Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 8] by rarutori

Author:rarutori
Language: eng
Format: epub

“I see. I understand your situation. But why should I help you?”

With all that being said, I didn’t care much about their situation. Though I wasn’t interested in actively wiping them out, that didn’t mean I was keen to help them survive. “Besides, you snuck in here hoping to steal them while I slept, didn’t you?” There was no other reason for her to have silently snuck onto the ship in the dead of night.

Though there was also the possibility she had intended to kill me and take all of my possessions. Either way, I wasn’t particularly angry. It would have been my own fault for letting my guard down. But of course, that wasn’t helping the fairies’ case either.

Considering all that, though, I didn’t refuse their request to speak. In the end, I could ignore them if this was a problem for the fairies alone. But in their death throes, there was no telling what would happen to the humans who lived around them. For example, if those humans perished along with the fairies, information about the sea around the island would all be lost, making a large portion of the sea no longer safe to travel. That would no doubt result in more than a few ships straying off the sea lanes and into the territory of monsters, inevitably leading to their demise.

I had grown to like the sailors who brought me from Fusou back to the Ancient Gold Empire, and the ones aboard Suin’s ship. If a threat might come to their colleagues, or potentially to themselves, I wanted to nip it in the bud.

But of course, there was no need for me to tell the fairies that. Even if I was willing to part with the peaches, I would need to draw a fittingly heavy price out of them to leave them with a measure of humility. When it came to dealing with fairies, if you didn’t have an overwhelming amount of leverage over them, you couldn’t accomplish much of anything.

“W-We are prepared, to trade our secret honey for them.” Despite the darkness, it seemed the fairy noticed my glare, as she immediately began to grow flustered. But those words had me lift my sword once again.

“Sounds like you just want me dependent on your honey so you can control me.”

The honey produced by the fairies here was undeniably valuable, but I had no desire for something that would leave me dependent on it. It was possible studying it could turn up medicinal applications for the substance. In particular, there was a good chance it could make a powerful painkiller. But even so, I had no intentions of getting involved with such a malicious substance. It wasn’t a matter of balancing the benefits and drawbacks. I just didn’t like it. Of course, it went without saying that I would never partake of it myself in any situation.

I couldn’t tell what the fairy’s intentions had been with her offer. It was quite likely that she was just trying to offer me the most valuable thing they had.

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