Volume 2 - CH 34

Act 2-34: Please Don’t Change

「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 Lady-sama, 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.

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Character Design: The best one in my Opinion… Astaroth