After talking about the Hobgoblin, Shouta went to the hotel, and the four girls went into the sisters’ room after buying some things.
Aki and Ayane sat at a table and started talking about the past, while Maki and Aira talked about dinner in the kitchen.
“Your room feels the same as your dormitory back then.”
“That’s right, you visited back in school too.”
“It’s nostalgic now. Who would’ve thought we would become related like this.”
“Who’s ever going to predict something like that?”
Then Maki joined them.
“Ah, Maki. How is dinner going?”
“I will make dinner, so please prioritize speaking with the wives. Is what I was told.”
“Wives… Sounds nice.”
“Yes!”
“…Well then, Ayane. We need to share a few things about Shouta. We have things to settle, so let’s go in order.”
Ayane gulped.
Aki brought out a small white board she just bought, and wrote the topics up for discussion.
1 – A simple instruction manual on Shouta
2 – What Shouta likes and dislikes
3 – Things to keep in mind going forward
4 – Seating order
5 – Home
6 – Equipment going forward
7 – About Aira’s contract
“Let’s start from number one. You just met him, so we will teach you all sorts of things you don’t know about Shouta.”
“Yes please!”
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“That’s all.”
“This is good.”
Said Ayane while frantically taking notes.
“Next, what he likes and dislikes… Ayane, are you aware that you did something pretty dangerous?”
“Y-you mean follow him?”
“Unfortunately. Something similar happened in Unlucky Hall, you know? Maybe you do because it was a talking point for a while. An adventurer with Appraisal Lv4 stubbornly followed the slime hunter around and filmed him. And it spread because people thought the weakest adventurer was funny.”
“…Was it one of those streamers that goes around harassing people?”
“Yes, he just happened to catch their attention. When that happens, they do something like revoke their license, lock them up in a police cell, or give them negative points, which they would have to work for free to make up for. It carries a heavy punishment, but there are idiots everywhere.
The problem is that Appraisal Lv4 is precious but easy to misuse.”
“Unforgivable.”
“You chased them away, didn’t you Aki?”
“Of course. I was stronger. They resisted, but I threw them out.”
““Ooh…””
The two girls clapped, and Aki looked proud.
“Well, normally something like that would hurt, but… It was almost like Shouta didn’t care. He just kept on hunting slime. The problem was that those people got mad at Shouta for not giving them attention and started getting in his way.
That was when Shouta got pissed off. There were no injuries, because I arrived just in time, but it was close.”
“I can’t imagine darling being angry…”
“He doesn’t normally react no matter what anyone tells him, but he really gets angry if you get in the way of his investigations. So Ayane, if you get in his way like that rather than accompany him, he might get irreversibly mad.”
“T-then when I called him to the cafe…”
“If you didn’t let him go when the conversation was over, it might have turned out like that.”
“Hawawa… That was close.”
Ayane looked down, and Maki put her hand on her to reassure her.
“You looked into what Shouta likes, didn’t you Ayane?”
“Y-yes!”
“Even if it doesn’t bother him, apologize if you do something bad. Okay?”
“Yes. I’ll apologize! I’m going to this great bakery early in the morning and get something sweet!”
“Ah. Buy some for us too.”
“Leave it to me!”
Then they exchanged information about nearby cafes, and things that Shouta might like.
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“Well then, now about the future. I was relieved about going out with Shouta, but considering what happened with Ayane, we can’t say for sure it won’t happen again. We have to be cautious.”
“Yes. The rank up award ceremony will be tomorrow, so we have to announce we’re together and keep others in check. Ayane, make sure to play defense if any female adventurers approach him in the dungeon.”
“I will protect darling’s chastity, Maki!”
They promised to be careful not add any more.
“Everyone, dinner is ready.”
They went through a few topics while eating.
4 – Seating order – Would be done on a rotation system
5 – Home – They settled on a big detached house where five people could live
6 – Equipment going forward – They talked about asking for high rank dungeon equipment that came from other dungeons, through those ‘requests’
“Ah, that’s right. Darling gallantly saved a newbie adventurer this morning.”
“Yes, from the problem child of the first floor. So it really was Shouta.”
“Why didn’t you say so sooner, Ayane? I wanted to praise him for that…”
“You can just do it tomorrow, Maki. There was a lot to talk about. By the way, was this adventurer a man or a woman?”
“A man.”
“That’s good then!”
“Geez, Aki. Well, I guess we do need to watch out for that…”
The three girls nodded to each other, as the most important talking point remained.
“So about Aira’s contract…”
They then prepared to face the powerful opponent that was Ayane’s mother.
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I need to stop reading novels with so few chapters out.
You can also go to syosetsu and read the raws with MTL. Chrome’s built in Google translate function makes it nearly perfectly readable, if slightly odd-sounding. This has over 700 main story chapters, which means there are probably nearly 800 in total including intermissions like this one and the forum posts.
Am I misremembering or ayane just met the MC this morning and just like that fell in love with him?
Perhaps Aira will join the harem too..🤔
Thanks.