“…Phew, good thing we didn’t have to fight.”
Hanako said that, releasing a tense breath as if to break the strained atmosphere.
She’s a Oni Tribe warrior from Azuma Country. Well, she came from a farming background, but that’s fine.
She’s 230cm tall, her arms are as thick as a woman’s waist with muscle, and her abs are rock hard.
Even if she’s a woman, few people could stand their ground when glared at by someone who looks like that.
So, just standing silently beside her is quite intimidating.
…But, as you can see, her nature is like this. She’s a kind-hearted and strong girl, a perfect fit for the saying.
“Thanks, Hanako. I appreciate it.”
“No, it’s nothing. Dru-nii could have handled that much himself. I hope I’m not being presumptuous…”
“Even so, I was happy to be helped. Thank you.”
I wanted to pat her head, but she’s out of reach, so I hugged her instead.
“Ehehe.”
…If she hugs back, I’ll suffocate from her huge boobs.
No, they’re really huge.
Well, her body size is huge in the first place.
Meat cushion feels good~!
Oops, this isn’t the time to play around, gotta work, gotta work….
And, SSR dinner distribution.
Today, being the day of arrival, we’re all resting without going out to thin out the Monsters.
“This is really the worst! What’s wrong with those guys?!”
Oh, it’s Irene.
A female warrior with Dwarf blood.
“What’s wrong?”
I ask, just in case.
Well, I can guess….
“Those mercenaries! They suddenly touched my chest…!”
Ah, sexual harassment, huh.
First of all, this world doesn’t have the concept of “harassment”….
Even in Japan, just a few decades ago, during the Showa era, there were often scenes of lecherous section chiefs touching the butts and boobs of beautiful office ladies, right? And they didn’t get arrested for it!
Only recently, with the rise of women’s rights, it’s become “You can’t do that!”
If that’s how it was in the Showa era, what do you think it’s like in this world, which is hundreds of years before Showa Japan?
…Well, I don’t need to explain, right?
So, sexual harassment that would be completely unacceptable and arrest-worthy from a Japanese perspective is commonplace, and even if someone is raped, there’s a chance of a ridiculous judgment like in Islamic countries, “The woman seduced him, so it’s the woman’s fault!”
“That’s terrible…, they shouldn’t touch girls who don’t want to be touched.”
I said that while handing Irene a meal and a cloth. She can wipe the places that were touched by dirty hands (literally).
“If you were a devoted and decent man, I might have fallen for you…”
Irene, smiling wryly, accepted the meal and cloth and sat down next to Theresia, who she’s always with….
Oops, next.
I ladle out soup and put it on the table.
An Elf takes it….
Cheeria, huh.
“What’s wrong?”
“…Am I beautiful?”
“Yes, you’re a beauty.”
“Earlier, I was also approached by a villager…. Of course, I refused because I have no interest in men.”
Ah….
Yeah.
Come to think of it, she’s a lesbian.
Or rather, her gender identity is male….
No, she’s aware that she’s a woman, but she just has a hobby of loving women and acting like a man?
I don’t know about that, I’m not familiar with the ridiculous card battle that is gender theory…. If you say that, I’m a rare species…. I cried, I’m a fickle Changeling with no religion.
But medically, she has the performance of a woman, and she hasn’t had a mastectomy or anything. You can tell just by looking.
“I was thinking of having a summer romance with a cute country girl…, but it seems this is a Frontier Settlement, and there are hardly any women.”
“Eh, that’s bad. Then, in a drought of women, it’ll be just the Strider Clan of women.”
“That’s right…. I can easily beat down three or four human men…, but I have to make the young ones be careful. It wouldn’t be good if a maiden was forced upon by an unwanted partner, would it?”
“That’s right, it’s pitiful.”
“…Hmm, you don’t say the woman is at fault?”
“The one who commits the act is at fault.”
“I see, that’s the secret to being popular. I’ll take that into consideration, Dru-kun.”
Cheeria leaves with her soup.
…Ah, she’s eating while standing, not sitting.
Well, it’s summer, so there are bugs, and it’s fine not to bother sitting down.
…Hmm, it seems like they’re being touched quite a bit.
If they try to do something by force…, then a life-or-death struggle will start, and if they clearly refuse, will they eventually stop bothering them…?
I still don’t understand the sense of this world.
But, since this is a world where “killing each other” is an option in daily life, they shouldn’t go that far unless they’re really stupid.
Even if they’re rough mercenaries, they wouldn’t normally go from small fights and sexual harassment incidents to life-threatening battles.
That’s right, they’re earning money with their lives, right? They shouldn’t want to fight battles that don’t earn them a penny.
…In any case, I’ll observe the situation.