Episode 3. Misunderstandings that get worse (12)
“Turn it off… ….”
It feels like I woke up from a good night’s sleep after a long time. As I was about to stretch and get off the bed, something swelled right next to me.
…… What is this
I lifted the blanket.
There lay Urca with her pink cat ears popping. The enemy’s eyes were staring at me.
“Did you sleep well? Good morning, Prause.”
Smiles at me. Its thin tail wags here and there, revealing its curiosity. Why is this b*tch here?
“…… I have several questions. May I ask?”
“As much as you like. Prause says he can do whatever he wants with me now?”
I looked at Urca with her arms wide open.
The nobleman, who is not even a minor, did not behave or think in any way.
For reference, Urca’s first appearance was set at 35 in the game. However, it was six years ago, so I had to look at it as twenty-nine.
“Shut up and answer the question.”
“Yes. What?”
Listen with a soft voice.
I’m sure Urka is the only woman who smiles when told to shut up.
Isn’t it possible that Urca has a setting like ‘Selling Lover’ or ‘Has a Masochist’ in the back settings?
I think I’ll break it up a bit then.
“Why are you here? Early in the morning.”
“Hmm. Just?”
“…… What’s your business?”
“I want to see Prause.”
He sighed at the blatant appeal.
“That is not the case.”
“Is that so? Then…… I came because I wanted to ask you something.”
Speaks of plausible business.
She raised her body and gave me a rather serious look.
“What does Prause think of other races?”
“I have no idea. Is there any reason to think about that?”
“Yes…… ?”
She licks her lips as if regretting my answer.
“Well then. What do you think of Iris or Maria?”
It seemed like there was something I wanted to hear. It seems that he is trying to elicit an answer subtly.
“These are cute children. Since I have freed them from slavery, I hope they live without any worries. That’s about it.”
“Did you free them from slavery?”
“Yes. I bought it and branded it as a slave, so I guess I was freed from slavery.”
“This is not even a human? Why… ….”
“I don’t understand. Why does it matter if you are human or not? Doesn’t everyone have the right to freedom?”
“So Prause…… Are you saying that you don’t really care if you’re a human or a beastman?”
“You sound obvious.”
Anyway, there are too many people who haven’t learned about this world.
The beasts and the elves are the worst races. Aren’t they mysterious beings that can only be met in another world?
Of course, people who lived in this world would not be able to relate. In this world, it is ‘natural’ that such a species exists.
“Well then… ….”
Urca hesitated while twisting her hair.
“Can you ‘marry’ me too?”
…… What?
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Involuntarily, I slightly opened my mouth. If you didn’t have the facial expression management skill, you would open your mouth wide and say, “What bullsh*t?” Would have said
That’s true, Urka and I didn’t have anything special, and it hadn’t been a few days since we met.
If you were asked to marry such a person out of the blue, wouldn’t you say no?
“Just… Rice, it doesn’t make any sense. I’m just asking.”
I know. Why did she ask this question?
Hasn’t she already been abandoned once?
It was clear that I was speaking as a means of determining whether or not I could be trusted.
‘There’s nothing I can’t do.’
“I can.”
I’m dating a human and a spirit king. Where can’t you
“Really?”
“Why is there something I can’t do? It doesn’t matter if the opponent is a beastman or an elf. However, I don’t care unless the other person has a lover or is a married woman.”
“I am not a lover of Tori, nor am I a married woman.”
She sticks her face in and says. I pushed her face away from her.
“I am not interested in such things. So what do you want to say in the end? I’m not really asking you to marry me.”
“I just checked to see if Prause can be trusted.”
Well, I thought that would be the case…….
You’re still so naive.
If she hadn’t had the Duke of Tori, and if she hadn’t been able to grow into an S-class, she’d probably be selling herself in a brothel.
Or else she would be enslaved, and she would live day by day without hope.
“That is a meaningless confirmation. Because a human being can spit out lies as much as he wants for his own benefit. The same goes for me.”
“Don’t worry. I treat others based on what I see and feel.”
It sounds like a line I’ve heard before.
It seemed that Urca, who had heard Iris’ advice, said that she was far-fetched.
“I’m sorry, but humans can even calculate the emotions you feel. Don’t trust it too much.”
“But I don’t think anyone who talks like that will fool me. Because there is no reason to say anything to lose.”
“It is human beings who use even that kind of psychology. Don’t trust humans too much. That’s all I can say. Urca.”
“…… When you talk to Prause, he seems like someone who knows everything about me.”
That’s not wrong.
I remember going through her settings book and carefully reading each and every one of her lines to see if she could help her clear the game.
Even though Urca appeared in the latter half, it was quite a popular character among people.
Even if she wasn’t official, there was a theory that she was a virgin under the circumstances.
If she had any flaws, would it be that she would die while protecting her torii until the end in the Great War of Demons and Demons?
“As an S-class adventurer, I am one of the 7 strongest people in the empire. There’s no way you wouldn’t know.”
“How to say, it’s not officially known…… Should I say the past I lived in? It seems like you know the private parts you don’t want to show to anyone.”
“…… Is it.”
I neither affirmed nor denied.
“Prause.”
“What is it?”
“If I told you I wanted to trust you, what would you say?”
“I’ll call you an idiot.”
“What?!”
I answered that and got off the bed.
“Why? That I believe in you Why, are you stupid?”
“Because faith does not come from words.”
Would anyone be able to say it?
Whether it was this world or the other world I lived in, being innocent was a sin.
Because of the existence of that innocence, the people around you may suffer.
“Then Prause is a liar too?”
“If I had to lie, I would do it without hesitation.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“Then I…… I want to trust Prause.”
“You fool. Do as you please.”
If you don’t listen properly even after I explain it like that, it’s your own fault. You don’t have to get angry because you didn’t listen, and you don’t have to repeat it two or three times.
It’s a story about taking responsibility for what you did.
I grabbed a change of clothes and a towel and tried to leave the room.
Gasp!
Urca approached before I knew it and was holding onto the sleeve of my T-shirt.
“…… Prause, can I ask you one more question?”
“What is it?”
“You told me yesterday. Live to see that slavery will one day end and other races will live on an equal footing with humans.”
“Yes.”
“Do you think slavery will be abolished?”
“It will work.”
“When? Tori said so too. He said he would abolish slavery. But I couldn’t. For more than twenty years, I had to be tortured with hope……. Do you really think it will happen?”
I sighed and muttered.
“It’s ‘ten years.'”
“Huh?”
“When the imperial power is exactly 1,000 years old, the empire will change. Wait for that time.”
The outbreak of the Second Man-Ma War was in the 1,000th year of the Imperial Era.
It was the final chapter of defeating the four corps commanders and engaging in an all-out war with the demon king.
As the empire borrows the power of other races in the Human War, its position rises rapidly, and it escapes from the persecution of the empire to some extent.
There, the Duke of Tori negotiates with other races, and contributes to a big role in getting rid of slavery in the empire and concluding negotiations to return the territory of the other race.
That’s why Duke Tori was a being that shouldn’t die in the Great War. But that doesn’t mean that Urca can die.
“Ten years… ….”
“Yes. Ten years.”
“…… Is that a lie to reassure me? Or are you serious?”
“Wouldn’t it be fine to just watch without asking me? Are my words true or false?”
It’s a beast that has a longer lifespan than a human anyway, so I wonder if it’s okay to look into the future without getting impatient.
With those words, he finally opened the door.
“Wow!”
Cudangtang!
The children fell over. Behind them were Ariel and Dex. The two were cheekily scratching their cheeks.
“The idiots were here too.”
“Yeah, it’s true Prause-sama… …. You knew you were eavesdropping.”
I see you openly say that you overheard it. Where’s the guts, that’s it.
I looked at them pathetically and then headed for the bathroom.
“Thanks, Prause.”
Just before closing the bathroom door, Urca came over and said.
“Yes.”
I shut the bathroom door.
* * *
Pandemonium.
Although they share the same continent of Physis, that area has a unique dark purple aura.
Even though it was the same sky, the same sea, and the same land, it was like being in a different world.
There was a building built like the imperial palace of Pretium in such a place.
“Commander Habito.”
The top floor of the Demon Castle.
A black-haired man sitting on a huge chair in the throne room of the demon king called the name of the man who knelt in front of him and bowed his head.
“Yes, Demon King.”
The man responded immediately.
He was a man with pale skin.
He was dressed in luxurious silk that only the nobles of Pretium would wear, and was called a ‘vampire’ in the world.
“When are you planning to retrieve the talented person who will become the deputy corps commander you mentioned?”
“I plan to take a few more months to spare. The more human beings taste despair, the more desperate they become.”
“…… Is it. But there won’t be much time.”
“Is something happening?”
“A hero was born.”
Habito was taken aback when the demon lord, Blass Whale, mentioned the hero.
“Yes?! A hero is someone who defeated the demon king of the previous generation…… ?”
“I don’t think so. However, there is no doubt that it will interfere with our plans to conquer the Physis continent in the future.”
“I don’t think there’s any room for aging. I will bring you right away.”
Harbito felt a chill run down his back and cocked his head even deeper.
“Do it.”
A warrior.
What kind of beings are they?
These were the ones who killed the demon king of the previous generation, a symbol of fear in the past.
What no one else in the Demon Realm or the Spirit Realm could do, only humans did it.
After that, the demons shuddered at the mention of a hero.
I wonder if it was said that if the news spread that the warriors had descended from the demon realm, they would have to close their eyes and wait for destruction.
Habito left the demon king’s throne room and called his limbs.
“Did you call, Mr. Habito?”
“We head straight to the Pretium Empire. It’s not ripe yet, but the time has come to create a succubus queen.”
“Okay. We will prepare immediately.”
The amputee leaves. Habito looked out the window of the Demon King Castle. Looking at the purple sky, he murmured quietly.
“It’s been a while since I’ve been to the world of humans. While I’m on my way, let’s check out what kind of warriors they are.”