I Was Reincarnated Chapter 45

I went the the village closest to the castle

Even though I say the closest, it's in a place far from where Rune and Rau's village was

Rune and Rau's village can already not be called a village anymore

Since it's the same as ruins

The fields are full of weeds and the houses have been neglected, left destroyed by the demons

This sort of village is one that's been completely abandoned

There's no way other villagers would brave the danger just to come here and neither humans nor demons have any interest in this crumbling village

Crumbling on its own, it's just a matter of time before it returns to dirt

This world is dotted with a lot of such former villages

(This must be a spirit village, huh…..)

This world's races each have various traits so you can quickly tell

Beastmen have beast ears and tail

Elves have pointed ears and nails

Spirits have colorful hair and wings

Humans mostly have blond hair and blue eyes

Demons have horns growing from either the top of their heads or their foreheads and blue skin

I've been told that only humans have mutations, but in actual fact other races also have special variations

For example beastmen have albinos, elves can have dark skin, spirits can have variations in wing shape……

The demon's mutation is probably growing wings

The spirits are frantically trying to raise a barrier

But it makes no difference to me

Me suddenly appearing inside the barrier causes them to panic

I understand that I am the cause

But I won't apologize

(Are there kids)

Spirits, up until they turn twenty, age at about the same rate as humans and beastmen

After twenty their aging seems to stop and once they pa.s.s 200 years old their appearance finally starts aging again

In the confusion the children rush to their parents

The parents all hide their children from me

However, just when it seemed like it was too late to try and escape (as he's frozen from fear) there was a guy—

"Haju!"

A guy who seemed to be his parent called out, but perhaps because he was too frightened to run he didn't move

He just made a face that was twisted in fear

(A boy, huh…….)

As for Rau, I wanted her to make female friends though

The other children are all a bit bigger or smaller [age-wise, than Rau]

…….it can't be helped

"How old are you?"

Even though I called out he just s.h.i.+vered and didn't give a reply

"Say your age"

"5, years……."

When I put magic power into my words he finally replied

(A year older than Rau, huh)

Would it be better to search for guys the same age as Rau in a beastman village?

For the time being, shall I put him as a possible friend candidate?

"Say your name"

"Haijir ki Nigeenz"

"Haju!? Why, your name……!"

The guy who seemed to be his parent was being noisy

"Haijir ki Nigeenz, huh"

With this he's become subordinated to me

Haju begins to cry out of fear, and his parent cries out of despair

"Haju, at my place there is a 4 year old beastman, will you play together with her?"

When I speak out, after a short pause he nods

Though he's still crying

"Rau, to here"

"Kya-!?"

She let out a surprised voice at the sudden scene change

"s.h.i.+n-sama!……Where's here?"

"Spirit village"

Rau looks around while looking anxious

At the sight in front of him, Haju stops crying

"Why's this child crying?"

"It seems I scared him"

It's not 'seems,' he probably genuinely feels nothing but fear

I easily made him subordinate to me

"There's no need to cry? s.h.i.+n-sama's nice"

Saying that, she would not let go of my hand

(Now that I think of it, wasn't Rau afraid of strangers?)

Since she wasn't afraid of me, I completely forgot

However since he's a fellow child, she'll probably get used to him quickly

"This child is Haju, it would be good to have a friend close to your age, right?"

"Rau, will become friends with Haju?" [Rau's 3rd person speak]

"Don't want to?"

She shakes her head back and forth

As I thought, children need children as friends

"………Are you taking Haju?"

The voice of the guy who seemed to be his parent called out

Even while crying he glared at me

Spirits can instantly tell the amount of magic power someone has

In other words, they can immediately understand whether someone has more or less power than them

It may be obvious, but since he could tell I had more the parent didn't bother preparing to attack

"No, you both keep living here. I'll just occasionally bring Rau along so she play together with Haju"

There's no way I would take him

Supposing if such a day came that I did, it would be after this village was attacked

After everyone was eaten by demons for example

Since Haju has my divine protection, he won't be eaten

However, if he's taken by humans it won't stop them

Though after I've subordinated him, he can't be made a slave of other humans

Even if they capture a guy who can't be subordinated they can't do anything [to subordinate him]

So it's likely that they'll abandon him somewhere

In other words, even if I don't do anything Haju will survive

I know the whereabouts of guys subordinated to me

The parent is flabbergasted

The other spirits as well, everyone has the same expression

Of course, Haju too

It seems that they all thought I would take him

Normally he would probably be taken, but, too bad, I am nothing like normal

It's enough as long as he can occasionally accompany Rau

If I find any beastmen children, it's likely that Haju will no longer be needed

It's fine to just cancel my divine protection at that time

Cancelling my divine protection can only be done with guys subordinated to me

If there's someone stronger than the guy who subordinated them then it is possible to overwrite it

Well, guys who are able to do that seem to be quite scarce though

"…..I can keep on living together with Haju?"

Not seeming to believe it, he asks for confirmation

"Aah[yea]"

When I confirm it he lowers his head while his tears flow

I had no intention of causing damage, I also had no intention of separating them

I also have no intention to protect them

Only Haju who has my divine protection should survive

I won't decide what guys my things can become friends with, and from now on I intend to search for several other friend candidates

Since school will probably have nothing but humans, I want to let her make friends with other races

The remaining three are adults, they don't really need to make friends

They can make friends with the guys in the garden as they please

"Rau, play with Haju today"

"And s.h.i.+n-sama?"

"I will take a stroll around here"

"Rau will go too!"

She clings to my legs

"Won't you play together with Haju?"

Even though I went to all the trouble of subordinating him

"It's enough to be with s.h.i.+n-sama ~mon"

"I'm just going to look and see whether there's any danger though?"

Like whether there's a demon king's castle or if there's any enemy-like humans loitering about in this area……….

In the case that this sort of village were to be attacked, if seems like they would come do reconnaissance on it several times though

"Will you come back soon?"

She looks up at me anxiously

As expected, after I thoroughly spoiled her, she became quite timid

"I'll come back soon, since I'm just going to scout out the area a bit. If there are any humans or demons, you won't be able to relax and play, right?"

I pat her head and she finally lets go of my sleeve

Since she's scared of even just seeing the scene of carnage, it's easier to get Rau to let go compared to Rune

Leaving behind Rau, I teleport to outside the village

(So there's a village in such a place)

The village seems to be hidden in a forest

Moreover there's a barrier

I can easily enter, but it should be able to defend reasonably well against a demon attack

If it's demons with a bit of power or humans, they would be enough to tear the barrier

In other words, it's not absolute

Since it's a difficult to find location, it seems to just be that no ones noticed it up to now

(Demon, search…….. So there's none nearby)

In a considerably distant place there seems to be demons

Is it a demon king's castle?

Exterminate?

It's troublesome so I won't

If they were to attack my things then I would kill them all, though

(So it's nearby the town…….)

The town closest to my castle

In the town that we frequently go to, there's no slave shop

However, that's not to say that there's no guys who kidnap other races there

Just that there's no slave shop to take them to

And so, there are guys who make a living with just that

For other races, those guys are quite annoying existences

They're easy to find and kill, but even if you kill those guy similar such guys appear one after another

Since in this world slavery has taken root

If there is a demand, it's inevitable that guys willing to do such work will come out

Glossing over it with such words, that is evil

However, evil appears in all worlds

Even in j.a.pan which was called relatively peaceful, there was a large number of evil people

On the news criminals like muggers and murderers frequently appeared on television

My own can't be glossed over either

There are many times I solve my problems through violence and I was taught to settle things through money by my parents

I am aware of how dirty I am

However, this is me

I have no intention to change nor have I thought that I want to change

I will continue to survive like this

(I have to immediately do something……doesn't seem like that's the case)

Spirits can use magic power and compared to other races the likelihood of them getting captured was lower

……..though that's just in comparison to beastmen and elves

When there's no exceedingly strong spirit the barrier will be unstable

So they aim for that weakness

This village's barrier as well, isn't that strong

If the opponent was a guy who was a bit strong then it would probably end up easily broken

When I returned to the village, Rau was playing with Haju

There were also other children

As I thought, if it's with fellow children she'd adjust quickly

I took out a chair and gazed over that scene

Rau seems to be enjoying herself

I'm glad I brought her

Her clothes have already gotten dirty

What the heck have they been doing to get that dirty?

In the short gap I looked away did she fall down?

However it doesn't look like she has any injuries

Since she has my divine protection, even if she falls down herself it'll just hurt a bit but she won't be injured

If I think about it, it's a strange power

Though since Rau seems to often fall down I'm glad she has the divine protection

If she didn't she'd become covered in sc.r.a.pes

"Ah, s.h.i.+n-sama! Can Haju be shown the toguneen recently harvested?"

Rau who noticed me ran over this way

"One toguneen from the food storehouse, come out"

In my hand appeared the toguneen the four people harvested and I pa.s.sed it over to Rau

She seems proud since the size is outside the norm

"Lookie, lookie, it's such a big toguneen"

She proudly showed it to Haju

"s.h.i.+n-sama made the field for us. This time we're growing sa.s.shyuri"

Sa.s.shyuri is a daikon radish like vegetable

While the flavor is similar to daikon radish, its color is green

Since I have no taste I haven't eaten it, but the color is not one that makes you feel like eating it

"s.h.i.+n-sama's castle's, growing in the garden. Rau, is watering it everyday, you know?"

Kids, really like to talk about what they can do themselves

As expected, it's probably because they want to be praised?

When I listen to the children while they have such a vague conversation, the adults fleetingly glancing towards me enter my line of sight

They are probably worried about my race

Have they not heard from Rau?

……after hearing will their faces pale?

Just glancing, n.o.body comes to talk to me

However I don't feel like talking to anyone

"s.h.i.+n-sama~!"

After a short while, Rau come to hug me

My clothes were muddied

When the surrounding guys noticed that their faces became quite pale

Since Rau is wearing a slave collar, they probably think that she's my slave

If it were a human's slave, if they did something like what Rau did they would be beaten or perhaps even killed

"Are you good?"

"Yeah"

However Rau isn't a slave

Me getting angry at Rau, I would not go to such an extent unless she tried to leave

I hold her and the chair disappears

The surroundings have shocked expressions, but for something like clothes I can take out as many as I want, or even easily use cleanup

It's not something I even care about

"You know what, you know what, [Rau] wants to come here again!"

"Say if you want to come, I'll bring you again"

Even while speaking Rau was in a daze and didn't notice she got my clothes dirty

When I pat her head she smiled happily with her entire face

Since Rau is a childlike child it's just too cute

I don't like adult-like children

……kids like I used to be are the worst

"Cleanup"

Although I whisper it quietly nevertheless thankfully the magic power seemed to take effect and could cleanup

The surroundings seemed to be shocked again, but explaining one by one is troublesome

"That toguneen, [Rau's] giving to Haju"

"Is that so"

As I thought, being together with someone near your own age seems to be enjoyable

I intend to also go to other villages, but since Rau is shy of strangers it should be fine to take my time

"[Rau'll] come again"

She called out towards Haju and all the children nodded

(So this village had four kids)

When we come next time shall I buy presents to bring

While holding Rau I teleported to the castle

Author's note saying that the "likes" broke past 1500