Chapter 235

Chapter 235: Kohaku / Elder of the Town

Translator: Reflet
Editor: ryunakama

　Taiyou, Aoba, and Hera were at the park near Taiyou Castle .

　While Aoba and Hera watched over him, Taiyou was grinding to the next level .

　There was almost no meaning in the activity itself, merely repeating .

　With this repetitious activity, experience points were accumulating within him .

　He wanted to become stronger as fast as possible .

　With Shirokiyami moving in to Taiyou Castle, it was now easier for him to challenge her . And in order to defeat her as soon as possible, Taiyou was raising his level assiduously .

　Aoba and Hera were observing this .

「I wonder if Kohaku-san is also doing the same thing as Youran-chan」

　Aoba opened her mouth, clearly intending to chat .

　While still moving his hands, Taiyou moved only his face in her direction, replying .

「The same thing as Youran？」

「Mhm . Doing various things so as to be useful to Taiyou-kun . You know, Youran-chan…Didn’t she say she’d make you the king of Juunishima?」

「……Yeah, she did」

　Taiyou remembered, nodding .

　Youran had said something like that, and was actually moving to fulfill it .

　As proof of that, he had often been going to social events with her in her “New Moon Director” mode as of late .

　The people he’d met had become more and more amazing, and as Taiyou still felt like a petty bourgeois, he was really nervous, like when he recently shook hands with the prime minister .

「I wonder if Kohaku-san isn’t trying to do the same」

「Right」

「That may indeed be true」

　Hera supported Aoba’s conjecture .

「Is there something to back this up？」

「Yes indeed . Kohaku-tan heard about the whole thing with Yami-chan living here . At that time, I conveyed what Taiyou-chan had said to her」

「What I had said ？」

「Yes indeed . I conveyed you saying “Harem 65535 . The brides are my power . ”」

「Alright……」

　Still moving his hands, Taiyou was deep in thought .

　He had certainly begun to think as of late that Kohaku had been doing the same things as Youran .

「So that was why she made a squad of bodyguards in the school」

「What ended up happening with that？」

「……I had her return it to the Kohaku-tan Bodyguards . If it were named Danna-sama Bodyguards, my social status and heart would die」

「Ahaha……very true」

　Aoba wryly smiled . She seemed to understand what Taiyou had said .

　Leaving out the fact that she was able to accept harems based on the environment she’d been raised in, she was the most normal girl out of Taiyou’s brides .

　Physically, politically, and definitely supernaturally .

　She was a normal girl with none of those .

　Which was why she could sympathize .

「Your existence really saves me at times like this」

「Should I……be happy about that?」

「At least……I’m really happy right now」

「……Then, I guess I am too」

　Aoba grinned, mirroring her words .

　Taiyou’s smartphone suddenly rang .

　Not the one with the apple icon, but the newest FOT model .

　When he took it out of his pocket, he saw Kohaku’s name displayed on the pretty LCD screen that was its selling point . She had called him .

「It’s Kohaku-san」

「Kohaku-san? I wonder what’s up」

　Inclining his head along with Aoba, he touched the screen, entering the call .

「Hello? What’s happening, Kohaku-san?」

『Ohhh, Danna-sama . I be happy that it connected』

「So what’s happening？」

『Indeed . Might ye come quickly? It be a bit of a troublesome situation』

「Quickly？」

　He frowned at the untimely words coming from the receiver .

　He looked at Aoba for affirmation .

　Aoba grinned .

「Go to her . It’s got to be something important for Kohaku-san to call you in such a fashion」

「That alright？」

「Mhm . I’ll be going back to the house with Hera . Contact me again when you come back」

「Alright……Hello, Kohaku-san？　Where are you right now？」

『I be sending you my current position via smartphone』

　Leaving Aoba and Hera at the park, Taiyou dashed off .

　While checking his phone, Taiyou made it to the destination .

　The coordinates that Kohaku had sent via GPS into the group talk app pointed to a shop in the business street in front of Oriyakata Town Station .

　It was a place he would normally pass by and think nothing of .

　But that was only when he stayed far away from it .

　When actually trying to step in there, a lot of courage was necessary .

　The kind of courage necessary to ignore the taverns and go alone to defeat a demon king .

「Underwear……」

　Taiyou mumbled, half exasperated .

　The place was a land forbidden to males: the lingerie shop .

　It was somewhat exhibiting a pink-colored aura that repelled men .

　Kohaku was within that shop .

　She had several undergarments in her hand beyond the glass, comparing them .

　As he was wondering what she could want, Kohaku looked up and met his eyes .

「Ohhh, Danna-sama . Many thanks for coming」

「Wait, Kohaku-san-」

　Kohaku waved with a fulfilled smile from within the shop .

　It was the kind of smile that a child would give a parent coming to pick them up from nursery school while waving .

　Taiyou hurriedly made to stop that, but it was already too late .

　All the gazes from within the shop stopped on him .

　He couldn’t run away now, so Taiyou quickly went inside the shop where Kohaku was .

「Danna-sama?」

「What in the world is he making that child call him？」

「Report him while we still can」

　He could hear whispering voices around him .

　While taking in the needle-like gazes of the women around him, he went to where Kohaku was .

「What in the world is wrong?」

「Indeed . I sought to get some new undergarments, so since I came all the way here I want to hear Danna-sama’s opinion, methinks」

「My opinion？」

「Indeed . Danna-sama can strip――mph」

　Taiyou had covered Kohaku’s mouth without a moment’s delay .

　She was clearly about to say “can strip me” .

　It would be icky if she were to say any more than that in a public place……so it was a spur-of-the-moment reaction, but he shouldn’t have done that either .

「He’s definitely a suspicious person」

「He’s a lolicon！」

「Madam, report to 110」

「Don’t report meee」

「What is the matter？」

　A patrolman riding on a bicycle appeared .

「How’d he come so quickly！」

「Officer, it’s this boy」

「This boy’s a lolicon」

「Quickly shoot him to death and capture him please」

「Maybe it’d save me some trouble if ya did it like that！」

　As Taiyou gave a powerful interjection, the patrolman who had parked their bike entered the store .

　It was an officer that he felt he remembered from somewhere .

「You……I feel as if I’ve met you somewhere before」

　Adjusting the brim of his regulation hat, the officer frowned .

　He seemed to remember him too .

「Eh？　Oh, from the park」

「Tch . You’re the boy who was digging a hole」

「Oof……」

　They were indeed familiar with each other, but in the worst way possible .

　When he had met Hera for the first time, raising his level, he had run into this officer, who had held him up for suspicious activity, lecturing him .

　After that as well, he had been spotted when raising his level elsewhere, suspected because of him rummaging through his change .

　Since then, this officer had completely laid his eyes on him .

　He was absolutely his natural enemy . Taiyou felt like hugging his head at the arrival of this opponent, as his likeability was already plummeting .

「What might you be doing at a place like this?」

「Uhh, see, this is」

「I hear there’s a lolicon, but……is it really you」

「No no no」

　Taiyou panicked over how he should argue his case when he was already suspected .

　At that moment…

「Well if it not be the little brat of that Watanuki」

「Little brat――Who said that? That’s rude to civil service workers」

「It be me」

「It be……wait, Azumaya Obaa-chan！」

「Indeed」

　The moment he recognized who Kohaku was, Constable Watanuki’s expression transformed .

「I-I didn’t know that Obaa-chan was there」

「Indeed . I be that loli of said lolicon」

「O-Ohhh, so he was talking to Obaa-chan」

「Aye」

　After they had exchanged a few words or so, Constable Watanuki said that “I cannot see this as illegal” and ran off in haste .

　Taiyou looked at the officer going off in his bike and Kohaku’s small figure in turn .