Orc Harem Vol 2 Chapter 4
Added 2020-12-10 13:11:20 +0000 UTCChapter 4: Orc-san’s City
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I finally returned to the city from the elf village.
The village that was abundant with nature reminded me of my birthplace, but if I had to say then the bustling commercial city suited me more.
「As expected, there are really a lot of people in human city. It feels like I’ll get dizzy.」
「It’s fine, you will get used to it soon.」
This place wasn’t just a village, it was a commercial city that had a harbor.
More than ten thousand people lived here.
It was completely a different world from the perspective of Tita who was raised in a village.
「Though I say that, this is your second time here Tita.」
「I was locked inside a cage and didn’t have the leeway to look around leisurely though.」
「That’s true.」
She was kidnapped while searching for medicinal herb in the forest and got sold as a slave.
Surely her mind was filled with terror and panic at that time.
「But, I’m a bit scared. What if I get captured by human again?」
「You will be fine as long as you are wearing that earring.」
Tita was wearing an earring on her ear.
It was attached with a magic stone. It was shining with the same emerald green color like Tita’s eyes.
「You mean the one that you gave me when we left the village?」
「Yeah, it’s a magic tool to hinder perception. As long as you are wearing that, you will look like human. The disguise can be seen through by someone who has mana to a certain degree, but there aren’t many people like that.」
By the way I was also wearing the same thing.
Although I looked almost completely like a human, I wasn’t completely a human. Anyone perceptive would realize that I was an orc.
I developed this magic item to hide that.
It would be hard for me to live in human city unless I hid the fact that I was an orc.
「It’s amazing but, it will be better to just live in elf village rather than making that kind of effort.」
「It’s true that there are a lot of troublesome aspects here, but there are also a lot more fascinating things too here. Besides, I’m planning to make a harem. If I leave in the hometown of one of my wives, that will become a special treatment to just one person.」
「……Muu, I can accept that reasoning, but normally a girl will hate something like harem okay? You won’t be able to find the next girl so easily. Even me actually don’t want to accept it.」
「Even so you still allow it Tita. I love you.」
「This must be what they mean by to fall in love is to lose.」
Tita muttered that it couldn’t be helped and entwined her arms around mine.
Her consideration made me happy.
「I’ll show you to my mansion right away. I say that, but it’s just a rented house though.」
It had been a long time since I came home.
Let’s relax there slowly.
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My mansion was located a bit close to the city’s center.
「Uwaa, it’s really big.」
「I’m working as merchant in this city, so I have to show off too.」
It was a two storey house that was made from brick.
It was built properly with a classy look.
The renting fee was very expensive, but it had a value that was worth the price.
When we entered inside, the housekeeper had just finished the cleaning and packing up.
「Welcome home master.」
「Yeah, thank you for taking care of this place while I’m gone.」
「It’s nothing, that’s simply my job. Then, I’ll come again next week.」
The lady with somewhat stiff bearing who was in the middle of her thirty bowed at me before leaving the mansion.
「Hey, is that person just now Ork’s lover?」
「No, she is a housekeeper. She will come to this mansion one day per week to thoroughly clean the place for me. It’s troublesome to clean a place this big by myself after all.」
「You are really a rich person Ork. You even hire someone just to clean your place. But, I think it’s a bit of waste of money.」
「It’s not a waste at all. After all that person is a pro cleaner. I don’t know how long I will take if I want to clean this place as perfectly as she can. Rather than wasting my time like that, I’m confident I can use that time instead to earn three times the amount I needed to hire her. So rather than wasting money, I’m earning money by hiring her instead.」
I had learned this way of thinking from doing merchant work.
Entrust what you could entrust to other people. You could buy time with money.
And then use the time you bought to earn a lot of money. It would be a plus for you like that.
The first step of doing business was to be aware of the value of your own time.
「I don’t understand something complicated like that. But, I understand that you are somehow being clever Ork.」
「That answer is just like you Tita. I’ll show you the empty rooms here, so choose whichever room you like.」
「Before that show me which room you’re using Ork.」
「Why?」
「I’ll pick the room next to your room.」
Really, just why were you this cute Tita.
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I showed Tita the empty room and asked her whether she wanted anything.
Perhaps because of their modest livelihood, elf tended to not want anything much.
Even though it should be fine even if a girl wanted things like cosmetic, clothes, or underwear.
We were tired today, so we should rest slowly and went for shopping tomorrow.
……Besides.
「As I thought, my work is piling up.」
Although I ran my business in this city by assigning most of the work to other people, there were also matters that needed my decision no matter what.
I had peeked at my study just now. There was a mountain of paperwork there.
I guessed I’d work on it while Tita was fiddling with her room.
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I had reduced the amount of paperwork by quite a lot when the sun set.
All of them were only things that I had to scan briefly and gave my decision, so I dealt with them quickly even with that amount.
It looked like I would be able to manage somehow if I stayed up all night today.
Surely I would be able to make time to go shopping with Tita tomorrow.
Come to think of it, what is Tita doing right now?
Let’s go peek into her room for a bit.
The room that Tita was using was originally prepared for guest, so it had complete furniture. It was also cleaned frequently.
It should be a space that she could live in without needing much effort.
Besides, by looking at what kind of change she made, I would be able to list up the shops that we should go to tomorrow.
I knocked at the room next door while thinking that.
「Come in.」
「Tita, have you finished arranging your room?」
「Yep, the room has become just like how I prefer it now.」
I was speechless when I saw the layout of Tita’s room.
「……Why are you spreading futon on the floor even though there is a bed there? Why are the chairs and desk piled up on the bed?」
Yes, Tita was using the bed like a storage. The desk and chairs and other furniture were all placed on it.
「Futon is something that you spread on the floor isn’t it? I think I’m only lacking a low table. I might also want some zabuton(flat floor cushion).」
「Now that you mention it, the elf village doesn’t have chair culture.」
If I wanted to describe it based on my previous life, the elf village had houses with straw-thatched roof, where inside they used zabuton and low dining table for sitting and eating, and when they slept they used futon.
It felt a bit out of place seeing a fantasy existence like elf had Japanese-style livelihood.
「I feel calmer like this rather than using chair.」
「Got it. Then I’ll take the bed and other furniture to the next room.」
「Yep, thanks for the help.」
There was no need for me to force the culture here to Tita.
Room should be freely arranged based on the owner’s personal preference. I would respect the individuality and culture of my wives.
I was going to gather charming women from all over the world.
Each of them would have different preference and sense of value. That was exactly why it would be interesting. I needed to have the generosity to accept it.
As expected this city wouldn’t sell something like zabuton, so we should search for cushion with wide and this size, or we should order for it to be custom made.
Well, if we still couldn’t find any even then, I’d just made it myself.
The great sage had crammed blacksmithing and alchemy skill into me. It was so that I could prepare and maintain weapon by myself.
If it could make Tita happy, I would use those skills for her.
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At the early morning of the next day.
I was swinging my sword at the courtyard.
The short staff with hidden blade that the great sage Merlin Enlight handed to me was broken, so I used the spare sword that was hanging on my waist.
This was a quality sword that was made using the magic silver mithril, a sword that I made myself.
Magic silver mithril itself was an extremely powerful metal. It was light, hard, tenacious, had high affinity with mana and ki, so it was easy to strengthen. And then, someone with first rate skill like me forged it, so there was no way it was weak.
In this country, only someone at the level of knight order captain would have a sword of this quality.
Even so, as expected I could only say that this sword was still inferior compared to the short staff that I lost.
What hurt me the most was that this sword couldn’t endure my full strength.
If I poured my mana and ki in full power into this sword, it wouldn’t be able to bear the burden and broke.
I swung the sword while searching for the threshold of how far I could strengthen it.
It was pointless to keep asking for something that I didn’t have, so I could only grope around for the limit of how much I could exert my strength at maximum.
For thirty minutes, I loosen up my body, kneaded my ki and mana, and at the same time I put a burden on my body so that my muscle strength wouldn’t decline. Then I sighed.
……Fuu, as I thought, it was stressful not being able to exert my full strength.
I was most skilled at swordsmanship, but if I had to suppress my strength to this degree, it might be better for me to fight by mainly using martial art.
「Have you finished training?」
「No, I’m going to do magic training after this before I’m finished.」
「You are really diligent aren’t you Ork. You also never missed a single day of training in the elf village.」
「Training is meaningless unless you do it every day. If you slack off for a day, you will definitely get rusty by that much too. Becoming strong is really hard, but maintaining that strength is also just as hard. But, although I said that, in the end I’m just maintaining my present condition, so it’s enough to just do it an hour a day. It’s not that much of a big deal.」
Time would never be enough no matter how much you had it if it was in order to become strong, but if it was just to maintain your present state, then just a light training was enough.
「I think that’s already amazing enough. Ah, you know, I wonder if it is okay for me to also train in the morning. For some reason, my body feels like it’s in an amazing condition recently. It make me want to move my body.」
「Of course I don’t mind. After all many people will target you with how beautiful you are. I’ll have more peace of mind if you can get stronger.」
「Yep yep, I want to become stronger so that when someone try to kidnap me, I’ll be able to turn the table on them coolly.」
Although the fact that Tita was an elf was hidden using the earring of perception obstruction, she was still an extremely beautiful girl. It wouldn’t be strange for her to be targeted by some lowlifes.
It also sounded fun to practice and sweat together in the morning. I had no reason to refuse her at all.
「Then we’re going to start your training from tomorrow. For now I’ll gauge your stamina to make your training menu.」
「I’m fine starting it right away though.」
「That’s no good. A training will be meaningless if it’s too harsh or too soft. It’s important to place the right amount of burden on your body……then, first try crushing this rock with your grip without using any ki or mana. I’ll measure how hard your grip strength is.」
「There’s no way I can do that you know!?」
「Now now, just give it a try.」
I said that and handed Tita a rock that I picked from the ground.
It was just a normal rock. Thinking normally, it was impossible for her to crush it in her grip.
「I’m telling you it’s absolutely impossible, ei-, eh, just now, my fingers, are sinking in.」
It was just as Tita said, her fingers were digging into the rock.
「I see I see, I get the gist.」
「Wait, this is strange you know!? Why can I do something like this!? Is this rock made from clay or something!?」
Tita was bewildered. Compared to human, an elf’s physical ability wasn’t particularly better. Normally a girl like her wouldn’t be able to do something like this.
「Then, next is your vertical jump. Jump straight up with all your strength for me.」
「Ah, okay, wait, uwah, high, eh, how can I do this?」
Her vertical jump almost reached three meters. Yep, that’s quite good.
By the way, the world record at my previous life was 122 cm. Tita had easily surpassed the world record by twice the amount.
I also made her do throwing, side-stepping, 100 meter sprint, etc. She produced an abnormal result for every single one of them.
「I thought that I’m in excellent condition recently, but this is just too strange you know!? How am I turning into superhuman like this?」
「Eh, I hadn’t told you? About the special trait of my orc race, the infinitely evolving Evol Orc.」
「Ork’s special trait and me becoming stupidly strong like this shouldn’t be related at all.」
「It’s completely related. Cough, then, let me explain. First, since then Tita and I have been making love every day haven’t we?」
「……Y-yeah, because I like it, doing it with Ork feels good.」
Tita was embarrassed.
Every single one of her gesture was cute like this. No good, I wanted to push her down. Come to think of it, we never had outdoor sex……wait, I shouldn’t get derailed here.
「But, you haven’t gotten pregnant. When it comes to orc race in general, we have strong fertility and can impregnate female immediately, but you haven’t showed any sign of that at all Tita. In other words, it’s something like that.」
「I don’t get it at all!」
「I see, in other words, err, Evol Orc is a race that infinitely grow stronger by completely passing down their own strong points and the female’s strong points to the next generation. Because of that the born child will have tremendous power and put great burden to the mother’s body. ……It’s to the degree that the mother’s body won’t be able to endure that burden.」
Tita went pale.
「No way-, I’m going to die when I have a baby? I don’t want that. But, I also want to have Ork’s children, how can this be……」
「Well, listen to me till the end. If the mother’s body can’t endure, than the baby also won’t be able to be born properly right? In that case Evol Orc would have gone extinct since a long time ago. In order to prevent that, Evol Orc is equipped with the power of strengthening their sex partner until they become able to endure the baby delivery, and the power to not impregnate the female until the strengthening is finished. That’s why Tita still won’t get pregnant and continue to grow stronger for a while.」
It was a function that Evol Orc was equipped with in order to give birth to the children safely.
I didn’t need to worry for my wives like this. As long as my instinct was telling me that it felt like no child would be born yet, the person I had sex with would continue to get stronger.
By the way, in Kaa-san’s case, apparently Tou-san’s instinct told him that she would be able to give birth normally even without getting strengthened, so she didn’t really go any strengthening.
Even so she was that strong. As expected a hero was abnormal.
「Evol Orc is really absurd. And, is there no side effect from that?」
「None. You will just get stronger.」
「Fuu, that’s great. Then, I can make love with Ork without anything holding me back.」
I thought that she might get scared from getting stronger due to outside factor like this, but she was able to accept it easily. I’m glad.
By the way, my feeling was telling me that we wouldn’t be able to have children even if we made love every day for half a year. At first she was getting noticeably stronger, but it would become harder for her to get stronger after reaching a point. Her growth speed would slow down.
I didn’t think that was bad.
I wanted to have children with Tita, but I also wanted to have time to enjoy our love with just us.
The half year time period felt just right for that.
「I get the gist now. Then, I’ll think up a training menu for you. For now I’ll do my magic training.」
「Ah, I might want to watch that. I want to do magic training too.」
「You are really passionate for training. Then, how about we try doing it together? I can’t increase my magic power’s total capacity so I’m just going to train my control. There also won’t be any need to measure Tita’s magic power capacity first for that. Watch this……first, you emit your magic power in full strength. And then you circulate that magic power on the surface of your body.」
Just as I said, I emitted my magic power at full strength.
The air around me was changing.
The trees that got touched by my magic power clamored. Small animals were running away.
「You should put effort to be able to emit as much mana as possible and doing it in the shortest time possible, and how tidy you can circulate the mana over your body. Don’t forget to be imaginative and creative in your effort.」
「R-right. This is, really difficult isn’t it」
「No, you are doing well. You are getting a hold ot your magic power properly. Keep it like that while circulating the maximum amount of your magic power output for a full ten seconds. After that gather the magic power to your fingertip like this. Compress it until the limit. At first it should be as big as human head, then next compress it to be like a small rock, and then compress it even further into a dot. After compressing the magic power until the limit like that, let it go straight ahead. The target is the black rock there.」
Magic power that had heightened until the limit was discharged from my fingertip. It looked like a laser.
The magic power light pierced the black rock and vanished.
「Uwah, the magic power won’t turn smaller at all. I can’t do it like Ork.」
「Do this for ten second too. Just do it desperately for ten seconds as much as you can. And then release it.」
「Y-yeah, ei-」
Tita could only compress her magic power to the size of a pachinko ball at best.
But even that was enough. Normally someone would need ten years before they could compress their magic power to be the size of baseball.
It was the result of her training in elf village and the talent that she was born with.
The magic power lump the size of pachinko ball hit the rock and shaved the surface.
「It’s completely different from Ork’s.」
「That’s because I have trained for years. By doing this training repeatedly, your skill to quickly draw out a lot of magic power and your precision in controlling magic power will increase. Do this ten times every day.」
「Yep, I’ll do it every day. I’ll work hard so can do this as skifully as you Ork.」
It’s great that she was motivated.
Like that we repeated the training ten times, and then after that we walked to in front of the black rock.
「Look, the hole of your tenth try is smaller than your first hole right? It’s the proof of your growth Tita.」
「It’s only just a bit smaller. Ork’s hole is far more amazing. This is just the size of an ant……eh, wait a second, there is this hole that is far smaller than even an ant, this is already more like just a dot. And there are a lot of hole like that.」
「The ant sized holes are from my training today. The dot sized holes are from my previous trainings.」
Tita was speechless.
She understood just how difficult this feat was because she had tried it herself just now.
「Why is your skill suddenly getting worse, ah no, even right now you are already more than really amazing, but the result before this is even more and more amazing. Did something happen?」
「My staff broke before this right? That’s why. I used that staff to train before this, but now that the staff is broken, my precision drop down.」
It was problematic that I couldn’t use my full strength to wield my sword, but there was also problem at the magic aspect.
A staff had the role of giving directionality to the magic power and supporting the caster’s control.
If those were lost, my magic became lacking in precision.
「Then, we need to buy staff for you.」
「Yeah, you’re right. Let’s buy it while also shopping for furniture. I’ll also buy a staff for you Tita.」
I didn’t plan to tell Tita, but a staff that could endure my magic power would also be really hard to find.
My magic power was too strong that the staff wouldn’t be able to endure it.
……Annoying.
「So you will also buy one for me, thank you. I never used a staff before.」
Tita also had quite the amount of magic power. I would need to choose carefully for her.
This place was one of the prominent commercial cities in the world.
If we went to the city, there would surely be something that suited her.
The problem was me.
Whether I made it myself or purchasing it, I had to do something about obtaining sword and staff that could accept my full power.
At this rate I would regret it when there was an opponent that I had to fight with my full power no matter what in order to protect a woman.
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