## Chapter 442 – 442 – Fanatic
“Uh…”
“I-I’m so, so, so sorry about yesterday! I-I showed you all such an awful, awful sight…”
Lelia, bowing deeply in apology, had ears that were bright red, visible through her hair.
“Hehehe, it’s okay. Actually, yesterday was fun!”
“Yeah, I’m glad I got to know so much more about Lelia, Unni.”
“Y-you don’t have to be so, so worried!”
“When you live, you sometimes have crappy or sad things happen, and you can just let it out with alcohol. We’re not mad about that.”
“Please, raise your head, Lelia.”
“Y-you guys…”
Lelia looked up at us, tears welling in her eyes, a deeply moved expression on her face, before bowing her head again.
“Thank… you.”
“Lelia, have you eaten yet?”
“Not yet.”
“Then let’s have breakfast and leave right away.”
“Yes… please wait a moment.”
After Lelia finished getting ready, we ate breakfast at the restaurant she led us to, and then went outside of Sol.
“Then, let’s fly first.”
“Yes, fly… fly?”
As I used telekinesis to float into the sky, Lelia’s eyes widened as she looked down.
“T-t-this is… huh?! R-Rent! W-we’re flying in the sky right now!”
“Yes, we are flying.”
“No, how can a person fly in the sky…”
Lelia, even though she was floating in the sky herself, had an expression of disbelief at the sight before her.
“Lelia, didn’t the High Priest tell you?”
“Ah, no… he just said that this mission might end sooner than expected. I never imagined… that Rent could fly in the sky…”
Lelia clutched her head, trying to process the reality.
Tikia, puffing out her chest, spoke to Lelia.
“I can fly in the sky too!”
“T-Tikia, you too?!”
“Yeah! Well, I created my own spell after seeing Rent do it.”
“E-even so, that’s amazing. It would be impossible for an ordinary mage.”
“Hahaha, right? It’s only possible because I’m a genius!”
Tikia still loves being praised.
That side of her is always cute and lovely.
Especially yesterday, every time I whispered “cute” and “I love you” in her ear, the feeling of her cervix twitching and tightening around my glans was so sweet.
“Lelia, where do we need to go?”
“Ah, yes! So…”
First, we flew in the direction Lelia pointed.
Lelia stared blankly down below and said,
“Looking down from this high… everything looks so small.”
“We were surprised when we first saw it too. Even big trees look so tiny when you look at them from down here.”
“And even though we’re clearly going super fast, it feels like we’re going slow when you look down♪”
“Yes. But if you look at the area we’re covering, we’re going really… really fast. At this speed, we’ll arrive in less than two hours. I understand why the High Priest said we could take our time yesterday.”
While heading to our destination, Tikia asked Lelia a question.
“Hey, are you okay with your hangover? You drank quite a bit yesterday.”
“I’m fine. I recovered with Cure.”
“Huh? You can cure a hangover with recovery magic?”
“Yes, if you use Cure, not only does the alcohol wear off immediately, but it also resolves the headache and dizziness that come with a hangover.”
“Wow… Lelia, can you use that? Actually, my head is a little fuzzy right now…”
“Yes, I can.”
“Oh my, then could I ask for it too?”
“Of course.”
Lelia used Cure on Noah and Ninya at the same time.
A light green glow enveloped Noah and Ninya, and they both looked refreshed.
“Wow, the effect is amazing!”
“My head feels so clear.”
“I’m glad I could help you both. And… I’m really grateful for yesterday. If it weren’t for you two, I would have definitely… made an even bigger fool of myself.”
“Don’t worry about it~ Huh? Do you really remember everything that happened yesterday?”
“…Yes. I remember what happened after I drank.”
Even so, judging by the reactions of the people around her, it seems she can’t stop drinking at all and continues to drink, showing her drunken antics several times.
“Then~ you must remember all the things we whispered in your ear yesterday?”
“Ugh… Yes, yes… I… I understand that Rent is very… stimulating and proactive in sexual relations. You have a good marriage.”
“Ah, ahaha…”
Hearing it like that makes me very embarrassed.
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After that.
While flying through the sky to pass the time, at the strong insistence of Noah and Ninya, we decided to listen to one of the stories of Lelia’s past missions.
“This is a story from when I subjugated one of the cult groups. It wasn’t that big of a suspicious incident, but I spent a few days infiltrating and living in the village. And when I caught them… there was something really serious going on there.”
“Serious thing?”
“It was a group that focused on pleasure.”
“Pleasure?”
“Yes. It was a distorted interpretation of the teachings of Solis. Solis’s main focus is life and creation. Of course, it is widely believed that the pleasure that arises in that process is Solis’s mercy.
The problem was that this group was too obsessed with this mercy of pleasure. They were spreading the theory that pleasure is Solis’s mercy, so by feeling pleasure, they could feel Solis more closely.”
“Is it dangerous just to spread that theory?”
“No, Elsie. If it had ended with just spreading the theory, we would have just retreated or sent a priest to the village separately. But they were doing things that went beyond our imagination.”
“Things that went beyond? What could it be?”
“It was the manufacturing of drugs.”
“Drugs?!”
“Yes. Even in Solario, a certain amount of mild drugs are sometimes recommended for childbirth and happy families. This is because it is believed that a good relationship can be built if both parties feel good.
But what they were making were drugs… very strong and potent drugs that cause addiction and ultimately destroy both the body and mind of a person.”
A group that makes and uses drugs to obtain pleasure.
It’s definitely a dangerous group.
“As soon as we discovered that fact, we moved to suppress them. At the same time, we treated those who had not yet shown severe addiction symptoms.”
“What happened to the severe cases?”
“After a long period of treatment, many have shown great improvement. There are still some who need to be restrained and stabilized.”
“That’s terrible…”
“That incident is still in my memory. When it comes to pleasure, most of the time it’s about using excessive mild drugs or preaching against excessive orgies… but a group activity that even used drugs is really rare.”
Listening to the story, I felt respect for Lelia, who is cracking down on such crimes.
“Then is this case also related to such fanatics? Like drug manufacturing?”
Lelia shook her head at Tikia’s question.
“No, this case is the exact opposite of that.”
“The opposite?”
“Yes. Even if they are fanatics, they are not just fanatics of Solis.”
“Bane…”
“Yes, Elsie. There are fanatics who worship Bane, not just Solis. Bane, who is called the creator of monsters who governs death and destruction. The place we are going to now is a place suspected of having such Bane fanatics.”
“What do we need to do when we get there?”
“First, we will infiltrate the village and observe what’s going on. Sometimes it can last for more than a week. So, what you will do will be decided after we get in.”
“Okay.”
And about an hour later.
“Rent, please stop. The place you see over there is the suspicious area. From here, we will walk.”
The village was in a place that seemed to have been developed in a forest, similar to my hometown.
After we landed, Lelia said to us.
“I’ll be leaving for a moment. Please wait.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Originally, I was going to take a carriage halfway and change in another village… but thanks to Rent, a lot of time has been saved. …Without time to change out of this armor.”
“Ah.”
Come to think of it, Lelia was still wearing her paladin armor.
It would be foolish to go into the village wearing paladin clothes for an undercover investigation.
“Oh my, then shouldn’t we change a little too?”
“No, it’s enough for just me to change. It’s better for you to stay as you are to avoid suspicion.”
“You’re the only one who’s going to disguise yourself, Lelia?”
“I’m used to disguises because I have many infiltration missions. One of my subordinates has decided on a suitable setting for this infiltration mission. That setting is…”
Lelia unfolded a scroll from her inventory.
“The… setting… is… *creak*!”
Huh? Is that a grinding sound?
“A wealthy but single noblewoman who is about to go crazy from stress because she has no groom goes on a groom-finding journey with an adventurer… is what it says.”
Oh.
“Who wrote this… I’ll make them do laps later…”
Lelia’s hands trembled as she held the scroll, her body shaking.
It’s very scary.
“C-cough! I’m sorry. I showed you another awful sight.”
“Ah, no, it’s okay! Right?”
“”Y-yeah!””
“Yes! That’s right! It’s, it’s okay!”
“Thank… you. Then I’ll be going for a moment…”
“Ah, wait a minute, Lelia.”
I stopped Lelia, who was about to leave us, and immediately used Mana Weapon to create a changing room and said.
“Please change here.”
“……?”
Lelia blinked her eyes and tilted her head.
“Rent? This is…”
“It’s a changing room.”
“Ah, thank you for making it. But how…”
“I made it with Mana Weapon.”
“Mana… Weapon?”
“Yes, Mana Weapon.”
Lelia stared into the distance and muttered quietly.
“Where did the meaning of ‘weapon’ go…”
Nodding, Noah and Tikia shook their heads as if they agreed with Lelia’s words.
“I knew that Rent could use Mana Weapon from our sparring, but I never imagined he would use it like this… No, was Mana Weapon even a skill that could be used like this in the first place?”
Tikia, floating in the air using levitation magic, put her hand on Lelia’s shoulder and said to Lelia, who was deep in thought.
“Don’t try to think too hard, it’s easier to just understand it as ‘because it’s Rent’.”
“Yes… I understand. Tikia, you can really float in the air too.”
“Ahem!”
A little while later, Lelia changed her clothes and came out of the changing room.
“Ooh…”
The basic design was similar to what ordinary village women wear, but the detailed embroidery was so elaborate that it gave the impression that it was clothing worn by noblewomen for easy movement.
“You’re pretty, Lelia.”
“I-is that so?”
“Yes, you’re pretty!”
“Yeah! It suits you so well!”
“You look so elegant, Lelia Unni♪”
“You really look like a noble.”
“Ah, ahaha… T-thank you.”
Lelia scratched her cheek, embarrassed by our compliments.
“Hmm, but the setting is a noblewoman, right? Isn’t it weird for such a woman to walk with adventurers?”
At Tikia’s point, Lelia took out the scroll again and said.
“According to the setting… she’s been striking out for years, so she’s become close to the adventurers, and now the only thing that shows she’s a noble is her clothes… a very unfortunate noblewoman… is what it says. Who is it, really, who came up with this setting…”
Hmm~ Tikia’s point is valid, and it seems a bit unreasonable to have Lelia walk with us like this, given the setting.
Then, I should step in here.
“Then let’s do this.”
“Huh? Ah, R-Rent!?”
“Hup!”
I lifted Lelia up and had her sit on my shoulders.
I could feel the sensation of Lelia’s buttocks on my shoulders.
I think her firm elasticity is very nice.
“Wouldn’t this look a little more like a noble? It would be natural if I were set as a servant of the noble lady Lelia.”
“W-well, it certainly seems like it… but still…”
Lelia was a little embarrassed.
But this is an important mission right now.
I moved forward to save even a little time.
“Let’s go.”
“Ah… yes.”
Lelia seemed to have accepted my attitude.
However.
“My personal seat…”
Tikia, who couldn’t ride on my shoulders, seemed a little dissatisfied.
Instead, I’ll give you plenty of lower body piggyback rides tonight, Tikia.
