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~
While I was taking the dragon apart I was thinking about something.
Hmmm …… what should I do ……
“W-What’s wrong ……? You seem to be pondering something …….”
Iris, who was putting the materials I had dismantled into an interspatial storage bag, asked me with a pale face.
The dismantling of the dragon is definitely gross, and Iris just threw up.
I told her she could take a break, but she was adamant that she wanted to help, so I asked her to.
By the way, I’m okay with it because my memories of this life are numb from too many worse bloody things.
“No, it’s nothing ……, but I need to talk to Iris. Can I talk to you when you’re done cleaning this up?”
I decided to tell her.
When I told her that I wanted to talk to her when everything was finished, she shook her head.
“All right. I’ll be happy to tell you as much as you want, if that’s all right with you.”
I nodded back and set about dismantling the dragon again.
I hope Iris agrees to this. ……
Well, I’m going to respect her wishes. ……
I muttered this in my mind as I thought about the future.
◇◆◇
“…… Finally, we’re done.”
“T-thank you for your hard work ……”
By the time everything was over, it was almost dark.
Iris looked mentally and physically exhausted, and I smiled
“Thanks for your help. I appreciate your help.”
“No,……, this is my role too,…….”
“Still, you know. Well, I’ll talk about that later, but first let’s leave the forest. The forest at night is dangerous.”
“O-Okay, I understand.”
We quickly left the place and headed back to town.
The moon was high in the sky when we returned to the inn, took a bath, and ate dinner.
After relaxing in the room for a while, Iris spoke to me with a nervous look on her face.
“S-So, what was the talk you were telling me in the forest ……?”
“Yes, that’s right. I have to talk about it.”
When I turned to face Iris, her face became even tighter and her back straightened.
I took a breath and began to talk.
“Iris’s future.”
“…!”
My nervousness turns to surprise.
Then Iris turned her face down a little sadly.
“Yes,……. I have caused a lot of trouble for master. Sell me, kill me, do what you want with me.”
Hey, hey!
Why are we talking like we’re saying goodbye?
I only said it’s a story for the future. ……
“Don’t be hasty. That’s not what I’m trying to say.”
“S-So what are you going to do with me now ……?”
I don’t know if what I’m going to say to Iris will necessarily make her happy.
However, I thought I should say it.
“I’m going to be straight to the point. I want to scout Iris.”
“S-scout….?”
“Yeah. I’m thinking of forming a clan. I would like to entrust Iris to be the vice president of the clan.”
“….?!”
Iris was understandably surprised.
It is unusual for a scout to be asked to become the No. 2 person in an organization when she is only a scout according to the common sense of this world.
“I want to accomplish what no one else has accomplished. And to do that, I need a strong, reassuring group of people to help me.”
I thought a lot about it last night, and I decided that I wanted to create a clan.
It is a man’s dream to create a legend, and the word “head of an organization” has an indescribable appeal.
But even if I became a legend, I don’t think I would be happy to spend my life alone.
Of course, everyone has their own form of happiness, and I don’t mean to deny other forms of happiness, but I believe that only people can heal the sadness of being betrayed by others.
Iris is one of those people who have been hurt by others, and I think we can share the pain.
That is why I want to recruit Iris to the clan I am going to create.
Even if Iris doesn’t have the talent to fight, I would be grateful if she could do some administrative work.
I have never worked in my previous life, and I wasn’t sure I could do it.
“Of course, you can refuse. I have no desire to harm Iris, and she can decide what she wants to do.”
Iris’s mouth was agape.
A beautiful girl is also very cute when she does this.
I was thinking about something that didn’t matter, that if I did it, people would make fun of me, and now I realized that I was in the middle of scouting.
“B-but I’m a Zipan and I have hair like this ……?”
Iris said and stroked her own hair.
The main religion of the world, the scriptures of the main religion, black is written as an unholy color.
From there, like an association game, the Zipan people have come to be persecuted.
But I shook my head and gently stroked Iris’s head.
“I don’t care about that. I think your hair is very beautiful.”
“~~~~!?”
Iris’s face turns bright red and she moves a little away from me.
There, I realized my blunder.
(Was it out of order to pat her on the head when we’re not even dating? ……! I can’t be sued for sexual harassment, right ……? And maybe it wasn’t a good idea to compliment her hair when she was discriminated against because of her hair. ……)
“A-Also, if Iris would join …… yeah, the clan’s name is …….”
Bad, I didn’t think about that at all……!
I thought introducing a cool clan name would make up for my earlier blunder and get Iris to nod her head. ……
T-think about it,……me ……!
My hair color is white and Iris’s is black.
B-But black and white is tacky and I don’t know what to do……!
I’m lost and one name comes to me.
“…… Black and White Dragon Clan. This is the name of the clan I thought of.”
I thought it would be cool if I changed the black and white and put a dragon in the name.
I improvised the name, so please don’t say it’s lame.
But I think it’s a good name because it has the characteristics of both Iris and me and it means that we will help each other.
But ……
Hearing the name, Iris had the most surprised look on her face ever.
Eh? Why ……?
“What’s wrong? What’s the matter?”
“…….a-are you serious about accomplishing this, Master?”
“Of course I am. I’m going to do what no one has ever done before.”
It’s kind of cool to be a legend, like The Otherworldly Warriors.
I was just looking for a way to make a legend out of anything.
“H-how can I be of any help to my master ……?”
“I’m the one asking you out, so you don’t have to worry about that. I dare say I need you, Iris.”
Tears are running down Iris’s cheeks.
The tears that flowed one after the other were even more than yesterday in the cafeteria.
When I approached her, she wiped away her tears and knelt down on the spot.
I realized what she meant by that action and changed my expression to a serious one.
“Master ……”
“Just call me Rex.”
“Then, Master Rex. I, Iris, pledge to be your sword and shield from now on, giving my all, body, soul, and loyalty. All for you.”
Iris’s most powerful words ever were unexpectedly and insanely intense and left me speechless.
Well, let’s see, …… I didn’t say that much, did I? I ……
“N-No, you don’t have to force yourself.”
“I am not forcing myself. I’m willing to give up my life if I can be of service to you, and I’ll be your concubine or whatever.”
“……”
She really means it. ……
Why did that happen from the conversation we just had?
I just said that I want to make a clan together, get along well with each other, and eventually become someone who people will say, ‘Wow’
……I’m probably just getting excited and going like this.
I haven’t done anything to be respected, and it’s only supposed to be temporary.
I’m sure things will be back to normal tomorrow.
I decided to let Iris’ reaction pass for now.
“Then I’ll give Iris a present to commemorate the occasion.”
I opened the storage bag in another space and activated the creation magic.
The materials started coming out of the bag and spinning around in the air, then all gathered in the center and started glowing.
I think …… this would be a good fit for Iris.
I imagined clothes that would look good on Iris and created them.
In my hands was a uniform.
“It’s a uniform made of dragon skin. Take it.”
“M-May I accept such a good thing?”
“Of course. I made it for Iris.”
“It was made for me. ……”
The corner of Iris’s mouth is turned up, as if she is very happy.
She seemed happy and I felt very happy when I gave her the gift.
“Well then, I’m in your care from now on, Iris.”
“Yes…! Thank you very much!”
Iris and I held hands tightly.
But I didn’t know what I was talking about at the time.
I did not know the true meaning of my words.
And that the madness of fate had grown so great that there was no turning back now……
-Maiban