487 - - Episode 485 Beautiful and Kind Smile

While I was dreaming about how to use soy sauce and miso, I heard from Marco about the sad state of the genjutsuji. I was torn between miso soup and the decline in the reputation of the genie surgeon, but since I wanted to enjoy miso soup without any worries, I decided to stop the decline in the genie surgeon's reputation.

So, three days after the meeting with the great spirits, I returned to the labyrinth city. I'm a little sad because I was supposed to be enjoying food in paradise for a while.

But I had no trouble making the chants that I teach to the necromancers in the labyrinth city, because they were surprisingly easy to make.

It was difficult for me to make the chants for my own use because of shame and so on, but I could enjoy making the chants for other people's use. In fact, I overdid it, and had to rewrite the chants to make them more civilized.

However, I was in a hurry when the kitchen chanting touched the heartstrings of Belle and the others. Especially when Belle and Flare said, "This is so cool! Belle and Flare started saying "This is so cool... Belle and Flare are like this too!

Also, Dolly's comment at the end of the meeting was surprisingly difficult to deal with. It was a good idea for a spiritualist, but for me it was a very hard idea.

What?　I thought it wasn't hard work, but I guess it was surprisingly hard work. It's a little sad.

"Hmmm..."

As I was walking through the labyrinth city with my shoulders slightly slumped from the subtle hardship, Sylphy suddenly burst into laughter. Something had happened.

（Sylphy, what's wrong?)

"Yes, something interesting is going to happen."

Funny things?　Normally I welcome funny things, but in the case of Sylphy's funny things, I can't rest assured that I might have a hard time.

(What's going to happen?)

"Just walk around a little more and you'll find out."

(No, I want you to tell me before I find out. ......)

"Walk a little more and you'll see."

Sylphy doesn't seem to intend to tell us. I have a bad feeling about this, but I know that Sylphy is not going to answer me no matter what I say.

But I have another ally besides Sylphy.

（Belle. Is there anything strange going on up ahead?)

He calls Belle, who is happily flying around in the labyrinth city, and asks her a question that Sylphy must be keeping secret from her.

Belle is also a wind spirit, albeit a lowly one. She should be able to figure out something that is obvious to her when she is walking around.

"What?"

Belle tilts her head with a puzzled look on her face.

I should be able to ...... figure it out, but the question is whether Bell can recognize it as a strange thing. I'll have to elaborate a bit more.

"Sorry Yuta, time is up. Here he comes."

Out of time?　They're here?　I looked up at Sylphy's words and saw Marie and Sonia running toward us.

There's something strangely powerful about beautiful women running as fast as they can.

"Yuta-san, I'm so sorry!

Marie and Sonia get down on their knees in front of me with the momentum of running into me. When they got down on their knees, there was a zithering sound, are you okay?　Is your face scraped off?

"......Errrr, Marie, Sonia. Please raise your head for now."

Maybe it's because of the message I left before I returned to the labyrinth city, but if he apologizes so much, I feel sorry.

I was just trying to teach him a lesson, but maybe the medicine had too much effect on him.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make Yuta angry. If Yuta left me, it would be the end for Sonia and me. Please, please forgive me!"

Marie screamed as she rubbed her forehead against the cobblestones, even though I asked her to look up. Stop, don't shout misleading things in the street.

Passersby ask me if I'm having a lover's quarrel.　I'm about to be socially ostracized.

Oh, Belle. Marie's not playing with you, so don't do it. I don't think it's funny for a little girl to get down on her knees.

Gina and the others are looking at me with a cold stare. That's not true. I didn't make her get down on her knees because I wanted to. Kikka, I don't want you to go behind Marco's back to hide from me because you'll get hurt.

"No, you see, I'm not that angry." Yuta, stop. If I let you in here, you'll end up rolling around in Marie's hands, won't you?" Go to ......?"

I was about to forgive her for her powerful apology, when Sylphy stopped me. Well, what does that mean?

This is all Marie's plan. When Yuta entered the labyrinth city, there was a man who started running, so I was watching him, and he jumped into the Pollius Chamber of Commerce and reported to Marie that Yuta had arrived."

In the past, Marie has had her clerks keep an eye on me to see when I would leave the labyrinth, and this time she just had them watch the gate to apologize, didn't she?　What's wrong?

"You don't understand. Marie came here to apologize at this time."

?　You mean you were watching and wanted to apologize as soon as possible?　It's more difficult to keep a woman on her knees on the boulevard than it is to keep her on her knees, isn't it?

"Marie heard the report and before she ran off, she said, "I'll decide on this!" I said. I mean, he wanted to apologize in a public place. It was also calculated to attract the attention of the others. It was a desperate strategy to get Yuta's forgiveness without question, considering his character.

......I don't know what to say, but it makes sense that this is a very Marie-like idea.

Profit over shame!　I don't dislike the fact that the idea is transparent.　　

But I don't want people to think that I can roll over so easily. Without Sylphy's stop, I am sure that I would have been rolled over, but Sylphy's power is also my power as a contractor.

So I am safe. I'm not sure what is safe, but let's say it is. I'm not sure what people around me will think, but I'm going to ask Marie and Sonia to reflect a little more on their situation with a strong spirit.

"I understand your apology, Marie and Sonia!　Perhaps, but you failed in the business you entrusted to the Polurius Trading Company!　Let's change the location so we can hear more about it!"

At any rate, speak loudly so that others can hear you. This will let people know that it is not a love affair.

You take Marie's arm and help her to stand up.

As he stands her up, Marie's expression is distorted for a moment. It was only for a moment, but it was different from what I had planned, so it seems that Sylphy was right about Marie's plan.

"Marie-san, has the Polurius Chamber of Commerce suffered some kind of loss?　Is your store okay?"

"No, Yuta, it's not. The Polurius Chamber of Commerce didn't incur any losses!

Marie-san is waffling and denying my words. I guess Marie-san is more worried about the shame of the Polulius Chamber of Commerce than her own shame.

Well, I feel that Marie-san's getting down on her knees alone would be a disgrace to the Polurius Chamber of Commerce, but I guess she calculated that it wouldn't be a problem as long as she could get my forgiveness.

Since you didn't get my forgiveness, you lost a lot of money!

I am the chicken that lays the golden egg, and I am not a cheap man to be rolled so easily. You should be sorry.

"Oh, and Gina and the others can get a room at Mr. Toruku's inn.

(Belle and the others must go with Gina and the others.)

We'll leave Gina and Bell and the others here, since this is a discussion for adults. Anything more would be bad for the children's education.

Well, we were supposed to go to the Adventurers' Guild to deal with the necromancer first, but now that it's come to this, there's nothing we can do. Let's listen to Marie's excuses carefully.

****

I'm sitting in the reception room of Marie's general store, a place I've become accustomed to, with my head in my hands.

"That was more than I expected.

Yes, Sylphy is right, it was more than I expected. I mean, Sylphy, don't be funny and get angry with me.

I know most of what's going on, but can you explain it to us from your own mouth?　Incidentally, the current situation is that the wholesale quantity of rejuvenating grass has been reduced by half.

When I told them that if I didn't hear any of their confessions that I knew, the amount of rejuvenating herbs would be reduced, they started singing in their beautiful voices like canaries.

It was good that they sang ......, but the content was unexpected.

I thought it was based on my (Great Spirit's) military power, but it turned out that I was Mitsugu-kun in King's Landing.

Who is the brave man who risks his life to challenge the labyrinth to win Marie's favor?　You don't mean me, do you?

I don't deny that Marie is very beautiful, but in my mind, she's in the comedy category now.

"It's one-tenth the amount of rejuvenating grass. But don't worry. The other ingredients are also life-threatening, so we usually sell them wholesale.

"Oh, no!　I told you the truth!　Yuta!　Not the rejuvenation grass, not the rejuvenation grass!"

I said I would reduce it if you were not honest with me, but I did not say I would not reduce it if you were honest with me. Even I would be angry if Mitsugu-kun was being made to do things without my permission in the center of the country.

Oh, Marie and Sonia are clinging to me like zombies. Oh, I won't say what, but they're soft.

**

"Yuta...... being nice to women is not the same as being weak to women, okay?"

On the way back home after the absolution of Marie and the others, I received a sharp comment from Sylphy.

（No, it's not true. I don't deny that I have a weakness for women, but the reason why I decided to cut down the amount of rejuvenating weed to four-tenths is because of the effect it would have on the public).

I was attracted by their softness a little bit, and I was seduced by their good smell, but I was really thinking about the effect I would have on the world.

Besides, if you tell me with a straight face that my life would be in serious danger if I didn't have enough for royalty and high ranking nobles, I can't help but increase the amount of wholesale a little bit, can I?　I want Marie and the others to be sorry, not to die.

So please stop looking at me like that.

"...... huh ...... well, okay. Yuta might be just right to be that out of it."

Out of the loop?

(Um, did Marie and the others roll over on you in some way I'm not aware of?)

Her reply to my question to Sylphy was a beautiful and kind smile.

I had done my best in our discussion, but I guess I had left some things out.

I never thought that the day would come when I would be more hurt by a kind smile than by a dumb look. ...... I will try to do better in my training as a spiritualist.