chapter 45

“Looks like it’s true……”

“I kind of……don’t like it . ”

We came to the conclusion that the [Katakana is magic theory] is either true or very close, but it’s disliked for some reason .

Mainly by Hagasaki-kun and Kadomi-kun .

But nothing we can do about it, that is how it is .

hack the manacles?

Now then . Talking about skills, there were these .

“I got these from where I was kidnapped to, help yourself if you want them . ”

I almost forgot about them after stuffing them in the bag when returning to maid-style clothes and Rosemary-san .

Yes . The [Thunder] brooch and [Stealth] bracelet .

so what is thundr

“Kadomi-kun and I can use [Lightning], what’s the difference?”

Mhm~, [Thunder] and [Lightning] .

(T/N: just to mention, thunder is in kanji and lightning is in katakana)

……[Thunder], won’t be just sound only, right?

We don’t really understand it and it’s too scary to test out, so Hagasaki-kun will be holding on to it for now . We’ll think about it again when its effects are clear .

give him the bomb

“I’m probably the one that would get [Stealth], but I can already do it on my own too~”

Yes . Hariu, the assassin, who needed it the most, has already obtained the skill on his own .

“Erasing presence, either me, or president……ah, Maito, you could use it too . ”

Wait a moment, what do I need to erase my presence for!

“Then you won’t stand out as much . ”

……certainly, mhm, I do stand out, I wonder why?

“But rather than that, I think it’s more practical to give it to Suzumoto to make it harder to feel his presence so he gets hit less . ”

It will help save the healer’s MP and also reduce Suzumoto’s burden, it might even raise the hit rate of his attacks .

And so, this one went to Suzumoto .

the unseen blade

Now then . The way to differentiate magic and skills is fine, tentatively .

Now is time for the most pressing problem that has come to light .

Yes . My treatment is not slave-like, so I was used as bait to draw out everyone else .

So everyone needs to make the effort to treat me more like a slave .

……which when I briefly explained to them, they all made extremely unpleasant expressions .

Cruel .

“Honestly, treating you as a slave is tough . ”

I’ve heard that before .

“Nn~, then how about just buying this world’s slave?”

“Even if we did, a girl wouldn’t work right?”

There’s no way they would be able to buy a female slave and treat her harshly .

“Even if we bought a man~, it kind of feels bad to buy an older slave, but a younger slave would leave a bad aftertaste in its own way……”

Slaves, we have already seen them in this town but……seeing brawny men with bulging muscles with a collar around their neck……it’s hard to bear .

But even so, when a small boy becomes like that, it’s also hard to bear in its own way .

“No, we just buy a female, and lead her and Maito towards the forbidden garden!”

“That won’t solve the fundamental problem . In the end the problem is that we cannot treat slaves like slaves, not whether we have a slave . Unfortunately, we will undoubtedly grow attached if we buy a slave . If they are taken as hostage, we will be repeating the same thing . ”

Kariya said something and President shot him down immediately .

……mhm, yeah .

In the end what we need is [A slave we will not grow attached to]……which is impossible .

We most likely, cannot treat a slave like a slave .

find another method?

“Then wouldn’t it be better for someone else other than Maito be the slave?”

“No, we can’t . Everyone, don’t you remember!? Why I am the slave!?”

“Why……it’s because if you don’t do that there is the chance we will be forced into slavery, right?”

Half right, but half is a non-response .

“Have you forgotten? Otherworld slaves are very valuable in this world . That’s why even though I am easy to target, it is because I can use [Disguise] that I am the slave . ”

If we carelessly let someone else from among them be the slave .

They would probably be stolen at the speed of light .

Kidnappers will come in force . Why? Because it’s an otherworld slave .

Once I said that, they all fell silent .

And after that silence, this came out .

“Maito, why are you so popular among people of this world even though you are [disguised]?”

very good question

“They must like blue eyes white people . Aren’t you guys like that too?”

“Not that, wrong, it’s not that, what I’m trying to say is . ”

“Iya~, I don’t really like western things that much~”

“Ah, I get you I get you . It somehow feels forced or . ”

“That’s not what I’m asking!”

“Rather than blue eyes white people, I like dragons . ”

“You shut up!”

‘I like Maito’s hair, black . We match’ .

“Eh……I honestly don’t care……”

And the meeting fell into disorder once I said that .

Somehow, sorry .

back on track

“Back on topic . ”

Yes, sorry .

“Sorry for putting it this way but, you……are most definitely not bad, but definitely not a peerless beauty or something . ”

Leave aside whether I’m not bad, mhm, I think that too .

“Isn’t it strange……that people suddenly ask for us to sell you to them?”

Mhm, I think that too . Like, how to put it, this definitely cannot be explained with just the fact that there is slavery .

“Like I said, aren’t blonde hair and blue eyes popular in this world?”

“Then, according to your idea, if you no longer have blonde hair and blue eyes, people will stop suddenly asking to buy you like before?”

“More like I can’t think of anything else . ”

“Right . ……we have plenty of time until the gladiator tournament anyway . Let’s have an experiment as a break . ”

It must not be forgotten, this is a group formed by birds of a feather flocking together . This is a group of kids who love experiments .

chemistry club

But I’ve gotten hungry, so let’s eat first .

Everyone else seems to have bought and eaten light meals from food carts, but I haven’t eaten anything since the evening of the day before .

No, I was mostly sleeping though .

will still be hungry

And so, since my MP has also recovered, we [teleported] to where the chemistry lab originally was .

Also, if I had [teleported] Ketorami to the inn, the inn would be crushed, so I didn’t bring him .

He’s probably having his meal outside the capital .

Now then, once we’ve arrived, set up the classroom and let’s have a meal .

There is bear and deer meat left, so let’s grill plenty of those .

Not just meat, I grilled vegetables too!

Yes, barbecue . The sauces are a spring onion-based spicy sauce and a soy sauce-based sweet and sour sauce .

And once I cooked plenty of rice, preparations are done .

can never go wrong with bbq

And while preparing and eating, I had the maid-san puppets work .

I made plenty of fiber and had them spin and weave it .

The tiny maid-san puppets bustling around is extremely cute .

I’ve become able to let 20 of them move independently while eating, so I, or more like [Dyeing] and [Embroidery] are amazing .

maid legion grows

I just did the preparations and then everyone cooked and ate on their own, so I quickly finished my own meal and dyed, cut and sewed the cloth that had been made into [Excavated Goods]-like male clothing .

The model is the one President is currently wearing . Yes . This is for sale .

Yeah, no matter what, selling only dresses to that pawnshop uncle makes me feel bad for him~ .

i dont think he cares

Looks like they are also done eating, [Teleport] again . We went to near the pawnshop in Deichemoore and had Toriumi go sell them .

Like this we got 1800 silver . 180 in terms of gold, 18 platinum coins .

Iya~, it was such easy money that it’s scary .

better than selling self and teleporting away

Now then, we’ve gotten funds, time to start the experiment .

The experiment grounds is this Deichemoore . The method if as follows .

money for?

1 . Change appearance with[Disguise], put on normal female clothes sold in this world and a collar, then go shopping at places slightly removed from the main street while everyone stalks me .

2 . Measure how many times I’m almost kidnapped in 30 minutes .

3 . Change after every measurement and repeat the experiment .

… . . er… .

Mhm . I am putting myself at risk, but with everyone stalking me, it’s prefectly fine!

And so, time to go shopping with 30 silver, let’s go~ .

……no, like, as expected, there are things that we are lacking, so I wanted to stock up while we have the chance .

Mainly containers like bottles, and, oil! We finally ran out of salad oil! I want to buy oil! Actually, I have only cooked in ways that save oil . I want to some deep-fried food .

Then I would also like to buy salt . I want spices too .

Then if there’s any rare foods, let’s buy those too .

…it’s just shopping for the maid then?

First, purchase 3 sets of clothing for the experiment!

Will you wear this to go? And so I changed in the store and experiment start .

First I went as is, blonde hair and blue eyes .

But even if it’s an experiment, shopping, shopping .

As I looked around the market, there quite a variety of foodstuff being sold, it’s interesting .

There also seems to be a variety of spices . Okay~, this is the first shopping-like shopping I’ve done since coming to this otherworld . Let’s go with high spirits!

… . what happened to risk of kidnapping?

“Okay, 30 minutes over . ”

“Eh!?”

Wh, what, without anyone in particular calling out to me or anyone kidnapping me, I normally bought oil and spices and done .

H, hm? ……nothing can be done, let’s go to the next one .

… . peaceful?

Next is brown hair green eyes .

This is the [Disguise] I used just now .

And salt .

Salt is also used to make miso and soy sauce, so we’re about to run out .

Let’s use this chance to buy plenty of it .

… . 30 minutes to buy salt?

“Okay, 30 minutes have passed . ”

“Eeh!?”

H, hm? It ended without anything happening again?

Mhm……this doesn’t work as an experiment, is this okay?

… . maybe?

The last one was decided with a lottery, it was a flashy pink hair with red eyes .

And bottles .

President uses up all of them for making poisons, so there’s no more to put seasoning in .

Can’t be helped, so I’m buying more .

Pres, pls

“Okay, done . ”

“Eh~……”

Wow, this also ended well .

This doesn’t work as an experiment!

but what if

I wanted to keep the things I bought first, so we [teleported] to 2F northeast and set up a classroom .

“And here are the results~”

Toriumi wrote on the blackboard in somewhat high spirits .

[First round: 6 times Second round: 5 times Third round: 5 times]

“And no significant difference can be seen so all the results are the same . ”

“Or rather~, this is amazing . Degenerates show up at a pace of once every 5 minutes . Ahahahaha . ”

Wa, wait wait wait! Wh, when did this!

“Nah, it would be dangerous to count it every time you got caught, 30 minutes would pass instantly . So we caught them and counted when it seemed about to happen . ”

What do you mean, seemed about to happen!

“By the way, it was mainly my work~! Yay~”

The assassin Hariu was the one that did the work as expected . Scary scary .

right man for the job

“So in the end, we don’t understand . ”

“Yeah . ”

I’m satisfied having bought salt, oil, spices and bottles though .

“But if we don’t know, then there’s no way for us to prepare counter-measures . ”

“Yeah . If we leave her alone, then she’ll be kidnapped at a rate of once every 5 minutes . ”

That really is an amazing number when you mention it again . Once every 5 minutes huh .

ridiculous

But in the end, we don’t know the reason .

“……how about we just ask a local?”

We wouldn’t have to suffer if we could do that .

What is it, can you go around asking passerbys “Am I beautiful?”? Ah, that’s something else .

If I ask like that it would end with “Pomade! Pomade!” . No, do urban legends exist in this world?

(T/N: slit mouthed woman)

Nonono, but there might be ghost stories .

There’s also the theory that the slit-mouthed woman is based on story of the three talismans . But is there pomade in this world?

(T/N: The three talismans)

“Oi Maito, you listening?”

“Mhm, I don’t think there’s pomade in this world . ”

“Okay, you weren’t listening . [Disguise] as Rosemary and [teleport] in front of the pawnshop in Deichemoore . ”

……ah, I wasn’t listening but I got it .

You’re going to buy information with money from that pawnshop uncle right?

nice when you can solve problems with money

And so, [Teleport] .

“Welcome……uoooh, what, that’s quite a large family . What is it, did something happen again?”

“I want to buy information . I’ll pay a gold coin . ”

Suzumoto placed a gold coin on the counter .

“Thank you for your generosity as usual . So, what is it, what information do you want to buy?”

As the uncle said that, Suzumoto grabbed me by the nape of my neck and pulled me in front of the uncle .

“Is she that beautiful?”

……you, isn’t there, some other way? Try putting yourself in my position . What expression am I supposed to make .

“She is, extraordinarily . ”

Is, is that so, er, since just now, I don’t know what expression to make though!

“I see . Then along the way, how about this one?”

Throwing me to the side, this time Hagasaki-kun was dragged out . Amen .

“A handsome man . ”

“Then this one?”

……and like this, he asked the uncle how everyone’s face is compared to the average, and……somehow, we got an excessive evaluation .

[You’re all beautiful men and women, how enviable . What is this, harassment? Aahn?]

Just in case, just in case, let’s make it clear .

In my opinion, they are not that beautiful .

No, they are definitely not bad, but like……how to put it, basically, it’s a level that makes me doubt this uncle’s evaluation .

Yet for some reason, this uncle naturally gave that crazy evaluation .

“Flattery……ah, we still had that left . ”

When Suzumoto took out a small clear vial, the uncle panicked .

“Idiot! I’m telling the truth! Don’t use [Tears of Truth] for this! It’s a waste! Or rather, is this harassment, harassment!? You all!”

Ah, that’s the [Tears of Truth]? And it doesn’t feel like the uncle is lying .

……mhm . Yeah, it’s best for me to ask .

“Er, are all foreign people this beautiful?”

“Ah, for some reason the foreigners are all beautiful . That’s also why female foreigners are sold a ridiculous prices . Well, it is more for the [Lost Blessings] foreigners have though . ”

Okay, I got it .

Seems like everyone has also inferred it .

And so we quickly thanked him and retreated .

Return to the 2F northeast area with [Teleport] .

well then

“Corrections?”

“Corrections . ”

“Can’t think of anything but corrections . ”

“If there’s going to be corrections make it clearer . What’s with this . ”

Conclusion, it is due to corrections .

Foreigners probably have a correction to make them [Look very beautiful to locals] .

Or possibly, there’s some kind of mysterious power at work or the aesthetics of the locals is strange, well, it doesn’t matter .

……mhm . It’s somehow, somehow……sad, extremely so .

… . donmai

“Now then, the remaining problem is Maito’s fighting strength . ”

Now then, it is finally time for this problem .

“……eh, Maito’s fighting strength……is there anything that can be done about it?”

Kadomi-kun accurately gouged my wound!

“Even if nothing can be done, we need to do something or we are cornered . ”

President won’t meet my eyes!

“Isn’t it better to not expect anything?”

Hagasaki-kun has given up and his gaze is cold!

……no, it’s not their fault but……but……

“Would it be best to just practice?”

“We also improved our fighting by actually fighting, even with low abilities, can’t it be made up for by technique and knowledge?”

H, hm? Things don’t look good .

“……okay, Maito . Arm youself and go out . ”

……ah, as expected?