Pseudo Resident’s Illegal Stay in Another World

nked Alpha Girl of our pack of 20 adventurers began doing her job.
It seemed very boring to look at, so I decided to find something else to do.

  Rustle- Splash- Splash-

  “Hah!”

  The priestess jumped in surprise as if she had met a molester.
She then fell flat on the mud and bowed to me with a quivering tone!

  “W-What brings you here? I-I’m sorry for showing you my lacking appearance.
I didn’t expect you to show up all of a sudden.”

  “…Yeah?”

  I was dazed and somehow felt guilty when she suddenly bowed to me in that fashion.

  Damn it, I shouldn’t be feeling guilty over simply approaching a woman like this.
What was she even doing?

  Why was she acting this formal all of a sudden? It felt like something religious, maybe something related to the god she worshipped? While I was mulling over that thought, the woman got up and shook off the dust and mud from her body with her palms then spoke.

  “Oh, I’m sorry… I mistook you for someone else.
Really… It often happens since I am unable to see.
Don’t worry.”

  “I see.
Then can you move your feet a bit? You’re stepping on the body of a goblin.”

  “Ah, I see.”

  Hehe, that was a corpse no one had looted yet.
4 free coppers, all up for grabs! Just as I was enthusiastically going to recover the goblin’s fangs, the priestess who was looking down in my direction spoke in a whispery tone.

  Well, she wasn’t really looking at me, as she couldn’t really see, but that’s just how it looked like to me.

  “Hassan, you’re Hassan, right? You’re an outstanding warrior, these goblins attacked a wheeled carriage that was stuck in the mud.
Do you think it’s a coincidence?”

  “So, you think the Goblins dug a trap to catch us here?”

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  “Maybe… the world has been changing rapidly lately.
It wouldn’t strike me as strange if these goblins suddenly learned to dig traps.”

  Cassandra, the priestess from Delphi, seemed to be feeling anxious about the idea of goblins working together and using a well-thought-out strategy like this, after the goblin attack.

  I casually agreed with her.
The fact that goblins existed was weird enough already.

  To me, a man from a world without any magic or mythical creatures, nothing these bastards could do was stranger than their existence itself.

 

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  “Alright, it’d better if we camp here for now.
The ground is tough and we have enough space for everyone.
What do you think Lord Destroyer?”

  “I’ll trust Miss Hippolyte’s judgment.
It’d be dangerous to run into the mud at night.
We also have spring water nearby, so we’ll be able to clean our dirty equipment and our bodies of the filthy mud.”

  “Then let’s camp here.
Everyone get ready to unpack!”

  After concerting each other, the two silver adventurers decided that stopping the carriage in this large open space was for the best and we thus began unpacking.

  “It’s an abandoned temple.”

  Cassandra muttered to herself.
She seemed to know what was happening around better than me despite being blind.

  “Look over there, Hassan! It’s stone statues.
Won’t something come out from inside if we break them?”

  Maybe because she remembered what happened in the temple cleaning quest, Luna shouted while pointing at the broken and corroded statues.

  “Breaking the statues? You must not do such a blasphemous act.”

  Luna hid the silence totem that she just pulled out back into her raincoat at Cassandra’s hurried dissuasion.
I also sheathed back my sword alongside that.
I had no clue if there was anything inside anyway, best not to anger anyone this way.

  Breaking the stone statue in front of the others seemed like a taboo.
Destroying religious symbols was bound to be considered profane or hostile to a religious person like Cassandra.

  “A Goddess… This part of the sculpture looks like a sickle in her hand… We’re in a temple of Ceres.”

  Cassandra was scouring the rough surface of the statue with her hands.
Then, Hippolyte, the female warrior with her waving red cape, approached her and asked.

  “Priestess of Delphi.
We’re going to camp here today.
Have you received any oracles?”

  “None.”

  “Then let’s camp here.
Unpack and get ready to spend the night everyone.”

  Thus, I began preparing to settle down.
We sat around the camp in groups and shared our dry rations.

  My share of food was a tough bread, I was too afraid of biting into it with force and breaking my teeth in the process.
Wouldn’t it be better to melt it in water at least?

  This was more of a weapon than food… “Will the bastard in front of me collapse if I hit him with it.” was what I was thinking right now sitting alongside the other adventurers.

  “T-That’s hard to eat.”

  Even Luna, who liked abysmal foods like stargazy pies and mint chocolate, was struggling with something this tough.

  “We lost some water bottles while battling against the goblins.
Just take it on yourself and eat them tough.”

  Crunch-

  Hippolyte was biting the bread like she was eating chocolate.
I could clearly feel my little brother shrinking from that sound alone.
Damn, is she a hippo or what?

  After finishing this hard meal, which felt more like self-harm, Hippolyte called out to everyone and then shouted in a loud voice.

  “It looks like everyone is done so focus on me.
After deliberating with Lord Destroyer, we decided on who’s on the night watch.
I’ll call them out right now.”

  Damn, even a night watch?

  Fortunately or maybe, unfortunately, I was picked to keep a night watch during the second shift.

  The second shift is in one word the ‘Worst’.
It was a very hard time to keep watch since—  before the start of the watch you had finally gotten the chance to let your body rest after a hectic day of adventuring, however, before you could even fully rest and let the tiredness of the day melt away with a much-needed sleep, you had to wake up abruptly, when the first shift was over and resist your sleepiness until the morning.
There was no time to rest afterward as it was time for another day of adventuring… yet again.

  Luna ended up being a part of the second shift too.
While it was certainly unlucky, that was still miles better than what Marco was currently going through over there— on the other side of the camp…

  “Mr.
Marco, we’re using the same tent.
I think we’re going to have a good time.
Let’s have a male-only night, shall we?”

  “H-Hii! Oh, Lord Mercury!!! Don’t put me to the test!”

  Damn, poor Marco.
I’m glad I wasn’t in his place.
This is karma, bitch! You should have paid your debts.

  “Wow, you’re really good at making tents, Hassan.
Yours is the best I’ve ever seen in these lands.
It’s just like the ones our elders used to set up back in Ideope.”

  I, who had raised a cramped Type-A tent for two, was in fact not happy with how it came out.
It was crudely made because of the lack of materials, but Luna seemed to be awed by it nonetheless.

  “It’s very cozy.
I can’t feel the wind too.
I can’t believe hanging a raincoat on the side would have this much of an effect inside.
Take these fluorescent fireflies! How is it? Doesn’t it make it brighter inside the tent? I caught a few of them after dinner earlier.
I’m glad that we can use them this way.”

  Luna smiled brightly while hanging a glass bottle atop the tent.
Inside it was bugs I couldn’t recognize.
They were buzzing around the bottle while producing dazzling light.

  “D-Don’t you mind using the same tent as me?”

  “Why? Is there anything wrong with me being here with you?”

  “I mean, usually men sleep with men and women with women.”

  “I-I don’t want to sleep with the sword maidens.”

  While it was very common for regular parties to use the same tent, some were still reluctant to sleep with the opposite gender.
But Luna didn’t seem to care about that at all.

  “Also, I like it here since the tent is so big!”

  “That’s a given since my body is rather big.
The space has to be much larger than normal after all.”

  “The floor is soft too, just like an inn bed! Where did you learn all of this?”

  “I used to know someone who was very picky about their lodgings.”

  “Someone you know… Is it a former colleague? A hometown friend, perhaps?”

  Damn, there was no way I could call Elfriede a colleague.
So, while I was brooding on how to answer Luna, she simply stretched out her arms and lied on the floor in a careless fashion.

  “Haa… I’m so very tired and sleepy today.
I just washed my body in the spring water and feel very drowsy.”

  Slowly- Gently-

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  The wind was pushing her crude raincoat apart revealing her soft white flesh.
Maybe because she just had dinner, her slightly round and convex belly immediately caught my attention.

  Looking at her white skin, memories of its warmth and smooth texture naturally came to my mind.

  At the same time, I felt my heart beat faster, heat rushed up all the way to my face and even my lower body became full of vitality.

  “I was going to keep it on since you gifted it to me, but it’s too uncomfortable to sleep in.
I’m gonna take it off while I sleep.”

  Wait, you’re taking off your raincoat here? Do you even care about the state I’m in right now? Damn it.

  Luna was simply laughing, blissfully ignorant of my inner turmoil.

  “I’m glad you set up the tent right now, Hassan.
My whole body was hurting and I felt like I could die any minute.
The hard wagon made my butt hurt so much… My arm is still also sore from swinging the silence totem so much today.”

  Luna went “Huuh…” while gently pressing down on the sore flesh of her soft arms.

  As I was entranced at the sight of her white and smooth-looking armpits, my true thoughts leaked out of my mouth.

  “…D-Do you want me to give you a massage?”

  “…Huh?”