Chapter 185: The Boob Alien

Ashera immediately covered her breasts.

Seeing that I’d calmed down now, Ashera asked me.

“How is it, Aldo?”

It was really cute to see her looking up at me and asking with a shy look on her face.

Big or small (I’m not saying which), I love Ashera.

“Y-you’re cute…”

Ashera nodded once, satisfied with my words, and smiled happily.

This… what’s going on… Ashera looks happy.

M-maybe they got in the way during battle… and she cut them off… or something?

I felt my crotch shrink with dread, but I was afraid to ask…

“Ah, Ashera… something… isn’t it getting smaller?”

While I was anxiously waiting for Ashera’s answer, Ashera started talking happily.

“I’ve become younger. Now I’m younger than Aldo.”

Wakagaetta? Waka is Etta? WAKAGAETTA? …Rejuvenated!?

Huh? Ashera was 16 years old, right? I must have turned 17 on my birthday in October…

I understand the Ice Witch worrying about fine wrinkles, but why would Ashera become younger??

I didn’t understand what it meant, so I asked Ashera.

“Ah, Ashera, how did you become younger… no, that doesn’t matter. W-why did you become younger?”

Ashera looked up shyly and murmured softly.

“Aldo said, ‘Younger ones are cute,’ so… and I was two years older, too…”

I analyzed Ashera’s words in my head with arithmetic processing on par with a supercomputer.

(Wait! Did I say that? I would rather she’d grown up a little more. But imagine if I let that out of my mouth… This place would turn into hell!! I have no idea what’s going on, but I think the right thing to do is to praise her and act happy. It’s best to ask her the reason after she calms down… I’m sure I’ll see you again in three years…)

I gathered my thoughts in an instant and spoke to Ashera.

“I-I’m so happy, Ashera. You’re so cute, I love you more than ever…”

“Yeah…”

Ashera looked happy, her cheeks dyed cherry red.

Good… it seems I got the right answer!

Even though my body should have recovered from sleeping, my mind was much more tired than before I went to bed…

I asked her about something that had been bothering me a little.

“Ashera, haven’t you gotten shorter?”

“Yeah, I’m smaller.”

“Your dragon armor… isn’t it baggy?”

“…”

When I compared Ashera to her dragon armor, the armor was clearly too big.

“Ashera, close combat is prohibited until we return to the capital and get Borg to fix it.”

Combat isn’t a game. Vernier probably wouldn’t activate in the expected direction with Ashera as she was now.

Seeing how serious I was, Ashera relented as expected.

“I understand…”

Until this matter was settled and Borg repaired her armor, Ashera would fight as a mage, just like my mother.

For Ashera, there should be no problem fighting at either mid range or long range.

And I had to say goodbye for a while to Ashera’s breasts, which I had been watching over for so long.

This is sudden, but I’m a big-boob alien.

Breasts are filled with the dreams of men (mainly me).

Oh, just because I’m a big-boob alien doesn’t mean I only like big breasts.

I love all breasts equally, from big to small.

This time, the reason Ashera’s breasts becoming flat got to me was… well, it’s this…

For example, it’s like a seedling you’ve been watering and raising every day being about to bear fruit and then suddenly turning back into a seedling.

Or like thinking the chicken you’ve fed every day has grown up, but when you look in to see if it’s going to lay eggs, it’s turned back into a chick.

It’s because I felt an indescribable feeling, as if all my effort and time had been wasted.

It’s not because Ashera’s boobs have become chinchikurin.

I’ll shout it out loud. As long as they’re Ashera’s breasts, I can love any breasts!

It’s good to have ○○ or ×× with △△ with a big boinboin byin.

If they’re small, then small ones’ ◎◎ are ☆☆ and □□, and that’s the best!

Don’t rank breasts above other breasts!

As long as breasts are breasts, they’re the best!

But men’s breasts, you bastards, are no good.

This time, I was so mentally depressed that I fell into this kind of thinking.

It seems it was my words that started it all, so I’m trying to refrain from saying random things on the spur of the moment…

When I calmed down a little, there were me, flat-chested Ashera, my mother, and the purple girl.

The purple girl no longer had the dignified presence she’d had when I first met her, and she was sending me a heated gaze from behind my mother.

I was suspicious and tried to call out to her, but my mother interrupted me.

“This girl is Laila, a girl I knew a long time ago. Apparently, she accidentally ran afoul of an elven taboo and was kept confined in this village for a while.”

“Is that so? And then the Mantises attacked and she couldn’t get out…”

Even as we talked, I was thinking to myself, ‘No way that’s true!’

The purple girl Laila uses air step. And she’s my mother’s acquaintance. And she’s wary…

It smelled very suspicious…

While I was thinking about what to do, Ashera was talking to Laila.

“How is it, Laila?”

“Yes, very cute.”

There was something very familiar about it… it seemed like she knew not only my mother but also Ashera…

Is she an acquaintance from Blue Ring that I don’t know about? If so, is my mother’s explanation true?

But a girl younger than me violating a taboo in an elven village in Sandra territory and being confined?

I had no idea what was going on… it felt unnatural, like two points that couldn’t possibly connect had been connected.

While we were relaxing in the room we’d been given on the third floor, Tamei entered.

“Ah, excuse me while you’re relaxing. The elven children have finished flying to Blue Ring. There are a few elven adults who are refusing to fly. What should we do?”

“I’ll take care of it.”

My mother left with Tamei.

From here on, the number of elves would decrease rapidly and it would become difficult to maintain the defensive line.

“I’ll take turns holding the defensive line with El. Ms. Laila…”

“Laila!”

While I was talking, Ms. Laila cut in rather eagerly.

“Huh? Laila…”

“Laila! I don’t need the ‘Ms.'”

“Huh?”

When I looked at Ashera’s face, she nodded for some reason…

“L-Laila…”

“What is it, Aldo-kun?”

“Ah, I want Laila to fly with the elves.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Huh?”

“I’m going with you.”

When I looked at Ashera, not knowing what was going on, I saw her nodding again…

“Ah, does my mother know too?”

“Yes. Laila will act together with us.”

“I see…”

I decided that talking any further would only make me tired, so I ended the conversation.

“I’ll go take over from El. My mana won’t decrease, but my fatigue will pile up.”

With that said, I headed towards El.

When I reached El, I found that he was holding back the herd of Mantises by himself.

“El, switch.”

“Haa, I-I’m sorry… haa, Niisama…”

Since this was a temporary territory, it didn’t consume any mana, but El seemed to have been holding down the Mantises the whole time I was asleep.

When I asked what had happened to Gar and the elves, I heard that although they were strong, they hadn’t been able to hold back with their swords and had exceeded their limits.

Currently, he was having the elves repair the building, and Gar, Tamei, and Beret guide the elves as they flew.

When he finished saying that and stepped back, El sank down where he stood.

“Get some rest.”

I brought out mana shields in both hands and applied Reactive Armor against the Mantises.

After about 30 minutes, I took over from El and maintained the defensive line.

About two hours after I’d parted ways with my mother, Gar, Tamei, and Beret came to me and El and started talking.

“Al-boy, all the elves have flown away. Only the village chief is left.”

“I see. The village chief should fly too, along with Gar, Tamei, and Beret.”

“Thank you very much. I’ll never forget this kindness.”

“This is a request from the king. Don’t worry…”

“Wait a minute!”

Suddenly, my mother cut me off.

“Although there were no human casualties, we urgently procured food, secured a place to stay, and even subdued by force the elves who opposed it, all for free…”

What is she saying? We discussed everything among ourselves and made the decision once we were all satisfied!

“No amount of gratitude to the Apostle would be enough. If there’s anything we can do, we’ll do whatever we can.”

“Those are the words I wanted to hear. Ao, fly Gar, Tamei, and Beret to Blue Ring.”

“Understood, Sister.”

Poor Gar, Tamei, and Beret were blown away by Ao. Gar was shouting something, but I couldn’t hear it at all.

Next time I had some free time, I’d ask him in Blue Ring what he’d shouted.

Having gotten the village chief’s word, my mother spoke with an evil look on her face that could be seen even through her mask.

“The rejuvenation elixir…”

The village chief’s face contorted in shock…

“I won’t tell anyone… It’s just for personal use. I wonder if you could give me just two…”

“Th-the rejuvenation elixir is the elves’ greatest taboo. Anything but that…”

Mother knelt down and murmured something into the village chief’s ear, and then the village chief looked back and forth between the purple girl and my mother… and finally, her shoulders slumped.

What a shakedown. It’s a yakuza trick… I laughed dryly and played the bystander.