Chapter 3: Spirit Lord
Part 3
“Hey Katou! That’s my meat!”
“Shut up! First come, first served! Ah!? Ah!? My onion.”
“It’s too late, Nobuyuki-sama! Ah! Frey! That’s my meat!?”
“Delicious delicious”
We enjoyed barbecue while competing for meat and vegetables.
“Uh, my stomach is full. I for a moment, will take a break.”
After a while, I wondered if she got satisfied to some extent, since Leafa said so first and took a rest.
I thought I’ll also take a break, but while looking at the depths of the forest, I notice that Frey is standing quietly.
I wonder what’s wrong.
Let’s ask her.
“What’s the matter, Frey. Does your stomach hurt?”
“Ah no, Lord, it’s not. …… I think there were people, who were watching us not long ago. I wasn’t sure what to do.”
At those disturbing remarks, I raise my eyebrows.
“Eh, what, is it a monster?”
I have experienced that there were no monsters in this forest, but perhaps it was a monster that’s active at night.
That must be it.
I wasn’t thinking about that possibility.
That’s what I thought.
“Ah, no, it doesn’t seem to be a monster. …… Let’s see. As I thought, let’s confirm it just in case.”
When Frey said that, she deployed five magic circles from the palm of her hand in an instant.
For the first time in a long time, I’m excited to see what kind of magic will pop out of this magic circle.
However, there was nothing in particular jumping out of the magic circle.
I don’t know if she has failed.
“Alright, Lord. This is complete. All we have to do is wait …… Ah! Yumina! Aren’t you eating too much!”
It didn’t seem to have failed in particular.
Maybe Frey is still ready to eat, since she immediately gets back in a 1 on 1 barbecue battle with Yumina.
I’m already full, so I’m taking a break this time.
I sit in a simple chair, get the children’s champagne that Leafa was drinking, pour it into a glass, and drink it little by little.
It was at that time.
I heard something like a screaming voice, from a distance.
The scream, rather than moving away, is approaching us.
“Oh, it looks like it has finally come.”
“–––– Ahgyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!”
When I raised my face to Frey’s voice, with an earth-shattering scream, that has appeared from the sky with its head sliding out.
“““…………”””
All of a sudden, we each got solidified with a glass and chopsticks on our hands, and look at the beautiful blonde woman floating in the air.
“Oh! What the, oh Lord! Umu! It’s quite nostalgic! Lord. Be surprised to hear! This is, the Wind Spirit Lord!”
“““Wha,what was that!?”””
While still in the air, in a form like a captured alien which is hanging, it seems that it was the Wind Spirit King.
To be honest, I don’t feel the majesty of a Spirit King from her.
If I were to meet her, it would have been nice to have a more moving scene.
When I was thinking about that, the Spirit King slowly landed on the ground.
“…………”
However, the next moment, the Spirit King like a skilled track and field athlete –––– like a short-ranged sprinter, with such a beautiful crouching start, she started running with lightning speed.
“Wait, wait, wait.”
Then, Frey deploys the magic circle again, and pulls the spirit king here again.
“Noooooooooooooooo!! I don’t want to dieeeeeeeeeeeee!! No waaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy!! Forgive meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!”
The Spirit Lord rampages in the air while crying out loud.
“Fo,for the time being, let us sit down.”
I made the Spirit King sit in a simple chair to calm her down.
“What the! So that was the case! Mou! Then say that from the beginning! It’s fine! If it’s in the land here, use it as much as you like!”
As I continued to explain the situation, the Spirit King had managed to regain her calm.
The first ones were terrible and she was screaming like “Don’t kill me! I’ll do anything! I’ll do anything for you, so!” or “You’re going to have me eat this to make me fat, and finally, make me delicious! No,no,no!”, but by continuing to give her yakiniku, it seems that she finally trusted me.
On the contrary, by me continuing to give her meat, she seemed to become quite attached to me, and we now have a very friendly relationship.
In addition, the Spirit lord says that we can use the land here as much as we like.
As expected of the Spirit lord.
Even though we were the ones who broke the barrier and came in without permission, what a generous fella.
I also apologize, and serve a grilled meat and shrimp to the Spirit king.
“What is this, it’s delicious! –––– Eh!? Can I eat all of this too!? Thank you!”
Apparently, the Spirit lord was pleased with my hospitality.
I’m going to grill more and more meat, and feed it to the Spirit king.
“–––– By the way, Spirit Lord. There was, another person besides you, right? Is that guy not a companion of you Lord?”
Then, Frey asked the spirit king about such a thing.
“What. If you have a companion with you, tell me soon.”
I check the rest of the meat that is not grilled.
There are only a few left.
The vegetables such as onions still remain, but it seems that we’ve almost eaten the meat already.
“Not at all! That guy, is my enemy, enemy!”
But apparently, it wasn’t her companion.
The Spirit king starts to say such things while sounding angry.
“Fumu. Is that guy being your enemy, true?”
“…… Re, really, really! That guy! Is not my friend or anything!”
Even though with a slight hesitation, the Spirit king said so.
At the words of the Spirit king, I turn my gaze to Frey.
“Lord, I understand. If it’s an enemy, I’ll deal with it––––“
Frey said so, and she redeployed the magic circle from earlier.
This time, it looks like the magic became visible to me, and a thin and transparent hand that is probably made of magic power, which is more than one stretched from there.
These transparent hands, stretch out into the shade of a nearby tree.
Then something, popped out from there.
“Ple,please wait! I am a servant of the Spirit King there! I’m not hostile to you guys!”
It was a maid.
A black-haired maid in ponytail.
It appeared in front of our eyes.
In the maid’s words, we stare at the Spirit king.
“That’s a lie! This guy is lying! She’s telling a huge lie! I affirm it in the name of me, the Spirit king! That guy is a liar!”
“This biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The spirit king and the maid have started to grapple and quarrel.
“Do,don’t quarrel!”
Then, Yumina entered to stop the quarrel between the two.
“…… A champagne to drink while watching people fight, is exceptional.”
“…………”
Leafa was muttering something that doesn’t make sense, not knowing if she got drunk with the champagne for children.
The quarrel between the two continued during this time.
Haa, it can’t be helped.
Let’s borrow Frey’s help here.
I thought so, and proposed a suggestion to the two people.
“Both of you, calm down. If either of you is lying, it can be detected by Frey’s power. That’s why, settle down.”
It was the moment I said that.
“–––– Ah”
In my words, the spirit king stopped moving, and made such a small voice.
The eyes of all of us turn to the spirit king all at once.
“…………”
The next moment, the Spirit king ran away.
When I explain the circumstances to Maria, with a black-hair ponytail, that we broke the barrier, she nodded with a cool expression as she stuffed her mouth with meat.
Maria’s hand doesn’t stop at all, perhaps because she was quite hungry.
Maria to the Spirit King –––– she consumed all the grilled meat intended for Sylph, and she finally put her hands on the pudding, the after-meal dessert.
Then.
“Ah!? Maria! That’s, I beg you! That’s all I’m asking you to leave behind!”
Sylph, who had been tied to a tree by Frey’s invisible hand, shouted as she struggle.
Well, of course, after Sylph ran away, she was immediately captured by Frey.
Sylph, who was struggling and rampaging, is now tied to a tree and is being served with grilled sovereign onion by Yumina like a chick.
“Fuh~”
Maria laughed at her with her nose.
“Fugufugufugufugu!”
“That’s no good, you know. Don’t talk when you have something in your mouth.”
She looks somehow angry, but Yumina forced her mouth to shut up, and I don’t understand what Sylph was talking about.
Or rather, Yumina, tentatively, she’s a spirit king, you know?
“Well, I’m glad that it wasn’t a kind of relationship I thought it would be.”