Chapter 11 - Two Years Old Leader
Immediately after entering the forest, I can hear a little girl scream. When I finally manage to find her, I was dumbfounded, unable to believe what I saw with my eyes.
“……!”
“N-NOOO!!...... Big brother!! Deen!!...... Help me!! Hiroto……!!”
“---- UOOOO!!”
- You used the skill [Great Severing]!
“Grrr……GRAAA……!”
LOG
(Good! Another 8 hp to go…… And the rest is……!)
“---- Hiroto, duck! Haa!”
- Monica use [Sharp Shot]!
- Forest Orc is defeated!
(Not good……!)
“…… Hiroto……”
“…… Uwaaaaaaaa……!”
“Hick…… snort……”
It was unprecedented in Eternal Magia before but the orc in this world have a habit of raping human woman to bear its offspring. Even the 4 years old Stella had become its target to vent its lust…… This is already unrelated to having an offspring. It was just a beast acting true to its instinct.
The other kids started to regain their consciousness. To prevent Stella…… no, Stella-nee from embarrassing herself, I take off my shirt and let her wear it. The difference in body size of a 2 years old and 4 years old is quite big but fortunately, my clothes are enough to cover most of her body.
“Okay will do. Don’t push yourself too much okay? If you think that things get dangerous quickly escape!”
(If I think it get dangerous…… eh……?)
“GUGAAaa!!”
LOG
WHOOSH! The wind even gives a ripping sound because of the swinging bludgeon. But I just effortlessly evade it.
“GUGAAaa!”
“You guys aren’t even worth taming…… So I will hunt all of you down……!”
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“Hiro-chan……!”
“I’m glad…… I’m glad……”
“I’m sorry, even when I’m together with them…… that orc suddenly appear out of nowhere and I was……”
“W-what kind of manner is that! You must be looking down on us for being weak don’t you!”
“Hiroto, did you bring that think the goblin stole from Deen’s father?”
LOG
“…… W-why did you have this? …… the ones that came out were just that pig-like monster and……”
Fortunately, I found the goblin thief who attacked Deen’s father and managed to defeat it. When I look at the item that it drops, I finally realize his true motives.
“T-that’s the hat that dad received from my mom! Don’t you dare mock it!”
If I can say things better, would it come to this……? I can’t help thinking about that seeing Deen’s reaction but it seems like that Deen is always at the odds with me.
But Deen and I are not the only one present here.
“Uu…… b-but…… Stella……”
“Thank you Hiroto. In the near future, I will offer you my thanks again”
“H-how rude of you……”
LOG
“W-what is this……”
There are about 50 potions that I made myself from processing herbs filling my inventory. A few bottles are already enough to pay an adventurer service so I use it most of the time as an alternative payment for them.
Deen said it like that but he’d been hugging that leather hat and potion tightly and he immediately runs back home with those. Everyone present can just smile watching the scene.
“Hiro-chan, are you wounded? …… There is blood you know?”
Riona found the scratch wound on my forehead that was caused by a critical hit from a goblin and she tries to lick it. Doing it in front of people is embarrassing, and there’s also problem regarding hygiene too so I tried to stop her from doing it but……
The other little girl, no, the girl who is the same age as me who keep being unconscious until now suddenly clings onto my body without me realizing.
“Riona will lick him so Milty-chan is unneeded”
“Riona will do!”
The two little girls who won’t give in to each other tug me hard at each side. I’m embarrassed but I don’t say anything because Riona is a crybaby and might cry if I scold them.
With what Monica-san says, everyone finally start heading back to their respective home. But it seems like that Ash still have some things he wants to say.
But as expected 6 years old is still too young. I, who am the youngest being 2 years old, couldn’t avoid being this children group supervisor. Of course so to not make Ash lose face, I put my distance to them a bit and look at them from afar.
“Monica-san, I’m sorry. I thought that because it is just goblin that even I can manage to handle them……”
““Okay!””
Looking at her made me remember the word ‘ojousama’ or little princess. But Stella is actually a strong 4 years old girl at heart. I even sometimes think whether she is more mature than her older brother, Ash.
“Aa. Don’t get yourself tripped and fall okay?”
“Hiroto is everyone hero so it’s okay to be more honest with yourself you know?”
Even with my short reply, Monica-san seems to understand what I want to say. And that is actually very embarrassing.
“…… Hey, won’t you come a bit to my house?”
Because I took some damage, I have a slight hope for this coming. Because if I heal my wound without depending on my self-regen and using other ‘certain method’ then I can grind my strong body skill with that and receives exp.
But that ‘certain method’ is something that can be said out loud to other people.
“I know about it you know? When you go to the forest alone and got wounded, and then when you are secretly meeting with Sera-san after returning……”
“Tanya and Filone also feel lonely after knowing that Hiroto is too busy lately. It’s also been a while since the last time you do [that] so…… okay?”
In the early days I do quest together with her, she didn’t show such premonition. But since she knows that I am strong enough to become a vanguard and that I also have the [Hunter] skill, her attitude towards me gradually changes.
To get popular among the women without using my charm skill is something impossible for me to do.
Showing your true power and get recognized then eventually got liked is something that normally happen everywhere. And the one who told me that was Monica-san.
“If it is to makes your wound heals faster then it’s alright isn’t it? The main purpose is without a doubt to heal your wound anyway……”
“T-then…… just a little bit……”
There are no charm and or any other such skill that is activated. Yet Monica-san looks at me with a pair of very tender eyes.
This is not my first time entering Monica-san’s room…… I already lost count on how many times it was.
There were woodcraft ornament and weird looking bow decorate the room. Those decorations are just very like her.
---- And then after rolling up her shirt, she smiles while saying:
“…… O-okay”
(Just what do you mean by [okay] me!? …… I am already 2 years old! Is it alright to go further than this……?)
The one that is appearing now is steadily grow as the passing of times ---- I would always think of such thing unintentionally every time I saw it. Those hills that shown off the air of grandeur.
It was not by using potion, not by using healing magic, nor any other healing alternative.
“Huhu…… Hiroto, are you being nervous?”
“I also feel nervous….. but I also feel happy that Hiroto come to play in my room. Drink a lot today okay……?”
LOG
- You feel like your [Hunter] skill is getting stronger.
“Is drinking in that position good? Hiroto is really such a spoiled kid hehe”
Monica-san hugs my head and pushes it closer to her and let me drink her dew many times.
And by using such an intimate way to increase my own skill level, made me think that this is the utmost happy thing that I can have in this world from having reincarnated here with maxed negotiation skill.