The Elf Is a Freeloader

Okay, what do we do? and Mayor Hagano looked at Elle with a smile on his face.

"Oh, um... what exactly am I supposed to do...?

Mayor Hagano, who had Yasushi interpret Elle's words, settled back on the couch again when he grinned satisfactorily.

"What I want you to do is PR in my town. Set you in this Nissan City image character, a town so rich in nature that the elves will want to live in… it pushes that image out and appeals nationally. What, with that poor look of yours and the mysterious and fantastic presence of an elf, you even have the potential to quickly become a national level favorite instead of a local idol. Create your related goods etc and you will be able to sell them to fly there too. Of course, we're thinking about other strategies, right?

"Wait a minute! Dad just said he's not going to show off Elle, but as far as I'm hearing about it now, it's nothing but a show. Ugh!?"

Ryu puts his hand on the table with momentum, and his anger also points his pointy gaze at the dew at his father.

"Besides, if you reveal to the public who Elle is... that she is an Elf, Elle will be in danger herself. Ugh!? If she just gets persecuted, she could still be kidnapped in the worst case!!"

Both Yasushi and Aoi feel the same as Ryu.

I didn't expect Takashi's father and trusted Mayor Hagano to make a suggestion that Elle's safety was not taken into account at all. Yasushi was looking at the mayor's face with incredible thoughts.

"Right. That's true. But, Ryu. Politicians can't just do beautiful things. For the sake of the town and the inhabitants who live there, there are things that must be done, no matter how muddy they wear. If you intend to pursue this path in the future, give the order to your liver."

"Still... Still, I disagree! I don't think that's what you have to do until you put Elle in danger!!"

Intellectual life forms of different worlds, not human beings, that do not exist in this world. Only then will there be a presence that will change the color of the eyes to El.

With that in mind, Yasushi embarks on a protest against the mayor.

And I opened my mouth to cover Yasushi.

"I agree with Yasushi too. If it's in the interest of the town and El's safety, I'll choose El's safety without hesitation."

Mayor Hagano smiles gently only for a moment at the children who oppose him in unison, but soon wears his mask as a politician again.

"That's what you guys say... you realize that, don't you? Mr. El is the same foreigner who is staying illegally today...... no, I can say he is in a worse position. If you are an illegal alien, you can forcibly return her to her home country, but not in her case either. Now is where I can hide and live, but how long do you think I can keep doing that? More than the way back to the original world is not at the moment, she has to live in this world… in this Nissan City. And there's no guarantee anywhere that she won't suffer any injuries or illnesses like this. On the contrary, she should assume that she is not immune to the diseases of this world and will definitely suffer from a variety of diseases in the near future. What are you going to do then? If you get sick, you have to see a doctor. When that happens, her presence will touch the public eye, even if she doesn't like it. Especially in my country, a definite identity is a must in order to live. If you will cooperate with my plan, I will use some forceful means to establish Mr. Elle's identity. Or would you rather give up living in Japan and go abroad? If you're in a country other than Japan, there may be places for Elle to live."

To the words of the mayor, you lost your words.

What he says is most and truthful. If El is going to live in Japan in the future, he must do something about his identity, which is the basis of his life.

Otherwise, she'll always have to live there and hide her identity. And such a life is bound to be broken one day.

That was something you, the high school students, would know if you thought about it.

"In the first place, it's not you guys who decide, it's Elle himself. If she decides to do it, that's not what you're gonna say, is it?

Mayor Hagano, who said so to the three of you, turns again to El in the front.

"Well, Mr. Elle. Sure, there may be dangers involved, but I intend to be able to offer the benefits just commensurate with that. Of course, besides your identity, pay that gallantry as a reward. If you want to live in this world, you absolutely need money, don't you?

Mayor Hagano smiles gently at Elle.

It's a devil's whisper that lets pathetic victims step off the road. Yasushi was convinced that if the devil were real, he would have a smile like this.

"Wow, I..."

Elle, who was looked at directly from the front by the mayor, clogged his words by saying something.

And when I look around the faces of the three of you only once, I turn to the mayor with a determined look.

"… I'm going to take the mayor's request"

Yasushi, in surprise, tells everyone Elle's words.

As the mayor nodded satisfactorily, Elle continued ahead, blocking the villagers who said something.

"I am an adventurer. Adventurers are always next door to danger, and I have scratched that danger many times before. So next time I'll do something about it. And... and I want to live and go in this town with Yastaka and Aoi and Takashi... as friends, as companions..."

When Elle smiles fluently at you, she looks at Mayor Hagano again with her posture and expression corrected.

"I honestly don't quite understand what the mayor said about the job. But I'll take this job as an adventurer. That reward is as promised earlier...... is that all right?

As one individual named Ellura Zafira Filacilura, she is about to take the mayor's request with her chest open.

That was well understood by Yasushi. But still, Yasushi can't contain anxiety.

"Okay. If Elle takes requests from his youngest father only as an individual, I disagree with this story as a single individual! It may be said that what is preached is my child's self. But still, I want Elle to be safe... so Elle can live in peace!

"Really... Yasushi-kun is only against it, isn't he? That's what Ryu and Aoi agree with... right?

If the mayor looked at the two, they both nodded with a serious look, just like Yasushi.

Looking in turn at the three expressions, the mayor shrugged his shoulders as he grinned.

"Well, let's stop this plan"

The mayors turned their opinions too lightly, so Yasushi looked at the mayor with an unexpectedly pompous look.

"Oh, hey... Dad...?

"What's wrong? I thought you said you wanted to stop. I just heard it."

"What the hell was that plan I was rolling up earlier!? It was just a joke!?"

"Oh, that's my desire or your dream to say, I wish this were the case. Earlier I told you that politicians aren't just beautiful, but if you forget your dreams, your hopes, and your aspirations, politicians are just power and gold victims. I don't want to be. Dreams are always here."

Mayor Hagano says that all the time, pointing to his own chest. With such a stare at him, Yasushi remembered that there was one.

I've known Mayor Hagano well since they were kids. He is the father of no other Ryu, and Yasushi and I remember being looked after like real children at an early age.

Also, I learned a lot from him. Starting out playing with things like how to pick up bugs and fish, even Grandma's wise-bag knowledge that helps her real life.

But sometimes he gave his children suboptimal and out-of-target answers, and he dared to bother Yasushi and do things that would make him think about it.

Perhaps that was Mayor Hagano's plan this time as well. He tried. And it wasn't Yasushi or Takashi that was tested.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Elle"

When the mayor reached the table, he bowed his head to El deeply.

"Before I am mayor, I intend to be the protector of Ryu. So I wanted to get to know you better that my son and his friends have recently become friends. Regardless, my son told me about you, but I wanted to make sure with my own eyes. As a result, I did something that would try you. I'm not asking you to forgive me, but at least I want you to understand the kindness of thinking of your child."

If you're a parent, there's no way you don't care what kind of friendship my child has. Some parents wouldn't be interested in dating any children or leave it all to their children, but that would be a minority.

A new friend my kids met. You don't even have to worry so much if that's a very normal friend of your age. But what they met were visitors from different worlds, and they were out of common sense: elves. If so, I would worry about what would happen to a legitimate parent.

Worst case scenario, there is a chance that the children are being deceived or used.

However, Mayor Hagano decided from El's sincere attitude earlier that she was a trustworthy person.

"Uh... Um...?

Elle, unable to keep up with the outcome of the matter, compares the faces of the mayor and the governors with a decent face.

Yasushi and I finally felt relieved by Elle's reaction. I thought you trusted Mayor Hagano in the first place. That he... Ryu's father couldn't have made that choice. Even if I thought so, I guess it was still the difference between a single high school student and the incumbent mayor's many experiences that made me doubt him.

"Um... so... you mean no job requests...?

Elle, unfortunately, told him so, unable to keep up with the same grades of things.

If I were her, I still wanted a solid foundation to live in this world. By doing so, I thought I could finally walk shoulder to shoulder with you.

For that reason, I was going to take some personal danger spoiled. What an adventurer does in the first place is that high risk high returns are the norm, and if you try El, the mayor's offer was an easy deal to understand.

But in the end, the deal is going to be canceled. I'm glad you guys think about yourself, but I even felt it would be a shame to miss this chance if I tried El.

"Oh, that's the thing...... I'd still like to ask Elle for a job as an image character of town interest. Of course, to the extent that the danger is not as great as possible for you, is. The remuneration for the job is your identity, as mentioned earlier, and the gallantry in cash. So what do you think?

"Hey, Dad. Now what are you gonna let Elle do?

"That's a trade secret at the moment, right? The rare presence of corner elves is familiar. You won't be able to take advantage of this. Nevertheless, since there is no precedent for town interest in elves before, it is entirely unclear how much economic benefits can be expected to be a neck."

Naturally. There is no way there is a precedent for town rejoicing in elves.

"Even as it is now, we have no prospect of future developments in our town. It will continue to develop loosely. But..."

The mayor smiled and looked around at you.

"─ ─ ─ We don't know until thirty or forty years from now. And what a retired mayor I would be, even if I wasn't already alive, by then. So that's what your generation does. Good luck developing this town even further."

and Mayor Hagano smiled more flamboyantly than ever before, turning his anticipation to the younger generations of Yasushi.

Mayor Hagano said he would pack the job details again later. When he deposited his body on the back of the couch, he exhaled loudly.

"This served an initial major purpose. After that, it's about Elle's future health and parental issues."

As the mayor put it, Elle's appearance is no different from that of his high school colleagues. I had never asked Elle about his actual age before, but I thought you guys would be his age.

"Mr. Elle doesn't look like an adult, so he'll need a guardian or ID guarantor just before he builds. So at first I was going to be her identity guarantor..."

Mayor Hagano looked at Yasushi with a certain look.

"As I said earlier, Mr. Elle is likely to suffer from a variety of diseases from now on. For this reason, there is an absolute need for a doctor who can be trusted and has a hard mouth. So I was a certain woman's doctor...... I contacted my former doctor to be exact. Of course, I've had Mr. Elle's circumstances explained to me after he swore to no avail of anything else."

As always, the mayor's gaze remains fixed on Yasushi. At this time, Yasushi realized who the mayor had contacted.

"If you do, the former doctor's woman and her husband told me that they would take care of Elle's health as well as the identity guarantor… In the end, they decided to ask the person to do both"

"Oh, little dad... Oh, no way..."

Your complexion turns blue.

In fact, Yasushi had the feeling of a doctor who relied on only one person in case El got sick. But if I could, I wanted to rely on that doctor for the last time.

"Yes. Right now, I'm having them wait in a separate room. I want you to come over here right away."

When the mayor takes his cell phone out of his pocket, he calls somewhere as it is.

Looks like the other guy answered the phone right away, too, and the mayor hung up as soon as he told him two or three words.

Footsteps you will eventually hear. Footsteps stop in front of this mayor's office and the sound of knocking on the door sounds instead.

To Yasushi, the sound sounded like a bell that marked the end of the world.

"Mr. Yastaka? What's wrong, sir?

Elle speaks up when she realizes that Yasushi's complexion is bad, but Yasushi at the moment has not even heard that voice.

He looks around and desperately searches for a hiding place. But there's no hiding place in the mayor's office, no escape route.

When Yasushi realized he couldn't escape or hide, the mayor's office door was opened. And beyond that, there were two people just like Yasushi imagined.

A man and a woman believed to be the same age as Mayor Hagano. The two give their compliments to the mayor.

"Oh, Father... Mother..."

Yes. That was definitely your parents.

"It's been a long time, Yuji. Kaori seems to be doing well, above all."

"Oh, you're the same lucky one. What I like about this kind of prank hasn't changed at all since I was a kid."

"Isn't that mutual?

The two laugh intimately as they grip each other with disappointment.

They were as familiar as their sons, and their friendship still persisted. In particular, they had jobs and families with each other, and the chances of seeing each other as often as they did as students were diminished.

"I'm sorry, Hagano-kun. It's like the foolishness of home bothered me a lot."

"That's not true, Kaori. Because thanks to Yanggui-kun, our town has secured a rare presence called El."

"Ooh, I did. That was the main purpose."

Yasushi's father, Yuji Akatsuka, stared at Yasushi.

"Hih........................!!"

You scream without a voice, and Yasushi runs away. Without worrying about how Yasushi looked, Advantage One walked over to his son slightly and waved his fist down into his brain.

"Agu...... Huh!!"

Unexpectedly suppressing the brain and curbing the health.

"Yasushi... I feel sorry for you..."

"Oh, Father...?

If Yasushi looked up at his father while he was in pain, he would have looked down at his son with a more pitiful look than angry, as the word goes.

"Me and Kaori... aren't your parents that trustworthy? Why didn't you talk to us first when you protected Mr. Elle?

"Yes, no, the..."

There's no way I can tell you.

Though half-baked, I decided to protect girls my age and live with them, what a face I could tell my parents.

At least, I can't tell Yasushi. I'm too shy.

And that was also the last reason Elle wanted to rely on her mother, who was a former doctor, when she got sick.

Yuji reaches out and pulls up to Yasushi, who is crouching on the floor.

"I heard the situation from Koichi. I did get half-hearted or confused when I first heard about people coming from different worlds and not human beings like elves. But what you did was a fine help, and you didn't do anything you couldn't tell people, did you? Then stick your chest up and let us know. We're your parents. Whatever happens, I trust you and I can help you."

"Dad...... yeah, you do. You should have let your fathers know first. Sorry."

The father had a grin and a manly grin as he stirred his son's head with a slightly rambling shake.

Meanwhile, while my father and son were talking like that, this one seemed to manage to get wrapped up.

"You're Mr. El, aren't you? Wow, you're prettier than I thought. I couldn't believe that such a beautiful child would be the daughter of the house (we)... I had a daughter before, but I missed her a little because she went to her daughter-in-law. So I'm glad to have a new daughter. But I guess I resembled my father when I helped him unconditionally because he was a girl, the foolishness of the house..."

As a result, Yuji, Yasushi's father, was a high school teacher, and his mother, Kaori, was a physician in internal medicine who worked for a hospital in the city.

Since his father's assignment outside the prefecture was decided this spring, his mother accompanied him to it because his father did not have any domestic skills.

Her mother, Kaori, had also been sexually harassed by the director at work, so she took the opportunity to quit her job completely and is now a full-time housewife and going out of the province with Yuji.

"Hey, hey, wait, Ken's little mother. What do you mean, Elle's my new daughter?

I was listening to the conversation between Kaori and Elle - also saying that Kaori was just curly unilaterally - and Aoi noticed that it contained words of concern.

"Actually, aye. When the pawnbroker heard about Elle, he told me not to imitate him, but to be our adopted daughter."

"Well, that's the thing. When it comes to the cumbersome process of adopting Elle, we have a reliable ally."

"Don't you think you can do anything because people are mayors? Well, I'll cooperate more than this happened. However, we may have to take a slightly more forceful approach. I hope you don't have to say anything else then, okay?

Mayor Hagano showed his right index finger against his lips, closing one eye tightly.

Suddenly, you feel confused knowing Elle is going to be a new family.

In the first place, Elle, the story unfolds too quickly to go about it.

Akatsuka and his wife watching them smile.

Looking at the newly constructed Akatsuka family, Ryu and Aoi gazed at each other.

"I managed to settle down somewhere... is that it?

"Right. But it would be nice if Elle were to be the adopted daughter of your house, would she be your sister? Or sister?"

"No, which one would it be?

Remember something again, Ryu and Aye looking at each other at the same time.

"Hey, hey... I've been dealing with Elle too normally and I've completely lost my mind so far..."

"... that's an odd encounter. Me too..."

I guess I heard that kind of interaction between the two of them. Yang-gui asked Elle frankly.

"Hey, El. How old is Elle now?

"Is that me? I'm 152 now, though?

"............................................................... Huh?

"The Elves are of different ages recognized as adults for each family member, but the Zafira people to whom I belong are treated as serving at 150 with an average life expectancy of about 600 to 700 years. So I left my hometown and became an adventurer after I was 150."

Yasushi stands flattered by Elle's words. Naturally, Elle's words are incomprehensible to others, so the spearhead of the question goes to your health.

And I hear from him how old Elle is, and the adults freeze unexpectedly.

"... right. It's a common pattern that elves are a long-lived species."

"It's true, right? I totally forgot... but from what I've heard about El, the Zafira elves have roughly ten times the life span of humans."

Only Ryu and Aoi, who had some knowledge of elves, nodded many times with a convincing look.

"Koichi, by the way"

"What is it, Yuji?

Watching the children thrive on the life of the elves, Yuji asked her old friend.

"Mr. Elle's identity, the point is, he's got a family registry or a residence certificate, right? Are you sure it's something you can handle?

"Oh, I don't think it's that much trouble with that"

The incumbent mayor of Nikken-shi smiled like an evil kid who had a successful prank to an old friend who asked just what it meant.

"There are many examples of popular local characters and lost wildlife being given a residence certificate. So don't you think there's anything wrong with issuing a residence permit for Mr. Elf, who lived in our town?