Chapter 177 – First of all, let’s give everyone a souvenir

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“TRANSLATOR: Anargya”

“EDITOR: GhostApe”


「Eetoo… I’m sorry to call all of you so suddenly. Aaaaaaaaaaaaa, I bought some souvenirs for everyone.」

The last few days after I promised to meet, I wasn’t just resting.

I was scrutinizing Enka’s country for souvenirs.

Given that Rēko’s power has increased 343.2 million times, it is easy to imagine that I would need a proper bribe for Ariante.

In fact, 「Remember this」he was sentenced to that.

Therefore, I rushed around for several days to get something that would put her in a good mood.

「Ehh! A souvenir! Please show me what it is!」

However, it was the Saintess who jumped in first, and Ariante, who I want to be in the best mood, was glaring at Rēko with a frown.

「Un. This one is for Saintess-sama.」

I unload my bag and give her a souvenir for the Saintess.

It was a book.

「What’s this?」

「It’s an ingredients guide for chefs.」

「Chefs? I am a Kami-sama and not a chef you know. Well, I tried to cook something for Lizard-san back when I was an inn daughter, that was just to hide myself.」

「No, it isn’t for that. Can you open the page that is bookmarked?」

「What is it, what is it… “When talking about procuring food, referencing the city Seiren is essential. With a stable supply of extremely high quality agricultural products, there is no chef that has never used the ingredients from this city. The supply may be disrupted by the rare local “festival”, but the crops that are harvested after the festival are traded with high prices as branded products and they have the best taste.”」

The Saintess eventually forgot to read with her voice out loud, as she began to dig her face into the book.

I selected this book with the help from the Cardinal. When I asked “Is there something that compliments the city of Seiren?” He said “There are probably some in food-related books.” demonstrating his knowledge. 

When she finished reading, the Saintess puffed her chest with a happy face.

「Fufun! As I thought, I am worshipped all over the world! This is a pretty good souvenir, Lizard-san! Here, some cabbage in return. It’s freshly picked.」

「Ahh, it’s really fresh and delicious.」

The saintess pulled out a cabbage from her sleeves, so I didn’t hesitate to immediately take a bite. As I expected, it is by far the most delicious vegetable compared to other cities. 

「I bought a lot of Seiren-related books, so read them when you have the time.」

「Yay! Thank you!」

After handing over a dozen books to the Saintess, I finally looked at my favorite.

My favorite is of course—Ariante. My main purpose is to calm her anger in the first place.

Doradora for some reason has his whole body trembling around, so I decided to postpone his turn for later. Then I entered the face off of Ariante and Rēko, who were staring at each other.

「Rēko, stop glaring at each other like that. Sorry, Ariante-san. Can you accept this souvenir that I prepared for you?」

Keeping Rēko a little away in the name of lookout, so that she won’t hear my pitiful conversation.

Then I raised the souvenir with my front leg and offered it to Ariante in hope that it would satisfy her.

「…What is this?」

「My sincerity.」

I don’t think that tricks would work on Ariante. 

Therefore, the secret measure that I took is to break through the front.

—It’s a thick bundle of cash.

This is based on Enka’s advice.

When I asked how to show my sincerity to a warrior, she precisely suggested that ” If you want to be sincere, money.” 

「Somehow… Please somehow forgive me for this… If it’s not enough, I’ll do my best to collect more… Please, at least for today… 」

「Don’t make people into some kind of debt collectors. I don’t need the money, whether I forgive you or not is after I heard the details.」

「Uhh… you’re probably going to get angry if I talked about the details, so If possible I would like it if you receive this right now…」

After all, the reason Rēko’s power became ridiculous, is because I was in a good mood and allowed her wish to power up. It was completely unexpected that my intention of 100 times became 343.2 million times though.

「Why would I move for money? In the first place Rēvendia, how did you make so much money? You weren’t that rich. You didn’t make any strange profit with your kin girl’s power, right?」

I’m getting scared.

「If that girl were to put her magic power into a sword, it would be a national class-treasure, but that would be an uncontrollable magic sword in the future. So I ask again, how did you get all this money?」

「Well, I actually thought about that kind of method at first, but the Cardinal told me the same thing as you did and stopped me. So I didn’t rely on Rēko’s power on this.」

「I don’t mind then if that was the case.」

「Don’t worry. This money is a healthy one.」

Ariante turned a suspicious gaze toward me. And then, she glanced at my luggage beside me.

「Healthy, you say? Selling off valuable belongings for example?」

「Well, something like that…yeah.」

「The rejuvenation medicine I gave you before. Looks like that barrel were gone?」

Ariante grabbed my tail as soon as I tried to run away.

「What did you do to it? Did you sell it?」

「It’s not like that. It seems that Rēko could easily duplicate that medicine, so I thought it would be okay to sell an already existing medicine. 」

Previously, Rēko used my scales to concoct a rejuvenating elixir. I stopped myself from selling the duplicated medicine as it was, and thought that it would be safer to sell the genuine medicine that Ariante gave me instead.

There is one thing that I miscalculated.

「So, does the medicine that the girl duplicated works on you? Does it got invalidated?」

「Ehehe, you have a really good insight as expected.」

I jokingly complimented her, and I got both of my cheeks pinched.

「I was careless. Rēko could cure my back pain, so I never thought that it will be invalidated.」

「It’s probably because she has an image of becoming smaller = weakening. If that girl’s magical power won’t have an adverse effect on you, it would be natural that the medicine will be invalidated.」

「Well, it should be okay since I managed it somehow. Look at this.」

Me who confessed everything, took out a wooden board from the luggage.

There are threads threaded on both ends so that it could be hung on my neck.

「What is that? A collar?」

「It’s a piece of wood from the empty medicine barrel. It seems that the medicine has seeped in, and when I bite into it, it has the usual effect, so I think that this will manage it for a while.」

Actually, I have always liked the scent of the medicine’s wood barrel.

When selling the medicine off, I took the barrel so that I could bite into it later. And this is the shape that worked.

「…If that works, then I won’t mind it, but you should have let me know the situation sooner. So what made that girl so strong?」

「Wa-Wait a minute. I’ll have to give out souvenir to everyone first—especially Sousou-san, who will definitely get angry if her part were put off.」

If I forgot to buy some souvenirs, the future where there are blood festivals happening is almost certain, so I was very careful when choosing souvenirs for Sousou-san.

After consulting with Rēko, she recommended to order a ”Rēvendia” plushie at the tailor in the city. Will she really like this?

「Sousou. I see, well I have to check on her state too.」

As soon as I said Sousou’s name, Ariante suddenly wanted to check on her state.

「What happened that you want to check on her?」

「Demons have been weakening for the last few days for some reason. That is the reason Doradora is dying right now.」

「Eh? That’s worrisome. I’ll give him my sympathy.」

And then,

My claws turned black on his own, and the mouth of the Hunt God emerged.

『Be, careful.』

「What’s wrong, Hunt God-sama? To suddenly tell me to be careful.」

『That’s right. Can’t stop it.』

A figure popped out from the Hunt God’s cave way before I could ask what he meant by that.

I don’t recognize the appearance of the figure that has a fluttering pink hair. However, I reluctantly could never forget that mysterious presence. 

「Rē! Ven! Diaaaaaa! I missed you—Ubeh!」

Hugging me with tremendous speed…or so what Sousou planned while rushing at me, but was stopped by Rēko who immediately leaned over and stopped it’s movement.

No matter how I look at it, you were just fine like normal.


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