"These damn humans!” He suddenly cursed. “Only they would dare spit on Esmore like this! Giving us a cursed house! How dare they!”
“M-master! Maybe they didn’t know!” A small ten-year-old girl with tears in her eyes and similarly pointed ears wearing a maid outfit also appeared.
At this point, the paired seemed to notice me standing in front of them. Immediately, an angry expression formed on the guy’s face.
“You… punk! Are you the cause of this? I knew the humans were up to something! I’ve caught you red-handed. Don’t even think you can run away!”
“Eh? I just came here because I heard someone scream and I was worried.” I admitted. “Um… are your parent’s home?”
“This bastard is looking to die!” The little boy screamed. “How dare you look down on the Esmere! You shitty humans should all die! I came here as an ambassador in good faith. Not only do you hand me the smallest property, but you also gave me a cursed home!”
“I’m sorry!” The maid girl bowed. “Master is just angry right now. We’re not children. We’re Esmere from Esmore. We’re your neighbors!”
“You’re not a child!”
“I’m actually 22. And Master is in his sixties!”
“So, you’re like an elf? The Keebler kind?”
“Oi… don’t be comparing us to those extinct creatures!” The boy snapped.
“Some say the Esmere descended from elves, but the elves were all wiped out.”
I scratched my head. It looked like I really should have been looking at history and culture books as opposed to maps. I hadn’t even heard of the Esmere before now. They looked like children with slightly pointy ears. That was all I could say about this. Although, that did explain why their home was the smallest.
“Since you guys are small, you probably didn’t need a bigger mansion, right?”
The Esmere boy stomped on my foot. “You bastard! Tall with those bulbous noses and those round ears!”
He continued to curse, but he didn’t seem to be trying to get me in trouble. Meanwhile, the maid next to him was continuing to bow and apologize. Considering they both had the appearance of children, it was a pretty strange and uncomfortable scene. Just as I was deciding to bail out of this conversation and go talk with someone else, I saw some kind of movement behind them. A dark mass seemed to form in midair, and then a form started to emerge from it. It had some nasty looking claws, and it looked like it was reaching for the maid.
Before I could stop myself, I reached out and grabbed the maid, pulling her to me. She let out a cry as I pulled her into my arms protectively. I instantly held out my hand towards the form. At this moment, the other guy noticed the black thing too and stumbled back fearfully. It had finally removed itself from the dark bubble. It was long and willowy, composed only of fluctuating dark fog. It lunged in our direction.
“Holy Circle!” The circle erupted from my fingertips and surrounded all of us.
The pure holy energy surrounded the shadow too. It was clear it couldn’t handle it because a moment later it melted apart into nothing.
"So, you're like an elf? The Keebler kind?"
"Keebler kind"? This MC lacks self-awareness if he would ask that kind of question (out load) in an actual fantasy world, especially asking someone who resembles what he assumed was an elf. And for all the MC knows, in this world the name "Keebler" could refer to some cursed being or family name or have some other bad connotation.
On a side note: As an elf fan, I'm disappointed to hear that they were entirely wiped out. It seems some fiction writers really dislike this particular fantasy trope. These Esmere sound more like Kenders or Halflings. Actually, I'm most reminded of the cute, child-like elves in Death March. Though, that story had far too many lolis, anyway.
"Since you guys are small, you probably didn't need a bigger mansion, right?"
Confirmed: The MC has a severe case of foot-in-mouth disease. But this is fine, I guess. We need a good laugh. And accidentally insulting an entirely fictional, made up race is the only safe way such a joke can be done these days.
Death March only good for lolicons but the mc is still cool
“Eh? I just came here because I heard someone scream and I was worried.” I admitted. “Um… are your
WHAT DO YOU MEAN!?!? That's not something normal people do! Is that something people do? You're walking into a new neighborhood you're completely unfamiliar with, you hear a scream in a house and your first move is to break into that house?
The MC's to scared to fight with people who obviously want to put there hands on his girls (like the mercenaries in the inn) but his not scared to break into a noble's mansion?
man could this guy have worse articulation? he's really good at offending people and creating misunderstandings where there didn't need to be any, and i reckon my mental wellbeing is worse for it...
Only thinking in all the problems this could make make my head hurt and I dont know why the autor send to extinction the elfs but wathever
Haha, looks like the MC is going to luck into a house.