Orc Harem Vol 2 Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Orc-san And Sword Priestess

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I realized that I had made a big misunderstanding after actually coming to the holy land.

「There is a lot of shops.」

「It seems so.」

「Uwaa, over there they are selling things like holy sword key holder or holy sword steamed bun. Ah, over there is holy sword grill.」

「Is this a hot spring town!?」

Hot spring town? Tita asked with a tilt of her head.

I thought that the holy land was an inviolable area, a place where it was forbidden to enter.

But, it seemed that the restriction only applied for the central part where the divine steel tribe was living. The outer area could be entered by anyone. Or rather, this place had completely become a tourist spot.

It was a land that was related to the holy sword. It seemed that there were always tourists visiting here every day even when there wasn’t a sword pulling event like now.

If that was not the case then there would be no explanation of how there could be this many inns and souvenir shops already lined up here.

And now this tourist spot was extremely crowded. This place that was already popular even before this became even more bustling due to the new sword of oracle.

「……It’s delicious, this holy sword steamed bun,」

「It’s really fluffy and springyy」

The holy sword steamed bun wasn’t like that bun filled with red bean paste like any Japanese person would imagine, but a meat bun.

Cooking method with steaming couldn’t be found at the place where we were living, so it was a novelty. The filling inside it was a lot with spices that gave it a kick. It was juicy & spicy.

I might get addicted to this.

I underestimated it thinking that it was just a tourist attraction menu, but my expectation was betrayed in a good meaning.

「Meat bun huh, it will get colder after this. So perhaps starting a business with this will also be good.」

Meat bun for winter. That was the seasonal custom in Japan, but it was possible such custom could also become a fashion in this world.

And what I was considering wasn’t creating a shop, but creating a meat bun factory that supplied the restaurants and small shops all over the city.

If I hired magicians who could use freezing magic, I could create a lot of frozen meat bun that could be stored for long. If I sent it to a restaurant at the morning, the restaurant could provide it any time within that day to their customers by simply heating it.

There were several merits in doing thing that way. That would be far easier than simply creating a shop.

I could add it to the menu of the already existing restaurants. And then with my reputation as the maker of Ork Brand’s menchi katsu, the product would be easily accepted by the townspeople.

The Ork Brand’s meat bun might produce a huge fortune.

「You really like doing business Ork. You are always thinking of money every time.」

「This is an influence from my teacher who taught me business. The most important thing for a merchant is idea. One has to constantly think of everything that rolls into your sight to be trees that will grow money. Don’t fail to notice of anything that can become money. That kind of habit has been stuck inside me.」

For a merchant, daily life and business were strongly related.

Randall’s words that left a deep impression in him was 『Even if you desperately try to think of an idea for a business, things won’t go well for you. It’s the opposite. The idea will suddenly occur to you while you are going on with your life, this can become money. Do your business with that kind of idea. Listen well, when you try to search for something that can produce money, your field of vision will become narrow, and you will also compromise with your idea. Don’t do business for the sake of doing business, start a business after you find something that can be turned into money. You will definitely succeed if you don’t forget this.』

He couldn’t understand it when he first heard those words, but now he understood it.

「Hmmm, I also need to work hard. I’m Ork’s wife after all.」

My recognition that perhaps Tita was suited to become a merchant had deepened further through the caravan trip.

She had mastered how to read letters perfectly. She had really good memory that at the latter half she had even started to read book.

She had a wide outlook and her brain was also sharp.

Perhaps, she would be able to become my secretary if I seriously trained her for around a year, and in three years she would be able to grow into an existence that could be called as my right-hand man.

「Then, let’s try eating the holy sword grill next.」

「Yep, me too. ……But, is it really alright? We aren’t joining the line up there.」

The shopping district was located at a high position, so even from here we could see the long line of queue toward the sword of oracle.

「Yeah, it’s alright. I had hired someone just now. I asked him to line up in Tita and my place. Judging from the speed of the queue moving forward, it will be a bit less than six hour before our turn come. Let’s go there when the sun set.」

「Isn’t that, unfair?」

「IT’s not unfair. I hired that person with an extraordinary amount for a daily wage. The man I hired is happy, and I too can sightsee around here leisurely like this. Everyone is happy in the end.」

「Really, everyone is happy like that. Money is amazing.」

Yes, money is amazing.

You could do almost everything if you had money. To be frank, if I wanted to challenge the sword of oracle right away, I didn’t need to hire someone to line up like this. I could just hand over money to the guy at the front row so that he gave me his spot. That would be the fastest way.

Even so, I wanted to enjoy my date with Tita.

We never came to this city before. It would be a waste if we didn’t enjoy everything this city had.

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We had finished trying all the famous local products. Now we were soaking our feet in a footbath. They said that the underground water in this land was filled with divine aura. Apparently soaking your body in that hot water would help in recovering stamina and making the skin beautiful.

……But, this was what I thought.

If there was hot water here, don’t make footbath but hot spring! And then I would be able to go into a mixed bathing with Tita, and yet……

「This feels good.」

「Yeah, I guess.」

But, it was also a fact that this too also felt good on its own way.

Unexpectedly what people  here said about divine aura might actually be true.

「Fuu, I absolutely won’t be able to experience something like this I’m staying shut in elf village. I had eaten a lot of delicious things that I had never seen before, and seeing a lot of things that I had never seen before, every day is sparkling brightly.」

「I’ll show you a lot more from here on too. The world is vast. It’s also overflowing with more delicious things and more wonderful things. Let’s go sightseeing all around the world.」

「Fufu, I’m looking forward to that. ……But, your objective of looking around all over the world is that isn’t it?」

「Naturally, it’s to create harem! I’ll seduce the best women all over the world one after another!」

What a wonderful trip that would be.

「Uuuuu, even though you will be perfect Ork if only you aren’t like that.」

「Sorry that I’m not perfect.」

「Don’t be sorry. Even if you aren’t perfect but for me you are the number one in the world.」

My heart skipped a beat.

Tita was dangerous because she would always make my heart jumped like this. It made me wanted to make her alone happy.

But, harem was my dream. I also couldn’t possibly betray my teachers who helped me grew strong.

「It will be time for our turn in the queue soon. Let’s go to pull out the sword of oracle.」

「Yep, I’m already feeling nice and warm.」

I pulled Tita’s hand and rose from the footbath.

……This footbath felt good in its own way, but as expected I wanted to try entering hot spring too.

Perhaps I should go to a city with hot spring when searching for my next harem member……or perhaps I should dig one myself. It would be quite easy to do that by borrowing the spirits’ strength.

And then I could manage a hot spring inn. That might be nice too.

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We hurriedly went to the location of the sword oracle that located was some distance away from the shopping district.

Then Tita collided with a petite girl.

I helped Tita to stay on her feet, and then I extended my hand to the girl who fell on her butt.

This girl, should I say she was strange, or perhaps suspicious. After all she was wearing a hoodie that was hiding her face.

「Are you alright?」

「Ouch ouch ouch, I’m fine. Also you elf over there, sorry that I collided with you.」

The girl bowed her head quickly.

She was a polite girl.

「Nope, I’m fine. I’m sorry too. I was too focused on talking that I didn’t pay attention to where I was walking.」

This plainly suspicious girl said something that I couldn’t overhear.

Elf she said?

Due to elf’s beauty and their unaging trait, there was a superstition that embracing an elf would bring fortune and that caused the elves to be targeted by humans.

That was why I made Tita wear an earring to obstruct perception that I made myself. Even a first class magician should only see Tita as a human.

And yet, this girl said elf girl.

「So you know that Tita is an elf?」

「Yeah, I have elf acquaintance after all. ……Ah, I’m sorry. You are hiding that information isn’t it? Uuu, I messed up again.」

She had completely seen through the perception obstruction magic.

This girl wasn’t normal.

「Then, how do I look like in your eyes?」

「You? You’re huma-, eh, that’s not really it. If I look closer your soul is……hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, aren’t you an orc!?」

「I see, it looks like you aren’t seeing through our appearance but our intrinsic self.」

Before I met Tita in the elf village, I had human appearance but in the end I was still an orc. I hid that fact using the perception obstruction magic.

And then after saving Tita, I intentionally loosened up that magic so that she wouldn’t be less wary to me than toward human.

But, it was different right now. I had undone my seal in order to save the elves and then when I resealed my blood, my strength leaked out. I used a fragment of that power to completely transform into human.

In the past, my ancestor had taken in the bloodline power of dragonman that could take both dragon form and human form.

That was why my flesh was completely human, while my soul was orc.

Seeing through that was far harder than seeing through the perception obstruction magic.

「Yeah, I’m an orc. I’m the orc Ork.」

「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, I’LL GET RAPED」

The girl ran away at full speed. She was fast. I couldn’t feel magic power from her, so she wasn’t using body strengthening through ki or mana. And yet she was this fast, she wasn’t human. It was a level of strength that was physically impossible for human to reach no matter how much they trained.

I was running parallel with her.

「That speed, are you a beastman?」

「How can you keep up with me easily!?」

「Because I’m faster than you.」

「Uuuu, Otou-san and Okaa-san in heaven, I’m sorry. Kururu will be forcefully turned into an adult by this orc after this. ……But, please don’t worry, even if my body fall into his hand, I won’t allow him to take my heart too.」

……Why did everyone always make this kind of reaction the moment they realized I was an orc?

Tita also reacted similarly like this when I first met her!

Even though there was nobody more gentlemanly than me.

「It’s not like I’m planning to rape you though.」

「Lies! Then, why are you chasing after me? There is no other reason why an orc is chasing a girl other than that.」

「Now that you mention it」

It was just as she said. It couldn’t be helped even if she was thinking like that.

This was the karma that orc couldn’t escape from.

The robe that the running girl was wearing shook from the wind. I could see fluffy tail under it.

I see, so this girl’s true identity was that.

Then it wasn’t strange even if she saw through Tita and my true identity.

「No, I’m really not planning anything like that. That’s why stop running.」

「That’s what all rapists would say!」

「Now that you mention it」

「You acknowledge it!」

「I’m not. But, it will be dangerous if you keep running straight like that, so you better stop or change direction.」

「Eh?」

It happened the next moment when the girl turned around. She lost her footing.

There was a cliff at the direction the girl was running full speed toward.

The hooded robe that the girl was wearing flew away when she was tossed from the height like that. I could see cute fox ears.

A girl with fox ears and fluffy tail, living in the holy land.

In that case, there was only one race that she could fall under.

「KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA」

I grabbed the nape of the falling girl and lifted her up.

「I thought I would die……eh, I’m being saved by an orc.」

「Yeah, after all, I won’t be able to add you into my harem if you die.」

「YOU REALLY WANT TO RAPE ME AS EXPECTEDDDDDDDDDDD!」

I was just chasing her from curiosity before this, but I changed my mind after seeing the girl’s beautiful face that was hidden by the robe.

She was totally my type.

Also, since I encountered the princess of fire fox tribe in the patriarch assembly, I became a severe fox tail fetishist.

I absolutely wanted to add a fox-eared beautiful girl into my harem and fluffed her tail. I was also super interested for things like tailjob and the like.

Obtaining a sword was just my secondary reason for coming to this holy land. My main reason for coming here was none other than because the divine steel tribe consisted of fox beastman, and even among those cute fox beastmen, the priestess was rumored to be extremely prettier than the rest!

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