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Chapter 237 - Konbu Maki
Chapter 237 - Konbu Maki
Chapter 237 - Konbu Maki
?Seiji-sama!?
Elena shouted worriedly.
Without an opening being created for her to splash the?Curse dispelling potion?over to Yurie-san, Elena was in dire stress too.
I have to do my best to create an opening to Yurie-san here……
I have to, but…...
It’s no good.
I have to greatly avoid the tentacle attack more than necessary at any cost.
This is the courage to take another step!!
I resolutely took a step forward toward the incoming bunch of tentacles.
?Here it goes!!?
?I’m gonna treat you with L.O.V.E!?
The moment the katana and the tentacles collided,
I put the katana back into the inventory and slipped under the bunch of tentacles.
And then, I hold the bunch of tentacles with both hands.
It’s totally like……
like a?konbu maki1?tied up in a bundle with?kanpyo2?......
?Kyaa! What are you doing with a young maiden's important part~?!!?
Yurie-san screams.
As I’ve said so, what important part!?
?Elena! Now!!?
?Yes! Seiji-sama!!?
Elena controlled the?curse dispelling potion?with ?water magic?using this chance?
and splashed it over to Yurie-san’s face!
?Kyaa! What this!!??
Yurie-san was surprised at the facial-cumshot3 and pulled the tentacles back in her skirt.
?I did it, Seiji-sama.?
?You did well, Elena.?
I was going to hug Elena, but…...
I was dodged by Elena.
?Why did you dodge, Elena??
?Because…...Seiji-sama…...?
When I look carefully at my body?
it had become sticky with the liquid that smells like a rotten cheese.
I see, it was during the konbu maki strategy a while ago……
It can’t be helped, let’s put off hugging Elena for later.
?Guwaaa---!!?
When such a thing happened, Yurie-san began to suffer.
When I looked carefully, a black smoke shrouded from her face together with the sound of something melting and sizzling.
After Yurie-san writhe for a while, she collapsed and stopped moving.
?Is she alright??
?She’s certainly fine since the curse has just removed.?
While we were watching attentively,
Yurie-san’s mask came off and fell down on the floor.
When I used?Appraisal?, Yurie-san’s?curse?had disappeared.
?Yes! The curse is dispelled.?
Elena who heard my words quickly rushed up to Yurie-san.
?It’s alright, Seiji-sama.
Yurie-san doesn’t have any injury.?
?Is that so! That’s good.?
Yurie-san seems to have expended magic power, and just asleep.
?Seiji-sama, let’s carry Yurie-san to my room.?
?Ou, leave it to me.?
I wiped the sticky juice smeared on my body,
wrapped Yurie-san in a bath towel,
and took her to Elena’s room in a princess carry.
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There was a new bed placed in Elena’s room.
The King probably prepared a new bed for Elena when she comes back.
?Oi, Seiji!?
When I was thinking who it was, the King willfully barged into Elena’s room.
?What it is, King??
?What ‘what is it’?
Other than such a thing, what are you going to do with that woman!??
?I’m not going to do anything, just nurse her.?
?That woman is the enemy who attacked me, you know?!!?
?Otou-sama, you’re wrong!?
Since Elena objected suddenly, the King was surprised.
?This Yurie-san is an important friend of mine!
She was manipulated by the devil-kin!
She’s not an enemy!!?
?I-, Is that so…...?
The King flinches at the so angry look of Elena.
Oops, I forgot the other woman.
?Elena, I’ll leave Yurie-san to you.?
?Yes, leave her to me.?
?King too, don’t bother Elena.?
?Don’t order me.?
Sigh, the king wasn’t helping~.
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When I came back to the audience room, the woman with a shield was still unconscious.
I endured the sticky bad smell and performed a physical check-up on the woman.
When I took off the woman’s hood, she has two horns as expected.
She’s a devil-kin after all.
And then……
She had?Magic stone of confusion inducement?,?Magic stone of confusion erasure?, and?Magic stone of suicide?in her person.
???Appraisal?????
??Magic stone of confusion inducement?
?One can induce confusion to a person.
?It’s necessary to draw near during the inducement.
?Rarity: ????
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???Appraisal?????
??Magic stone of confusion erasure?
?One can erase the confusion of a person by pouring magic power
?while having bodily contact.
?Rarity: ????
??????????
???Appraisal?????
??Magic stone of suicide?
?One can commit suicide by pouring magic power,
?completely obliterating the body, and one’s belongings.
?Rarity: ????
??????????
These are nothing but dangerous magic stones.
The story I can see from these three was……
1. Act together, and manipulate Yurie-san.
2. If the strategy fails, kill Yurie-san.
3. Then she will commit suicide, destroying the evidence.
Such a flow was my hypothesis.
Incidentally, the black shield was?
???Appraisal?????
??Shield of everlasting darkness?
?A shield which cancels magic invocation,
?but can’t block physical attacks.
?Rarity: ????
??????????
It was as such.
I put the shield and the three magic stones away into the inventory,
and tied the hands of the devil-kin woman behind her back.
Then, Lyle Gewalt entered while gasping for breath.
?King-sama! Are you safe!!??
?If it isn’t Lyle Gewalt.
Did you only shamelessly appear now??
?S-, Seiji!!
What of King-sama!??
?He’s safe.
And, as you can see, I caught this devil-kin as well.
Or rather, where have you been until now??
?I seemed to have been put asleep somehow or other,
and woke up just now…...
I’m ashamed.?
Well, I figured.
?Lela was worried, you know.
Contact her quickly.?
?I-, Is that so…...?
I was able to save the Royal Capital somehow.
And, got back Yurie-san as well.
The rest, I’ll finish the battle in the other towns and return to Japan.
I whipped my tired body and stood up.
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1Konbu maki is a seaweed roll. Konbu is the large, thick seaweed that is sold dry, and also a play on words with “yorokobu” meaning “be happy” so people eat konbu maki over the new year’s for good luck.
2long dried strips of a gourd that's soaked to soften and used to tie the konbu maki.
3Seriously, I don’t know how to translate ?? any better than this.