Chapter 168 (2/2)

“… Someday I too will…”

“If you desire strength, fight with me Daughter of the Beasts!”

I turn to look to the source of those words and come to see an old man that looks like a golden lion. With golden ears, mane and tail, a rough face and muscles that looked well trained… eh?

“… Grandfather?”

“… mh? Grandfather? … Those ears and tail… Those features… Are you Maorin?”

Grandfather points at me and opens his mouth big.

“Guaah!! What’s this?! When I heard that finally a beastperson had come it turned out to be my cute, lovely granddaughter! Now I can’t have a match to the death!!”

Grandfather starts to tear his mane off and stomp his foot.

Grandfather… The one who was in a journey to train himself and who occasionally comes home just to brag about having defeated this or that but hadn’t return recently… To think that he was living in the Central Mountain…

“Haa… should I give up in my deathmatch…? It has been a while Maorin. You were so cute but before I knew you became this beautiful… Ojii-chan (T/L: affective for grandfather) is glad. Do you have enough money? Should I give you some pocket money? Mh?”

You worry too much. I’ve become a proper adult you know. Although… I don’t have any “experience” yet but…

“I’m fine right now. Grandfather why are you in this kind of place?”

“Umu, during my search for strong beings to train myself with, I came to settle in this place. And I got to meet friends with whom I get along mysteriously well. A high elf and a necromancer! Isn’t it that amazing?! Gahahaha!!”

… U~m… If it had been before meeting Otto-dono and everyone, I would be certainly amazed of hearing about a high elf and a necromancer but… after experiencing my self the power of Otto-dono… it’s kind of… Mh? Ah!

“Grandfather, just now you said that you wanted to fight a match to the death, right? If you wold like, why don’t you try fighting with Otto-dono?”

As I said that grandfather’s hair raises up and shows his rage.

“Otto?! A husband?! Someone made my cute granddaughter a bride?! That bastard Deizu, to what shoddy person did you gave your daughter to?! He surely has guts!! Who’s the bastard?! I’ll fight him to see if he is fit!!”

“Ah, Otto-dono is that person fighting with the Dragon King Ragnil-sama.”

Grandfather turns his bloodshot eyes towards I’m pointing and in an instant, his bloodlust vanishes.

“Grandfather?”

“Maorin… Is that guy really your husband?”

“Yes. Well at least that is how it’s going to be… Father has already given his consent.”

“… Un, is that so… Then Ojii-chan has no complaints”

“Is that so? If so, do you want me to ask him for a deathmatch with you?”

“… Ojii-chan will really die, you know?”

“Mh? Grandfather, do you know Otto-dono?”

Grandfather tells his story embarrassed. Around the time when he came to this mountain, he was feeling overconfident because not even S-rank monsters could match him, when he met a taciturn boy who viciously beated him up without being able to do anything. It seems that the taciturn boy was Otto-dono. After that he met the high elf and the necromancer and while getting healed from his injuries, he became friends with them.

Afterwards I asked Grandfather to train me.

I want to become stronger… I also have to try harder at cooking… and at my personal appearance…

169 (Tomorrow)