Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! Volume 2 by Hiiro Shimotsuki

Author:Hiiro Shimotsuki [SHIMOTSUKI, HIIRO]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2023-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

Patty’s Story

When I met him, he was hunting in the forest. He was using a, uh... What do you call it again? That thingy that makes sticks fly super far. Hm? Oh, yeah, that’s it: a bow and arrow! Anyway, he had one of those and he was running after a jackalope. And he had a really grumpy look on his face like this! He was so bad with that thing, the little jackalope just kept running away from him. Isn’t that hilarious? I sat on the branch of a tall tree and watched him struggle for hours on end. Each time he missed, his face would scrunch up like he was about to cry, and I laughed so much my stomach hurt. But after a while, he just kinda flopped down on the ground and started wailing like a little kid. He was so pitiful! So I decided I’d help him.

I flew in front of him, and whoosh! Killed that jackalope with one hit. And then... Tee hee. He just stared at me for a while after that, and didn’t even take one look at that jackalope. His eyes grew real wide, and do you wanna know what he said?

Cough. “A-Are you a fai—”

Hm? Why am I speaking in such a high voice, you ask? W-Well, I was just imitating him! Who cares about that, anyway?! Look, if you keep on annoying me, I’ll stop the story there! I swear I will! Oh, really? A-All right, then. I’ll carry on.

“Are you a fairy?” he asked me. I mean, couldn’t he tell just by looking at me? Seriously, what a weirdo. And do you wanna know what I said in response?

“And you’re a hume, right?”

That was our first meeting. After that, he cooked the jackalope I’d killed over a fire and we ate it together. That was actually my first time eating jackalope meat, and I have to say, I didn’t like it one bit. But while we were eating, he kept crying and saying over and over how good it was. I remember thinking: Damn, humes seriously have weird tastes. But then he told me he hadn’t eaten any proper food in ten days! And apparently, if you don’t eat for ten days, even jackalope meat tastes good—or at least, that’s what he claimed. It was the first time I’d even seen a hume, so I naturally thought all you guys must be as gangly as he was. But now I realize he was just underweight.

When he was done eating, he thanked me and told me he’d been so hungry, he thought he was on the verge of starving to death. “I escaped my fate, thanks to you,” he told me.

And I answered, “It was nothing. After all, I can cut through destiny!”

What? Th-That’s... It’s what my name means in the language of the fairies: “She Who Can Cut Through Destiny.” Why are you looking at me like that?! Do you want me to stop telling you the story, is that it?

All right, all right.

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