Peddler in Another World: I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want! Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 9] by Hiiro Shimotsuki

Author:Hiiro Shimotsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Shiro, we’re almost there now, meow! This is my home village, meow!” Kilpha exclaimed merrily, pointing out something up ahead. I followed her gaze and spotted a bunch of dome-shaped houses up in the trees.

“Wow, treehouses!” I exclaimed in wonder.

“Treehouses?” Kilpha repeated, clearly unfamiliar with the word.

“Oh, that’s what we call houses that have been built up in trees in my homeland,” I clarified. “So treehouses, huh? I wasn’t expecting that.”

Now that’s what I call a fantasy setting, I thought to myself as I peered at the untold number of little houses in the distance. I hadn’t even spotted a single cat ear yet, but my inner child was already trembling with excitement.

“Let’s go, Kilpha! We can even run there!” I enthusiastically suggested.

“Hold on a minute, Shiro, meow,” she replied, stopping me.

“What is it?”

“From this moment on, you’re my fiancé, okay?” Kilpha said pointedly.

“Yup! I’m your fiancé. No matter what anyone else may say, I’m your fiancé,” I said, confirming that I was on board with the plan.

“Right, yes. So I’d like you to call me by a pet name when we’re around the others, meow. Something like ‘darling’ or ‘honey,’” she said.

“A pet name?” I repeated. “I mean, I guess that makes sense, but...” I was a little reluctant, but I couldn’t argue that it would definitely help us to sell the pretense.

“It really does, meow. After all, it’s only natural for l-l-lovers to give each other pet names. So I want you to call me ‘darling,’ meow.”

I nodded gravely. “Got it.”

“Let’s do a practice run, okay, meow? Try saying it,” Kilpha suggested, motioning me to give it a go.

“O-Okay. Ready?”

“Ready.”

I hesitated slightly, but eventually managed to mumble a quiet, “D-Darling.”

“That’s me!” she said, her hand shooting up in the air as if she were a student whose name had been called at roll call. “Again, meow!”

“Darling,” I repeated, a little more confidently this time.

She giggled, seemingly pleased with this. “Now remember, you’ve got to call me that whenever we’re in my village, okay?”

“I’ll do my best.”

I tried repeating it over and over in my head. Darling, darling, darling, darling... Ugh, it’s no good. I just can’t get used to calling her that. But I have to.

I closed my eyes. “Kilpha... Uh, I mean, my darling Kilpha and I are lovers. We’re engaged to be married. We plan to spend the rest of our lives together,” I mumbled to myself, trying to get into character. “So I just have to get over myself and start calling her ‘darling’ like she requested. You got that, Shiro?”

After a good thirty seconds of autosuggestion, I opened my eyes again and looked at Kilpha. “All right, let’s go, darling,” I said, grabbing her hand without hesitation.

“O-Okay!”

The two of us resumed our trek to the village of the cat-sìths, and with our fingers interlocked, anyone looking at us would have taken us for boyfriend and girlfriend. Or at least, I hoped they would.

With that thought still rattling around my head, I finally found myself in the cat-sìth village.

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