Ch.156Getting to Know the NPC (5)

In the middle of Mount Ponia, there was a cave. This place, which originally sealed something away, had been claimed by a demon who had built an ecosystem completely different from before.

“Hmm~? What’s that? There are TWO forest keepers?”

“Yes. We sent a mid-level demon as usual, but one is the forest keeper who always rejects our master. The other one is…”

“Wait~ Let me see, bring the core here~”

A nearly naked woman, covering only her essential parts, bowed her head and handed over a completely shattered piece of flesh to her.

“Hmm~ I’ll look at it myself, so you go take care of your business~”

“Yes, Master.”

The woman who received the broken mid-level demon core gestured, and the bowing woman turned around and headed toward the bare cave wall. As she placed her hand on the wall to exit, it opened briefly and…

“Aaahh♡”

“♥Coming~!!”

“Huff!! Huff!!”

Various ecstatic voices echoed briefly with the sounds of flesh slapping against flesh, and after she left, the space became silent again.

Luxuria, the Demon of Lust. The space she ruled was a realm of carnal desire where countless beings from across the continent, consumed by lust, engaged in endless “love-making.”

Luxuria smiled with satisfaction at the sounds she had briefly heard, then began to read the memories contained in the core in her hand.

What she saw was the familiar gray-haired forest keeper carrying a female white tiger on his back.

She took a small breath as she observed him through the mid-level demon’s memories.

“Aah~♥ I’m so jealous~♡”

She exhaled a heated breath, envious of the “female” on his back.

While she planned to get her hands on that “male” someday, she checked several times, clearly jealous of the female by the side of that strong, handsome male.

And then.

“…Hmm. But is the female injured? I had ordered them not to kill her.”

I, one of the Seven Deadly Sins demons, fell for the first “male” I encountered on this mountain after descending to this world.

I never imagined that on the day of my first descent, there would be a “male” who could resist my power, challenge me to a fight, and even wound me.

Of course, the wound was just a slight damage to the tip of my wing, but still, the image of that gray male who dared to confront me that day was incredibly intense.

And because of that.

“Hmm, the demons have gotten stronger? I need to weaken them a bit. If that tiger dies, I’ll be hated forever.”

The demons called [Chimera] are born in her domain, feeding on the flesh of monsters and humans. She never intended to use such trash demons, but Pride had pressured her due to the delayed domain expansion, so she had no choice but to use them.

However, she had no intention of letting them roam freely yet. That’s why she used her power to weaken the Chimeras.

But seeing the white tiger injured by the recently strengthened Chimeras, she used her power once more to weaken them.

“Phew~! Surely he’ll notice this? That they’ve weakened again~ I hope he realizes this is my love~♡ Maybe~ next time we meet, he’ll want to date me~? No, he definitely will~! He’ll definitely notice this~~♡ Am I possibly getting a proposal~?♥”

After finishing her urgent task, she quickly indulged in her fantasies, then looked back at the core’s memories.

“Oh my?! Oh my my!!”

In the mid-level demon’s view, there had clearly been the gray forest keeper carrying the tiger.

But now, “another” gray forest keeper who had just kicked the mid-level demon head-on began to appear in the field of vision.

Though slightly less wild in appearance than the one she usually saw, this man had unblemished, well-defined features and movements that were far more wild and violent.

He fought magnificently against the mid-level demon, seemingly for the first time, shouting rough curses and cries with a splendid voice.

-CRUNCH!!

“Mmm~♥ What’s this, what’s this!! So handsome! There are two handsome ones!!”

The way he completely destroyed the mid-level demon’s vision at the end was identical to the other one.

However.

“Hmm. But, is someone trying to fool me by transforming into that man’s appearance?”

After pressing down her pounding heart with one hand, she quietly replayed the core’s memories.

Perhaps one of her followers, or another demon’s follower, was trying to trick her… or maybe they had noticed that she was “deliberately” delaying the invasion and was trying to bait her by transforming.

After reviewing the core’s memories about 20 more times.

“…What is this? They look completely identical, but the person inside is different?”

A human with no magical power or demonic energy.

She realized that while the muscles developed in various places were slightly different and the scars on the face were slightly different, he was perfectly identical to the “forest keeper.”

However, the contents were different. The “soul” looked completely different, to the point where there was not even a slight resemblance.

Could it be.

“Is this a miracle?! Could someone have sent down another ‘forest keeper’ to accept my love~?!♥”

A miracle spoken of by the gods who stand opposite to the Seven Deadly Sins demons. Could it possibly have descended upon her?

After such an absurd fantasy, Luxuria began to slowly cool her overexcited mind. And then.

-FLAP!!

“Ah, I don’t know! They’re both strong and handsome anyway! I should go meet them first!”

She spread her enormous wings wide and opened a path through the ceiling of the blocked cave, slowly rising into the sky.

If someone had seen it, they might have shouted, “Why isn’t it collapsing?! It collapsed when Gorg hit the wall!!” But she had no reason to know that.

“While stealing someone else’s love isn’t my hobby, if there are two of them, I could take one, right? No, should I take both and lose both my virginities at once?! Am I going to do it today~!?”

Twisting her body as she rose, she flew slowly down toward the base of Mount Ponia, grinning broadly.

The appearance of a certain forest keeper had thus begun to turn the wheels of history in “another world.”

*

“Get lost, why are you following me?”

“This happened because you said you were going down the mountain.”

“Sigh. What does me going down the mountain have to do with you following me?”

-Rustle, rustle.

“Eek?!!”

“Miho, don’t leave marks on that guy and come here.”

“Growl♡”

I left the cabin, not wanting to talk any further with this forest keeper (bestiality pervert) bastard.

I don’t know what the trial entails yet, but one thing is clear.

There’s nothing I need to learn from or emulate about this guy. Absolutely nothing.

He called over the white tiger that had been rubbing its head against my leg, and the tiger happily purred and wrapped its tail around him as he searched for it.

…Ugh, I don’t want to think about it. If I consider that this is the same as when Miho wrapped around my hand, it’s truly horrifying.

“If you go down alone, people in the village might confuse you and me. So of course we should go together.”

“…Village? That pathetic leaf village still exists?”

“Pathetic… what? Poria Village is obviously still there. It’s still functioning firmly as a barrier city for Mount Ponia.”

“…Ba-barrier city?”

He began to explain, seeming a bit bewildered that I didn’t know this.

Demons had appeared on Mount Ponia, and he, along with knights sent from the country and adventurers, had barely managed to contain them.

And as the mountain’s keeper, he was tasked with monitoring the demons and managing the mountain, and with numerous resources and human capital sent by the country besides the knights, the village below the mountain had been upgraded to a barrier city, now functioning like an outpost.

…This is completely different from the [Eight] world I know. They stopped the demon invasion? So, Ponia wasn’t destroyed?

“Don’t tell me, in your world, Ponia was destroyed? Because of the demons that appeared on this mountain?”

“…It wasn’t destroyed.”

I omitted the “but it soon will be” part.

I don’t care whether Ponia is destroyed or not, and after this trial is over, I’ll just stop by the guild briefly for a request, then flee back to Neti.

So I went down the mountain with him.

“Put on your hood.”

“Huh?”

“There’s no way to explain identical faces. I’ll explain, so put on your hood.”

Indeed. “We turned out to be twins!” is too ridiculous, and even if someone believed it, it would be this guy’s job to explain it to everyone in this world.

Honestly, I don’t care what hardships this bestiality pervert goes through, but that’s just my personal irritation and I haven’t been harmed by it, so I listened to him and put on my hood.

And then.

“…Huh.”

I couldn’t help but let out a surprised breath.

The pathetic leaf village that could have been defeated by a 15-year-old now had stone walls, and at the entrance stood proper soldiers with weapons, not thugs.

No, this is truly not the village I knew. It’s a complete city.

I calmed my astonished heart and followed him to the entrance of the village, where two soldiers who recognized him waved.

“Hey!! Jack! Patrol ended early today?!”

“Forest keeper sir, thank you for your hard work!!”

“No, the patrol isn’t over yet. I just came to bring this guy to the village.”

“Hm? Is that hooded person Jack’s friend?”

“…Not a friend, just an acquaintance. He suddenly came saying he had business.”

“Haha. If he’s someone you know, there’s no problem. Ah, but we should at least check his face…”

“I’m sorry. This guy has large burn scars covering from his head to around his eyes. It’s a bit uncomfortable to show…”

“Hey, hey, it’s someone Jack brought. Why check his face? It’s fine. We’ll process it on your guarantee, okay?”

“…Yes, please process it on my guarantee.”

“Yes! Please wait a moment~”

Suddenly bald, I stupidly listened to their conversation.

…What is this? The guards are respectfully calling this guy “sir”? And the one who’s clearly acting like a friend is a senior guard.

What’s with this difference in treatment?

“Well, you brought Miho too after a while? How are you doing?”

“Just normal.”

“It’s hard to call it normal when it seems her leg is injured.”

“She got hurt fighting a demon today. I’m planning to buy potions too.”

“Yeah, yeah. Right, you should take good care of your wife…”

“COUGH!! COUGH!!!”

“Hm?”

“……”

Holy shit!

Wife?! So, everyone in the village, no, the city knows this guy is into bestiality?! I was so shocked that I choked and coughed, and I had to wave off the concerned guard, saying it was just a cough.

“Here you go! Sir’s friend, this is a temporary permit. You can use it until tomorrow. You’ll need to come back tomorrow to get it renewed.”

“Ahem, ahem. Thank you.”

“Haha. No problem. But, your voice sounds similar to Jack sir’s?”

Damn, I deliberately lowered my voice and used formal speech because I thought it would be awkward if I didn’t speak at all, but this junior guard is sharp? I don’t like perceptive kids!

“I, I’ve heard that often.”

“Oh, is that so? Oh right, take this, sir.”

“Ah, is it that time already?”

“Come on, you didn’t take it last week either. You’re too lacking in material desire.”

“…I still have quite a bit of money.”

While I was relieved that the conversation was flowing naturally, he received a pouch from the junior guard.

…Don’t tell me that’s.

“Buy something delicious with your wife and friend with that. I heard the kingdom added extra rewards for forest keepers this time, almost 500,000 kan.”

“…Oh, 500,000?”

“Hm? Sir’s friend, you didn’t know?”

“…Wh-what do you mean?”

“Hey, Jack. You didn’t tell him about your compensation?”

“…We’re not close enough to discuss that.”

As I looked up at him in bewilderment, wondering what they were talking about, the senior guard next to me grinned and spoke.

“This guy’s weekly salary is 100,000 kan, but from your reaction, I guess you didn’t know?”

…Holy shit!!! This world is really strange!!!