Published: September 4, 2025
◇Lulu◇
Hello, it’s Lulu.
What should I do? Liza-san has been acting strange for a while now.
“Go and call the village chief!”
“What the hell? Who do you think you are, ordering a beastman around?”
Liza-san slams the spear wrapped in cloth down onto the ground with a thud.
Even before arriving in this town, the carriage ride was rough. Maybe she wanted to come with Master, like Arisa did?
A large villager tries hard to resist Liza-san, but he doesn’t seem as brave as his words suggest. His legs and voice are trembling.
Thank goodness, a kindly-looking man is running over holding a child’s hand. That child ran toward the village earlier. It seems they went to fetch the village chief.
“So, what exactly is your demand? As you can see, this is a poor village. There’s no treasure to offer, and we’re even short on food.”
True to the village chief’s words, the children and that man’s cheeks are sunken.
“We don’t want treasure or food. My great Master desires a hundred stones just like this one. Prepare them quickly.”
Liza-san’s negotiation skills aren’t just bad — they’re terrible. Nana-san, please say something instead of just standing there.
I desperately tried to communicate with my eyes, but Nana-san didn’t catch it. She looked at me, tilting her head. Gah! It’s so unfair how she’s beautiful and cute.
Hoping for a glimmer of help, I turned to Tama-chan and Mia-san…
Mia-san! Don’t play with Tama-chan like that! And the string you’re using to play with her is the matching one Master bought before! Ah, Tama-chan’s claws, oh no!
While I’m fretting over this, the negotiation seems to have been settled. The village chief has instructed the village children and young people to head toward the river with baskets.
How did this get resolved so quickly? What kind of magic did Liza-san use?
◇Tama◇
Hmm~ Liza’s really on edge, nya.
I’m starting to get hooked on this sentence-ending that Arisa taught me. What should I do? If I say it out loud, Master will worry.
Master went to a place with monsters called “kizoku” and everyone’s worried.
Liza and Arisa worry way too much.
Master is the strongest, so it’s okay. No matter what monsters show up, he moves super fast and knocks them down with a bang.
Lying down, Mia dangled a string right in front of me.
How rude. I’m not the type to always fall for it.
Wriggle, wriggle.
Twitch.
Wriggle, wriggle, wriggle.
Hold on. I’m a big sister. I have to hold back here.
Swoosh~
Gotcha♪
Pant pant, when I noticed, I was all tangled up in the string.
Mia’s string skills must be a secret fairy technique, nya.
◇Village Chief◇
Honestly, I shouldn’t have married into the village chief’s family.
I thought I was used to driving away bandits, sucking up to tax collectors, and putting up with the lord’s army’s abuses.
But the look in that Scale Tribe member’s eyes — with those fangs — I thought she’d bite my head off.
And when she slammed the spear into the ground earlier, the cloth at the tip came undone. That overwhelming presence that gripped my heart just by looking at it — that was definitely the Demonic Spear. A merchant who came to buy vegetables — who I knew was a bandit in disguise but was willing to look the other way if they paid fairly — told me about it.
On the road, there are demi-humans more terrifying than monsters hunting bandits.
They are Scale Tribe wielding glowing red demonic spears, commanding two beast tribe followers. No matter what traps you set, they break through them. No matter where you hide ambush troops, they seem to see through them and crush them.
At first, I feared they would call our village bandits for dealing with bandits, but it seems different.
She demands a hundred small stones.
“Even if you ask us to prepare small stones, it’s not like we’re famous for them…”
“No arguments. You can collect them from the river ahead. They are the same red stones. We’ll wait until noon. Prepare them quickly.”
When I asked a curious child watching us, they said the stones were scattered on the riverbed and shore. If they’re not rare, I’ll have them gather a hundred quickly so she can leave.