Our Honeymoon Is Screwed

1.

"Are you scared?."

"Just little."

"Do you want to stop?."

". . "

She shakes her head as a sign that she still wanted to continue.

"Are you sure?."

"Yes."

"But you are scared right?."

"Yes, but I still want to to do it, after all, Master have been holding back for 3 full months, I didn't want Master to suffer anymore."

"Why did you still called me Master."

"Because you are my master. ."

"Wrong! I'm your husband."

Yes, I'm her husband. And this trembling cute small gir. . . . wrong! woman with fluffy tringular ears and tail who sits on top of OUR bed is my wife started from 3 months ago.

"Awuu. . . that's rather embarrassing."

"Having me as a husband something embarrassing?."

"That's not it."

Of course, I understand what she meant by that. But teasing her is such a fun thing to do because her response is always cute. So cute to the point that my evil instinct just kicking up and made me want to bully her even more.

Fortunately, she only act like this in front of me, if not. I’m very sure that there’s countless people who wanted to kidnap her.

"Then. call my name."

"Mast. . . Saburou"

"Good girl!. . ."

I pat her head softly. And just like a cat, she react by closing her eyes and lift her chin towards me. A reaction that made me want to pat her head even longer.

“Maste. . . Saburou-san.”

“What?.”

“Are you done playing with my ears?.”

Her thin hair feels smooth and soft on my hands, but that’s not the only place that comfortable to touch. Her sticking tringular ears also no less pleasant to touch. The sensation of her ost fur on her ears felt soo good on my hand.

“Sorry. .”

It’s seem I got carried away.

Her name is violet. A girl from a mixed beast race. A race that has some part of their body resembles a beast. In violet case, she has two triangular ears and bushy tail just like a fox.

A girl that normally only appears in fairy tales and myth is my wife.

But the reason I can get her is not because I'm practitioners of some ancient mythical teaching or something similar. In this world, someone like her is not a rare. I even live with her for 5 years before deciding to marry her.

When i said “this world” everything should be clear that I’m talking about a whole different world then the one I’m familiar with. Even though the geographical feature, the name of the nations and even the myth surrounding it are pretty similar to the one from my previous world.

The difference is in the existence of magic, mythical creature, and monster are treated as something normal.

A fantasy world?. I don't think so, because of all that similarities, I mostly treat this world just as another version of my world. An alternate universe.

Five years ago I got transferred to this world. Without knowing why, how, and for what purpose it is. And because of that. I'm forced to desperately do anything so I could to stay alive.

Without having any sort of convenienti power that I can use like in many stories that I've read before. The only thing I can rely on is my ability to understand this world resident language which I didn’t know when I acquired it, and my knowledge from my previous world as freshmen in some small university.

But with only that kind of asset, of course, I got into a lot of trouble. Without knowing how the society's work, the only work I can do is a physical one. And without the knowledge of the world's common sense, I often got cheated, getting false accusation, fell into a debt, and even almost got sold as a slave.

After some good people helped me and give me a job as an adventurer, I begin to be able to live in a rather good environment.

And after I discover that I have a talent for making a talisman, I got myself a side job and finally able to secure some funds to ease my life.

With that fund, I decided to buy some cheap slaves as a companion. Living alone is rather lonely, having no one to talk to is actually quite depressing. After all, I'm pretty much alone in this world.

Not to mention I can't really handle all of my work alone anymore. Having 2 different jobs is tiring. I also need someone to maintain my workshop that's double as my home.

My choice fell on a thin beast girl that looks like going to die anytime soon.

My consideration at that time for buying her is her cheap price and her age.

A healthy slave in their prime normally cost about the same as my saving for 4 months. Some criminal slaves are cheaper, but I didn't want to risk myself on buying some former criminal.

Also, a younger person normally has better learning ability than an adult. And because my side job as talisman smith requires someone to be able to grasp some complicated matter and doing delicate works, my best bet is only her.

Violet. The girl who's now, become my wife.

And, please remember that I buy her absolutely not because I prefer a young girl. It's not. Just please trust me.

"Saburou-san?. . ."

"Sorry. . . I just remember something from the past."

"From the past?. ."

After we fought a hard battle and finally able to convey our feeling to each other. We stopped become an adventurer and just focus on doing our job as talisman smith.

That battle we fought is a very hard one, so hard that it even able to turn me into a big coward and are afraid of death. That's why a job like being adventurer no longer fits me. And because she is being tied to me, she also stopped being adventurer a year ago.

We left the dangerous world and try to start a new way of life.

"Yes, but let's not talk about it."

"Um. . ."

She nodded.

"So, are seriously gonna let me do it?."

"Yes."

"Serious?."

"Yes."

She shows a determined looks in her eyes. But I can still feel her fears toward me. That's why I ask her if she is sure about her decision like some broken recorder. I really didn't want to hurt her.

"Are you forcing yourself?."

"Y. . .es. . ."

She dropped her sight from me.

"As expected. . . . let's stop thi. . ."

"No!!!.. I want to do it! I want to fulfill my duty as your wife."

"Like I said, you don't have to forc. . ."

"No! I'll do it even I have to force myself! I'll do it even I'm scared! and I'll still do it even it hurt!! After all Mast. . . Saburou-san has done so much for me. . ."

Our status is a married couple. She is my wife and I'm her husband. But, the truth is. We haven't crossed the line yet even after 3 months of our marriage. The closest husband and wife thing we do is only sleeping while hugging each other.

Or more precisely, I'm using her body as a hug pillow.

It seems she is traumatized by something from the past. And that trauma made her scared of men. Just by seeing men without a shirt on, her face would turn pale, her body got limp and cold sweat would pour from her back while having some difficulty in breathing.

From her reaction, I have some guess what kind of horrible thing that happened to her in the past. But because she never talks about it, I never ask anything related to it. After all, I didn't want to dig her old wound. After being with me for 5 years, now she can talk normally to me and any male customer in my workshop. And for now, just that much is ok.

"Listen. . ."

I grabbed her shoulder and looked into her eyes directly.

"I'm not gonna lie and said that I didn't want to do it, but if doing it mean that I have to make you felt unpleasant then I didn't mind even we can't do it."

Honestly, I really want to do it. I mean, her soft cheeks, her tiny wet pink lips, her delicate neck, her developing chest, her smooth skin, warm body, and that dazzling thigh. All of them looks so delicious. And when you know she is already yours, the urge to nom her is simply overwhelming to the point that it could explode.

And when I said explode, I mean it. It could literally explode.

"I can still play alone when you are sleeping anyway."

"Pervert. . so that's the reason my clothes always got sticky when I wake up."

Well, I am. But because of that pervertedness, I'm able to hold as long as 3 months. If I'm totally unable to touch her at all. I'm afraid that I'm going to transform into a beast and attack her without caring about anything.

Wait. . . . Isn't the fact that I did all of that without her being aware is proof that I already become a beast.

"Sorry. . "

Ah. . . .but if I'm not even allowed to do that how I can discharge this pent up energy in my lower half body?. I didn't want to spend money on some random woman, not to mention it leave a bad taste in my mouth. Also, some soap can't actually satisfy me anymore.

"Gah. . ."

I let go of her shoulder and begin to hold my head.

"I know! I know! I'm already yours so you can do whatever you wanted with my body, so please don't put that 'the world is going to end tomorrow face!"

"Thank you very muuuccchh!!!."

"Don't blatantly show your relieved face to me!!!!."

"Thank you very much."

"Is that supposed to be poker face? It isn't right? right?."

"Heheh. . ."

For some reason, the gloomy and serious atmosphere around us begins to disappear. Our serious conversation also somehow slowly being replaced by our usual banter. Well, even today is another failure on crossing that line. I didn't really mind.

I want to unleash the beast inside me, but what I want the most is make her happy and seeing her smile to bloom.

"So let's start."

"Ha?. . ."

Her smile indeed blooming, the atmosphere also become lighter but for some reason, the situation didn't improve at all. I mean, aren't we in a situation where both of us finally decide to pull back?.

"Mast. . Saburou-san do you remember what you said when you propose to me?."

"Of course."

I promise her to support her until I die, protect her as long she lives, and make her life as happy as possible.

"Just like Master wants me to be happy, I also want Master to be happy."

"Violet. "

I see, so it's like that. If someone asked whose happiness matter the most to me, without a doubt I'll answer that her happiness is the most important thing to me. And in order to be able to give it to her, I'll do anything I can.

Overcoming my fear, facing my trauma, or even risking my life. I'll pay any kind of price if it's going to make her happy.

And that feeling is not just mine. She shares it too.

"In order to make Master happy, I also going to pay any price for it."

I want to protect her, I didn't want her to hurt, and I also didn't want her to feel any pain. But, I want to respect her decision, I also want to grant her wish. Her wish to make me happy.

"Thank you very much."

At first, I think my arrival in this world is simply a big mistake. After all, my life is just getting harder and harder every day. But after being together with her, I begin to feel that this world is quite fun.

When I realized my feeling for her and receiving her affection. I finally thought that my life is full of blessing, my fate is not a mistake, and I was born for the sake of meeting her.

"I love you."

"I love . . . . ."

Before Violet even able to say any more words, I grab her cheeks and pull her face closer to me. And after that, for the first time in my life. I tasted the sweetness of girls lips.

1.

"Are you ok? can you walk?."

"I'm not okay, but I can walk. albeit little difficult."

"How about just resting for a day?."

"No, I want to work and help Master."

For some reason, she didn't stop calling me master since last night even after I remind her, again and again, to just call me by name. Being called master by a small cute fox girl didn't sound bad, but she is my beloved wife. I didn't want someone to see her just as my slave.

Moreover, it made me remember about her amazing expression when shouting the word master-master-master a few hours ago.

Honestly, it kinda dangerous. It can potentially able to wake not only my eyes but also another part of my body. So I hope she could stop it already.

"You didn't have to, our work needs a lot of concentration and attention I didn't think you could do it with your condition now! to be honest, I didn't really want to work myself either."

What I want is just to flirt with her for a whole week.

"Whose fault it is!!! which boy who can't hold himself back!? which person that turned into a beast and devour this little lamb?."

I clapped my hands in front of her and then closing both of my eyes like someone who is going to pray in front of a shrine.

"Thank you very much."

"This, is, where you should say sorry to me!!!."

She hit me with the back of her hand like a real manzai actor.

"Thanks for the meal."

"You didn't feel sorry at aaaaall!!!!."

Don't ask something unreasonable. Did you think that a first timer like me could actually hold myself back?. No! of course, no!. Not to mention that I already build momentum for a whole 3 months. A momentum strong enough to shatter any rationality to smithereens. So please don't blame me for turning into a hungry beast.

"I mean it feels so goo. . ."

Before I'm able to finish my word, she blocks my mouth with her hand while having some nice embarrassed face.

"Noooo!!!. . . . don't talk about it. . ."

Nooo. . . don't act cute like thaaatt!!! that momentum hasn't actually died down so if you continue to provoke me with your cuteness. I think I'm not going just turn into a beast, but a monster even without the help of a full moon.

". . . . ."

"Master. . your face is kinda scary. . ."

"No need to be scared. . . your master is not a bad person."

"Now, you sound like a kidnapper!."

I hold her shoulder just like last night and stare her directly into the eyes. But, unlike before I give a signal to ask for her permission to continue. She is, after all, haven't completely overcome her trauma.

She still looks scared when I give her a stare with some lust inside it. But, after last night her fear of the beast me has decreased considerably. Well, I didn't really want to push her too hard. If she really didn't want it, I would stop myself with every means available.

"Gosh. . .I really wonder who is the real beast people here."

Her ears are twitching, her tail is swaying back and forth, also her face is bright red. After murmuring something for a while, she held my hands and stare back at me.

". . ."

God, she is so cute. My wife is the cutest in the world.

"Is it really ok?."

She shows me a pouting face that looks like said 'did you want me to say it directly?.' before closing her eyes and presenting her small glossy pink lips that absolutely look so soft.

Thanks for the mea. . .

Knock. knock. knock.

"What hell is the timiiiingg!!!!!!!!????."

"Master, there's someone outside."

"Just leave him alone, let's just continue"

The knocking didn't stop, but I didn't care. Who cares about some random guy when I'm being so busy admiring the cuteness of my wife.

"I'm in. . "

"Who gives you a damn permission to enter my workshop!!!!?."

The one who enters my workshop is a young man in his twenty, whose face I'm familiar with. His name is Arne, and he works for the adventurer guild in this town.

His blonde hair and rough looks are on the wild side and when you see him, the impression you got is definitely not a good one. But setting that aside, he is actually a rather kind guy who helped me countless time.

But, today he is nothing but eyesore though.

"Well. . . I thought waiting for your reply is simply useless, I mean! you are too busy violating that 9 years old little girl in your arms."

"Don't make me sounds like a criminal."

"Eh? you arent?."

"I see, it seems you need to relearn some lesson."

Most of the sentient creature in this world has a different growth rate than human both physically and psychologically. Elf aged slowly because of their long lifespan, dwarf didn't grow too much even after reaching their adulthood. And beast people, usually grow faster than human in both body and mind. That's why beast people have a lower standard for their adulthood.

Normally, beast people already considered adult when they reach 8 years old. 8 years old of beast people are equivalent to 16 years old of humans.

"In other words, in human standard, Violet is already 18 years old and a full-fledged adult."

"But she is small, in other words, you just like a young girl."

"Ok stop right there!!!."

Please stop saying anything that made me looks like a young girl lover. It's not like I'm particularly like a young girl. It just happens that the girl I love looks young.

Also, she looks young not because she is actually that young (based on beast people standard) but because she has some growth problem. Normally, at her age, she should have a more mature body like a human girl in their late teen. But because of her bad environment in her younger days. Her growth got hampered by malnutrition and the likes.

So, there's absolutely nothing strange when the 23 years old me fell in love with the 18 years old (inside) her.

"When you love someone, you'll stop thinking about their outward appearance."

"Don't worry, your preference for a young girl is not strong enough to cut apart our friendship."

"I honestly want to cut that friendship you are talking about right now."

"So, what did you need Arne-san?."

Without being bothered by our banter, Violet who still clung to my stomach like koala asked what his business are. Normally, the one who tends a male customer is me. But he is our close friend, so Violet didn't really have any problem interacting with him so I let her do it.

"I got a job for both of you."

"I see, please come back tomorrow we are rather busy today."

"Aren't you guys just flirting?."

"Yes we are, got a problem with that?."

I mean, we are pretty much a newlywed couple. What's wrong flirting with each other?. Previously. Even after our wedding ceremony, both of us still act like some innocent couple who only able to hold hands. We are unable to flirt like this before.

That's why, after she is a little bit able to overcome her fear I want to just play around with her for at least a day to satisfy all of my worldly desire.

"So you are serious when asking me to come back tomorrow."

Do you think I'm joking?. No, I'm not!. I seriously didn't have any mood to work today. If you already understand please just go and leave us alone.

"Just explode already!!!!."

"Do your job properly!!!!."

While Arne swearing with tears in his eyes, Violet hit my chest with her harmless punch even she is actually very strong. After that, the three of us go to the guild office to get more information about the job he is talking about.

1.

"Impossible."

"Can't you do something about it."

"This job is both physically and mentally impossible to do."

The one who wants to give us a job is not Arne himself. He is just a messenger for the guild master. In other words, our main customer is the guild itself. And when an organization offers a job, it's almost certain that the job is not going to be small.

"We are in an emergency."

"Even so, it's still impossible."

Before becoming a talisman smith, I'm also an adventurer for about 4 years. And in that time, I become friends with many people. One of them is the guy who currently sitting in front of me and Violet.

Werther. The master of the adventurer guild in this town.

Just like Arne, this guy also helped me a lot of times. The one who vouches for my innocence after getting false accusation is him. The one who gives me a job and place to stay after having all of my money taken is also him.

I owe him a lot, and of course, when he got into a trouble, naturally I want to help him as much as possible. But this time, his request is simply too big for me.

"Let me tell you something, creating a talisman is not an easy task."

Talisman is a aritifcial component embedded with certain magical properties, skill, or ability. Common people normally called it a magic tool, but the truth is a magic tool is just one of the product using a talisman.

To put it simply, if a magic tool is a machine than a talisman is its parts.

Unlike in some novel that I read in the previous world, magic in this world is not just about imagination, writing some letter, chanting a spell, or giving some flashy move a cool name.

You can't just shout "Hear my words and burn mine enemy" like a chuuni and hope some big fireball would appear in your hands. In fact, a chant is normally very short because it's only used as a keyword.

The only one who can do something like that in this world are people who have direct access to some higher being like a spirit or something similar and people with special skill or ability.

For spirit or any other being with higher spiritual power able to alter the world laws to a certain extent. This ability make them can ignore anything and just ask what they wanted.

You can say that the world would obey their rule for a brief time. That's why their power mostly called as a divine or evil power depends on who you ask

For people like them, they got special ability or skill when somehow some magic circuits are forming up inside their body or their spiritual body is bigger than their physical body.

While the rest of people like me usually have to create external medium to be able to manipulate a magic.

Magic in this world is like an electricity or chemical reaction. It can be used for wide range of thing just by manipulating its properties. And the one who creates tools for it is a talisman smith like me.

"We can prepare the material."

"What we lack the most is time."

As I have said, making talisman is difficult. Making a talisman is like creating a printed circuit board for electronics. And with the current 'not so advanced' technology, mass producing something is impossible to do. In other words, I have to manually draw the manipulations path calculation, inscribe the design, tune and test it one by one.

"I'm very sorry, even I work day and night at most I can only produce 1o talismans per day, and my workshop only has 2 people."

Of course, I didn't want to work without rest either. Creating a talisman is delicate work, if I make even a single mistake I have to start from scratch again.

"And you are asking me to create mental fortitude, body strengthing, and stamina boosts talisman where each of them is 100 pieces in a week."

That's 300 pieces of talisman in total. A 2 months worth of works. Something that's impossible to do in a week.

"I honestly want to help, but my help alone can't solve this problem."

"I'm really sorry, I also thought that my request is stupid."

In other words, he is rather panicked because he wanted to finish the problem as fast as possible. And if the problem is even able to make someone as experienced as him panicked, that problem is absolutely big. Just like this stupid request of his.

"So, can you start to explain what the real problem is? I mean I just being told to create so many talismans but I haven't heard its purpose yet."

Because I'm no longer an adventurer or even this guild member, I didn't have any access to their information network and my status is the same as an ordinary civilian. Maybe because that restriction no one has told me what the main problem is.

Normally I didn't really care to be treated as an outsider by them, but this time I need to know what kind of threat that they want to face. After all, their request in impossible for me to accept. So, I want to help them through another means.

The guild master stares at the other guild official to seek their consent. After that, they give him some kind of approval sign the guild master redirect his sight to me and Violet.

"The truth is, we got information that a Giant is currently moving towards this town after destroying many villages and town in its path, it would arrive in this area around 10 days."

There are so many races that live in this world that roughly can be divided into 4 main categories. The myth who didn't possess flesh and exist only as a spiritual being like angel and spirit and gods. The legend who has a strong spiritual body inside their physical body like demon, elf, and vampire. The beast who inherently have a far stronger body than any other race which usually carries animalistic trait on their body like animal ear, tails, or scales. And the last one is human which somehow didn't have any special trait except their astonishing craftiness.

Except for the beast people, the legend regarding the other 2 fantasy-like race is the same as the one in my previous world. Even their traits, specific names, and the myth surrounding them.

Based on my dumb theory, there is a chance that the origin of the people in my previous lord is someone from this world. After all, in that world, there's no actual proof that magic, gods, demon and the likes actually exist.

So, maybe they have many tales about them because they are actually from this world where every myth from my previous world is an actual entity.

"Is this town its aim or . . ."

"I don't know? but at least we know that it was pureblood! that's why I want to subjugate it as fast as possible."

Besides their own subspecies, they also can still be divided into 2 categories. A pureblood or mixed blood. Pureblood is a term for a creature who hasn't changed since ancient time. In another word, a creature that already presents since this world exists.

Mixed blood is as it sounds. A race that born from the relationship between 2 different race, and the majority of this world resident today is part of a mixed race. Of course, myth race is an exception because they didn't even have any flesh or blood to be mixed.

Violet is one sample of mixed blood between beast and human where the human parts are dominant in her body.

"I see."

So why did the pureblood are dangerous for this town?. The answer is simple. Because they haven't changed or adapted.

Pureblood that live since the dawn of the world existence is a creature that created to be able to resist the harshness of the ancient world. And in order to be able to live in the dangerous world, most of them have an astonishingly tough body, unimaginable strength, or even great magical capability.

Now imagine if that kind of monster didn't have enough intelligence to understand words or only have some basic instinct like kill the annoying thing, eat anything that can be eaten or destroy everything inside an area that it claims as a territory.

They would bring a big chaos because we can't even communicate with them. That's why pureblood like Giant is considered as dangerous.

"I think the scale of the problem is too big for this guild."

This guild only has around 150 people registered as an adventurer with half of them are a low-level one. In other words, only about 70 people can actually be considered as war potential. And that number is absolutely not nearly enough to face a Giant that can blow a house with its sneeze alone.

"An army is already sent to this place to subjugate it."

I see. If the Giant is already spreading some destruction it's not strange for the nation to take some action.

"So when they are going to arrive?."

"Around a week."

"I understand the situation."

Marching is a tough thing to do and managing army with a thousand soldiers in it is an even more difficult task to do. The chance of the army able to arrive at the promised time is rather slim. In the worst case scenario, the adventurers have to hold out until the army arrive if the Giant is moving faster or the army are simply late.

He needs that talisman in order to boost the adventurer combat ability and moral support so no ones are going to just flee from the town to save their own self.

"But let me say this. . your plan is too reckless."

"I know. . ."

"Sorry for being rude, but it's seems you got your priority wrong guild master."

"What do you mean?."

"Why did you stuck in the idea that you have to defeat that Giant?. ."

"If we leave it alone this town would be. . ."

"Hah. . ."

I sighed deeply. Talking about priority to a people who haven't faced an absolute difference in power with his enemy is rather difficult. His answer is the answer that comes from someone who always thinks that facing problem directly is the one only way to make it disappear.

"Violet do you understand what I'm trying to say to him?."

"Of course."

"Can you replace me talk to them?."

"Why?."

"Impression."

"I see."

A different person can give different impression to another people. And it seems I give the impression that I'm the same type of person like them. That's why he fails to understand what I'm trying to convey.

It's like when some musclehead asks you to use tactics to defeat your enemy while the person itself able to just your enemy with his single punch. Making you think that tactics are actually useless.

"Guild master what is our main objective."

After sipping the tea that the guild staff prepared for us, Violet begins to speak.

"Defeat the Giant."

"Wrong! our main objective is to protect this town while defeating the Giant are just one of the few way we can achieve it."

"But leaving it alone is danger. ."

"Did we still need to kill it if that Giant stays in. .hm. .like some remote island and doing nothing."

The answer is no. Why did we even bother doing anything to it if it didn't threaten us?. Leaving it alone is the best possible decision and intentionally disturbing is nothing but foolishness.

"Are you saying that we need to leave it alone Violet-san?."

Violet is already adult even though her body is that of 9 or 10 years old girl so even the guild master is trying to use polite words. But, it seems she is saying something that triggers the against the guild master's principle. I can feel a little irritation from his voice.

"Well, that's not entirely unreasonable! we can prioritize the lives of the townspeople and relocate them to somewhere else while letting the Giant to pass the city."

That's can be done, and with that, we can even save the adventurer by just focusing on relocating all the peoples in the town. But of course, in reality, that method is very difficult to execute.

"That's crazy."

Moving large number of people is difficult, finding a suitable place to stay, and creating a temporary residence for them is a very big and heavy task. In another word that method is not practical. Not to mention that the Giant can wreak havoc in the empty town or even hunting the resident like a pest.

"Yes, it's crazy."

"If you know it's a crazy idea then don't propose it."

"I just presenting some method that maybe can work for a weakling like us."

The method that Violet propose is the same as giving up on your wealth after some bandits show up while asking them not to kill you. A very normal response from some weak people who are unable to offer even some little resistance.

"Weakling you say? . . . . ."

Uwah. . he is so pissed right now. I'm sorry, she just wants to slightly twist your way of thinking and absolutely didn't just want to insult you guild master.

"Well. . . you can claim to be strong after you can defeat master in a fight."

You sound like typical arrogant antagonist right now. I like it. Especially that cold eyes that look like going to freeze someone's heart. But please don't use my name to threaten someone. Because in an honest one on one fight I'm absolutely weaker than the person in front of you my beloved wife.

"If you are too scared, I can even replace master. ."

Nononono. . . that's simply no. I'm never going to let you play around with another man.

"Tha. . . ."

"Let's back to the main topic, relocating the townspeople maybe a rather difficult but relocating the Giant is a different matter."

"Relocating the Giant?."

"Yes."

Our priority is not defeating the Giant but saving the town. And in order to do that, we can just need to alter his path to not collide with the town.

"With that, we can keep away the Giant from the town and by not directly fighting it we can lower the casualty on our side."

Giant boasting absolute strength that incomparable to that ordinary human. Fighting it directly is pretty much just a suicide. Even if they are able to miraculously win, I'm very sure that the sacrifice is not going to be small.

"Giant is not that smart, with some provocation we can lead it to some isolated place and wear down its stamina while waiting for the reinforcement to arrive."

"Aren't it just going to make it goes frenzy and attack the town faster?."

"That's why master asked if the town is its true aim or not?."

"Sorry."

"I didn't think that the Giant already knows the position of this town, but just to be safe let's focus on gathering more information about it first."

"I understand."

With her task to make the guild master understand what I want to say, Violet sit back beside me like before.

What we desperately need to know first is about its purpose in making its journey. Is it hunger? is it some kind of retaliation? is it just some simple stroll, or is it having something to do with some deeper circumstances?.

Depend on its main motivation, we need to prepare a different kind of bait to lure it out outside the town.

"Um. am I allowed to speak?."

"Of course."

One of the female officials of this guild raise her hands and ask for permission to speak to us. Based on her getup she is not the type of person like the musclehead guild master. She radiates some kind of intelligent aura.

By the way, I didn't know who is she. Is she a new member?.

"Even we didn't have any detailed info about the Giant yet, there have been some related reports after it crossed the national border."

"Is that so? it really helped a lot if you can share it with us."

The female worker once again asks the guild master for permission and he nodded lightly. After that, she brings a map and spread it on the table in front of us.

"Based on the report, it first sighted about a month ago, after that, it moved from village to village until its current position."

The map she shows looks familiar to my eyes. After all, I already explained that the geographical feature of this world is pretty much the same as my old world. Thought the name of cities or country and their border has some a slight changes.

"Can you mark the place that it passed on this map? I want to see the pattern in its movements."

If we know its movement pattern we can guess what kind of thought it has.

The female worker begins to mark some area on the map while also giving some brief explanation on what's happening in the said place and also the how much casualty it produces.

But of course, the information is not that much, after all, its just information we got from the national border and one neighboring country.

"Is it hunger after all?."

"I don't think so."

It attacked the many villages in its path so I assume that it just want to eat. But it seems Violet has a different opinion.

"From its random movement, we can discard the possibility that it has some clear destination in mind."

If something has some clear objective in mind, usually even the dumbest animal still going to use the shortest route available. But the movement of this Giant is not even consistent with any particular direction. There's even a record of it going back and forth in the same place over and over again.

"If it just looking for food it also didn't need to destroy every building in its sight."

It can just grab some tiny panicked human to eat without even first destroying everything in the village. It also didn't need to visit the village that already destroyed.

There are many cases of some pureblood destroying humans property. But it usually triggered by something like they got attacked first, or they feel that their territory has been invaded by humans. When it happened, they would run wild, but the scale usually only in the local area. In another word, they usually only destroy the thing in their own area.

They shouldn't have actively looked for a new place to destroy.

"Also, she said that there's hardly any casualty among the villager! for disaster in this scale, it's too odd."

It's Indeed strange, also when I see the pattern again I spot some village that didn't get attacked by it even though it should have been easier to deal because the location is rather isolated.

"Thank you very much. . . ?"

"Lena."

"Thank you very much Lena-san, that information is very precious for all of us."

With that information, we know that going to the less densely populated area is safer, that it didn't have a real goal in mind, and it didn't particularly fond of eating humans.

"We still need to know what kind of trigger that made it attack some places or how it able to track humans settlement, but for now that much information is enough for us to made some decision."

"I'll look for more information."

After they got more information, we can get more material that we can use it to provoke that Giant.

"Yes, please do! we need to ascertain its main objective to prevent the same thing to happen in the future after all."

The female worker goes back to her place after bowing to us.

"Somehow you sound more like guild master than me."

"Sorry. I got carried away."

I should remember that I'm no longer some important person in this place and act like one. Having some outsider to give a command to an organization is not good in every way.

"No, you didn't have to worry about it."

No, you should worry guild master.

"Anyway, scarping the plan of fighting it directly is better for both adventurer and me."

If the adventurers are not forced to face the Giant directly, we didn't have to supply all of them with the same set of talisman. If we just want to provoke it and lure the Giant from the town, we can just create a small team to do the task. If not all adventurer facing the Giant at the same time, we didn't have to create mental fortitude talisman for everyone because they can just use it in turns.

"How about the other talismans?."

"I'll draw the manipulation calculation and you can ask some other talisman smith to inscribe it."

"Aren't it trades secret?."

"Well yes, but this is emergency! I can't be stingy, right? not to mention having it spreading didn't really affect my business anyway."

It's impossible for me alone to meet its deadline. The best way to solve this problem is just not to be greedy and outsource the manpower from outside my workshop. Also, my main business is creating household appliance so there's no real damage done to me.

In a way, it even benefits me. I mean, if another smith can take my place in creating that talisman for the adventurer. I'm not going to be bothered by them anymore.

Money is not a real problem for me and Violet. She didn't demand luxurious lifestyle and I didn't particularly want to get rich either.

"Are you sure?."

Well, I want to renovate our current house after we have some kids though. But it's not going to happen tomorrow or next month, so we didn't have to hurry.

I mean, we are pretty much just still going playing a sticky-sticky game most the time without actually doing the main event. She still rather afraid of men after all. So I didn't rush her.

"Yes, just make sure to give us a lot of gifts when we have kids."

"You already thinking about having kids?."

"Eh? isn't it normal?."

I mean, after marriage the next things is about having kids and raising them right?. Well, before I fell in love with Violet. I used to think that suddenly marrying and having a child to take care of would be troublesome, but when I mentally placed Violet as my partner, I suddenly couldn’t care less about all of that trouble. Instead, I'm really looking forward to it.

"Now that mention it, it's indeed normal."

"That's right, anyway since our talk is pretty much finished I want to go home! you can tell the number of talismans you need to me tomorrow after you guys organize the fishing team."

I hold Violet's hand and bow before standing up and ready to go home.

"Wait a minute."

Before we are able to reach the door, Arne holds my other hand and stop us.

"Having another man holding my hand is rather unpleasant."

Usually, he would snap and give some rhetoric answer. But this time he stays silent and just stares at the guild master.

"What? is there any more thing we need to discuss?."

"No, not really, I just want to ask something."

Why everyone looks so serious?.

"How about come back being adventurer?."

"Ha? why?"

Many children have a dream of being an adventurer. In their eyes adventurer are a strong person who risks their life for the goodness of mankind, a hero basked in glory and wealth. And of course, I once thought the same.

But the reality is not so kind. This is not game.

Adventurers are pretty much just a glorified mercenary.

"I have to refuse, I'm cowards, after all, I didn't want to risk my lives anymore! "

Unlike official soldier in the national army, most adventurers didn't have stable income, insurance, and always have to carry the risk of their task alone. Sometimes, a low-level adventurer is even poorer than an ordinary farmer.

"In the past, I didn't really care about my own lives, that's why I can recklessly bet my lives on the line for that dangerous job."

At that time I'm alone in this world. If even I disappeared no one would miss me, no one would care, and no one would cry for me. If I can stay alive, no one would welcome me either. In the past, I struggle to stay alive just because I'm afraid the pain of dying.

I didn't really have any dream to realize and in this world, and I didn't really have anyone that I think important. In other words, I didn't have any attachment to this world.

"But it's different now."

I grasp Violet hand a little stronger.

"I have someone that I want to protect and made to be happy, that's why I didn't want to work in a place where I can die anytime."

After all, I didn't want to leave her alone and just become her source of sadness. I want to stay with her as long as possible.

"Then, will you come back to become an adventurer when that person is no longer exist?."

Ha?.

"What do you mean by that?."

"Eh?. . ."

Don't eh me! what did you mean by that?. I really want to know. Can you give me more detail about it?.

"Guild master!!!!."

Arne called the guild master with a panicked voice. After that, the guild master somehow gets pale in the face when looking at me while the other members of this guild office looks petrified in their place.

"I'm sorry. That's not what I mean."

"Then what do you mean?."

"You are strong enough to brush off most danger even in this line of works."

"Strong huh. . ."

What a nostalgic word. I also think the same some years ago. But I'm not that naive anymore.

"Let me tell you something guild master."

I open the door in front of me and said.

"Humans are weak! And there are so many foes that we can't hope to match!."

And we leave the guild office.

After going home, both of us immediately begin to work on drawing the design for the talisman requested from us. And in the evening, someone from the guild takes our base template to be used by another talisman smith.

1.

"What should we do?."

"Indeed, what should we do?."

We need to work in the morning, so we didn't go all the way to the main event last night. So we settle just doing our usual sticky-sticky game because I can't have her unable to focus on her work. But it seems the effect of our sticky game is worse than if we did it for real.

"Maybe we can wash it by hands."

Did you still remember what my main business is? it's making household appliance. And of course, it includes building some form of an automatic washing machine. Usually, my rather small washer would be able to clean our not so really dirty clothes. But today, I have some doubt it can do its job well.

"It's going to take a lot of time, and we didn't really have that many free time."

Indeed, we didn't have that many free time. Even we can decrease the amount of the requested talisman, we still need to create at least 20 of them. And with our normal work time, we can just make 5 talismans a day. And I'm sure that they need more than just 20. We need to focus on our work for a few days.

We didn't really have time to waste. That includes time to wash our clothes by hands.

"Let's have someone wash our clothes."

"No!!! Absolutely no!!."

"Why? we can save time with it."

"The embarrassment going kill me when I have to pick those clothes from the person who washed it."

"I see."

Our work is mostly related to a delicate precision task so we rarely got sweaty and because our workshop is kept clean our clothes also rarely exposed to any dirt. Our clothes are mostly got dirty from our night activity.

Do you also still remember that Violet has some kind of phobia for men? if yes then it shouldn't be surprising if I said that we always do our sticky-sticky game while still wearing our clothes.

Asking someone to wash that kind of dirty clothes is rather difficult.

"Our only way just leaves it alone for now and forget about it."

That kind of solution also exists huh. If we can't do anything about it, just forget it. After all, the problem is not a problem if we didn't think it as a problem.

"And in order not to increase the number of our dirty clothes, we also need to stop doing our sticky game for a while."

"What??."

"Ah. that also include your single player game, please restrain yourself not to play around when I'm sleeping."

"Nooooo!!!!!!. . "

"Ok, the problem is solved."

"That's too crueeell!!!!!. . ."

The problem is not solved at aalllll. . . in fact it just increases.

After not solving our problem, both of us decided to go to the guild office to get the material for making the talismans and also asking how many pieces they need to make.

Our place is not that far from the guild office, we can reach it with just around 10 minutes of walking. And because we are already so familiar with the road, before we realized it we already arrive at its receptionist counter.

But.

"I'm very sorry, the material hasn't arrived yet."

"Is that so?."

Well, the request is rather sudden so there's no real preparation. Something like this is expected to happen and not that surprising. Even with the power of the guilds, they can't just purchase a large number of talisman material from one supplier so they need to collect from many sellers.

"Is it going to take a long time?."

"Don't worry, we have secured the material and it already has been shipped! I think in 2 or 3 hours the goods are going to be in this place."

That's faster than I thought. It seems the people in the logistics department of this guild are all capable individual.

While I'm thinking of how to can I able to borrow that logistic power of them, Violet tug my clothes to get my attention.

"How about we go to the central plaza?.

Waiting for 2 hours while doing nothing is absolutely boring. If I can flirt with her then I didn't mind, but I can't possibly do it so openly in this place.

"I see, a date."

"No, no, no, it's not a date."

"It's a date."

"We just need to buy some necessity."

"That's a date."

Man and woman go out together and do some shopping. In my dictionary, it already can be considered as a date.

"Your definition of date is rather shallow."

"Don't mind the small detail."

"I think our role is somehow got reversed."

The central plaza is rather far. It's 30 minutes of walk from the guild office and 40 minutes from our place. Normally we would just buy our daily necessity from the merchant that live close to our house. But because we just land some big job, we also need to buy some additional tools to help our works.

The plan is just to do some light shopping while we wait for our material to arrive at the guild office.

But that plan soon shattered to pieces after we are in the plaza. For some reason, we also buy a lot of food supplies and household tools. It seems the price is so low that my beloved wife is unable to hold back to not buy more than what we've planned to.

Because of that, my hands are now full of groceries.

"This indeed didn't look like a date."

"I already said so."

"But it's not bad."

Instead of a pair of lovers, we look like a typical married couple. We are a married couple, but most people just see us as a pair sibling or even kidnapper and its victim. That's why this activity is a good publicity.

Even though no other people would care anyway but it gives me some peace of mind.

After we buy our working tools, the last place we visit is a big clothing store in the center of the plaza. A place that anyone would visit on their date. But with hands full of grocery and some mechanical tools, the romantic mood is long gone.

"So what kind of clothes did you want to buy?."

"Pajama and underwears."

"Ha?."

I thought we are going to buy some cute clothes for her.

"Don't 'ha?' me! don't you remember that we have so many dirty clothing? do you remember what kind of clothes they are?."

It's pajamas and underwears. More precisely, her pajamas and underwears.

"I'm sorry."

Washing our clothes one by one is bothersome, so we usually wash them once in a few days. But the current dirty clothes is simply too difficult to wash with our current tools and we can't waste time to wash them by hands. So our only choice is just to buy a new one for the preparation of our busy schedule.

"It's not really a big deal, not to mention satisfying master beastly passion is also one of my responsibility."

It's true, but for some reason, it sounds so bad even in my own ears.

"Also, I didn't hate it, no. . . I actually quite enjoyed it."

Is that true? I always thought that you are forcing yourself and just doing it for my sake. While I feel happy that you able to hurt yourself in order to make me happy. But that kind of thing always gives me a slight sense of uneasiness and guilt.

"If you enjoyed it then. . ."

"No! at least in this week."

"But you said you enj. . . ."

Cough! cough! cough!.

Both I and Violet look into the direction of that unnatural coughing voice. And at the end of the section of this store, we see a female attendance give us some scary glare.

"We are sorry."

"We are sorry."

We bow to together and went out as fast as possible.

Our house is rather far from crowds, and our neighbors are mostly some old folks who see us as their own son and daughter. So we never try to restrain ourselves in talking about our private matter. But this place is a public space, and talking about our night activity is going to make another people got uncomfortable.

We switched store and continue to look for her new pajamas. Because we didn't want to repeat the same mistakes, we parted away. And after around thirty minutes, we meet again at the entrance of the store.

"Can I see them?."

"Do you want to check my selection?."

"Well. . ."

I didn't answer it after thinking that my answer is going to give us more trouble. But she understood and let me see her bag.

"Don't worry, I use master's preference in looking for new pajamas."

I see. The pajamas she buys are indeed based on my preference. Thin material, loose upper part, the right size for the lower part, and they have warm bright color.

"What a great wife I have."

"Anyway, we still have to look for underwears."

"No need to worry, your reliable husband has it covered already."

"Now, I feel even more worried let me see master's selection."

She rummages my bag and checking its content one by one. After that, she let out a big sigh and stare at me directly.

What?.

It's impossible for me to pick the wrong size when I already explore every nook and cranny of her body. So what's the problem? why did she look angry?.

"What did you pick up?."

"100% cotton panties that can absorb any kind of liquid efficiently."

"You mean sweat right?."

"It also has a very good elasticity that can make the wearer always comfortable in any kind of position."

"You mean it's easy to move right?."

"And the last, the thickness and texture are calculated in a way that gives the wearer a sense of freedom."

"You mean it feels nice on the skin right?."

"You really know me so well."

"For some reason, that praise didn't really make me happy! also, it seems you didn't really know me that well."

"Impossible!!! is there still any secret place that I haven't expl. . ."

"Not thaaatttt!!!!!!."

Once again, she blocked my mouth with her hands.

"What I mean is master should know that I didn't like to be treated like a small child."

"Eh? but I didn't remember treating you like one! I mean if I treat you like a small child I'm never going to marry you. ."

"Why did this man always manage to twist my words to the most embarrassing direction?."

Wow, she called me 'this men' and not master. Is it a good thing or bad?.

"Anyway that's not it, why did you choose this childish and plain underwear for me? aren't there any maturer one?."

"Let your beloved husband tell you something very important."

Sexy or mature attire didn't fit Violet that well. It's not because she is not beautiful, it's just her beautifulness is come from a different direction. And that direction is her destructive cuteness.

"Your greatest asset is your innocent image, and that image is best paired with something cute."

Trust me. Panties with colorful flower pattern or cute animal picture are definitely the best.

"I'm not sure you are thinking something innocent or cute when picking up these underwears, not to mention our relationship is the farthest from the image of cute and innocent."

"Don't make me sounds like a pervert who enjoy some weird play."

"Eh? you arent? I mean the one who dirtied most of our clothes with some smelly liquid is you right? master."

"That's sweat right?."

"The one who never let me rest until he is satisfied is also master."

"We are talking about work right?."

"Also, the one always doing whatever he wanted when this pitiful girl sleep is also master."

"I'M VERY SORRRYYYYYY!!!!!."

Sorrryyy!!! I will admit it. I never think about something that innocent or cute. What I think when choosing your underwear is just how great when I can taint that innocence of yours. I mean, who can resist no to taint her when you always give me a pure gaze, shy act, and scared look.

After I fell on my knee, Violet give me a pinch in the cheeks while having her face bright red.

"What a pervert master."

1.

When we go back to the adventurer guild, that place is already being filled by many people. And many people in that crowds are our acquaintance that started being an adventurer at the same time as us.

When we walk in front of them, some junior from when we sare till active as adventurer try to offer us a help in carrying our luggage. But of course, I decline their offer. After all, I can't possibly disturb their work and let them carry our luggage are the same as increasing the risk of everyone know what kind of weird preference I have.

Did I just admit that I have weird preference?.

We ended up just gives some light greeting before going to the guild staff desk.

I thought that our problem finally goes away. But, because Violet has some trouble seeing in front of her, she accidentally bumps into someone in on of the guild worker desk.

The one who got hit by her is an adventurer boy in his 17 or 18.

"I'm sorry, I can't see very well."

While she didn't find her baggage to be heavy, but her short posture still gives her some trouble in her daily lives.

Well, solving those trouble is one of my ways to look cool in front of her though. That's why I didn't want her to suddenly become taller.

"Who is this brat?."

"I'm not a brat."

"Are you really feel sorry?."

"Yes, I'm."

Outside of the house or while with me, she rarely shows her emotions and normally talks in a rather flat tone. But don't worry, Violet is an honest and responsible woman. I can guarantee that she truly feel sorry for disturbing you boy.

"Then move away!."

Just like he said, Violet try to move away from his way. But the boy also coincidentally move to the same place direction where Violets moves. Because of that, both of them bumping into each other for the second time.

"Annoying!!!."

He tried to force his way by pushing violets away, but my body automatically moves to shield her and the boy's hand only able to hit my back. Violet can protect herself, she is also not weak and she is not going to fell or dropping her luggage just because someone hit her. But my instinct to protect her win over my logic.

"You. . . . do you also want to annoy me?"

Before he becomes more pissed off, let's just apologize.

"She absolutely means no harm, letting this small accident slip is wiser."

Garnering more attention is just going to further hinder both of our work. So, just settling this trivial matter with a simple apology is our best course. Win-win solutions.

"Now you are even lecturing me? if an apology is enough to solve all problem polices are not going to be needed."

Well, I don't think any police would going to be bothered by this kind of problem.

Also, this boy is clearly just having some bad day.

When your job is not going smoothly, someone tends to get irritated easily. I've experienced the very same thing before. At that time, even the smallest matter become big enough to fan my anger. But directing your anger to some unrelated people would just bring bad luck.

After all, as an adventurer, you are always at the risk of danger. And the ones who are going the help you from it are those unrelated people. As someone who has been abandoned by the others before, I can vouch that grumbling in some bar is better than venting your anger in the public place.

"I'm her husband, so if you think she still owes you something besides an apology you can just tell me.

"Is that so? then I . . ."

"Ooo. . Volker. . . why are you still in this place, just go to my office."

"What do you mean by 'just go to my office'? your staff asks me to wait for an hour! if you want me to come, please inform all of your staff! I didn't that much free time."

"I see, sorry! so let's just go to my office."

"No, I still have some business with this guy."

"This guy?. . ."

"Yeah, this annoying guy who wanted to lecture me. ."

I show my face to the guild master who seemingly has a business with this blonde guy. And when he sees Violet and me his face somehow becomes pale and looks restless.

Based on my memory that kind of expression is the sign of being pressured by something.

Don't tell me, is it possible that this guy is someone important?. Now that I think about it, when we are making some ruckus no adventurer or staff try to mend the situation. Is it because they are afraid of this guy?.

If he is really an important person, maybe we just step on some landmine.

"I'm sorry, Violet accidentally bump into him and we got into some little argument."

"This guy already apologized right?."

What the heck are you doing guild master? is your head alright? did you just ask him to apologize to Violet?. I didn't want to say it, but aren't you supposed to ask us to submit to him?. After all, we are just some lowly smith.

"Why did I have to apologize to them?."

His words are not pleasant in my ears but he is right. I appreciate your goodwill towards me, but you can't ask someone with real authority to bow to us just because we are your friend guild master. You should learn more about that kind of political things if you didn't want to suddenly get fired.

"Now, we are in the wrong here we are the one who should apologize to Mr. Volker."

I know how to read the mood so I will just humbly plead my guilty so I can save the guild master's face.

"By the way, Mr. Volker here is former A rank adventurer who worked for the army as the commander."

As expected. Even he is still rather young, not only authority he is also a person with a considerable strength even in adventurer community. No wonder no one dares to interrupt our little argument a while ago.

"I see, so the guild already made a contact with the army."

That's rather fast, even though you are musclehead you can get the job done smoothly.

"Hey Wether, why are you talking about nations matter with him?."

"Both of them is our primary talismans provider, of course, we need to inform them our plan."

"Can we trust them? I didn't want them to spread some rumors and make townspeople panicked."

I understand your concern, I also know that you actually care about the populace. But can you at least not make us sounds like dumb people?.

"No worry, both of them are a former adventurer and we are a close friend I can guarantee that they are trustworthy."

Violet nudge my back with her head, and after checking her intention I can see a signal that she wants to leave this place as soon as possible.

"Once again I apologize for bothering both of you, but it seems both of us have our own business to attend so please allow us to go."

We didn't really have too much time to waste, so I want to get the material as fast as possible and go home then started working. And just like me, Mr. Commander and guild master should also have some more important thing to do besides talking with us. So it's best to end our nonproductive conversation here.

"Don't be too hasty, how about joining us in discussing the plan for subjugating the Giant?."

"What the heck are you doing? how you can ask some amateur about this kind of thing."

Yes, you got expert in front of you why did you even bother me again?. I mean, I never have any experience in moving thousands of people at the same time and giving them the right commands.

"But he has many experiences that are useful for the upcoming battle."

"How can his advice worth more than my words?."

"No! that's not what I mean! I just want more opinion from many sides."

You are definitely trying too hard to make me appear more useful than I should. If you are afraid that his impression of me going to deteriorate the relationship with the army, I would gladly take the responsibility myself. You didn't have to force yourself to mend our rather bad impression of each other.

"I"m really sorry, we have to work for your request as fast as possible or we can't complete it in time."

For now, we just wanted to go home.

"I understand, you can take the material in the warehouse behind."

"Thank you."

With the guild master finally give up on asking I and Violet to join their meeting, we finally able to go to the guild's warehouse. And after when got there we found Arne is waiting for us with a stagecoach ready.

After picking up the material together with another talisman smith, the three of us leaving with 30 pieces talisman worth of materials.

And when the stagecoach begins to move, Arne's mouth also begin to move even I want it to stay closed.

"What do you think about that Volker guy?."

"Nothing."

"Really? I thought you have some bad impression about him."

"Well, a little I think."

I'm not a saint after all. I found his attitude to be annoying. After that, Arne also voices his impression about Volker.

"I think him as annoying, to be honest."

"Do you want to grumble? I think you should do it in some quiet drinking place, not in front of me."

Except you want to pay me for hearing your grumbling.

"Don't be like that, I also never want to hear you boasting about just how cute your Violet is but I hear them anyway! It's time for you to also hear my inner voices."

"You mean your evil inner voices."

"Yes, my evil inner voice."

After that, my 10 minutes journey is filled with nothing but his tale about how jealous he is to Volker success. It really just his evil inner voice.

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