Monster no Goshujin-sama

Twelve.

A shadow in the darkness of the forest approaches us one step at a time.

My crude vision, which is only human, finally, after a few seconds, recognized that it was human contouring.

There are five people walking this way scratching a tree that is only as far as the waist, with a forward body.

My distance is still about five meters.

Neither the moonlight nor the incendiary lights reach where they are.

Are you a resident of this other world, or are you a transferee like me?

I narrowed my eyes and saw through the darkness, but soon realized that it was difficult to discern their identity.

Because they covered their heads softly and wore the helmet of a body with the back of their neck spread like a hem.

With the visor I unloaded, the noticeable nose is completely hidden.

Is the whole dull body covered armor the one named Plate Armor I've seen in movies and such? It was a fully armed soldier's outfit.

I got into trouble, and I smashed my tongue.

I don't know who they are.

So I don't even know how to get them out.

It was painful not to discover the target first from this side. If possible, I wanted to see what kind of person they were before contact.

... No. There is no point in regretting that this has happened.

Now, anyway, we should try to negotiate.

So I decided, and tried to get out before the Lillies, who stood in their way.

"What the hell are you..."

"Your husband. Back off."

Lily stretched out her thin arm to the side to block my nearest hand.

"Even so, because it doesn't make sense"

Lily's eyes on the soldiers were that when she saw the enemy completely.

"Lily? What...?

"I was on guard. Haven't had a little luck, I guess. If you were in the wind, you wouldn't have noticed this."

Lily slowly slid her outstretched arm and pointed to the soldiers walking over here.

"Look. It's time you could see it in your husband's eyes."

I obey the word, and gaze into the shadow, whose distance gradually diminishes.

There are five soldiers there...

Then it wasn't.

"... ugh"

At last, the lights of the fire lit up "The Things That Were Five Soldiers".

Easy to understand would be the face. All five wore helmets, but only one of them had a visor broken.

I accidentally groaned when I checked my dewy face.

The man's face, illuminated by the incendiary lights, did not retain the prototype. Did the monster bite you, too, or the jaw to the bottom doesn't exist. It was hard enough to tell that he looked white.

Plate armor, which should cover the entire body, also had parts that had been shaken or crushed, and even had no one arm. I'm sure this is what broke them when they were fatally wounded in their lifetime.

As soon as I realized there was someone who dragged my gut and walked up, gastric juice came up in the back of my throat.

Since I've come to this other world, I've seen it more than once if it's an unbroken death. But the fact that a body was moving so badly damaged had a kind of peculiarity.

"Ah, ah..."

A meaningless vain groan was spewed out of the mouth of the dead halfway open.

I popped my skin in the sensation of death stroking my ears.

... definitely.

This only happened once in the colony, it must have been an undead monster.

In the colony, the name given to that monster, which was almost close to the abomination name, was called 'Ghoul'.

I can also nod that Lily said it was pointless.

Even where people were kept in a hard way, there was no more room for any negotiation than they were monsters.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah!

At the next moment, five ghouls appeared from the back of the woods upon us at the speed of the beast.

"Ugh."

My body will be swallowed by the deceased corpse coming towards me.

This was the terror characteristic of the undead monster, which even damaged the Expedition, a cheat capable man.

I really hesitate to wave the blade down on the person who is the leader of a person, and humans instinctively become frightened by the unnaturalness with which an already breathless corpse strikes.

But that's only if the relative is human.

What I have is a bunch of monsters. Whatever the other person is human, it doesn't make them frightened.

"- Shh, shh!"

The end of the battle was cut by Rose's thrown battle axe.

The hell that flew over me ate an axe in my chest and fell behind me with tremendous momentum.

The damage is serious, although the armor was only spared both breaks by eating the blade. On top of that, I can't move if I can be sewn to the ground by an axe pierced by my body.

The remaining four ghouls march in, even though their mates have been hit. They don't have companionship in the first place.

Distance clogs.

But there was already someone who moved out at about the same time as Rose.

"I don't want to be too close to the dead. I don't want the Lord to get sick."

So Gabella ejected the spider's thread on the spot.

Threads are scattered to cover a wide range, wrapping around the soldier's body and various objects around it.

Though the sticky and sticky spider yarn could not completely inhibit the powerful gool movement, this was enough to buy time.

"Rip it!"

Lily builds a blue magic formation by spending a few seconds concentrating her magic on the seconds her buddies make.

- Water magic on the second staircase. Nature is three swords.

A clear sword of water popped out as it slipped through the universe, poking at the soldier's helmet aimlessly.

A ghoul with his brain marrow destroyed by no complete skin plunges to the ground and falls. It had already been confirmed in the colony that their hub as undead monsters lived in brain miso as well as when they were human.

Now the rest of us...

"A, ah, ah!

- The rest of the ghoul pulls the spider's thread and moves forward.

"Gyah!"

There, a quitting spitting fireball clashed.

Haven't you got the idea of avoiding an attack, or you couldn't handle it because you felt like a counter, and Ghoul ate it decently.

A small explosion occurs and Ghoul's leg stops.

I'll take care of it.

Rose with a spare axe in her hand penetrates there.

"Shh!

She shook down an axe that swung over her large upper section, crushing the soldier's head from the front.

And I lowered the great shield, which I was attracting, and exhaled the breath which I was packing.

It won't be ten seconds before we get here. The Gools of the Five were exterminated after an unsafe battle.

The first time we stabbed Ghoul, who was moving with Rose's axe, we decided to split into lids.

While we were testing the bodies that had been attacked, we decided to ask the other group to get ready for camp again a little further away.

Rotten corpses after time after death cannot be described as hygienic. It is not healthy to sleep right next to what was scattered with organs, even though I was stopped before I was approached. Physically, mentally.

Me and Rose hit the body test.

Rose serves by way of example as the quantifier who actually touches the body. I watched over the work. [M] The decision was that there were enough people to set up the camp, and then more people would actually be able to quantify the bodies.

Ms. Kato is in the same position, but I wondered if she, the woman, would be allowed to observe the body, and she would be allowed to take it off the scene. By now, he'll be doing what he does to his quitting opponent over there.

"As far as your husband can tell, were you glad that they are not the same transferees as your husband, but residents of this world"

Rose, who washed the relics in the water prepared in the bucket and arranged them on the ground, asked me to stand behind her.

And I nodded, and gave my eyes to the bodies that were arranged on the ground.

"Oh. You're not like me or Kato because you look at me."

All bodies stripped naked belong to adult men. Although all of them have greatly damaged their faces for the convenience of dealing with those who have become ghouls, it was hard to discern that they have a white face in our world.

"Of course, like us, there's no possibility of Western Europeans getting lost in this world."

If you start thinking about it, you can't deny any possibility. I needed to make a cut at some point.

"At least I've never seen a language like this"

I dropped my eyes on the letter that one of them had in his nostalgia.

Most of the paper had been crushed with black discolored blood, but as far as some of it remained, I was only certain that it was not an alphabet or its proximal language.

Probably a different world language.

In one way or another, the calligraphy resembles a Kanji herbal book. Unfortunately, where it was really a sketch book, I can't tell it from my lack of knowledge.

"Nevertheless, I know very little about the letters of the world where I was also. I can't be sure."

I cannot deny the possibility that this is the language of our world that I do not know.

The body doesn't talk about anything. There were limits to obtaining information.

Unexpectedly, I sighed.

I thought I'd finally meet people in this other world. This is it. It seems that I in this world have no connection to a person who makes it.

"Has Rose noticed anything?"

"Right."

After washing the relics, Rose handed me a selection of sizes that I could grasp in the palms of the ones I had just washed.

"The ring."

"Yes, everyone wore something similar"

He was wearing it under his armor. It was a thin metal ring that wouldn't stand in the way of holding hands.

There was a small yellow stone embedded in the decoration, each of which had a different white lettering for each ring. A little bit, maybe this is like proof of this unit.

"I've noticed another thing"

Rose showed the bodies of the men lying down with her hands.

"Their bodies didn't have much corruption going on. Within a few days of death, at best."

When I asked him what was wrong with it, I realized.

"Enough to be done. What Rose's trying to say is," I thought these guys were murdered within a few days walking from here, "right?

"Yes."

Unlike the usual human beings, even considering that they don't need a break from becoming undead monsters...... wouldn't it be a distance within ten days on a person's feet at best?

Even we can stretch our legs far enough.

"Or maybe there's their stronghold near it"

"Even if I didn't, I'm pretty sure there was someone there. There's a chance we'll get some leads. And then, how do we get there..."

"Sister Lily might also be able to follow their footsteps in reverse by using Fire Fang's sense of smell. Besides, they've come from the 'Northwest' direction, so they're not so far off course."

"The path doesn't change that much, so if you fail, you fail, and you head north to the original street, that's fine."

Anyway, it's a journey with only ambiguous directions.

It was worth a try.

"Let's talk to Lily. You noticed so well, Rose."

"No. It's not a big deal"

"There is no humility. Have you noticed anything else?"

"No. Nothing else in particular"

"Right.... Speaking of which, this is how we got their remnants, was there anything that seemed useful"

"There was a portable meal, but it was painful, so I was wondering if I should keep my hands off it."

"How's the weapon? None of the armor was broken and unlikely to work, but there would have been a guy with a sword on his hips"

"We've tested it, but I don't think it's as good as you would dare"

"Right. Then dispose of it... no"

I almost rethought along the way.

"Let's just take this ring"

"The ring, is it?

"Oh. If you ever see anyone who knows these guys, I'll give them to you."

It would be a letter of gratitude if the other side became more favorable.

I only had the ring in my hand, put it together and stuck it in my pants pocket.

"Well, let's just dig a grave and bury it. I can't even sleep close to a dead body rolling in a boulder."

"Yes."

"If I were to dispose of swords and armor as well, would I need to dig a hole of considerable depth?... Looks like you should get more manpower. It would be time to get ready over there, let's just go and call it in."

I walked out to Lily and the others.

It's also dangerous to be too far away from each other in this forest, so they've got enough beds for us to sleep in today in close proximity to hear if we shout.

Nevertheless, in case you think about it, it's not a good idea for me to be alone, even if it's a short distance. Naturally, Rose, the escort, follows me - it should have been.

"Yeah?"

Yet I can't hear footsteps.

I stopped my legs and looked back.

"What's up, Rose?

"Your husband..."

There was Rose, who was standing up but not moving where she was.

"Well, may I say something?"

…… Of course I don't mind that. "

Feeling the lost air in her waist, I frowned suspiciously.

In the first place, it's rare for Rose to try to give an opinion from herself, even though I didn't ask for it.

Or wouldn't this be the first time?

Besides, if they behaved like this, they would also have suspicion.

Either way, there's nothing I can do without listening to you first.

"What do you mean, you want to talk?"

When I urged him, Rose said, hesitating.

"I'd like to make one suggestion."

Suggestion? And I tilted my inner neck.

... Is this about the soldiers you've been looking into?

But if that's the case, that's all you have to say.

Besides, if that's the topic, there was no reason for Rose to say so.

But then what...?

Rose tended to lean down slightly, hesitating, at the tip of my eyes as I thought.

But that was just a few seconds, too.

Rose held her fist gently and held her face up. In the modus operandi dwelt a resolute one.

"There is nothing else called suggestion. I'm talking about Kato's earlier favor."

"... what?

"Would you let me serve as a teacher to her on the treatment of magic?"

Rose put her fingertips together on the mannequined, whitened, textured chest part, recreated by damage in the battle against the white Arakune.

"Wouldn't it be possible for me to serve as an opponent if only training to grasp the feeling of magic"

... Speaking of which, Lily mentioned 'contact someone dealing with magic and grasp the flow of magic' as the first step Kato should take.

If it's just this step, there's certainly no need for the teacher role to be able to use magic.

Even Rose would be able to serve as a teacher enough. Her proposal was not out of focus.

"When I make magic tools, I naturally deal with magic. In the midst of these tasks, I wonder if Kato should be trained to feel magical."

"You're not in the way of your work, are you?

"Of course it is."

It was just a confirmation around here.

I'm not even thinking that Rose is throwing out her job.

She is loyal enough to be too loyal to the job she has been given. I was also surprised at her behavior of raising her opinions with me for Kato.

"At first, I am thinking about having you stay with me and ask Sister Lily after what should happen. By then, your husband's training will have progressed, as will Sister Lily's hands."

... Not bad.

That was my honest opinion of Rose's proposal.

Her proposal had beautifully dispelled the disadvantages that had arisen with regard to Mr. Kato's case.

Even I had a desire to fulfill the small demands of Kato, my benefactor. It was an honest feeling in me, breathing elsewhere than suspicion of her.

……

But while I was thinking that far, I hesitated to put the dialogue of permission on my tongue.

- Is it really okay?

That thought came up and made me hesitate to make a decision.

Reasonably, it was supposed to be okay.

The only thing Kato learns is healing magic. Recovery magic can't hurt anyone. I didn't give you a weapon, and therefore I have no reason to disagree.

That happened because Kato himself confined the subject to restorative magic only.

It's as if you've read my mind...

In fact, given Kato's character, she must have spoken 'please' after anticipating my reaction well in advance.

She confined her magic type to restorative magic because she knew I was suspicious. That means nothing more than that you have a good grasp of the suspicions I have about her.

At the same time I was ashamed that the person knew about my ungrateful attitude... and one question was sprouting in me.

I can hardly believe in Kato, who is a human being. That was so untrue, it was supposed to be unpleasant for her personally.

Yet she risked her life once to help me. Now he even wants to learn the magic of recovery to help us.

... Why?

Why would she do that?

I had no idea what Kato was thinking.

- Because you're lonely in this other world?

- Because there's no one else you can count on?

I've guessed her insides before. In fact, I don't suppose there's even a side to that.

But that doesn't seem to explain her attitude.

Lily, for example, told me, "It doesn't matter if you're short of strength."

And I say unto their families, I will not forsake them, even if they are useless.

For us, each other's existence is special and irreplaceable. So I don't think it's painful to be able to annoy you, and if you don't count on me in hard times, I'd rather even be sad about that.

But Mr. Kato is not like the Lillies.

She is not my family, and I am not her master again.

That means I can't be special to her.

For her, I'm just a doomed guardian who just happened to meet me in that mountain hut.

It's supposed to be.

If so, is it true that Mr. Kato put his life up for me, who is only someone else, without asking for anything in return?

... That can't be right. If that's the case, she lacks more than the monsters, Lily and the others, something called humanity.

If what I'm thinking is right up here, there must be something in return.

I don't know what she's thinking, and I'm just saying it's invisible.

Yes. Whatever she was up to, I can't spot it...

...... oh. Damn.

So I said I shouldn't have this.

The question of 'what are you thinking' of my Kato had at some point been replaced by the suspicion of 'what are you up to'.

This one of mine is already like a disease.

Rather than that, it was a disease of the heart itself.

I am now aware that I am only in a state of suspicion.

I am able to grasp the pathological part of me thanks to Gabella.

I don't think this is an overthought, and I recognize that this is a terrible idea.

But even if I knew I was, I couldn't do anything about this.

That's why this is called a disease...

"Your husband."

It was then.

A slightly lower voice called about me, which was completely solidified, for a woman's.

That's Rose's voice I'm used to hearing.

As soon as I found out yes, my consciousness was raised from the abyss of thought.

I cursed my gaze, which had fallen to the ground at some point.

That's how I unwittingly opened my eyes.

Because Rose, with her head deeply lowered, caught her eye.

"Please, sir"

said Rose, who bowed his head.

"Please. I want her wishes fulfilled."

……

I was just stunned.

I never thought Rose would say this.

I can't tell how to react.

……

As a result, I returned my silence.

Rose drowned her head deeper and deeper about how she mistook it.

"I understand you're imitating things that went too far. You're the one who gets angry. I accept your scolding with all due respect. But please..."

"Hey, wait a minute. I'm not mad at you!

And I hastened, and denied Rose's haste.

There's nothing to be angry about.

There's no way I could have been angry with her about this.

... Yes. That can't be right.

Because this is what I hoped for before.

When I couldn't even talk to Rose, I wanted to hear from her what she wanted me to do and what she wanted me to do.

I never thought that was' I want to do Kato's 'please' 'thing... but that didn't change the fact that it was something I should be happy with.

"Instead of Rose having an opinion of her own, she began to speak of her aspirations. Whatever it is, it's a pleasure to me."

That was my truth.

However, on the other hand, I also wondered.

"If you don't mind, can I ask you something?"

I asked.

"Why did you think to bow your head for Kato? What makes you do that?

Something I don't know changed Rose.

It was an extremely natural impulse for me to want to know what that was.

"It's..."

Somewhere shy, Rose said.

I bet you didn't think her heart belonged to an inorganic doll like that, even if it was anyone but me here.

Her attitude of shame even seemed somewhere old.

But that could have made sense, too.

"That's because she's my friend, my lord"

Rose grabbed her fist in front of my chest and returned such an answer to my inquiry.

And the answer she returned subsided in my chest, a strange walnut.

"Friends?"

I remember Rose and Kato, who had been talking a lot lately.

I realized even more now that that was a conversation between good friends.

Doing so also convinced me about Rose's change.

For better or worse, people change from person to person.

I'm sure that doesn't change even if one of them is a doll that moves around willingly.

I guess it's just the tip of the iceberg of the changes happening to Rose that have led her to express opinions and aspirations in this way.

As far as Rose's appearance is concerned, Kato's presence seems to be working in a good direction for her.

I mean, at least for Rose, Kato's a good friend.

"Okay."

- The moment I thought about it, I was able to tease my mouth lightly, like everything I had ever done was a lie.

"Rose will show Kato how to manipulate his magic."

"Are you sure?

"Oh."

I nodded back when Rose asked me in such a way that I could not hide my surprise.

While doing so, he was gripping his sweaty palms tightly.

... There was an ugly, distorted grin on the back of my brain that I saw in a collapsing colony.

Again, I am unlikely to be able to overcome the malice of the ghosts of the past.

It was pathetic, but it was something I knew.

I can't be that strong.

That's why I can't believe I'm human, Kato, as I am now.

But...

"I can believe it when it comes to Rose. I'm sure it won't be bad."

Maybe that should have sounded like something else to Rose.

It should have been interpreted that way that Rose would be able to properly teach and guide Mr. Kato.

But that didn't matter.

That's because telling her wasn't the purpose of the dialogue.

It was a word in me to yield to that which I alone could not do.

I can believe it when it comes to Rose. Rose said Kato was a friend. He said he wanted to do something for his first friend.

If so, where would I hesitate to support Rose?

That's not all.

For me too, Kato is a dear friend of Rose's.

Isn't it perfectly natural to make such a convenience to her?

"I'll leave Mr. Kato to Rose. Is that all right?

This was the best theoretical weapon I could ever do to reward Kato.

……

If you noticed, you couldn't see the ghosts behind your brain.

I breathed loosely.

Rose bowed her head to me again.

"Thank you, sir"

"Never mind. It's this one who's thankful."

He didn't understand the meaning of the words I told him, and Rose, with her face up, seemed strange.

…… I'm sorry, sir. What the hell does that mean? "

"If you don't know, that's fine."

I laughed a little, and I turned my heel back. We have to get the Lillies in order to secure manpower to dig the grave.

Now it's time to come with Rose.

"... yes"

And a few steps further, I thought, I put my feet together. I look back only half my body.

"Does Rose have any hope for herself, even if this is fine with you about Kato?

I can't help thanking her for this one more than I don't know Rose.

Then let's at least act and respond to her unconscious work. That's how I thought about it.

"You've done really well so far. If I have something to ask for, I want to respond to it."

"I'm nothing..."

"I'll tell you what, you don't have to be shy. Think it's for me, and say it's for me. Anything?

Until I'm discouraged, I'm under the assumption. I asked.

Rose was still reluctant, but I guess she realized I wasn't going to hit her, thinking for a few seconds before she answered.

"... then, just one"

They take it personally when it comes to themselves. It looked unusual after hitting earlier.

"I don't care if it's just a few a day, would you mind giving me some time to create something other than weapons?"

"Give me free time, you mean?

... Think about it, I've had Rose work all day and night since we met.

If it's another family member, Lily has time to make sure she's intimate with me, albeit slightly, and Gabella enjoys the time she's dealing with her girlfriend.

Yet Rose is the only one who hasn't taken those breaths. I was a loose end to this.

Rose will also need free time. Fortunately, this is not a pressing situation in the early days. In addition, if I were to say so, given the move, it was just bulky and pointless to mass produce not much weapons right now, and there was plenty of time to spare.

What a Rose story around even trying to make something out of that free time.

"I don't mind. Whatever you want."

"Oh, thank you"

When I give my permission, the doll's girlfriend conveys signs of happiness from her voice, even though she has no expression.

While I was delighted with her reaction, I casually spoke to Rose with the intent of public speaking.

"By the way, are you deciding what to make"

"Oh, that's..."

"Yeah?"

I wondered.

I felt Rose stretched herself to my inquiry. But I don't see why she would be upset by the current inquiry.

"Is that, um... something cute?

"What, that's"

The explanations that followed also did not get guidelines for Rose.

Is this... shy?

If I did, Rose would be trying to make something embarrassing. The tip is' cute stuff '.

"Are you even going to make a cute doll?

"Yeah, yeah. Exactly."

I meant to joke, but what I returned was an affirmative response.

I was surprised by this.

Rose left me amazed tonight.

Nevertheless, I don't feel bad because they are all pleasant surprises.

I'm glad I found out about Rose's new side.

"You mean Rose is a girl, too"

"Yes. It fits more or less…"

Rarely, Rose is suspicious of behavior.

I don't think it's that embarrassing.

Sure, it may not be a rigorous and honest image of Rose, but I don't think she's ever bad for me either.

Nevertheless, if the person is shy, it seems pathetic to pull this topic too far.

With that in mind, I decided to start a conversation there.

I just added one last thing.

"Show me when you can."

I was interested in what Rose wanted to make.

"Yes. I get it. You'll see."

"Looking forward to it."

In Rose's reply I smiled back and began to move on again with the legs I had put together.

- It will be a little while before I remember this interaction.