked gloomy, if something had happened, but there was nothing special
“I don’t know! I really don’t know!”
“I can confirm that myself.”
“Oh, don’t come any closer!”
The man trembled and tried to crawl away, but the man in the robe was quicker. In an instant, he approached and firmly grabbed the fallen man’s head.
“Kuh… Kuugh…!”
The sound of intermittent gasps could be heard, and the man being held had his eyes roll back and his tongue hang out before losing consciousness.
“Tsk, this guy doesn’t have any useful memories either.”
As the unconscious man flopped onto the ground, the man in the robe casually brushed off his hands and turned to move elsewhere. In that moment, something hidden among the weeds flew up.
“Hey!”
“Huh?”
Suddenly feeling a familiar energy approaching, the man raised an eyebrow and turned to look at it.
“What are you again?”
“Heh! I am the servant of the great one, ‘Hamulina’!”
“Huh? Really? Why did you become so small?”
“You impertinent fool… Tsk, never mind. I have something important to discuss, so take me with you.”
The man scoffed at it, but he had no intention of ignoring it completely. It was a part of ‘that person’s’ servant, so he couldn’t handle it recklessly. The man took it and headed towards his lodging.
***
Room 1008 of the inn.
The man took off his robe and casually threw it onto the bed. Clear sky-blue hair that caught the eye, orange eyes nestled within fierce eyelashes.
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No matter where he went, the man with a color that would stand out was at most 16 years old, maybe 17 at most.
“What is it that you want to say? Is it perhaps an order from him?”
As the guy smirked, his sharp teeth were revealed, like a shark’s. Hamul flew to the man’s side and spoke in the heaviest voice possible.
“Well, you could say it’s a story even more important than an order directly from him.”
“Oh! Good, tell me quickly! I’ll take care of anything!”
Satisfied, Hamul smiled inwardly at the arrogance-filled words.
“If he is one of the Four Heavenly Kings, then it’s only natural.”
One of the Four Heavenly Kings had already died, leaving one of their positions vacant. The man in front of him, Potensien, was the one who filled that vacancy.
“Heh heh, even if he has strong mental power like a lion or a saint, his body is that of a weak human, so it should be easy to defeat him.”
Hamul let out a wicked laugh and began to unfold the story about Lian. When he mentioned that there was a saint chosen by ‘him’ to oppose him, Potensien couldn’t hide his excitement.
“A saint?”
“Yes, your task is simple. You will kill that guy ruthlessly!”
“Heh heh, that’s the only thing I’m good at.”
Potensien showed his sharp teeth and laughed at Hamul’s words.
“So where is this guy they call the saint?”
Hamul began to reveal the information he knew, one by one. Lian belonged to an organization called ‘Nest’ and their headquarters were hidden.
He revealed that the headquarters were protected by illusion magic and perception interference magic, making it difficult to find. When Hamul finished speaking, Potensien snorted and said,
“Hmm. So this Nest organization has taken over the western region, huh?”
“…? Well, it’s uncertain whether their hidden headquarters is actually in the west, but they have taken over, yes.”
Remembering the stories that humans were talking about, Hamul affirmed Potensien’s question. Upon hearing that, Potensien chuckled and said,
“It seems like the fact that I was sent to Cardisian this time is related to that organization.”
“By the way, why are you here?”
Filled with thoughts of revenge against Lian, it was only now that I began to question.
“To investigate the city-wide catastrophe incident.”
“A city-wide catastrophe?”
Delta’s tribe plan lmao