Chapter 299: Responsibilities
Fanfic by: Geraint124x
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(Harukin's POV)
- Konosuba World -
After sending back Erza and Akane to their home world to prepare themselves for our training next week, I returned back home together with Esdeath and Nero.
Arriving at the entrance of the village, I saw my future daughters arguing with the guards especially Gura.
Approaching them,
"Hey! Why won't you let us enter the village!?"
"We can't let you girls inside the village without verifying your identities first."
The guards are blocking their path.
"We are all Harukin's daughters!"
"Stop lying! You girls are too big to become his daughters."
"Wait!"
I went to talk to the guards.
"Oh! So you're their companion, Harukin."
"Yeah, can you let them enter?"
"Sure, if it is you. The village chief already reminded us about that. You sure gather a lot of beautiful girls from different places and make them into your harem."
"Nope, it's different this time." I calmly responded.
"Then you brought them here to become friends with the Village Chief's weird daughter? You really are dedicated to her."
"Hehehe... Well... Something like that."
"Oh, speaking of Village Chief. Today, they're gathering for a meeting together with the village elders."
"What's wrong?"
"I think it's about the current situation of the village and the crisis that it facing. Harukin, I think you should join them since your the current best Chef in the village. You might able to help them."
"Okay..."
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Entering the village,
"You girls go ahead. I will go and attend the meeting with the Village Chief."
"Okay, Dad!"
Glancing at Esdeath and Nero,
"Umu! I'll go and meet with your little sister Lolisa." Nero smiled at me.
"Then teleport me to where Krul is. I'll talk with her about the training." Esdeath requested.
"Okay."
After that, I went to visit the Village Chief's home.
Arriving in his house,
"Papa!"
I was surprised when I saw my daughter Yaoyao happily running towards me.
"Yaoyao?"
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What surprised me is she's calling me Papa now. I'm very happy that she became more closer than me.
She jumped on me and I caught her in my arms, carrying her up. We rub our cheeks affectionately.
"Hehehe... Papa, that's tickling."
"I really miss you, my little princess."
"Papa, it's not even a day since we haven't seen each other."
"But this is your real Papa, not some kind of thought projection spell."
"Hehehe..."
After cuddling with her,
"Anyway, where's your Grandpa Hiropon?"
"Grandpa is inside the house. He said, he will have a meeting with the other old men so I should play outside for the time being."
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Feeling annoyed,
"That old man... I already told him not to use his own house for this types of gathering. He just left his own granddaughter outside playing alone. He should build a separate house for this kind of events."
"Hmmmp!"
Yaoyao suddenly pouted at me,
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"No fighting with Grandpa! Papa should get along with him." she scolded me.
"Nope, we're not fighting."
I just patted her head.
"Oh, how about this... We will join their meeting."
I grinned.
"Joining with Grandpa? Yay!"
Entering the house while carrying my daughter Yaoyao in my arms.
"Huh?"
I saw Uncle Hiropon sitting on a long table together with the other adults. I recognize most of them which are the master of their own professions.
All of them are staring at me.
"Please excuse us."
"Grandpa!"
Yaoyao happily wave her at him.
"Ugh!"
Uncle Hiropon has no other choice but awkwardly wave back at his adorable granddaughter.
I saw an empty chair and I went to sit on it, placing Yaoyao on my lap.
"Okay, let's continue."
They resume their meeting without minding us too much.
"If this continues, things are gonna rough on following months. The village will suffer and we won't able to sustain to feed our children. Our village's economy is falling!" Chakamiya-san spoke.
"Huh?"
Our economy is falling? I didn't even felt it.
"Yeah, You're right. This is a big crisis." Uncle Hiropon agreed while thinking of a solution.
"What?"
I was confused.
"With our main tourist attraction disappearing, the number of tourist visiting our village is greatly declining. We have to think of another solution for this." Village Chief followed, having a difficult expression.
Not knowing what are they talking about, I decided to ask them.
"Wait! Uncle Hiropon, may I ask something?"
"Oh, what is it, Harukin?"
"Can I ask what is this main attraction that you guys are talking about?"
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Everyone was silent as they stared at me with complicated expressions.
There was an awkward atmosphere.
"What? I just wanted to ask! Is it the Griffon Statue? The Cat Ear Shrine? The Holy Sword? Tell me?"
Suddenly, each of them pointed at me one by one.
I glanced at my cute daughter sitting silently on my lap while eating a cookie.
"Hm?"
She was clueless of what happening around her.
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"Hey..."
I spoke with menacing tone.
"Are you guys pointing at my daughter? Don't tell me... you used her to attract some tourist bastards in this village? What if some scumbag lay his eyes on her? I will never forgive everyone if something happens to my daughter!"
"No! No! No! Not your daughter, we are pointing at you, Harukin!" Chikira immediately denied and clear up the misunderstanding.
Sighing in relief,
"Okay then, I'm glad--Wait! Me?!" I pointed at myself.
Everyone in the room quickly nodded.
Glancing to the Village Chief,
"Uncle Hiropon! What's the meaning of this?! Me? A tourist attraction?"
"It's a long story, Harukin... This take us way back three years ago when you first came back from your business trip from Axel Town."
That's going to be a long flash back!
"Please keep it short!"
"In other words, a lot of women visits our village because they all want to meet and fawn over you."
"What?!"
I was completely shock.
Are you kidding me?
"We used this chance and turned you as one of our main attractions. The flying cute Shota, they called..."
As my cheek twitched,
"No wonder, I have a lot of stalkers lately at that time."
"Now, with your sudden growth and having a lot of daughters, that broke the heart of most women and they stop coming here in this village anymore."
"Well... that's a good news to me. I can now live in peace."
So it was thanks to my cute daughters.
I embraced Yaoyao from behind then cuddle with her.
The village chief is having a headache looking for a solution,
"We need to find another way to attract tourist in our village--"
"Are you guys missing the point here? Aren't we already have a lot of tourist attractions in this village? But it's not enough to support our village economy! I already checked the list of the number of customers that been visiting our Magic Item Shop here in our village and it's still going higher."
"Ummm... Harukin? I'm just curious... How much do you earn in your Magic Item Shop?" Village Chief asked me.
"Hmmm... Last month, I think I earned around 3.8 Billion Eris."
All their jaw dropped when they heard the large amount of money.
"3.8 Billion Eris?!"
"Yes..."
I stood up while carrying Yaoyao and went towards the Village Chief, whispering something to his ears.
*Since you're my father-in-law, I can tell you at least this much.*
"Huh?"
*That money you heard is my only earnings here in our village. I still have branches in Axel, Alcanretia, even in the Capital, I have two branches over there. I also have two branches in the Kingdom of Elroad and I'm still trying to expand in different countries. If we combine them together, I think I earned around 23 to 25 Billion Eris monthly.*
The Village Chief's face became pale. He started to tremble as he looks at me in the face. Snot is coming out from his nose which made me felt disgusted and slightly move away from him.
"H-Harukin! What are you going to do with that humongous amount of money?"
"Hmm... I haven't thought about it yet but I'm thinking of building a bank starting in the Axel Town."
"What about your house?"
"I leave it as it is."
"You rich bastard! I haven't approved of you to take my daughter Yunyun."
"It's fine, I don't need your approval but I understand you. I also won't let anyone to take my cute daughter. They have to go through me first!"
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"These doting parents..."
Things became awkward again.
"Umm... we already deviated from our main topic. What about our village's economy crisis?" Shikobei spoke raising his hand.
All of them glanced at my direction,
"Hey!"
But seeing their expression becoming serious, I sighed.
*Sigh*
"Fine... I'll think of something but don't expect too much."
"Hahaha! As expected of Harukin, you really are a reliable child." Chakamiya laughed.
"No wonder Village Chief'm is having a trouble dealing with him." Chekira followed.
"He's our village no. 1 genius after all." Pucchin-sensei followed.
"I leave it to Harukin then... next agenda! Is there anyone want to tell something?" The village chief proclaimed.
Shikobei suddenly raised his hand.
"Yes, Shikobei!"
He stood up after the village chief called his name.
"Village Chief! I have a complain!"
The village chief was surprised when he suddenly yelled.
"In my fish farm, there is this blonde little girl together with her siblings who keeps throwing bombs in my--"
"Shikobei-san."
I interrupted him, making him shivered.
When he glanced at me while sweating profusely.
I gave him a menacing smile then spoke,
"Name your price."
He immediately retreated back to his seat.
"Nothing... Please forget it."
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"The meeting ends here! Time to go home!" I proclaimed.
"Oi!"
The village chief looks want to complain to me instead.
(To be continued.)
(A/N: I'll fix my mistakes later.)
Clue on training arc is learning martial arts called Water Polo Carbonation Fist.
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