Chapter 30 – Port City (6)
The port city of Radby is a city with a fairly exotic landscape.
It was not only the round buildings that were not normally seen that created such an atmosphere.
The port city, which serves as a link to the nearby country, is part of the Principality of Haron, but the scenery of the neighboring country is slightly mixed.
Among the passers-by on the street, there was a person across the sea, wearing clothes or accessories unique to the desert that could only be found in the southwestern continent.
The mixed atmosphere of such people combined to create a special atmosphere unique to this city.
… When I see a landscape like this, this side looks much better than the original world.
Roden, who had been walking happily enjoying the resorts of this side of the world, which looked much better compared to the resorts of the earth, which were frowned upon because of the garbage strewn all over the road, finally arrived at the beach.
Stepping on the soft grains of sand seeping through his sandals, he realized again that he had come to the sea.
A good sound resounded as the waves crashed. Because it is the sea, the wind that blows is exceptionally cool.
As befits a city famous for its resort, there were quite a lot of passengers on the beach here, and not only humans but also beastmen were very rare to see.
Most of them are frantically swimming and playing ball games at the sea level, or splashing water on each other while playing together.
Her sandpit showed a man and woman tanning her flesh with the hot sun, and her children making her own special sandcastle.
Whether it’s here or there, the neighborhood where people live is always the same.
“Anyway, where are they hanging out…”
Roden first began to search the shore, looking around for the figure of his twin sister and Loxia, who were playing on the shore.
“…!!!!!…!!!!!…!!!!”
Moments later, Merim’s voice was heard from the other side. However, her voice was a little different from the one I usually know.
The voice is the same, but the tension is higher than usual… It is a loud voice of the kind that shows off its temper quite rarely.
“So! Didn’t we tell you several times that we weren’t interested in you?! Aang? If people say nice things, they’ll understand!!”
As Roden moved closer to where Merim’s voice was heard, he saw six people arguing among the people enjoying the beach.
Of course, the three of them were the twin sisters and Loxia. And the other three…
“Ah~ Don’t be so cold-hearted, let’s play a little bit with the ladies and us? It’s sure to be fun~”
He dyes his hair blonde like Roden, but his skin is tanned to a tanned color, and his levity is particularly exaggerated because of his sticky tone.
“Um, um.”
A taciturn tattooed man with his arms folded proudly and only nodding his head, squinting
“Woohyo~!!”
Lastly, a skinny man with a long pierced tongue sticking out while making a bizarre noise.
Huh, before we broke up, you said something about hunting, and in the meantime, did you really get hit? .
Roden was speechless for a moment as she saw the typical bully trio confronting the three women.
… Anyway, there is no other line to go with those in a bad way.
I thought that all three of them were wearing only swimsuits that looked like triangle panties and that they were smiling sinisterly.
As much as he was enjoying playing in the water, he wasn’t wearing the adventurer identification tag he usually wore around his neck, nor the conical hat to prove he was a wizard.
“Wow! It’s going crazy!!”
“Yeah, if we keep doing this, we’ll be in trouble…”
Her overstressed Merim starts clutching her head, and her Marill in the seat next to her looks puzzled.
Master…
Roxia, who clearly showed signs of being scared because she had never experienced such a situation in her life, hid herself behind her twin sister and had thoughts of wanting her trustworthy master to come back.
Thinking that this could happen while playing on the beach, Roden began to walk a little faster towards her party to mediate the situation as smoothly as possible.
But before he arrives, a tanned blond man who was persistently flirting with him wants to play with him and put his hand on Merim’s shoulder…
“Even talking to you, if you try to touch someone else’s body without permission, it’s quite unpleasant.”
… She said, but Marill, who was next to her, grabbed the blonde-tanned man’s wrist with a subdued voice.
The tanning man shows a momentary embarrassment, but tries to save the atmosphere by making a smirk.
“Ahaha~ I’m sorry, I’m sorry~ I think the progress was a bit fast~?”
No, what power does this girl have…
The man babbles, but subtly tries to release her wrist, which Marill is holding on to, but Marill’s hand doesn’t budge like an old rock.
“Hey, the young lady~ she’s reflecting, so won’t you let her go~?”
“If you promise me that you’ll all walk away as soon as I let you go.”
These bitches are trying to flirt with nice words, really… !
Tanning-nam, who has a personality far from being patient, aggressively swung the other hand, which was empty, in anger at the situation that did not go his way.
Well, it’s a problem that even that hand was quickly captured by Marill.
“What are you doing now…? It’s self-defense from now on.”
“Turn it off!!”
Narrowing her eyes at her partner, Marill began to squeeze her hands tightly around her wrists until a popping sound was heard, and in an instant, her face distorted by tan, she slowly crept to her knees. It became a kneeling posture.
The tattooed man, seeing how the tanned man was being subdued, belatedly pounced on Maril, but she easily evaded her attack by leaning her back wide, and then grabbed the tattooed man’s arm.
Whiiik-!
“…Uh?”
As it was, I twisted her back and did a judo-type shove. With a very clean movement, without any superfluities, the tattoo was thrown into the sand.
While Maril subdued the two of them, Merim, who created a small fireball in the palm of her hand, was threatening the skinny man.
“Would you like to taste the fireball?! Get out of here before you see something worse!!”
“Uh…, Uh, uh-oh-oh!”
After realizing that the women he tried to work with were warriors and wizards with skills that could easily subdue a strong adult man with his bare hands, the pierced man hurriedly ran away without looking back.
A tattooed man followed him, and a tanned man ran side by side. Using force rather than words, the situation ended in an instant.
“Have you been having some fun?”
Appreciate the back of the trio who are running away and hook the fireball! Merim, who was reluctant, pretended not to know anything, and she made a sullen expression as she looked at Roden, who was approaching her, while talking to her calmly.
“It was fun until they started sticking. I told you to come quickly before you get hunted. Mister.”
“Looking at it, you guys seem to be taking care of it yourself.”
“Well, that’s true… Originally, a scene like this should come out with a man saying ‘Paba Park!’ And resolving it nicely.”
“You’ve read too many books.”
The twin sisters are adventurers who make a living by fighting monsters. It is also equivalent to the intermediate level. It’s only natural that you can easily subdue such bullies.
Roden, who was well aware of that fact, rummaged through her rucksack and pulled out a full canteen.
“Don’t freeze it completely, just freeze it until it’s cool.”
“No, what kind of ice water is this man thinking of making with someone else’s magic?”
Even though she grumbled, Merim obediently complied with Roden’s request, drank in her freshly frozen water, and passed it on to her younger siblings next to her in order.
“Kyaaah~!”
After quenching their thirst, the three women spit out the same exclamations with the same facial expressions.
Roden, who was happy to see Loxia approaching her with her open-mindedness and her gait that looked particularly excited than usual, lowered her stance to match her eye level with hers.
“Loxia, how do you feel about playing in the sea? Was it fun?”
“Yes! It’s so much fun to play with my sisters! My uncle also plays with us.”
Roxia, with her sunny face, grabbed Roden’s hand and tried to lead her to the waters, but he shook her head, just like her smiling face.
Then she set her backpack down on the sandboard and sat down.
“Thank you for the suggestion, but I don’t like playing in the water, so I’ll just lie down here for a while, so you can finish playing with them.”
“Ugh…”
Perhaps because of the petty pride of a man in his mid-thirties, Roden, thinking that it was inappropriate to join them and play paddles side by side, lay flat on the sand.
After all, lying down on the beach is the best.
“Ah, that’s right. I brought snacks to taste in my backpack…”
Roden, who tried to tell her the belated fact, couldn’t finish her words.
It was because the twin sisters, who exchanged glances with each other, held each other’s legs and arms and lifted the roden from both sides like fishermen catching a huge fish.
“Shut up! If you’ve come this far, you have to jump into the water at least once. This is a beach tradition, a tradition. Don’t lie down on the sand and peek at women’s swimsuits, just accept your fate. Mister.”
“Huh, this time I share the same opinion as Merim. Excuse me.”
“Sah, Uncle…”
While Loxia, who was watching them, was at a loss for what to do, the twin sisters who had moved Roden to the sea surface one, two, three—in unison, threw them into the water as they were.
With a plop! Forcibly taken in by her cool voice, Loden laughed bitterly, brushed off her, and then used both of her hands to retaliate by spraying her twin sister with water.
Cheer up!
“Kyahaha?!”
“Ahaha!!”
“I-I want to play with you too!”
As the full-fledged water play began, even Roxia, who belatedly intervened, splashed water on Roden or got drenched by the water he splashed on Roden, making her enjoy the sea much more pleasantly than when she had just played with her twin sister.
As an aside, the person who is enjoying the current situation the most among the four is Roden, who tried to get rid of her alone because of her petty pride.
