Pioneering the Apocalyptic World - Chapter 35
Chapter 05: Bride riot
“… Marrying, who is?”
“It’s me.”
“To whom?”
“With miko-sama(you)”
No no no no no?wait a second! I’m begging you, wait! ?
“I’m sorry, can I ask you a question?”
“What is it?”
While putting my fingers on my temples. I take a deep breath to calm down my thoughts that were starting to going to a full panic state.
Damn it, this elf girl is acting about it calmly… Or maybe I’m overreacting from a little while ago…
“What would have happened if a miko hadn’t appeared?”
“The deadline was set, so if miko-sama hadn’t come by that time, I would have handed over the role to a younger girl and married someone in the village.”
It’s not like you’re forced to be single for the rest of your life. I was a little relieved.
“… If the miko was already a man with a wife and children or a terribly old man?”
“I was told to marry to no matter what kind of partner he could be, so in this case I still be marrying him.”
Eh?… Seriously.
The former case is… Well, it’s not Japan, and monogamy isn’t necessarily the norm… But the latter also… Seriously…?
How can I say it… It started to smells fishy…? It’s not about this child, it’s about the elders who raised her like that.
While I groaning, Fricka-san seemed to understand what she I said, and clapped her hands.
“I see, so just because the other person is a woman doesn’t mean I don’t have to be your bride.”
“Wait a minute!?”
She tilted her head like “?” but why are you wondering about that part!?
“In the first place, what about my will! Even if I refuse, you still try to force it!?”
“… That pattern wasn’t mentioned.”
Don’t be dumbfound at it!
No, it’s true that this girl is a very beautiful girl, so there may not be a man who doesn’t fall when pushed down by her… But unfortunately, I’m still a woman! I still think that her every gesture is cute, but my heart isn’t shaken in that sense!
While I was writhing, thinking about what to do. A question flew from Uru, who was quietly on the watching from the sideline.
“What has Rion been upset about since a while ago?”
“B-Because, this normally makes someone want to be upset, right?”
Well, it’s just that I’m too timid, so it’s just a matter of simply refusing it…
But what Uru wanted to meant was from a completely different point of view.
“When you mean bride it’s about being a couple(mates)*, right? To a same-sex couple who can’t have a child, isn’t it originally impossible to become one?”
That is, biologically speaking, the right thing to do according to when considering the conservation instinct of the species. From Uru’s point of view, it may be ‘common sense to a racial culture(lizard) viewpoint’.
Even from a human’s point of view, it’s extremely natural to want a spouse and have children, and it wouldn’t be strange if that was the primary reason for getting married.
However, from my point of view, the problem is not that the person that started this talk is from same-sex and can’t have a child with me.
“I think it’s possible even if both parts are from the same sex. But in that case, what they want are other things.”
“……Mu?”
Even in modern Japan, same-sex marriage was recognized in some areas.
In Asteria, it will be probably a comon sense that’s not good if the god of creation declared that is ‘not good’, but if this kind of exchange is being made now, that’s probably not the case. As expected, it’s hard to ask for the god herself to confirm…
Anyway, I’m sure that was been bugging me from the beginning is…
“Fricka-san.”
“I don’t mind if you call me without honorifics.You are in a higher position than me.”
“… Fricka, the reason that you’re going to be… Umm, marrying me is because I’m a miko, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
……I knew it, but was it an immediate answer? Yeah that’s right.
If that was an unprobably case of love at first sight, i would probably think about it for a moment, but that will not happen with me, right? Haha……Ha……
If so, there only a single answer that i can give.
“If that’s the case, I firmly refuse it.”
“…May I ask the reason?”
The reason? That is already decided from the start.
This person… Is only seeing my status as a “miko”.
“I don’t want to have that compulsory marriage that doesn’t have that any type of love or affection.”
Even if you cont that you’re from same sex, let alone if was a person you like, to someone you don’t even know… It’s like a political marriage.
Well, I’m not denying political marriage in itself. Important people like kings would like to connect bloodlines by obligation.
But if it’s about myself, I would like to say “You gotta be kidding me.” to it.
“If I loved you, and you loved me, and we’re important to each other, being special to the other… Unless it is someone that make me feel ‘I want to live with you for the rest of my life’… I don’t want it.”
If I start to talk about the ideal form, there’s no end to my talk, so I’ll omit it, but if I set the minimum condition to be that we must have mutual feelings, there is no reason that I have to to be blamed for it.
To my assertion Fricka said “I see.” and nodded. I’m glad that she seemed to agree with me.
…That’s what I thought, but the talk rolled into a strange direction…
“Then, if I fall in love with you and you fall in love with me, then there will be no problems.”
“…Huh?…Yes, right?”
“I understood, I’ll try my best.”
Eh.
Do your best… In what?
At this point in time, she doesn’t seem to like me at all, so why would she said that…? Are you being forced to do it…?
“That’s not true. No, it’s not a mistake to say that I’m being forced to do it, but…Aside from that, I have some thoughts about your explanation.”
“So it’s not a mistake …”
Elf-san, aren’t you being a little too dark?
…Let’s stop putting retorts for now. As expected, I can’t say “Don’t do your best”. So I can say as long as it doesn’t put me at a disadvantage, though.
In any case, when I thought that this story was resolved (?) for the time being… This time Uru who started to be confused at it.
“Mmm… Even if you say about things like love or affection I don’t understand…”
“It’s just what the miko-sama wants, but neither is actually necessary to it.”
“Hey.”
Fricka-san!? What are you saying here!??
“I don’t understand it even more…? In the end, what does marriage mean to you two? Is there a difference between having it and not having it?”
“A kind of oath… A contract, I suppose? ‘I promise to love you in good health and in sickness, and to do my best for as long as I live.’ like that.”
“…It seems that love is needed there?”
“…There have been quite a few cases where it has not been fulfilled.”
Hey! ? Aren’t the elves darkness too deep!?
“The point is to gain rights. Husbands can do whatever they want to their wives…there are occasional cases where it’s the other way around. Specifically, sex–”
“Don’t say any more!”
My elf’s image and my marriage image are crumbling down!!!
Both of them were startled by my sudden shout, but my brain is not in that place.
Well right, about ‘that’ no matter how close you are, you can’t do with your friends, a spouse… At least if you aren’t lovers you can’t do it, right? I’m right?
But that’s not what I want! I’m not interested into–… Completely!
“… Rion do you want to what you like to?”
“I want to object to that way of saying it… but as long as the other party is OK with it, well, there are various things…”
…… I answered without thinking, but why are we’re talking about this ……?
Huh? While tilting my head in my mind, from Uru came out remarks that in certain mean were even worse.
“? If there’s something you want to with me, you can do it, well I don’t want to be done painful things.”
“Ah, I heard that it hurts the first time… Wrong! Get away from that thought, me!!”
At me who crouched down while screaming, Uru asked me worriedly “Are you okay…?”.
I’m sorry! But I think that you are also being a little bit bad for what happened now.
“Uru-san… Don’t say things like ‘You can do whatever you like to me’ to other people…? They might end up doing weird things to you…?”
“Weird things? Well, I don’t have any intention of telling anyone other than Rion for now.”
…….
I wonder if this kid knows the meaning of what she’s saying… She doesn’t seems to understand… But she understood when I said “pay with the body” just before… Which one is…
No, no, if you think that this simply comes from a sense of trust that I won’t do ‘weird things’ to her… In other words, my thinking circuit is bad…
No good. I think that I will going to dig my own grave if I continue… I have to cut off the talk here…
“… I don’t have any request to you in particular right now. I’m fine right now…”
“…? I see.”
Uru had made a face like “What’s going on?” to me, but she didn’t try to ask me any more questions as I dropped my shoulders.
What the hell is this convoluted talk, how did this happened?
*Translator note: Uru refer to being a couple(mates) as (?=???) a term that I only read being used in to refer animals.