Volume 5 - CH 67

Act 5-67: The Last of Ordinary Daily Life

Three days after the meeting. The result of the meeting in accordance with the majority of votes was to not ask for assistance from the hunter guild.

The decision had been made. Either way, assistance from the hunter guild was the absolute requirement to ensure the safety of the monsters. And since the ones who needed that the most, the monsters, rejected such an idea, I had no choice but to accept that fact.

For the same reason, no optimum solution comes to my mind to ensure the monsters’ safety and our victory.

Our opponent was Aldebaran, the most notorious among the four great demon kings. We’re doomed if we only wait for him to make his move without thinking of any countermeasures. I have to come up with an emergency plan as soon as possible.

I leaned my chin on the window frame in my room, as I looked at the passing monsters on the street.

「GIL! TODAY IS THE FESTIVAL!!」

Shar came and broke into my room and called out with her bright voice, leaping onto me, and catching my head in her embrace. This reminds me, today was the ceremony of the completion of the new city.

Previously, Ruu-san had told me that a celebration was needed to raise the sense of solidarity and celebrate the freedom of the captives. And today was such a day.

「Thanks for the reminder, Shar, shall we go together?」

As the one who received the responsibility of opening the ceremony, I couldn’t set a bad example by coming late.

「Yeah!」

Shar nodded happily as she clung onto my arm, her special position, as usual.

Upon leaving the house, I saw that various monster tribes had been heading toward the plaza. Just a while ago, they often quarreled with me, a human, or Shar, but it rarely happens nowadays.

Anyhow, some of them bear extremely close resemblance to humans. At first, my appearance was really conspicuous in the middle of the city but that isn’t the case nowadays. As of now, I have pretty much adapted and blended with the city. But well, that wasn’t the only reason――

「GIL, SHAR, COME AND EAT THIS!! ON ME!」

We received two grilled meat skewers from the butcher aunty of the orc tribe.

「THANKS!」

I thanked the aunty and handed the other skewer to Shar. The aunty was Bhu’s relative.

「It’s delicious.」

Shar’s face loosened as she munched on the meat skewer. {ED: She is kinda cute, ngl}

「GIL-SAN!」

A green-skinned boy waved his hands on me with a wide-faced smile. He was a green-skinned pixie, just like a few other boys beside him.

「Gobuza, are you walking around the festival?」

「Yeah!」

「Are you enjoying it?」

「It’s the best!」

That was the best compliment for me, the promoter of the festival.

「Glad to hear that. Make sure you come to the plaza.」

We were heading toward the central plaza while receiving various gratitude from the monsters.

The place we were heading for was a huge plaza in front of Ket Nya. A few monsters had already been waiting for me in front of the plaza.

「You’re late, Gil!」

「Look, the promoter is late!」

Chato and Tama called out in a loud voice.

『Oi Gil, we have already arrived!』

On the table in front of the innermost building, Bhu called out to me while raising the wooden cup in his hand.

Sitting at the same table was one-eyed giant, Cyclon, and crocodile faced Crocodas, also with one of their hands on the cup.

I also received a reminder from the three monsters who were already drunk.

At first, Cyclon and Crocodas were willing to work with me while keeping their distance, but lately, we have been talking with each other quite often.

「Good grief, we ended up starting first since the promotor of the ceremony is late…」

Chigi shrugged his shoulder as Org of high-ogre chiding me and,

「Don’t be like that. He’s been racking his brain lately to come up with the best counter-plan. You need to take a break.」

「Maybe but… Hey, Gil, what are you thinking about? Won’t you share thath with me?」

Hearing Org asked with sober voice,

「I’m about to tell you about that.」

「Yeah right. Well enough of that, let’s start the ceremony immediately!」

Chigi nodded, hearing Chato remark, and then rose to the altar.

We clapped our hands to get everyone’s attention and started the ceremony.