Chapter 161 (2/2)

Women’s village?

Sounds sexy.

But the men’s village gives me a bad feeling.

“Could you give me a more detailed explanation…?”

“As you can already see, there are only men in this village.”

“Yes, I noticed that.”

This village of men consists of men that all seem to be of a similar type that wished to establish a utopia of bodybuilders here in their new village, and, honestly, it seems to be going well for them. However, something I have noticed is that all of the houses here seem to be bog standard, and, since the men here decided to leave the women, I’m afraid of what I might see behind closed doors.

But Ester-chan told a different story.

“Not long ago, they were living in another village not far from here. They built that village together with the women, and it was nearly finished too before various things happened that caused a big misunderstanding amongst the women. These men were then forced out of the village by the women.”

“That seems….”

I don’t think something like that seems possible, but I can’t deny the fact that there are only men in this village. It must be true. For the men here to abandon their village after putting so much work into getting it built, they must really be good people.

“But they wish to reconcile with the women of their village, and they want me, as a noble, to act as their intermediary. We talked about this while you were in the toilet. Of course, I won’t waste a lot of your time to help them.”

“So, it’s like that.”

That’s the reason for there being a men’s village and women’s village.

Once Ester-chan had finished speaking, one of the men spoke up.

“We apologize for asking such a great noble as yourself to help us. The women of our village can be stubborn but we hope the words of a noble may have more of an effect on them.”

For some reason, this combination of polite attitude with his macho appearance is causing me concern.

He’s smiling at Ester-chan but that smile is causing me to feel a sense of imminent danger.

He’s not trying to deceive the loli bitch, is he?

“….”

I’m starting to feel anxious.

The whole village of men and village of women thing seemed doubtful to me in the first place.

But I suppose I should help them out for lending me their toilet. And Ester-chan really wants to help them. I could easily deny their request, but that may leave Ester-chan with a feeling of regret later. She does seem to genuinely care about them.

“I think I understand the situation. We’ll help you out.”

“You will!? Oh, thank you so much, sir!”

The man bowed deeply and the rest of his group followed suit.

Let’s get this settled quickly.

***

We headed off in the direction the men of the village directed us.

“That must be it!”

“I think you’re right.”

We had only been flying for a few minutes. Even accounting for the dense forest beneath us, it shouldn’t take more than an hour to get here on foot. The men built their village a lot closer than I expected. They probably assumed they’d be able to reconcile with the women at some point.

There was a tall fence surrounding the village and we landed at where I assumed was the front of the village where there was a small break in the fence.

We entered the village and found our way to the town square. It had familiar well in the centre with several women holding pails chatting away.

I called out loud enough for them to hear me.

The looks they gave me made me feel that if I were here by myself, I would’ve been chased out of the village, but their faces went rigid once they noticed Ester-chan wearing her noble clothing.

With that reaction, it should be easy enough to begin negotiations with them.

“Excuse me, could we borrow a moment of your time?”

“What business does a n-noblewoman have with a small village like us?”

A shrill voice responded timidly with a question to my question.

The voice belonged to a woman in her mid-twenties with shoulder length jet black hair. She also had dark eyes which made me feel a close affinity to her, but her skin was white. After all, the people of this world are still different than my own.

“I’d like to speak with the representative of this village!”

Ester-chan roared.

Taken aback by the loli bitch’s scream, the woman’s face turned blue and she said,

“P-Please, wait just a moment! I’ll bring her out immediately!”

“Please do.”

The black-haired woman ran off in a panic.

The women that were with her dropped their pails and ran off after her.

There wasn’t anyone else in sight, but I could feel the countless eyes focused solely on us.

It’s making me uncomfortable.

But the loli bitch is acting like a high-and-mighty noble which should work well for us in this situation.

I can feel my heart wavering.

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