Ore wa Mada, Honki o Dashite Inai

Chapter 100

King and King

Translated by Mlzkzr
Edited by Mlzkzr

“That’s the Lord-sama and Sora-sama, right?”

“He,He,Hestia-san is there too”

“Who’s the other girl? I think I’ve seen her somewhere before, but”

The surroundings began to buzz.

At this rate, Erica’s true identity may be exposed, and if that happens, there will be an even bigger commotion.

“If this keeps up, there’s going to be a fuss.”

“Shall I erase them?”

Erica said such disturbing things with a cute face.

“Don’t erase them! All we have to do is change location.”

While saying that, I put my hand on my forehead.

I exercise a simple magic with my magic power.

The next moment, on my forehead paah!, a dazzling light was emitted.

“Kyah!”

“What is this light!?”

While the people of the city scream and do other things, with nee-san, Hestia, Erica, and Eleni.

I took the four of them and jumped up with flight magic while the crowd was blinded by the light.

There was a chance they could see us while we were flying, so I returned to the mansion at maximum speed and landed in the courtyard.

“This is enough”

It’ll be fine if I return to the mansion.

It is indeed a nobleman’s mansion, and there is no commotion just because of the presence of a noble.

“Eh? This place is……”

“It’s my mansion.”

“Darling’s mansion? Could it be that Darling is a great person?”

“Hermes Canoe. Just an aristocrat.”

“Canoe…… is that so…… Ehehe……”

Hearing my last name, Erica became happy for some reason.

I wondered what it was …… and was about to ask that when a maid came running up from the mansion.

“Welcome back, Master. I have something to report.”

“What is it?”

“A visitor came to see you earlier. He said he would come again――”

“I understand. If he comes again, we can talk later. Please take my sister and leave.”

“Err…… yes, understood”

The maid still wanted to say something, but I gave her a strong look and made her back down.

I don’t want to make a fuss just because a mansion maid who’s used to nobles was there, but since Erica was calling me “Darling”, I don’t want her to hear about it as much as possible.

The maid obediently followed my order and called for someone to carry nee-san, who remained unconscious, into the mansion.

The only ones left are me, Hestia, Erica, and Eleni.

“Well then”

Then I looked at Erica again.

“What is it, Darling”

Erica, who called me darling, looked like just another little girl.

“Are you really the Queen of Calamba?”

“Yo,you’re being rude!”

Eleni protested.

“Shut up, Eleni.”

Erica silenced Eleni.

Erica’s profile at the moment she gave her the “order” was the opposite of the innocence that she directed at me; it was a look typical of a cold-blooded human being.

However, when she turned to me, it disappeared without a trace, and she returned to her innocent and laid-back eyes.

“Erica Rica Calamba. A genuine queen.”

“I’ll guarantee it as well.”

Hestia said quietly.

She is also connected to the King Aegina, and she was the one who first called Erica’s name.

There seems to be no doubt that they know each other.

“I see…… then why?”

“Why, is it?”

“Why would the queen voluntarily take on the responsibility of carrying out kidnappings? Isn’t it normal for her to leave it to her subordinates?”

This was a different issue than being good or bad.

Regardless of whether it’s right or wrong of her to kidnap my sister and the other girls, the fact that the queen of the largest country on the continent would be at the scene of a kidnapping is a mystery in itself.

“You see, the Queen of Calamba has created a garden of roses for generations.”

“A garden of roses……? Wait, no way!?”

An unpleasant sight crossed my mind.

“You mean like how virgin blood makes the rose bloom the prettiest or something!?”

“Eh? Ahahaha, no, darling.”

Erica chuckled and laughed amusedly.

“They call the queen’s harem a rose garden, not real roses.”

“Ahh……”

I was a bit relieved.

No, there are many such stories in history.

Like Queens and Princesses who massacred virgins for ablutions and such because their blood was good for beauty.

I was relieved that it wasn’t about something like that.

“It started with the founder of Calamba, Rica Caramba, who gathered beautiful women from all over the world, turned them into a harem, and offered them entirely to the man of her choice, which is then called the Garden of Roses. You haven’t heard of it? It’s the story of the Lord of the Rose Garden”

“Err…… I wonder how did that went”

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of such a story before…….

“I’m talking about Darling’s ancestors, you know?”

“Eh?”

“The magic sword user, the ancestor of my darling and Erica. That’s right, he’s also the Demon King’s father.”

“That guy again!”

I am frequently hearing stories about him, don’t I! What the hell was that guy doing?

“Therefore, Erica goes around on her own looking for good women. Because really nice women somehow don’t appear on the market. I also choose from slaves, but if I select from slaves, there would only be one of them in a hundred thousand, so it’s not very efficient.”

“I see……”

“I’m going to build my own harem, so I’ll have to go around looking for the girls I like.”

“Your own!?”

I mean, that’s a woman-to-woman thing. (TN: In other words, Yuri)

“The Queen of Calamba has been doing it for generations.”

Hestia explained from the side.

“Really?”

“Yes, I too”

“Heeeeh!?”

I was most surprised today.

Does that mean you know Erica’s mother, not her father? Hestia.

“Hey, hey, darling. From today onwards, I’ll give the whole of Erica’s rose garden to Darling.”

“Eh?”

“From now on, I’m going to do my best to create a harem for darling!”

“Stop that!? Don’t do the same thing as nee-san!?”

“Same?”

I told her about HHM48, which my nee-san recommended.

“Heh, as expected of Darling’s older sister, she was doing it, ain’t she.”

Erica’s expression changed a bit again as she said that.

She got the eyes that people who hate to lose tend to have.

I finally fully understood the story, and then I took a breather.

I was relieved.

“Fuh……”

“Darling.”

“Yes?”

“Perhaps, are you angry?”

“No, I’m not angry.”

“Really?”

“Ah, If you’re talking about harems, then it’s fine.”

Erica is a queen.

Erica Rika Calamba.

She is the queen of the Kingdom of Calamba, the most powerful country on the continent.

On the contrary, it’s strange that such a powerful person doesn’t even have a harem.

In history, there is not a single person, among king-class powers, who have not created a harem.

And kidnapping, well, that’s fine too.

I glanced at Erika’s subordinate, Eleni, and then.

“Don’t take actions that make your subordinates disposable.”

“Ah……”

Erica is relieved.

She is probably a smart and quick-witted girl for a normal person.

She immediately understood what I was trying to say, what I was angry about.

“……I’m sorry”

“Will you not do it from now on?”

“Yup. Erika, won’t use her subordinates anymore.”

“Then it’s fine. And stop with that, darling.”

“Why? Darling is Darling, you know”

Unlike her honest reflection just before, here I felt a firm determination from her not to fix it at any cost.

The tone of her voice was just like a casual inquiry, but I could sense a tremendous amount of stubbornness and determination from it.

You’re an amazing girl, Erica.

No, no, this is no time to be impressed.

Anyway, I have to stop that Darling.

I have to do something to get her to hate me, or act cold on me.

I figured out what I had to do to make that happen.

“Nephew-chan, I came to play”

Dogoohn!!!

Immediately after the familiar voice, there was a deafening explosion and a pervasive shock wave that shook the ground.

“What are you doing all of a sudden, Kaori?”

The owner of the voice is the Demon King Kaori.

The one who appeared at any moment and launched a greeting attack was Kaori, who practically without thinking exchanged blows with me.

“I didn’t come out all of a sudden. I came earlier and told nephew-chan’s maid that I would be back later.”

“Eh? Ah, that’s what it was……”

I did hear the maid say something like that.

Well, I recognize Kaori with my body, and since we are just playing around anyway, I can respond even if I hear nothing from her at all.

“But more importantly, who are they?”

Kaori points behind me.

Turning around――I was startled.

Hestia, Eleni, and ―― Erika were there fallen on their butts from the shockwave.

Among them, Erica’s eyes were sparkling as she fell on her buttocks.

“On par with the Demon King…… as expected of Darling.”

“No, no, no, wait wait, we’re not on par. Just now, it was because we were playing around.”

“The Demon King can’t touch someone unless they are evenly matched; it was at the behest of the previous Demon King.”

“Ah……”

“Darling is amazing after all!”

“Offu……”

Thanks to my reaction to Kaori, I felt like I was getting deeper and deeper into the hole I dig.