Vol 1 Chapter 10 (2/2)

“Since no humans ever came to attack, I was bored every day. After a while I realized I was just sleeping most days.”

“Same as the Captain~”

Although uninterested, s.h.i.+ek’s habit of eavesdropping caused him to suddenly laugh. I may have been a total shut-in, but it’s not like I was sleeping the day away every single day.

“I am unsure of what you are referring to, but I’ll continue. It happened one fine day. I was wondering if any humans would finally come, and started to fall asleep. But when I awoke, I was some other place, swaying to and fro.”

“What happened?”

“It would seem that while I was asleep, I had been removed from the ruins and placed inside some bandits’ wagon.”

“Ahahaha, so dumb~”

s.h.i.+ek couldn’t hold back his uproarious laughter and was rofling. It really was a silly story.

It would have figured that when something finally happened at his ruins, he slept through the whole thing. But, as a shut-in myself, I could empathize with his boredom…

“Upon realizing the situation I was in, I escaped from the wagon. Of course, I raked those bandits that had taken me over the coals.”

Looks like the bandits weren’t a big deal then.

“Then why didn’t you return to the ruins?”

Once he got out of the wagon, he should have immediately gone back to the ruins he was guarding.

“…I had never left those ruins. I couldn’t guess how long I’d been asleep after I was removed, nor did I know which road led back to them.”

So, in short, he was lost.

“Ah~, geez it’s so dumb~ M-my stomach can’t take it~!”

Now s.h.i.+ek was practically roflcoptering on the ground, he was laughing so hard.

“So it wouldn’t have been easy to just go home?”

“Indubitably. I knew it was along a mountain road, but nothing beyond that. I began to wander aimlessly, then I saw flames in the distance and headed for that area.”

“And that turned out to be this village?”

“That is correct. The same bandits that took me were now attacking the village. I didn’t have any intention of saving the humans; because they took me however, and were now stealing again, I was grievously offended. So I punished them for a second time.”

So because of that, he became their Guardian Deity. The t.i.tle seemed to have been forced on him.

There probably wasn’t even one villager back then who opposed treating the demon as a Guardian Deity.

“With my anger vented, I took up residence in the shrine. When I did, of their own volition, the villagers began to treat me as their Guardian Deity.”

Then the shrine was already here. I wondered if there was some other Guardian Deity here before he came?

“I see, so you never had any intention of actually protecting the village.”

If he had intended to be their Guardian Deity, he would have saved the villagers from the most recent bandit attack.

“Quite so, I didn’t take out the bandits to save the village. The villagers came to that misunderstood conclusion themselves.”

As I thought, he was just a normal monster. He wasn’t of a mind to save humans.

“…Even so, there was one girl who so wholly believed me to be the Guardian Deity, that she came every day to clean, despite her weak body.”

Must have been Tiel-chan. And he knew her body was weak? Well, probably because he saw her every day when she came to clean.

“I knew the bandits were coming, so when the girl came with her usual offerings, she was the only one I sheltered. No matter how many bandits came, I disposed of them all.”

Seems he was quite powerful.

A gargoyle is normally a rank D monster, but this guy might have had more powers than normal. He definitely had access to intermediate level Dark magic, so he wasn’t someone to be trifled with.

“You couldn’t be…trying to make a move on Tiel-chan…?”

Tiel-chan was probably around 14-15 years old. A several hundred year old demon with a still innocent, pure, if a bit eccentric, girl… was not something pleasant to think about. My own imagination got the best of me, making me sick, then the gargoyle gave his reb.u.t.tal.

“I would be pleased if you did not let your imagination run wild. I have done nothing to the girl. The only exception was casting 《Nightmare Sleep》 on her without inducing the nightmares; she merely slept. This is where my story ends. Now, I would like to hear the truth about you lot.”

True, it wasn’t fair to get his life story without giving ours in return.

I spoke with s.h.i.+ek while he recovered from his laughing fit, then explained everything to the gargoyle.

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