Princess Knight 7

 7 – Princess Knight and Half-Elf

A campervan parked on a street in daylight.

Naoto is sitting in the driver's seat, 180 degrees turned around and facing the interior, watching what is happening.

Out of the corner of her eye, in a six-mat Japanese-style room, Sophia is facing a girl.

She is a lovely girl, about early primary schools age, with pudgy cheeks that make you want to tug on them.

She is sitting upright on the tatami, her fists clenched in her lap.

This is the first time in a long time that Naoto felt he is in another world, because the girl's ears are pointed sideways, which is impossible for a normal person.

“Elf… is it?”

“Half-Elf”

Sophia answered immediately, there must be some difference that only people from this world can understand.

The girl was of a race that did not exist in modern Japan, where Naoto was from, and he was very curious, but not in the mood to ask in depth.

After answering Naoto, Sophia questioned the girl with a look of how angry she was.

“Answer me, why did you burglarize the house?”

“……”

“Answer me.”

In a strong tone of voice, she questioned her further.

Naoto looked at the half-elf girl, who was clearly frightened, and thought, "You don't have to go that far.”

“Come on, Sophia, its fine.”

“No, it's not!”

The princess knight said angrily.

“How can you allow such treachery, Naoto?”

“You're exaggerating. It was just the food in the refrigerator that was eaten. It's not like the camper was burglarized…”

“Just ate, you say?”

Sophia glared at Naoto with more anger than she had directed at the girl.

“It's what she ate that's the problem!”

“Natto, right? Sophia doesn't eat natto, so why not?”

So speaks Naoto. Yes, there is an empty pack of natto on the kotatsu as evidence.

While Naoto and Sophia were away from the car for a while, the girl broke in and ate some natto from the refrigerator.

To tell the truth, Naoto was more hurt by the fact that she ate a special, expensive cup of ice cream (Häagen-Dazs) than natto, but it wasn't enough to make him furious.

But for Sophia, this was not the case.

“Doesn't Naoto feel anything about having his Natto eaten up?”

“No…”

“I... I can't believe this is happening, what am I going to feed this child when there's no more Natto?”

Sophia said, pointing at the puppy. Her face almost fell for a moment when she saw the puppy napping in the tangerine box with its face on the edge, but she hurriedly cleared her throat and called back her anger.

“Oh, you're not eating it yourself.”

“Of course not! I was going to feed the puppy myself when he was ready for me!”

“No, it's food. It'll go bad by then.”

"Isn't it rotten food from the beginning!?"

“…so you’re aware.”

Naoto laughs bitterly, and when he says so, there are no words to reply.

Sophia turns to the half-elf girl with sustained anger.

“Okay, I'm not going to ask you why you burglarized my house. It's more about your house. Tell me what village or town you live in.”

“House…?”

The girl looked at Sophia with a wary, upturned look on her face.

“Yes, I'll go to your house and tell your parents to make sure you're properly disciplined. At least for the burglary!”

Naoto thought that it was natural.

He was sure it was not good, so he thought he should at least ask her parents to scold her.

She is a lovely girl, and it would not be good for her future to let things go on like this.

So without interrupting, the girl who was asked just turned her head away.

“Mom and dad… aren’t here.”

She answered.

“What?”

“They went somewhere far away….”

“Mmm”

Sophia's expression changes instantly.

The girl who did it was a little girl, the damage was food, plus she was a half-elf and had no parents.

“It's a counting game, depending on how many half-elf dolls (dora? ドラ) are on board.”

[TN: No idea what this means ドラ]

He didn't know what the world looked like, but he figured if it was the persecuted type, it was more than enough.

Naoto thought, "You can't blame anyone for having a little compassion for this.”

(Especially for Sophia)

When I thought so, as expected, Sophia's attitude softened in an instant.

She looks like she has begun to sympathize with the half-elf girl.          

"You… have no parents?”

“Yeah, they're not home.”

“Is that so?”

A moment of silence.

Naoto, who is not so angry to begin with, forgives her completely. Sophia looks distressed, alternately staring at the empty pack of natto and the girl.

Although they've only known each other for a short time, Naoto is completely convinced.

He was sure that she would definitely fall.

After a while, Sophia looked up to the heavens, sighed once, and then said,

"Then ... it can't be helped"

"Is it okay?"

"Of course"

"That... will you forgive me?"

"Yes"

"Thank you!"

"By the way, what's your name?"

"Mimi!"

"Mimi? Is there a place for you to go?"

"Yeah, I'm going to look for my dad and mom."

"Really"

Just when he was about to feel sorry for her.

“Where is Hanemoon?”

“Well… huh?”

“Eh?”

Naoto and Sophia raised their voices at the same time.

“Honeymoon?”

“Yes, my mom and dad left me and went to a place called Honeymoon, for the second time. I'm chasing after them.”

“……”

She answered in a high, cheerful voice that echoed inside the camper.

The voice was crisp and cheerful.

In a way, it was natural.

"……Let's go together"

Sophia said in a low voice, something that sounded like she was trying to stifle her anger.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.”

She nodded, then mumbled something with a scary look on her face, but he decided to pretend not to notice.

I'm glad I'm not an unhappy girl, Naoto thought.

He wondered about the couple who would go on a second honeymoon, still in love after having a child. The girl's expression brightened as soon as she was allowed to go with him, and he could feel it brightening as well.

This girl has the talent to be a mood maker. Knowing some of his colleagues in the company, Naoto somehow thought that was true.

It wasn't just people who were attracted to her.

Perhaps aroused by the commotion, the puppy woke up, left the orange box, and padded over.

Then he stopped in front of Mimi and sat down.

“Woof!”

"Wow, cute doggy!"

“Right!’

“Why is Sofia being so intimidating?”

"It's really cute"

Mimi petted the puppy, which wagged its tail in delight.

A puppy playing with an innocent little girl, it was a funny sight and Naoto watched it with squinted eyes.

The air is gentle.

---so it seemed.

“Woof! Woof!”

“Ogo!”

The girl squealed... The moment she did, Sophia freaked out and the air in the car froze.

“Ogo?”

After the matter was settled, Naoto's hand stopped sipping his sushi-lettered teacup in the driver's seat.

More than that, Sophia completely froze.

It was as if she had turned into a stone statue.

“Woof! Woof!”

“OgoOgo!”

“Wuuu!”

“Ogoo!”

They played with each other and eventually the puppy showed its belly and Mimi petted it.

“So, you were picked up by this brother, huh? You're with me, aren't you?”

“Hey…”

Naoto approached Mimi to ask her what was on his mind.

“What, big brother?”

“What was that just now?”

“Now?”

“That Ogoogo”

“That's what the fathers said.”

Mimi replied as a matter of course.

“…fathers?”

"Yes, my dad and all the people around him speak like this."

“All? What kind of people are your mom and dad?”

“Like this!”

The girl was overjoyed and pulled out a pendant from her collar. It was a wooden pendant with a pair of men and women (?) carved on the top.

One was a pig-faced orc, the other a knight in armour with pointed ears.

The pendant is engraved with the image of two people standing close to each other.

As if they were a married couple.

“Orc and… elf?”

Naoto asked as if to confirm.

“Yes! Oh, the people in the village all say, 'Ogo-oh-oh.'”

“Is that an Orc word? I mean, what does it mean?”

“Well, in our language, it's… Beauty and the Beast!”

The girl claps her hands.

“Oh, I see.”

Naoto nodded and asked further.

“So you're half orc and half elf.”

“Yeah, my dad was the village king and my mom was a princess in some country.”

“…Orc king and elf princess knight, and bilingual ...... multiplier don.( ドン)”

Naoto turned to Sophia.

"Is this common?"

"..."

"Sophia?"

Having no idea about the common knowledge of other worlds, he was about to ask her, but she was still frozen in place.

"…are you that shocked?”

“Doggy, Ogo!”

“Woof!”

Mimi frolics with the puppy.

She's doing the cries of the orc that put Sophia out of action, but honestly, Naoto finds it adorable.

This is because his ears can only hear the child imitating the cry of an animal.

However, it doesn't seem to be the case for Sophia.

"Uuu……"

After a while, Sophia managed to come back... despite her pale face.

"Are you okay? Your complexion is pale."

“I'm sorry… I'm not okay… I've always had a weakness for orcs, for some reason. Even when confronting an Ancient Dragon, this does not happen…”

“Well, I guess that's because you're a princess knight.”

“What kind of nonsense is that? What does that have to do with me not being good at dealing with orcs?”

“…nothing.”

Normally, Naoto added in his heart.

Naoto is still very convinced that she is not good at it.

He secretly thought that it was rather natural that they were an orc and a princess knight, after all.

“So, what do we do? Take Mimi in as is?”

When I asked, Mimi's hand stopped and she looked at Sophia.

Her innocent, girlish eyes stared at the princess knight.

It was a look that Sofia could never match.

“Of-Of course, I’ll never go back on my words.”

Mimi was overjoyed and hugged Sophia.

An honest expression of affection from an innocent girl.

“Wow, you smell just like my mom…”

A faint smile almost appeared on Sophia's face as she accepted it.

“Woof!”

“Ogo!”

“--!”

Soon, she turned blue and froze again.

From that day on, Sofia was troubled by Mimi's sleep-talking "ogo-ogo" every night.


TN: Sorry for the late chapter. This was a really tough one to do though, so it took longer than usual.


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