Arifureta Vol 5 Chapter 2 (1/2)

Chapter 2 : In Brook Town III

Currently, Yue and s.h.i.+a had gone out to town. Because it was only several hours before noon, they must move as planned. Their objectives were food(groceries) and clothes for s.h.i.+a, as well as some medicine. Weapons and armor were unnecessary because they have Hajime.

The town was already wrapped up in it’s day to day hustle and bustle. The stall keepers vigorously called out to customers, there are housewives and adventurers haggling intensively. There are also food stalls that made you think, ‘Isn’t it too crowded in the morning?’, while the smell of burning meat and sauce drifted around.

Because tool shops and groceries would be too crowded at this time, these two decided to look for s.h.i.+a’s clothes first.

From auntie; Catherine-san’s map, it mentioned the stores for everyday wear, specialty stores for high-cla.s.s dresses, and the recommended stores for adventurers and travelers. As expected, au… … Catherine-san was someone with good abilities. She could accomplish anything as long as she wished for it.

These two immediately visited a certain shop for adventurers. They decided to buy everyday clothes for when they went back.

Inside the shop, as expected of something Catherine-san recommended, there were a lot of items. The quality was good, they were practical and functional, it was a store that wouldn’t betray your expectations.

However, inside was…

“Oh my~, welcome ? What lovely girls. To have you coming here, it makes onee-san happy~, I will sure~ly give a go~od service ? ”

There was a monster. With a height of 2 meters, cladded with armor made of muscles, face thick with make-up, on top of its bald head, ‘chokon’, long hair grew in only one place, and that was made into a three-knit braid and tied with a pink ribbon. When it moved, its muscles were twitching and ‘gis.h.i.+mis.h.i.+’ sound could be heard from it, with both hands on its cheeks, it twisted its body. Its clothes were… … no, it couldn’t be said as that. At the very least, ‘gon’ thick limbs, with a garment that made its stomach muscles completely visible.

Yue and s.h.i.+a stiffened. s.h.i.+a already pa.s.sed out, while Yue steeled herself, having seen a monster that surpa.s.sed the Abyss’ demonic beasts.

“My oh my~? What happened to the two of you? Cute girls shou~ldn’t make that face. Come on, smile smile?”

“No matter what, everything was your fault, it was your fault that I couldn’t smile!” The grand reb.u.t.tal that Yue and s.h.i.+a were somehow able to resist making. Even though these two have the level of highest potential out of all of humanity, they didn’t think they could win against this monster.

However, because the monster approached them with a big smile, Yue could not to bear it and inadvertently muttered.

“… … Human?”

At that moment, the monster raised an angered voice.

“Who~ could make a legendary cla.s.s demonic beast run away? As you can see, credibility behind that is zero, or rather it’s minus. How could you call me a monster!!”

“I-I am sorry…”

Yue trembled with teary eyes. s.h.i.+a, had long since… … been chilled in her lower body. After Yue apologized, the monster smiled(?) once again and continued its service.

“It’s o~kay. Then? For today, what kind of item do you want to bu~y?”

s.h.i.+a stayed still even now, while Yue steeled herself to look for s.h.i.+a’s clothes. Maybe it was because she already wanted to go home, s.h.i.+a gripped Yue’s skirt and shook both the skirt and her head. However when, smilingly, the monster said, “Leave it to me~”, it carried s.h.i.+a on its shoulder into the store. At that time, Yue looking at s.h.i.+a’s eyes the expression of saw a pig that got sold for meat.

In conclusion, the monster that was called manager Crystabel-san could be considered a splendid manager. s.h.i.+a who was taken inside the store also realized it, that’s why when it offered her the dressing room, she was undeniably grateful.

Yue and s.h.i.+a expressed their grat.i.tude to manager Crystabel. When they did that, they could feel the charm from the manager’s smile, it was a woman’s(?) virtue.

“Well~, at first I wondered what might happened to me, but it was an unexpectedly good person. That manager-san”

“Nn… … we can’t judge people from their appearances”

“Right~”

While chatting that way, they wandered around as their destination was the tool shop. However, these two stood out. On their way, when they noticed it, they were already surrounded by ten men. Most of them looked like adventurers, but among them there was also someone with an ap.r.o.n from the shop from somewhere.

One of the men came forward. Although Yue didn’t remember it, this man was one of the adventurers inside the guild when Hajime and his party talked to Catherine.

“Your names are Yue-chan and s.h.i.+a-chan, right?”

“? … … that’s right”

Yue who didn’t know what he wanted squinted her eyes. s.h.i.+a, because she was a demi-human, was surprised to be called by “chan”.

The man who heard Yue answer, looked back at the other men behind him and nodded, Yue could see they steeled their minds. The other men also moved forward to the front of Yue or s.h.i.+a.

Then…

“””””” Yue-chan, please go out with me!!””””””

“””””” s.h.i.+a-chan! Become my slave!!””””””

In other words, well, something like that. The pick-up lines for Yue and s.h.i.+a were different because s.h.i.+a was a demi-human. Even though they needed the master’s permission to transfer the rights of a slave, they must already know how intimate the relations.h.i.+p between Hajime and his party was from their talk at the inn yesterday. So to persuade Hajime they must get s.h.i.+a first… … or so they thought.

By the way, maybe because the impact from the talk at the inn was too strong, they fact that the slave pact made it so that the slave was unable to oppose its master, somehow escaped their minds. If not so, they should have discovered that s.h.i.+a wasn’t a slave. Although the strength of the pact could be lowered, no one actually did that.

Well, Yue and s.h.i.+a who got confessed to were…

“… … s.h.i.+a, the tool shop is over here”

“Ah, yes. It’s good if we can buy everything at once”

They continued their walk as if nothing had happened.

“Wa-, please wait! Your answer!? Tell us your ans- “”I refuse”” … … guu…”

Because their att.i.tude seemed to think nothing about it, the man let out a groan, some men bent their knees and crumbled on the spot (orz). However, there were also some that didn’t give up. That just goes to show how far above normal Yue and s.h.i.+a’s level of beauty was. As a result, it couldn’t be helped if they became reckless because of it.

“Then, I’ll make you mine by force!”

The reckless man shouted that, then ‘ginn’ light came from the other men’s eyes. They surrounded the two so they could catch them, then impatiently drew near them.

Finally, the man who talked to them first, jumped out to catch Yue. When the j.a.panese see that they’d surely shout, “Ah, Lupi* Dive”, something like that.

Yue coldly muttered one thing.

“”Ice Coffin””

Immediately, the man was confined inside a coffin of ice except his head, pulled by gravity and fell. “Gupe!?”, was the miserable scream the man who did the Lu**n Dive raised when he reached the ground.