Chapter 31 - My Name is ----
Translator: Kakarott
Editor: imsara
Please make friends with me!
Here is my reaction to this sudden request.
“Yes?”
“Thank you. I heard that you are the son of a great nobleman. However, you’re very generous person to be able to accept a commoner such as me as your friend.”
No. I was not accepting your request.
“The reason. I need to hear the reason.”
“Of course, I was going to say it. You might get angry again because of my one-sided benefit. But, I will do my best to be honest.”
“If possible, give me a quick summary.”
“Yes. I’ll do my best.—”
The woman puts her hand on her large chest and started speaking with a slightly nervous expression.
“I was abandoned shortly after I was born. I was also abandoned even when I was picked up. This was repeated four times. Then, I taken to an orphanage south of the royal capital.”
That’s heavy and it’s hard to believe all of a sudden.
“Aren’t you thrown away too much?”
“I don’t even know the cause. Maybe I was feared everywhere because I was the ‘devil’s child.’ Maybe it was because I looked like this, or that shortly after I was born … I started speaking. Perhaps, it was just because I was afraid.”
Is it because she started speaking as a baby like me? I started to wonder.
Is it not unusual in this world? No, Frey was surprised as well when I spoke the first time we met. Do you know about the demons? I don’t understand it at all.
“I was avoided even in the orphanage. The only priest who was kind to me was the director of the orphanage. But, she died when I was five years old, and the newly appointed priest hated me.”
It’s a tearful tale of misfortune to listen to, but the person in question is nonchalant about it. There was not even a trace of sadness in her voice.
“Because I was in such a closed place and didn’t have any contact with my surrounding, I lacked the common sense of human society.”
I am aware of it.
“So why not try to be friends with you and learn common sense?”
When she nodded with a smile, I had to reply.
“Yup”
“That’s a fatal mistake in your selection. I’m not bragging, but I don’t have any friends either. I’ve been withdrawn all the time in the frontier, I am probably the same as you with no common sense.”
“That’s just right. Let’s learn common sense together.”
(TN: Why do I get the feeling that she’s the original late demon king’s reincarnation who Frey was supposed to serve)
Her carefree smile was refreshing and did not make me feel uncomfortable.
“No no no , you won’t grow up hanging out with people who lack common sense.”
“Is that what it’s all about?”
Wait, I thought. In my mind, my friends…
“Hey, are we friends?”
“I’m hungry so buy me some bread”
“It’s your money”
“You’re my friend.”
With that feeling, it’s a relationship where I’m pissed off and forced to do things.
This person is annoying me a lot. So, maybe I can use her as a “friend”?
Professor Tia seems to have interest in this girl.
I’ll be able to push this girl into Professor Little Glasses and escape from persistent recruitment.
Let’s try that in a bit.
“Do you have a specific training room or laboratory?”
“Yeah, I haven’t decided yet. However, there’s a laboratory specializing in ancient magic. So, there–”
“Good! You’re going into that lab. It’s an intimidating request from a friend.”
“Yeah, I was going to do that from the beginning… but I’m wondering. Even after hearing my story, you are willing to be my friend.”
The smile that bloomed suddenly was as cute as Charl.
Wait.
Isn’t this a convenient development for me even if she was just my friend?
“Didn’t you forget an important thing to tell your friend about after all this talk?”
The white ponytail shook her head as she nodded.
“It’s self-introduction. Even though you talked about your background, I don’t know your name. By the way, as you know, I’m Hart Zemphis.”
As soon as I said that, she lowered her eyebrows as if in trouble.
“Name… Yes, I see. That’s right. In human society, they start to communicate after sharing their names. Yeah, I understand that.”
She fidgeted and looked uncomfortable, and continued while slurring her words.
“My name was decided by me. It’s very special and important. I’m used to writing it in documents such as application forms, and getting acquainted with it, but giving it to myself …… There is still some resistance.”
You’re sounding like a demon again.
“But yeah, we have become friends. So, let’s face it and give it a shot.”
She put her hand on her large chest and took a few deep breath with a swoosh. Then, looked at me firmly with her nervous but sincere red eyes.
“My name is –”
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There was an open-air bath named by Charlotte as “Aima’s Garden Pandemonium” in the park. The hot spring was dug deep underground and the water was drawn from the river that flowed into a lake to keep it at the right temperature.
“It’s here! I have a feeling that something interesting is happening to my brother!”
Charlotte, who was soaking in the hot water, suddenly screamed and jumped out.
Frey and Lisa, who had just entered the hot water, looked away from the small body.
“What is that super-sense for that Hart-sama?”
“I think it’s the effect of the magic that Hart has put on for the defense. It’s not possible normally, but it might be a miracle for Charlotte’s strength of thought and latent magic.”
Frey removes the sweat and dirt, and immerses herself in the hot water while thinking that it’s a bit envious.
“Fu… hot spring after work is good.”
“We still have work to do. Why take a bath when you know you’ll be sweating again?”
Liza stood next to Frey and said.
“It’s good. If you sweat, you come in again. Refreshing your mind and body many times as possible. What’s wrong with it.”
That’s what it is. Liza looked away. She saw that the fat has a lower specific gravity than water. She’s a little disappointed.
“By the way, is it okay for you, Liza, the Blizzard Dragon to enter the hot springs?”
“I’m sorry even after you invited me. I’m “strong in the cold” and not “weak in the heat.””
“Why then did you bother to live in a cold area far away?”
“I loved loneliness at the time. I just wanted to live quietly, where neither people nor demons could set foot.”
However, when the Demon King was defeated, people started hunting demons everywhere. They were chased and started fleeing. They lost their way to this place and were rescued by Frey and Hart.
Now, under Hart, she is happy to take care of Charlotte and live with her friends.
Clearly, she realized that she had been withdrawn because she was afraid to interacting with others.
“You’ve had a rough time with the Demon King as well?”
“I don’t care. We’ve just been distant from each other because of our differences in opinions. Now, I can sympathize with the Demon King when he said that he wants to create a demon paradise for the demon race.”
This is the lakeside that Hart is building now. No, Hart is going further—charlotte says he is trying to create a paradise where people and demons live together.
Of course, Hart has no intention of doing so.
His goal is to create a place where he can enjoy the reclusive of life to the fullest, and he has no interest in what happens around it. It’s just a matter of keeping up with his sister’s games.
Frey and others don’t even know about it, not even a bit.
“After all, Hart-sama is the reincarnation of the demon-king.”
“Hmm. His memories may be lost, however, his fundamentals are the same. His personality has changed a lot, but…..”
“Were you good friends with the Demon King?”
“We were allies. It’s not that I’m not a good friend, it’ s just that even if we shared the same ideals, our methodologies gradually came to conflict. We were apart for a while, and then the Lightning Princess invaded and I decided to help out, but…”
To be blunt, the Demon King let everyone escape and took on the task all by himself.
“To be honest, I have the sense that Master Hart and the Demon King are different. I’m sure the reason he lost his memory is because he wanted to cut out the sweet spot where he couldn’t be ruthless. It’s just–”
Frey smiled with nostalgia.
“The Demon King used to call us by our species’ names, abbreviated as they were. He wouldn’t listen to me when I told him to stop.”
“Maybe “Frey”?”
“Oh. That’s why I was so happy when Master Hart attached that name to me. I was about to mention the name from my time as a demon king without a second thought.”
“If Master Hart remembers the memories of his previous life, which one should I call him?”
“That’s for Hart-sama to decide. Well, I think that his former name was forgotten with his memory.”
“What’s the name of the Demon King, if I may ask?”
“You’ve already earned Master Hart’s approval. It will not be a problem for me to tell you. Just don’t speak of it lightly, okay?”
Yeah, with a tense look, Liza nods.
“The name of the demon king is –”
Frey told her nostalgically and compassionately.
–Iris Philia.
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“Hmm, “Iris Philia” Hey… It’s long. Is “Iris” OK?”
(TN: YES!!!!!! I WAS RIGHT!!)
After the white-haired pony spoke or Iris Philia told me it was okay, for some reason she blurts out, “I’m sorry.”
“I’m sorry, I just remembered that I used to leave out a lot of names.”
You don’t have any friends, do you? Well, I’m not going to pursue it.
“I was warned to stop, but I see, you don’t realize that until I’ m done. It doesn’t feel so good.”
However, she said with a smile.
“I don’t mind. You can call me whatever you want to call me.”
Anyways, she got her first friend and I also got my first friend at the same time.
I didn’t tell her that we’d be friends even if I dropped out of school – —