Betrayed by My Best Friend and Dumped by My Fiancée, I’ve Decided to Enjoy Life as I Please ~ For Some Reason, a Bunch of Crazy Fanatics Keep Pledging Their Loyalty to Me~
First of all, let’s get to know each other.
The day I took Iris in, I saw her crying and I set this as my first goal.
I can never take the place of Iris’s parents.
But it’s a lonely feeling when you don’t have anyone you can rely on.
I’ve tried a lot of things this past week and I feel like we’re getting a little bit closer, but I’m going to try to get close a little bit more.
“Iris, do you want to go out shopping for a bit?”
“Shopping … ……?”
Iris makes a scowling face.
Apparently, she’s still afraid of being touched, but she’s gotten used to talking.
Feeling a little happy, I tried to keep my face as kind as possible and smiled.
“Yes.”
“I-I understand. …… I’ll go out with you.”
“Oh no, no, no.
I’m going to buy something for Iris today. That’s all the clothes you have, and I’m sure there’s other things you need.”
As expected, underwear or something like that is necessary? I couldn’t say that.
But Iris is afraid and looks troubled.
Iris is still not used to people giving her things.
“Don’t worry about the money. Come on, get yourself ready and let’s go.”
“Y-yes. ……”
After we had packed up, we left the inn and went into town.
First, let’s buy some clothes, that’s what I thought. ……
“Black race?
Don’t go in my shop.”
“Tch!
We don’t allow such an unclean person to enter our shop!”
Everywhere they were turned away with similar reactions.
Iris’s expression turned darker and darker as she watched.
I went to a place where there were fewer crowds and bowed to Iris.
“I’m sorry. I forced you take you out, but I gave you a hard time.”
I don’t remember ever seeing a Zipan before.
I knew they were discriminated against, but I didn’t expect them to be treated so badly.
And I’m such a fool …… for hurting Iris.
“I-it’s not your fault, master,……! I’m the one who’s sorry,…… for having such hair,…….”
Iris strokes her waist-length hair as if she is about to cry.
When I saw Iris in such pain, I felt both sadness and intense anger.
Why are we treated so differently even though we are the same people?
I know that there was racism in my previous life.
But to actually witness it like this, it was very unforgivable.
“So why don’t we go outside the city?”
“Eh? But outside is …….”
“I’ll protect you. I promise I won’t let you get hurt. I don’t want Iris to wear anything made by those rubbish people. I’ll kill the demons and use the materials to make what you need.”
How conveniently, I could use creation magic.
It is a creative magic that allows you to create what you want by combining materials, but it is impossible to increase or decrease the atomic weight or change the type, so you must collect the materials properly.
To put it simply, you can’t create something from nothing, and it’s impossible to change iron into copper.
That’s why we need high-quality materials.
I want to collect all kinds of materials in large quantities because it’s just right.
It’s a very versatile magic and could be used for something.
“But isn’t that putting master in danger, ……?”
“Hm? I’m fine. I’m an S-class adventurer, after all.”
“Eh….I didn’t know you were such a great S-class …… adventurer.”
The S class is the highest rank of adventurers, which is so few in number that there should only be ten in a nation.
The Southen Sword was made up entirely of S-class adventurers, so you can see how much of a monster party it is.
“That’s how it is. Let’s go.”
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“Well, we’re here.”
“Oh, um, ……, this is …….”
“Hmm? The Devil’s Forest?”
The Devil’s Forest is a magical place that is still almost completely inaccessible to humans and mostly shrouded in mystery.
The adventurers are all aware that the conventional theories are no longer valid, as the forest is filled with new species of demons and plants.
“In case of emergency, I will be master’s shield…”
“There is no need for such a thing. Iris should properly hide behind me.”
The materials from the Devil’s Forest are all first class.
I’m excited because it’s my first gift to a girl.
And I also has the vanity of wanting to show the pretty girl how cool I am.
On the other hand, I have no intention of putting Iris in harm’s way, so I don’t intend to go deep into the forest.
“Iris, can you hold this for me?”
“Y-Yes.
Okay.”
What I gave to Iris was a commercially available backpack with cross-space storage.
I realized that I could use extradimensional storage, so I tried using it in conjunction with the magic that bestowed it, and it worked.
The weight doesn’t change and there is no concept of time, so it’s an excellent thing that even raw materials don’t rot.
“Then let’s start gathering materials.”
We repeatedly hunted the demons that approached us while we collected the ones we thought we could use.
When I realised, I had gathered enough materials to make a small mountain.
“We’ve gathered quite a lot, haven’t we?”
“Yes, we have.
But we need one more push. ……”
The line-up is not very good.
It’s a man’s romantic desire to want something so wonderful that no one has ever seen since I came to the demon forest.
However, I had been in the Demon Forest for quite some time now, and just as I was about to gather my thoughts and think that it was time to retreat, a chill ran down my spine.
I immediately pulled out my sword and stared in the direction of the sign.
“W-What’s going on, ……?”
“There’s a big presence.
It’s also quite powerful.”
“GYAooooooooooooooo ！！！！”
At that moment, a deafening sound rings out.
You can see that the birds are all taking off at once and the demons are moving away from the presence.
“Iris! Don’t ever move away from me!”
“Y-yes!”
Iris rushes to me.
In the meantime, a powerful presence was approaching.
“—-! Up there!”
At that moment, with a loud boom, a blast of sand rolled in and I took Iris in my arms and shielded her.
The dust cleared and my vision began to return.
There it was…
“…… I never expected to find such a large creature in the shallows of the Devil’s Forest.”
Its physique is many times larger than a human’s.
The big wings and shiny scales were so powerful that they seemed to be of a different class from other living creatures.
The demon derived from its silhouette is…
“Ah ……, dragon …….”
Iris next to me paled and retreated.
She is probably trying to hold back her fear.
Her body was trembling and her eyes were filled with despair.
It is said that dragons appear very rarely, and once they attack a human village, countless people are said to be killed or injured.
It takes a force of about five S-class or A-class parties to defeat a dragon.
I had faced this enemy in the days of the Sword of Heaven, and at that time, we all helped each other and managed to defeat it.
Despite facing such an enemy, I have no fear.
On the contrary, even laughter seemed to well up in me.
“Kukuku…… ahaha!’”
“M-master ……?”
Iris asks me worriedly, but my laughter doesn’t stop.
Because …… dragon scales are the finest material for making clothes and armour.
How can I not laugh at this?
“Rejoice, Iris. I’m about to give you the best clothes.”
I drew my sword from my hip and walked towards the dragon—
-Maiban