Chapter 47 Even Language
「Guhaa!?」
『Eeh!? What’s with you so suddenly!?』
「I-is there something wrong…?」
I suddenly collapsed from my knees. Cursed sword and Pamela leaks a confused voice.
On the other hand, only Magali looked at me dubiously. Hey, show your concern.
But, I’m just feigning illness. If she is seriously worried, it will feel disgusting instead.
「Ah, sorry…. Actually, about this sword…」
「Yes, I know about it.」
When I showed the source of all evil, the cursed sword, while breathing heavily, Pamela nodded right away.
I feel like that her eyes were shining for a moment… but it doesn’t matter. If she wants this, I’ll give it for free.
「This sword puts an enormous burden to the bearer…. It seems that the burden attacks me just now. With this, it seems I can’t go to your place…」
「!?」
「Oh dear……」
When I announce so, Magali opens her eyes and Pamela is surprised with her hand on her mouth.
Hmph… nailed it!
Secret Technique ・ Feigning Illness. This removes me from having to go to the mermaid settlement and only Magali will charge there.
Despite Malta’s denial, the impression that mermaids drag humans into the sea has never faded in me. I’m not a stupid person that removes all of my vigilance just by the words of a woman that I met for the first time.
Go and get buried by the dangerous mermaids, Magali.
「That’s why, I’m sorry, Magali. Please go alone.」
「Uh!? Uh!?」
Magali looks upset. To such her, I show my greatest smile.
「O-ohoho. What are you talking about, Alistar? We are being one in body and soul. There’s no way we’ll be apart.」
「I don’t remember we became like that.」
Magali begins to say incomprehensible things while having cold sweat.
Me and that woman being one in body and soul? If so, please kill me.
「Saint-sama! I will accompany you, so don’t worry!」
It was Herge that shouted so to such Magali.
That’s good, Herge-kun. You need to be aggressive in love. If you’re being passive, she might be taken by Eria. Yeah, go more without hesitation.
It’s good that my advice seems to be working.
「Y-yes… (You traitoooooooor!!)」
「(I don’t remember being your friend in the first place…)」
Of course, Magali couldn’t take a cold attitude toward Herge, she can only smile vaguely.
We are abusing each other with eye contact, but I’m doing it with composure and it’s amusing.
When I think so, Pamela appears in front of me.
What do you want, you bastard….
「I see… You can’t come no matter what? Saint-sama is of course, but I’m hoping for you to come too.」
Pamela said so and smiled. At the same time, the villagers… especially the men were collapsing with a loose face.
Somehow, I feel like a strange wave hit me.
『Ah… this might be bad, Alistar.』
While listening to the cursed swords’ words, I can’t take my eyes off Pamela’s face.
And then, what I thought is……
Eh, what the hell with that smile… disgusting.
『Eehh…』
Somehow, that smile gives shiver to my spine. That’s eerie.
「(That’s a creepy smile right, Alistar?)」
「(It’s been a long time since I agree with you, Magali.)」
I and Magali nodded to each other.
No matter how well a person’s appearance is, if that person shows a smile like that, it only gives me an unpleasant feeling. I can’t trust it.
……Not that I trust other people though.
Well, how should I put it… I feel like her interior is different from the beautiful mermaid who’s attractive to the villagers.
I believe in my intuition.
「Well, will you come to our settlement and become my friend?」
Pamela, who can’t sense my mind, still showing her disgusting smile and then holds my hand. I received a strange wave again, but my answer is already decided.
「Um… I will refrain.」
「Eh……?」
Receiving my answer, Pamela went blank. It was as if she didn’t understand what I was saying.
However, she finally understood and raised her face.
「W-why? I think there’s no loss being friend with a mermaid though?」
……Come to think of it, mermaids rarely appear in front of humans, right?
That’s why the villagers made a fuss about the mermaid coming.
Well, that said, I don’t think I want to be their friend. If it’s okay to sell them, I’ll be their friend though. But, I don’t have the courage to do it, and the cursed sword will never allow it…
And speaking of mermaid’s friend….
「Ah, well… I already have a mermaid friend. So, I’m good.」
「Wha…!?」
To my words, this time Pamela peels off her smiling face and shocked.
Mermaid’s friend… yes, I have unfortunately become related to a mermaid, Malta, last night. I want to break off this relationship immediately, but it was useful now.
「(You, when did you do that interesting thing? You should have called me. I’ll watch it and make fun of you.)」
「(Just in case, I thought that you would say that, so I threw a stone yesterday night.)」
「(So that was your fault! I was scared and couldn’t sleep well!!)」
Magali, who was laughing at me, suddenly changed her expression into anger.
Emotional instability? How scary….
「M-my proposal was… rejected…? T-that’s….」
Pamela’s dismay was more than I expected. Her gait is uncertain, and she’s sweating.
…Why is she so upset? There must be a time when she was being refused too.
『Ahh… about that.』
It seems that the cursed sword knows something. He starts talking like that.
What? Is there a reason?
『Perhaps, it’s the first time she’s being refused… or if it’s not that, being refused might be very rare for her.』
It was me who surprised this time.
Did she get spoiled so much?
I was almost never get refused with my good-person performance and my ikemen face, but there were some bunch that refused, you know?
Although I will never forget those who refused and I will never help them when they are really in trouble.
『No, that’s not it. You were having a bad feeling… or something like that, right? That’s it.』
Hm? Sure, Pamela’s smile was somehow unbearable…
『She… Pamela was it? She uses powerful charm magic. That’s why she hasn’t had much rejection when she requested something so far.』
I feel like I heard ridiculous words just now.
…Charm? Magic?
That was used to me?
『Yeah. It’s a magic that gives your opponent the feeling of falling in love and manipulates them as you please. Basically, it only works for the opposite sex, so here only male villagers that madly in love.』
……Aren’t that powerful!?
T-that dangerous magic was used to me!?
If things go bad, I will become a doll that could be manipulated at Pamela’s will…?
Screw that…! It’s okay for me to use people, but there’s no way that others can use me…!
『You, the opposite sex who hadn’t received any magic resistance training, normally you should have got captured by the charm… but you resisted the charm by your own power just now. Even though there is nothing amateurs can do against charm. That’s amazing.』
Eh, is that so?
I’m not doing anything special though…
Hmph… It means that my mental strength is strong. That’s reasonable.
I’m not only a good-looking man, but also has a fine mind… I’m amazing if I have to say myself.
『No, you were just crying when you fought the Gray Guild.』
Shut up.
『But, now I can’t overlook it.』
…………Eh?
I don’t understand what the cursed sword is saying. No, I don’t want to understand. Because I know that I’ll be manipulated again by his unreasonableness…
『There must be an objective if she used charm magic while making the request.』
T-that’s right. That’s why we should stay here without responding to the other party’s request, right?
I won’t give up… I won’t give up…!
We had a head-on collision with the criminal organization, Gray Guild, for Silk. Isn’t that enough already?
That should be enough for a good deed in my life. Don’t give me any more pain…
『Normally, I will be fine with that, but… you heard her family name, right? Pilati… it’s the same as Malta.』
But, the cursed sword drives me to the edge of the cliff.
Stop! This development, nobody wants it!
She has the same family name as Malta, so what? There’s no need to think about someone we just met yesterday.
『You can’t! The bearer of the holy sword is a hero! You have to help people! You won’t get the tiger cub without entering the tiger’s den. Let’s go!』
Screw that! I have never wanted to get a tiger cub!
The hell with hero things, you just parasitizing me as you please!
You should switch to someone with such aspirations!
『It can’t be helped, there is no suitable person other than you!』
No, I don’t want to!! I won’t yield to the headache this time!
『If so, I’ll just forcibly move your mouth!』
Ehh!?
That’s right…! Not only giving pain, but he can also manipulate the body… no, even language!
You really can’t call yourself a Holy Sword, you know!?
「E-excuse me…」
My mouth starts moving without my intention.
Pamela and Magali also stare suspiciously.
S-stooooooooop!!
「I bwill go thoo.」
Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
I can only feel despair to the broken language that I uttered.
