Chapter 4 - The Choir
As we weaved our way through the crowd to the front, we saw a group of men arranging a number of wooden boxes. A certain object was being formed out of wooden boxes of the same size. However, the boxes were empty.
Alec, with a dubious look on his face, was curious about the contents of the boxes, and bent down to take a peek.
Just then, the minstrels start the background music.
Zuddan, zuddan, zuddan, dadadadadada――
A group of girls came running towards us from the side at a great speed.
At once Meena leaned forward to protect Alec, but the girls went straight up to the center of the crates, and the five of them lined up side by side.
「Hey, guys~, thanks for waiting~!」
「「「Woowowowow!!」」」
From the crowd that had gathered, the enthusiastic cheers of the men welled up. It seems to be a great success.
「Because I already love you~♪ Fou, Fou!」
The five girls smiled and showed their affection, and began to dance and sing rhythmically to the tune.
As Alec looked at me in a dazed state, I winked and signaled him that he could enjoy himself as he pleased.
「Momo-chan! Mo ! Mo! Mo! Mo!」
The surrounding audience members were shouting with joy, some even shouting strangely.
After all, live music is the best!
As I was trying to enjoy myself while keeping the rhythm, Alec suddenly laid down on the spot.
W-What are you doing?
「Master!」
「Yes, excuse me, move over, move over! Code 3 occurring with board, target 1, understood to proceed. Cleared, sir.」
「Step away from the stage, please! There! Don't push!」
A white hooded attendant soon appeared and carried Alec away from the square to the back.
「Alec!」
I tried to follow him, but the crowd was in the way and I couldn't move as fast as I wanted.
「「「Momo-chan! 」」」
「Hey, let me through!」
「It's during an accident that we should support you!」
「「「Yeah! 」」」
「Peeking into Momo-chan panties, you miserable bastard, damn, I'm really jealous.!」
「But that guy who did what we couldn't do, he's no slouch.」
Ehh? Alec, you're too much of a loose in another world. It's not like these singers are doing it 、just to show their underwear, peeking at them is a crime in itself, geez.
It can't be helped, I have to show him my underwear and control his middle-aged sex drive!
It's not that I want to show them, but I really don't have a choice!
I don't know, I'm not depressed about this situation where I have to voluntarily show my underwear, but I'm even motivated. I'm embarrassed and I really don't want to, but I have to show them as soon as possible!
「All right! Out of my way!」
Determined and strangely excited, I waded through the men and headed for the back where Alec had been taken.
Just then, Alec came out with Meena.
「Geez, Alec, you're embarrassing me. ...... If you want to see a girl's underwear so badly, just tell me and I'll do it in my room――Ahnn, it hurts」
I had the courage to tell him, but Alec popped his finger hard on my forehead.
「I didn't do it on purpose. Don't take the liberty of making me out to be a pervert.」
What do you mean, "take the liberty"? It was Alec who did the perverting, but ...... what?
There is still a white hood following behind him, but it is probably to keep an eye on the pervert. Alec stared at the crate stage, unconcerned.
「Please, let me be the center! Please buy my stones! The person who sells the most stones will be the next center!」
「「「Woooooooooo!!!」」」
The wild voice seemed to reach the heavens, and the excitement in the hall seemed to be at its peak.
「After all, what are those guys?」
「They're a choir from the Holy Church that works around bars. They also dance, so they're kind of like idols in Japan.」
Alec didn't seem to understand, so I explained it to him.
「Hmmm. Are they going to take their clothes off?」
「They're not taking it off!」
Why would an idol take her clothes off?
「Uwahh, there it is... the erotic old man comments.」
「Shut up, Lily. Then, it's boring.」
「Let's go home.」
A handshake session had started on stage, but Alec didn't seem to be participating. That's weird.
「Hee, you're not taking them home?」
When I said that, Alec twisted his eyebrows a little and made a disgusted face.
「I don't like that kind of flirtatiousness, and I don't like the way people talk about me. I'm a good citizen.」
「Good, eh.....How dare you call you a good citizen?」
「Shut up. A person who suddenly slashes at an innocent person without asking what happened is a much worse person, Serina」
「Guhh.」
As I left the square, the man in the white hood also returned to his post, as if he had decided that surveillance was unnecessary.
「The Holy Church has been rapidly expanding its power recently, but I haven't heard good things about it. There seems to be a lot of trouble with their pushy salesmanship.」
Ione told me that the Holy Church had a bad reputation when she interviewed them, because they were selling stones on the street.
「Hmm?」
Three old ladies stood in front of us. We tried to avoid them, but they kept coming around us. By any chance...
「What do you want from us?」
「Yes, we have some precious stones to share with you. Would you like to buy one?」
「Another stone. I don't want it. I can't pay for that.」
「Then I'll give you one for free.」
The old lady forcefully put it into Alec's hand. Alec took one look at the stone and immediately slammed it into the ground.
「What the hell is this?」
「Aah! What an outrage! The gods have given us a special power stone!」
The grandmothers started crawling on the ground in panic, but they didn't seem to know which stone was the one from earlier. I don't care if this is called a special stone.
「I'm sorry, Grandma. It's probably this one.」
Still, it must be theirs, so I picked up the stone and offered it to them, and they glared at me and quickly snatched it away.
「You'll go to hell, you guys!」
The trio of grandmothers who had left the ominous words were still blocking the way for another passerby. Oh, they slammed another stone into the ground.
「I feel sorry for them.」
「Leave them alone. They're not a victim, they're an accomplice.」
「That may be so, but ......」
「It's okay, though. There are plenty of rocks out there, and it's not like they're in trouble.」
As Lily said, it's true that they haven't lost anything.
But even so, I still feel a sense of bewilderment.
We all returned to the inn quite that day.
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