episode_0019

Day 1 of the Spoiled Elf Rehabilitation Project.

What method should I use to rehabilitate this ill-mannered, race-discriminating spoiled elf?

The first stage of this project is,

close contact.

-Cling.

Merina hates humans,

so by sticking with her all day long, I will reduce her aversion to the human race.

It’s a pretty drastic measure,

but it will be effective.

Kids are originally weak to physical contact.

As expected, a fierce reaction erupted.

“Wh-wh-what are you doing?!”

“Hehe, can’t go.”

“G-g-get off me right now!”

“No.”

“Eek!”

Merina tried her best to get me off,

-Squeak.

But, as expected of a little elf, she couldn’t match my strength.

After squeaking a bit more, she eventually gave up and accepted my presence.

“Hmph. My opinion won’t change just because of this…!”

“Hmm. Really?”

“Of course. Hmph.”

Even if she says that while nestled in my arms, it’s just cute.

But of course, I can’t uproot Merina’s ideology itself with just this.

I immediately implemented stage 2.

“Merina.”

“Yes?”

“Okay, repeat after me. ‘Humans don’t smell, aren’t ugly, and aren’t stupid.’”

Stage 2. Repetitive brainwashing.

This is also the simplest and most effective method.

But Merina was not easy this time either.

“Wh-why should I repeat that?”

“Come on, repeat it quickly.”

“Hmph. What if I don’t want to?”

I stared intently at Merina, who was refusing while caught in my arms.

-Stare~

“Why, why are you looking at me like that?”

“Sigh. You’re really not going to do it?”

“Of course. Such foolish words. There’s no way I would say them, right?”

“Then I have no choice.”

“Yes?”

I sighed and raised my hand.

After that, I grabbed Merina’s cheeks as she panicked…

and stretched them out.

“…! Mmphfff!!!”

“I really didn’t want to do this, but I have no choice for our Merina. This older sister will give you a punishment of love with tears in her eyes…!”

“Whaareyoodoing(What are you doing)!!”

Merina protested wildly,

but I stubbornly kept pulling on her cheeks.

After a while,

I released Merina’s cheeks and asked again.

“Okay. Do you feel like repeating it now?”

“Ughhh… My cheeks…! Ugh….”

“Uh-huh. You have to answer.”

“What on earth are you doing!! My cheeks feel like they’re burning up!”

“Oh oh? Merina. Are you rebelling against your older sister now?”

“I, I don’t have a human as my older sister!”

‘You said you liked it and called me older sister before.’

She’s even blushing, geez.

I sighed and muttered.

“Hmph. Still not enough.”

Feeling something from my sigh, she stepped back.

-Flinch.

“Th-there, Ms. Serena? Can we talk for a moment…?”

“Talk? Talking is good. But you know,”

I grabbed her cheeks again and said.

“I like physical conversations more.”

Just before grabbing her white and soft cheeks again,

“Wa-wa-wait a minute!!!”

Merina shouted ‘Stop!’ in a desperate voice.

“O-okay, I’ll do it. I’ll repeat it, so please stop with the cheeks…!”

“Oh oh. You finally feel like it.”

“Ugh… How did I end up like this….”

“Okay. You have to repeat it quickly.”

“…Wh-what should I say?”

“Listen carefully. ‘Humans don’t smell, aren’t ugly, and aren’t stupid.’”

“Ugh….”

“Hurry up!”

“Hu… hu….”

“That’s right.”

“Humans….”

-Tremble tremble

Merina trembled for a long time as she was so upset, and then shouted.

“Hu, humans smell, are ugly, and are stupid!!!!”

-Huff huff.

Oh dear.

Unfortunately, Merina didn’t seem to want to be ‘rehabilitated’ yet.

I shook my head and approached her again.

“Oh dear, Merina. That’s not it.”

“Ugh…!”

“Looks like the punishment of love wasn’t enough.”

“Go, go ahead! Y-yes, Ms. Serena is also violent like humans and there’s no refinement to be found!!”

“Hmm.”

I stroked my chin and said.

“Even if I’m violent, I might not be unrefined?”

“Hmph. How can someone who tries to solve things with violence because they don’t follow their words be refined!”

“Hey. That and that are separate.”

“You’re impossible to talk to! Anyway, I will never change my mind about humans, so know that!”

After saying that, Merina sat down in her seat and took a posture of closing her eyes and offering her cheeks.

A more forceful response than I thought.

But even this was somewhat within my calculations.

Okay, it’s time to activate the final stage 3.

I said to Merina.

“Merina. Then do you hate all races except elves?”

“Yes? Do you see me as some heinous racist? I only hate humans!”

-I don’t hate other races like beastmen or dwarves!

‘Just hating humans is already racism.’

I barely swallowed the words that came up to my throat and said.

“Then do you think elves are superior to humans in ‘every’ area?”

“Hmph. Of course. There’s no way our elves are inferior to humans in any way.”

“Hmm~. I think there might be something that humans are better than elves at.”

“What?!”

Merina, who was scratched by my words, immediately showed a fierce reaction.

“Ha! How can inferior humans be better than elves at anything?!”

“Well, if you look hard, there might be one or two things, right?”

“No! Ab.so.lutely not a single one!”

“Really?”

“Of course!”

“What if there is?”

“Hmph!”

At my question, Merina confidently declared in a confident tone.

“If there is even one thing that humans are better than elves at, I will not ignore humans in the future.”

-Smirk.

‘She took the bait.’

I smiled inwardly and said.

“Really? You promised?”

“Of course. Hmph.”

“Okay. Then I’ll think hard about it.”

“Well, I hope you can find it before I go back.”

-Of course, there’s no way there is!

Merina, who shouted with confidence until the end, left the lecture hall and disappeared after saying those words.

-Thump.

‘She’s still young after all.’

Racist or whatever,

in the end, her essence was definitely that of a child.

‘To end up giving a spoiled elf race-discriminating brat a hard time.’

So many things happen in life.

I had already decided how to break Merina’s high nose.

With what?

Well of course,

‘with what I’m best at.’

I was also curious about what elven music was like,

and it seems like I’ll be able to listen to it this time.

‘There’s no way I’ll lose with this, right?’

* * *

After telling Merina that ‘I will find something that humans are better than elves at’.

She started picking fights with me every time we met.

“Hmph. Still haven’t found it yet?”

“As expected, you’re an inferior race.”

“Even if it’s Ms. Serena, I hope you realize the subject of the human race.”

“Why don’t you just admit the limitations of the human race?”

Honestly, my blood pressure was rising slightly,

but I vowed to pay her back several times later and held back.

‘Hmph. It would be a shame if I found it right away.’

In fact, because Merina’s perception of me was ‘above humans but below elves’, she must have been thinking this and that inside.

What if I really find something,

what kind of impulsive behavior I will do again,

if there are people outside of her common sense like me among humans, then what should she do about her ‘beliefs’, etc.

But even these thoughts will gradually fade if I don’t respond.

‘After all, I was right. Humans are inferior.’

-In the form of.

And just when she was sure of her beliefs,

-Thump.

‘I’ll break it down at once.’

It’s a kind of shock therapy.

Rather than vaguely shaking her beliefs, it’s better to break them down completely.

That’s my style.

‘But this is kind of annoying.’

It’s a good thing that the other party is a cute little spoiled brat,

if a grown-up had these beliefs and came at me, I would have been really angry.

‘I guess there are some things that are forgiven because she’s young.’

Anyway, since she’s young, there’s still room for rehabilitation.

‘I’ll definitely rehabilitate you in just two more days.’

Trust me, Chieftain!

Just prepare the Tears of the World Tree well.

* * *

Two days later.

The day of the showdown dawned.

Merina, who met me again today, approached me spouting lines that a spoiled brat would say.

“Oh my~. Ms. Serena. You still haven’t found the ‘excellence’ of humans today, have you?”

“It’s Merina.”

“Hehe. Don’t be too disappointed. There’s no way that an inferior race like humans is superior to elves….”

If it were usual, I would have listened to her lines until the end,

but today is the day I completed the analysis for rehabilitation.

I interrupted her words in the middle and said.

“There is.”

“Ha. What on earth is superior to elves about humans?”

“Music.”

“…What?”

“I’ve listened to some of the elves’ music.”

This was not a lie.

Since I needed a little preliminary investigation,

I went around here and there and listened to what the elves’ music was like.

To summarize the elves’ music.

‘A type that plays music using only their voices without using any other instruments.’

The elf race is said to have not only a perfect appearance but also a voice that is almost perfectly beautiful, so just singing is heard as music.

To put it nicely, their voices are good, so their music is good.

In other words…

‘It’s just based on physical talent.’

At best, they only use a simple flute.

I deliberately asked Merina questions to induce answers.

“I heard that you elves have amazing voices?”

“Of course. As you can tell from my voice, when we sing, we are said to be comparable to the singing of the sirens?”

“So you don’t use instruments very often.”

“Our voices are instruments, so why do we need them?”

“Hee~.”

I started to get going and said with a smile.

“Is it because you can’t use them?”

“Wh-wh-what, what, what did you say??”

As expected, Merina, who was scratched a lot, got angry and said.

“Ha! Unlike inferior humans who have to rely on such tools, we don’t use instruments because we can create complete music with just our voices!”

Merina was pouring out words in one long breath as she was so angry, but I had no intention of backing down this time either.

“Instruments are not meant to fill in incomplete parts, but to create harmony by layering different types of sounds?”

“Eek…!!!! You’re really impossible to talk to!!”

Unlike usual, Merina stomped her feet and said as I spoke logically and point by point without backing down.

“Then, let’s compete to see whose music is more beautiful!”

Merina finally showed the reaction I wanted.

I smiled slyly and said.

“Okay. How should we compete?”

“Very~ simply. Let’s each perform music in the lecture hall of this magic tower.”

“How do we judge?”

“Let’s leave the judging to the humans of the magic tower.”

“Oh.”

Leaving the judging to humans.

This is a bit unexpected?

But the following words were as expected.

“I’ll engrave on their bones whose music is more noble even for those lowly people to hear.”

“Hmm. That’s what you meant.”

“Of course. You should be grateful, you know? The opportunity to hear elven music directly with your own ears is rare.”

-Especially for humans.

She said sarcastically until the end.

“Then when should we do it?”

“Why drag it out? I’m ready whenever Ms. Serena is ready.”

“Really? Then let’s do it at lunchtime tomorrow.”

“Okay!”

Merina said triumphantly until the end and left.

“Don’t you dare back out tomorrow!”

“Okay, okay. You have to accept the result?”

“Ha. That’s what I should be saying!”

Okay.

‘Chieftain, are you watching?’

D-1 until your daughter is rehabilitated.

‘I will definitely rehabilitate her and return her.’

Only one day left until the spoiled elf race-discriminating brat is rehabilitated.