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Beast Tamer Who Got Kicked Out From the Hero’s Party Chapter 213

CHAPTER 213: A DATE WITH EVERYONE ELSE

On a certain holiday.

A holiday doesn’t necessarily mean that we have a specific day off, like people who run a store or business.

After a few days of continued adventuring……

When everyone starts to show signs of fatigue and getting mentally exhausted, we would always take a day or two off.

Up until now we have been doing that a number of times.

And today.

Just another holiday like that has rolled about……

「Rein, come on, quickly! We have a limited amount of time to do this!」

「Come on! LET’S GO!!! I say!!!」

「Being able…… to go out with…… everyone else…… Ehehe, I’m glad…… ♪」

「Why, yes~♪ Today is going to be a really good day.

Sola and Luna.

As well as Nina and Tina.

Including myself, the five of us were out on the town.

Kanade and Tania were not with us, since apparently they had something urgent to take care of.

I don’t know what that could be, but when I tried to ask them about it, they only replied with “Because it’s their turn now”.

Really now, what could they have been talking about?

We all agreed that we wanted to take a leisurely stroll around the city, so we decided to walk around at random, with no particular destination in our minds.

It’s been a good amount of time since we set up our base here in Horizon……

Looking back at it, we haven’t had a chance to take a good look around the city itself in greater detail.

So we were discovering many different things on this stroll of ours right now.

For example, we found a place where we could get a good meal in a fairly secluded area.

For example, we found a store that sold useful accessories at a fairly reasonable price.

For example, we found a viewing platform with a gorgeous view spreading from it.

We saw a whole lot of things that we wouldn’t normally be able to see.

From now on, maybe we should take more of these kinds of strolls, instead of focusing solely on adventuring all the time.

「Ooohhhh, it smells so good!」

「It’s hot dogs’s time, Rein!」

Sora and Luna both looked at me expectantly.

But they weren’t the only ones looking at me with expectations. I could see the same kind of look reflected in Nina and Tina’s eyes as well.

Nina’s tail was even wagging like crazy in anticipation.

Everyone else would have been wagging the same way if they had tails on their bodies as well, I imagine.

I chuckled slightly and took out a silver coin from my wallet.

「How about we treat this as dinner, so everyone gets one to eat?」

「Yay, that’s great!」

Luna then took the money from my hand and on behalf of the entire group dashed towards the hot dogs stall.

Of course, everyone followed suit.

「What else can I say here…… It’s so relaxing.」

Walking around the city with everyone else and taking it easy, without having to worry about a thing……

We eat the same foods and spend time in a nice and laid-back fashion.

I want this kind of time to last forever, if possible.

That’s what I thought at the time.

***

We had some hot dogs and……

While we were at it, we decided to eat some sweet donuts as dessert as well.

And once the sun was slowly starting to set, we decided that it was the high time to go back home.

While we were on our way back.

「Oh?」

Luna looked up at the sky.

When she looked up, she saw some gray, thick clouds blot out the sky.

Soon after that, the rain started to fall……

「Whoa, whoa! It’s raining!　We have to hurry up and get back home!」

「But we still have a long way back there, right!?」

「Nnnhh…… Everything will be…… fine……」

Nina opened her pocket dimension and put her hand inside of the portal.

She made a gesture as if she was searching in there for something, and before long she pulled out her hands, holding an umbrella in one of them.

「Ohhh!!! Nice one, Nina!」

「Were you aware that there might be rain today, Nina?」

「Well…… Sort of. My tail has been creeping and shivering ever since the morning, so…… that’s why……」

So, was it kind of a wild intuition or something like that?

「Here…… Rein.」

It seems that there was only one umbrella here, so I, as the tallest one of the group, was appointed to carry it.

First, I gave Nina a piggyback ride.

Then Tina landed on top of Nina’s head.

Sola and Luna hugged me from both sides.

They were all rather compact, so they were able to fit into the range of the umbrella just fine.

The rain wasn’t too strong, so they wouldn’t get all that wet even when we would move forward.

「Although…… It’s certainly a little bit cramped in here.」

Is this how sardines feel when they are cramped inside of the can?

「Sister Dearest? Would you kindly squeeze a little bit further over there? You’ll get me all wet at this rate.」

「That’s actually my line here! You need to score for some, Luna! Rein is going to have a hard time walking if you hug him so much like that!」

「Fumu, fumu! That’s a deliberate decision on my end, I’ll tell you what. I’ve heard that all the men in the world like that sort of thing.」

「Luna…… Certainly, that kind of thing WOULD make men happy, but you would need to have…… Well, let’s just say that if any single one of us tried to do it, there would be hardly any point to it……」

「Huh, is that so? Rein, what do you say? When I hug you like that, do you really not feel a thing?」

「Umm….. No comment on that one.」

I think the two of them are still growing up, so I don’t think there’s much to worry about here……

Nevertheless, it was a delicate matter, so I decided to keep my mouth shut for the time being.

「Hmmnnn…… Rein?」

「Yeah?　What’s going on?」

I could feel that Nina was squirming on my back for some reason.

「I’m not…… heavy…… aren’t I?」

「No, not at all. Rather, you are really light, Nina.」

「I-Is that so? …… I’m glad to hear that.」

Could it be that Nina was concerned about her weight?

Nina wasn’t fat at all, and I don’t think she was old enough to care about those things in the first place……

But I guess that worrying about those things is what girls are all about, huh?

「Hey, hey, Master Rein? With everyone hugging you so closely like that, it’s kind of like a harem situation, wouldn’t you agree? Does that make you happy?」

「No comment on that, either.」

「Hee hee, you’re happy about that, aren’t you?　You’re embarrassed, aren’t you?　Sora, Luna and Nina are all so tiny. Oh no! But wouldn’t that be considered a crime in some circles!?」

「Please don’t tease me like that.」

「Oh, but that’s just my own way of offering some skinship.」

「Could I ask you to do that in a way that won’t cause my sanity to decrease, please?」

Tina seemed to be enjoying this situation a whole lot.

It was easy to imagine her grinning face right about now.

「I’m going to give you a nice and warm hug as well. Come on, surely that makes you feel happy?」

「Mmmnnn…… Me too…… Should I…… hug you…… more tightly?」

「Sora won’t lose! *Squeeeze*!!!」

「Oho! It’s the very first Annual Rein Cuddling Championship!」

There’s a mysterious tournament going on right now that I don’t actually understand, and……

I had to be hugged by everyone on the way home.

It was all kinds of inconvenient for me, but I guess that as long as everyone were having fun here, it was all good.

I’d love to go for a walk like that again someday.

Overall, it was a rather relaxing holiday.