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Craving
(None of these contents are making any sense so please bare for incorrect informations from above to bottom.)
“Motoyasu, I want to eat dragon meat!” On one fine day, Naofumi demanded.
“Dragon?!” the Spear Hero was shocked to hear the request from the Shield Hero.
“Yes, go and get one for me now!” said Naofumi again.
“Huh? Are you sure that you want a dragon, not a beef? We can buy it fresh at the nearby market at the town,” Motoyasu was sweating. Is this the rumored craving?
“I said dragon, not beef! Go now! This is your fault after all so now take responsibilities you flirt guy! Good thing it was me and not other girl, who knows how many children you will get if you aren't stuck with me! Now scram!” Naofumi screamed in annoyed as Motoyasu tried to offer different food than what he really wanted. How dare he!
“Yes dear! I'll get one now!” Motoyasu was scared that Naofumi will get even angrier and crankier and thus dashed out in full speed.
“Remember! I want the black dragon! Black!”
“YES DEAR!”
So, how did this happened?
These predicaments happened about 4 months ago. It was when Queen Mirellia ordered Naofumi for a kill quest which was supposed to be handled by local adventurer guild. However, it seemed like none of the adventurers who took the quest, and mind of you, these adventurers were S Class; had returned after the designated time limit. It raised the worrisome among the common folks, especially the family and friends of the participated adventurers for their safety and finally the guild requested the royal family to investigate it.
And to their luck, only Naofumi and Motoyasu were free at that time. Queen Mirellia believed that Naofumi who had more brain than the rest can easily solve this quest. However, both Raphtalia and Firo were absent as they volunteered to become Melty's bodyguard in a diplomatic trip. Given that Motoyasu was the strongest in term of strength and solo battle, he was the best candidate as Naofumi's bodyguard. Though both of them refused, it's not like they have any choice since Naofumi was too weak for solo battle and Motoyasu was too stupid to solve any mystery. And thus, the unwillingly agreed to work together and form a temporary party. Mind you, it's only temporary! In fact, forming a party among Cardinal Heroes will only hinder their growth! But they need some systems to function in order to work together.
And thus, they went to a deep forest located at the nearest island. Tell you, that was not an easy journey. Their ship was hit by storm a few times and thank goodness, it wasn't bad to the point of anyone losing their life. Like always, both of these heroes, who were supposed to be a college student, were arguing like a kindergarten student non stop, especially when Motoyasu was trying to dictating the command that he thought right while Naofumi will banter and criticize his works, especially when Naofumi was supposed to be in command instead of Motoyasu. Along the journey, there's no day that they won't argue. Never they will think in their wildest dream that this trip will change their life forever.
Both of them then left their crew on standby while they went to explore the forest. They heard it was a yet unexplored forest so the previous adventurers were sent to explore and find some pieces of information about it. And since none of them returned, it means that this forest difficulty must be high. During the journey, Naofumi was struggling to keep Motoyasu in check. Honestly, that guy knows no danger at all! What if something got him....
Motoyasu was skipping excitingly until he heard a loud 'kyaaaaa!' from behind. Shocked, he turned around and found a giant orc dragging Naofumi to who knows where. It was shocking since none of them can sense such a massive creature sneaking around them. Motoyasu swore that he heard the orc saying 'found my bride...' as he pulling Naofumi's green clock. And being Motoyasu, he quickly started his first ambush.
“Oi pervert orc! Let Naofumi go!” Motoyasu shouted, gaining the orc's attention.
Idiot! Idiot! Idiot! What this guy think he's doing! Don't provoke it! Naofumi's face became green in anxious.
“No way! This human is my bride!” the orc refused. Naofumi was even more scared. Never he felt this threatened in his whole life.
“Shut up! Find your own kind!” Motoyasu shouted again.
“You are the one to shut up! We will have thousands of babies and get out of this island!”
“I AM A GUY!” shouted Naofumi in disgust. But again, being a Motoyasu, Motoyasu believed it.
“What?! Naofumi, you can give birth?!”
“Of course not, you idiot!” screamed Naofumi in anger. “Hurry up and defeat it!”
“Why don't you do it yourself?!”
“Can't you see I'm in his knuckle, you moron?! How I'm supposed to use my shield?! You're supposed to be my bodyguard, remember?!”
“Oh.” Motoyasu started to remember his role and leisurely raised his spear and pointed it towards the orc. “Brionac.”
And the orc was defeated. Though it wasn't much, their stats were still increasing and they were relieved that all the troublesome was at least worth something. Naofumi was totally traumatized.
...
Kekeke...Motoyasu giggled in amusement as they continued their journey.
Goblin, Homogoblin, oni, water monster, vampire and even a slime were very eager to claim Naofumi as their bride. What the hell was going on? Why only me?! What's with all the monsters in this forest?!
“Naofumi...pftt...I never thought....pftt...you....haha....are really popular!” Motoyasu finally can't really contain anymore and guffawed as loud as he can.
“It's not funny! All of them are male! I'm pretty sure that I'm still straight,” Naofumi scowled as they walked through the forest.
“Maybe you are the protagonist of a harem eroge after all. Like all the male but the protagonist had declined in the world so all the girls were eager to carry his children or something like that. While in this case, maybe all the girls had extinct so they try to find a human to breed,” said Motoyasu, his hands were positioned behind his head. “And the monster version!”
“You play those disgusting eroges? But still, it's true that most animals like me since I was a kid. We keep two cats at the house and sometimes a few other animals will come to our backyard to play with our cats. I used to play with a squirrel and sometimes crows that came to visit when I was a kid. Ahhh...now I can't feed them anymore that we're here,” said Naofumi as he sighed.
“But still, I heard some girls have a beast or monster fetish. And having demi-human in this world are more than blessing! I mean, look at Raphtalia-chan. I knew some otaku girls that were into this fetish back in my world. I also tried cosplaying a nekomimi character before, nyan!” replied Motoyasu while making a cat pose.
“You, a normie, cosplaying?” Naofumi tittered.
“Huh? Is that wrong?” Motoyasu asked, confused.
“No, nothing wrong...”
Both of them started to get silent. Think about it, it was their first civilized conversation ever since they came to this world. Before, all of them were filled with undying hatred that made it harder for them to talk properly. Motoyasu and Naofumi especially hate each other guts and they never thought of making a proper conversation. Both of them failed to understand why the other were like this? Why Naofumi was so grumpy? And as for Naofumi, he failed to understand why Motoyasu was so easy to be manipulated by women under their thumb. Never that their realized about the root that cause this hatred, especially Motoyasu. He never thought that he was wrong in any way. Only in this quest that they realized about each other weakness. Especially for somebody like Naofumi. Motoyasu realized that Naofumi was an ordinary human after all. In fact, he was kinda...cute?
“It's not like I'm going to criticize your taste but hand off from Raphtalia and Firo. They were like a daughter to me. Yes, especially Firo. She was still a baby in human age. Do you want to be a pedo?” said Naofumi, scowling again.
“Nekomimi will suit you fine,” Motoyasu grinned.
“Huh?!” Naofumi was so shocked to hear that from Motoyasu of all people that he failed to realized that there's a huge root in front of him and stumbled forward. “Whoah!”
But before he managed to fall, a hand grabbed his hand so that he won't fall on the ground, only finding that the hand was Motoyasu's until the other suddenly pulled him closer. In dramatic cliché shoujo manga way.
“Say Naofumi, will you consider their proposal if the monster is handsome?”
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Eh?
For a moment, Naofumi felt like he was in trance. Slowly, his cheeks turned pink until the color grown hotter. Naofumi brushed Motoyasu aside and quickly walked further than the older guy.
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WHATWHATWHAT?! What the heck was just now?! Naofumi was to shocked that he let his guard down and thus, unable to detect a big hand coming towards him.
And just like that, he was kidnapped by a humanoid monster. But this time, the monster dispelled into black dust, bringing Naofumi with him.
Motoyasu was too shocked to see Naofumi disappearing in front of his eyes that he was rendered speechless. It took a few seconds for him to return to his sense.
“NAOFUMI!!”
Meanwhile, at the monster hideout, Naofumi was lamenting as he was paralyzed by unknown drug yet he managed to keep his mind intact. Ah...what's wrong with me today? It was the worst day ever. He can't count how many time he was captured as a bride by monsters today. And what worst, he can never count how many time Motoyasu, Motoyasu of all people, that dork, that flirt, that idiot, that moron, that skirt chaser, that doggie...oh wait, doggie will be too cute for him, yes, that cow! That cow of all people had saved him like a prince saving a princess! Damn it! Since when he was a damsel in distress? Since when?! (Free exps for him though)
But still, it's true that those monster level were higher than their kind in other islands. In fact, they were bigger than he always met while grinding. There's no way he can fight them 1 on 1 without Raphtalia and Firo by his side. At least, this monster was being considerate enough to put him on a comfy and 5 stars hotel class bed. Huh?
5 stars hotel?
Naofumi's eyes bulging. Wasn't the reason he was kidnapped was to make him as their bride? Then...he turned his head to see that humanoid monster coming closer to his bed. Hm? Was he holding a bottle?
“Welcome to Monster Hotel! I'm the current head of this place, Demon Distruttore! You will be a wonderful bride of mine, be grateful that you can marry a rich demon like me!” The demon introduced himself.
A demon?! What a worst day everrrr! Where the heck was that idiot Motoyasu when he was supposed to be my bodyguardddddd! Unable to speak due to the spell, Naofumi was doomed to be wedded to this demon. Well at least he was handsome...wait, no! Naofumi was straight! Naofumi was straight!
“Now, drink this potion! You will be able to conceive as quick as possible after our wedding night!”
Paralyzed and both hands tied, Naofumi had no choice but to gulp the potion that being forced into his throat. As soon as he swallowed it even for a little, he felt like his stomach was churming and a severe pain kicking in.
“Hahaha, don't worry! The pain is just temporary and after the pain reside, you are ready to conceive!”
A small tears appeared at the corner of Naofumi's eyes. I'm done, I'm finished...My body was being messed up. I will have to live in this humillated body for my whole life. Ah, just kill me now. Where the heck was my useless bodyguard anyway? I will become a demon's wife by the time he was here. Raphtalia, Firo, I'm sorry. Take care of yourself and goodbye.
“NAOFUMI!”
Ah, finally that idiot come. Naofumi can't think anymore as the pain was tiring enough to make him sleepy. Just do whatever you want to do. He better finish this soon. I'm...going...to...sleep...
The moment felt like forever before Naofumi regained his conciousness. Slowly he opened his eyes. He found that he was lying on unfamiliar bed, being covered with a thick blanket. His hands were no longer being tied though his wrists were still sting. He found that his stats had increased for a few levels. Motoyasu was nowhere to be found.
Naofumi sighed in relieve. Good thing he wasn't at the nasty hotel anymore. But then, where did Motoyasu had brought him? Could it Motoyasu had brought him out and discovered something? If it was true, he need to record it! Sick or not, Naofumi need to fulfill his duty and that's the purpose he came to this island after all!
Naofumi woke up and tried to reached his weak feet to the floor yet gravity was a bitch. No, he was the one who lost his balance due to being under paralyzed spell for some times. He quickly forced to sit on the bed after falling due to the weakened knees. “Work, work...”
“What work? Go to sleep!”
Naofumi looked at the door of this unfamiliar room where his supposed to be bodyguard stood.
“We have been delayed enough by all those stupid monster. What about the demon? Did you get to defeat it?” Naofumi asked, still sleepy.
“Of course I did! Also, I found the adventurer groups. Right now we were sheltered at a local tribe village. They said their ancestors were Japanese who were transported with their whole village before ended up landing here. They also said that this island was supposed to be a uninhabitated Prehistoric island which somehow also being transported to this world eons before they were transported here. The villagers also hope for outsider help since nobody returned after being sent to search for help. They said their ancestors were from 1980's,” Motoyasu reported, shocking Naofumi.
“What?! Did you say the whole village?! And you really did your work?!” said Naofumi in awe.
“Of course I did! Especially when you're unconcious for a week...” Motoyasu argued, before his face reddened.
“A week...the potion was more painful than I thought. Did you tell the villagers that we are in magic world?” asked Naofumi again.
“I did. The elders didn't believed it but the youngers are crying in joy.”
Ah, so? How long these people had stuck in this island anyway?
“Well, I told them that we were from Japan as well and they became excited. They kept asking me how's Tokyo and their hometown had became since we came from more modern world,” Motoyasu remarked upon his conversation with the local.
Wow...
Naofumi was still too tired to talk yet he tried anyway.
“Well then, I need to see them too. Show me the way,” said Naofumi as he tried to wake up but again, his balance was still bad and almost fall if Motoyasu didn't catch him right at the time.
“Whoa! Careful!”
Naofumi fall right onto Motoyasu's arms.
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WHATWHATWHATWHAT?!
Both of them blushed. Usually at this moment, they will banter each other but for some reasons, now they can't. Let's not forget that Naofumi got a conceivable body now and thus any man can claim him now.
Motoyasu let Naofumi go by reflex. Shit! What did I just do?!
…
In the end, they decided to just brush it off and went to visit the village. As expected from Naofumi, he managed to gather various info, more than what Motoyasu can gather in this week. Naofumi agreed to become an intermediate between local and Melromarc since he was also from Japan has more brain than other Cardinal Heroes.
From what they gathered, this world's creature started to inhabit this island since the first day the island was transported here. However, for recent years, their fertility rate had became low. Less and less female were born and finally the last female of each race disappeared from time to time. They did tried intermarriage yet it still didn't work and the relationship between them were really bad. And thus, upon detecting a very valuable being like Naofumi, which was still a mystery about why he was choosen to begin with, was like a war between races. Every race were competing to get Naofumi and thank goodness that Motoyasu was assigned as his bodyguard. As stupid as he can be, he still did a great job protecting Naofumi. They sooo need to report this to queen. And finally, it's time to go back with those adventurers.
They finally leaved the island safely. Naofumi can't imagine how tiring all these predicaments were especially when he needed to be careful around men now.
But this was where all the problems started.
It was in the middle at the night. Naofumi was strolling at the ship deck. He then settled in at the nearest deck wall. He can't sleep. After all, he had been sleeping for this past week. So he decided to see the moon instead since it's rare to get onto ship anyway. Ah, peace...
“So this is where you are.”
Naofumi pouted as his peace was interrupted by none other but Motoyasu. “What?”
“I got some tea. Why don't we drink it together?” Indeed there's a something like cylinder shaped at Motoyasu's hand.
Okay. This was definetely weird. During this week, Motoyasu was being totally weird. He don't know whether he always like this or he have ulterior motive to be kind with somebody like Naofumi. Or something happened when he was sleeping that made him nicer than before. But still, Naofumi at this moment was too tired to argue and thus decided to get along, at least for Fitoria's request. In fact, even if Motoyasu was the biggest jerk hero in history, this guy was still his bodyguard and had did a good job protecting him, especially when Naofumi was in fragile state right now. Yup, better to not start any chaos between them. Therefore, Naofumi decided to accept Motoyasu invitation and both of them returned to their shared room.
“So this tea, do you want me to brew it or else?” Naofumi asked, checking the cylinder packaging. Of course he won't get any information about this type of tea since they were in medieval world so he decided to brew the leaves like always he did at home. Apparently, tea was a rare treat here since tea was still a royal thing for now at this period.
“Oh, I'll leave it to you. It's your speciality after all,” Motoyasu replied.
“Okay then,” Naofumi said and started brewing the tea.
And now, with a cup of fresh tea each on the coffee table, they were ready for proper civillized discussion.
Motoyasu sipped his tea and started. “So, what are you going to do now with that body of yours?”
Naofumi sighed. “To be honest, I don't know yet. It seemed like this won't work on girls. So, as much as I can't give any girl children, they can't impregnate me either. Woman is the one who's with child after all.” Naofumi then sipped the tea.
“Sorry, I don't know what to say anymore,” Motoyasu replied, as he sipped the tea again.
Both of them had lost the words and rendered speechless. There's nothing they can say to comfort each other in this case.
But then, it started.
For some reasons, the temperature rised like crazy and both of them started to sweat. It was weird that just now, everything was fine.
“What? Did this room got hotter?” Motoyasu asked, using his hand as a fan.
“Of course not! Just now it was fine...” said Naofumi until he realized something. “Motoyasu?”
“Yes?” the older man replied, still try to deal with the hotness engulfing his body.
“Where did you get this tea again?” Naofumi asked.
“Myne gave it to me.”
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Motoyasu...
I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS GUY WAS SO STUPID!!
“Motoyasu! This tea was drugged you dimwit!” Naofumi shouted in anger, until he can no longer bare it and fall to the floor.
“Huh?! Impossible...ah!” Now even Motoyasu can no longer stand it.
“Stay away from me! What if it was an aphrodisaic?!” Naofumi shouted again.
Too late.
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...
It was a few hours later that the effect was over. Both heroes were already on bed, with their clothes missing from their bodies. And no, both of them were concious for entire night, making it more frustrating that they can't do anything about the drug effect.
Naofumi was even more traumatized and refused to get out from the room until they reached Melromarc.
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“Welcome home, Motoyasu-sama! Did you have fun?”
A hypocrite smile greeted Motoyasu as soon as he arrived at the castle. Motoyasu was glaring directly at Myne. He knew that this woman will always find a way to ruin the day yet he still fall into the trap she set anyway.
“Fun my ass! I can't count of how many time that I have to play prince rescuing a bride in that island! And what's with that tea?!” Motoyasu exclaimed in anger. For some reasons, he can never stop believing this woman despite knowing how sly and despicable she was.
“I was just trying to deepen the bond of you and your fated one! Who knows what sort of girl you will meet at that island,” Myne laughed sarcastically. It's obvious that her plan was to make Motoyasu who have tendency to flirt with random girl to drink the tea with any girl he will meet and then, the tea will intoxicate both of them and Motoyasu will be branded as rapist or the girl will be branded as slut for seducing a hero. Then of course, she will have a victim to be blackmailed. Motoyasu will forever be trapped into a comitment that he definetely wont wanted it. Of course, considering that Motoyasu-sama had asked about the tea, he definetely had already drinked it with a girl and they probably had did it! “Anyway Motoyasu-sama, which girl that you did it?”
“Naofumi...” Suddenly she heard Motoyasu whispering something.
“Excuse me?” she asked again.
“It's Naofumi you jerk! Thanks to your tea, I did it with Naofumi and he hated me even more now!” Motoyasu screamed as he quickly dashed away from the red haired.
“Ara...” It took a few seconds for Myne to process the answer until...”HUH?!”
Meanwhile, Naofumi refused to get out from his room, saying that he was too tired for dinner. He was too upset that his first was with a man and even worst, Motoyasu of all people. In fact, both of them never wanted this to happen as both of them were intoxicated by drug. The thing that was worrying him was his new body condition.
He don't want to get pregnant. He don't want to get pregnant! Not with Motoyasu's child!
However, a few weeks had passed and nothing particularly strange happen to his body so Naofumi thought that he might actually safe from pregnancy. In fact, they only did it once so there's no way he can get pregnant that easily.
And finally, it's time for 4 Cardinal Heroes Conference, supervised by Queen Mirellia. It means, Melty and her group will also attend this conference since they need to report about their progress during the diplomatic visit.
“Welcome to The 4 Cardinal Heroes Conference and thank you for your attendence. I, Queen Mirellia will supervise this conference and hear all of your reports regarding your missions in these past few weeks. Well then, let's begin. First, Princess Melty and her group will present their reports regarding our latest diplomatic visit that was handled by them. Please,” said Mirellia to start the conference with formality.
Melty nodded and started to present her datas and findings marvelously.
“The Kingdom of XXXXX had agreed to trade some of their grains to us with condition that we sent any hero to them to help with defense whenever they were needed or when the problem was beyond what their military or adventurer guild can do. After all, we were the one who summoned all 4 of them at once without permision. The heroes also can treat them like a normal quest. There's no limit of hero can be sent. Even if one of them will do. But if the situation needed it, a party of them will have to go. When the time comes, please discuss among yourselves about who should go,” Melty reported.
Mirellia nodded. She then looked at Raphtalia. “Raphtalia-dono, anything to add?” Raphtalia's ears twitched.
Raphtalia looked at Firo. Firo then looked at Melty. Seeing that, Melty nodded as if she was giving permission to Raphtalia to speak. “Ehem, anyway, please be careful with a certain nobleman called xxxx. He fitted to all the criterias of being 'lolicon' like Naofumi-sama described long ago. He kept eyeing both of Melty and Firo throughout our stay in XXXXX.” Mirellia's eyes twitched to hear such a disgusting report.
“Well then, later, I will send an official letter to King of XXXXX about this matter. Please ensure that nothing bad will happen to all of you,” said Mirellia as she raised her fan to hide her angry face.
“Next, Iwatani-sama and Kitamura-sama, please...Iwatani-sama?”
Mirellia realized that Naofumi had been quiet since the conference started and barely paying any attenttion. “Iwatani-sama?” But still he didn't hear her.
“Naofumi?” Motoyasu walked towards Naofumi only finding that the younger man was sweating. Quickly, he touched Naofumi's forehead. “Hot! You are having fever!”
Everyone instantly stood up from their sit in shocked.
“Queen Mirellia, I'm sorry but I feel unwell at this moment. Please excuse me and I'll write the report in details later....urkghh!” Immediately, Naofumi rushed out from the conference room, leaving everyone confused...except Motoyasu. Both Raphtalia and Firo had rushed to catch up with their master.
“What's wrong with him? I guess even Naofumi can catch a cold,” said Itsuki as he sighed.
“I think among us, he's the one who risked to get sick the most,” Ren replied as he sit down. “Right, Motoyasu...huh?”
Motoyasu was quiet. Or rather, he's shivering? Ren slowly walked towards Motoyasu until he heard the older man's whisper.
“Don't tell me...impossible, impossible, impossible!”
Ren lightly put his hand onto Motoyasu's shoulder. “What the hell are you talking about?”
“GYAHHH!” The impact had shocking Motoyasu who didn't realized that Ren was behind him all along.
“What the hell are you doing?! Don't frighten me like that!” Motoyasu exclaimed in annoyance.
“We are the one who supposed to ask that! What's with that mumbling? What's wrong with Naofumi?” Ren asked, shocking Motoyasu again.
“Er...he...”
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Turned out it was positive that Naofumi, the Shield Hero was 3 weeks pregnant, and the culprit was Motoyasu. Myne was immediately grounded as she was the one who provided the tea.
Due to this incident, both Raphtalia and Firo, and even Melty were even more hostile towards Motoyasu. In fact, even both Ren and Itsuki had giving him a cold shoulder. It's obvious that everyone was angry that he impregnated Naofumi.
Even worst, he was forced to marry Naofumi by Queen Mirellia's order. They were given a piece of land and a mansion at Ryute Village since Naofumi was the lord there. Even the honest, detailed written report from Naofumi can't saved him and Motoyasu from the forced shotgun marriage. The only good thing about this marriage was that Kitamura family name was promoted to Lord Rank. As expected, the villagers were dissatisfied that their Lord, Naofumi was reduced to a housewife eventhough Motoyasu had tried to ensure them that the real Lord in Ryute was still Naofumi. In fact, the reason they can be promoted from the beginning was because they were Cardinal Heroes. They can't return to their original world anyway, so they really have to settle down somewhere. The official rank had made the governing easier, but let's talk about Isekai Farmville in another story.
And now, let's back to our story about the poor husband trying to satisfy his pregnant wife's bizarre craving.
“Rennnnnn...where can I find a black dragoonnn~~”
Amaki Ren was dumbfounded. What the hell is this idiot talking about?
“Black dragon? For what?” Ren asked in annoyance. Right now they were in the middle of training ground.
“Naofumi wanted to eat a black dragon meat! Please please please!” Motoyasu pleaded. He went to Ren because he heard that Ren had defeated one in the past.
“Well, you can find it at Kururu Village dungeon, 100km from Ryute. But mind you, they are hard to find. Those guys are sneaky and can kill without anyone realizing it,” Ren answered.
“Are we talking about the same black dragon here?” Motoyasu asked, sweating.
“How should I know? I heard they were delicious but rare. And of course, the difficulty level are high. Are you sure you want to go?” Ren asked again.
“You're the one who recomended it!” Motoyasu argued.
Then, for some reasons, Ren had joined Motoyasu for the quest of killing a black dragon at Kururu Village. For some exps. He had made a pact with Motoyasu that all the items dropped will be his in return of Motoyasu taking the whole meat for himself. In fact, he was sure that Naofumi will let him taste the dragon anyway.
100km was not that far as they begged Firo to help them with excuse that Naofumi will make a feast afterwards. In fact, the firorial loved pulling carriage anyway. So off they go.
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Of course, it won't be that easy. It's true that those black dragons were sneaky, to the point that it's annoying. It's been 5 hours since they saw the first sight of one of the black dragon and tried to catch them yet no avail. Those dragons were unexpectedly smart and will never let them to be eaten that easily.
“Ren, I've been thinking for quite a long time...” said Motoyasu.
“What is it?” Ren asked.
“Could it that these guys are actually pretty weak? They kept running away from us since the beginning,” Motoyasu answered with a big angry vein appeared on his forehead.
“I think I agreed with you. Let's teach these annoying bastards a lesson or two,” Ren agreed, also with the same condition as Motoyasu.
“These guys are annoying...” said Firo in anger.
In the end, thanks to Ren's brilliant strategy, they managed to kill two dragons, and thus more meats and dropped items for them. All three of them returned home with satisfied expression on their face. Hmph! So much a SS rank Black Dragon! They were just sneaky and coward but not strong at all!
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Kitamura House was having a feast with the entire Ryute Village. Of course some aquintances were invited during the barbeque. The meats from those two dragons were more than enough to feed 1000 peoples due to their size but since Ryute Village residents weren't that many, they decided to save the balance for winter. Naofumi decided that they really need a space that can works like fridge so that they can preserve the foods and rations for village use. For now, he just settled it with a simple ice magic. This also will come later in another story.
Villagers especially women, and especially old lady loved to flock around Naofumi, praising that his cooking was delicious as ever. Naofumi, who was a future mother was gladly exchanging receipes with these people and even got a lot of maternity tips from these women. These people were at rage when they found out about Naofumi's pregnancy at first but now they can gradually accepted Kitamura as a noble house and can't wait for the first heir to come out. Of course, the adults will still making an unpleasent face everytime they see Motoyasu.
“Naoo~Please praise me for being a good husband since I brought back two black dragons just like you wanted!”
Naofumi frown.
“Who's you're calling Nao? And these dragons aren't your only effort alone. Dont forget to thank Ren and Firo for helping you!” said Naofumi.
“Yes, yes...” said Motoyasu, dejected.
To be honest, it's not like they start to love each other or anything. In fact, it was a forced marriage. But since they were married, Motoyasu can finally see the real Naofumi. His personality was unpleasent to him but he was indeed a good Lord to their village. Motoyasu realized the countless sins he had commited towards his younger spouse and never expect to be forgiven. Yet, it's because they were now a husband and wife that he wanted both of them to get a long. At least for the sake of the baby. Unfortunately, it was not easy to earn Naofumi's trust that he will protect Naofumi, or he will try becoming a good father. Maybe, maybe Nao...fumi really hated him that much.
“But still....thank you...” Suddenly, Naofumi smiled before rushing to the giant pot to resume cooking for the whole villagers.
Motoyasu widened his eyes. Maybe...
Maybe one day, he will get the chance?