Chapter 34.3 - Ogre-ruled Land (1/2)

Chapter 34.3 : Ogre-ruled Land

This castle was around an hour’s walking distance from Koki country.

The day had turned to night. I wanted to hit the bed and yet here I am, doing this request.

The craftsmanship of the ogre is high due to the fact that they can build castles and palaces on the mountain. It seems that some of these ogres are even capable of building a castle on top of a cloud.

It is said that various treasures are hidden inside the castle of that ogre. It is also mentioned that the size of an ogre mansion is proportional to the number of treasures hidden within.

I’m looking at Zengu mansion. Though it’s far more splendid than the residence of a human, looking from the front, it’s on the smaller side for an ogre.

It seems that Zengu is on the weaker side as an ogre.

「Well then, let me too…」

I seize the clothes of Echigos when he tries to run away.

「Uhm… What’s the matter, Shirone-sama?」

「Are you thinking about going back, Echigos-san? I don’t care if it was another person, but there’s no way I can let go of you and that werewolf」

When I said so, Echigos and Daigan lower their line of sight.

This Echigos is a human, but different from the other humans in the country, he was the one supervising the citizens of Koki by flattering the ogre. There’s no way I’m just letting him go.

The country of Koki is being ruled by the ogre called Zengu. According to Kaysan’s investigation, countries ruled by a powerful demon like this one aren’t on the rare side.

This kind of country isn’t attacked by the other demons in exchange for it being ruled by a demon. That’s why at a glance, there’s more merit to it.

But, that is nothing more than a relationship between livestock and it’s owner. There’s no way anyone will be fine being treated as food.

After hearing their story, the citizens gleefully offered themselves to be our guide when we said that we’re going to slay the ogre Zengu.

So, aside from Kyouksan, Kaysan, and I, some people have come with us to this mansion of Zengu.

Being guided by Echigos, Daigan, who has the power of several people, is carrying our baggage after we healed his arms and foot. Several citizens of Koki country are also following behind us .

I push Echigos to keep moving until we neared the gate.

「ZENGU-SAMA―――！ZENGU-SAMA―――！PLEASE OPEN THE GATE―――！」

After Daigan hollered, that huge gate opened.

The one coming out from inside is as tall as height of three men combined. It’s a five-meter-tall giant man. This one might be the one called Zengu.

According to Echigos, Zengu is the youngest ogre amongst the eight of his mother’s children. It seems that we arrived in this country while Echigos was in the middle of choosing a human sacrifice as a present for his mother’s birthday.

Zengu seems like a human in the latter half of his thirties. A sloppy type with a bulging belly. Yup, definitely a dumb one.

In fact, I feel absolutely no threat from Zengu when he came out while scratching his nether region.

「Oh, isn’t this Echigos, what’s the matter that brought you to meet me today?」

And then, Zengu’s eyes land on us who are standing behind Echigos.

「Hou, so you have come to bring the women for my dear mother, huh. It must be hard on you, Echigos」

Zengu is laughing while he’s looking at us. That smiling face is creepy. The racial characteristic of ogre race is the fact that there’s a huge tusk that grows upside down. Thus, they have a huge mouth and a square-shaped jaw. That’s why they look creepy when they laugh.

The citizens of Koki are frightened.

「Let me see, what do you feel now?」

Zengu is stretching his hand toward Kyouksan.

At that moment, I thought “Watch out”. Kyouksan herself isn’t dangerous. Kyouksan can’t control her own magic. If Zengu ever touches Kyouksan, the angry Kyouksan might use magic and turn the entire area into charcoal.

Thus, I retreated.

Kyouksan is always on house-sitting duty. Though Kyouksan hated that duty at first, as expected, even Kyouksan agreed to do house-sitting duty when her rampaging magic accidentally injured Reiji-kun when he was trying to protect Sahoko-san.

Zengu’s hand is approaching Kyouksan. But, that hand is swatted away.

「You shouldn’t try your luck by touching my lady」

Naturally, the one who did that was Kaysan. Even though she was standing behind me, she’s already in front of me since who knows when.

「What the h.e.l.l are you?」

Zangu leaps toward Kaysan.

「(Heart Break)!」

She lightly punched the chest of Zengu while uttering so.

「GUH!」

Just like that, Zengu fell down while moaning in pain.

‘Heart break’ is a skill that demolish someone’s heart without causing any external wounds via the shockwaves that are transmitted when the fist connects to the target.

Zengu’s heart stopped beating and collapsed.

「Well then, just when we need food for our hippogriff」

The people on the surrounding tremble in fear when she said so while looking at Zengu.

「No way… That ogre, with one hit」

「How can she do that with such a slender body」

「Moreover, being treated as food for the magical beast… She’s even more terrifying than the ogre」

Several citizens of Koki unintentionally utter out aloud. By the way, sometimes I also feel that Kaysan is scary.

Kaysan tosses the body of the ogre to the hippogriff who came along.

「I’m so tired, Kaya. Let’s go in」

Kyouka says so and goes inside.

When we followed her to enter the mansion of the ogre, the inside was as splendid as its outer appearance.

According to Chiyukipedia, the architectural skill of the ogres are on par with the dwarves; there’s even a legend of them building a castle above the clouds.

So, choosing to lodge for one night in the mansion of the ogre is a better choice than that human house. However, since this is originally an ogre’s residence, we still need to do some cleaning.

The bedroom seems quite disordered.

There are a lot of pictures of naked ogre girls pasted on the wall of the room.

And there’s this underwear-like thing scattered on the floor.

「This one seems like a garbage can, yes. But then, there’s a lot of ball-like things in there. It smells fishy…」

Kyouksan is frowning while saying so. That kind of things appeared inside Kuroki’s room once in a while. I think it’s better to not touch those ball-like things.

「According to the stories, this is the room of a single man, so…」

Kaysan is muttering.

「Kuroki’s room wasn’t as messed up as this one though. Could it be THAT thing is also hidden somewhere in this room?」