Chapter 203

(203) Younger sister route 5

Translator: Tseirp

Miri was wary of that group from the Church ― or rather they seemed organized more like an army .

Miri said to let sleeping dogs lie but as people who serve the G.o.ddess, I figured that they wouldn’t attack us that easily . Even if they did a.s.sault us, Miri and I were very capable of turning the tables on them .

“Onii, you can’t underestimate the Church . Once you become their enemy, you will become the enemy of all humankind . Since the Church is a place where its teaching can even extend to killing G.o.ds . ”

“To preach to kill G.o.ds, isn’t that getting their priorities backward? It’s like selling the land you plan to use to build a house to raise funds to build a house . ”

“Hn, I think they’re a little different but …”

I tried using a metaphor I came up on the spot but as expected I couldn’t deceive Miri by going with the flow .

Well, Miri was the Demon Lord in her previous life so she was probably hunted down by the Church . Or rather, the hero certainly belonged to the Church so it can be said that she was killed by the Church . Moreover, it was also the Church that sold Haru into slavery and executed Haru’s father .

Thinking about it that way, I probably can’t get along easily with the Church .

Nevertheless, I was helped by the Hero Alessio at Ferruit and have been aided quite a bit by the Hero’s companion Daijiro-san ― or more specifically, I probably wouldn’t have been able to travel the world so smoothly once I came to this world if it wasn’t for Daijiro-san .

“Well, you might think I’m the worst kind of human being to say this but I have to be thankful for the Church . ”

“Thankful for the Church? Why? Don’t tell me it’s because you received the blessings of the G.o.ddesses? If not for the Church, I wouldn’t have had to die in my previous life . ”

“That’s true . That’s why, without the Church, Miri wouldn’t have become my younger sister . ”

I smiled as I said that and placed my hand on Miri’s head .

Perhaps she was caught off guard as Miri’s eyes became rounded and maybe she was embarra.s.sed or angry for having been treated as a child as her cheeks dyed red and she snapped back .

“Onii, don’t say such words that set’s a person’s teeth on edge to other girls okay . You will be misunderstood . ”

“Hn? Misunderstood? I really feel fortunate to be with Miri like this though?”

” … Hah . ”

Miri sighed as if she gave up .

“Ah . I actually feel bad that I caused you to fall into a difficult situation that you had to kill yourself but don’t sigh because of that . ”

“Sheesh, Onii has always been like this . It’s fine . I’ll always be with Onii after all . ”

“No, you will one day find a nice guy and get married . Well, if there is a person out there who would take a selfish miser like you ― ouch!”

Miri kicked my shin . It hurt quite a bit .

My words just now did certainly sound like the s.e.xual hara.s.sment of a father .

But if Miri really brought a boyfriend for me to see and introduce to me, what would I do?

Shall I give him a punch in place of our father? “You actually laid your hands on my cute sister! Shut up and take one of my punches!” or something like that .

“I still don’t have another half like that . Leaving that aside, what about Onii? Norn seems to hold quite some grat.i.tude towards Onii . ”

“Norn-san huh . Haha, I saved Norn-san when she was attacked by bandits so it’s only a feeling of grat.i.tude . Even on my end, I only feel grat.i.tude towards Norn-san for helping me when I was injured when Kobolds attacked me . ”

“Then, Onii doesn’t like Norn as a person of the opposite s.e.x?”

“Hahaha, it would be discourteous towards Norn-san if I had such thoughts . ”

I replied . If I was a self-conceited person, I would wonder if she actually had feelings towards me by sending Miri all the way over here . However, I am a human capable of calm judgment . I understood that Norn-san did all that in order to repay me for saving her life .

“I see … so Onii doesn’t feel anything towards Norn . I guess I can let Norn go for now . ”

Hn? I thought I heard something along the line of letting someone go for now?

Don’t tell me this Miri . She plans to punch my marriage partner once I bring her over?

Although I’ve never heard of younger sisters punching their elder brother’s wife candidate before marriage, if my predictions were true, currently Haru was facing the greatest danger .

Well, Haru was Miri’s previous reincarnation’s beloved girl after all so they should be able to get along well . Moreover, Miri who loved to make money should be able to build rapport well with Carol who is active as a peddler .

Thank G.o.d . It looks like a wife-sister-in-law war won’t happen .

Looks like it will be easier to introduce Haru and Carol as my future marriage partners . Well, I don’t intend to touch Carol until she reaches 18 so marriage will have to wait till after then .

“Nevertheless, those Church people don’t seem that keen on leaving . I wonder what happened?”

I thought and checked the surroundings of the Church people .

That was when a shadow of a black human-shaped figure appeared from within the walls .

When the Church squad saw that, they took out a coffin-like box from a small bag .

“That looks like an item bag . ”

“I guess ― But, is that black shadow a monster?”

“I’m not sure . I’ve never seen a monster like that before . ”

Just as Miri said that, the Church squad opened the lid to that coffin-like box .

The black shadow willingly entered that box and the lid was shut .

And the box was once again stored inside the item bag .

A living organism cannot enter an item bag .

Even though an undead can’t be deemed as living, it still maintained a moveable state so they also can’t be stored in an item bag .

In other words, that was not a monster after all?

” … A Homunculus like Pionia can’t enter an item bag either right? But an Automata like Sheena can so maybe it was some kind of magical life form . I’ve heard rumors that the Church was doing research on it . ”

“Magical life form huh? It looked more like a kind of monstrous apparition(youkai) instead . ”

The Church squad finally left .

However, we didn’t know if they would come back so we quickly moved to the lower level .

If I was alone, I would have investigated that wall that the black shadow came out from .

But like Miri said, to let sleeping dogs lie .

And then, we found a large field of gra.s.s growing right in front of the lowest level boss room .

“Which are the Kiriri gra.s.s?”

The gra.s.s all seemed the same and I couldn’t differentiate between them .

I’m capable of Food, Metal and Mineral Appraisal but I didn’t have Plant Appraisal .

That was a skill that Harvesters acquire so Carol had it .

“There’s no helping it . I’ll open a door to My World and call Carol so that she can help us look for it . ”

“There’s no need for that . I memorized all plants there are . ”

Miri surveyed the plants .

“Hn, there are a few of them but their quality is not good enough to be used for medicine . Kiriri gra.s.s weakens when subjected to monster miasma . ”

“Then maybe we can harvest their seeds and grow them in My World? I can grow them in an instant . ”

“I think that is fine too but I believe they also grow where the G.o.ddess statue is at the back of the boss room so maybe we can decide after we check there . ”

“Boss room huh … incidentally, what is the boss of this dungeon?”

“Ah . I think it’s a monster Onii likes?”

I listened to the features of the boss and felt a surge of motivation .

That’s because the boss was .

“Blue Eel . A natural eel monster . ”

My favorite food .