CH 120

[Handsome and Sweaty Fatty]

“Fufu, it seems like everyone’s shocked speechless by my real look. I indeed am quite handsome even if I do say so myself.” Porco-san smiled with a proud look on his face.

But of course, the reason why everyone got speechless was different.

“Handsome, my foot!? You look no different from before!?”

“Eh!?”

Yes, as Elma—who’d forgotten about her act and retorted without thinking—said, the reason why we’d got speechless was because Porco-san looked the same as before taking off his pendant.

“W-what do you mean!? I look completely different!?”

But it looked like to Porco-san, his look had indeed changed. He desperately explained the difference.

“Here, my ears have become a little sharp! Look!” Porco-san showed us his ears, and as he said, they were indeed kinda sharp.

“My limbs have become a little shorter too, and most importantly, my belly’s now more perfect than ever!”

――Smack.

Porco-san hit his jiggling belly with a smug look on his face.

Well, now that I took a closer look at it, his belly was truly plumper than before…

“That makes no difference!? You’ve simply got fatter!? What’s with that smug look!? You think you’re so handsome, huh!?”

“A-am I not!? B-but men with rounder bellies are more popular among us dwarves…”

“To hell with dwarves’ standard of beauty!? I’ll give it to you straight, in our eyes, you’re nothing but a sweaty fatty!?”

“Ehh!?”

Porco-san seemed to have received a huge shock, but perhaps he still couldn’t believe that he wasn’t as handsome as he’d thought, as he immediately ran up to Magmell and said, “M-my goddess, please tell me that isn’t true!? I-I’m handsome, right!?”

“E-err…”

Looking at Porco breathing heavily with sweat rained down his face, as Elma’d said, I couldn’t think of anything but sweaty fatty to describe him.

“Stop it, you’re bothering her!”

――Pull.

“Fugyuh!? U-umm, I have this feeling since a while ago, but you’ve been acting weirdly, Saintess-sama!?”

“Shaddap! This is the real me!”

“Eek!?”

Hit by the fact that Elma wasn’t as he thought her to be and that he wasn’t handsome by human standard, Porco-san, who was being dragged by Elma, was very, very shocked.

◇ ◇

Afterwards, having entrusted Magmell and the others to look after the depressed Porco-san, I took Arca and Shiva-san to chase after the blackdollified Agartha.

Actually, I’d wanted to hear in detail how Porco-san had ended up protecting Elma, but we were currently in an emergency where the demi-humans might get exterminated.

Hence, I’d prioritized the purification of the ‘Spear’ Saint Agartha and saved the rest of the story for later.

“Well, everyone has their own charm… and each race probably has their own standard of beauty too…”

Arca nodded, “Right. Even in the nature, animals with big horns are usually the more popular ones. That being the case, it wouldn’t be strange if there are people out there who prefer someone with big belly.”

“I-is that so…”

For some reason, that sounded weird to me. How strange.

“But since he’s a dwarf, I wonder if he’s acquainted with Nazarie-san.”

“I think it’s likely. Hey, you said the ‘Shield’ is a little different from the other rare skill-holders, didn’t you?”

To Arca’s question, Shiva-san nodded, “Yep,” and said, “as I said before, the ‘Shield’ has a stronger sense of duty than the other rare skill holders, and thus given more power. Hence, their existence cannot be openly known. So, I think that Nazarie-san person may not know that he is the ‘Shield’.”

“I see.”

Certainly, Nazarie-san would’ve told us about it had she known.

Maybe only a handful of people, such as the village chief, knew about it.

“Still, if men with rotund bellies are popular among the dwarves, Nazarie’s probably into that type of men too. Though she still got charmed by Hesperios, who could be said to be the exact opposite type,” said Arca.

“Well, that Charm is more of a hypnosis of sorts… the only question is, when you look at the state of the village, you’d likely think that a petite, slender woman like Nazarie-san would be considered beautiful among the dwarves, and the one most similar to her is Tirna. But why did he choose to make advances on Magmell instead?”

When I tilted my head, Arca hummed, “Hmm…” while making pondering gesture for a moment, before saying with a serious look, “He may be the kind of guy who’s into ugly women. You know, the so called ‘bisen’.” [1]

“Ehh…”

What the heck is that…

Needless to say, I couldn’t stop my face from twitching.

[1] Bisen is used to refer to someone who’s attracted to people who are generally considered unattractive.