After waking up and doing a thorough body check before returning, Unyuko was still sleeping.
“Actually, calling her Unyuko is weird now, right? I need to think of a different name.”
“Yes, Big Brother. How about [True Unyuko]?”
“You two, I recommend [Unyuko Part 2].”
“…[Unyuko☆No.2] would be good, I think. As a maid.”
Everyone’s naming sense was questionable.
“This is what they mean by ‘no help at all’!”
“I don’t think Big Brother, who named her Unyuko, has any right to say that.”
“That’s that, this is this.”
Well, that’s something to think about later.
“…Huh? Her hair turned silver?”
“It was like that after Big Brother defeated her. It must be a characteristic of the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire.”
“It’s true. The same hair color as Kanade.”
“…Curse you, Unyuko. Just when I thought the loli character overlap with Kanade was resolved, now it’s silver-haired twin-tails overlap…!”
No. Only Kanade has twin-tails though.
“Oh right, Big Brother. Her eye color changed too.”
“Really? What color is it?”
“It was incredibly beautiful. Those red eyes really were the vampire’s color after all.”
Just as we were having that conversation—
The beautiful girl who had been sleeping until now opened her eyes with a flutter.
She gazed at me with transparent young grass-colored pupils.
Like a shy maiden, she smiled softly.
8
When we returned to the royal capital and I went to greet Toko-san, for some reason she got extremely angry with me. Why?
“Hmm…? So Suzuha-nii found the legendary elf village. Hmm, heeh, hooh?”
“Well, coincidences are scary.”
“And! The fact that Suzuha-nii appears to have elves following him on both sides—could that possibly be my imagination!? And if my memory serves me right, one of those two there is a Wandering Silver Haired Vampire, right!?”
“Well, you see, there are deep reasons for this.”
I explained to Toko-san while looking alternately at the elves on my left and right—the Elder and Unyuko.
That Unyuko was originally a High Elf from the elf village.
That Unyuko and the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire fought long ago, resulting in those two beings fusing together.
As a result, while the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire remained, since Unyuko as the host also remained, the damage was significantly reduced compared to before.
However, due to the battle at the mithril mine, Unyuko became a little girl, and her power to suppress the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire weakened.
And this time, by using the elf’s sacred jewel and the orichalcum sword, we completely exterminated the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire that had been living inside Unyuko.
—After finishing that explanation, Toko-san nodded with a serious face.
“Yeah. I don’t understand any of it.”
“Ehhhh!?”
“Well, I’ve long since given up on understanding Suzuha-nii’s shenanigans, you know? But still, this time is especially something—after all, you saved the world with legendary elves.”
“…Huh?”
What is Toko-san suddenly talking about?
Seeing my puzzled face, Toko-san sighed with an “honestly…”
“Let me confirm—Suzuha-nii fought the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire twice, right? Setting aside the encounter when you were a child.”
“Yes.”
“And after fighting twice, Unyuko became a little girl, right? At that point, Unyuko didn’t have enough magical power left. To suppress the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire, that is.”
“Is that so?”
I looked at the two elves without thinking, but they nodded.
I won’t ask for detailed explanations since I wouldn’t understand them anyway.
“So if left alone, Unyuko’s restraint would eventually disappear, the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire would make a great comeback, and all civilizations across the continent would have been destroyed.”
“Well, that would be the case.”
The Elder Elf gave a deadly serious response. Seriously?
“Despite being human, you read that far. Little girl.”
“Well, I am the kingdom’s top mage, after all.”
Toko-san puffed out her extremely large chest.
…Wait? Then what did she mean when she said she didn’t understand any of it?
“You understand it much better than I do, Toko-san.”
“What are you talking about!? What I can’t understand is how Suzuha-nii could fight and win against a fully charged, full-power Wandering Silver Haired Vampire!!”
“Well, I worked really hard.”
“If you could win by working hard, we wouldn’t need armies!”
Then Suzuha, who was standing behind me, said:
“Well, Big Brother has won wars without armies before.”
And Yuzuriha-san beside her added:
“Well, even I, his partner, can’t understand it at all. There’s no way Toko could figure it out.”
“Noooooo!!”
…It’s not my fault that Toko-san is holding her head, right? Surely.
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After that, Toko-san held her head for a while.
But eventually, as if pulling herself together, she shook her head several times.
“…Well, whatever. In any case, there’s no doubt that Suzuha-nii saved this continent again.”
“Again?”
“Last summer, with the Ogre King horde.”
“Ah, now that you mention it.”
“Second time in one year, or two years in a row?”
What’s with that way of counting like tournament appearances?
“But you know, that aside, that’s no reason for elves to come out of their village!?”
“Ah, didn’t I mention that?”
The Elder Elf—no, all the elves from the village were following right behind Suzuha and Yuzuriha-san. About several dozen people.
The reason is simple. Everyone moved out from the original elf village.
“It seems elves absolutely need orichalcum to demonstrate their race’s original power. But in the elf village, orichalcum had been depleted for hundreds of years.”
The orichalcum I brought is already gone too.
Because it was all used up making the demon-slaying orichalcum sword, and that sword melted away and disappeared when the Wandering Silver Haired Vampire was defeated.
Surely the orichalcum’s power was the final push that caused that demon to vanish.
That aside, I couldn’t help but call out to the Elder Elf, who had been looking dejected after the battle. Because her back looked so sooty.
“So I asked [Would you like to live near the orichalcum vein in my territory?]”
The reaction was dramatic.
She latched onto me with the vigor of someone who had taken an enemy general’s head.
“…Then the Elder desperately pressed me, saying [You said it! You said we could live there!!]…”
“Naturally. For us, it’s a matter of life and death.”
“But I didn’t expect you to bring everyone.”
“Hmph. As long as there’s land with orichalcum in this world, what meaning does the old village have? Not a single person opposed moving the village.”
“Well, there’s no reason to refuse, so it’s fine.”
While we were talking about this, Toko-san was holding her head again. I wonder why.
“…Hey, Suzuha-nii.”
“What is it?”
“Commoners don’t really have this, but among the nobility of this continent… well, more than half of them have a deep-rooted elf worship, you know?”
“Huh?”
“Well, to put it bluntly, elves are like a superior species to humans in terms of beauty and magical power, so many treat them like living gods. Historically, after the elf-hunting era, such a trend arose as a reaction… If such elves were to live in a specific human territory, what do you think would happen?”
“Who knows?”
“Demands of ‘That’s unfair, we want elves too’ will definitely come.”
Even if you tell me that…
Looking at the Elder, she seemed fed up:
“We won’t go to lands without orichalcum.”
“That’s what you’d normally think, right? But having elves in that territory is so obviously symbolic of power and magical force that the other side won’t back down either.”
“…It could become a spark for war?”
“Normally, yeah. Though whether there are any idiots on this continent who would pick a fight with Suzuha-nii is unclear.”
I see, now I finally understand.
—When Yuzuriha-san prophesied that elves would descend upon my territory.
When I said “That’s fine,” Yuzuriha-san somehow smiled wryly and said something like “Well, if it’s you, you’ll be fine.”
At the time, I didn’t understand what she was worried about, but that’s what it was.
“Well, knowing Suzuha-nii, you wouldn’t listen even if we tried to stop you, right?”
“Well, yeah.”
I didn’t become a margrave by choice.
But now that I’ve become a noble, I intend to fulfill my minimum duties.
“Nobles exist to help the people who seek salvation, right?”
When I said that, Toko-san in front of me,
The Elder Elf and Unyuko beside her,
Suzuha and Yuzuriha standing behind me, along with the people from the elf village—
Everyone laughed, saying that was just like me.
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