Funeral, what should I do if I reincarnate as a demon?

The door that was originally tightly closed was violently dismantled and thrown aside, including the door and the lock, which made him stunned.

".... What does your child do all day long?" Ash was speechless and couldn't help but slap her on the butt.

"Woo~!" Linie, who didn't sleep well, reflexively bit his neck with a cute whimper, making him look at the ceiling in a daze with an expression of doubting life.

During this period, he could even feel the warm saliva flowing down his neck. Anyway, it was inexplicably... strange.

It was not until Linie woke up that he finally got rid of the weird situation.

Linie, who was acting alone for the first time, was scolded by him after waking up, but she still seemed particularly excited and wanted to walk around the city more.

"Having a secret affair with Master Ash..." The girl who was walking in front quickly, shaking her body and two cute ponytails, turned around in confusion after only two steps, and asked, "What should I do at this time, Master Ash?"

"...At this point, I don't want to correct your terminology, but at least say it's a date, even though it's just an adult shopping with a child."

"Compared to this, what is that?" Linie pointed directly at the white tower in the distance.

"....Change the subject?" He shook his head helplessly, and then looked along the slender fingertips: "That is the Magic Association, there are troublesome old people inside, it's better not to get close, otherwise it will be very troublesome."

"Is it a troublesome person like Aura-sama?"

"...If you say this in front of her, she will be angry."

"I understand, but now it's said behind her back."

"...I sometimes wonder if you said I was troublesome behind Aura's back?"

"Don't I usually say it to her face?" Linie retorted seriously, making him cover his face and sigh: "...Who did you learn this bad character from?"

"From Aura-sama and Ash..."

"——I am absolutely not like this, apologize to me immediately."

"...I'm sorry."

Being scolded, Linie couldn't help but lower her head in frustration.

But her frustration would not last too long every time, and she would immediately take out the apple that she put in his pocket when she went out, wipe it skillfully inside his shirt, and eat it expressionlessly.

There is no special reason. She not only eats apples as meals, but also eats apples like a heavy smoker. She eats apples when she is in a good mood, a bad mood, annoyed, depressed, etc.

When Ash is not around, she wipes them with her sleeves. When Ash is around, she wipes them with his clothes. Anyway, she has to eat them no matter what. She is a heavy apple addict.

But she ate them again right after apologizing, which made Ash feel very insincere... Although she would not be sincere even if she did not eat them.

"Alas... Why is there not even a normal person around me?" He felt something was wrong just after sighing like this. At least... Connie, Rabinie and Zanze were quite normal.

Linie, who heard the voice, seemed particularly well-behaved, and handed him the apple: ".... Master Ash, do you want to eat it too?"

"... I don't understand why you would give me an apple at this time, but even if you give something to someone, at least don't give it to someone who has already eaten it, right? Well... I should have said this many times."

"This tastes good." While speaking, the expressionless girl handed the apple over without authorization.

Unable to refuse the kindness, he could only take it and take a bite, feeling the sweet and sour taste spreading in his mouth. While still thinking about where to go, Linie wiped it on his clothes.

Then she lifted his clothes, came close to him, shook her head skillfully, wiped her mouth with the material inside, and walked quickly in front without waiting for him to speak.

This made him feel very depressed, but he didn't want to say anything more, so he could only shake his head and follow.

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Walking through the downtown area, passing by the commercial street, and looking at the slums, Linie seemed to be particularly happy as she looked around all the way.

Although Ash couldn't really understand her because of her lack of expression, her excitement was obvious enough.

Although he knew a little about this land, he was not good at finding his way around, and because he was always busy, he would not run around here casually, resulting in him not having been to many places, so his knowledge seemed insignificant at this moment.

Soon Linie took him through the market and into the intricate paths... making him fall into a maze-like challenge.

As far as he could see... he didn't know where the destination was, but the road under his feet was as elusive as a maze. Linie seemed to be looking for something in the market, constantly wandering around, so he could only hold Linie's hand to avoid getting lost.

Not long after, he was still holding Linie's hand, and in the other hand, there was a large bag of apples. There were two wooden boxes floating beside him, which seemed to be the rations she prepared for later.

"Master Ash, is this the way back?" Linie grabbed his hand and followed him, but couldn't help asking: "Why do I feel like I've been here before?"

"....How would I know."

"Master Ash, unexpectedly useless?"

"If you say that again, I'll beat you up."

"I'm sorry, Master Ash, I was wrong." Linie, who had always actively admitted her mistakes, apologized to him without thinking, and her good attitude made him feel like... facing his sincere self.

"....Is this retribution?"

Whenever he was by Linie's side, he couldn't help thinking like this in his heart, even though he was not willing to admit it.

Besides, before they walked out of here, he saw Connie, who was alone, on the opposite side. The other party also obviously noticed him, and immediately raised his hand and ran towards him with his eyes shining.

But Lini narrowed her eyes at this moment, raised her hand and poked his waist with her fingertips, and asked in a calm tone:

"Master Ash, this person's companion stepped on your foot yesterday... Can I kill her?"

"No, that's not an attack, it can only be regarded as a playful, joking thing... Girls shouldn't fight and kill for no reason."

"... In other words, Master Ash likes to be stepped on?" Lini nodded thoughtfully, raised her foot and stepped on his instep, tilted her head and asked seriously: "Does it feel good?"

"... Huh?"

Being stepped on by a loli and asking such a strange question directly shocked him, and his head was buzzing.

Connie, who had just come to their side, was even more stunned: "Uncle... do you like being stepped on?!"

"... How is it possible!" He grabbed the back of Linie's collar, causing this strange loli's legs to leave the ground and float in the air, staring at her unhappily:

"... Linie, don't step on my feet in the street and ask such strange questions."

"I'm sorry... Next time, I will pay attention." Linie looked very guilty and bowed her head skillfully to admit her mistake.

"....Tell me, what did you pay attention to next time?"

"Have I done anything bad before?"

"Good fellow, you can forget it in a blink of an eye?" She kept walking and staring at him, and his intention was to pinch her face directly, pulling her cheeks: "If you don't teach me a lesson this time, what else are you going to do? You can't step on me casually, don't you understand this principle?"

"Others stepped on me yesterday...Ash-sama is biased?"

"Is this the focus now??"

"Should I step on other places?"

"Not this either!"

...........

Facing this child who always speaks nicely but never corrects herself, Ash has no confidence that he can make her correct herself even though he is preaching.

Connie also hurried forward to stop him, saying: "The child has admitted her mistake, uncle, stop bullying her, and act like an adult!"

"That's what I said... but just like my apology, she will never repent."

"You can't say that, right? You have to give enough trust to children. The more you say that, the more likely they are to not change, right!"

As she spoke, she pressed down Ash's hand, letting him put down Linie, and smiled as she took out an apple from her basket and handed it to him.

She even gently rubbed Linie's red face when Linie just took it:

"Does it hurt? Big sister will help you rub it~ Uncle is so rude, such a cute child, he actually bullied it like this!"

"......" Linie, who never let others touch her even if they were of the same sex, perhaps felt that the other party was harmless and helped her, and even gave her an apple, unexpectedly did not directly slap the other party away, but turned her head to look at Ash with a blank expression and said:

".... Lord Ash, this woman is unexpectedly good."

"What this woman~ Sister is Connie, what's your name?"

"Linie."

"Little Linie~ You and Who is the uncle's?"

"I am the lover of Master Ash."

"Lover? Yes, lover is good, love-lover! ?"

Connie, who didn't come back to her senses for a while, smiled and nodded subconsciously, and only said halfway, she screamed out loud, and turned her head to look at Ash: "--You, you did to this child! What did you do? !"

"....Nothing, this child is just not good at introducing people, you wait here for a while, I will have a good chat with her."

Originally, I wanted to complain that she was deceived by the child's cute appearance, but now Ash just had a numb expression on his face and silently grabbed Linie's hand.

He planned to give a good lecture, so he left a bag of apples for Connie to help watch, told her not to move around, and took Linie away directly to prevent Linie from saying strange things again.

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Ash, who didn't plan to come back, took Linie away while talking to her, but it didn't take long...

After turning a corner, he saw the orange-haired girl standing in front of him with her back to him, looking around and waiting for them to come back.

"...It's that woman again." Linie bit the apple given by Connie and said in an overly calm tone: "Master Ash, I said we should have walked past here just now, why didn't you listen to me? We should have walked the other way just now... But it's okay this way, I just like that bag of apples too."

"Can you stop thinking about apples all day long, and stop being bribed by an apple? How about being a little more promising?"

"I just think that woman is unexpectedly good."

"...Your appearance is totally unconvincing. What if someone wants to bribe you with apples? I'm worried!"

"Kill it and snatch it back. Aren't the life and the apple mine? Yes, the money is mine too." Linie bit the apple and said the truth of the law of the jungle in this world.

Although such words, coming from a child who looks like a little loli, are really full of disobedience.

This made him feel relieved, but also worried about other aspects.

But before he could say anything else to her, Connie, who had his back to them, had already discovered that the two people appeared behind him for some reason.

This made her slightly surprised, but then she put her hands on her hips and asked suspiciously:

"Uncle... why did you appear behind me?"

"Want to give you a surprise?"

"This road, it takes quite a distance to go around the back... You don't want to leave me and run away with this child?"

"How is it possible~ Why should I do this... Linie, don't use me to wipe in front of others, it's rude, you should use this woman to wipe."

Before he finished speaking, he felt the hem of his clothes being pulled without even turning around, and slapped Linie's little hand away.

"... Sorry." Linie, who had just finished eating an apple, took back her little hand pitifully.

After hearing what he said, Connie couldn't help but show a strange expression and pointed at himself: ".... This woman? Is it polite to use my hand?"

"Ah, sorry, I was misled by Linie by mistake..."

It was too easy to say, which gave him a headache. He wanted to explain something, and Connie wanted to say something when he saw... Linie next to him, with a very strong sense of stealing, silently put her hand on his clothes again, and wiped her mouth with his clothes.

And it was not even ten seconds since she was scolded.

Connie was stunned, and even Ash completely gave up the idea of ​​saying anything.

Although he had to scold this messy Linie occasionally, Ash still thought she looked very cute. As for her personality... There was no way, he had to take care of the child he raised with tears.

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Although Ash wanted to escape, he couldn't escape. He was forced to ask Connie, a thorough local, for help, and finally got out of the maze-like market.

But just as he walked out and took a short break on a bench by the roadside, Connie looked at him with questioning eyes: "Uncle... what is your relationship with this child?"

"... a relative's child."

"Really not a lover?"

"Use common sense to think about it..."

"Isn't this very common? Because the uncle should be a noble, right?"

"Well... it seems quite normal?"

This medieval common sense made him speechless for a moment, and then he stretched out his hand and pressed on Linie's head, shaking her body, and asked Connie: "Have you seen that lover be so rude?"

"It seems so? But... it's incredible that the uncle can take care of children..."

"I have taken care of children before."

"What about Philen? Ah, speaking of it, I just ran into Philen, and she seemed to say that you didn't come home last night again?" Connie put his index finger on his chin and suddenly talked about meeting Philen.

"... Let's talk about something happy." He silently cast his gaze into the distance, while touching Linie's head, he sighed: "Speaking of which, the evening is the time to grant privileges, right? Rabinie should be thinking about what kind of magic to do, and what about you? What do you plan to do in the next three years?"