Neighborhood Visitor (1)

The night before I was supposed to go to Dedran City.

I summoned a high-quality facial pack for Rurin after a long time and went down to the lair after finishing the dinner service and cleaning up.

Rurin was lying down, using a facial pack. Sneakily, all by herself.

What is this?

“Yo, you’re here!”

“Yes, I’m here.”

It’s funny how her pronunciation gets weird because of the pack. I told her moving facial muscles reduces the effect, and she thoroughly believes it.

Soon, the monster Lurun brought me a pack as well.

“Rururururunrururun!”

Making weird sounds.

Since the translator isn’t working due to the pack, I roughly interpret it myself.

It must be telling me to use the pack.

The day Rurin learned about facial packs was the day I did her full makeup for the photo shoot on Earth.

After removing that makeup, I gave her a pack to moisturize and nourish her skin, which was tired from the makeup. That was the start.

From that moment, she started showing a lot of interest in facial packs and eventually became addicted, like now.

Despite being a dragon who finds everything bothersome, she doesn’t refuse the pack.

There’s no need to stop her. Lately, I don’t like my rough skin, maybe because of my age.

I put on the pack and looked at Rurin. I immediately burst into laughter.

For some reason, the sight of the two of us was just too funny.

Then Rurin pinched my thigh.

“Hey, don’t laugh.”

Yeah, I know we shouldn’t laugh. It causes wrinkles. But it’s funnier that a dragon worries about that.

Seeing that makes me feel mischievous.

If I want to play a prank, I should. Holding back is bad for you. I started the first attack. I spread Rurin’s palm and began tickling her fingers.

“What are you doing?”

She asked what I was doing. No reaction. As expected, it’s dragon skin. Even a little reaction would be funny.

How about this then.

I went down and grabbed Rurin’s foot. Then I started attacking her toes.

Tickle tickle.

When I started tickling her soles, Rurin desperately tried to hold back her laughter. She’s a great woman in front of a pack.

Then she suddenly stood up, glared at me, and tried to tickle my side. I quickly dodged and ran away.

“Stop right there!”

She had a look that said, ‘It’s unfair to run away.’ But there are no rules. Somehow, a deathmatch where the first to laugh loses had begun.

But when she moved, the pack started to come off, so Rurin lay back down quietly on the bed. Her face showed she couldn’t contain her frustration.

Hehehe.

I lay down quietly next to her.

“I won’t, I won’t.”

After declaring I wouldn’t, about five minutes passed quietly. Thinking she’d let her guard down, I attacked her side this time.

Rurin looked at me as if it was nothing. But it wasn’t nothing at all.

She had a very desperate expression.

Unable to endure, she tried to attack me again. I dodged and moved away again.

Then she raised her hands high and stomped her feet.

Hahaha.

Sorry, but I’m very ticklish. So, I have to run before getting caught.

Understand, Rurin?

I said that to myself and quietly lay down next to Rurin again.

This time, I wondered where to attack and blew a little air into Rurin’s ear.

“Ahhhh!”

Then Rurin reacted violently, jumped up, and covered her ear.

Thanks to that, the pack finally came off her face. Although it didn’t fall off because she laughed, which goes against the rules I set in my mind.

Why is she making such a noise, this dragon.

A moment of silence passed. Rurin’s expression was very strange.

Attacking her ear was too much. It’s more of a sensitive spot than a ticklish one.

“This is annoying!”

Rurin puffed her cheeks with an annoyed expression. But her dragon skin was very red.

What should I say.

It made me feel flustered too.

“The Dragon Heart feels strange.”

Does she mean her heart feels strange?

Rurin said that and then took another pack from Lurun and put it on.

After a while, she got up again.

“Hey, you!”

“What?”

“Nevermind.”

The pack falls off again. She gets another pack from Lurun.

Then she lay down again, and after a while, got up again. What is she doing?

“Something feels strange. You can do it again.”

She subtly said that and moved her ear closer to me. Then she put the pack on.

Look at this dragon.

Do what again?

The next day after the facial pack commotion.

Rurin and I had come to Dedran City and were now in a dust pit. It’s a good thing we did the pack yesterday. I had anticipated this and prepared in advance.

A space made of bricks that can’t be broken by human strength. And an iron door.

The hole in that iron door was filled with iron bars.

That’s right, we were in a prison.

There’s no way I would end up in a prison in Greek City.

Actually, I wouldn’t end up in any prison in this world. I don’t plan on it either.

Of course, there are always exceptions. If the reason isn’t being caught but undercover work, it’s different.

Everything is to investigate this Dedran City.

Actually, as soon as we arrived in Dedran City, some robbers approached Rurin and me, who were dressed well, and pointed knives at us.

So Rurin wiped out the robbers and made them roll on the ground.

Instead, Rurin and I were imprisoned for assault.

Of course, it was intentional.

In this situation where even the soldiers are strongly connected to criminals, making good citizens get imprisoned instead, we needed to find out how corrupt these soldiers are and who is currently controlling this city.

To find that out, prison is the best place. The ones colluding with the soldiers wouldn’t be in prison, but there would be many unrelated criminals imprisoned.

Soon, prison becomes a treasure trove of information about the underworld.

Without specific information networks or connections, you need to look at the lower levels to see anything.

As I thought, they were catching and imprisoning criminal groups without connections, making the prison chaotic.

Maybe because a new lord had arrived, they were showing off by imprisoning criminal groups unrelated to them.

The cell we were in was very noisy too.

The ridiculous thing was that there was no separation between men and women. They just shoved Rurin and me into one cell. This alone shows how messed up Dedran City has become.

Seeing Rurin, the thug-like guys in the same cell raised their hands and started creating a party atmosphere.

“Hahahahaha!”

“What is this? What a treat!”

“I was already jealous of the woman in the next cell. Do you know what happened to her?”

“She was thrown to the bottom and eventually sold to a slave trader!”

They ask and answer questions among themselves without being asked.

“We’ll have the same fate!”

The first thuggish-looking guy shouted that.

Seeing Rurin’s face, they drooled. Unforgivable.

This place is completely insane.

“Haaaahm! Can we leave, please? It’s too noisy. It would be better to kill them all and leave. I’m sleepy too.”

Rurin yawned lazily and snuggled into my arms, causing the thugs to laugh again.

This time, the second thug shouted.

“Can’t you see the situation? Judging by your nice clothes, you must have fallen into Rieden’s clutches. You’ll never see the light of day again. Hehehe, and judging by her looks, that woman will soon be sold to a slave trader. So before that happens, let’s train her! Guys!”

“Hahaha! Lucky us! The same thing happened a few days ago.”

Ah.

It’s too vulgar to listen to any longer.

Speaking like that about Rurin is a sin in itself.

It seems I’ve heard the name of the mastermind I’m looking for, Rieden, but first, I need to clean up around here.

“Shut up.”

Boom!

I hit them with electric magic, then beat them up and tied them up in the corner.

I might have used the electric magic too strongly; their bodies are still shaking.

The prison door is completely isolated. Since the outside isn’t visible, I decided to wait after beating them up. When Rurin’s beauty is reported, won’t the mastermind come?

Although coming here will be their final journey.

“Rurin, are you sleepy? Lie here.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Rurin lay her head on my lap.

“Damn it, you guys… how can you be so relaxed… when you’re imprisoned…”

I gave the third thug, who was still talking, another shock and patted Rurin’s head.

Rurin maintained her sideways lying position, then turned to look at me while lying flat.

“I’m bored.”

“Should we roast those guys?”

“Oh, that’s a good idea.”

“You… crazy bastards! If it weren’t for your magic, I wouldn’t let you be! You must have learned first-class magic somewhere!”

I stood up again and untied the guys I had tied up.

“Do you think you can win without using magic?”

“Of course. Guys, get him!”

Bam bam bam bam bam!

Of course, the result was my victory. There’s no way thug-like guys could be a match for someone like me who has experienced real battlefields.

In an instant, I beat them to a pulp and shook my hands clean.

Finally, everyone shut up.

“Rurin, it’s quiet now. You can relax.”

I sat down again and laid Rurin down.

Feeling bored, I wanted to do something. I took an ear cleaner out of my pocket.

“Turn your ear this way. Time isn’t passing, so I’ll clean your ear.”

“Oh! What’s the occasion! You never do this.”

“Well, I’m bored. Just waiting around.”

Rurin’s eyes lit up as she brought her ear closer to me. Using the ear cleaner from modern times, I brought it to her cute ear. She was still wearing the earrings I gave her.

I gently tickled her ear canal with the ear cleaner.

“Hehehe.”

A weird nasal sound came out. Gently, but the goal wasn’t to clean her ear. There wasn’t much earwax anyway.

“Really, you guys…”

“Aaaah!”

While leisurely cleaning her ear in the prison, the thug with the scruffy beard was still talking, so I shocked him with electric magic.

“Aaah! Stop! Please…!”

“So keep your mouths shut. Got it, criminals?”

When I stopped the electric magic, they finally shut their mouths. Then I placed the ear cleaner in Rurin’s hand.

“Now, it’s your turn.”

“What do you mean my turn! Do you think my great self would stoop to such service? That’s not possible!”

As I tried to hand over the ear cleaner, this ungrateful dragon got up. But she quickly sat back down, sweeping her hair back, and said,

“Just kidding. Hehe. Were you surprised?”

Then she sat cross-legged and patted her thigh.

I was fooled.

She dared to fake me out.

I laid my head on Rurin’s thigh. Come to think of it, this is the first time in this position.

Though the reverse has happened a lot.

Gently, the ear cleaner in Rurin’s hand entered my ear. It felt very strange.

A tingling yet good feeling. The sound of scratching inside my ear echoed, and I felt Rurin’s touch.

In the midst of that, a hole at the bottom of the iron door opened, and something came through.

It was just plain rice.

Not bread, but three bowls of plain rice, which isn’t very popular here.

How many people are here, and just three bowls of plain rice?

“…And why is it rice?”

“The prisons here use cheap rice to feed the inmates. They have to provide meals on record, but they embezzle the funds, so it ends up being plain rice.”

The man in the prison explained.

Well, beans are expensive too, so it’s not bean rice. It’s ridiculous.

“But hey, didn’t I tell you not to talk?”

When I pointed that out, the man who spoke covered his mouth.

“Sorry, but it’s too late.”

“Wait! Aaah!”

I shocked him with electric magic again, then picked up the plain rice. There are many ways to make this delicious.

“Rurin, give it here. I’ll make a fitting dish for the prison.”

“Really? Just plain rice?”

I shook my head and poured the rice into a bowl I summoned.

Then I summoned a can of tuna, followed by some seaweed.

Mayonnaise is essential too.