Chapter 98 – What Comes Back When You Forgot About It?
(Uum, her gaze is filled with nothing but animosity……)
When Renya is thinking about that, his eyes unintentionally meet the girl’s eyes.
He is wondering why this girl looks at him with such a stern gaze. This is definitely their first time meeting and he does not remember ever doing something that makes her see him as an enemy instantly like this. Renya continues to keep his calm but he can’t stay silent forever so he tries to say something to her first.
“Excuse me, I want to go home so could you please not block my way……”
“Eh? Go home?”
“Yes, my business here is done. I am very happy that the goddess has bestowed her words to me”
He does not actually feel happy but there’s no point saying such truth out loud.
The female soldiers in the surrounding reacted quickly and opened the way for him while not forgetting to express their apologies for inconveniencing him. Renya and his party members then start walking away from the throne room.
“Wa-wait! Stop where you are! This enemy of women! What did you do to my royal mother!?”
“Come again? No, I didn’t particularly do anything……”
“You are someone with no relation to us yet how can you receive an invitation from us? It is even weirder that someone like you even proclaimed that you received an oracle from the goddess! So tell me whether or not you are suspicious!? You definitely do something horrible to my royal mother aren’t you!?”
Well, lady. I don’t even.
Renya is asking for help explaining the meaning behind what the lass is saying with his eyes to the other girls around but everyone is also shaking their head.
The only thing that he understood currently is that the lass is the princess of this kingdom.
“What is this racket all about?”
At that moment, the messiah appears. Well, it is the queen, Alexia, that appeared though. The door to the throne room is left open after all so it would be hard for her to not notice the uproar happening outside.
Looking at her mother figure, the angry princess quickly rushed over to her.
“Are you alright mother!? Did that man do something weird to you!?”
“Isabella, just what on earth are you worrying about? Renya… dono is our kingdom’s guest okay? There’s no way he would do something like that, right?”
The queen is almost using the prefix ‘sama’ on him but she quickly corrects herself midway. Great insight. If Alexia were to call a mere wanderer with a ‘sama’ prefix that belittles herself, the suspicion will turn into the truth in the other’s eyes.
“But that man is famous in the continent for his womanizing habit! He goes around the continent and plays with the hearts of women that he likes! He even goes out with different beauties every day like changing clothes! He is definitely a heinous person!”
“Eh? Are you for real? Did such a bad rumor about me spreading?”
Renya is aware of his own conduct so he does not really care what other people say about him but he isn’t that fiendish to deserve such bad rumor spreading, right? Or rather, before that, yes, he admits that the queen is indeed a beautiful woman who does not seem to be someone who had a child before but with the combo of being a queen of a kingdom and someone else’s wife, Renya does not even feel any urge to seduce her.
The princess is just too convinced with her prejudice of Renya that she does not even seem to understand that point.
Looking at Renya’s surprised expression, one of the female soldiers that guards the throne room whispers some word to his ear in an apologetic manner.
“I beg your pardon for this but it seems that Renya-sama’s image in the eyes of the princess is excessively leaning in the wrong direction because of the rumor. How do I say this…… there is indeed a rumor about you being a playboy but at least it is not as bad as the thing that the princess said”
“…… I feel more at ease now. I am aware of my own conduct but I always consider myself as someone who still has moral integrity at the very least”
But if that is indeed the case, Renya guessed that this princess called Isabella might have an overly fastidious view about the relationship between man and woman.
From the point of view of girls her age, Renya’s deed might seem like a typical douchebag who makes women cry wherever he goes. It couldn’t be helped if she looks at him like he is a heinous person.
“Isabella, I think you went a bit too far there. Moreover, you disparage the other party in your first meeting just because of a rumor. I, as the queen and also your mother, would not overlook this matter lightly you know”
“Bu-but mother……! Just look at this guy! He even walks around with multiple women accompanying him like this!”
“I have told you many times before, our custom is not the world’s custom. I know that you hate polygamy but pushing your own value and opinion to people from other nations, much less to a wanderer who travels around the world like Renya-dono, in a high-handed manner like that is not exactly a commendable act”
Alexia said her words with a steady tone but you can feel her wrath hidden in the points of her speech that made people who listen to her find it hard to talk back. Looking at how the queen managed to balance the dignity of a queen and the dignity of a mother in her appearance, he managed to glimpse her depth as a ruler and Renya thinks more highly of her.
But it seems that Isabella still does not completely agree with what her mother said as she still persists with her argument.
“I disagree! Polygamy is still permitted because the man has the wealth or power to support all of his women and it is their privilege! But this man is not someone like that! Does this mean that mother agrees that someone who doesn’t have any stable income, a place to call home, and is always wandering around to drag several women to live in an insatiable situation together with them!? Even when that person comes from a foreign origin, that situation is still wrong! And correcting the wrong is a necessity!”
“Fuu…… You are not totally wrong with your argument but…… this is troubling indeed”
Because Alexia knows that Renya is a divine being, she believes that he has the power to not let his women meet misfortune like that. Meanwhile, Isabella does not know this fact so it is difficult to completely deny her opinion.
“Queen Alexia, you don’t have to think too hard about this kind of problem. After all, this problem would no longer be a problem when I leave”
“But……”
“I am aware that strangers would look at me like that. The princess isn’t exactly wrong with what she said. After all, it is hard to say that I don’t let them ‘suffer’ in any way possible, right?”
Renya turns back to seek consent from the women standing behind him. They are all nodding their heads in agreement.
“I have already prepared myself from the start so it’s fine~”
“Let see, well, he is at least aware of his shortcoming so I feel it worth my while supporting him”
“Even when Renya-sama is like that, I feel very happy to become his strength”
“I feel that the suffering is much less than the happiness I get so it is fine desu”
“…… This current lifestyle gives me the most fun. I like it……”
Looking at the reaction of the women that are following the demon to be on the contrary from her expectation made Isabella’s expression turn baffled from her inability to understand.
In her eyes, a man who has relationships with multiple women and doing things as he likes is someone worth condemnation.
This concept is absolute inside Isabella’s head. The man in front of her is the devil that should never be forgiven.
Moreover, the fact that the man and her mother had spent a pleasant time chatting without including her made her contempt towards Renya worsen.
How could her mother put her trust in someone like him?
Renya who does not concern himself with the matter tries to leave immediately as the talk has finished but Isabella then crashes all her frustration into his back.
“Don’t you dare to leave, Renya Eastle! I am not yet convinced! If you insist that you are innocent then show me the proof!”
“…… Come again?”
Renya wondered how did things turn this way as he turns back to face Isabella once again.
His mind is already full with the feeling of wanting to just forget about this problem and escape right away so he does not even try to hide her unpleasantness in his face as Renya comes face to face again with the princess.
“I know that you have managed to earn the trust of the women following you but I still doubt your prowess as a warrior. It can’t be helped that I think of you as someone who is skillful with words but a total deadbeat in everything else and had the girls provide for you. You agree with my point of view, right?”
“Well, I indeed don’t remember ever trying to prove myself to anyone else in any way……”
Isabella could not see it but Floria and Brenda are whispering to each other while trying to hold back their laugh.
Of course, the butt of their joke is the word that Isabella just said.
Of all things, she is asking a war god his battle prowess. He is absolutely peerless in battle. Even for matters regarding wealth, he can just spend some of his divine power to fix that. He even has a ship that flies in the sky as his main residence. To doubt Renya regarding the matter of his resourcefulness in providing the girls sounds like a total joke for them.
Her rampage is only fueled by her ignorance. This is the most ridiculous thing that they have ever heard so far.
Not realizing the reaction of the girls behind Renya, Isabella tried to sound him out with a haughty expression.
“If I could ask, how much is your personal wealth?”
“I think I have earned enough to not let all six of us starve if we spend our money normally. And it seems that I won’t have any problem even if our number increases, right?”
Renya turns his gaze towards Brenda, who is the treasurer of their group, for confirmation.
“Even if we all each have children, your wealth is enough to support all of us until the day all of them reach independence”
“We have settled a few big commissions after all~”
Hearing the follow-up from Floria, Isabella turns speechless.
Because it is not Renya himself who said that but Brenda who gives out a strong intellectual aura, she could not doubt her words as lies.
“Bu-but you still don’t have a place to call home and a stable job on top of it, right!? What will you do if you meet misfortune and end up a cripple!?”
“Therese, how many requests did we receive from the Alchemist guild and Magician guild again?”
“Let’s see, erm, we have a lot of orders of magic tools for everyday life and magic tools for battle desu. But all of them do not have any deadline limit desu”
“Is that so? Then even if we only sell the production rights, it would still be very troublesome, right?”
“It can’t be helped desu~”
Even if he could not fight anymore, he could still earn a lot of money from making magic tools. Renya is indirectly pointing out that he could become an artificer if he wants to and Isabella is once again turning speechless from her amazement.
“I-I see…… I get it now. So you are not just an ordinary wanderer right. But still, there is one more thing that is equally important to a man”
“Is it the resourcefulness to take care of multiple women fairly?”
“That’s totally wrong! Isn’t that just a poor excuse for men to get involved with a lot of women at once!? It is strength! Your own personal strength!”
Looking at Isabella that is already close to her limit in putting up an argument, Renya could only give her back a wry smile.
Her true nature is that of a super straight person. She is not someone evil at heart. It is just a chain of unfortunate events that Renya, the type of person that she hates the most, gets to have an audience with her royal mother because of an unclear reason. Her wariness towards the unknown man and her worries for her mother are combined together into her hostility towards Renya.
Isabella is too ‘straight’ for her own good. That is the point that everyone agrees with.
“You are praised as the leading figure in the three kingdoms war so you should personally have enough strength to match that title, right? Don’t tell me that your achievement was all thanks to the women around you while you do nothing yourself?”
“Yes, that was all indeed my personal achievement. But I won’t say that it is all thanks to me. These five girls with me are not ordinary either”
“Then —- please show me that strength. Let me, the one who is called as the strongest in Rintiez Kingdom, personally taste your power”
The strongest.
That is not a title you can easily get.
Indeed Isabella is impertinent in showing her emotion but she does not show any excess body movement in this short time Renya got entangled with her. Even when she confronts him directly like this, she never shows her weak side.
Renya perceives that she is indeed someone who had polished their abilities to master class. But he does not know how high her prowess is according to this kingdom’s fighting power standard.
Renya turns his gaze towards Alexia, asking her silently with his gaze and she gives him back a positive response.
“Isabella has the strength that even the captain of our kingdom’s elite knight brigade could not rival with. Nowadays, she seems to develop a new hobby of sparring with everyone no matter whether they are male or female……”
“Ah, I have expected this before. So she is indeed a famous tomboy girl”
“Royal mother, please don’t say it in a disappointed manner like that! And also, you, please don’t make weird conclusions like that!”
If even Alexia supports her title as the strongest, then her prowess should indeed be above the average. But there should be a secret on how she could grow this strong despite still being this young.
With that in mind, Renya tries to decipher Isabella’s strength and he finds one point that attracts his attention. It is an existence that is similar to a gift from heaven that is totally different from a normal talent. Something that no normal mortal could have.
(So it’s like that. I can see now how she can become the strongest in the kingdom even with her young age)
That’s why he starts to feel bad if he just lets it pass by him. If things are done incorrectly then she might become someone broken for life but if done correctly, she could grow into a female hero like Alexia but just in a different way.
“Alright, then I will accept your challenge. It is too troublesome to continue arguing like this anyway. But let me say this one thing —- my princess, don’t you regret challenging me, okay? I shall teach you the difference between courage and recklessness”
“……Tch, how dare you to make a fool of me! Looking down on me just because I’m a woman? You are no different from other men! I will make you the one who regrets everything!”
And so, after finishing one trouble, another trouble in the form of a noble princess falls directly to him.
Chapter 98 – What Comes Back When You Forgot About It?
(Uum, her gaze is filled with nothing but animosity……)
When Renya is thinking about that, his eyes unintentionally meet the girl’s eyes.
He is wondering why this girl looks at him with such a stern gaze. This is definitely their first time meeting and he does not remember ever doing something that makes her see him as an enemy instantly like this. Renya continues to keep his calm but he can’t stay silent forever so he tries to say something to her first.
“Excuse me, I want to go home so could you please not block my way……”
“Eh? Go home?”
“Yes, my business here is done. I am very happy that the goddess has bestowed her words to me”
He does not actually feel happy but there’s no point saying such truth out loud.
The female soldiers in the surrounding reacted quickly and opened the way for him while not forgetting to express their apologies for inconveniencing him. Renya and his party members then start walking away from the throne room.
“Wa-wait! Stop where you are! This enemy of women! What did you do to my royal mother!?”
“Come again? No, I didn’t particularly do anything……”
“You are someone with no relation to us yet how can you receive an invitation from us? It is even weirder that someone like you even proclaimed that you received an oracle from the goddess! So tell me whether or not you are suspicious!? You definitely do something horrible to my royal mother aren’t you!?”
Well, lady. I don’t even.
Renya is asking for help explaining the meaning behind what the lass is saying with his eyes to the other girls around but everyone is also shaking their head.
The only thing that he understood currently is that the lass is the princess of this kingdom.
“What is this racket all about?”
At that moment, the messiah appears. Well, it is the queen, Alexia, that appeared though. The door to the throne room is left open after all so it would be hard for her to not notice the uproar happening outside.
Looking at her mother figure, the angry princess quickly rushed over to her.
“Are you alright mother!? Did that man do something weird to you!?”
“Isabella, just what on earth are you worrying about? Renya… dono is our kingdom’s guest okay? There’s no way he would do something like that, right?”
The queen is almost using the prefix ‘sama’ on him but she quickly corrects herself midway. Great insight. If Alexia were to call a mere wanderer with a ‘sama’ prefix that belittles herself, the suspicion will turn into the truth in the other’s eyes.
“But that man is famous in the continent for his womanizing habit! He goes around the continent and plays with the hearts of women that he likes! He even goes out with different beauties every day like changing clothes! He is definitely a heinous person!”
“Eh? Are you for real? Did such a bad rumor about me spreading?”
Renya is aware of his own conduct so he does not really care what other people say about him but he isn’t that fiendish to deserve such bad rumor spreading, right? Or rather, before that, yes, he admits that the queen is indeed a beautiful woman who does not seem to be someone who had a child before but with the combo of being a queen of a kingdom and someone else’s wife, Renya does not even feel any urge to seduce her.
The princess is just too convinced with her prejudice of Renya that she does not even seem to understand that point.
Looking at Renya’s surprised expression, one of the female soldiers that guards the throne room whispers some word to his ear in an apologetic manner.
“I beg your pardon for this but it seems that Renya-sama’s image in the eyes of the princess is excessively leaning in the wrong direction because of the rumor. How do I say this…… there is indeed a rumor about you being a playboy but at least it is not as bad as the thing that the princess said”
“…… I feel more at ease now. I am aware of my own conduct but I always consider myself as someone who still has moral integrity at the very least”
But if that is indeed the case, Renya guessed that this princess called Isabella might have an overly fastidious view about the relationship between man and woman.
From the point of view of girls her age, Renya’s deed might seem like a typical douchebag who makes women cry wherever he goes. It couldn’t be helped if she looks at him like he is a heinous person.
“Isabella, I think you went a bit too far there. Moreover, you disparage the other party in your first meeting just because of a rumor. I, as the queen and also your mother, would not overlook this matter lightly you know”
“Bu-but mother……! Just look at this guy! He even walks around with multiple women accompanying him like this!”
“I have told you many times before, our custom is not the world’s custom. I know that you hate polygamy but pushing your own value and opinion to people from other nations, much less to a wanderer who travels around the world like Renya-dono, in a high-handed manner like that is not exactly a commendable act”
Alexia said her words with a steady tone but you can feel her wrath hidden in the points of her speech that made people who listen to her find it hard to talk back. Looking at how the queen managed to balance the dignity of a queen and the dignity of a mother in her appearance, he managed to glimpse her depth as a ruler and Renya thinks more highly of her.
But it seems that Isabella still does not completely agree with what her mother said as she still persists with her argument.
“I disagree! Polygamy is still permitted because the man has the wealth or power to support all of his women and it is their privilege! But this man is not someone like that! Does this mean that mother agrees that someone who doesn’t have any stable income, a place to call home, and is always wandering around to drag several women to live in an insatiable situation together with them!? Even when that person comes from a foreign origin, that situation is still wrong! And correcting the wrong is a necessity!”
“Fuu…… You are not totally wrong with your argument but…… this is troubling indeed”
Because Alexia knows that Renya is a divine being, she believes that he has the power to not let his women meet misfortune like that. Meanwhile, Isabella does not know this fact so it is difficult to completely deny her opinion.
“Queen Alexia, you don’t have to think too hard about this kind of problem. After all, this problem would no longer be a problem when I leave”
“But……”
“I am aware that strangers would look at me like that. The princess isn’t exactly wrong with what she said. After all, it is hard to say that I don’t let them ‘suffer’ in any way possible, right?”
Renya turns back to seek consent from the women standing behind him. They are all nodding their heads in agreement.
“I have already prepared myself from the start so it’s fine~”
“Let see, well, he is at least aware of his shortcoming so I feel it worth my while supporting him”
“Even when Renya-sama is like that, I feel very happy to become his strength”
“I feel that the suffering is much less than the happiness I get so it is fine desu”
“…… This current lifestyle gives me the most fun. I like it……”
Looking at the reaction of the women that are following the demon to be on the contrary from her expectation made Isabella’s expression turn baffled from her inability to understand.
In her eyes, a man who has relationships with multiple women and doing things as he likes is someone worth condemnation.
This concept is absolute inside Isabella’s head. The man in front of her is the devil that should never be forgiven.
Moreover, the fact that the man and her mother had spent a pleasant time chatting without including her made her contempt towards Renya worsen.
How could her mother put her trust in someone like him?
Renya who does not concern himself with the matter tries to leave immediately as the talk has finished but Isabella then crashes all her frustration into his back.
“Don’t you dare to leave, Renya Eastle! I am not yet convinced! If you insist that you are innocent then show me the proof!”
“…… Come again?”
Renya wondered how did things turn this way as he turns back to face Isabella once again.
His mind is already full with the feeling of wanting to just forget about this problem and escape right away so he does not even try to hide her unpleasantness in his face as Renya comes face to face again with the princess.
“I know that you have managed to earn the trust of the women following you but I still doubt your prowess as a warrior. It can’t be helped that I think of you as someone who is skillful with words but a total deadbeat in everything else and had the girls provide for you. You agree with my point of view, right?”
“Well, I indeed don’t remember ever trying to prove myself to anyone else in any way……”
Isabella could not see it but Floria and Brenda are whispering to each other while trying to hold back their laugh.
Of course, the butt of their joke is the word that Isabella just said.
Of all things, she is asking a war god his battle prowess. He is absolutely peerless in battle. Even for matters regarding wealth, he can just spend some of his divine power to fix that. He even has a ship that flies in the sky as his main residence. To doubt Renya regarding the matter of his resourcefulness in providing the girls sounds like a total joke for them.
Her rampage is only fueled by her ignorance. This is the most ridiculous thing that they have ever heard so far.
Not realizing the reaction of the girls behind Renya, Isabella tried to sound him out with a haughty expression.
“If I could ask, how much is your personal wealth?”
“I think I have earned enough to not let all six of us starve if we spend our money normally. And it seems that I won’t have any problem even if our number increases, right?”
Renya turns his gaze towards Brenda, who is the treasurer of their group, for confirmation.
“Even if we all each have children, your wealth is enough to support all of us until the day all of them reach independence”
“We have settled a few big commissions after all~”
Hearing the follow-up from Floria, Isabella turns speechless.
Because it is not Renya himself who said that but Brenda who gives out a strong intellectual aura, she could not doubt her words as lies.
“Bu-but you still don’t have a place to call home and a stable job on top of it, right!? What will you do if you meet misfortune and end up a cripple!?”
“Therese, how many requests did we receive from the Alchemist guild and Magician guild again?”
“Let’s see, erm, we have a lot of orders of magic tools for everyday life and magic tools for battle desu. But all of them do not have any deadline limit desu”
“Is that so? Then even if we only sell the production rights, it would still be very troublesome, right?”
“It can’t be helped desu~”
Even if he could not fight anymore, he could still earn a lot of money from making magic tools. Renya is indirectly pointing out that he could become an artificer if he wants to and Isabella is once again turning speechless from her amazement.
“I-I see…… I get it now. So you are not just an ordinary wanderer right. But still, there is one more thing that is equally important to a man”
“Is it the resourcefulness to take care of multiple women fairly?”
“That’s totally wrong! Isn’t that just a poor excuse for men to get involved with a lot of women at once!? It is strength! Your own personal strength!”
Looking at Isabella that is already close to her limit in putting up an argument, Renya could only give her back a wry smile.
Her true nature is that of a super straight person. She is not someone evil at heart. It is just a chain of unfortunate events that Renya, the type of person that she hates the most, gets to have an audience with her royal mother because of an unclear reason. Her wariness towards the unknown man and her worries for her mother are combined together into her hostility towards Renya.
Isabella is too ‘straight’ for her own good. That is the point that everyone agrees with.
“You are praised as the leading figure in the three kingdoms war so you should personally have enough strength to match that title, right? Don’t tell me that your achievement was all thanks to the women around you while you do nothing yourself?”
“Yes, that was all indeed my personal achievement. But I won’t say that it is all thanks to me. These five girls with me are not ordinary either”
“Then —- please show me that strength. Let me, the one who is called as the strongest in Rintiez Kingdom, personally taste your power”
The strongest.
That is not a title you can easily get.
Indeed Isabella is impertinent in showing her emotion but she does not show any excess body movement in this short time Renya got entangled with her. Even when she confronts him directly like this, she never shows her weak side.
Renya perceives that she is indeed someone who had polished their abilities to master class. But he does not know how high her prowess is according to this kingdom’s fighting power standard.
Renya turns his gaze towards Alexia, asking her silently with his gaze and she gives him back a positive response.
“Isabella has the strength that even the captain of our kingdom’s elite knight brigade could not rival with. Nowadays, she seems to develop a new hobby of sparring with everyone no matter whether they are male or female……”
“Ah, I have expected this before. So she is indeed a famous tomboy girl”
“Royal mother, please don’t say it in a disappointed manner like that! And also, you, please don’t make weird conclusions like that!”
If even Alexia supports her title as the strongest, then her prowess should indeed be above the average. But there should be a secret on how she could grow this strong despite still being this young.
With that in mind, Renya tries to decipher Isabella’s strength and he finds one point that attracts his attention. It is an existence that is similar to a gift from heaven that is totally different from a normal talent. Something that no normal mortal could have.
(So it’s like that. I can see now how she can become the strongest in the kingdom even with her young age)
That’s why he starts to feel bad if he just lets it pass by him. If things are done incorrectly then she might become someone broken for life but if done correctly, she could grow into a female hero like Alexia but just in a different way.
“Alright, then I will accept your challenge. It is too troublesome to continue arguing like this anyway. But let me say this one thing —- my princess, don’t you regret challenging me, okay? I shall teach you the difference between courage and recklessness”
“……Tch, how dare you to make a fool of me! Looking down on me just because I’m a woman? You are no different from other men! I will make you the one who regrets everything!”
And so, after finishing one trouble, another trouble in the form of a noble princess falls directly to him.
