Orc Harem Vol 2 Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Orc-san And Sword of Oracle

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The beautiful fox girl in front me became tearful.

She suddenly became quite and meek like a borrowed cat……or rather borrowed fox.

「Thank you very much for saving my life. ……I’ll at least listen to what you have to say. But, I’m in a hurry right now so please keep it short.」

I see, it looked like this girl was a really good girl.

Even though she was still scared, she would listen to my story.

「I’m the orc Ork. Will you please join my harem?」

「No way! What incomprehensible thing are you saying to someone who you have just met!?」

I was rejected.

Well, this was nothing new.

「I see, that’s too bad. Can you please teach me your name at the very least?」

「I’m Kururu.」

「Kururu huh, let’s meet again later.」

Kururu thought that the danger had left and sighed in relieve.

But, she was naïve.

I wouldn’t give up so easily when it came to a woman who I seriously wanted to obtain.

It would be meaningless no matter how much I talked to her at this place, so I would withdraw for the time being.

As long as I knew her name, I could gather information about her and strip her naked. From there I would form a plan to make her fell in love with me.

To control the information meant to control the world.

Tita came running toward us at that timing.

「Both of you were too fast. It was really hard to catch up like this.」

「Sorry, I should run while carrying you Tita.」

「……Now look here, you are in the middle of wooing that fox girl aren’t you Ork? Are you planning to woo her while carrying your lover in your arms?」

Hearing Tita’s words, the fox-eared beautiful girl……aka Kururu made a surprised face.

「Umm, could it be, Tita-san is, the lover of that orc?」

「Yep, that’s right. I’m Tita. I’m Ork’s lover.」

「Why, are you hitting on me even though you already have a lover? In the first place, why aren’t you angry Tita-san seeing this?」

Several question marks popped out above Kururu’s head.

「I told you right? I want to make a harem. It’s a harem, so it’s not strange at all to have a lot of lovers.」

「……Err, I’m also feeling angry and sad right now, but I became Ork’s lover fully knowing that he is going to make a harem, so I think it can’t be helped.」

「I can’t understand it……um, I’m going now okay?」

Kururu stood up and turned her back toward us. Then she seemed to recall something and turned around.

Her gaze was directed on the sword on my waist.

「Um, could it be, you came here to pull out the sword of oracle?」

「Yeah, that’s right.」

「It’s better if you don’t. That thing is defective.」

Defective? The sword of oracle?

Kururu’s eyes were cold with sadness somewhere in it.

And then she left without saying anything else.

「I wonder what does she mean? She called the sword defective.」

「She didn’t look like she was joking. That girl is a member of the divine steel tribe. She is deeply related with that sword.」

Her fox ears and tail, and then her red eyes that were like flame.

Those were the trait of divine steel tribe.

Especially her eyes. I heard that the more vivid the red color of the tribe member’s eyes, the stronger the blood that they had inherited. However Kururu’s eyes were so red like flame.

Most likely she wasn’t just a normal tribe member, but the priestess who could forge the sword of oracle.

「I’m curious.」

「Yeah, it’s curious……besides, there was her unusual atmosphere. Cough, cough」

「Hey, what were you about to say just now Ork?」

Tita peered onto my face from below.

「It’s nothing.」

「Don’t tell me, you want to take advantage of the fact that she is feeling troubled? In exchange of helping her, you want her body……you aren’t thinking of anything like that aren’t you?」

It seemed that I wouldn’t be able to make any excuse.

Let’s tell her the truth.

「You are half correct. I want to lend her my strength if she is in trouble. If I increase the frequency of my contact with her like that, then perhaps she will fall in love with me. I have that kind of ulterior motive. But you know, I won’t ask her for anything in return.」

「……That’s certainly what you will do Ork. Before this I was also helped a lot by you, but you never asked me for anything in return at all. I’m sorry that I said something strange.」

It looked like the misunderstanding was resolved.

This was also thanks to my habitual good deed.

I was glad I was a gentleorc.

「Now then, let’s go pull out the sword like planned.」

「Is it alright to leave that girl alone? It looked like you were really infatuated with her.」

「Right now it will be pointless no matter how much I try to talk to her. ……Rather than that, if she is fixated to that sword, then perhaps something will happen by pulling it out.」

Let’s gather information later and also cause an event to happen.

A capable man could execute several plans running together at the same time.

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The queue toward the sword of oracle was still continuing even though the sun was setting.

「Why do we have to change our clothes first?」

「Well, I’ll tell you the reason after this.」

Both Tita and I were using special makeup. Now the contours of our faces looked like different people. I used alchemy to reproduce skin that we were using as mask. My transformation ability in the end was only at the level of transforming between human and orc. It couldn’t be used to transform myself in detail, so this kind of skill was necessary.

By the way my makeup skill could even rival the pro in Hollywood.

「Even so, there are a lot of curious people here. The length of the queue right now is still the same like when we arrived here. Rather, it’s longer now?」

The queue was still progressing, but more and more people were joining the queue. There was no sign at all of the queue running out.

It was amidst that I paid the reward to the man who was lining up in our place and took his position. We were suddenly right near the front now.

It wasn’t cutting the line, but replacing someone else, so the people around us weren’t complaining.

「I’m feeling a chill when imagining that we have to line up normally.」

「Well, yeah. This too is the power of money. More importantly, we come in good timing. It will be our turn in less than ten minutes.」

This was the best timing.

These ten minutes were just right.

After all we could watch the other people taking the challenge during that time.

Right now a man who looked proud of his strength was holding the sword’s handle with both hands firmly and tried to pull it out from the stone while dripping sweats like a river.

The muscles all over his body swelled up and his face turned bright red, but the sword didn’t even twitch.

「You’re out of time. Then next.」

And then he was mercilessly ordered to leave.

Finding the hero was also the national policy, so soldiers were dispatched to here. A time limit of thirty seconds was also set up so that nobody could waste time with their useless effort.

It was during that time, I could hear a commotion from far behind.

When I turned to that direction, there was a man who approached this way while being escorted by some military officers.

The man had silver hair and super handsome face. He was wearing a metal light armor that protected his vital spots.

Originally it was the rule that everyone had to queue properly, but that man was given a special treatment.

Like that the man stood in front of the sword of oracle.

「My name is Levn Fortula. The knight of white rose. There is nobody who doesn’t know of this nickname that was bestowed to me from his majesty!」

This guy was pointlessly haughty.

While all of us here were coming on our own initiative to give the sword pulling challenge a try, most likely the country was inviting this knight here as someone who they thought as likely to be the hero.

By the way the nickname of white rose knight, it felt like I had heard it from somewhere, or perhaps not.

「So it’s you who has been calling at me all this time. ……I’m sorry. I have made you wait for long.」

The man smiled and talked to the sword as though he was whispering his love.

……Uwaa, what a cringy person.

「Holy sword. Come under me the hero.」

Unlike the man before, him, this man put his hand on the sword with a smooth movement that was full of confidence.

And then without putting any excessive strength, he lightly tugged at the sword and it……didn’t move.

It didn’t even twitch.

The atmosphere in the area froze.

After all, even though this person came with special treatment, had a face that handsome, talked dramatically about how the sword was calling for him and putting the surrounding people in suspense, and created an atmosphere that made people thought that this person would be the one who finally pulled out the sword, this happened.

The mister white rose knight continued his challenge to pull out the sword desperately. Then he finally lost any leeway to put up appearance. He used both his hands and spread his legs wide, then he pulled at the sword with all his strength until he went red in the face.

This sight was no different from the macho man before him. No matter how handsome he was, it all went down the drain with the holes of his nose huffing like a bull and his posture so unsightly.

And then, the soldier who had the role of telling the challenger that their time was up patted the man’s soldier.

「The time limit is up. Please go back. Pfft」

The soldier couldn’t hold back his laughter at the end and leaked it out slightly.

That laugh immediately spread and a storm of laughter exploded out through the area.

The mister white rose knight became red due to a different reason from just now while leaving.

……So his speech about hearing a voice calling for him was completely just an acting huh. This guy was really a hero in a different sense. After all it was impossible for someone to make that kind of performance unless he had the absolute confidence that he would be able to pull out the sword.

「What a funny person.」

「If you like something like that then how about I’ll also try doing it?」

「Stop it. I will get too embarrassed to be seen together with you after that.」

Surely she was worried that I would get too popular and got surrounded by a lot of women.

She was really adorable like usual.

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Finally my turn arrived.

By the way the mister white rose knight was still watching from some distance.

It seemed that she was threatening the officials to be allowed to try the challenge once more.

That was just unsightly. Frankly it was bothersome.

Because, with his personality, he definitely would pick a quarrel with me if I pulled out the sword.

……Let’s pull out the sword quickly without standing out as much as possible.

I casually stood in front of the sword.

「Then, you have thirty seconds. Start!」

「Heave-ho」

Here, it was out.

「Tita, let’s go home.」

「Yep, I think you told me that our dinner today will be a famous dish in the inn right? I can’t wait.」

I had prepared a sheath on my waist beforehand.

I made it with a guess that the sword’s size would be the same like the hero’s sword that Kaa-san had. It fitted into it perfectly.

「Raising duck is popular around here. They taste far better than the wild duck, and I heard that the cooking is also amazing. It seems that we’re going to eat the duck with sauce made from blood.」

「Using blood, that’s interesting. Because blood has to be taken out from the meat because it will smell bad quickly right? And yet we are going to eat that blood intentionally?」

「No, blood itself taste good. But you see, germ can easily multiply in blood and it hard to handle, so normally the blood is thrown away. Well, you will get it once you give it a try.」

I can’t wait to try it. The sauce of duck blood.

If their handling of the blood was poor, I’d go to the duck breeding farm myself and cooked the greatest duck dish for Tita.

「「「「Wait a second!!」」」」

The soldiers called at us to stop while we were trying to go back casually like that.

Of course this happened. Because, there was no way they would just let the hero went off to who know where after they found him.

But this was troublesome.

The existence of hero was born from the Spirit King granting power to someone with the fate of confronting the world’s enemy in the future.

That was all there was to it, but the people in power didn’t look at the hero like that. They considered hero as someone who was given power to save mankind especially. They also tended to have a broad interpretation of what mankind meant and thought of the hero as a powerful and convenient pawn for them to use.

In other words, they all wanted to work the hero like a slave for their own sake.

I disguised my face because I had predicted this.

……After all the country would publish wanted poster even if I managed to escape from here. It was like a treatment for criminal.

And it looked like it wasn’t just the soldiers who were trying to stop me.

「Don’t screw with me!! Why is that plain looking guy can pull it out when I can’t!」

The mister white rose knight pulled out the sword on his waist and tried to grab at me, so I skillfully dodged him.

It seemed to anger him even more.

「Even if you ask me why, it’s simply this sword choosing me over you.」

I was the authentic hero after all.

「Unacceptable, I won’t accept this. ……I get it, I get it now. When I did my challenge, the sword had actually gotten almost pulled out. I actually just needed a bit more time to pull it out. But, that didn’t happen because that guy said that time’s up and stopped my effort. You are just lucky that your turn came right after me. Surely that’s what happened!」

「Is your head alright?」

「You bastardddd!」

He suddenly came slashing at me.

Horrible! Even though I was just worried for him. This guy definitely wasn’t right in the head at all.

Furthermore he got some strength in him even if it was half-assed, so it didn’t seem like it would be easy to render him powerless.

What now? This was real bothersome, so perhaps I should just finish him off.

I was already in disguise anyway.

「Stop!」

A dignified voice resounded at that timing.

It was the guy who looked the haughtiest among the soldiers escorting the mister white rose knight.

「……We believe that the hero is none other than the white rose knight. However the one who actually pulled out the sword is the plain looking man over there. Certainly, what the white rose knight claimed might also be possible. And so, let’s hold a duel between that man and the white rose knight. If you are really the hero, than you will definitely win. But if you lose, than it’s just as the white rose knight claimed, you are simply a man who luckily pulled out a sword that was already almost out.」

This guy was blabbing his mouth as he pleased.

It wasn’t like hero and strength was related to prove the hero’s identity.

「Very well. I shall prove that I’m the hero with this sword.」

In contrast with me, the mister white rose knight was high spirited to take the challenge.

But…….

「I refuse! It’s troublesome, and on top of that duel doesn’t have any merit at all for me. Anyone who pull out the sword is the hero and this sword is now mine. Why do I have to accept that kind of overtime? I’m going home.」

There was no meaning in doing that.

Now, let’s go home.

The soldiers blocked my way.

「Then I just need to give you a merit for doing it. You will be rewarded if you win.」

「Tell me about that reward in detail.」

The military big shot told me about his so called reward.

「That’s too cheap. I’m getting forced into a deathly battle here!」

「T-then how about this much?」

「I’m being forced here!」

「Even if you say that, as expected any more than this is impossible.」

「I’m being forced here!」

The way to negotiate changed depending on the other party.

If I was negotiating with a merchant, I would do everything I could to explain the benefit. Both sides knew about the negotiation rule in such case. There would be no win or lose in the negotiation, because both sides would be adjusting their own situation to find a point of compromise that both sides could accept.

But, when the other party was a military officer, you were facing someone who didn’t know about that premise.

When facing such person, if the other side had a weakness than you should immediately act bullish and attacked that weakness nonstop. Especially for a case like this time when there wouldn’t be any problem for me even if the negotiation itself broke down, I could do as I please.

「……I-I get it. Then how about this much?」

From his attitude, this amount was the limit of what this person could prepare with his authority.

「It can’t be helped. I’ll do the fight.」

And so, it was decided that a duel would be held.

Tomorrow I would instantly defeat the white rose knight and got the reward. Let’s think how I would escape with that reward after that.

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