Monster no Goshujin-sama

09. How Your Husband Is

Nine.

I woke up the next day.

Fortunately, my magic, which kept decreasing, calmed me down after a day. I can't be sure because it was unexplained in the first place, but it seemed safe for now.

If you ask me, it was that Gabella kept sending me magic until things settled down.

Even with the Origami gabella, she enjoyed this task of using up her magic and concentration, and fell asleep to make sure I was safe and lose my mind.

Speaking of which, did you say you're not good with these magic treatments?

I really took care of her.

"Good luck"

When I gave him a white head, his spider legs sounded.

The full smile of the doer was making her soft beauty wander.

"Really saved me this time"

I spoke to Lily behind me.

We were both moving into a small room set in Arakune's nest.

This was the "bathroom" built by Rose in our absence. Even so, it is as simple as' a divided space with a bucket big enough for a person to put in '.

There's nobody else in the quarantined space.

It's been a long time since I've felt alone, me and Lily.

"As far as my treatment is concerned, I was also helped in the matter of Gabella. I don't know what would have happened without Lily... sorry for the hard work."

"It's okay, it's okay."

Lily responded to my apology with a bitter smile and cut off my hair while sitting in front of her with a piece of cake made by Rose.

My hair, which had been stretching in my survival life for more than a month, was burned in part this time when I was hit by a balloon fox fireball, and the length was becoming urban.

He asks Lily to cut the length. I'm not dissatisfied with leaving it to my amateur girlfriend because she usually had it properly cut at a cheap haircut shop anyway. This kind of thing is fine if it's not ugly.

"As I said then, I am everyone's sister. I just did what I deserved."

"Right. Speaking of which, you said that."

"I'd rather you praised him about Rose. I never thought I could admit to you about Gabella that way."

"Oh. I thought it was something that would take longer. After a while, I was so worried that Gabella's failure to protect me would ruin our relationship."

"I'm the same. I thought that kid was a lot harder. But Rose was thinking about Gabella when she was Rose."

"Right."

"Of course, Gabella was working hard too. Don't think of the bravery prize until today as definitely that kid."

Lily cut her hair as she spoke and scattered it all over my body with a towel on her hips.

This is how I am half-naked, because if I were to wash out my cut hair anyway, I thought I would finally get rid of the sweat and dirt.

Lily is also my escort to take a bath.

Because my body still doesn't work.

This was not a side effect of receiving a supply of magic from Garbera that I feared - it was simply a lack of health caused by debilitation.

Anyway, I'm weak and my body doesn't move properly.

Fortunately, at least for now, there are no other signs of glitches. There was nothing particularly painful about it, and at best it was enough to leave traces of burns on the arms and traces of the removal of the seeds of the cannon crawl thin.

Besides, there is no possibility that you just haven't noticed the physical condition yet. You'll need to be careful. After all, I didn't know why the magic had been lost, and it was a punishment.

"Right. Gabella's hard work saved her life. So is Lily, and so is Rose. Guys, you were growing up sometime..."

I leaked a sigh of relief as I heard the creepy sound of my hair cut.

"... at all, I didn't realize. Evidence of a narrower horizon."

"I guess that's something I can't help it with."

Apparently he was almost done cutting it all together, and Lily started squeaking and squeaking and toning her hair tips.

"I know how much your husband cares about us. The discord between Rose and Gabella was a major problem for your husband. If it's important, don't think it's common for a human being to emptied out of power."

"The usual, huh?"

"... ah. Master, eyes, close."

The haircut was over and Lily began to wash my head when she drew water into the small handkerchief.

Thin fingers scratch your hair and tickle your scalp. Water poured over the top of the head propagates the jaw and flows to the floor.

My eyes remained closed, and I continued the conversation.

"Maybe Lily's right."

"Yeah?"

He said he was in a hurry.

In retrospect, it may have also been a sign of the impatience I had in my arms to suddenly imitate a flock against a balloon fox, my first enemy.

"I was in such a hurry that I couldn't do anything about it that I hung myself to death. On the contrary, it was caused by my failure to protect me, and if I hit it badly, I could almost make a decisive groove between Rose and Gabella..."

After Lily wiped my body clean, I soaked it in a bucket filled with water.

Hot water is better when it comes to luxury, but just being able to take a water bath in this way refreshes my mood enough.

In this way, the pleasure is also halved.

"That's pathetic. I'm your leader."

Weak sounds that should have sunk deep in my chest, coming out with my mouth on, maybe because I felt a little loose.

"I can't always afford it, and I've been pinned down for personal matters, and the measures I've come up with are full of holes. I don't have the power to solve your problems."

I thought, 'How did this happen?' when I saw the sight at Setouchi, my life dying of a lack of magic, that everything was on the verge of attributing to blisters.

If you look back now on a series of events, the answer is clear.

Because I will not come.

Lily called my haste and emptiness' mundane '.

But it's not normal. Because I am the Lord who obeys the monsters of their families.

Because I did not possess enough power to be Lord enough, I became the feather of such a great failure. Although it was only thanks to Lily and the others that we could dive through the danger, that is only a theory of consequences. It doesn't change what I couldn't do. [M]

They are definitely growing. But I can't.

"I was in a hurry, I went around empty, I couldn't do anything. I got nothing."

The sigh was heavy and felt to rot his chest.

"I'm so sorry."

"Your husband..."

Lily peered into my face in the same position as she did when she carried me to the bath barrel so that she could hold me in her arms.

He stares at me with his big eyes.

When I looked back in suspicion, she lay down her eyes for the first time.

He looked like he was thinking of something.... what are you thinking? I can't even read my thoughts on the path.

Lily looked up.

There was a blooming smile all over her face.

"I guess that's something I can't help but..."

That's a gentle word of comfort...... but it wasn't.

There was a strange force in my smile.

"Li, Lili......"

I felt something disturbing and tried to fall back unconsciously. But what I have right now is in a barrel, if it's bigger. There is no escape.

I just wanted to pretend I didn't notice, but unfortunately there's a pass between us. The fact that Lily was making her emotions expensive was outrageous. Besides, she wasn't going to hide it herself, apparently.

"I am, my lord. Fine, I'm angry about this one."

With a slightly frowned expression of protest, Lily, kneeling, stuffed me.

The jersey she was wearing was getting wet for a behavior that did not consider the water in the barrel, but I don't mind that.

When I can turn my torso, she comes after me by knocking her body down. All I can say is luxury. A girl's hand grabbed my arms and caught her so she couldn't escape.

"Why didn't you talk to me? Why are you holding him in alone? How can you not rely on us?

"I didn't count on you? What are you talking about? That can't be happening."

"Are you saying it's a misunderstanding?

I nodded and defended myself.

"If it weren't for you, I'd be in the monster's stomach. I know about boulders. I can't believe you can't rely on that."

"There's no way, is there?...... yeah. I guess. I guess so."

Lily nodded lightly.

I had a bitter grin on my mouth.

"Your husband is right. I'm sure your husband doesn't think you can count on us."

With that sad smile somewhere, Lily told me.

"Yet you don't rely on me,"

……

"Your husband thinks of us as' the one you can count on, 'but he doesn't' count on us, 'does he?... Different, huh?

……

This time I could not find a word of denial.

I lay everything down on Lily because it was an indisputable fact.

One case of Rose and Gabella. Even on the issue with Kato. Though once sweetened on Gabella, that just turned out to be the case, and at first I was trying to somehow mislead her. In other details, there is also a history of silence about visual abnormalities.

I had problems on my own, without relying on my companions, who were supposed to rely on me.

If I was pointed out, it was clear that I had such a nature.

But it wasn't like I didn't have a say in it.

"I am responsible for leading you. This would be the area of responsibility."

I am the master of Lily and her family.

As for the Lord, if there is a problem with their families, I must resolve it.

Naturally, the problems that have happened to me must be resolved by myself so that there is nothing to burden them with.

It's a responsibility as a leader of a group, though.

There's nothing wrong with the stance itself, only mourning the lack of power.

It should be.

"That's not true."

Lily, however, rocked her flax colored hair and shook her first.

"How can you not understand? If I held that and this and all alone, it wouldn't be natural to fail."

"So I guess that's because of my lack of power"

"What's wrong with a lack of power? Don't we have family to make it up to?

Taking Lily's slightly superior gaze to complain, I was made to behave.

Her eyes were shaking as loud as a lake surface, not failing to take off the amplitude of her emotions.

It was destructive enough to shake the tiny grip I had.

"Of course I know that, don't I? That your husband has a strong sense of responsibility. I know very well that there is something punitive about it. I know, but..."

From Lily's eyes, the puffiness and tears fell zero.

"I can't help it anymore... rely on it for a little while."

"Lily......"

I remember.

It was when I got caught up in the balloon fox trap and came back blurry.

Seeing about me, although it was initially Lily who showed how she had moved, the rest seemed to be disciplining herself and hitting treatment all the time.

If I know Lily, I can't help but panic.

She never showed tears.

Because that's not equals' Lily can now feel nothing '.

Under a resolute mask, she was holding back her upset self. If she were to borrow her own way of saying it, 'as she deserved as her eldest daughter,' Lily would have behaved. Until now, I've been patient.

But we're alone here now.

There was no reason for Lily to behave strongly as her sister.

"Because I was scared. I thought your husband might be dead..."

Lily, who suppressed her upset self and let her fulfill her responsibilities as her eldest daughter, was not her when she had just met her, when she had just eaten Miho Mizushima and got the look of a girl.

Change is definitely coming.

What the hell is that for?

I can't tell you what I don't know, even if my mouth is torn.

That is, of course, because, as she herself said, it must be to 'support me'.

Yet her devotion is not rewarded when I at heart do not rely on her.

Even Rose and Gabella do. They do their best to support me, too.

I was going to do the best I could, but I guess I was wrong about something. The tears spilling in front of me proved it.

Whatever it is, it's not a good time to give yourself up to regret right now.

I had other things to do. I couldn't go wrong this time.

"... bad"

I reached out to Lily, who was crying, and I held her.

Lily didn't resist. Instead, he threw himself from himself.

When I hugged her, she leaked a whimper in her arm. I thought again that you put a lot of effort into it.

We stayed close for a while.

Strangely enough, it was a calm time. If it had been so calm, it must have been unrelated to such failure.

Eventually, the sound of soaking my nose disappeared.

"... I say this with reference to Miho Mizushima's knowledge"

I hear you calmed down. Lily spoke.

"There are many different types of leaders."

"Type?"

Lily nodded stiffly.

My forehead rubbed against my chest and it tickled a little.

"The powerful type that pulls people, the type that attracts them with charisma..."

"Neither of them apply to me."

I spilled a bitter laugh.

"Yeah. Right."

Lily would never dare deny my words either.

"But, your husband. We don't want to follow them."

……

"'I can't always afford it, and I've been pinned down for personal matters, and the measures I've come up with are full of holes. I don't have the power to solve your problems'? That's how your husband said it earlier. But..."

Lily stared at me like she looked up from the bottom.

"There's always room, there's nothing more to worry about, a leader with the power to solve whatever the problem is and save everything in his eyes. It's kind of an ideal."

By turning my mourning upside down, Lily described it as an 'ideal', bringing to life the image of 'As Lord of their families, I am what I am supposed to be'.

"If that kind of person exists, I think he's a very nice person, too. 'Cause that's the hero in the gaga we all dream about. There's no way you can deny it."

Lily shook her head slowly.

"But even with someone like that, we don't want to follow. 'Cause it's not' you '"

Lily's eyes show me listening to her words.

She was staring at me right now.

"What I like is not someone to be portrayed as an ideal. I don't like fantasies. I like my husband, who is desperate, even if he is weak, to do something for us. I don't care if you're weak or not."

"... but I'm your lord, and I have to be the leader. I'm too weak for that, aren't I?

"That's not true."

Grunting, Lily pushes her flax head against the chest plate.

"Then I ask the other way, but your husband forsakes us if we are useless?

"No way!"

I immediately denied it.

"No way, that's impossible!

"... yeah. I thought that's what your husband would do. Heh. As a family, I really can't be happy here."

Lily, with her face up, smiled bitterly at her mouth.

"But I'm glad"

Lily gently pinched my cheek with both hands.

"But your husband. Then I want you to know that we're the same."

Lily's palm strokes my cheek in mercy.

"Let me support you. Rely more. Don't push yourself alone. You don't have enough strength. Our families are creatures who need to join forces... but I'm sure your husband is the same."

"Me too...... same?

"Yeah. I'm sure that's where your husband and our family should be."

We should be there.

The word Lily uttered was something I had never thought about before. Because for me, it was something I didn't even dare think about.

I didn't have to think about it, because it was what I had in mind.

I thought I had to pull them off.

I had decided that it had to be.

But it's not meant to be a one-sided decision.

As Lily said earlier, the way leaders are. In view of the qualities of the leader himself and the nature of the group, we can only explore the Better Ones individually.

I neglected to do such a natural thing.

Think about it that way, Lily wasn't saying anything abrupt. Instead, she was just pointing out something extremely obvious.

If you do have the charisma of God, the power to pull everyone away, or the intelligence to be able to solve everything, you wouldn't have gone beyond it.

But I'm just a mediocre student everywhere. My teeth itch, but that's what I am. I am Takahiro Mashima, 17 years old. I should not have denied it myself.

On that fateful day, when I became aware of my ability to prepare myself in a cave that was on the border between life and death, I suddenly became the Lord who led the families of the lilies.

But that doesn't change anything about me.

There was no way a kid like me could have demonstrated the qualities of a stereotype leader without any preparation.

Yet even as I tried to behave as a 'fine leader', it was only natural that it would be impossible to do so somewhere.

- If I don't do something.

- I'll take care of everything.

I was thinking about that...... it was thoughtful in a way.

You're looking at me, and there's someone who can help you.

I have someone who wants to support me.

Hands in hand with them, looking at the same purpose, working together to hit on things.

Maybe that's what I'm after.

We should have been able to do that.

Because I was aware of my immaturity and my limitations, and I was able to get the measure to accept it. Even the lilies are never as weak as I have to pull them off.

"We all join forces. Live with support. If that's how we're supposed to be... I've always been wrong."

That's why this was my new starting point and theirs.

Oddly enough, as in that cave time, in a small space alone with Lily, I hold my resolve in my chest.

Let's all help each other and survive this different world.

For this power that dwelleth in me is there for it.

"Thank you, Lily. I woke up because of you."

I was loving about Lily, who taught me that, and I uttered a word of gratitude with all my heart.

"Keep it up. Hold on to me."

"Yeah...... yeah. Master!

Lily, who looked impressed, hugged my body all the time.

I also held it back from here again.

We smiled at each other, looking at each other with nature, closer to where we had come from.

Over the fabric of the wet jersey, the wax touches each other. Not enough. Not enough at all. Embrace me to fill the gap, and Path tells me what Lily wants.

That was exactly what I wanted.

"Your husband..."

The gaze tangles, the tips of the nose touch each other, and the lips join each other so that they are inhaled.

I thought this was my first "alone" in a long time.

So it's nothing.

I can't move satisfactorily right now.

I thought about it as I hugged Lily around the back of her neck, mouthed her, and felt her puffiness rich over the fabric of a slightly heavy, wet jersey.

"Ouch."

- I was making a small bitter noise at the pain I ran to the back of my left hand.

"Ah. Sorry."

Lily left the voice I leaked.

She thought she had strained my body, and her thin brow was lowering.

"No. It's not like Lily did something"

I stretched out my round body in surprise at the sudden pain and waved at her.

"Something suddenly hurts my hand..."

I was about to say, a little.

"What's wrong..."

Lily's words also ran out on the way.

Where she stares when she's out of line. On the back of my left hand where I felt pain earlier.

There, a green protrusion was growing.

There is slightly red blood flowing from the hairline. This would be the cause of the pain. It was diluted when it fell into the water in the pompous and bath tub.

The green protrusion is still growing rapidly and slightly.

So I finally realized that it was a seedling of plants.

Of all the anomalies, that can't be just a seedling. The tip had a head with only an eyeless mouth, like a snake with a sickle neck.

"Go, Shuji, Sama"

... talked.

It was an obnoxious pronunciation, but it was certainly the call of a family monster who admired me as Lord.

Does this mean there are no words?

Why 'monsters grow from my body'? I don't know what that means. There's only one sign of that...

"... ah"

It may have been a miracle that the bright white head came to the thought of 'the fact' after a moment.

I called out to Lily, who looked as flamboyant as I did.

"Hey, Lily."

"Hey, mister"

"Do you remember pulling out the seeds of the cannon crawl from my left hand?

The first time I was shot in the seed was in the back of my left hand.

Because it was such a shocking occasion, the memory of it remains so vividly in the back of my brain that I feel bad when I remember it again.

And I don't remember being seeded out of my left hand during that task that I decided to seed.

I was also confused at that time, and I thought it might just not be in my memory, but Lily, who did that task, shook her neck sideways, eliminated that possibility.

That means... I guess that's the thing.

"Hey, is this the one that caused my magic drain?

I am dying of lack of magic.

The cannon crawl is a parasitic monster.

Sucking nutrients out of the host can be described as its ecology.

"No. But that's only from the trees. I can't believe the cod grows out of a person's body..."

"Ah. Wait, your husband. That's a little different."

Lily blocked my words.

"The means of attacking a cannon crawl is the kind of flower that is launched from a lily, right? As a matter of course, seeds are the usual means of reproduction, not of attack."

"Well, yeah."

"And yet why do you think the cannon crawl shoots out seeds like bullets?

If you ask me, I thought that was an odd phenomenon. In the realm of my knowledge of organisms, it was supposed to be a phenomenon that used a lot of energy to make seeds and fruits. Is it possible to just use it as a means of attack and throw it away?

Lily gave me an answer when I thought about it without an answer.

"Why do artillery spreads use seeds as a means of attack, because that's the life cycle of artillery spreads. The seeds of the cannon spreads, sucking nutrients from the prey you shot to death. Me, something I've seen several times before."

"So you don't think it's impossible to grow out of my body either?

I was greeted with winter worms and summer grass, and I glanced at the thought of the plants growing from my own corpses.

Even I would have dried up and died if it hadn't been for Garbera, who gave me magic. This situation is only one she has created with cod performance...

"And in the first place, is this really iron cannon spreading?

"What do you mean?

"'Cause you look completely different."

If you ask me, sure. This in front of me seemed a little different in shape from the cannon crawl.

The biggest difference would be that flowers like lilies are not blooming. This does not serve as a cannon crawl. Because this is...

"- Same as Lily. A unique monster."

A mutant species that occurs very rarely in monsters.

Is it true that the monster that lived with me was just that?

Is there such a coincidence?

If you think that way, you think the other way around, it sticks.

"This guy germinated as a unique monster because he stayed with me...?

My body, even if it belongs to a cheat capable man. It's the same amazing box that repeats the principle, like killing a dragon with one fist. Whatever happens, it's not weird.

"... if you try to embed other species in my body again, it will be clear"

"Don't be silly. Now you're gonna die."

"Right."

There is no guarantee that you will survive doing it twice. Even Gabella will never forgive you again. You can't possibly make a suggestion to mud her hard work, and this was, of course, a joke.

"So, Master, what do you do with this?

Lily asked, glaring at me for making a bad joke.

I was on the right hand side of the parasitic monster, scratching my hair somewhat shortened head.

"What are you gonna do... you can't even peel it off"

I can feel a solid pass between me and this parasitic monster, and it conveys that I have no hostility.

"Goshzin, sa, mah! Sama!"

He doesn't seem very intelligent because he was just born. He couldn't speak a word other than calling me.

But still, I only know that you admire me innocently. Pulling this out and killing it was an act that inspired a lot of guilt.

Besides, if you think about it, it was his mother who shot the seed into my body, the cannon crawl, and this guy just germinated.

Even if you nearly killed your mother, you are not guilty of the child you are born to. The situation may be a little different, but I couldn't even think about it that way.

"From what I've seen, the condition seems stable, and there's no reason I dare to kill you.... you make him peel in the first place, this guy"

It seems to be rooting in my body, but I don't know how deep it is rooted. If you do poorly, you might even need to chop off your arm. That's too risky.

And it was conveyed that I was thinking about it, and a voice rang to protest.

"Goshji, Sama! Gosh, Sama! Sama!"

"Ok, ok. I won't peel it off."

"Are you okay, sir?

I shrugged my shoulders when Lily asked.

It feels subtle to be parasitized by the existence that nearly killed me, but with that said, it's the same thing about how I accepted Gabella.

... and is it because I thought about it?

"My lord! Where is the Lord!

Rumors cast a shadow.

I heard Gabella's voice and some rushing noise.

"... now what"

There were signs that Gabella was looking for me on the other side of the wall.

"There, Lord!

After she went here and there, she figured it out, and a unique footstep came to us.

"Lord!

A bang and a loud noise opened the door.

Bright white hair softens and Gabella enters the 'bathroom'. Apparently she had just woken up and had a bit of a sleeping habit in her thin hair.

Seeing her like that, me and Lily kept hugging each other and we both got pompous.

That's all, what Gabella looks like right now was shocking.

"Gabella."

I asked.

"You, what's on your head?"

There was one beast on top of Gabella's head dripping white, long hair reminiscent of the spider's thread, dripping with weak limbs.

The tail is fuzzy and the ear that stood properly is triangular.

The whole fluffy, soft, light brown hair covered body has an atmosphere like a child who hasn't been born months, no matter what.

My mouth flickers and my sharp but cute teeth become dewy. When I swallowed my breath as it was, my body, which seemed to get on my palm, swelled wide around one of them.

As the bulging body shrinks like a balloon, a thin smoke rises from the mouth.

I couldn't go wrong with this anymore.

"Balloon fox"

"... of, you're a child. Gabella, where did you pick it up?

Lily, who took my word for it, asked, and Gabella, who I was, tried to accept the fox of the child, who had lost his balance in the clap of an earlier clap, made a perfect move.

"I didn't pick it up. I just got here."

"Here he comes..."

"From that place, where the Lord died, to this place, let us be far apart. Wouldn't it be strange if it took a day or so on this fox's feet?"

If you look closely, the furrows of the fox were dirty for a long time.

While I was dying, this fox may have had a great adventure, too.

"So, why is Gabella on his head?"

"I don't know. Ask this guy, not the concubine."

"No. You can drop me off"

"If you touch it and it breaks, you can't do that."

Terrible! And Gabella, who looks at something incredible to me, once again forgets that this little fox is a monster.

As I watched about Gabella in an unspeakable way, Rose and Kato, who heard the noise, also came and peeked into her face.

"What is it, sir?... Oh?