Chapter 637: Resumption of a walking tour
We all returned to the garden of the Celesta mansion and stood around to discuss the situation. Now that Neia had returned, there was no town where we could walk around as much as we did here. We decided that it would be a good idea to stay here for a while without any business, so we decided that it was time to move on to the next place.
“When Laila comes back, let’s go to the next place. The next destination is……Klaves or Helicon, I think”
Looking southwest from Rennesto. The capital of the Celesta elven forest territory and a town along the desert further west from there.
“I don’t know about going to Klaves…….I wouldn’t want to go near it unless I had something special to do, I think”
Gloria says with a mouth full of hefty words. It was her home before she was banished. It would only make things awkward.
“You’re on a journey to check out a new place for the girls you’re taking with you, right? It’s not the right place for that, either. It’s not a place where strangers of different races, or even of the same race, can live”
“Well, that’s true……”
I glance at Aurora. It’s her hometown too. It might be a bit insensitive to dismiss the less-than-favorable assessment. Personally, I don’t dislike Klaves. If you just go there as a tourist, it’s not so bad. If you just want to stay for a short period of time and enjoy the scenery and culture, they react much more peacefully than the Northern Forest or Rennesto. No, the Northern Forest also has a lot of clan leaders who are very welcoming to me, but basically they are hard to deal with.
“Well, I wouldn’t recommend Klaves either”
“Aurora?”
“If the last battle has restored my brother’s honor, it’s obvious that if you bring in a good-looking woman from another place, you’ll end up in a situation like the one you had with Anzeros-san”
“No, I’m sure he’s learned his lesson by now”
“The main reason for the house arrest should also have been 『Unauthorized possession of a dragon slayer』. The dark elves of the Talc Clan were also a gift for my father, not my brother himself. Therefore, the central government did not condemn my brother’s philandering and indiscipline”
“……Y, You mean……?”
Come to think of it, that incident was a pretty big brawl, but the ruling itself was light. That being said, I don’t think he’d still try to force Anzeros into marriage.
“What did Aurora’s brother do?”
“……I don’t feel comfortable going into too much detail, I guess”
Neia asked Anzeros a question in a whisper and Anzeros laughed. The actual fact is, the only people who have direct knowledge of the incident are Dianne, Anzeros, Selenium, Aurora and also Becker. And Aurora isn’t exactly direct either. In other words, those who know about Lucas’s deeds are in the overwhelming minority here.
“He was a philistine who enjoyed the springtime of his life, marrying women of his liking like a collection and crushing anyone who resisted him with his great military power as a general and his power as the firstborn son of the colony leader. I am annoyed that he is a master knight in that one. He was a snob who enjoyed the springtime of this world. ……And then Smithson took on my brother, who had tried to poison him and Anzeros, with the few weapons he had and the courage he had and fought him off, even taking out the Dragon Slayer”
“No, it wasn’t my first battle, you know? I did quite a bit of bandit and monster hunting as a crossbowman, you know?”
I’ll correct Aurora’s biased introduction. She really does despise her brother.
“I’m sure his actions at Kalwin were amazing, but…..did Smithson-san protect Anzeros-san?”
“Yes. He was cool……even though one of his legs was amputated and he almost died……he didn’t give up at all from the beginning to the end”
Neia looked puzzled, while Anzeros reminisced with a dreamy look on her face.
“I feel like the memory of that incident is getting more and more distorted in you guys”
I mean, I just caught him off guard with Laila’s sealing stone and then shot him with a crossbow when he was on a roll with a heavier dragon slayer. Basically, the only thing that beat him was Anzeros, who had woken up to the speed of the game.
“Often, history is distorted little by little through small forgetting and glorified interpretations”
Irina nodded with a knowing look on her face, but if you know that, let’s stop for a second.
“There is no point in stopping in a city where such a man still holds sway. Let’s just skip it”
“You’re so hard on your brother and your hometown, aren’t you!?”
And also. I couldn’t say anything, but the bad things she said about her brother really hurt me. In fact, I’m the one who’s the worst when it comes to relationships with women and power. The only one who seems to remember that time rationally, 100-man commander Becker, was picking his ear.
“Well, I agree with you that we shouldn’t go to Klaves, regardless of the details. It would be a pain in the ass if we were to get into some kind of trouble without the captain”
He didn’t seem to have the slightest intention of correcting the details. The main thing is that it’s Lucas’s bad word and as a 100-man special duty commander Becker, he has no problem with it being said and left unsaid…….
“……I mean, let’s just take those ladies to Talc and Quica. It’s at the captain’s discretion, so it’s best to go where the military and Onyx forces are strong”
“I don’t think we should ride the dragon to Quieca”
“What’s withholding now? Captain Dianne has been talking a lot about the Kalwin operation and has already informed the two Overknights”
“That’s true, but I’m afraid……there might be a panic there”
“Well, it’s a very chaotic city. I’m not going to let that happen. Even the tyrant Annette was allowed in as an envoy”
“……That’s convincing”
The risk of causing damage or panic is much higher for Grand Knight Chief Annette than for dragons……no, no, no. Dragons are generally disasters. On the other hand, Grand Knight Chief Annette (regardless of her potential) is just an ogre woman to look at. There’s no reason to panic.
“I don’t think Quica is a good choice. Talc will go, but”
“Tsk. If you had gone, it would have been easier for me to show my wives, grandfather and grandmother”
“Grandfather and grandmother? Is 100-man commander Becker a granddad?”
“I don’t have any other family. My father, a single birdman, picked me up a long time ago and my parents live on my earnings. I’ve built an apartment so that I can pay rent there, so even if I accidentally forget to put money in, I should be able to survive”
“So that’s why you’re so good friends with General Kingfisher”
“I don’t get along with him and I don’t care!”
He says so, but well……I think the fact that he was raised by Birdman was important for him to get along with Birdman. If you’re not used to it, their movements can be quite shocking.
“I’m thinking of going to Helicon, going to Talc and moving from……Sitar to Lapal. I think they’re usually done putting down their former patients by the time they get to Talc. They’ve had a bad experience and I don’t think many people would bother to go all the way back to Sitar or Lapal”
“I doubt it. I don’t know. I don’t care if it’s a trip or not, but in the end, living a life is not just about convenience and cleanliness. If there is a girl from there, even if she remembers the terrible things that happened to her, she will want to go back home. That’s human nature, too”
“I see that too……”
It must be hard to be thrown out into a culture you don’t know. Gloria and Aurora, who don’t want to go back home, are special cases. By nature, they would probably want to live in their own culture, even if they have bad memories. I have been swept up in so many cultures since I was a child and perhaps because I have a strong sense of 「Home-away-from-home」, I may not be able to understand the wishes of others to stay in their original environment. The fact that I was able to live in Polka was thanks to a series of lucky breaks, to put it bluntly. I had no family and if the Baron had not been so kind to me and had shooed me away, I would still be living in Basson. I was so distressed at the lack of closeness of my thoughts that Irina tapped me on the shoulder with the back of her hand as if to cheer me up.
“Well, your primary purpose for stopping here and there was to bring back the young ogre boy and the four gauntlet girls. The rest of the trip was for the sake of the former patient girls, but above all, it was just for Smithson-dono to see what he could see. Don’t think too hard about it. It’s not a military mission anymore”
“R, Really? Yes”
With Dianne, every single move we make is done with a purpose in mind. Of course that kind of planning is important, but I think I should be more relaxed now and just go because I want to go and what I can do there is just a bonus. With dragon wings, it doesn’t take much of a budget to get around. I guess trying to be too efficient is not the way to enjoy life, right?
“Then, let’s leave when Laila gets back. I’ve made up my mind, Helicon is next. There are a lot of townspeople and lizardmen who adore Laila, so it’ll probably be fun and we might want to move there”
“If it’s Laila-sama, it’s about time……”
Maia looks to the sky. The sun is setting and the sky is beginning to be dominated by a deep blue darkness, but if you look closely, you can see a shimmering obsidian.
“You’re back already”
As I mutter, Laila jumps down from the sky in her human form with a light phantom shock.
“Ho, Helicon. If we fly now, it won’t be until dawn”
“Do you know where it is, Bauz?”
“I used to travel with Yufa. And I know the geography of Celesta pretty well”
“Well, I guess I’ll go with you”
“Don’t be too friendly with Yufa. She is timid”
“I’m not as crass as you think I am. Despite what I look like, I’m good at easing people’s guard up. By the time we get there, we’ll be able to read each other’s compatibility charts”
“……I’m telling you not to do anything unnecessary”
100-man special duty commander Becker, is getting a ride on Bauz’s ship. He was concerned about us.
“Well, we’d better get ready”
“Should we go and say hello to everyone of gauntlet?”
“I don’t think they’ve completed the formalities as of yesterday. I told them I would be back to pick them up in a month. Until then, I’ll let them breathe the air”
Irina said with a clear expression on her face. You’ve got a bit of a bad temper, you know that? Well, I’m not going to visit you every time I see you, either. Except for Naris, who seems to have suddenly thrown away all the paperwork and followed us again.
Then we split up into carriages and soared into the sky again. Emma and Maia are also flying personnel because we can’t leave the carriages behind, even though it is empty and the carriages are light on luggage. But when you can visit so easily……even though it’s such a distant town, it’s just like a neighboring settlement. I’m not sure if the other girls who don’t have a dragon to tell them what to do don’t feel that way, though. But I was not so sure.
“I was too preoccupied……to really enjoy myself in Rennesto after all”
“I’m sorry, Andy. I took the trouble to lower my body’s performance so that you could ejaculate, but I couldn’t pull it out for you”
As soon as we could see the lights of Rennesto, Fennel and Anzeros eagerly took off their clothes and clung to me. Seeing that, the other girls also started to loosen their clothes. Even Beatrice and Gloria.
“No, we weren’t forced to participate, okay?”
“It’s going to be flashy anyway, so it’s boring to just watch while hunched over……I mean, I don’t have any obligation to hold back when I think about it!”
“Well, personally, I think erotic things are okay as long as they’re not too outrageous. I’m good at it and I like it. First of all, if you wear clothes half-dressed, you’ll only get dirty, with that momentum of ejaculation♪”
The two of them are a little embarrassed, but they join in with the momentum of 「It’s a waste if we don’t go along with it」.
“With Tetes and Sharon gone, I thought the pressure to 『Join in on the erotic stuff』 was gone……”
“Huhuh. You forgot Sensei☆”
“You’re the one who put the word in my mouth!”
“I enjoy having sex with girls who don’t have the guts to mix it up, but Andy-kun, you’ve already got them all, so it’s easier to give them a taste of your penis than to have them half-control each other, right?”
Hilda had unknowingly convinced Beatrice and Gloria to join in this kind of thing.
“There’s no point in wasting time anyway. Everyone should just join the fun club☆””
“Th, That’s right! There’s no one else who’s going to say anything anyway, so it’s fine!”
Beatrice, now completely naked, sniffs wildly. But if Hilda is persuading you to go along with the orgy, even if you’re a raw girl, you’re in danger of joining in. I’m grateful this time, but I should probably tell her not to be too coy.