Volume 3 Chapter 6 Part1 (1/2)
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Minasan oideyasu. This is Yukkuri demasu!
Here the new chapter… Should be released
yesterday, but I am so tired by the barrage of RL duty that I can hardly evade…
This is the cost I need to pay to have a paycheck on my plate.
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In case you didn’t realize it… I leave certain
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as I am not really that fluent in English and English’ finest parts elude me.
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wrong.
Author:
Dozeumaru(どぜう丸)
Translator:
Yukkuri Oniisan
Editor:
So-Chintzy
Postwar Arc
Chapter 6: In Which I was Baiting Sea Bream with a Shrimp
but Caught a Shark Instead[1]
A
There was a tiger in the middle
of darkness, closing his eyes, while remembering the events of that day.
◇ ◇ ◇
When he opened his eyes, the
first thing he saw was a familiar ceiling.[2]
While his mind was still hazy, he was staring at the patterns on the ceiling,
but when he was fully conscious, he noticed that he was lying on a soft bed.
This was strange. The last scenery that he saw should have been the prison. When
he remembered this, he turned his neck, and found someone sitting on a chair
besides the bed. That person was a young man who was looking over doc.u.ments.
After he stared at the young man
for a while, the young man seemed to have noticed his condition.
『Hm? Yo.
Did you finally wake up?』(A Certain Young Man)
The young man put the doc.u.ments
down and handed him a hand mirror that had been placed under the chair.
『You might
have many things to ask, but first, please look at this.』(A Certain Young Man)
As what the young man had said,
he peeked at the mirror that was given to him. A tiger-faced beast-kin was
reflected in it. A gold and black striped pattern that unmistakably belonged to
a tigris(sword tiger)[3] (it was bigger than Earth’s tiger
and had long canines as its special trait). This overwhelmed him and caused him
to gape as the young man spoke with a smile.
『You
are a tiger. So you will be a tiger.』[4](A Certain Young Man)
He didn’t understand what the young man means by it, so he didn’t
say anything, but the young man was scratching his head as if he was
embarra.s.sed.
『Well,
umm, after all…… don’t merely push things on me. You need to bear it a bit,
too.』(A Certain Young Man)
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「Kagetora[5]-sama」(?)
Someone was calling for him. His
consciousness returned, and he saw a man wearing a black dog mask kneeling on
the floor.
「So
it is you Beo-…… Inugami.[6]」(Geo- Kagetora)
「Yes.
It seems that the Mountain has moved.」(Beo- Inugami)
The dog masked man who was called
Inugami, bowed his head while reporting.
「…… I
see. It has been one month since then. Unexpectedly, it is early.」(Kagetora)
「That
is true. Even though I thought that it should have taken a bit longer.」(Inugami)
「Fumu……
Even if it is early, it is not a bad thing. After this, whatever happens on
this land will be reported to His Majesty without omitting a single detail.
This is our duty, the 『Black Cats』!」(Kagetora)
「「「We
understand. We accept the command.」」」(Black Cats)
Receiving Kagetora’s order, beginning
with Inugami, the Elfrieden Kingdom King’s Guards Special Intelligence
Operations Squad, the 『Black Cat』 began to move.
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「King~, let’s play~」(Girl)
「King,
shoulder ride~」(Boy)
「……」(Cat-Girl)
A lively and cute 3 year old wolf-eared
boy and a human girl came to play with me. The last one was a cat-eared girl as
old as the other two, who had occupied my cross-legged lap and had fallen
asleep not long ago. The cat tail that came out from her end was moving
flip-floppily.
「Ummm,
I can’t move, so please don’t climb on me on your own.」(Souma)
「「Yes!」」(Girl)(Boy)
The two of them then began to
climb on my back and playing happily. Yep, really cute, right? Even when they
had climbed on my shoulders and then patted my face, this was something that I
was used to.
「Fufufu,
Your Majesty is really popular with the children.」(Tomoko)
My lovable step-sister Tomoe-chan
and her biological mother, Tomoko-san were smiling at me while folding the
children’s laundry. This place was the day nursery that was established inside
the castle not long ago. It was for taking care of the children of the people
who were working in the castle, like the maids and others. Then the relative of
Tomoe-chan, who was semi-forcibly adopted as step-sister, Tomoko-san was
working in this place as a live-in nursery worker. By the way, the wolf-eared
boy who was touching my face with hands covered in drool was her eldest son
(Tomoe-chan’s little brother), Rou-kun.
「Nii-sama[7],
I am happy that you play with Rou-kun and the others, but will this be alright?
Won’t nee-sama[8]
will be mad at you again……?」(Tomoe)
She was asking me while cuddling
an infant in her arms. Without any animal negotiation duties, like the one with
the Rhinosauruses, outside her lesson hours, Tomoe-chan will help her mother work.
Considering that Tomoe-chan was still a ten-year old, she was a very reliable
girl.
「It’s
fine, since I am not crowded with work right now. In addition, I properly left the【Living
Poltergeist】 working at the Government
Affairs Office.」(Souma)
「Is
that so? Then, you can play a lot. That’s great, right Rou-kun?」(Tomoe)
「Yes!」(Rou)
Rou-kun raised his hands up. How cute.
I really like children. I could keep watching the tiny toddlers step, walking
unsteadily all day long. By the way, it’s not because I am a Lolicon or
Shotacon! It’s because this scene tickled my guardian instinct[9].
When my grandparents were still healthy, I helped at the recital in the neighborhood
nursery. Because of this, I played with the children for a short while.
「What
an amazing appearance you have, Master.[10]」(Carla)
When I turned around to the one
who was greeting me, there she was, Carla, in the maid uniform.[11]
「Really?
It isn’t something that the current Carla can say herself, though.」(Souma)
「That
is…… You’re right.」(Carla)
Carla dropped her shoulders
dejectedly. However, looking closely……
「The
maid uniform surprisingly doesn’t suit you.」(Souma)
「Please
don’t mention it…… I already thought about that myself.」(Carla)
In the first place, Carla was a dragonewt,
so compared to a normal human, they had a lot of additional parts.[12]
She had a tail, she had dragon wing, and she also had small horns growing on
her. To wear a maid uniform on top of these… Perhaps it could be said as an unbalanced
idiosyncrasy.
「Moreover,
isn’t the skirt’s length awfully short?」(Souma)
「P-please
don’t look.」(Carla)
While saying this, Carla grasped
the front end of her skirt. Every castle maid wore a cla.s.sic long skirted maid
uniform, but what Carla was wearing right now was something that wouldn’t be