Chapter 56 Faeries

Translator: Isekai Shousetsu

To say the least, I just cant imagine seeing that man having the caliber of Great King butare you absolutely sure youre correct? (Rosyth)

King Rosyth just said something quite mean. Although, I do agree with him.

Is the Divine Protection of the Great King actually not that rare?

Its not just me who has it? Or should I say, you could actually obtain such thing?

Now, that feels kind of depressing huh.

Yes. My Divine Protection of Perception is quite accurate after all. Its definitely the same as Almis abilitythat of raising the physical abilities depending on the number of people who believe in you as a leader. It also raises the physical abilities of people who trust you and have high loyalty to you as a ripple effect. Theyre the same, yes? (Julia)

Does that mean that Regal DeBell is actually a big shot without us knowing it? (Almis)

If that really were the case, then Ill be so disillusioned.

Hmmm, I wonder. At the very least, the people of the DeBell territory ((do consider, or should I say)) are afraid of him as their leader. Look, didnt he just boast that he killed a bear about three years ago?

I see, its enough that they consider you as their leader. Its not related at all to the persons caliber, huh.

Well, the people of a population probably dont know the character of their leader anyway.

Its only natural.

Nevertheless, why does a person like Regal DeBell have such a divine protection? (Almis)

Beats me. Fairies are whimsical creatures after all. (Julia)

Fairies?

Hey, Julia. When you said fairiesdid you mean the mischievous fairies? (Almis)

In the Adernia Peninsula, fairies exist in folklore. They say fairies are mischievous and do things like pulling pranks on people.

If youre having either an unusually lucky or unlucky day, they say its the work of fairies

If it suddenly rained, its because of the fairies.

Those kind of things.

Right, right. I looked up a lot of things about them and there was that kind of theory. The evidence is laughter. Havent you heard them? Specifically, childrens laughter. ((Youll hear them)) by the time youve been given a divine protection (Julia)

Childrens laughter, huh.

I dont know. That might possibly be true, however

Its been so many years ago when I noticed I had the Divine Protection. Ive probably forgotten about that.

Is that so? Almis doesnt know, huh. Ive heard them many times, you know. I could already hear them a little when we first met, you know. Maybe it depends upon the person whether if they could hear them. Well, anyway, I think the fairies true form is that of children. When you speak of fairies, you kind of think of a childish impression, after all. (Julia)

In other words, they only call them fairies as a matter of convenience.

Now that you said it, didnt Griffon-sama often spoke of those brats.

Well, its certain that its a child-like existence.

Werent there a lot of particularly nasty episodes concerning fairies?

Certainly there were things like that.

There were as many episodes concerning fairies as the number of stars in the sky. All of them about fairies pulling pranks on people.

These episodes can be classified into four types.

Those warm and fluffy stories.

Those moral lesson-like stories where the person gets deceives and loses everything but becomes aware of the importance of their bonds with family.

Also, those stories where people go through terrible hardships.

And the last onestories where people die because of the fairys mischief.

Lets give one concrete example.

A long time ago, there was a man.

This man hopelessly fell in love with his childhood friend from the village. However, his childhood friend ended up getting married to the village chiefs son.

He was devastated.

And then, a fairy appeared in his dream and said:

Tomorrow, go deep inside the forest at night and shoot the tree growing at the top of the mountain as the soon as the sun rises.

In the beginning the man ignored this, but the dreams kept coming every day.

One time, the man finally did as the fairy instructed.

The man shoots at the tree at sunrise.

At the same time, a rabbit jumps out and get hits by the arrow.

Since then, the man kept following the fairys instructions.

Because of this, the man becomes wealthy and gets popular too.

However, the only one in his heart is his childhood friend.

One day, the fairy tells him:

Your childhood friend was threatened to become the wife of the village chiefs son. You should kill the village chiefs son. After that, you should just run away. There are gold coins buried under the grape tree at the back of your house. With that money, you could run away.

The man did as the fairy told him. He killed the village chiefs son. The village chief and his wife witnessed this, so he killed them too. He then proposed to his childhood friend that they elope.

However, his childhood friend resisted.

The two argued when suddenly the childhood friend gets stabbed by a knife and dies.

He escapes in the confusion and returns to his home to dig up whats under the grape tree.

There he finds a sack.

However, what he found inside were not gold coins

but cow feces.

The story ends there.

In a word, its a story with a moral lesson. That in this world, there are a lot of things that are too good to be true so dont get deceived. However

Was it really necessary for it to get that horrible?

And whats really scary here is that theres nothing in it for the fairy that appeared in the story.

In other words, fairies, just as a prank, get people to kill other people.

I really dont get what fairies are thinking. I was somehow well liked by them too. (Julia)

Which reminds me, this person has a lot of divine protections, huh.

Its probably fine to n