Chapter 193: I Talk to Esty-san About the Beastman Kingdom Concept
Near the castle, Sara-chan was checking the damage to the castle town.
"Ooi. Sara-chan."
"Ah. Masaru-san."
"This is Rafilia-san, a priest of the Larme religion."
"Nice to meet you. I’m Rafilia."
"Nice to meet you. I’m Sara, younger sister of Margolant’s lord Iria Nawyor."
"Rafilia-san can increase food with a skill. Can you guide her to the kitchen?"
"Really? Please. This way."
Sara-chan happily took Rafilia-san’s hand, her eyes sparkling. Then, with a bouncing gait, she repeatedly urged Rafilia-san onward as they headed toward the castle.
Alright. There are still problems about what to do from tomorrow onward, but with this the refugees’ food problem is solved. From tomorrow we’ll either catch the pigs that fled or have people hunt small animals in the forest.
"I’m going to fly around the surrounding forest and tell the people searching for food to return to the castle, but what will you two do? Wait around here or at the castle? Or come with me?"
Pito.
"Together is better..."
Fullru stuck to me. She really seems to have fallen for me hard.
"What about Iferaski—"
"Pi!"
Nn?
That voice just now wasn’t Iferaski’s. It came from a different direction.
"Ah!"
It’s Rangju. A reed-colored horse-mare is running out from inside the castle.
"Pi!"
Iferaski also started running, and the two embraced.
Pero pero pero pero.
They’re happily licking each other all over.
A long-awaited reunion, huh. Good for both of you...
Somehow, watching the two of them rejoice makes my tear ducts loosen.
It’s better not to interrupt the reunion.
"Then shall we go?"
"Yeah."
Gyu...
Fullru is still clinging to me from the front. I can’t fly like this.
"You have to ride on my back side or I can’t fly..."
"Yaa..."
"Not ’yaa’..."
"I don’t want to let go..."
"What are you going to do if you need to pee?"
"I’ll do it like this..."
"From my perspective it’s a reward so I welcome it, but what if I need to pee?"
"...You can."
"Is that okay..."
I don’t plan to, but is perverted play okay?
I’m a normal-fetish guy so I only plan to play with anuses, but what does she intend to do if I had abnormal fetishes?
Someday if I want to pee inside an anus, I’ll try asking.
"Either way, let go. Beastmen are searching for food in the surroundings. We have to tell them that if they return to the castle there will be meals."
"Then, a hug..."
"Eeh."
"Like how you hugged Rafilia earlier... do that..."
"It can’t be helped."
I picked Fullru up in a princess carry.
She’ll get bored soon enough, so I’ll go along with her selfishness for a while.
"In this state I can’t fly through the sky, so either run or keep jumping pyon pyon..."
"I’ll make us fly..."
"Eh?"
Fuwa...
A wind that blew from nowhere swirled under our feet and grew denser in color.
Then, in the blink of an eye, it became a semi-transparent horse.
While still giving Fullru a princess carry, the horse put me on its back and lightly galloped up into the sky.
Amazing. A flying horse.
Wind magic, a wind spirit, or some kind of power, probably.
...
"If you can do something like this, there was no need for three people to ride me, was there? Couldn’t I just have carried Rafilia-san and Iferaski while Fullru flew on this horse?"
"Idiot..."
"Why am I an idiot? It’s an extremely simple solution."
No, this is completely like Fullru didn’t report that she could fly because she wanted to stick close to me...
Seriously, a genuine crush?
Is this the tsundere that once swept across Japan according to the rumors?
I heard that violent-type tsundere heroines had gone extinct, but they were living in the other world?
Together with Fullru I flew around the surrounding forest and told the people searching for food to return to the castle.
After finishing calling out to everyone in the area and returning, the refugees had gathered in the courtyard of Margolant Castle and were eating.
Still giving the Fullru who wouldn’t let go a princess carry, I decided to lean against the wall and watch the food distribution.
Rafilia-san is serving soup and bread.
I think there are more than 100 refugees in total, but will the meals reach everyone?
Actually, I learned while living at the church that Rafilia-san’s skill doesn’t unconditionally multiply food infinitely. There are various conditions.
First, meat doesn’t increase. Even now Shepa brought a rabbit, but when Rafilia-san cuts the roasted meat it doesn’t increase. The meat seems to have been served to the children.
I don’t really understand it, but living things probably don’t increase.
If Rafilia-san cooked raw fish into sashimi, would it become two fish? If it did that would be scary. Living things probably don’t split.
Roasted meat might be treated as a burned corpse by the skill. Sausages did increase, so a certain degree of processing seems to be fine.
Also, bread and soup don’t increase semi-permanently either.
Bread does regenerate, but the small fragments that appear when you tear the bread remain as they are if they fall to the ground. In other words, although you can’t tell with just a few multiplications, the bread gradually becomes smaller as fragments.
Similarly, soup decreases from the original by the amount that sticks to the ladle or drips a little.
Well, infinite increase wouldn’t work out that conveniently. That said, it’s an outrageously useful skill.
I’m envious.
She’s the kind of talent I’d want for the beastman kingdom too, but she’s the priest of Larme Church in Monvan, so I can’t just take her away.
When founding a beastman kingdom on the glans, I want to somehow solve the food problem.
People around here seem to eat a lot of meat and fried potatoes, but I’d like other foods too.
Because it’s surrounded by the sea, can we catch fish?
I want meat and green vegetables, right?
Right?
Apparently the stems of sweet potatoes can be eaten, but people would get tired of them.
I want cabbage for the capybara girls and carrots for the horse-mares.
After founding the country it would be best to make fields right away.
Ah.
Esty-san and Shepa are approaching.
Shepa tries to hug me, but because I’m giving Fullru a princess carry while leaning against the wall there’s no room to hug.
I don’t know what meaning it has, but Shepa spun around on the spot and then cried "Kyun."
Esty-san leans her back against the wall next to me.
"My, Rafilia-san’s skill is amazing. I’m surprised."
"Right—? Ah. The wine I gave Esty-san before. I increased it with Rafilia-san’s skill. Not only does it increase, the taste also gets better."
"Is that true? Aah. I’d like some again. That was truly delicious. Now then."
Esty-san turns toward Fullru and gives a small bow.
"Nice to meet you. I’m Esty, a traveling merchant."
"Ah, okay."
Fullru only moved her neck a little to glance at Esty-san, then immediately clung to my nape as if about to kiss it.
"Hey. Rude attitudes aren’t good."
"Ah, it’s fine. I know the circumstances that prevent elves from giving their names."
"Hmph. You’re quite understanding. Hmph."
Fullru pulled her face away from me again and ran her gaze from top to bottom over Esty-san as if appraising her.
Why is this girl so harsh toward people she’s meeting for the first time...
A little punishment.
Tsuneri.
I pinched Fullru’s butt.
"Nn... Do that kind of thing when it’s just the two of us..."
No good, this girl. She’s completely melting!
I set Fullru down for a moment and stroked Shepa’s head.
"There there. Thank you for working hard on the hunt. You’re a good girl—"
"Ehehe—"
"Hey, Shepa caught a rabbit and a bird, right?"
"Yeah! I did my best!"
"Was it hard?"
"Harder than usual."
"By ’usual’ you mean when you hunted with Letree-san and the others?"
"Yeah. Usually Letree orders go that way, go this way, and everyone surrounds the prey. Today it was just Esty and me so it was hard."
"Aah. I’m pretending to be human while working as a traveling merchant, so I don’t hunt much and I’m not used to it."
"I see. But catching two animals after hunting for several hours with just the two of you is pretty amazing, isn’t it?"
"Is it? I don’t know!"
"Because, look..."
I lowered my voice.
"There were lots of other beastmen searching for prey too, yet about 50 people only got one pig, right?"
"Aah. That’s only natural. Shepa-san is excellent, and from what I’ve heard that Letree-san I’ve never met is also a considerably excellent hunter. Even setting that aside, most of the people of Margolant are sheep or squirrel or rabbit beastmen. There aren’t many who are good at hunting."
"Ah. Is that so."
Is it okay for a rabbit beastman to eat a rabbit... In the first place, is it okay for beastmen to eat animal meat. Well, even shimarou eat animal meat, so it’s fine. They’re only human-like rabbits, not actual rabbits, so I don’t need to worry about it.
When I used Darkness Wind Cutter a large number of birds took flight, and there are many small animals in the forest. In that case, if I bring the dog girls maybe we can catch a lot of prey.
If I get Iria’s permission and hunt inside Margolant, give the meat to the residents, and receive a share for ourselves to eat, we can become self-sufficient. A hunting agency service.
Ah. Is the reason Iria wears a white, beautiful dress because there are rabbit and weasel beastmen and she’s receiving their winter fur?
If so, receiving fur as compensation for hunting is also an option.
I tried telling Esty-san the idea that flashed through my mind.
"I think it’s good. Or rather, if it’s a beastman who’s good at hunting, they normally make a living that way."
I see. So it’s not a particularly novel idea.
However—
"It seems like the food problem of the beastman kingdom could be solved all at once."
"Beastman kingdom? What is that?"
"Ah. Right. If possible I’d like your cooperation, but—"
I conveyed the concept of the beastman kingdom.
Creating a country in the glans region at the tip of the erect-cock-shaped peninsula.
Because it’s a natural fortress, it’s difficult for hostile forces to invade.
That there are sweet potato seedlings that seem able to grow even in wasteland.
That because the dragon goddess Lucia has agreed to the founding of the country, even if some religious organization or political power comes complaining there is enough legitimacy to brush them off.
I talked about various things as they came to mind.
Esty-san, who had been listening while laughing at first, gradually took on a serious expression. Shepa, unable to understand the difficult conversation well, sat down, clung to my leg, and fell asleep.
Fullru got sulky and hugged her knees.