5-4 Part 2
Not All Rewards Are Written on the
Request Form
- A Reward of Gratitude -
Translator : PolterGlast
"...Shinza."
However, there was a visitor. I heard Kachua's voice
in the darkness. Just as I was about to unguardedly open my eyes, I realized
the major problem with the current situation and hid my eyes. Kachua was
sitting at the foot of the bed.
"Sorry, you were asleep after all..."
"Yeah, I was sleeping."
As my thinking power returned, a slow-acting panic gradually
filled my thought circuits. I cannot let these eyes and arms be seen. I should
have at least worn my gloves while sleeping, I panicked.
"What do you want?"
If my true form is seen, it's over. They might change their
attitude and revile me as a monster. In a sense, I am closer to the Goblins
than to them.
"Um, the Village Chief... He said to stick with Shinza
at night..."
"What is that..."
No, I see. Then I remembered the receptionist's words again.
He said that gratitude other than the reward is a good thing. That really meant
young women repaying adventurers with their bodies, huh...
"Look this way, why are you turning your face
away?"
"Even if you tell me to stick with me, I'm troubled.
You can go home; I rest better alone."
"Haaah, it doesn't work like that! I was told to
stay with Shinza-sama until morning!"
"But I am saying that is troublesome."
Where I put my gloves, that is the problem. First, to put on
the lenses that hide my Dragon Eyes, I must hide my naturally white arms
with something.
Well, if it's just the arms, I can still make an excuse. I
can say it's a skin disease. But these Dragon Eyes are the only thing I
cannot show. Until I met Zirant, I barely managed to think of myself as
human.
But it's different. I am a monster. Likely Zirant's
kin. I recovered the gloves by groping around. I don't remember doing it, but
it seems I had discarded them on the floor.
Putting them on while hiding under the blanket, decent
emotions finally returned. After that, if I manage to find the small box and
attach the lenses to my eyeballs, the crisis will be averted.
—Or so it should have been. However, it's Kachua. The
slender and tall girl mounted on top of my hips, meaning over the blanket.
"Oi... what are you thinking all of a sudden... I told
you I don't need that kind of thing."
"Shut up! I have my own circumstances too! I'm already
15! So I already know what I should do!"
While covering my face with the gloved hand, I tried to push
Kachua away with the other hand, but it was no use.
That damn Hairy Village
Chief, doing something unnecessary...
"Then straddle that Village Chief and say the same
thing you said just now!"
"Absolutely no way! Or rather, why won't you look at
me? That kind of thing hurts my feelings, you know!"
"Wrong. I have my own circumstances too...!"
"Besides, why... are you wearing those even though
you're sleeping...?"
This is bad. Perhaps her eyes have adjusted to the darkness;
Kachua is observing my whole body while straddling me. Is a guy sleeping
with gloves on rare? I suppose it is.
"I can't calm down unless I'm wearing these."
"Hey, if you wear those all the time, won't your hands
get athlete's foot?"
"Yeah, mind your own business."
"Something's suspicious..."
I found the small box by my pillow. Usually, I do it with
bare hands, but now it can't be helped. Continuing to cover my face, I bring
the lens to my eyeball with the other hand. The right eye, closer to my
dominant hand. Then to the left eye—
"Tsk—?!"
I tried to bring it, but it seems she got suspicious. Kachua
suddenly leaned forward, and then, startled, she shuddered and leaned back. My
secret might have been seen.
"What's wrong, did you suddenly get cold feet?"
Kachua didn't
reply. Since I put on the lenses, my night vision is worse than before. The
world was dark, and I couldn't see her expression.
Then, a while passed. Then Kachua leaned forward
again and seemed to peer into my face as I lay there, looking puzzled.
"Hey, just now, didn't those eyes glow...?"
"I'm not a cat; no such human exists. Most likely, it
was just the moonlight reflecting."
"But until just now, you were hiding your face the
whole time."
A young girl in the bloom of youth straddled the man, leaning over him as if she intended to stay there
forever. Staring intently into the man's
eyes, leaking breaths onto the tip of his nose. That is not lust, but innocent
curiosity.
"Kachua. You are getting too close."
"Ah..."
Curiosity is a strong and primitive emotion. Something
animals originally possessed to survive. Therefore, once captured by it,
consciousness won't turn elsewhere.
However, she finally seemed to realize her actions. Kachua
flushed with excitement enough to be seen even in the darkness.
"Ugh... B-But, but the Village Chief, probably... I
think he was telling me to do this... When we can't pay much money, before too,
other people did this..."
"Like I said, I don't need such things."
"Is-Is it because I have no sex appeal?!"
"I didn't come to this village looking for women. I—just
came to test my own skills."
As a member of the Imperial Family, I wanted to save a
village no one would try to save. And I was incited by that receptionist and
the Tome of the Evil Dragon. I can't say that, though.
"But then, our Village Chief won't be satisfied. Uncle Lucky
and I will get scolded..."
"Is that how it works?"
Customs, or whatever they call it. Such an inflexible world
is enough inside Georg's head and the palace.
"Probably... Hey Shinza, are you really not
going to do anything...? Do I look like a boy, so you don't get
excited...?"
No, you are tall and have fine features. In a few years, the
men of the village will realize your charm too.
"I shouldn't answer that here. It can't be helped;
sleep next to me. Unfortunately, I have things I want to do tomorrow too, so I
can't give up the bed."
Just being able to sleep alongside such a skilled archer is
a perk. With this, it makes sense that she wants to become an adventurer.
Though it's hard to call her a peerless warrior like Sigrun; even I get
worried.
"Is it really okay...? You can... do lewd things to me,
you know...? Sticking with you, that's what it means, right..."
"You're persistent. We're going to sleep now, Katyusha."
"Y-Yeah... Then, I'm inexperienced, but excuse
me..."
"Yeah, this solves it."
Kachua seemed to
be nervous. To the extent that she almost forgot to bend her joints. But sorry,
Katyusha. I'm exhausted from the backlash of the big job. Sleeping
soundly until morning was easier than boiling potatoes.
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