Shalsal Kingdom.
Royal Capital.
Nearing noon.
The district where rescued people from the western part of the kingdom are housed.
McGillis, who had hit on Rabin and her cute companions.
Undeterred, he visited to woo women experiencing emotional distress.
He entered an inn with an “older woman” type who said she’d let him hug her or even suck his dick if he paid.
Three rounds.
“You’re quite the man for someone so young~♡? If I were younger, I would have married you!”
McGillis was praised while his back was slapped.
He paid for three sessions and left the inn staff to check out of the room.
“Call me again sometime~♪”
After seeing them safely delivered to the facility, he thought about returning to the secret base.
“Ngh?! …Ngh!!”
A chill. He performed magic detection around him to check for threats. There was someone among the people on the great street.
Someone with abnormally high possessed magic power.
McGillis hid in a deserted back alley.
He tried to determine if the owner of the detected magic power was friend or foe.
“…He’s following me, huh.”
He moved further down the deserted back alley.
Still, he couldn’t shake him.
He had been detected by magic sense.
He was being tracked.
“Boy! Hey, boy!”
“………”
He had caught up.
He was taller than me.
A handsome guy, sadly.
His grooming was good.
But his clothes ruined everything.
“Say something! You used magic on me. Is it that amazing that a boy like you can use magic, the royal capital’s specialty? Is that what you want to hear?”
“…I felt a chill, so I investigated♪”
“………”
“…Ahaha.”
McGillis tried to brush it off with a childish demeanor.
He fell silent in the heavy atmosphere of the moment.
The one who appeared was Lord Vegetarian.
Protected by the rescue unit.
Gathering information from all over the royal capital at the facility.
At that time.
He felt McGillis’s detection magic.
He tracked who it was.
The running high magic power reaction.
The unfortunate lack of magic detection that had disappeared as soon as he took human form.
They chased each other through the back alleys.
Finally, he discovered his true identity: a child.
“My apologies…”
An attitude of remorse.
“Well, never mind. I have something I want to ask.”
“If… if I can answer it.”
Lord Vegetarian first asked McGillis’s name.
If he kept calling him “boy,” he’d be a spectacle from the outside.
It would be better to be treated as acquaintances.
That way, he wouldn’t be looked at with curiosity.
“McGillis, is it?”
“Yeah. And you are?”
“Do I need to answer you?”
“Ah, I see.”
The next question.
Are you a student?
“Yeah, I’m a top student♪”
“Don’t lie.”
“I’m not lying~!!”
Barking, shouting.
“Huff… Huff… Just admit it already…”
An argument that almost led to oxygen deprivation.
A top student.
Putting aside whether that’s true for now.
He asked about what was happening at the school.
“Why?”
“Don’t ask me. Just answer what you’re asked.”
The sun was already setting.
Dinner time.
Club activities.
There were rumors that they created non-human creatures.
“Is that true?”
“Yeah, artificial demi-humans.”
“Hoo.”
It was what I had hoped for.
Beings that don’t eat plants.
“Are they at the school♪?”
“They are. What are you going to do… No. The questions are about… soon.”
“Ah, the sun is setting too.”
Well then, come to this place again tomorrow.
If you don’t, I’ll come looking for you.
“…I’ve attracted a truly terrifying person, haven’t I?”
McGillis took a roundabout way back to the secret base.
Who is that man?
Whispers, whispers.
The leader seemed to be seriously troubled.
“You should talk to him.”
“No way.”
“A woman, perhaps?”
“Of course.”
His subordinates seemed to understand McGillis, yet not understand him.
McGillis ignored his subordinates.
Tomorrow.
How can I recruit him to our faction?
Negotiation material. Staff for ambushing. Primitive traps that won’t trigger detection systems.
I can’t afford to make him angry, but I also don’t want to become his subordinate.
McGillis reported to Brain.
Brain also mentioned that the civil war in the eastern country was subsiding and that the northern country, embroiled in war, was planning a large-scale counteroffensive.
“Seriously?”
“We intercepted enemy communications.”
I’ll hear the details tonight.
Rabin and her companions were in despair because McGillis wasn’t hitting on them.
Around their homes.
If they went out, they felt McGillis’s subordinates were watching them.
School.
Club building.
Artificial demi-humans.
Created by the Alchemy Club.
Successful with McGillis’s generous assistance.
The school had long-term closures. The care and observation records of the created artificial demi-humans.
Knock knock.
“Yes. Ah, Lord McGillis♪ Is Demi doing well… Who is this?”
The club members rejoiced at McGillis’s arrival.
Seeing an unknown man behind him, they questioned him.
A new collaborator. A provider of experimental materials.
While thinking of various things, he invited them to relax on the newly acquired sofa and immediately brewed tea using high-quality leaves.
Whoosh.
“Hii?!”
Suddenly, the club member was overwhelmed by killing intent from the man. The department head and I wondered if we had done something to offend him.
I tried to suppress the man’s killing intent.
“Plants… (mutter)”
Did I just hear a mutter from someone who might be religious or a picky eater?
“What’s the reason for your visit today…”
“Ah, yes. We’re listening.”
Forgetting the previous exchange, I headed to the room where my cute, adorable Demi-chans were.
On the way, the man thought, “Those Demi… Ah, no.”
He decided it would be better to see them in person and remained silent.
It was awkward.
He was standing behind me to prevent me from escaping.
I couldn’t help but have the urge to kill him.
I don’t like being stared at by guys!
Well, I can tolerate a young boy’s upward gaze.
But it’s unpleasant to be looked at by someone with such a terrible fashion sense!
The room where the Demi-chans were was outside the building.
Not considering security or safety.
If I openly defied McGillis within the school, his subordinates would not remain silent.
“Th-this is it.”
“I’ve been waiting for you~~, so cute…”
Jerk!!
Even though I showed affection with my whole body to my cute, adorable Demi-chans…
You don’t have to be so scared…
“These are demi-humans…”
“Artificial ones.”
“These are the results of our research (tears).”
“Hey, hey, a man’s tears should be shown at the right time and place.”
“S-sorry.”
“………”
The man observed our Demi-chans silently… Hmm?
He’s looking at the food (bait) bowls.
He’s surprisingly absorbed.
Okay, next I’ll be bombarded with questions about how I created new life.
Department head. When in trouble, leave it to the expert.
In the meantime, I’ll~♪ do the final confirmation to make the man my subordinate.
That killing intent from the tea.
If I use sleeping drugs or something similar, he’ll become an enemy.
On the other hand, if I use brute force, the man’s strength is unknown, and I want to avoid suffering significant damage.
I can’t waste this body, which is accumulating magic power like the first generation.
I don’t want to use the self-destruction method to eliminate enemies again.
I am a pacifist.
The club building’s location was the worst, a shaded spot.
The weapon research club.
Knock knock.
“It’s me, McGillis.”
“Heaven is the sun, earth is…?”
“The gods of myth.”
“Welcome, welcome♪ Everyone has already gathered from yesterday’s communication♪”
“You won’t skimp on the reward, right♪?”
“Ooh, everyone will be happy about that. Including me, of course♪”
No matter how you look at it, they’re a bunch of delinquents.
Hired with money. Or rather, people lured by the amount of reward.
“Yo, please leave it to us today♪”
“Leave it to us♪♪ For our great leader McGillis, whose payment is certain♪ Are you free tonight~♡? So unfair! Hey, hey, you and me tonight~♡? You’re so popular, great leader♪!”
Hahaha♪♪ Wahahaha♪♪
Is Lord Vegetarian safe?
McGillis’s recruitment event is about to begin.
