怒り、そして
「つまり、きつね先輩は元の世界に帰る方法を探しているってことか」
「そういうことだよ」
その後、しばらく待っていたらギルドの扉を勇者君が開けて入ってきた。その際、中に居た冒険者達が全員眼を剥いて武器に手を掛けたのは、かなり印象深い。僕も別の意味で殴ってやろうかと思ったもん、勇者君の後から入ってきた巫女姿の美少女を見た瞬間ね。
で、今はその美少女が勇者の分のギルド登録をしているので、その間に話をしようということになった。
それで現在、僕の状況を説明して、帰る方法を探している旨を伝えた訳だ。
「それで、同じ境遇の君がこっちに来た時のこととか、帰る手段のヒントとかないかなぁって思って」
「んー......俺がこっちに来た時は一瞬だったからなぁ......下校中に光に包まれて、気が付いたらこっちに来てたんだ。ああ、そういえば俺を召喚するために人一人の命を代償にしたって聞いたな......」
「人、一人分の命?」
ってことは元の世界に戻る為にも人一人分の命を代償にしないといけないのかな? だとしたら面倒だなぁ、その辺の人を生贄にしないといけなくなる。
それに気がついたらこっち来てた、なんて全然参考にならないじゃないか。もっとなんか情報はないのか、役に立たないな。
「......他には何かないかな?」
「ん......んー......悪いけど、これ以上は役に立てそうもない。俺はこっちに来てからずっと訓練続きだったから、そういった事も調べてないし」
仕方ない訳あるか、つまりは本格的に役立たずじゃないかこの勇者。なんの手掛かりも持っていないって事が分かっただけだ、この国に来た意味が全くないじゃないか。
でも、勇者は何も知らなかったみたいだけど、彼を召喚する術を持っていた王家の人間はちょっと怪しいな。まず異世界の存在をどうやって知ったのか、異世界とこの世界を繋ぐ方法をどうやって見つけたのか、色々と気になる所が多い。
もしかしたら、あのデカイ城の中にそういった事が記載されている書物があるかもしれないな。となると城へと忍びこまないといけなくなるけれど......門番もいるし、ちょっと難しそうだな。
「こっちからも質問して良いか?」
「きつね先輩は今まで何をしてたんだ? 俺みたいに召喚された訳じゃないんだろ?」
そうだね、君みたいに召喚されてぬくぬくと優遇された覚えはないね。
「僕は魔獣の蔓延る森の中で目が覚めたから、生き延びるのに必死だったよ」
「スペックは元の一般男子高校生のままだし、武器もないから何度も死に掛けたよ......白熊サイズの狼は出るし、巨大な蜘蛛は出るし、挙句の果てには『赤い夜』に襲われるし......この待遇の差はずるいと思うなぁ」
ジトッとした眼で勇者を睨むと、言葉を呑んだ勇者は少し居心地悪そうに視線を逸らした。正直、自分と違い過ぎる境遇に罪悪感を感じたんだろう。この勇者はどうやら正義感が強いようだから、きっとそう感じると思ったよ。
それに、どうやら君と僕とじゃ初期スペック自体が違うみたいだ。ステータスを見てみれば分かる。
◇ステータス◇
名前:芹沢凪
性別:男 Lv60
筋力:8740
体力:9500
耐性:310:STOP!
敏捷:6800
魔力:2600
称号:『勇者』
スキル:『剣術Lv6』『身体強化Lv4』『俊足』『威圧』『魔力操作Lv3』『天賦の才』『直感Lv2』『不屈』
固有スキル:『希望の光』
PTメンバー:セシル(人間)
◇
化け物かこいつ。Aランクにも届く実力じゃないか。しかもリーシェちゃんのオジサマよりもレベルは下なのに、ステータスはオジサマを大きく上回っている。耐性は僕の方が上だけど、攻撃力高すぎでちょっと腹立つな。
「で、でも......『赤い夜』ってAランクの魔族だろ? 良く生き延びられたな、きつね先輩」
「うんまぁ......色々あってね......左眼は喰われたけど、なんとかなった」
実は今僕のストーカーになってるとは言えないよねぇ。でも、この勇者はレイラちゃんがAランクどころか、Sランクの手の付けられない化け物になっていることは知らないんだよね。僕達はその話はしてないし、今の所僕達以外は皆Aランク魔族だと思ってる訳だ。まぁこれは言うべきことでもないし、黙っておこう。
そう思っていたら、僕の言葉を聞いた勇者は興味が湧いた様に聞いてくる。
「ってことは......見たのか? 『赤い夜』の姿......」
「見たよ。黒い瘴気で覆われてたけど、その瘴気の中で赤い瞳だけが見えた、理性はあるけど、話は通じないね」
「け、結構詳しいんだな」
「色々あったんだよ」
断言出来るね、僕ほど彼女について詳しい人間はいないよ。
「ナギ様、終わりました」
「あ、セシル。ありがとう」
「いえ、どうぞ......これがナギ様のギルドカードです」
すると、そこに巫女服の美少女が近づいてきた。勇者君と一緒に来たし、さっき見たステータスのPTメンバーにあったセシルって子なんだろう。
「きつねさん、話終わった?」
「ん、フィニアちゃん。ごめんね、まだ終わってないや」
「そっか、長いね!」
すると、またもお面に入って貰ったフィニアちゃんが待ち切れず出てきた。まぁもう良いか、フィニアちゃんを隠しておく理由はないし、窮屈だろうから出てても良いだろう。
そう思って、フィニアちゃんをお面から出してテーブルに座らせた。
「きつね先輩......その子は?」
「うん、僕の仲間の妖精、フィニアちゃんだよ」
「まさか......思想種ですか?」
勇者君がフィニアちゃんを見て眼を丸くしているから、紹介してあげた訳だけど、隣に居た巫女ちゃんはもっと驚いた様な表情でそう問いかけてきた。勿論周囲にバレたら大騒ぎだから小声だったけど。
まぁお面から出てきたし、そう思うのも仕方がないか。ていうかバレバレだよね。
「......まぁ、そういうことになるね」
「そんな......凄い......!」
肯定すると、彼女は更に眼を丸くして口を手で抑えた。やっぱり思想種というのは珍しいんだろう。フィニアちゃんもそう言っていたし、出会えたこと事態がラッキーらしいからね。
すると、話に付いていけない勇者君が口を開いた。
「えーと......セシル、思想種って何だ?」
「あ、と......簡単に言うと、妖精には大きく分けて自然種と思想種の2種類存在するのですが、思想種はこの世界でも数十体しか確認出来ていない非常に珍しい種類の妖精なのです」
「なるほど......で、この子がそうだと?」
「はい......思想種は思いの籠った品から生まれるので、きっとその方のお面がそうなんでしょう」
勇者君と巫女ちゃんの視線が僕のお面に向かう。こっち見るな、欲しいと言ってもあげないからね。これは僕の宝物なんだから。
というか、そこの巫女ちゃんのフィニアちゃんを物欲しそうに見る視線は気に入らないな。それに、勇者の手前だからかもしれないけど、僕を......というか勇者以外の冒険者達を見る目がちょっと格下を見る目をしている。
上手く隠しているつもりかもしれないけど、意外と分かるぜ? 僕はそういう目を良く知ってるからね。
「へぇ......自然種と思想種は何か違うのか?」
「ええ、思想種は自然種よりも大きな力を持ってます。現存する思想種は全てAランク魔族に匹敵する力を持ってますから」
「ってことは......この子も?」
「今はどうか分かりませんが、将来確実にそうなるでしょうね......でも妖精はどちらも温厚な種族ですから、敵対する理由はないですよ」
なんだか二人だけの空間になってるな。僕空気じゃない? ちょっと不愉快だぞこれ、爆発しないかなぁどっちも。
フィニアちゃんも同じ考えの様で、凄く嫌なものを見た様な顔を僕に向けてきた。僕も同じ気持ちだよ、と頷いてあげた。僕とフィニアちゃんの間に何か固い絆が生まれた気がした。
「どうしました?」
すると、今度は勇者の視線がギルドの入り口に向かった。どうやら誰かが入って来たらしい。自然と僕の視線もそちらへと向かう。
そこには吊り眼で豚を見る様な眼をした女の冒険者と、その女の持つ鎖に引かれて入って来る男の奴隷がいた。首にはルルちゃんと同じ『隷属の首輪』があり、鎖が繋がれている。
奴隷の男の身体は打撲痕が多く存在し、虐待を受けているのは見て分かる。勇者の表情が少し歪んだ。
「......セシル、あれは?」
「奴隷ですね、それがどうかしましたか?」
「あれはこの国では普通の光景なのか?」
「えと......なにかおかしいところでも......?」
その会話を聞いて、僕と勇者の間には同じ考えが浮かんだだろう。奴隷は虐げられるのが当然、というこの国の腐った考えに対する嫌悪だ。
でもまぁ、それは仕方のないことだよ。弱い者が虐げられるのは、仕方ないことだぜ勇者君。僕がそうだったんだから。
「......」
どうやら納得出来ないようだね、勇者君は。とんだ正義感の持ち主だ。今ここであの男の奴隷を助けた所で、全ての奴隷が救われる訳じゃない。目の前の者しか救おうとしないのであれば、それは正義じゃなくて自己満足だ。
「......なぁ、きつね先輩」
「なんだい?」
「きつね先輩も......あれは普通だと思うのか?」
「......僕は―――」
その問いに対して、僕は自分なりの解釈を言おうとした。だけど、それは最後まで言えなかった。
「きつね様」
「......ルルちゃん、リーシェちゃんにレイラちゃんも」
先程の女冒険者の後から、ルルちゃん達が入ってきたからだ。多分依頼を受けようと思ったんだろうけれど、今ここで
刹那、
「きつねさん!!」
フィニアちゃんのそんな声が聞こえた。でも、僕はそれに対して答えることが出来なかった。
何故なら、僕はその声が聞こえた時既に、ギルドの壁を破壊して、外へと吹き飛ばされていたからだ。
「がっ......ぐ......がふっ......!?」
地面をバウンドする様に転がって、ガリガリと削る様な音を立てながら静止する。くらくらとする意識をなんとか立て直しながら、僕はギルドの方を見た。
そこには、怒りの形相で拳を振り抜いた状態の、勇者がいた。
そして理解する。僕は彼に殴り飛ばされたのだと。
「......勇者君」
理由は分かる、僕が『奴隷』を連れていたからだ。家族として一緒にいると約束したとはいえ、そんな約束は傍から見れば分からないに決まっている。まして、『隷属の首輪』を付けているんだ。そんな言い訳、通らない。
とりあえず、立ちあがる。すると、立ちあがった僕に向かって、彼は一歩一歩近づいて来ようとし始めた。かなり距離が離れているとはいえ、逃げられる気がしない。
「―――あんたには......違うと言って欲しかった......でも、あんたも一緒なんだな、さっきの冒険者と」
彼は僕を睨みつけながら、そう言ってくる。
「セシルが平気な顔していたから、この国の常識なんだ、仕方ない......と思った。でも、でもだ......あんたは違うだろ!!」
僕の目の前までやってきた彼は、僕の胸ぐらを掴んでそう叫んだ。
「なんであんたはあんなことが出来るんだ!!」
奴隷、日本で生まれた僕達にとっては想像もつかない存在。でも、目の当たりにすれば直ぐに分かる。あれは僕達にとって存在させてはいけないものだ、人が人を虐げるなど、あってはならないことなのだから。
だから、この勇者君は異世界人でありながらそれを堂々とやっている僕が、許せない。
「この世界じゃ、奴隷なんて常識なんだよ......僕には奴隷が必要だった、だから買った......お前みたいに誰でもぬるま湯に浸かれると思うなよ、
でもだからこそ、僕はそう言った。許せないっていうんだったら、それこそ僕の台詞だ。ルルちゃんは奴隷だけど、家族だ。勝手な思い込みで僕の家族を侮辱するなよ。
それに、君みたいに回りの人間が全員優しくしてくれる奴が、どれだけ恵まれてるかも理解出来てない奴に、そんなことを言われる筋合いはない。
「......そうかよ、分かった。良く分かった......あんたは俺とはもう違ってる人間なんだな」
「そうだね、君みたいな死んだこともない奴と一緒にしないで欲しいね」
勇者はもう、僕を同じ異世界の人間とは思っていないだろう。奴隷を連れている時点でそうだろうけれど、奴隷を買う精神を持った人間を、彼はきっと許さない。
ルルちゃんを家族だと説明するのは簡単だけど、首輪がある時点で彼はそれを信じない。どう足掻いても彼を説得するのは不可能だ。
「......あんな小さな女の子だぞ......お前みたいな奴の傍に置いておくのは許せない」
何を言っているんだこいつは。
「セシル」
「......なんですか?」
すると、いつのまにか傍にさっきの巫女ちゃんがいた。勇者は僕の胸ぐらを放して、視線は僕に向けたまま彼女に話し掛ける。
「この国では、強い奴が正しい......だよな?」
「......ええ、そうですね」
「......なら、今ここで俺がこいつを倒したら......俺が正しいんだよな?」
「そういうことになりますね......敗者の全ては、勝者に決定権があります」
「そうか、ありがとう」
彼はそう言って、意識を僕の方へと向ける。
「聞いたな? 俺はここであんたに決闘を申し込む」
彼はいきなり、僕に決闘を申し込んできた。何を言っているのか分からないけれど、そんなの受ける理由はない。
それに、戦ったとしても僕に勝ち目も無ければ得もない。なんでそんなことをしなくちゃいけないんだ。
そう考えていたら、勇者は次に信じられないことを言い放った。
決闘で彼が僕から奪おうとしているのは――――ルルちゃんだった。
Anger, And then...
"That means, you're currently searching for a way to return to our former world, right, Kitsune-senpai?"
"That's right."
After that, after waiting for a while, opening the guild's door, the hero arrived here. In doing so, the adventurers inside the guild were all surprised and put their hands on their respective weapons, that was quite a memorable moment there. In a certain sense, even I also got an intense urge to hit his face after all, the moment I saw the beautiful miko who appeared after him, that's it.
Then, since that beauty is currently registering themselves as adventurers, so it's decided that I'll have a chat with the hero at this moment.
And then, right now, after explaining my circumstance, I successfully tell him that currently I'm searching for a way to return to our former world.
"So, like the moment when you were summoned here, I was wondering whether you know anything about a way to return, or I so thought."
"Hmm... the moment I was summoned here, it happened very sudden after all... when I was coming home from school, I was wrapped in light, and before I noticed it I was already here. Ah, come to think of it, I've heard that to summon here, seems like they had to sacrifice one person's life..."
"One, person's life?"
Does that means, to return to our world, I also have to sacrifice one person's life, I wonder? If that's really the case, how troublesome, that means I'd have to sacrifice someone around me, right?
Does he really have no proper information, I wonder? How useless.
"...is there anything else you know?"
"Hmm... hmm... sorry but, I don't think I have any other useful information. Ever since I came here, I did nothing but practice after all, and I've never investigated about this matter either."
It can't be helped my ass, isn't that means that this hero is plainly and genuinely useless? I've fully understood that he doesn't hold any clue at all, my efforts coming here are all in vain.
However, even though this hero seems like doesn't know anything, the royal family who know the summoned ritual smell pretty fishy. First, how did they know about the existence of another world, then how did they find a way to connect this world to that another world, there are many things that bother me.
Could it be, perhaps inside that giant castle, there're books that recorded about such stuff? That means I have to stealthily infiltrate the castle, but... there're gatekeepers after all, so I think achieving that would be pretty hard.
"May I also ask you about something?"
"What have you been doing up until now, Kitsune-senpai? Unlike me, you weren't summoned here, were you?"
That's right, I have no recollection ever being summoned here, being warmly welcomed and living comfortably like you, after all.
"Since I was awaken inside a forest full of magical beast, I desperately tried to stay alive, you see."
"My initial spec was exactly just as a normal high school boys were, and since I had no weapon so I was almost died many times, you know? ... I've met a boar sized wolf, giant spider, and lastly I've even got attacked by 'Red Night'... I honestly feel that this difference in treatment is too unfair."
When I sternly staring at the hero, out of words, the hero makes a face as if feeling bad about it. Honestly speaking, I think he feels a great sense of guilt about the great difference of our circumstances. Seems like this hero holds quite a sense of justice after all, that's why I think that he'd surely feel so.
Moreover, seems like his and my initial specs are also distant apart. I can easily understand it by looking at his status.
*Status*
Name                        : Serizawa Nagi
Gender                     : Male Lv. 60
Strength                   : 8740
Stamina                    : 9500
Resistance               : 310:STOP!
Agility                       : 6800
Magic Power          : 2600
Title                           :{Hero} 
Skill                            : {Sword Art Lv.6} {Body Reinforcement Lv.4}  {Swift} {Overpower}  {Magic Manipulation Lv.3} {Natural Gift} {Intuition Lv.2} {Fortitude} 
Innate skill              : {Ray of Hope} 
PT Member             : Cecil (Human)
*
Is he a monster or something, I wonder? Doesn't it means that his ability is even comparable to an A rank? Moreover, despite his level is lower than that esteemed uncle's, but his statuses are by far surpassed esteemed uncle's. Resistance-wise mine is still higher, but it's a bit irritating that his offensive power is damn too high. Well, status-wise, Leila-chan's is still higher, though.
"B, but... 'Red Night' is A rank demon, right? I'm surprised you could survive from it, Kitsune-senpai."
"Hmm, well... many things happened, you see... my left eye was eaten, but I was somehow left alive."
I can't tell him that she has actually become my stalker, right? But, I'm sure this hero doesn't know that not a mere A rank anymore, she has evolved into an unreachable monster of S rank, doesn't he? Well, we never said a word about it, so right now everyone other than I and my comrades are all thinking that she's still an A rank demon. Well, I have no obligation to tell him about this, so let's just keep quiet about it for now.
Or so I thought, but, hearing my words, seems like it lit the hero's curiousness.
"That means... did you see it? 'Red Night''s appearance...?"
"I saw it. It was covered by dark miasma, but I can see red eyes inside that dark miasma. It has consciousness, but words wouldn't reach it, though."
"Y, you seem quite knowledgeable about it."
"Many things happened, you see."
I can confidently say it, that in this world, there's no human that know her better than me.
"Nagi-sama, it's finished."
"Ah, Cecil. Thank you."
"Not at all, please accept it... this is your guild card, Nagi-sama."
And, the cutie who wears miko clothes comes approaching us. Well, she came together with hero-kun, so she must be the Cecil that I just as saw in his status as his party member, right? Why must always the hero who is blessed by such devoted cutie? Please exchange her with Leila-chan.
"Kitsune-san, is the talk over?"
"Hmm, Finia-chan, sorry, it isn't over yet."
"I see, pretty long isn't it!?"
There, Finia-chan who I asked to hide inside the mask again, comes out because she gets tired of waiting. Well, it's fine already huh, there's already no reason to hide Finia-chan further either after all, and since it's cramped there so it should be fine to let her comes out, right.
Thinking so, coming out from the mask, Finia-chan sits on the table.
"Kitsune-senpai... who is that girl?"
"Hmm, my companion, Fairy, Finia-chan."
"Could it be... an idea kind?"
Hero-kun is surprised upon seeing Finia-chan, so I introduce her to him, but the miko beside him floats a more surprised face and asks so. Of course, it would make an uproar if it is exposed to the surroundings, so she asks it in low tone, though.
Well, she comes out from the mask after all, it can't be helped if she thinks so. Or rather, that's very obvious, isn't it?
"...well, something like that."
"That's... amazing...!"
When I answer so, she opens her eyes wide and hold her mouth with her hand. As I though, seems like idea kind sure is rare, huh. Finia-chan also said so, and being able to meet one could already be considered as lucky after all.
And then, doesn't grasp the situation, hero-kun opens his mouth.
"Umm... Cecil, what is idea kind?"
"Ah, umm... to put it simply, fairy are generally divided into nature kind and idea kind, and idea kind is a very rare kind that are only several dozens of it exist in this world."
"I see... so, this girl also one if it?"
"Yes... idea kinds were born through an article that hold a deep feeling in it, I'm sure that's also the case with that mask."
Hero-kun and Cecil-chan's gazes are sent toward my mask. Don't look at it, I won't give it to you even if you want it, after all. Because this is my treasure, after all.
Or rather, I don't like how that miko-chan looking at Finia-chan with such greedy gazes.
Perhaps she think that she's skillfully hidden it, but surprisingly I can see it, you know? Because I'm used to such gazes, after all.
"Hee... is there any difference between nature kind and idea kind?"
"There is. Idea kinds possess much more power than nature kind. Because all idea kind possess prowess comparable to an A rank demon, after all."
"That means... this girl also the same?"
"Currently, I'm not sure about it, but I believe that she surely will be in the future... however, either way fairy is a gentle race, so I believe there should be no reason to make a war against them, right?"
Somehow they've entered their own world. Aren't I just an air here? That's a bit unpleasant, could they just explode themselves, I wonder?
Seems like Finia-chan also thinks so, she shows me a face as of looking at something very unpleasant. I also think so, that's what I tell her with my nod. I feel like there's some kind of bond that born between I and Finia-chan.
"What's the matter?"
And then, this time hero's gaze is facing at the guild's entrance. Seems like there's someone entered here.
I spontaneously turn my gaze there. The one there is a female adventurer with slanted eyes as if looking at a pig, and a male slave who is pulled by that woman. At his neck, there's a 'slavery choker' similarly like the one Lulu-chan wears, but with chain on it.
There are many beating scars on that male slave's body, it's easy to tell that he's received many abusement in a glance. Hero's face is slightly distorted.
"...Cecil, what is that?"
"That's a slave, what's the matter about it?"
"Is that a natural spectacle in this country?"
"Umm... is there anything strange from it...?"
Listening to that conversation, perhaps I and hero hold a similar thought. Disgust toward a thought that oppressing slaves is a matter of course at this country.
But, well, but that's something we couldn't do anything about. The weak to be oppressed is, something we couldn't do anything about, hero-kun. Because I was also the same, after all.
"...."
Seems like he couldn't consent with it, hero-kun. What a sense of justice he holds there. However, even if he saves that male slave right here right now, it doesn't necessarily means he would save all slaves around. If you do nothing but saving the one before you, then that isn't justice, but simply self-satisfaction.
"...say, Kitsune-senpai."
"What is it?"
"Kitsune-senpai, do you... also consider that as normal?"
"...I--"
Toward that question, I intend to give him my own thought about the matter. However, I can't say it to the end.
"Kitsune-sama."
"...Lulu-chan, Rishe-chan and Leila-chan, too."
From the rear of that female adventurer, Lulu-chan and co. appear there. Perhaps, they thought about taking a request, but, for my slave (Lulu-chan) to appears here is... a lethal fact.
Suddenly,
"Kitsune-san!!"
I can hear Finia-chan shouting my name, and yet, I can't answer her.
That's because, the moment I hear her voice, I already am blown away to the outside through guild's wall, after all.
"Ga... gu... gafu...!?"
Bouncing and rolling on the ground, I can hear sounds as if my bones and skins are cracking. While somehow rearranging my dizzy mind, I look toward the guild.
The one there, the hero, who is in a stance of swinging his fist in anger.
And then, I've fully grasp the situation. That I just got hit and blown away by him.
"...hero-kun."
I understand the reason, that's because I have a 'slave'. Even if I say that she's together with me as my family, it's a matter of course that no one could know it just by looking. Because, she wears 'slavery chocker' after all. Such excuse, of course they won't believe it.
At once, I stand up. And then, toward the just standing me, he starts walking and approaching step by step. Despite we're quite a distant apart, I don't feel like I'll be able to run away.
"--you... I wished you were different... however, you're just the same, as the adventurer before."
He says so while glaring at me.
"Cecil floated a calm face about it, so I thought that that was a common sense at this world, that was why it couldn't be helped... or so I thought. However, however... you're different, aren't you?!!"
Arriving before me, he shouts so while grabbing my collar.
"How could you do such a thing?!!"
Slavery, that's a hard to imagine existence for us who were born in japan. However, when you see one before your own eyes, you'd be able to understand it at that instant. For us, that's something that shouldn't be allowed to exist, people oppressing other, that's something you must never do after all.
That's why, for me who brazenly do it(slavery) exactly before his own eyes, he couldn't forgive me.
"At this world, slavery is already a common sense, you know? ... I needed a slave, that was why I bought one... don't think I'm the same as you who is soaked by everyone's affection, you damned hero."
That's why, I say so. Can't be forgiven? That should my word. Lulu-chan is indeed a slave, but she's my family. Don't just arbitrarily insult my family based on your selfish prejudice.
Also, for someone who are blessed with everyone's affections, and don't understand just how blessed you are, you have no right no say so.
"...I see, got it. I fully understand it... you're different than me."
"That's right, please don't lump me together someone who've never experienced death even once like you."
Perhaps the hero doesn't think me as similar other worlder as he is anymore, right? It's a matter of course for someone who's possessing slave, but for someone's who's willing to buy a slave, he also couldn't forgive them.
It's easy to explain that Lulu-chan is my family, but looking at the fact that she wears that collar, I'm sure he won't believe it. No matter how I explain it to him, I'm sure it's impossible to convince him.
"...such a small girl... I can't let her to be together with the like of you."
What the hell is he talking about?
"Cecil."
"...What's the matter?"
And then, before I noticed it, the miko is already beside him. The hero let off my colar, and talk to her while still facing at me.
"At this country, the strong is the right one... right?"
"...yes, that's right."
"...then, if I defeat him here... I'm the right one, right?"
"That's how it would be... the victor, shall have the rights over all the loser's belonging."
"I see, thank you."
Saying so, he sifts his consciousness toward me.
"Do you hear that? I challenge you to a duel with me, right here right now."
Suddenly, he challenge me on a duel. I don't know what he's talking about, but I have no reason to accept it.
Moreover, even if I accept it, I don't see any chance for me to win. So, why must I accept it?
Thinking so, the hero suddenly says something unbelievable
The one he wants to take away from me in this duel is... Lulu-chan.
I Kinda Came to Another World, but Where’s the Way Home?
【書籍化】異世界来ちゃったけど帰り道何処？
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