10 CH 10: To The Carne Village (2)

'Now that I think about it, I never asked for Enri's name. If I accidentally said her name, that will be weird.'

Anyways, I and my companions have arrived at the village of Carne. And to think it had been rebuilt for the most part already. 'That's fast.'

I could see the walls or more like a fence that had been built around it.

Then we headed straight to the village.

The road close towards the village is wide and with tall grasses on each side. I could feel faint movements inside of it.

'It's probably the goblins waiting to ambush us.' I thought I knew both Lupusregina and Narberal already sensed them so I told both of them to stand down and let them be.

We continued walking through the road then till—

—Multiple goblins that do not look like the goblins we've seen a few days ago —those stinky-ass goblins that cannot even form a straight sentence.

The goblins here now looked more trained and even bulging with muscles.

They sprouted from the tall grasses holding bows and other weapons.

The atmosphere immediately turned tense, within the deafening silence that occupied the place for seconds. I decided to speak.

"I came to visit this village, and I want to talk to the village chief."

"Hey, big guy! You're dangerous! We don't mean to fight. So turn your backs and get back." One of the goblins said. He might be the Goblin Leader, the highest level in the Goblin Troop summoned by blowing the horns.

I could feel the hostilities behind me that are probably coming from Narberal while I could see in the corner of my eye that Lupusregina all smiles but...

The aura around her is slowly becoming scary.

But I still decided to stay silent after that and wait.

The tense in the air is getting higher and higher as time pass by—

But I waited.

Until I could see in the distance three figures heading towards here. I could already see Enri, The village chief, and one goblin.

I waited until they finally reached the gate, and I shouted—

"Hello, Chief-dono!" I waved to the chief which seemed to have been surprised.

"M-Momon-dono." The village chief words trailed off as he said that before he exhaled in relief.

And then my gaze moved towards the girl beside him— Enri Emmot. She seemed to have frozen like a statue the moment she saw me. There's also a tinge of pink appeared on her cheeks— 'Is she drunk or something?' I thought.

"It seems that you already used the one horn huh?" I said.

"A-Ah. Yes! H-Hey! Jugem and the others put your weapons down, they're friendlies!" Enri yelled and goblins lowered their weapons and back down.

The goblins had surely felt the killing intent of one of my companions, but the fact that they didn't piss their pants and run is worth praises.

The loyalty of these goblins is equivalent to the denizens of Nazarick's loyalty to the Supreme Beings.

But you could see how they are relieved that we didn't clash, they probably already knew they will not win but for the sake of their summoner, they will fight to the death.

"We had come here since we're going to ask about a quest, I hope you don't mind Village Chief-dono?" I said as I walked towards the Village Chief.

"It's fine, your team is the savior of our village, and Ah— Thank you Momon-dono for giving Enri-chan the magic items, the goblins had helped a lot in the rebuilding of the village. Thank you for your team very much for helping us." The village chief bowed, Enri and the goblin bowed as well.

"Ah, It's fine. It's fine. How about we talked about this while inside, it will bad if people saw us with goblins here." I said with a chuckle.

And so we entered the village and to be honest the scenery had been changed a lot, houses now are being rebuilt and fix.

People who had gloomy expressions before are now with fierce determination as they practiced in the archery range.

As we strolled inside the village, I saw adults and children — that are supposed to be playing as children do — practicing the way of the bow in the archery range.

They are being guided by the goblins and some surviving village rangers.

The people now are filled with the determination to survive and to have the strength to protect their loved ones. Truly a beautiful sight.

Since the village also specializes in herbs, I asked about the description of the herbs written in the quest and where to find them.

The village chief and the villagers of course had gladly helped me and even offered their little stocks of said herbs that on which I refused and they still insisted until we agreed that one villager is going to help my team find the herbs from the locations they marked — places where the herbs were looking for grows.

"Momon-dono, come. We have organized a feast." The Village chief said.

"Is that so? Really? There's no need for this y'know? Food is scarce, especially for a frontier village like th—"

It's real that food in villages is very limited especially in the case of Carne, this village just got raided a few days ago but my word is cut by the chief.

"Ah, no-no. Momon-dono, because of the goblin-sans we have more meat than usual, please accept this accept as our thanks." The village chief is about to bow when I stopped him.

"I have no say then. I guess thanks village chief-dono," I said.

The villages brought tables in the village center and put the best dishes they had there.

I and my companions headed there and the feast started, there are so many foods.

The villagers cheered as we came there saying their thank you's and gratitude. And the most important of all is their anticipation. They want to see the face of one of their savior — Well, how the hell could I eat with this helmet on.

And just for this time is [Change form] into my Seraph form. I think I could handle it — the negative traits.

Because holy Santo papa, there's a lot of food and I think I'm gonna enjoy it. It may not be on the level of Nazarick's cuisine but being able to taste the cooking of native people of this world gave me the feeling of being a food blogger.

Anyway, I could feel the gaze of a certain someone. Let's say her gaze is intense as if her eye alone could remove my helmet.

'Do Enri really wants to see my face badly?'

And so I removed my helmet—

"Ohhh—" Gasped among the villagers could be heard.

"He's handsome!"

"Young and strong!"

"Daddy~"

'Did I just heard 'Daddy' !?' I thought and then think maybe my ear is broken or something.

The villagers said many good things about me and just furthered the inflation of my ego. I don't know but when I hear the denizens of Nazarick spoke compliments about me. It felt mechanical or as if they are reading a script or maybe I'm just being dumb.

My face now looked like my [Seraph form] but with the help of some magic items, I had temporarily changed the length and color of my hair to black.

'Oh my, too many compliments, I might die now~'

Before I died with this amount of compliments I decided to start the feast. "Now, Now, stop with the chitchat, let's eat everyone!"

"YEAH!—" The villagers and goblins cheered and everyone happily starts getting their plates. It's serve-your-own so the feast started.

The only animals I recognized are hogs and chicken, the others are— I don't know and I didn't want to look at it too. 'Food shall be eaten with no questions asked!' And so I eat with no reserve.

And as expected Nazarick's cuisine is better by a huge margin or that's what Lupusregina whispered to me because for me.

I have very simple taste buds. My tongue could only recognize Ooga booga good food or Ooga booga bad food.

'Haa~ that's the tongue of a commoner for you—' I thought, but this still doesn't stop me from chomping down these New world village cuisine: Re-estize edition.

"Ooooh! That tastes good!" I said. I can't recall how many times I said that for every dish I tasted. And as usual, no one should reply, sometimes it would be Narberal with her "Does it taste really that good Momon-sama?"

But now It's different.

'Kaijali I think is his name?' Because he replied with:

"It tastes good right? It's Ane-san's cooking after all."

Thinking about who's this "Ane-san" and then I realized—

'Oh!~ Ane-san = Enri.' I thought and then I changed my gaze towards the person to see her with a red face.

I'm confused but then I saw in the corner of my eye Kaijali sending a hidden thumbs up towards Enri which made her face even redder.

'Oh. Don't tell me...'

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"Ahh~ I'm stuffed!" I said as I yawned with my eyes closed.

The feast just finished and everyone is full. I am currently laying on the grass that is under the tree that shades us from the sun.

Yes, we're still inside the village. There are just a few trees inside.

The villagers also started cleaning the village center after the feast.

Lupusregina is out there "socializing" with the villagers.

While I am currently laying my head on Narberal's lap because this is what a husband and wife should do right? Okay too much anime for me.

"Momon-sama is the food of these centipedes is really that good?"

I opened my eyes and saw her facing me. Staring at me with her beautiful black pupils and grey irises.

It's a miracle that one certain [negative trait] is not obstructing my thoughts right now. I love feeling her thighs, it's smooth, soft, and feels like a pillow. 'I want to sleep on it.'

"It's fine and unique, Nazarick's cuisine is still far better, to be honest. It still tastes delicious nonetheless," I replied as I closed my eyes again.

I could somehow feel Narberal smugness after saying Nazarick is better or saying anything close to that.

"Narberal, let me take a nap for a while. Just wake me up when you feel uncomfortable." I said while not realizing I had already said her real name.

"Yes!" That's the last thing I heard before going to sleep.

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(30 mins later)

I felt that someone is caressing my hair.

I slowly opened my eyes just to see Narberal playing with my hair — the still the temporary black short hair — and she still doesn't know that I'm awake already.

"Nabe, what are you doing?"

"A-Apologies! M-Momon-sama! I don't mean to awake you!—" Narberal replied in a panic with a flustered expression.

"—I-I just... I..."

"It's fine Nabe, no need apologize," I said as I smile handsomely.

Speaking of smiling handsomely It might have looked like a creepy smile instead. 'I am just too much of a Try-hard.'

After saying that, I stood up and said to Narberal: "Apologies Nabe, d-did your lap numbed or something?"

"N-No! Not at all! Momon-sama could sleep i-in my lap anytime..." She said flusteredly.

I smiled inside my heart, I guess I have just found my favorite pass time now.

While I'm absorbed talking to Narberal, I forgot that Lupusregina is here with us now.

"M-Momon-sama," Lupusregina said.

I am startled for a second, before replying: "Y-Yes Gina?"

I didn't know she's already here. But then the next thing she said is—

"M-Momon-sama c-could sleep my l-lap too," Lupusregina said with a flushed face.

'Bruh.'

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"Umu."

'I see. That's where that beast resides huh?'

After waking up from my nap, I had [Message] and tasked Aura to locate a certain beast.

After she had located her in less than 10 minutes, one of our five Hanzos collected the map she drawn and gave it to me.

Aura already knew where to find that beast because she had already found it when I had given her the first task — Which is to scout the forest and also collect every unique and strong beast — but didn't pay heed to it. After all, "It's too weak."

Now, I am currently about to say goodbye to the village chief. Since we're heading out for the quest and tame a beast.

"Momon-dono, is there something you need?" The village chief asked me.

"Ah no, I am here to say that we're going to head out. Anyway, thanks for the food!"

"We are the ones that are supposed to be thanking you and Oh— Enri-chan volunteered to guide your team in the forest."

"I see."

'Guide? Oh, ~ Yea I did agree on that earlier. Wait! Enri?!'