Chapter 495: Andy and the Polka children 1
After enjoying a moment with Dianne, buried in the flowers and grass, we stood up and headed for the town.
“Why don’t we go arm in arm?”
“Ki……What are you saying all of a sudden? I’m sure you’re going to go around visiting women like Laurier and Miril from now on”
“There is no one who would be bothered if they saw us being friendly with each other”
“Women still care about you. Even though you are in a position where you can make as many impressions as you want, if you show off and care about other women right in front of you, you are implicitly saying, 『I’m tired of you』. Some women feel like they’re being told”
“Then, if I take Dianne and go around befriending other girls, it will look like I’m tired of Dianne?”
“I’m fine with it. Because I think it’s a proof of trust even if it’s later”
“……Haa”
“What’s with the sigh?”
“No, Dianne……I can see why Minister Ashton and Carlos-san care so much about you”
Despite being such a beautiful and talented woman, she is a 「Convenient woman」. I have no intention of calling myself a good partner, but I know that if I were to fall for a scoundrel, I would be slaughtered in the best possible way. It would be strange if people around me did not feel the urge to find a better partner.
“Dianne……I have a favor to ask you. Please don’t deny that you are special and don’t need normal female treatment. Even if you really don’t want it, I’d be happy if you’d just get in my face for wanting to make out”
“N, No, I’m not saying I’m not happy, okay? I’m a woman too. But in order for you to smoothly interact with the female slaves, it is better for me, as a somewhat older man, to pull back……”
“I won’t let the female slaves complain about who I date. I would rather make out and have a ruckus than have to put up with Dianne and have an amicable relationship. If I can’t flirt with whomever I want, it doesn’t matter how many female slaves I have”
“……It’s only in places like that that you are so quick to show your master’s awareness”
Dianne laughed and lightly hugged my arm.
“I don’t know if you’ve got a really sweltering girl, okay?”
“If you get spoiled, I’ll spoil you as much as you want. I don’t have a relationship with someone who doesn’t want to do that”
“Absolutely”
The sigh that seems to be dumbfounded, yet still somewhat happy. Satisfied that I was able to bring out a different side of Dianne-san’s face than her usual resolute one, I walked into the town with her.
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The nearest thing at hand for now was the church. I wondered if Laurier was inside the church as usual, dealing with the children, but it seemed that she was in the garden teaching them to study since the weather was so nice.
“Ah, Laurier-sensei, Andy’s here!”
“A dark elf is with him!”
“Hey!”
Laurier, who was writing on a small blackboard, threw her chalk at the children.
“Ouch”
“Ouch!?”
“Please give proper titles to your superiors. And calling her dark elf is racist. I don’t feel good about it”
“B, But she’s a dark elf!?”
“For example, if you enter a forest and all the elves say to you is, 『Hey, human』, do you feel like you’re making friends?”
“……No”
“It’s okay if you don’t know their names, but if you do, you should think of something to say, like, 『Dark elf girl』”
“……Yes”
Somehow it seems that she is doing a good teacher.
“I’m here to check up on you. Is everything alright?”
“Yes. I’m fine”
“Hey, Andy, is that dark elf girl over here a thing, Misdress?”
“Where do you people get words like that?”
“Eh, you know, the cat old lady and the Baron’s old lady say it all the time”
“Hey Laurier, I have a few suggestions on the subject of education”
I seriously appeal to Laurier. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to use that word with kids who are at an age where sex education is a bit questionable.
“Andy. I’d say……isn’t it too late for that?”
“No, no, no, but, Dianne, I think there are limits to open education”
“No, in the first place, before the problem of small words……”
Diane lightly scratched her head and looked at the children’s expressions.
“Where are you going to hide the fact that you’re messing around with women? That’s the biggest educational problem I can think of”
“Uh……”
……Surely that’s worse for education than the word female slave? I don’t think they are uttering that word with the understanding that it is a sex form between a man and a woman and the point is that they are using it to mean a woman who is drooling over Andy Smithson. Needless to say, that is the most immoral thing you can do in the marriage system in Trot. It will have no positive effect at all on the future when we excuse our children that female slaves are ants in a foreign country, even though almost all of them are foreigners.
“But, this dark elf sister of yours isn’t wearing a collar, is she?”
“Collar?”
“Look at that one by Laurier-sensei. The cat beast ladies are also wearing collars”
“And when I say cat beasts, I don’t mean Barbara from the cat beast house or the idiot twins from the inn”
“Oh? Then, Uncle Andy’s edging, which my mom said was a marker, is it not?”
The kids are not afraid to share the town’s rumors about me. Whether the kids are listening to the rumors at random, or whether the aunties are just enjoying their gossip, it seems that there are many theories about the setting of the collar.
“Laurier. If possible, can we talk about not wearing the collars outside from now on?”
“……Eh”
“Why do you hate it!? You see, Dianne doesn’t wear a collar either!”
“If I don’t wear it, the young merchants who come to town will think I’m free……”
“……Do you think there are merchants who would talk to Laurier?”
“Would it be strange if there were?”
“…………”
“Master, if you don’t deny that part, it’s like saying you’re crazy too……”
No, wait a minute, Laurier. So I stuck up and said「No, it’s not strange!」, II would end up putting an unnecessary mental burden on the female students gathered here. I mean, are there any? Laurier is really no different from the kids who are innocently studying at the church.
“But how can a collar help you avoid men……?”
I wonder. Only my handlers wear collars……even though the local theory is still wobbly.
“……Emm, it’s just that……a certain person”
“Someone?”
“I joked that if I pointed to the collar and said 『Owned』, the merchant would definitely know and Cute really said it……”
“Savory was the one who told you that joke, wasn’t she?”
I thought that girl was playing the role of coordinator for the female slaves……but I didn’t know that it would accelerate to a sobering misunderstanding. No, it’s not a misunderstanding.
“I’ve been in the market for a while now, and one of the peddlers who used to come to my place every so often suddenly ran up to me, saw the collar and said oh, you’re so cute!”
“……That’s how you knew you were being targeted?”
“Yeah”
No, I don’t mean it in a dangerous way, but in a normal romantic way.
“If you can avoid contact with unwilling men, that’s the best thing you can do……well, it won’t change Andy’s reputation if you pull the collar back now”
“Dianne, you seem to think I’m your first priority, but aren’t you strangely strict sometimes!”
“……This is also to minimize your disadvantage, isn’t it?”
“That may be so!”
Is it futile to try to mend things even a little?
“Well well, Grandpa Harry said there’s nothing wrong with being a douchebag!”
“Yes, yes, the Baron said yes too”
“……No. Lewd is lewd, isn’t it?”
“Yeah. Tommy and Mick trying to do naughty things just because they happened to like each other and are allowed to do it is just trash, isn’t it?”
“Wh, What is it? I haven’t done it yet, so why are you saying that?”
“Because an adult said it’s fine! Don’t let the idiots run out of control”
I mean, guys are idiots, aren’t they? They take long baths, wondering if the dragon girl will accidentally come in. Mothers say that before, boys used to be the crow’s nest, but lately many of them don’t come up until they’re soaked to the skin”
“Naa……be, it’s not like that!”
The boys and girls begin to tussle in areas that are subtly unrelated to me.
“That’s it. Don’t fight”
Next to Laurier gathering the students, Dianne and I also quietly left.
“……The title of Polka’s face seems to be far away”
“What, there’s no need to be so anxious. Eventually everyone will recognize you both in name and reality. You’re working hard for Polka and the elf territory”
“…………”
In terms of sexuality, there’s no way Dianne would add that. I started thinking self-deprecating things like, if everyone agrees, it’s probably around the time I produced enough descendants to double Polka’s population. It’s not quite fashionable, with the current momentum…….