「There you go! Two million oars!」
I handed two platinum coins to the pushover-like slave trader and received
back the pouch containing my eighty-thousand-oars deposit. This was the
money I had received from my grandfather. I didn't want to spend it
carelessly now just because the guild had given me so much money.
As a side note, the value of each coin is like this: an iron coin is equal to 10
oars, a copper coin 100 oars, a silver coin 1000 oars, a gold coin 10000
oars, and lastly, a platinum coin equates to 1 million oars. In short, just
defeating those small fries had given me 100 million oars.
Honestly, my value of money was about to get skewed. After all, I got 100
million oars, which I had no idea what to do with, just by exterminating
small fries that I could snuff out with just my sneeze.
「Thanks for your patronage! Please bring her out!」
The pushover-like man gave the order. Then, the black-clothed man entered
the shop and came out leading the silver-haired beast girl behind him.
Even her complexion was much better than before, let alone her
appearance. It seems these people did keep their agreement with me. Or
maybe, this might simply be a matter of the pushover-like man's pride as a
slave trader. Well, honestly, such things about a slave trader are a trivial
matter for me.
「My name is Kai Heineman. You can call me Kai.」
I presented my right hand, and the beast girl timidly accepted it.
「Myu… desu.」
She introduced herself with much difficulty.
「S-S-SO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!」
The troublesome princess—who had worn a pure white robe and hid her
face with a hood, trying to make her presence as small as possible—
suddenly screamed like a strange bird. Then, she hugged Myu and rubbed
her cheek on hers.
「FUE?」
That wasn't the end of it. Rose started to touch every part of Myu's body
while the latter had yet to recover from her shock.
「Uhm. I really can't get enough of these fluffy ears and tails!」
「HIIIII!?」
Myu shriveled in terror. She ran toward me, looking up to me with a face on
the verge of crying.
「Okay! Please stop right there! You're scaring the child!」
I pulled Rose by the nape of her neck with my right hand, separating her
from Myu. I felt more amazed and more amazed at the princess, whose
status just corrected itself from a frail princess to a pervert.
「Don't worry! This girl might be a pervert, but she is a good one.」
I didn't hide anything from Myu as I patted her head with my left hand.
「…」
Myu replied by nodding in silence.
「Now, let's leave this place!」
Anna gently smiled as she took the beast girl's right hand and led her
toward the inn we were staying at.
「Yes….」
The previous Anna would've instantly flared up on me after seeing my
treatment of Rose. However, she didn't care about it anymore; she didn't
even make a retort. That isn't a bad thing, though.
「Okay Kai, that's enough! Can you let go of me now?」
When I looked at the retreating backs of Myu and Anna, deeply moved by
their harmony, a certain pervert princess(Rose)'s voice, which contained a
lot of reproaches, resounded in my ears.
「Uhm, sorry! My bad!」
I let go of my grip on Rose's nape.
「Seriously, what would you have done had my clothes gotten stretched
due to your crude treatment?」
Rose asked while placing her hands on her slender waist.
「All is justified to prevent a pervert from approaching children.」
「I just wanted to hug her, rub our cheeks together, and fluff with her tail
and ears!」
This princess has a troublesome personality, after all.
「The people who do that are defined by society as perverts.」
「Muuu.」
""
I ignored Rose puffing her cheeks and moved my attention to the slave
trader, who was observing my interaction with Rose since a while ago.
「Let me give you some advice.」
「What is it?」
「The only reason I'm doing a proper transaction with you people is that
you're running a business in accordance with the trashy rule of this
kingdom. To be honest, I detest people like you guys, who were whipping a
little girl and calling her a beast, from the bottom of my heart. That's why if
you guys break even one of the trashy rules of this kingdom―」
As I stopped for a moment, I could hear the slave traders gulping their spit
as they waited for me to finish. As the tips of my lips rose upward, I looked
at them with a sinister smile on my face and continued.
「I'm gonna smash you guys to pieces. Don't even think that you'll have an
easy and peaceful death.」
I declared so with a voice that sent a chill running down my own spine.
All the slave traders' faces became devoid of color.
「T-That's only natural! We absolutely won't cross the line!」
The pushover-like man spoke with a shrill voice as if my words had turned
his inside out.
「Never forget about this. You're barely keeping your head intact right
now.」
After saying that, I turned around and left the place.
I had given them a stern warning. What would happen next depended on
them. I had learned in a criminal psychology book I found in that dungeon
that the people who run such a business were treading on an extremely
dangerous path. Although they might escape after this, they wouldn't
change their profession.
「What's the matter?」
I asked as Rose was looking at my side profile with a merry expression on
my face while walking beside me.
「As I thought, you're the only royal guard for me.」
「Add "Temp," will ya! I'm definitely gonna find a replacement soon.」
Rose smirked and revealed a mischievous smile.
「Despite all you say, I'm sure that you're gonna stay by my side until the
end, as long as my creed stays the same.」
She spoke as if that were a fact.
「Stop judging as you please. I'm not a weak-hearted fool. I'll immediately
find a successor and dump this god-forsaken role to them.」
I'm definitely going to quit and explore the world; this decision would
never change. And I'll make sure that it comes true no matter what.
「Really! Even though you must be really happy becoming the knight of a
beauty like me!」
I heaved a deep sigh upon hearing Rose's nonsensical remark and her
elbowing my abdomen. Then, I opened my eyes and said…
「A true beauty won't proclaim herself as a beauty.」
Appearance-wise, Rose was indeed a beauty. But, anyone who saw this
unprecedented personality of hers would surely re-evaluate their judgment.
To be honest, Anna, who had turned into an obedient woman, had a higher
score in my opinion.
「Muu~h, Kai, that's a rude remark to a lady, you know!」
I shrugged upon seeing Rose make that remark while puffing her cheeks.
「Why, thank you! I'm not familiar with how to treat a so-called Ladysama, after all.」
This was the truth. If she really wanted to be treated like a lady, she should
just ask the famous hero-dono of this Amelia kingdom.
「Please don't change, Kai!」
Rose muttered that short yet profound remark.
「The same goes for you.」
I replied that as we walked together to the inn.