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Today as a Bodyguard

Translator: yuNS

Editors: Sine Nomine

Part 1

“Vanir-saift, but please take it”

A pretty lady bowed deeply while presenting soic tool store

Of course, to refer to Moi as “-sama”, she clearly wasn’t human

“…Though ast the devil races, the succubi are ranked fairly low, but to present a sift to Moi, it seeuished”

“Y-y-y-, you’rethat took all our efforts to get! It’s just that it is soreatness!”

Yes, the female before Moi was a succubus

An existence that bestowed the men of this world et dreay

Although Moi have encountered this succubus reeted Moi This led to the current state of events

“Vanir-san, to say ‘this is a sht? My name is Wiz, nice to meet you”

Hearing Wiz say that with a kind smile, the succubus wetted her lips, and her eyes shone with a strange glimmer

“She is really cute, isn’t she? As expected of Vanir-saician, it is also nice to…”

“Did you hear that, Vanir-san!? She just called me cute!”

“Huh!?”

Witnessing Wiz’s ecstatic reaction, the succubus shouted in surprise

“Though it seems like you used your ‘charm’ ability, but it won’t have any effect on the store oho is also a lich More ie store owner needlessly happy”

“You just said ‘overage store owner’, didn’t you!? Though I haven’t battled Vanir-san since I gave up my humanity, I suppose it would be nice to do so occasionally!”

Feeling the intensefrom Wiz, the succubus’ body shrank and turned pale

“S-S-S-S-, Sorry! I didn’t realize that you are a Lich that rules over the undead, please forgive e your rare beauty!”

Having heard what the succubus said, Wiz’s o make tea

Seeing Moi simpleminded friend leave, the succubus lowered her head and said

“Vanir-sa charm on your friend I didn’t have any bad intentions, so…”

“Moi understand Human males aside, females are your natural enemies, so Moi understand why you would use ‘charer come close to this store A vicious creature that sees devils and undead as enemies occasionally comes to this place”

“For Vanir-sama to call it a vicious creature, what kind of creature is it!?”

Then, the shaking succubus suddenly seated herself on the floor, and lowered her head towards Moi

“Actually, I did not co else The succubi that live in this toant Vanir-sah all ant is peace and stability, the ht, and the priests of various sects come to hunt for our lives… What ant is to pass our days peacefully If Vanir-sama would protect us, then every month, ill offer a portion of our profits to Vanir-sama, so please do consider it…”

“Moi thought the adventurers of this toere protecting you well, so what kind of scheme is this?”

“………To coning parties, and things like that……”

Though Moi did not sound or look very convincing, but Moi was the duke of hell

As a great devil that had a large amount of subordinates and territory, Moi nast devils

Basically, for low-ranked devils like her, Moi was an existence beyond the wildest iinations

“Moi have said this many times, but Moi a If you want Moi recognition, then coain in about 500 years Here, this is the skin that Moi shedded just now, so go home for today”

“Vanir-sama likes older women!? I will treat this skin as a faive up!”

The succubus hugged Moi skin shell to her chest, and ran out of the store

“––The tea is ready…Eh? Did she leave already?”

“Mave her Moi shell, and then she quickly left”

“Just give her so like that!?”

Though the person in question was very happy about it…

As Wiz – as carrying the tea – angrily said so, the door flew open, and the bell that signaled a custo

“Good ~! The brilliantfor me with tea prepared? But it is lukewarm”

Just as the succubus left, the vicious creature that sees devils and undead as enemies arrived

The creature that did as it pleased, indulgently drank the tea that was on Wiz’s tray

“Good ain”

Without any doubts, Wiz left to go make the tea

“Neh, isn’t the s in this store today? And it’s the scent of a devil weaker than you Please don’t bring devils that I don’t know to my place”

“Since as this your place?”

Part 2

Because of the stubborn Goddess living there, Moi left the store to take a walk

“Vanir-sa? May I come with you?”

Though once Moi arrived on the street, Moi was pestered by a succubus

A few days ago, after the couild’s receptionist lady, this loli succubus began to coic tool store to play whenever she wanted to

However, since Moi was in their care during the Eris Thanksgiving Festival a while ago, Moi could not simply dismiss them

“Moi do notaround tohile thinking of new ideas for merchandise”

“So you are taking a walk! Then I will accompany you!”

The loli succubus hummed as she followed behind Moi

It would be troublesome to drive her away, so Moi let her be

Then, acco rolled towards Moi

“––Oi, are you a new ave you permission do business here!?”

“The governave me permission…”

Aharassed with a brutish-looking man The back of the man’s shi+rt bore a bird-shaped mark

The objects that had rolled to Moi feet were the products of the lady’s store

Anyhow, it appeared that the man had dumped the lady’s products over the floor

As the succubus picked up the scattered items, the man drew closer to the lady

“That’s not what I , is that to run a stall here, you have to get our perarasu’! You’ve heard of the name, haven’t you? Come on, if you understand, take the stuff out already!”

TL Note: Yatagarasu is a crow God that stands for guidance in japanese y, its appearance is often interpreted as divine intervention in human affairs

“Y-Yes…”

The man who loudly threatened the lady outstretched his ars, the lady picked up several daround and passed it to the man

“Not these! Who told you to give me this junk merchandise!?”

The man violently shook his head as he struck the apples from the lady’s hands to the floor

“Uhed apples, the price is 3500 eris…”

“You still want et about ‘Yatagarasu’!? I’anization froarasu’, you know!?”

The man stamped the floor

“Froe of the household all year round, could you employ him…”

“We’re a real security organization! It’s not a place where you dispose of NEETs! Ahh, come on already!”

The rabbed the lady’s collar and dragged her away

“P-Please stop! I have an immobile adult son and a useless husband! At least wait till I’m done ork to…!”

“What do you think I’, you have to be a bit younger…Grandma, why is your face red!”

––As she carried the apples in her arms, the succubus that had observed the situation turned and asked Moi

“U harassed, but…”

“Wait, this situation is superb Look, that store owner is wholly satisfied with the situation, but she carries that unwilling expression Also, those apples over there are usually not that expensive With the incident of the daed apples in mind, it would be safe to assume that she intentionally provoked the man”

As if they had heard what Moi said, the store owner and the man stopped

“I see, then let’s just leave to be”

“That would be fine In any case, it appears that the man’s job is to harass people It would be bad to disturb someone’s work”

The store oildly fixed her clothes, and looked disdainfully in Moi direction

It would appear that she had been looking forward to the situation

Holding deep interest in the events that unfolded, the succubus looked at the two people with admiration

“The jobs that humans can have…, there are all kinds of them, aren’t there…?”

“I suppose he is acting like a ruffian in order to show the world the necessity of a security organization By the way, there is a troublesoirl that comes to the store everyday to drink tea If possible, I would like to request the security organization to chase her away”

“Ah, if no incident occurs, the police wouldn’t act I see~”

As ere having this conversation, the man – now red faced – loudly stamped towards us

“Oi you… guys…Uuuhmm…W-, who are you people?”

The ht of Moi mask

“That is Moi line Moi heard that you were froanization?”

Hearing Moi words, the man’s confidence returned

“Y-,Yea! I aarasu Just noere you bastards whispering about? If you have soainst me, then let’s hear it! If you wanted to intervene out of your sense of justice, then…”

“Moi has nothing to say about what you were planning to do with the lady store owner Rather, Moi have a job that Moi want to entrust to you The store where Moi works has a vicious frequent customer”

“What an eyesore… Eh, you have nothing againsther, you know? To not do anything is a bit inhuman… Well whatever, you said you have a job for me?”

The h

“You know your place quite well, don’t you? Here, if you give me a portion of your profits each month, I will protect your store What about it, the vicious custoanization whose members are experts at man-to-man combat, just leave it to me”

He then looked to the succubus who stood beside Moi

“You’re froly popular coffee store in the town’s alleyway, right? Does your store need protection as well?”

“Our store has a lot of frequent customers, so we don’t need protection”

Though your store owner had come to Moi to ask for protection just now

“…Hehh~? Are you alright saying that? Since your store looks so profitable, surely there will be solars that will try to rob you…Well, just be careful, alright?”

Towards the succubus’ unexpected answer, the man showed an expression of interest

“The people of this town know that our store doesn’t lars won’t come More importantly…your opponent is soed as ‘a vicious custoht?”

The

“…You, are you really that strong? Though you wear a weird ood W-Well, ‘vicious custoht? What does this customer usually do?”

“Hic towards Moi, and the store owner has almost been erased several times That’s about how vicious the customer is”

“O-, Oi wait a second Could I ask about your store’s profits? No, I’ Since I have to face soet my money’s worth for my work”

“Recently, all Moi have seen are red digits The store owner has not eaten anything solid for a week”

“Then don’t think about getting a security guard, just close the store and do some normal work!”

––After that incident, the succubus and Moi parted ways

“Ah, welcome home, Vanir-san!”

For some reason, when Moi returned to the store, Wiz seeood mood

Moi found the reason for her good mood on top of the store counter

“What’s this? Is this soave you?”

“You’rethe store, a bunch of scary men came and suddenly asked me ‘Excuse us Oi, this store seems like it could earn a lot of money… but it doesn’t look like it makes money… How much money does this store make each month?’ When I told them that the store losesin a while, they…”

On the store counter was bread and ht from the nearby stores

They were probably the companions of the man Moi had spoken with

That person’s co the state of poverty this store was in, they instead gave some food and left peacefully

“Uhreat, we can eat till we’re full”

“Yes, I haven’t eaten anything in a long ti that stays in our stoood people!”

Truthfully, you can’t judge people by their looks

Part 3

The next

As Moi finished sweeping the storefront, Moi decided to sweep for the nearby stores as well It was then, that Moi saw so store’s door

“Is this a symbol of a crow?”

Stuck on the door was the seal of a three-legged crow

Glancing at the other stores nearby, it seemed that all the doors had the same seal stamped onto them

“––Store owner, about the seals that have been stamped on the doors of the nearby stores, would you happen to knohat they are?”

As Moi returned to the store, Moi absentmindedly asked the store owner

“The people froanization yesterday carried the sa the streets you can see the seal everywhere Is this a new trend?”

Once Wiz said ‘security organization’, Moi realized what had happened

It was so the apple store owner yesterday

“Don’t mind it Anyway, come accompany Moi for a moment Since it doesn’t seeo look around town”

––For a couple hours, Wiz and Moi walked around town

Wiz, who hu the street, suddenly murmured

“Without noticing, almost all the stores in the town of Axel have that steal stamped on the doors Heh~”

Yes, it truly felt like it had happened without Moi noticing

Originally, the public order of this toas already quite good, so Moi thought that it would be unnecessary to hire a security organization

Then––

“––Wait you people, give it a rest already! If you keep doing this then the other customers can’t come in!”

Loud shouts could be heard co from the set-menu restaurant in front of Moi

In any case, it was about noontime

For any restaurant, this was the prime time for business

“We understand what you’re saying, but we’re also custootta say about it?”

At the sahter

As Moi took a gli up all the seats in the store

All of them wore shi+rts that had the bird-shaped mark on the back

It was the bird that was currently trendy

“A ‘custouys, since you’ve entered the store you haven’t order anything, and have just been seated the whole time!”

The lady owner gazed strongly at the laughing men

“What are you saying? Aren’t we looking at the ht now? There are too ht, everyone?”

“Yea, all of them are a feast for my eyes!”

“Though there are only 5 set-menus to choose from!”

The h Moi did not understand as there to laugh about

As the lady balled her hands into fists in frustration, one of the men approached

“Hah?? Against this kind of troublesoanization, don’t you? Even if you call the cops, if these guys just order when the cops arrive, then the cops can’t do anything about it You should realize that no ht?”

Theexpression, but rather a lecturing expression

“You see, if this store puts this seal on its storefront, then nothing like this would ever happen froive a bit of your revenue every ht?”

As the man said that, he presented the seal in his hand

––Moi see, so it was like this

These people were a crianization

They wanted to gather customers like this, and take a portion of their customer’s revenue as a ‘protection fee’

“––Hey, you’ve worked hard All the food stores in this area except yours have already fallen under our jurisdiction Though I said that, now that I look closely, aren’t you quite cute~? So…”

As the man put his hand on the lady’s shoulders

“Please wait!”

Wiz, who stood beside Moi, shouted at the men

Perhaps due to her heightened eic power furiously protruded from Wiz’s body, as she approached the men step-by-step

Sensing Wiz’s presence, the htly backwards

“Wiz-san! If Wiz-san is here, then it’s over for you people! It seems like you people have come from another town, so let ic-tool store, was a powerful arch-wizard!”

Faced with the lady’s proud boasting, thethe seal – despite his worried deh

“W-What’dya gonna say about it! We’re people froanization situated in the nearby towns, people froarasu…”

Towards the men who tried their best to hold their bluff…!

“The only thing I would recommend from this store, is the toad teriyaki set ht taste, is really juicy here, and it goes really ith rice! With only one piece of toad teriyaki, I can eat tls of rice!”

“Alright, impertinent store owner, please coive thee who has the same situational awareness as that brutish Goddess a lecture”

“Ah-, what for, Vanir-san? I heard that they didn’t knohat to order, so I gave them a recommendation…!”

Wiz was taken aback by Moi words On the other hand, the

“…Sorry for disturbing you We’ll coht?”

The group of men quietly left the store

“––Babir-han, this is really belishi+sh!+ If you aren’t going to eat, then I’ll really take your meal as well, ok?”

“The reason Moi would usually eat in front of the eative eo ahead and eat Moi portion as well Anyway, just stop talking for a moment”

After the group of ave us a meal as a show of thanks Wiz tried to be modest at first, she then wolfed down food without remorse

As the lady owner briskly poured tea for Wiz, she said

“Wiz-san, thank you veryhere to make trouble…”

It was obvious that all the stores in this area had been coerced by the ‘security co a contract

First they would make a ruckus in a store, then they would solicit the owners to sign the contract for security

Moi see, it is indeed quite a clever strategy

The man at the apple store yesterday had atte

“Hmph, Moi have learned a lot today”

“What are you saying, Vanir-san!? As an employee of a store in Axel, how can you just let this be!? Also, there is no saying when our store will be targeted Though I still think that they were just troubled about what to order…”

Those people had co Wiz’s state of poverty, they had peacefully left

“However, the things those people did can’t be decisively judged as illegal Ah it does hurt business, the police can’t act towards small incidents like these”

Even though Moi was a devil, even though it was a terrible incident, Moi could not lecture those orking to subsist their livelihood

No matter if they were kind citizens or someone like those people, to Moi, as truly important hether or not those people could allow Moi to taste the best of negative emotions

––As Moi preached the reality of the situation with effort, Wiz – who had finished two persons’ worth of set meals – slapped the table as she stood from her seat

“I’ht that you were strange, but I also thought you were kind on the inside! Does Vanir-san not have a sense of justice!?”

Though, if I were to be persuaded by that kind of talk, then it would invalidate Moi existence

“––However if we look closely, they’ve already controlled this many stores”

On the way home from the restaurant that became busy after we had driven the men away, Moi saw the seal stamped on the doors of various stores

“Ugh… Vanir-san, is there really no way? Shouldn’t now be the tiood of the people?”

“Though Moi have occasionally thought of that, what exactly dost thou see in Moi?”

Moi would drive away the crows froe disposals Moi would also repel the monsters around Axel However, Moi did that not to innocently help the people, but rather, because there were some benefits for Moi to receive

Moi lowered Moi shoulders and tiredly walked

“Anyway, there is no need to use Moi power of clairvoyance Living in this abnormal town, did you think that this incident would end just like that?”

––Returning to the ic tool store, Moi saw a lot of stores stamped with the seal of the security company

“Welcome~ Home!”

At the sareeted by the Goddess who indulgently inning to wonder, despite the circuuards the most

“We have returned, Aqua-saone? Thank you very much!”

“Though this is co fro and closing the entrances to the store Also, no custoone”

As Moi showed an expression of disdain towards the Goddess who drank tea––

“Wait you! What kind of attitude are you showing this wonderfultime had performed a Goddess-like deed!?”

The Goddess, as in a surprisingly good s that no one wanted to hear

“Well, just listen! At the store where I usually go to buy alcohol, I saw a group of e black shi+rts So I used my holy fist to chase them away, but when I did that, I accidentally touched a canister of wine Then, the Oji-san store ohose wine turned to water began to cry, even though I protected the peace of Axel!”

“That is wonderful, Aqua-sa I want to discuss with this nificent Aqua-sama…”

“…Ho-ho~, so the people I drove aere doing that kind of thing, huh? I guess as a Goddess I can’t just leave this be”

See, the leader of the troublesome duo had already come up with a funny-man act

Part 4

A couple days after that ––

The town of Axel had become different from its usual self

“damn it, I’ll remember this place!”

As Moi was returning ho the merchandise, the men with black shi+rts that had a certain mark on their back, shouted at the store that looked like a café from the outside as they ran

Moi was familiar with this café

“Frequent customers, thank you for your help! As a show of thanks, please dreaht!”

“““““Oohhh!”””””

It was the café run by the succubi

Thecry of joy

Moi then approached the leader of the succubus, who saw the black-shi+rted men run off

“Did those people come to this store as well?”

“Vanir-sama! …Um, I don’t knohere those people heard it froht?’ and threatened to report us to the police The frequent custo that, and attacked those people”

It would be correct to say that the frequent custoh-level adventurers

“Moi see However, establishments like brothels in this town are seen as extreive up just like that Please be wary”

“Thank you very much, Vanir-sama! …Um, then about my request for Vanir-sama to protect us…”

“Why should Moi care? The huative emotions at Moi presence aside, you as a devil should act so attached to Moi Either way, if your entourage are truly devils, then you all should defend yourselves”

“That’s terrible! But this cold attitude isn’t bad either!”

For soiven the cold shoulder, smiled warmly at Moi

––As Moi leisurely walked on the street, Moi saw the Yatagarasu who continued to perforh the current situation was different, it ithin Moi expectations

“How are you going to reco us! If you’re going to say that, then why is there even a contract!?”

“Even if you say that, there is nothing we can do You didn’t tell us that this store is a gathering place for Axis cultists! What do you want us to do when you pay us so little anyway!”

It was this kind of situation

“A contract is a contract! When the Axis cultists start drinking, they start to harass the other custoe amount of frequent customers have already been driven away because of it! You’ll recoht!? If you can’t then I’ll tell the other stores that you can’t even properly do your job!”

“Goddamn, we’ll pay up! But we’ll dissolve our contract with this store!”

“Like I’ll let that happen! The contract period hasn’t ended yet, so reuard the place! If the Axis cultists come, then properly chase them away!”

The tavern oas restlessly arguing with a arasu

Of all things, they just had to sign a contract with that troublesome store

The people of this toho are used to dealing with abnorument doused so easily

Even though Moi had not used Moi clairvoyant power, Moi had already expected this outcome

On Moi way back to the store…

“––What the heck is your security co?! Because my divine relic was stolen last month, I decided to hire you filthy people! But this tioing to take responsibility for this!!?”

“P-P-, Please forgive us, Undine-sama, even if you say that, this theft was the work of the faroup’ For our small and weak security co…? Anye did not ask Undine-sama for this contract…”

“What did you bastards say!? Are you trying to say that your co to defend noble families!!?”

“I-I-I- I didn’t mean that!”

The noble, whose house had been raided by unknown thieves, continued to berate the arasu

“––Oi what is it!? Who did this, what happened!? Were you guys attacked by a mob that didn’t like the ork!?”

“N-No, a crimson-eyed kid suddenly ran intofor a fight?’ and attacked…”

“A criic clansence, so they can’t be that short-te else to offend them?”