CSA 82 - Embarrassing Rumors About Elf Were Spreading Throughout the City (Patreon)

Now that I have obtained the right to make Nrva and Stia do whatever I told them to, I am currently at the Adventurer's Guild to have my cards reissued.

“This time, we will specially waive the reissue fee.”
“Thanks.”

I checked the cards that Stia had reissued, and in order to avoid any trouble, I left out only the Compounding, Synthesis, and Alchemy Skills from the densely packed Skill section and modified the rest with Disguise Magic.

“It should be good now.”

My remaining balance was clearly displayed on the reissued card, so I have nothing but respect for the person who created this card system. Benissimo, wonderful.

“Hey, Lotorl-chan, can you tell me the secret behind your Skills after all?”
“Sure.”
“I guess it’s no good after all... wait, it’s okay!?”
“Keep it a secret to everyone, okay?”
“O-of course!!”
“Then about why my Skills have increased so much, it’s because I synthesized items with Skills into my body.”
“...That’s all?”
“That’s all, you know?”
“...Are there no negative effects on your body?”
“If there are, I’d remove them with my Compounding Skill.”
“I see... Thank you for telling me, Lotorl-chan.”
“No no.”

It would be troublesome if I hide it poorly and get into unnecessary trouble, and I don't think that the current Stia would do anything that would actually harm me even if I told her to.

I glanced at Nrva and noticed that her long ears were twitching, she seemed to be listening perfectly.

“Nrva, please imitate a cat in heat.”
“Eh, Nyaa─go! Nyaa─go!”
“Next, please imitate a dog in heat.”
“Heh heh heh heh! Aoo─hn! Aoo─hn!”
“Hand!”
“Woof!”
“Another one!”
“Woof!”
“Begging!”
“Woof woof!”

She bent her hands like a dog's hands and shook her hips. She's cute, but since the ‘hand’, I didn't ask her to do it, Nrva just vigorously did it on the spot and has nothing to do with her Contract Magic. I'm sure she'd be really embarrassed if I pointed this out to her, but I'm not that mean, so I won't say anything.

“Nrva too, please keep what you just heard a secret, okay?”
“...Yes.”
“Lotorl-chan...”

Stia looked at me as if she wanted to say something, but if Nrva really didn't want to do it, she should have been able to refuse, so I guess she listened to my request out of guilt for her eavesdropping on us.

“Now then, I'm going to go shopping at the market, but what are you two going to do?”
“...I'll go with you.”
“Me too, is what I’d like to say, but I forcefully sneaked out earlier, so I'll keep working here.”

And so, Nrva and I went on a shopping date at the market.

When Nrva and I arrived at the market, and as we headed toward our destination, passersby looked at us strangely and whispered things like, “That's the rumored...” and “That’s the girl cradled like a baby isn’t she?”

There weren't many people passing by when we went to the Adventurer's Guild, so I didn't really notice it, but as expected, there were a lot of people at the market, so there were people here and there who spotted us and were enjoying themself gossiping

“Ah! That’s the cradled elf! Mama! There's the cradled elf!”
“Hey! You can't say it so loudly! Come here!”

When an innocent girl pointed at Nrva and shouted the embarrassing title of cradled elf, everyone present simultaneously burst into laughter, as expected, Nrva thought something was wrong, so she turned to me for help.

“Yesterday, I held a drunken Nrva in my arms like I was cradling a baby and paraded around the city, trying to spread embarrassing rumors.”

When Nrva heard this, her body trembled and her face turned bright red like a boiled octopus.

“I want to die...!”
“Please live with all your might”
“Kuh....! Kill me...!”
“You’re using ‘kuh kill me’ wrong, you know?”
“I don't get what you're talking about, but I don't want to stay here for long! Let's go to the store quickly!”
“It can't be helped, nyaa.”

Once I entered a general store with Nrva pulling me by the arm, she suddenly grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me.

“Why did you do such an embarrassing thing!?”
“So it’s a payback, so what?”
“Kuh...! Even so, isn’t it too underhanded?!”
“Is that so? Isn't a rumor about a drunk elf who was cradled home by a child 100 times better than a rumor about an elf who made a child go missing?”
“That’s... true, but…wasn’t there something a bit more, you know?”
“I did it on the spur of the moment. I don't regret it.”
“KuUUuuh!”

The force of her shaking is stronger than before, but my neck is made of aero adamantite, so no matter how much you shake it, it won't break, so I let her do as she likes.

Besides...

“Ou, that cradled elf is shaking a kid, you know?”
“It’s true. Is that girl okay?”

A new rumor will spread anyway.

“That’s not it, this is, jeez!”

As Nrva took my arm and tried leaving the store, I stopped her.

“I'm still in the middle of shopping, you know!”
“Uuuu, kill me quickly...!”
“Live, you are beautiful”
“W-what are you saying all of a sudden!? It's embarrassing!”

It's a famous line in my previous life, but of course it's not popular here, so they'll just take it literally. It's true that her outward appearance is beautiful, so it’s fine though. Man, I want a tsukkomi.

* (T/N: it’s a reference to princess mononoke. Probably. And the ‘beautiful’ in that work’s line refers to her inside, probably. I don’t watch many anime, so I can’t be sure.)

After looking around the store, I realized that if I needed something, I could make it myself, so I decided to just look around without buying here, and head to the grocery store next.

“Weren't you going to shop here?”
“If it’s general goods, I could make my own, so it was fine.”
“...Patience, patience, me!”
“So elves also want to go to the bathroom.”
“That’s not it!”

The cradled elf’s fists were trembling and it seemed like she's about to punch me, but she tried to maintain her rationality and took deep breaths repeatedly to distract herself.

As expected, getting her the title “violent elf” would make her pitiful, so let's stop the unnecessary nonsense here.

Even on the way to the grocery store, whenever people caught sight of us, the people of the city would secretly gossip about her and Nrva would look fed up, but I say to her, “Sin deserves punishment,” and she made a subtle face that looks kinda sad, kinda painful and kinda angry, so I’m very satisfied.

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