Ore no Osananajimi wa Joshikousei de Yuusha Chapter 54

I wanted to take Lady Demy all the way back to the castle, but sadly, since she went out incognito I couldn’t accompany her all the way to the end so she reluctantly said goodbye and turned towards the Nobles’ ward.

I then loitered around the shopping town, still looking for a kettle.

Then after asking a passerby for help, I somehow found the store in ten minutes, but this time I racked my head over what to buy. From the chat with the lantern shop owner I knew I’m not good with judging items. That said, if I went back with a random one — no, no matter how you put it I’ll definitely be yelled at once I get back. I have to prepare myself.
Anyway, I should at least hold on and bought something reasonable.

PIRIRIRIRI.

The E:ID phone rang.

Oi oi, I’m in another world right now!

[Hello, Yuu-kun? It’s Arina]

I reflexively retorted in front of the store!

“HUH? Eh, what, what’s going on? How are you phoning me just like that!?”

“SO YOU HAVE ONE TOO AFTER ALL!”

“No no no, hold on a sec. You can just handwave the base station and how you dial the number with magic cores, but say something earlier!!”

Yep. I didn’t ask.

[Ah, you’re right …]

I spun myself around once like a piece of broken garbage.

Well, in this world without phones, it’d look like I was talking and yelling to myself.

[A, m, m, maybe it’s bad to call right now? I … I’m sorry!!]

“Nah, I can’t spoil the mood between you and Lady Demy. S, sorry, Arina, isn’t considerate enough …”

[Eh? Well, since you’re not with Mist-chan then you must be with Lady Demy, right?”

[Ah, AAAH … t, t t t that’s right!! Yuu-kun, this is bad! Mist-chan is!!]

†

A girl wearing a pastel-colored costume was standing on the crater-like cavity on the road. She was holding a staff that was as long as she was tall, and was wearing a three-ply haori and skirt and a large ribbon on her back.

Her upper body was clad in metal armor, but its pink color and heart-mark inlays made it look more cute rather than imposing.

She looked just like a …

“Yeay! Did Phinegar-chan’s Super ☆ Transformation surprise you?”

“Hello, Yuuki-kun. I’m the alchemist Phinegar-chan, nice to meet you – ♪”

Also, I think I’m sure she said Salamander Cannon just now?

The Magical Girl’s shoulder cannons looked similar, but in that case how did she get the same kind of weapon as me?

“Eh? You’re looking for a fight? Your replica can’t possibly win against my Elixir, you know?”

“But do you still want to try a shot?”

[action!!]

The first one to move was Phinegar with Bombardment.

“Damn! Strike Bubble!!”

I made a Bubble Barrier to protect me — but it failed!!

“Defense Magic!!”

It was Arina.

“Y, Yuu-kun, I’m sorry!”

“I came out …”

Honestly, if she didn’t appear I would’ve been screwed.

“Huh—? Who’s the plain little girl? I never heard about you?”

“Arina-san who works together with Yuuki-san in the Isky residence, I hear …”

“Don’t say waiting on me! … ah, but um, I guess I can’t deny all of it”

Mist pinched me hard.

Phinegar pointed her staff at me.

She said without a trace of her playfulness left.

“… h, huh?”

“It’s no use playing dumb. I can see it slightly. There’s something other than the ‘bug’ inside Rosé when she came back from the Isky residence”

Mist yelled.

“Eh …?”

… Looks like she has some baseless misunderstandings about me ….

I put my sword away in the E:ID phone.

“Talk …?”

“I’ll tell you all I know. Even about Mist. I have a responsibility. I don’t really know about Princess Rosé’s body, but I’ll tell everything I know just in case I might have had some influence there”

The butler called Mailles groaned.

“Eh? No way. Seriously? Uh oh. Well, can’t be helped”

“Eeh!?”

Arina defended me again, but,

BOOM, BOOM, bombardments came at me one after the other.

“ARN? U, um, I really, really don’t know what you’re talking about!!”

[‘Fenrir Lancer’. Make it to equip!]

At the same time, the air around us became cold.

“I’M NOT LETTING ROSÉ TURN INTO THE DEMON LORD!!”

This is bad, I’m really getting killed this time —, but then…

“HEY YOU LOT!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE!!”

Fweeee, a whistle sounded.

“…. whoops, this is not good”

Looks like even she doesn’t want to get in trouble with the cops.

“Indeed, not cool— oof!?”

“Yuuki-kun. Let’s leave it at this for today. Whoop!”

“Be ready next time we meet. Bye, let’s play again later”

“………”

“Aaaah, we have to run away, too….!”

I don’t know what to say if we get caught.
Mist turned into mist and blinded the policeman while we used the time to escape.

†

“— please explain one more time,” said Rosé pointedly in an office inside the castle.

The furniture would lead a stranger who’s unfamiliar with the customs of this world to think this was a place where nobles eat. This was the meeting room where royals and officials would personally meet with members of the senate. The impression of an eating place was not too far off the mark, because this was a country ruled by royal command, and the peculiar custom was that it was done with food and tea on the side. This room was furnished and named for that.

“With all due respect, Your Princessly Highness’ command to ‘override the fake seal’ is not practically doable at this time”

Rosé scrunched her eyebrows.

“That would be preposterous. However, the fake was actually made with delicate precision. Even we who inspected it was fooled”

“Your Ladyship, we can’t invalidate it. It’s already become the real thing. If we did invalidate it then the real one would lose its value too”

While it’s true that if such an elaborate imitation was circulating around the real thing would’ve gotten rolled up were it to be invalidated, but nevertheless, she couldn’t let Maar’s family die and do nothing about it.

“Your Highness, are you saying you would allot tax funds for that work alone?”

“Your Highness, if we do that, we will have to reassign some from military expenditures. But now after Marquis Isky’s fall, the situation with Cidre is unstable. The enemy would likely sense what was going on with the reissue of the seal. In the worst case, the whole country would go down just for one citizen”
ISKY AGAIN…!!

Alone in the office, Rosé had her head in her hands.

The consul left with that conclusion.

Who knows how long that man would take until he found the criminal, who knows how long until Maar gets lost by the wayside.

And yet, she couldn’t do anything.

So the clean and pure Rosé is this powerless….

[Princess Rosé can definitely do something right now]

“Not yet …! There’s still something I can do …!”

Chapter end