After Reincarnating as a Villain-faced B-class Adventurer in the Game, I Picked up the Protagonist and His Childhood Friend - Chapter 4

Five thugs are lying down in front of me.

“You know”

I call out to them while crouching.

“If you mess with the kids in that shack, I’ll have you pinned to the top of Mount Kyrios and fed to the harpies. They gnaw slowly…really slowly, from the tips of the hands and legs so their prey doesn’t die.”

No, I don’t know. I don’t know anything about harpies.

But there is no way these guys can understand such a thing, and everyone’s face turned pale and they were trembling.

…look at my face.

The town of Bastok, where I am based, is located along the highway that connects the royal capital of this country with other countries, and it is a large town with a large population.

There is a large adventurers’ guild, and there are many requests of a certain level of difficulty with commensurate rewards, which makes life easy and rewarding for a full-time adventurer like me.

But, well, a large population means that there are also criminals who pretend to be hoodlums or dark guilds.

While being beaten by me, these guys also frequently mentioned the name of the organization behind them.

I think it was “The Greedy Spider”….

“Don’t think you get a free pass for doing this to us! Greedy(ry)!”

“Remember us! Greedy!”

“Ow ow ow! My arms don’t turn in that direction.”

I don’t remember it very well, but I’m pretty sure it is.

The reason these guys got involved with me was that they thought I was a competitor. In their business, it’s basically first come, first served, and if the person who comes later has to hand over their prey, they’ll have to pay the price properly, and if they don’t come to an agreement with each other, it will become quite troublesome later on…

That means he was trying to negotiate with me. Damn it!

Didn’t you learn in elementary school that you shouldn’t judge people by their appearance? There is no elementary school in this world.

I roll the thugs into the back alley and go shopping at the market as originally planned.

I bought apples to make the bread porridge, and pots and wooden utensils for the night shift at a familiar store before returning to the hut.

When I started preparing in front of the hut, Iska and Fio were very surprised, saying, “Eh…Gray-san is going to cook?!”

I’m aware that it doesn’t suit me, but despite my appearance, I always do the cooking, laundry, and cleaning. I’ve been doing it since before I remembered my previous life…

“Oh…at least let me help you.”

With that, she put down Nina, who was holding her, and Ariamel came up to me.

I stroked the head of Ratz, who was staring at the apples with his fingers in his mouth and told him to “wait a little longer,” to which he nodded obediently.

As I’m pouring the finished bread porridge from the pot onto a dish I bought, someone grabs my clothes from behind.

“Hmm?”

When I look behind me, Nina stares at my face with a runny nose.

“…Hey, don’t move.”

After wiping Nina’s runny nose

“Wait over there, I’ll bring it right away.”

Even though I said that Nina still grabbed my clothes and stared at my face.

Wha… what?

I’m glad she doesn’t get scared when I look at her face…but it’s kind of embarrassing to have her stare at me so much…

“…Oto-san?” (Father?)

Nina spoke as she stared into my face.

『No, no. I’m not your father.』

I was going to say so, but for some reason, I couldn’t speak when I thought that this child might get sad.

What should I do?

“Hey, Nina. Gray-san is in trouble, right?”

As I was perplexed, Ariamel picked up Nina.

When I saw Nina reach out her hand when she left me, I almost took it.

…… Oh, what the hell am I going to do …?