Chapter 3: Trying Out Going to the Royal Capital (Again) – Part 1

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Part 1

Sylvie returned to the Adventurer’s Guild.
She said that since she abandoned her morning work, she would be very busy in the afternoon.
I also have to investigate the three we captured──is what she said as she left.
Diablo visited the capable engraver that he was told about. It seems that they were a Dwarf called Ronbel.
──Another Dwarf huh.
It couldn’t be helped.
In jobs where dexterity was required, Dwarves would generally be employed in them. There were cases where Humans would occasionally also be doing them though.

《Ronbel Engraving Shop》──
A metal door that had a detailed design applied to it was attached to a brick-made building. He pulled it open.
「Welcoーme.」
What he heard was a woman’s voice.
She was an older woman that wore glasses. She had huge breasts.
Being the traits of Dwarven women, she had a short height with big breasts, and had dog-like ears and tail.
She had chestnut-colored hair, and small, triangular Shiba inu ears.
Diablo asked a question.
「Where is Ronbel?」
「Ah, that’s me. What business might you have?」
「Oya oya, a male customer, how rare.」
The one who said that was a man at the counter. He was a Human. There weren’t that many of them in Faltra City’s South District.
Was he a so-called regular customer?
He ignored him.
Diablo took the 《Eternal Mythril》 out from his pouch, and put it on the counter in front of the shopkeeper.
「I want to request this of you.」
Ronbel adjusted her glasses.
「Waa, amazing! This is the real thing, isn’t it!?」
「If you can’t even tell that, I will request it at another place.」
「No, no, it’s fine. For a man to bring this here……Is it for 《Marriage Rings》!?」
He winced on the inside.
However, Diablo maintained his expressionlessness.
Demon Kings don’t get bashful!
「Umu.」
「Ara ara, congratulationsー.」
The Human that seemed to be a regular customer stared not at the 《Eternal Mythril》 but at Diablo.
「Nn? Hey, you……Could you be……」
「Mu?」
「Aren’t you the hero Diablo!?」
「Ugh……」
「There’s no mistaking it! A Demon with horns, there aren’t that many of them!」
「So, what of it?」
Hiding his embarrassment, Diablo answered sounding displeased.
However, maybe because this Human was abnormally thick headed, or maybe shameless, he showed no sign of noticing the coercion.
Tearing down appearances, he got close.
「Thanks to you, we weren’t killed by the Demonic Beings! Everyone in the town is grateful to you.」
「U, mu……」
Even Ronbel the engraver showed deep emotion.
「Waa! For the hero to come with a request! I need to boast about this to everyone in my hometown!」
──Oi, my personal information! Where’s the compliance!?
It seemed that that sort of professional ethics didn’t exist in the privately-run stores of this other world.
Being a hero really isn’t a good thing is it──is what he thought.
He breathed a sigh.
「Let us talk about my request. What is the day of delivery and cost for the engraving?」
Ronbel answered with a smile.
「I wouldn’t take money from the hero that saved this townー. Since I’ll neglect my other jobs and get started right away, I’ll get it done perfectly by tomorrow morning!」
「Umu.」
──Being a hero isn’t that bad.
The Human man took a medal out from underneath his jacket.
「Ehehe……This place, it’s a store managed by a friend of mine. If you have the chance, go visit it. As long as you have this medal, it’ll be for free, ‘kay?」
「Mu?」
Maybe because being in poverty was deeply ingrained in him, hearing that it would be for free, he unconsciously accepted it.
It looked like the medal itself only had a worth of a copper coin.
There was the picture of a mermaid at the center of it, and although there were letters written on the outer circumference of it, Diablo couldn’t read it.
「What kind of store?」
The man that was flippantly laughing spoke as if he were telling a secret.

「It’s a MonMusu Soap.」

「…………What……did you say?」
Diablo unblinkingly looked at the man’s face. He was flippantly laughing, but there was no sign that he was telling a joke.
「Well, the place is in the royal capital though.」
「The royal capital.」
「You do this and that with monster girls.」
The man pliantly moved his hips.
Ronbel pouted her lips.
「How indecent!」
「What the heck. I brought you a request from that store, didn’t I?」
「There’s no way a man that came with a request for 《Marriage Rings》 would go to that kind of store!」
「Ronbel, you really don’t get just how men are!」
「Moreover, he’s a hero!」
「Heroes are lustful.」
Leaving behind the two that were quarreling, Diablo left the engraver store.
In his hand, was the medal.
──A Monster Girl Soapland!? That has an incredibly indecent ring to it!
He was engulfed in exhilaration and nervousness just like how he would be in front of a dungeon he had never been to before.

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