Chapter 78 – City of Perne (3)
During the few days leading to Fern, the three of them, Ellie, Lien, and Renia, kept arguing more and more.
I thought what would happen if it got into a real fist fight, but fortunately it didn’t get there.
If it gets there, I plan to stop it, even if it means throwing myself at it.
I absolutely do not want to see my characters fighting each other, no matter what.
Moreover, most of the reasons why I fight, or even all of them, are because of me.
Moreover, we are still fighting.
If you ask me what the reason is, I have a really simple lunch, but I’m fighting over who will sit next to me and eat it.
“Today I will sit next to you, my lord.”
“What are you talking about? You sat next to Jinu yesterday too! Today it’s my turn!”
Today, Lien and Renia are glaring at each other and raising their voices to sit on the seat to my right.
To my left, Ellie is sitting quietly eating lunch as if nothing has happened.
For reference, Yuria and Lien sat next to me yesterday.
It certainly seems like a situation where we don’t know what will happen if we leave it like this.
Match!
I put down the lunch I was eating and clapped my hands hard.
I suddenly clapped my hands and everyone turned their heads towards me.
“Jinuni?”
“Master?”
Lien and Renia, who were fighting, were also looking at me with dumbfounded expressions.
“Can everyone please pay attention? I can’t see you guys fighting anymore. Let’s eat and talk first, and let’s say that Renia will sit next to me today. As Renia said, Lien sat yesterday.”
“Yes! Jinu~.”
Renia, who was chosen by me, smiled happily and sat down on the seat to my right, while Lien looked disappointed and sat across from me.
After a quick lunch, I gathered everyone together.
“Do you know why I collected it?”
Except for Yuria, the other three people sat in front of me and nodded, like elementary school students getting scolded by their mom.
“Yes… I think it’s because we keep arguing among ourselves.”
Ellie answered in a hushed voice.
“That’s right. I don’t think this happened much until I was with Ellie and Yuria, but it seems to have gotten worse since Lien was summoned and Rhenia was also summoned. I think I should have stopped it a long time ago.”
Looking back, I think I saw some signs of this even when it was just Ellie and Yuria.
When traveling with Aria, there was a discussion about who would sleep in the same bed, but Yuria gave in and quietly moved on.
And now that Lien was summoned, it seemed like Ellie and Lien’s voices were getting louder, and it escalated when Rennia and Lien started fighting.
I don’t know if it’s just the two of us fighting, but the problem is that Ellie is now involved in the problem as well.
“I don’t think life would have been like this even if I wasn’t around.”
“That’s right, Jinu! At least Lien and Renia had a little fight, but they quickly looked back on each other and passed. But since Jinu showed up, they seem to be fighting a lot more.”
Yuria heard me and answered.
“I thought it would get better if I just left it alone, but since it didn’t show any signs of doing so, I thought I should intervene. I feel sorry for you, but I will now choose who sits next to me.”
Honestly, I didn’t want to do this.
Before coming to this world, everyone was just a character that existed in a game.
But now he is the same person as me, alive and with free will.
They are now people who are irreplaceably lovely to me.
I thought we might be able to live peacefully with each other without my direct involvement, but it seems like that’s not possible right now.
“So, everyone, please don’t be dissatisfied with my decision. For example, even if I only have sex with Yuria for a week.”
All three people who heard my last words seemed very shocked, but I thought it wouldn’t get better if I didn’t go to this extent.
“Everyone got it?”
“…Yes, Jinu…”
“I understand, my lord. If you say that, it must be a bad look for us.”
Ellie and Lien answered what I said.
“What do you think, Renia? Can you do as I say?”
“…”
Lenia heard me, but she just stayed silent and lowered her head.
I feel a little uneasy seeing him stay still without answering.
Drip…
Water droplets fell on Lenia’s head lowered.
Looking closely, I could see that Renia’s body was shaking slightly.
“Rhenia?”
“… Hmm, huh!”
I was embarrassed to see Renia starting to cry loudly when I called her.
“Sister Renia?”
“Hey! Why are you crying all of a sudden?”
It seems that everyone, including me, was surprised to see Renia crying.
“Huh, huh! But… I don’t think I can be chosen by Jinu… I don’t like that!!! Hwaaaaa!”
Looking at everyone’s helpless reactions, it seemed like this was their first time seeing Renia like this.
Seeing Renia crying loudly, I went up to her and gently hugged her and patted her back.
“Why are you crying all of a sudden… Did you think I was going to abandon you?”
“B-but… Huh! I was really, really, going to be Jin-nim’s first wife. Ugh! But it’s unfair to think that I couldn’t be chosen as the true wife and now I can’t be chosen by Jinu-nim. Haaaaa!
He clearly believed that he would be recognized as a loyal person to me, but it seems that he burst into tears because the reality was not so.
I never thought I would burst into tears over something like this.
To put it another way, does it mean that you love me that much?
From what she heard, Lenia, who was an aristocrat, lived a life where she could get most of the things she wanted.
But she seems to be crying sadly because she thinks she wasn’t chosen.
How unfair she must have been that even though her younger brother was right in front of her, she didn’t care and just burst into tears.
It looks like he was so angry that I couldn’t even imagine.
“Hwaaaaa!”
Lenia is in my arms and she continues to cry.
I waited, patting her back slowly, until her Lenia calmed down.
How much time has passed?
When I saw Renia’s crying subside and she seemed to have calmed down, I spoke to her again.
“Are you calmer now, Renia?”
“… Yes, you looked embarrassed…”
The crying seemed to have stopped, but now I can’t raise my head while in my arms because I’m embarrassed.
“Again, none of you are precious to me. That’s why I didn’t want to see you fighting. It would be okay if you didn’t fight and things got better without me interfering, but since that doesn’t seem to be the case, I’m going to intervene.”
“Yes…”
Renia, who was in my arms, answered in a low voice.
“I also learned how important it is for you to be the ally. I thought it didn’t matter who it was, but now I’m going to get serious about choosing a virtuous position.”
After seeing Lenia’s behavior today, I felt I had to think a little differently.
I didn’t care because I thought it didn’t matter who was in office, but I realized that it was a very important position for my characters.
I fell to Lenia in her arms and continued her words.
“Right now, I’m not going to decide who will be my wife. There are some who haven’t been summoned yet, so I think it’s only fair to decide when everyone gets together. And I’ll choose one person as my wife after we all get together and live together for about half a year.” “
Everyone who heard me nodded and agreed.
“I understand, Jinu. Thank you for considering our feelings.”
“Thank you for your infinitely broad heart, my lord.”
I was a little anxious that they might oppose what I said, but fortunately, that didn’t happen.
“Is Jeongsil really that good? I don’t know. I like just being with Jinunim.”
Here, only Yuria is there as if nothing is wrong.
In conclusion, we all agreed that I would choose not to fight in the future and that I would not express any dissatisfaction with that choice.
Immediately I carried out my decision.
“Then I will decide first. Who will sleep next to me today?”
Everyone looks at me with concentration on what I say.
Just by looking at his face, I could feel that he was asking me to pick him.
“Renia and Yuria. Those two will sleep next to me!”
Because of the impact of her crying earlier, her heart weakened and she chose Lenia.
The reason I chose Yuria was to mediate the fight between the three people a little after escaping from Brighton Castle, so I tried to choose two of the remaining three rather than Yuria.
She was a small choice of comfort for him.
Of course, she didn’t seem to care much about herself.
“Yes! Thank you, Jinu!”
“Wow! Today I will sleep next to Jinu.”
From today on, there are no more fights about the right place or who sits or sleeps next to me.
There were still times when Renia would argue with Lien, but she didn’t fight to the extent of arguing like before.
I thought I should have done this a long time ago.
We are scheduled to arrive in a city called Perne tomorrow.
Right now, we are going to a random village, renting a shared room at an inn, and getting ready.
“I think we’ll arrive in Perne soon.”
“I see. It’s a country of beastmen…”
What does the prisoner here look like?
“Jinunim, have you seen the beast?”
“No, I’ve never seen a beastman either.”
I’ve seen elves, dwarves, and just once a race called demons.
The skin was bluish in color, the eyes were black instead of white, and the way the eyes glowed gold gave an eerie feeling.
I think the hair color was also dark blue. I don’t know if it’s a trait of the demon race or just that demon type.
There is a race called demons in Elion, but they are completely different from those demon characteristics.
Rather, it has an appearance close to the dark elf that anyone who has read a lot of fantasy novels is familiar with.
They are basically similar to elves, but their characteristic feature is that their skin color is bronze.
One of the characters I was raising, Elsha, is a demon, and when I saw her bronze-colored skin, I thought of her as a black person, so I added ‘black visor’ to her name, but I didn’t do it, but now that I think about it, I think I did a really good job.
Anyway, since I came to this world, I have never met a beastman.
So I’m a little looking forward to it.
Beastmen, a race that only appears in fantasy.
Aren’t there a variety of appearances in the media?
The most basic type would be a human-shaped base with only animal ears and tail.
Alternatively, there is a beast type that is based on a human figure and has hair that looks like human hair, but also has hair growing on the face and body, giving the impression that the person is dressed up as an animal.
Lastly, it is just a type of animal that walks on two legs and wears human clothes.
Honestly, I wish I was the first type.
The remaining types are out of my defense range.
As for furry… I can respect your taste, but I don’t understand it.
Just looking at Yuria, doesn’t she seem close to the first beast type?
It has a human appearance with only the horns and tail, which are characteristics of a dragon, and the rest is human.
If the face there had been in the shape of a lizard, it would have been too much for me.
“It’s a beast… I wonder what it looks like.”
“In our world, there is no race called beastmen. I think the closest thing to a beastman is Yuria, a dragon race.”
I nodded at Lien’s words.
In Elion, the races that users can choose from are limited.
There were humans, elves, demons, and dragons.
It’s okay for demons, but Dragon Knight is a race added when the maximum level is 100, and the only profession you can select is Dragon Knight.
Conversely, you cannot select Dragon Knight as another race.
There were a lot of people questioning what kind of disruption to the setting was due to the sudden addition of a race.
The setting is that in the world of Elion, the dragons who were hiding and sleeping were demons, and when a crisis approached the world, they made the dragons who inherited their blood fight…
Our users have been fighting demons for about 10 years since Elion first started service, but the dragon’s letter U was not in the settings, but was suddenly added.
From what I remember, most users thought that Elion followed suit by adding Dragon Knights to RPG games that were popular at the time and earning a sweet income.
There were even people who disliked the appearance of the Dragon Knight, and they said that with the addition of that character, patches to the job character they were raising or the addition of new content were delayed.
I agreed with that opinion, so I cursed a lot and said that I would never develop such a baseless character until the day it was added.
That being said, I had no choice but to raise Dragon Knight, who was such a bastard with so much content and so much support.
So, there was some talk that a race of beastmen might also appear later, but I came over to this world before I could see that, so I don’t know what will happen next.
For reference, I tried to see if I could play Crusader as a demon, but unfortunately, it wasn’t possible.
I thought it would be an interesting character due to the contradiction of being a demon and a Crusader, but it was very disappointing.
I fell asleep while having intense sex with everyone, looking forward to seeing what the prisoner here would be like.
