Ore no Osananajimi wa Joshikousei de Yuusha Chapter 43

“Ha ha ha ha! The Princess did that!”

When I told the guard knights the story, they rolled in laughter.

“Yer right”

Their names were Koji and Kars.

When Arina and I protected Princess to the end in the Isky residence, these two opened up to us.

A whole day after the incident passed.

We were then given a room and we stayed there from then on.

It was called a ‘cheap restaurant’ in this world, but basically, it was a ‘bar-room’.
The city was wrapped in an air of enthusiasm since noon, there were hawking voices, haggling voices, the voices of street performers, hyaho–is, and the sounds of musical instruments that look like bagpipes and accordions. This bar is no exception, it’s noisy with the sound of people ordering sausages and drink refills.

There was me, Arina, Koji, and Kars sitting around the round table sharing an extra-large portion of pasta and eating. Though it’s called pasta it’s a strange dish that had small cuts like Soba, and you put it in your personal plate and eat it with salty soup.

“I’ve bought juice refills”

She’s now changed from wearing maid clothes to some linen commoner clothes.

……. well, I do have to take some kind of responsibility for her body, so I can’t exactly say no.

“Nah, it’s alright”

If you want alcohol, the waitresses always carry some on their trays so they can quickly offer some, but drinks other than that take some time so they don’t really like it.

“I am a kid”

“In my country, fifteen still counts as a kid!”

“Anyway, why wasn’t Mist called to the ceremony, too? After all the things you went through together with us…” I said, to which Mist replied with her own guess.

Though the other maids have slightly different circumstances.

Suddenly Arina said something like that.

“Even if Arina is stupid you can’t look down on Arina’s womanly intuition. Fu fu fu”

Is she drunk?

“… but seriously, it was a terrifying thing, huh”

“Even though Glenn was her fiancé, but for him to even cast a spell on her and try to hijack the country is…”

Kars nodded.

――though it actually didn’t end as an attempt.

The fact that the Princess came this close to being raped by Glenn was of course a secret of the state.

The Princess discovered the bugs, a frenzied Glenn released a monster, and we protected the Princess from it.

If those parasites entered the Princess even once, she wouldn’t be able to wear that dress of chastity.
She’s really having it hard.

“But here’s where it starts, you know. There’s no way Marquis Isky doesn’t get the blame for this”

His son became a traitor, he himself is paralysed from the waist down, and Madam Welsh and Tris was killed by his own fake, even the maids left one after the other, saying that the house is cursed.

“Which leaves us with who to defend the Cidre border?”

“They’re in way over their heads, they can’t hold it for long”
“You can say that again. Also, there’s the fact that the Princess has no fiancé now”

“What happens now that she doesn’t have a fiancé?”
I interjected.

“Actually, His Majesty the King is in a bad physical condition right now”

Ah, now that you mention it.

“His Majesty had long been bedridden”

“But there’s Princess Rosé so it’s not like you’re going to be out all of a sudden, right?”
As I said that, the knights looked away as if they had something difficult to say.

“……. it’s impossible for the Princess”
Mist then continued from there.

“This country, even us commoners knew that even though we’re not at a direct war with our neighbors, we’re at a confrontation with them. If the King died and we’re only left with the Princess, everyone would feel uneasy”

” ‘Will Cidre come and invade’, ‘Will the Princess be alright if that happens’, ‘If we’re going to lose, wouldn’t we be better off surrendering from the start’ …. things like that”

“Not just war. We also risk famine because farmers leave their fields and fishermen run away”
“Before that happens, Princess Rosé needs a strong fiancé”

—— which is how Glenn came into the picture.

If what Tris so proudly said was right, Marquis Isky was a military family.

If you ignore what’s inside, they had a name worthy of being the next King.

“As the ones who are always next to her, we know that better than anyone”

I’ve learnt things like that when studying history, but when it happens to a girl I know it’s….

“—— Yuuki, you’re a good guy, huh”

“Worrying about other people sounds like a simple thing, but that distinguishes character. If Glenn had kindness like you, none of this would’ve happened”

“I’m not planning to, but even so, there’s nothing I can do for her right now”

“From the way things are going, I think there’s soon going to be a time we have to borrow your strength”

I thought for a while, then…

I asked Arina.

We were rolled up in the Isky incident and lazed around for several days, but the real reason we went on this journey was for the Hero Arina to defeat the Demon Lord.

“But right now we don’t know where we should go …., um”

I wanted to stay here until Princess’ troubles calmed down.
That was what I was going to say, but Arina answered before I could.

“Then we should first prepare the things we’ll need for daily life”

“Yuu-kun, you don’t know how we buy things here in this country, do you? Come with me”

“You’re a lifesaver”
I thanked Mist.

“A, A, Arina goes too!”

“At least to carry the things…”

“Eh, but”

“B, but…”

“……. uuu, …….. auuuu, okay, Arina, will go back, and sweep…”

“All right. Yuu-kun…. let’s go!”
I’m sure I misheard Mist mumble ‘I won’ there somewhere.

“A woman’s will is trully terrifying, huh”

Koji and Kars muttered something, but I pretended not to hear and left the bar-room with Mist.

Chapter end