Chapter 48
San (Rescued)
Translator : PolterGlast
I was worried, you
know~~!
I thought you'd be
alright~~.
Sorry, sorry~~~.
Lotus and I sat on the
chairs provided by the inn, silently watching the slime that had been
carelessly abducted. Seriously, could this even happen?
We had rushed into the
room, barely listening to the innkeeper's explanation. After things had calmed
down a bit, I went to him to hear more details. Lotus had been appointed to
watch over the wei-wei-ing slimes, leaning on his elbow with his legs crossed.
They seemed to be having fun, which was all that mattered.
The innkeeper who had
seemed worried when I rushed back to the inn and into the room in a flustered
state, tried to comfort me by saying, "Well, it's surprising to hear there
are monsters in a room." Of course, I couldn't possibly say that I was the
one who brought them, so I gave a lukewarm smile, my mouth twitching into a
forced grin. The announcement in my head, "Social Smile Skill
Acquired," was a bit much, though.
Here's a summary of
what the innkeeper told me. Some time after we went out, a long-haired man
clutching a Magic Tower certificate slowly looked around the inn. He held out
one hand, and just as the bracelet on his wrist glowed, he demanded that the
key to our room be opened. This city revolved around the Magic Tower. When
ordered to open it, they had no choice, and since there was a possibility of
monsters inside, they cautiously opened the door. There, San, who had made the
whole room clean, was swaying his smooth and plump body with a cheerful
movement. Was this a joke?
"Well, I had
heard about it from travelers from other leaves, but so that's what a slime is.
Shiny and jiggly, it even looked a little tasty in a certain way."
Unbeknownst to the
innkeeper, all three of the slimes, who were currently bouncing around
cheerfully in front of Lotus, sneezed simultaneously at his comment. At that
moment, Lotus quietly muttered, "Seriously, how did you guys just
sneeze?" Lotus sometimes made deadpan serious replies.
When the stranger had
barged in, I had been some distance away from San, so the illusion skill I had
cast on him had completely worn off, leaving him fully visible. And not
expecting the door to open, he had exclaimed, "Eeeeeh!? Howw!?," only
to be grabbed under the arm and secured by the long-haired man, and he had
retreated while thrashing about. Then he immediately escaped. When our slimes
got serious, they became faster than cheetahs. Honestly, I sometimes looked
down at the three of them with a shudder, wondering if their status were
actually higher than mine.
After summarizing the
innkeeper's story and San's story, I returned to the inn again. "I
see...," I nodded, sitting on a chair with a feeling like I could imagine
it, but also like I couldn't. By the way, I have a fundamental question here.
"By the way, are
Ichi and the others monsters?"
It was a really
belated question. "Huh? No, huh?" I tilted my head and blinked
repeatedly, and Ichi and the others stretched out both hands and put them
together, like a wei-type making a star with peace signs, and replied,
"Broadly speaking, yes we are~." Narrowly speaking, were they
different? Or rather, since there weren't enough of them, it wasn't a star but
a triangle, but that was beside the point.
Monsters employed by
demons were called mamono (demonic creatures). Even though it was a bond from
the Tamer skill, I wasn't exactly employing Ichi and the others. So, well, I
guess that's how it is... I somehow convinced myself and swallowed my words,
but I still had a slightly unconvinced feeling. Well, it didn't really matter.
After that, I decided
to ask San more deeply about it. The long-haired man who had abducted (?) him.
He wore a gray robe, had a small monocle on one eye, carried a large staff, and
was a quiet man. Lotus had jet-black hair, but this man's hair was a slightly
greenish shade, tied back in a single ponytail, and he wore a bracelet.
"...That's..."
I searched through my
memories. With a shang sound, the image of a man thrusting not a staff, but a
shakujo (a Buddhist monk's staff with metal rings), into the ground flashed
through my mind. --I knew him.
"He's one of the
capture targets from the game..."
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