Chapter 187 Chapter 187

Green Thumb and an unexpected relationship.

……………… and closed it.

Yep, let’s pretend I didn’t see it. However, the door got relentlessly opened again.

“I’m sorry to interrupt! A great number of huge vegetables have appeared in the town! It doesn’t seem to be the… Saintess-sama’s doing.”

The huge vegetables in the past were my doing, but I have been in the midst of discussion until now, so I’m innocent this time. The country’s top will testify of my alibi.

In other words, the culprit behind the huge vegetables is…

“What have you done, Niisamaaaa!?”

The culprit is my elder brother! I shouted without thinking.

“Oh, your brother came too?”

“What will you do, Rosarin? Well, there seem to be no harm done, and they don’t seem hostile either, but…”

“Anyhow, let’s confirm with Niisama first.”

I had Dirk take me in his arms and moved out. I’m in a princess’ carry! The speed was too scary, so I clung to him tight! Tehe. Dirk smelled good as usual.

“Welcome back, Rosarin!”

Ah, this guy’s hopeless. I realized when I saw my brother. Gator, who was his guard, was making an apologetic gesture. This is not your fault, Gator. I have doubts about whether I would be able to stop him myself. Tosaken seemed to be frightened by the huge vegetables. Well, it cannot be helped.

Elder brother’s eyes were sparkling. Ahh… yeah. There was apparently something that he took interest in. Cidar-kun was obviously perplexed, but was he part of this? I mean, the huge veggies seemed to be emotionally attached to the two, you know?

“Sorry, Rosarin.”

“Eh?”

“Umm… these vegetables, half of it is my fault.”

Cidar-kun, surprisingly, seems to possess a Revelation of the Green Thumb. But when I think about it, he was growing vegetables, although on the thin side, even with Yggdrasil’s mana all dried up.

And my, my Elder brother seemed to be greatly excited when they met, most likely because it was the first time he met someone with the same Revelation as him. It appears that the effect of magic gets improved when multiple Green Thumbs around, and the result was a great number of huge veggies.

My Bro was cheerful. He seemed to be having fun… I thought such, but this is not good. What are we going to do about these veggies!

“… What do we do about these?”

“Should I ask the neighboring aunties to handle it?”

Cidar-kun asked the aunties from his neighborhood to cut the vegetables in exchange for half of them. The aunties from the neighborhood cut the vegetables into easy to eat sizes with their wonderful knife mastery. The number of huge vegetables decreased by half, but there were still more than thirty of them left.

“It can’t be helped. Put them in a waist pouch, I will sell them at the castle.”

“… There’s no way they will enter inside, you sure?”

“Well, all of them might not, but they will go, no worries.”

As a result, all of them went into the waist pouch. All thirty of the five-meter tall vegetables entered the waist pouch. What’s going on!? I’m surprised by the result myself.

“… What the hell is up with that waist pouch!”

“I expanded its space with magic. However, to think all of them would fit… that was unexpected.”

“So it was unexpected!?”

“I made it myself, but I did not test what its capacity was… anyway, wouldn’t it be convenient if they automatically got cut into easy to eat chunks?”

I was careless. As I got surprised by my own careless and nonchalant remark, the waist pouch began to shine.

“Eeerhhhh!?”

“Rosarin!?”

However, only the waist pouch shined. S, surely not…! It was the surely not. The veggies I just stored were all neatly chopped!! I unfastened my Mr. Waist Pouch.

“Look, you don’t have to be so convenient just because I uttered such nonsense! It’s all right to be normal!!”

“… What a thing.”

“What a surreal scene.”

Elder brother and Cidar-kun were astonished. I desperately talked to the waist pouch I placed on the ground. Seeing my actions, Elder brother’s excitement decreased and his sanity returned.

I forced the sale of the veggies at the castle, but my brother brought Cidar-kun back to Christia with him… no he didn’t, but he wanted to. He was enthusiastically trying to persuade him to go.

“I can’t, I have a sick mother and pipsqueaks to take care of!”

“She’s sick? You should have said so earlier. Arisa.”

“Yesss.”

It was a disease Arisa was able to manage, and it got promptly cured.

“Cidar…”

“Kaasan.”

The mother and child embraced. The pipsqueaks joined in too.

“Mama, have you recovered?”

“Rosarin Oneechan, thank you!”

“Rosarin Oneechan, give snacks please.”

I was asked for snacks, so I gave snacks to Cidar-kun’s siblings.

“Cidar, I have been a burden on you all this time, but your mother can finally move now too. You can do as you like.”

“Kaasan… but I have promised Michuu Niisan to protect the family!”

“Michuu?”

That’s a familiar-sounding name… Michuu-san?

“Erm, does your Oniisan work for the Eastern Duke?”

“You met him!? Is Niisan all right!?”

“He didn’t seem to have any injuries from what I could see.”

“Is that so?”

Cidar-kun smiled, but something felt wrong. Michuu-san had a sharp tongue, but he was an upright person. He didn’t strike me as someone who would leave his family to fend off for themselves… I’m curious.

I gave Leon-san a communication magic tool earlier, should I talk to him?

“Call, Leon.”

“Saintess-sama, what is the matter?”

“Stop calling me Saintess. Go with Rosarin, thank you. Is Michuu-san there?”

“Yes, he’s here. Michuu, my Lord wishes to speak with you. Try to not be too rude.”

Don’t say anything unnecessary, Leon-san yo.

Leon->Leor

I have noticed after translating this many chapters with his name mentioned that his name was actually Leor and not Leon. Sorry about that!

Green Thumb and an unexpected connection.

“Oh? Do I talk into this? Rather, what business do you have with me?”

“Niichan!”

“It’s Niichan’s voice!”

“… Niisan? Michuu Niisan?”

“Oh? Cidar? What is this about, Rosarin-sama?”

“Michuu-san, did you know that are you aware that Cidar-kun and the rest are living in poverty?”

“… Eh?”

“Do you know that they lived so poorly that Cidar-kun had to resolve to stealing?”

“Rosarin, stop it!”

“You should talk it out properly. Leor-san, are you listening? I will do Michuu-san’s work on his behalf, so please lend him to me. I will pick him up with magic.”

“Oh, we will help you with it.”

That being the case, Michuu-san went to Cidar-kun’s home. Instead, we worked in Leor-san’s office. Everyone except Tosaken, the amateur, helped too. Dirk, in particular, got really good with paperwork recently, and Gator is strong with numbers, so the documents steadily decreased.

“… How old are you and your Oniisama, Rosarin-sama?”

“I am seven.”

“I’m nine.”

Leor-san’s ears and tail drooped. He seems to be down?

“Hahh… just how incompetent am I?”

“… You cannot compare yourself to these two. The majority of people are incompetent when compared to them. In the first place, Rosarin and Ru have been temporary secretaries of the Prime Minister since they were three and five years old, so both are odd in various ways.”

“Hah?”

“Eh?”

Gator and Tosaken were surprised. That can’t be helped. Rather, calling us odd is way too blunt.

“I will just add that I am a Beneficiary, so the truly odd one is just my Niisama.”

“Rosarin?”

“Owowow!? Niisama, I give up, give up, give up!! Sorry, excuse me, forgive meeee!!”

My bro drilled his fist onto my head. Truly painful!

“You get along so well.”

Leor-san smiled bitterly. This person is totally different from the first impressions he gave off. He’s not so dazzling as before, but with a plain good sense. By the way, he’s apparently Leor Fersen. Yep, Kanata-san… I’m leaving the tsukkomi to you!

(TL NOTE: Reference to Axel von Fersen from Shoujo manga “The Rose of Versailles”.)

“You said you were possessed by the Evil because of your inferiority complex, right?”

“Yeah, I cannot beat Shushulina in anything, after all.”

“Hmm… do you want to win?”

“Well… yeah.”

“By the way, there are plenty of ways for you to win, you know? If you consider your options properly.”

“………… No, I want to win head-on.”

How honest. That is how this person originally is, though. Is this why Michuu-san couldn’t abandon him?

“Head-on, huh… Even if there is a gap in strength between the two sides, it can be reversed by the way you do it. It’s all in the way you do it. I lost 49 straight matches to Dirk, but I won the last match!”

“”Rosarin had 49 consecutive losses!?”

Eh? You are surprised about that? Niisama and Gator didn’t seem to believe me either.

“Well, I would probably lose if Rosarin used Valkyrie… it was without Valkyrie, after all.”

Dirk added. Leor-san seemed to be thinking about something.

“Victory and defeat aren’t only decided in a fight. I don’t know you that well, Leor-san, but aren’t you better at desk work and negotiation-related things?”

“That’s… well…”

“Happiness and comparison are the same. There is an upside and a downside. If you look too much up, you will be mean. If you look too far down, you will become arrogant. The point is balance. If you look up, it leads to ambition. If you look down, it leads to overconfidence.”

That’s a tough one, how do I get the message across?

“You never stopped trying to improve yourself despite the fact that you assumed you couldn’t win. It will certainly help you. Acknowledge your efforts and you won’t be defeated by the Evil again.”

Yep ,having the correct mindset is important. I might have to suppress the Evil regularly in the future.

“Thank you very much, My Lord!!”

“Rosarin is a really good motivational speaker, isn’t she…”

“Yeah… she’s quite a scam-artist in everything except love”

“”That’s so fitting!””

Dirk, Gator, and my Elder brother were talking. Who is a scam-artist? Don’t just call me names!

“The only one I want to deceive is Dirk!”

“Ah………… okay.”

“”””Thank you for the meal.””””

I treated everyone to my lovey-dovey Dirk meal. Dirk seemed happy. While having such stupid exchange, I was contacted by a sorrowful voice.

“Rosarin-sama… we have finished talking.”

“D, did it go alright?”

Why did they tell me they were doing fine when they obviously weren’t? He asked me. When we came over, Michuu-san looked devastated. His family was troubled too.

As it turns out, Michuu-san’s money, which he thought was regularly sent home, was embezzled, and was too busy dealing with Leor-san’s crazy situation to notice.

Cidar-kun was also having a hard time getting a hold of him due to the effects of Yggdrasil, so he wasn’t able to contact him.

“I will send a group of the ex-slaves to work on the fields, so why don’t you come with us, Cidar-kun? I can have you picked up with magic, so come to school with us. I will pay you for helping Niisama with his research.”

“Is that okay!?”

Michuu-san seemed eager. He was worried about Cidar-kun not being able to go to school even though he was so intelligent.

“Please take care of him.”

Okaasama, please don’t prostrate on the floor before me. You don’t have to do that either, Michuu-san. First of all, I stopped them. Why do I feel like the Beastmen like prostrating themselves on the ground before me, for some reason?

“I…”

Cidar-kun seemed to be hesitating. Let’s push on his back.

“Cidar-kun, this is for your future career options and to increase your salary. We’re getting an excellent worker. It’s a win-win situation for both of us, don’t you think?”

“… I get it. Please take care of me.”

“Negotiations concluded then!”

That being the case, Cidar-kun will come to Christia with us.