By the Grace of the Gods: Volume 8 by Roy

Author:Roy [ROY]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

A small, round, and green object came hurling at me, eight appendages flapping in the air—a muddy, octopus-like creature.

“Huh, what?!” I instinctively caught the flying octopus (or whatever it was), and it spewed ink from its mouth.

“Ugh, little bugger was quicker on the draw...”

“You all right, Ryoma?”

“Yes, I’m fine.”

“Nikki!”

“You promised not to mess with anyone from outside the village!”

Seeing me doused in ink, the boy high-tailed it out of there.

Someone else shouted, and I turned to find an elderly woman coming around the corner.

“Oh, it’s you, Gran. Been chasing Nikki?”

“So he was here, Kai? I knew it! I’m sorry about your clothes,” she said to me.

I told her it was no problem, and activated Dimension Home. All of the ink on me was swiftly sucked up by a cleaner slime.

“My... That’s very convenient.”

“Don’t you run a laundry shop too, Ryoma?” Thane said.

“I forgot about that. Octo ink shouldn’t be a problem for you.” Peyron smiled.

The tension had lifted, and as I showed the elderly woman how spotless my clothes now were, she seemed to finally show relief.

“Now, if you’ll excuse me,” she said, “I have to go find that little sod and give him what for. If he comes around again...”

“We’ll hold him down until you come back.”

“Thanks a bunch, Shin... Now, where’d he run off to?” the woman asked.

“That way.” She ran off as soon as Kai pointed her in the direction.

She looked to be of considerable age, so I was a bit concerned about how quickly she ran off.

“Don’t worry about it. Happens all the time.”

Kei explained to me that Nikki was the most mischievous prankster in the entire village. His parents worked during the day, leaving him in the care of retirees... Apparently, he often escaped from his sitter and performed some pranks around the village.

“He usually doesn’t mess with anyone from outside the village.”

“Right, you mentioned something about a promise.”

“Yeah. We drill it into all of our kids not to mess with people coming to our village, not just Nikki. Pranking villagers is one thing.”

“We don’t want them causing trouble for those who came all this way, but we also wouldn’t really know what kind of person they were.”

“Lucky it was you, Ryoma, and you could laugh it off, but if he did that to some nutcase, he could put himself or his friends in danger.”

“The grown-ups try to keep an eye on them, but children need to understand what kind of behavior can be dangerous.”

That seemed like sound parenting advice to me. Then, something wrapped around my wrist.

“What should we do with this?” I asked, realizing that I was still holding the octopus (or just octo, as it was called in this world).

“Mm... You don’t have to give it back to him. Want to eat it?”

“I had a feeling it would be edible,” I remarked.

“We usually boil them. It’s good stuff.”

“I’m feeling kinda peckish myself.”

“Me too. But if all we have is that little one...”

“I have just the thing for that!”

“Just the thing?” the team repeated, and I suggested we return to the house before I explained.

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