Chapter 321: He’s too stunned by my appeal that he can’t say anything

“Suspicious people! You will be punished here and now!”

 

A young man who appeared to be a samurai shouted so while holding up his katana.

 

“We already told you we’re not suspicious at all.”

“H-hey, Selen! If you fight in a place like this, it’ll cause a commotion, don’t you think?”

 

I said so as I tried to stop Selen from drawing her own sword.

 

“Maybe, but it doesn’t look like he’s willing to at least listen to us.”

“Leave this to me.”

 

The one to declare that and step forward was none other than Gori-chan.

At the approach of the muscular and over-2-meters tall Gori-chan, the young man quickly flinched.

 

And then, Gori-chan shut one of her eyes. In other words, she winked.

 

“Uuuu, Mis~ter~Sa~mu~rai ♡ Can~you~let~us~go~for~~~me?”

 

She said so with a shake of her hips at every word, and then finished it off by blowing a kiss.

 

“~~~~!?”

“Ufufu, observe.
He’s too stunned by my appeal that he can’t say anything.”

 

It seemed like Gori-chan tried to use her charms to persuade the young man.

…the person herself might be confident about it, but honestly, I don’t think this is going to work at all.

 

“Khh…I-I won’t fall a trick like that!”

 

Huh? Can it perhaps be having some effect?

 

“I can’t believe there’s someone in this whole world who’s affected by that pink macho’s seduction…”

 

Alec-san asked so, shock in his voice.

 

“Say, Gai, can it be that people on this side have a different sense of aesthetics than those from ours?”

“Not at all.
It just so happened that this particular samurai has that inclination.”

 

Gai-san resolutely denied so.

At any rate, thanks to Gori-chan, the young man was able to calm down for the moment.

 

“I-I see now.
You’re a kind of Ayakashi that disguises themselves as a human, aren’t you!? First you’ll seduce me, then you’ll capture and devour me, won’t you!?”

“Oh my.
You think I’m so beautiful that I must be in some kind of disguise instead?”

 

It would seem that, in the end, Gori-chan’s seduction strategy failed.

I mean, I didn’t expect it to work from the start anyway…

 

But then, another person in our group stepped forward.
It was Gai-san.

 

“Samurai-dono.
I assure you that we are not Ayakashi.
Allow me to introduce myself.
I am Gai, a monk hailing from the land of Kyou.”

“What? Your appearance is certainly that of a monk’s, but…”

“Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu.
As you know, no Ayakashi can transform themselves to look like a monk.
Much less recite the nembutsu prayer.”

“…yes, it’s as you say.”

 

The young samurai then sheathed his katana.

Great work, Gai-san.
I’m so glad you came along with us.

 

“But the question still stands: who are you people? Based on your appearance, you look to be from a foreign country, but…”

“Truth be told, we have traveled here from a nation to the west of that mountain range.”

“Travelers from the west, I see.
So then, why did you come to the estate of House Date?”

“Mm? House Date?”

“Can it be you entered here without knowing that this place is the hantei of House Date?”

 

It would appear that a hantei was the residence owned by a feudal lord in the capital, to be used whenever they needed to stay there.

In other words, we had broken in someone’s home.

 

This place was so large that I mistook it for the city’s downtown area.
I had chosen it because there were only a few people, but now I could see how I was wrong in that decision.

 

“What is going on there?”

“…! My lord!?”

 

The young man hurriedly turned to the source of that shout.

And the one there was a man with a strange hairstyle.

 

“Pfft, what’s with his head…”

“Don’t laugh, Selen.
That’s called a topknot.
It’s a hairstyle worn by those of noble birth.”

“A topknot? You sure are well-informed about these things, Luke.”

“Now that you say that…”

 

This was my first time to see it in this world, so I probably knew of it thanks to my previous life’s memory.

 

The man with the topknot also had a black eye-patch that looked like a katana’s cross-guard over his right eye.

The young man kneeling down as he explained things convinced me that the man with topknot was indeed a person of high status.

 

“These people claim to have traveled here from a western nation by crossing the monster-infested mountain range.”

“By crossing that mountain range, you say…?”

 

To be precise, we came here by flying over it through the flying park, but since it seemed like a hassle to explain all that, I decided to just let things be and not correct them.

While I was thinking about such things, the expression on the man with the eye-patch’s face changed.

 

“Did you happen to see a woman who has come of age somewhere along the way?”