Outaishihi ni Nante Naritakunai!!

The next afternoon, as I had declared, I took Reid and went to the beach.

I have a lot of escorts today. It's Fried's decision that the number of escorts is better because people will get together.

Guards on the Wilhelm side and on the Irvern side. I didn't want it to look too tangible, so I had it come in my personal clothes, but still, the atmosphere is different from that of the people I'm playing with because of the position of escort. Everyone gathered was surprised when they saw us with our escorts, but when they began to prepare for the octopus party, their interest in you was well off.

Let the escorts install the octopus grill that was just delivered last night.

There was a fisherman who had asked for an octopus, so when I spoke, he had a lot of octopus ready for me. Besides, what a downward processing.

"Uh... did you do that for me?

"The lady was doing it because she was watching. Once you look at it, you can almost tell. Besides, it's gonna take a lot of time to get down there, isn't it? If you don't have to, it's better."

"Thanks! That helps!

Of course, I paid him the full price. I was about to be dismissed if I didn't get this much, but I said it was a legitimate reward for my work, and I succeeded in getting it received, although it was a little forceful.

Reid told me he wanted to do it, so I'm gonna have her cut off the bamboo. A small scream arose as to whether any of the gathered people knew Reid's face.

"Hih, princess!

"What..."

The upset spread quickly, but Reid didn't move. Instead I smiled calmly and told them.

"I'm sorry. It would help if you didn't make too much noise. Today I am merely a friend's help. I'm in a position to say I can't and let you join me, so it would be helpful if you could all cooperate."

"Your friend the princess......?

Now everyone's eyes turned to me. Reid tilts his neck.

"What is it, Liddy? You weren't even named after everyone?

"Huh. 'Cause it wasn't the right time."

It felt weird to go out of my way to name it, and I thought if I didn't know anything else, I could stay put.

But Reid was skeptical.

"You better keep your name right. It's a big problem since something happened. Everyone will know that the Crown Prince and his wife of Wilhelm are now staying at the Royal Palace. She is the princess of the king, Lady Lydiana. Next to her is His Royal Highness King Prince Friedrich"

"Vi, Mr. and Mrs. King Prince of Wilhelm?

Everyone saw me and Fried with a gnawed face in Reid's introduction.

I tell them to relax, wondering if this might be counterproductive.

"Because it's okay that you don't care about anything. This is more important than that. Look, we're almost ready to cook."

Make a liquid for octopus baking and pour it into the mold. I added the bamboo and other ingredients that Reid cut for me and flipped them over to see how it was going.

They were people who were surprised by who we were, but they were more interested in unfamiliar octopus baking, which eventually quieted them down. Everyone is staring at me.

Using the iron skewers that I had made with the takoyaki mould, I flip the takoyaki one by one. It's an easy task if you get used to it, but at first, everyone, fails.

He successfully flipped all the takoyaki and completed the first round of takoyaki while shaping it.

Yeah. I think I did pretty well.

I put about four of them in a small plate I had prepared and hung them with handmade sauce.

I like to eat soy sauce and pong vinegar, but at first I thought I should come in from an iron plate sauce. Hang the bonito and stab the claw twig.

"Yes, I can. First, then, the fisherman who caught me a mollusk."

"Oh, is that me?

Because you know who I am, or it's a strange tribute. I didn't point that out and smiled and gave him the octopus. I'm afraid I got that.

"Round... I've never seen anything like it"

"It's delicious. While it's hot."

"Well... you can have it."

The fisherman put the octopus in his mouth, also pushed by the expected gaze of his surroundings.

"Hot... haha..."

Chew the mougu and the fisherman rounds his eyes.

"Delicious."

"Good! Big success! All right, everyone else, please. Line up who you want in order. I brought a lot of ingredients, so I think it's probably enough, but at first, everybody, four things at a time."

I saw the fisherman shining his eyes and cheeking the takoyaki, and everyone started lining up like they were in a hurry.

I also ate the sashimi of the octopus, and where I was originally interested, it was the reaction of the current fisherman. At least it's not weird. Then it was only natural that I wanted to try it.

"Yes, yes, because it's in order. When it's all gone, I'll make it again, just wait long enough ~"

I tell everyone as I serve the takoyaki on a small plate. Reid, who was cutting the bamboo next door, finished the work and helped me with this job.

For both of us, cook and distribute the octopus repeatedly.

There seemed to be a good number of people gathered, and it never ended. When I really thought it was time for the ingredients to run out, I was finally able to give the last person the takoyaki.

"Yes. That's it. Eat well."

"Thank you! Princess Wang!

A little kid is happy to thank you. And I smiled and answered, and the child ran with a takoyaki toward the waiting mother. Mother bows her head toward us.

"Wow... you're just tired"

Speak up to Reid for his hard work next door.

After all, Fried didn't ask me to help. He wanted to help himself, but he didn't have to know the newcomer king princess, who didn't even know her freshly married face, and he was just too level for them, such as asking the king prince of Wilhelm, who sounded too famous, to give him a takoyaki.

... No, well, I guess that's normal to think about.

"Yummy!"

"Delicious."

I feel like it was worth the effort to make my eyes shine and eat the takoyaki. Reid, who was looking at the same thing, exhaled in a howl.

"... thanks to you I could see something very good"

"Hmm?"

"It's what the people are laughing at. Honestly, I don't even think I could have helped, but I'm glad to think this is the result of my hard work."

"Because it helped me so much. It's okay!"

Thanks to Reid for everything. Thanks to her I was able to concentrate on making octopus roasts. I was able to count this many because of all the support that Reid gave me for handing out the octopus roasts I was able to do and adding the octopus roasting liquid.

"Ah... Um"

"Hmm?"

The number of octopus roasts still remains a little. There aren't a lot of them, but I heard a child's voice wondering if I could distribute them to Reid, who worked hard for me, and to those who guarded me.

"What's going on?

"Oh, um... me too... that, I want to eat..."

The child, whispering but trying so hard to tell, was wearing worn out clothes. She has beautiful green eyes and doesn't seem to have any parents around.

Of course, when I smiled and tried to move the takoyaki to a small plate because I had no choice not to give it to the child that I wanted, my voice was raised by those around me.

"Go away, beast man. You, for sure, are the half with the Beast Man."

"That's right. It's not like you can eat it."

"Don't let the kid who pulled the beast man's blood come this way in dirty form!

"... what do you mean?

I feel my own expression solidify.

Surprised at the sudden transformation of everyone who had ever smiled, I unexpectedly see Reid next door.

She was leaning down to repentance and biting her lips.

"… discrimination against beasts persists deeply in our country. Of course, as a country, I don't discriminate against beasts. But it's not easy to change people's consciousness. Everyone is neglecting beastmen with different traits from themselves... and thus... despite me and Liddy, something like grand and abusive is happening"

"Oh, my God..."

"Of course, not everyone. However, many recognize the Beast Man as being below themselves. It's... it's creating a world where even children like him are abused."

I stopped talking too painfully.

It was decades ago that Irvern abolished discrimination against beasts. Like Tarim, I still don't treat beasts as slaves. Yet the feeling remains in the people?

- I don't believe it.

Even Wilhelm does have the kind of people who look down at the Beast Man. That's why I cared about Lena, too, and if you finally say so, both Mr. Titty and Levitt keep it a secret that you're an animal man.

The current situation in which they have to falsify themselves, even in Wilhelm.

I came to Irvern with that and I think I figured it out.

Because even Irvern, the big country that is said to be alongside Wilhelm, is in this situation.

Just because I don't know, Wilhelm is likely something similar. We were the only ones who didn't know the truth about what we thought equality was, and the truth is that they were still being abused the same way they used to be, and we didn't think about anything until now, and we were so ashamed of ourselves for dealing with Mr. Titi, and we knew exactly why Ilya didn't try so hard to get outside, and why she was afraid to expose herself.

The world is still not nice to them. Even if you go to a country where discrimination has been abolished.

It's going to beat me to bitter reality.

……

"Liddy?"

I bit my lips off all the time and hurried to put the octopus roast in a small plate. That's how I sauce and bonito and take it from hand to boy. He was a little kid, so he got on his knees on the spot.

"Yes, go ahead. It's hot, so eat it so it doesn't burn."

"Huh!"

A boy who was given a takoyaki by me looks at me like he saw something incredible. I made the boy smile like I was okay.

"You can eat it. Because this is for you."

"Dear Lydiana! Princess Wang! To such a beastly manly style!

Someone calls me in a screaming voice. But I silenced the voice.

It's a takoyaki I bought and made with my own money. Whoever you hand it out to, it's not my freedom.

I won't let anyone deny it.

"Why not! He's an animal man!

One of the women who was nearby screams as well. I agreed with that around me. In an instant, it kills me. But in that murderous spirit, I stood up and made my point clearly towards everyone.

"So what? Who decided not to let the Orc eat the Takoyaki? This child is alive, just like you. Discrimination was abolished a long time ago. How long are you guys going to do that and not recognize any race other than yourselves? I thought Irvern was a great country without discrimination. In fact, that's what I've been thinking. But that was a mistake, is that what you mean?

"It's..."

One by one, those who were admired by me turn away.

It's a country without discrimination. Even if that's what you want to say, it's probably because we realize what we're saying now is ruining everything.

"If so, that would be a great shame. I don't want to think of Irvern as a country that discriminates against even little children."

Those who heard my words, breathtaking. Not all of them. But surely some had their eyes open and looked as if they had been poked at for the first time for what they had done.

Open your mouth for them to say something like that. Fried, who was coming to my side at some point, said it first.

"... today, will you shut up and disband me already? Neither do we want to cause problems, nor do we want to annoy Hendrick. If you'd decided it wasn't about today, we wouldn't say anything. But... just for a moment, I'm glad you're thinking about what my Queen meant."

"... His Highness Friedrich"

"I, too, would like to think about what my Lady said. I'm sure Wilhelm will be just like this country."

……

Hear what Fried has to say and everyone shuts up.

I'm sure everyone would have rebelled, to say Wilhelm was different. Not really, the fact that they said they had the same problem made them unable to say anything.

"... also from me. Today, will you step back?"

"... Princess"

A little late, Reid told everyone. Listening to the words of the princess of my own country, everyone, breaks up with the potatoes.

I guess the royal words of my country still reach their ears better. That's natural.

After they all left, only a boy remained on the spot scorned for being an animal man. He is shuddering as he holds his octopus grill.

"... sorry. Because I said I wanted it. I should have just looked at it as usual and put up with it..."

"It's okay. Because you're nothing wrong."

Kneel in front of the child again. I stroked the head slowly.

"You have done nothing wrong. You can live the way you want."

"But... everyone says no. I'm the half of the Beast Man, and until I found out about it, I could get everyone in my crew, but it's been like this ever since I found out. I think it's going to continue forever."

"I won't do it that way"

It wasn't me who responded to his voice, it was Reid. Reid stared at the child with a crying face and told him.

"I won't let this country stay this way. I'm sure... because I promise I won't be sad like that by the time you grow up"

"Really? Princess"

"Oh, it's true."

Reid nodded clearly at the boy staring at him. The child laughed as relieved. "If the princess promises, you'll be fine," she said, leaving.

Just drop that back off.

"... Shall we go home"

Next to me, he doesn't say anything. He just calls out to Reid, who keeps staring at the boy's back. Confirming that she nodded, I ordered the escorts to clean up the spot.

That's how we all go home.

"Liddy."

When we got to the royal palace and it was time to break up, Reid, who remained silent until then, called out.

"What?"

"... would that be a little better? We need to talk alone."