Mushoku Tensei:Web Chapter 170 - Baka-Tsuki
One week has passed since the guardian magical beast has been summoned.
The big dog was given the name Leo, a genuine leather collar with his name on it and a big dog house.
The role of Leo in our house was that of a guard.
In the morning he was waiting in front of the entrance and met Eris and me, who were training.
Then for a while he waits in front of the entrance on guard duty and later on goes for a walk.
After coming back from the walk, he watches my family, who were inside the house.
He then patrols inside the house, checking whether there were any problems and if there were, he was told to resolve it.
If Lucy cried, he would calm her, if Aisha went out shopping, he would tag along as an escort.
He would travel to the magic university, seeing and picking up Norn if asked.
He was like a home guard.
Leo was extremely smart, he was properly following the instructions of the family.
He went to the toilet at the designated place.
The orders were wait, down, shake, beg, repeated until he barks three times. [1]
He was very obedient towards the family, when Aisha and Norn were timidly patting his head, his tail was waving like an electric fan.
Especially towards Roxy he behaved like an extremely loyal knight.
Holy Beast Leo's favorite person seemed to be Roxy.
The attitude Leo showed towards Roxy was clearly different compared to others.
When Roxy woke up, his tail was wagging around in a circle and his face dived between her legs.
Although he fell silent and stopped when I became angry and said 'the only one allowed to lick that place is me', he was doing it again the next day.
Furthermore, even though Roxy went to school on top of the armadillo Jirou, a scene could be seen that looked like Leo was telling something to Jirou while barking.
Not only was it unknown what he was telling Jirou, but also whether or not Jirou was carrying that out.
There were also the times when Roxy was going up and down the stairs, he was worriedly looking up the stairs to make sure she didn't lose her footings.
This overprotection was enough to make me, the husband, feel it was excessive.
Why did he go so far for Roxy...but I concluded it was because he was a dog.
His nose picked up who was the greatest person in this house.
Leo was showing subservient behavior towards Roxy, but his affinity with Eris was bad.
Though saying their affinity was bad, Leo gave off a feeling like he was aware that the other side, Eris, was difficult to deal with. [2]
Eris was fond of dogs and cats.
She liked to bury her face into their soft fur with all her strength.
That was why maybe Eris has enjoyed Leo's fur to her heart's content when I wasn't looking.
The Mad Sword King's strength was extremely intense.
I also had experienced that, to be hugged by Eris with all her strength reminded me of feeling hugged by a bear.
I could feel the danger to my life.
Though I didn't hate to be hugged like that by Eris, it wasn't like I couldn't understand the reason Leo avoids Eris.
The only time Leo drew closer to Eris was during the time of the walk.
It was only during this time he wasn't keeping clear from Eris and went out together, confirming their territory.
The reason was likely physically related.
Leo's walking range was wide.
Its range was so wide that one might question whether the distance was one trip around the city. [3]
Considering emergencies, to finish this in a short amount of time it will be at a face pace, and the only ones having enough physical strength to run at that pace in our house are only Eris and me.
It was at a pace where Sylphy could also barely make it.
Anyway, Leo often chose Eris as the walk's partner.
Otherwise, to Leo, Eris may also belong in the same category, being in charge of security.
By the way, it appeared that everything in a 1 kilometre radius around our house became Leo's territory, stray cats no longer were around.
It seemed that Leo was serious in protecting the family.
Somehow a guardian magical beast allowed others to feel secure.
As expected, a dog was good.
The problem was that this dog was the guardian deity of the beast-tribe.
The one who said something like this was Ghyslaine who came to see Eris, but was surprised to see Leo.
"Though I can't understand Holy Beast-sama's words, it seems that Holy Beast-sama is here of his own will. Thus the Dorudia tribe can't complain either."
So it seemed it will be fine.
I thought it was about time to move to the next stage of the schedule.
On the day I thought so.
Cliff made a visit.
"Hey Rudeus, if you are free tonight, want to have dinner outside? Me, you and Zanoba, the three of us."
An invitation to dinner.
The three of us, me, Cliff and Zanoba.
It may have been the first time with only men.
Usually Sylphy, Elinalize and others tag along.
Or rather, this time we might even go to a slightly pink shop.
Or it could be that it was a difficult topic to talk about when having women around.
"All right."
Regardless of which, I agreed without a second thought.
There was no reason to refuse and I also wanted to ask Cliff for a favor, it was a godsend.
At the time when the sun began to set down.
I went to the earlier appointed location and met up with Cliff and Zanoba.
The store we went to was more classy than usual.
When entering, I glanced at the store's signboard to confirm the name, apparently it was called 'The Red Steller's Sea Eagle's Arbor'. [4]
In the Three Great Magic Nations, shops that used eagle in their name were restaurants, shops that used falcon in their name were liquor shops, shops that used bats in their name had girls, shop that used horses in their name were inns, and there were many shops that provided those. [5]
However, saying that 'there were many' did not always guarantee it to be so.
There were also patterns like a shop that originally provided good alcohol and before one knows the shopkeeper became better at cooking.
It was only a rule of thumb.
The 'The Red Steller's Sea Eagle's Arbor' Cliff chose was a refined restaurant.
Customers seemed to be mainly lower class nobles and wealthy merchants.
When we continued, there was a high-class private room.
According to the waiter's explanation, it seemed to be the restaurant's third best room.
He apologized that if they had known that Rudeus-sama was visiting the store, they could have prepared an even better room.
Was this a traditional Japanese restaurant.
When I was told we were going out for dinner, I thought it would be like the usual dinner, but it seemed to be a 'dinner' to the letter.
Each of us sat down at one end of the square table and were facing towards each other.
"Now then, Rudeus. Do you understand why such a place was prepared?"
Cliff said so with a very serious face.
Somehow I felt that you were angry.
Though I did have an idea.
"Today was Cliff-senpai's??birthday, right?" [6]
"My birthday already passed by."
Cliff said so in an unamused manner.
Was Cliff now 20 or 21 years old.
In this world he was already a splendid adult.
It wouldn't be strange for people to have 2 or 3 children.
Though due to his baby face, Cliff looked like a 15 year old.
"That's not it."
"Yes."
I straightened myself.
It seemed like a serious talk.
"Actually..."
Cliff's talk.
It was probably about Orsted.
When I reported back, I told them that we will talk about the details later and left it as it was.
It wouldn't be strange if they run out of patience.
"For the time being, we think the name of Elinalize's child should be Clive if it was a boy, and Eleaclarice if it was a girl, what do you think?" [7]
...Name?
Hm, are we having such a talk today?
Did I misunderstand?
"In other words, if it was a boy it will be in Milis' style, if it was a girl it will be according to the long ear tribe's style. What does Rudeus think about this?"
"Ehm...Clive sounds very smart and it looks like he will become a good politician, but seems to give off a somewhat difficult impression. I don't think Eleaclarice is bad. It is pleasant to the ear and a good name. But it sounds like a master thief would steal something very important away..." [8]
Giving my honest thoughts, Cliff looked up at the ceiling saying 'As I thought'.
Then he faced towards me and said with a straight face.
"...Well, it was a joke. The name was already decided. It was good to hear your opinion, but today's talk isn't about that."
Ah, a joke.
It was incomprehensible.
If it was a joke, laugh more.
No one laughed earlier.
"Surely you know by now, Rudeus. It's about your recent course of actions."
Zanoba nodded when Cliff pointed at me.
It felt like he was also a little angry.
"Shish?. Whatever Shish? intends to do, I intend to follow you. However, has the recent Shish? not been keeping too many secrets?"
"Is that so?"
"Suddenly, just when we were constructing that dreadful armor, in the middle of it you revealed especially detailed techniques and on top of all that, you kept it a secret who you were going to fight until the end, to think it was that Seven Great..."
Just before Zanoba could finish, the private room's door opened and drinks were brought in.
Zanoba shut his mouth and waited until the table was set.
When the waiter left, Zanoba opened his mouth once again.
I wondered if the private room was chosen because it was a secret talk.
"The opponent was the Dragon God Orsted of the Seven Great Major Powers. Furthermore, wasn't one forest wiped out because Shish? was fighting seriously!"
"No, it's still there. About half of it."
"In the end the white flag was raised..."
"There was no other choice but to do that."
"He can't be thought of anything other than a monster, not killing but incapacitating Shish?, who wore that armor and went all out."
Well, Orsted could be considered as a monster.
Magic used from a great distance was nullified, in close combat neither hand nor feet were of use.
I did not think of myself as strong, but even so I had the intention to do it.
"Because Shish? did not make a tragic face, I thought he was unexpectedly a nice guy...but that guy was..."
Zanoba looked down, his body trembling.
Then suddenly raised his face and cried out.
"Wasn't that guy...wasn't he just like the devil himself? Just the other day, seeing his figure with those eyes was enough to confirm that he was an enemy!"
Just last week Zanoba met Orsted and was put to sleep.
At the time he met Orsted, he was under the influence of his curse...
Hm?
But until now he wasn't thinking that he was a bad person?
In other words, unless they actually meet in person, the curse won't activate.
Thinking back, I remember that neither Aisha nor Norn were harboring ill feelings towards Orsted.
I wonder if the curse was harmless as long as it wasn't direct.
"To work under someone like that, I couldn't think this as anything but insane..."
Zanoba was shaking his head because he couldn't understand the reason.
To say such things about someone you just met, the curse's effect was incredible.
"I don't know because I haven't seen Orsted in person."
Then Cliff opened his mouth and followed up.
"But Zanoba, Sylphy, Roxy, everyone views Orsted as dangerous. Since their views of him are all consistent, he is surely an evil person."
It was a declaration you would have never thought to come from Cliff, who doesn't listen to other people.
Comparing this however, means that after all Cliff was outside of the curse's effect.
"To work under someone like that, it isn't an action you'd expect from the intelligent Rudeus."
Though I wasn't particularly intelligent.
However, I have been had.
Receiving objections from all kinds of people about working under Orsted, it looks like moving in the future will become hard.
"But...when I heard to repair that magic armor, it came to me."
Cliff said in a tone as if he got it.
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