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Pomple, astride a large bird monster for transportation, a Houshiro, approaches the wagon.
“A-Anyway! Please stop the wagon! Please get off and let me explain, Seti-sama!”
“No! Why should we be stopped at your request? Some of us are hungry. If you want to talk so badly, you’ll have to stay with us until the next village. If you don’t like it, I’ll kill you right now.”
Upon hearing my kill declaration, the timid Pomplu purred, “Hiii!”
“I-I understand. I’ll do what you say …… so don’t try to kill me! I just peed a little!”
Houshiro shakes his long head in disapproval at Pomple’s announcement of wetting himself, but it’s amazing that he doesn’t get shaken off by it, perhaps because he’s an assassin, and he’s nimble enough to be a dwarf fairy.
I ignored him and went back to the driver’s stand to receive the reins from Pairon.
I went straight to the next village.
It was dusk, and I bought some food at the village market.
Then I served a meal to hungry Pairon.
The lunch wagon would be open tomorrow, and we set up our tents in the open space where we had been given permission.
“Seti san, is dinner ready?”
“Yeah. Thank you, Fiala. I’m on my way.”
I looked at Pomple, who was cowering as I replied.
He was still timid and scared, shaking when he saw me.
He seems to be hungry and is secretly growling.
“Come on, …… Pomple, you’re welcome to join us. I’ll at least buy you dinner.”
At my suggestion, Pomple’s eyes widened and he replied, “Hee?” Pomple’s eyes widened at my suggestion.
“M-Me too? Are you sure, Seti-sama ……?”
“Yes, and then I’ll listen to what you have to say. Then I’ll decide if I’m going to kill you or not.”
“No, that might be my last supper. …… but I’ll do what you say.”
Pomple was scared and followed behind me.
Then we all sat around a large round table and ate.
Karina and the other four were alerted by Pomple’s presence, but they said nothing and kept quiet.
The idea was to leave the decision of what to do with him up to me.
Hina seems to find the dwarf fairy tribe unusual and looks with interest at him, who looks no different from herself.
Pairon, recognizing Pomple as an assassin of Hades, is showing her appetite, saying, “I won’t give you my share!”. She ate so much earlier. ……
Only Shabazo is not letting his guard down and is still hiding behind me, moaning and groaning.
I thought he must be sensing something in Pomple.
He is indeed a stinky little elf.
He’s a low-level assassin, but I can’t help but feel that he possesses something that the others don’t.
(Anyway, let’s just listen to what he has to say.)
I thought so.
After dinner, while the girls were cleaning up, I faced Pomple over the round table.
“Then, Pomple. Do you want to explain?”
“Y-Yes. …… I’m actually out of the organization.”
“Out? Why?”
“The reason is simple….. I abandoned Alta Aniki …… and ran away. That was considered a ‘betrayal’ by the organization, and like Seti, I became a ‘hunted man’.”
I see. It is true that Alta shared a body with Mors.
The boss was effectively abandoned.
“So that’s why you made contact with me? So you came to ask me to accompany you in the hope that we would be sheltered by the same ‘hunted’?”
“You are right! The traveling merchants told me where Seti-sama is!”
Well, the lunch wagon is very conspicuous. The direction of the lunch wagon will be obvious.
Do we need to consider measures for this in the future?
“I understand the story. There is nothing suspicious about the content itself ……, but I cannot trust it carelessly.”
“W-Why is that?”
“Shabazo, the juvenile dragon hiding behind me, is on the lookout for you. Pretending to let your guard down, you might have hostile intentions toward me,……, or you might be hiding something dangerous that you can’t tell anyone about?”
“No, no, I don’t have any …….~”
Hmm? This guy just turned his eyes away.
“Pomple,……, if you want to work with me, you have to show sincerity.”
“Sincerity? Yes, I pledge allegiance to Master Seti sama.”
“I don’t need words. Show me in form. …… First of all, take off your clothes.”
“…… C-Clothes? Here?”
Pomple said and looked at the girls.
I see, he looks like an innocent boy, but his actual age is probably 30 years old.
I’m sure there is some resistance to being naked in front of girls of that age,…….
I’m also a reaper for bad guys, but I’m not a demon.
“All right, let’s go to the back of the truck. We’re men, so that shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
“Y-yes …… it is.”
Pomple is honest but hesitant.
I ignored him and took him to an out-of-the-way place.
Just to be safe, I took Shabazo with me on a leash.
“I-I’m going to take off ……. I’m embarrassed.”
“Don’t worry, I don’t have the slightest intention of doing anything. Even though I’m surrounded by so many beautiful girls, I can’t hold anything more than a hand, and I feel pessimistic about how far I’ve come.”
I’m pessimistic that I’m too shy to hold hands with all those beautiful girls.
I think this will be the biggest theme in my quest for a slower life in the future.
While I was self-deprecating, Pomple slowly began to remove his jacket.
His upper body was exposed, but it was covered with hair from his chest to his arms.
He was very hairy for a boyish man, but most of the men of the dwarf fairy tribe are like that.
“At a glance, there doesn’t seem to be anything unnatural about it. …… Shabazou, what do you think?”
I ask, but Shabazou only snarls and doesn’t know what he wants to complain about.
He still doesn’t seem to have let down his guard.
I make him take off his pointy hat, but there is nothing suspicious about it, just a few short strands of hair.
“Well then, I guess the last thing I need is pants.”
“P-Pants?! Do I have to take them off?!”
“Of course. Or is there something you don’t want us to see?”
“N-No,…I’m taking it off”
Pomple reluctantly begins to remove his pants.
“—Wha!? A-A diaper?!”
The sight of him wearing a diaper astonished me.
He was wearing an adult diaper made of cloth, just like the ones babies wear.
Seriously, what kind of guy is this ……?
Why is he so smug and proud?
“Pomple, you’re …… 30 years old! Why are you wearing those?!”
“I don’t want anything rough in front of Seti-sama. In fact, in front of Seti sama, I’m in a pretty bad state inside. Should I undress and show you this too?”
“…… No, thank you. You should put your clothes on now,…… or if you are leaking, you might want to change that diaper, don’t you?”
I asked. Pomple said, “I guess so. ……” and changed his diaper.
It would be better not to ask what to do with the items that have already been replaced.
Then Pomple puts on his clothes and goes back to his normal state.
As usual, he stared at me with a frightened, clinging, kittenish look in his eyes.
“N-Now you trust me, don’t you?”
“I don’t trust you. But I can confirm that there is nothing suspicious…..Okay, I’ll allow you to accompany me.”
“Are you sure?! Thank you, Seti sama!”
“Oh, and in return, you’ll help me with the lunch wagon. You’ll be doing chores while I’m with you.”
“Yes! I (Oira)…… have no objection!” (More humble form of boku or ore)
“??”
“Yes! I’m going to change to Oira from now on, because ‘I’ would be too much to Seti-sama!”
“…… do as you please. Then, I’ll introduce you to everyone. Follow me. Shabazzo is coming too.”
“Gawwah, gawwah!”
Thus, I allowed Pomple to accompany me and we decided to continue our journey together.
As I said before, I did not trust him.
From the looks of Shabazou, it was clear that something unseen was being done.
At first I was wary of magical explosives, but I didn’t see any kind of witchcraft.
Oh well.
Maybe we can use this guy as a decoy to catch someone in the organization.
If Mors is absolutely impossible, the executive class ……, especially the “Four Pillars of Hell,” would be convenient to settle the matter.
That alone would make it worthwhile to have Pomple accompany us.
I was thinking about it.
(……Phew. As ordered by the boss, I succeeded in making myself look good to “Seti, the god of death”. However, it was a close call when he told me to take off my clothes. I quickly moved the “heart” that Miss Pasha had given me to my back and managed to avoid being noticed. ……I wonder if this is also my “bad luck” skill although I’m not aware of it myself).
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