Read Novel Full Vol 14 Chapter 23
Vol 14 Chapter 23
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Chapter 23 – Fairy
On our way to send Bella-san and her family and Flora-san back to the Castle, we decided to take a detour as we passed near a dark elf settlement. Based on our previous experience, we started our search expecting to see some troublesome monsters, but now, it seems that it is not the monsters that are… troublesome.
“Wataru. I want something sweet and colorful. Alessia and the others, please keep an eye on the area. Don’t let the monsters get too close.”
Ilma-san, who is usually relaxed and never breaks her bewitching gestures, is flying her instructions briskly.
Perhaps her researcher’s face is on full display.
Going home in this situation would be impossible, and the unusual Ilma-san is also attractive, so I’ll follow her instructions for a while.
When it comes to sweet and colorful sweets… maybe this?
With Ship Summoning, I summon a rubber boat filled with cupcakes.
These cupcakes are decorated with fruits, jams, various creams, and chocolates, which would be perfect for Ilma-san’s request.
Suddenly, someone’s hand reached out from next to mine and quickly grabbed the cupcake.
“Huh?”
When I turned around in surprise, I saw Carla-san looking at me with a cupcake in her hand.
“Can’t I?”
She looked at me with sad eyes as if she thought I might be angry with her when I turned around. Her moist eyes told me that she wanted to eat the cupcake.
She could always eat them for free on the luxury liner, but I guess seeing the sweets in an unusual place made her really want to eat them.
“Well… you have to keep an eye out too, don’t you?”
There was no way I could tell her no when she was staring at me with such watery eyes.
“Yeah.”
With a smile, Carla-san took a bite of the cupcake, picked up two more cupcakes, and returned to her post.
Carla-san is very honest about her desires when it comes to food, isn’t she?
…Now, the next thing is music… The latest music for fairies seems to be a bit different.
They dance, so it would be better to see how they do with the standard song from sports events and such, but I wonder if it was in the tablet?
“There’s a strange smell!”
“It smells so sweet! I want to eat it!”
“It’s beautiful. I’ve never seen it before, but it looks delicious.”
…Is it a hallucination? I can see a small figure with wings attached to the Ship Summoning barrier. Huh? I haven’t played the music yet.
“As expected from the luxury liner’s sweets, it works wonders!”
Ilma-san is happy to see the little figures stuck to the barriers, so those three must be the fairies.
…I think they appear a little too easily, don’t you?
I look at the fairies stuck to the barriers with a bit of dismay.
Hmm… They are not the slim type of fairies you see in foreign cartoons but rather the slightly chubby, big-headed type of fairies you see in Japanese anime characters.
They look a bit heavy, and I wonder how they can fly with those little wings on their backs. Is it magic?
But even for a guy like me, I think they’re cute, and if I were a woman, I’d be fascinated by them.
Huh? I looked around at the women, but they were a little different from what I expected.
They were looking at the fairies with smiling faces, but not in a way that would make them scream “cute.”
Also, Ilma-san looks like a mad scientist who has discovered an object to dissect, and that’s scary.
“Ah, damn it! It’s a trap!”
As I tilted my head, one of the three fairies, probably a boy, noticed my gaze and began to make an accusatory fuss at me. That’s kind of cute.
It could also be a trap, but this trap wasn’t finished yet, you know.
If possible, I would have liked them to be caught in the trap when it was finished, and we were waiting for them with our hearts pounding.
The boy fairy’s voice made the two fairies understand the current situation, and they also looked at me. One is a boy, and the other looks like a girl.
The girl seems to be scared, which makes my heart ache a little.
“N-no, an evil one! Be careful.”
“S-shhh…”
The boy fairy who first noticed me began to call me evil. The other boy fairy seemed a bit shy and hid a bit, seemingly intimidated.
Hmm? Why are they all looking at me? Huh? Is this the stream where I speak? What about Ilma-san?
When I looked at Ilma-san, I saw that she was being held back by Marina-san, who was covering her mouth.
I see. The Girasole decided that the fairies would be afraid of Ilma-san, who had turned into a mad scientist. As you would expect from Girasole, their assessment of the situation was very accurate.
I would like to ask Alessia-san and the others to negotiate, but since the fairies are intimidated when they see me, I guess they want me to do something about it.
“U-um, I’m not a bad person?”
That last part was in the form of a question. I’m a shy person, so I thought I might be guilty of a crime… but even if it’s not a crime in this world, I cause trouble in many places, so it’s hard for me to say with pride that I’m right.
I do some charity work, but technically, it’s not my money.
“Liar! Anyone who has enslaved a dark elf is an evil person. You can try to trick me, but it won’t work!”
“It won’t work!”
Oh, that’s right. The human who enslaved the dark elves is approaching the dark elf village. It’s natural to be suspicious, and they were suspicious of me before.
But now it’s confirmed that these mountain fairies and the dark elves are in a cooperative relationship. Now, I just have to clear up the kids’ misunderstanding, and we’ll be able to do something about it.
“Leave that delicious-looking thing and the dark elf here and go away!”
“Go away!”
…Apart from Felicia, they seem to want the cupcakes as well. Well, they must be quite interested since they are so caught up in the sweets that they come out.
“…Felicia. Please.”
I don’t know what to say now, so I just let Felicia do it.
“I understand. Fairies. I became a slave because I wanted to, so Master is not a bad person.”
“It’s okay. I’ll save you, don’t worry.”
“Don’t worry.”
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“I’m sorry, Master. I couldn’t do it myself.”
“Ah. You made her apologize. You brute!”
“Brute!”
Felicia failed to convince them, and because she apologized to me, the fairies called me a brute. I understand the meaning of the word “unreasonable” very well.
Let’s hug and cuddle with Rimu. Then I’ll be fine.
“No, Felicia. It’s just something that can’t be helped, so don’t worry about it.”
Felicia’s failure was inevitable.
No matter what Felicia says, the fairies will only think that she is being forced to say it, so no matter how hard she tries, her words will never reach them.
“Alessia-san. Why don’t we just give up and go home?”
“I understand what Wataru is trying to say, but I don’t think the kids will be convinced if we don’t leave Felicia behind, do you?”
…It’s impossible for me to leave Felicia behind. I would die of loneliness.
“What should we do…?”
As expected, I can’t let Alessia-san and the others take care of the fairies, and I have to get them to trust me somehow…
“Um, Master. I am afraid it might be a bit scary, but how about showing the fairies the letter you received from the Goddess of the Forest-sama? The fairies also live with nature, so I think we can gain their trust.”
I see; the content of the letter is about dark elves, and seeing the mark of the Goddess of the Forest-sama will clear their suspicions.
However, when I remember how the dark elves looked when they saw the letter, I have a fear that it might be something dramatic.
…But our words won’t reach the fairies, and I guess it can’t be helped at this point. At worst, they’ll probably just faint.
Hmm? I mean, if we have the letter from the Goddess of the Forest-sama, we won’t have to bother convincing the dark elves, right?
So far, they’ve suspected us every time we’ve contacted them, but they won’t suspect anyone who has the letter from the Goddess of the Forest-sama. At least they will listen to us properly.
I thought I’d gotten a very rare item, but it looks like she might bring me luck in unexpected places. As expected from the Goddess of the Forest-sama. She is so precious.
I summon the rubber boat containing the goddesses’ letters.
“W-what are you doing? If you try anything stupid, I’ll kill you!”
“Kill you!”
The sudden summoning of the rubber boat seems to have alarmed them. But it’s hard to get away from this place, so there’s nothing I can do.
I took the letter of the Goddess of the Forest-sama out of the rubber boat and handed it to Felicia.
Felicia carefully takes the letter out of the envelope and carefully unfolds it. It’s a sacred object in a way, so she handles it with extreme care.
“Look at this.”
Felicia unfolds the letter and holds it up for the fairies to see.
“W-what is this? Don’t do anything weird. It’s a trap!”
“A trap!”
The fairies were surprisingly cautious. If they were so cautious, why did they appear so easily?
Could it be that the sweets on the luxury liner have some kind of lure that I am unaware of?
“It’s not a trap. Can’t you tell by the seal?”
When Felicia pointed to the seal with the sacred atmosphere of the Goddess of the Forest-sama, the fairies who saw it gradually widened their eyes and became pale and confused.
“Eh, I don’t get it.” “What is this really?” “Is it true?” “It’s a lie, right?” “Could it be true?” “Is it the seal of the goddess?” It was interesting to see their changing emotions.
The flying fairies quickly descended to the ground and began to prostrate themselves in response to the letter from the Goddess of the Forest-sama.
Perhaps the Goddess of the Forest-sama’s seal is as effective as the previous vice general’s seal case.
I also wonder if this culture of prostration is unique to this world or if it was passed down by the Japanese who came to this world before me.
Or rather, where did the fairies learn to prostrate themselves?
When the little fairies prostrate themselves, I feel like I am doing something incredibly terrible.
“Do you understand?”
“I understand.”
“Understand!”
Felicia said softly, but the fairies nodded their heads with a twitchy look on their faces as if they had been attacked by a monster.
The girl fairy nodded her head desperately with teary eyes, perhaps unable to speak, which made my heart ache.
“Then will you take us to the village of the dark elves?”
The fairies nodded their heads.
Now we can get to the dark elves’ village without a problem.
No, not yet. If we arrive at the village like this, there will surely be an uproar when they see the fairies in a state of panic.
I’ve been through a lot myself, so I understand that much.
I’ll make the fairies smile by feeding them cupcakes before we leave. Besides, it would be dangerous if we didn’t calm down Ilma-san as well.
T/n: I think the fairies are something like this with a wing on their back.
