My Friend’s Harem is Obsessed With Me – Chapter 124

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“By the way, I heard some strange rumors about you and Seria. They’re not true, right?”

“Of course not, sis.”

I answered Diana’s question sharply as she suddenly poked me while Adriana was examining my body.

It absolutely wasn’t because I was conscious of Eris’ eyebrows twitching slightly.

“I think it’s safe to say that the dragon transformation itself has stopped at this point. Fortunately, it hasn’t gotten worse.”

Adriana, who had been checking her pulse, smiled and stood up.

It was a unique method used by witches to check for abnormalities in the body by flowing mana through the blood vessels, and it seemed like something Rin would be quite interested in.

Even though the atmosphere had become a bit strange now, in the future, after everything ended, she had said she wanted to quietly be a doctor in a village.

“But to think you can handle your wings and tail so well. I heard that our side only has a tail and no wings, but we struggle because the proportion doesn’t match.”

Hatsim Bellock, one of only seven master blacksmiths among dwarves, muttered while stroking his gray beard, and Jaegyua Baekplin, the beastman next to him, snorted.

“It’s probably because the proportion of you dwarves is not very good in the first place. Our side doesn’t seem to have any major problems right now.”

The two engaged in a pride battle over something strange.

At the moment, it seemed like Hatsim was losing, but he retorted with a smile of confidence.

“I heard last time that you didn’t have wings but grew a tail? I heard you were a cat beast, so does that mean your friend has two tails?”

“……”

“I’ve heard it somewhere before. There are cat ghosts or magical beasts with two tails! Then hasn’t your friend evolved into a legendary being?”

“You’re speaking very carelessly, shorty.”

“The beast is shedding fur in front of the patient. How dare you try to sit at the same table as humans?”

Watching them start a scuffle, bickering with each other in the hospital room, I unconsciously frowned deeply.

“Are they always like this?”

“Not a single day passes without it. It’s become a routine now. Last time, when they were apart for a bit, they seemed to miss each other.”

There was a reason they weren’t stopping them.

Eris, who was already used to it, lightly warned them to go fight outside, and the two immediately left, grumbling.

She definitely had a firm grip on them.

I brought a wheeled round chair and pushed it towards Eris since we had borrowed the infirmary for a brief examination.

Adriana sat on the bed where my sister was lying down, and I also sat cross-legged on the opposite bed. I didn’t think these four people had come all the way to Aios Academy just to see Diana.

As if reading my thoughts, Eris cleared her throat and began to reveal what they had discovered so far.

“First of all, we headed to the Dragon’s Boundary to interrogate Keyalmirec, the former Inquisitor.”

Keyalmirec.

A dragon-transformed individual who kidnapped other dragon-transformed individuals and sold them to the Tudogs.

He was a criminal who took advantage of the fact that when a dragon-transformed individual crossed from the Dragon’s Boundary to human land, all judicial rights over them were transferred to humans.

“Since the Tudogs had collapsed in an instant, the bases mentioned by Keyalmirec were left as they were without being sorted out.”

Adriana bowed her head as if feeling sorry while looking at me who had wiped them out, but Eris smiled proudly.

“When we found one base, it led to another base connected to it, like a gang organization. As we continued, we recently encountered Horan.”

“A survivor of the fleeing Tudogs?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

I remembered that the leader of the Tudogs had stalled for time to save her.

In the end, we had lost the tiger beast, Horan.

“Unfortunately, we couldn’t catch her. She had already noticed that we were coming and was running away.”

“Is she still doing things related to human body transformation?”

Eris shook her head at Diana’s question.

“No, it didn’t seem like that. Rather, there were traces of her trying to destroy all the bases.”

Was it to keep the secrets of the Tudogs from being revealed?

Here, Adriana intervened with her arms crossed.

“But through Horan’s fur that she left behind and the remaining records, we found the Tudogs’ largest base. But that place…… is near the Beast King’s territory.”

Beast King Lizer.

The king of the beasts that Jaegyua Baekplin, who was currently fighting very childishly but fiercely with the dwarf, served.

In the case of beasts, they had a much stronger aversion to outsiders invading their territory compared to other races.

Of course, based on my experiences so far, other races didn’t seem to be very generous either.

I had almost been shot with an arrow as soon as I entered the elves’ forest, and crossing the Dragon’s Boundary meant being stripped of human rights.

But the beasts reacted a bit differently.

The moment an unauthorized outsider entered their territory, they not only cut off the outsider’s limbs but also went a step further.

For example, if a human was caught by them, they would start invading the nearby human villages.

If you got hit once, pay them back tenfold.

That was a kind of instinct engraved in the bodies of the beasts, and the reason why other races couldn’t easily enter the beasts’ land.

“But this time, we have Jaegyua Baekplin.”

If he, the captain of the special unit under the Beast King, was there, entering the beasts’ land shouldn’t be a big problem, right?

I thought it was an extremely natural question, but Adriana gave a mischievous smile and glanced at Eris, and Eris lowered her head with her hands on her thighs, only moving her eyes to glance at me.

“Hm? Did I say something strange?”

“Oh my, little brother. You lack sense, but to this extent.”

I listened to my sister’s words with a sincere expression of not understanding.

“The beasts’ land is quite far. So they came to see you before going.”

“No way.”

I couldn’t believe it.

Even if that was the case, would Eris, the gatekeeper of Yggdrasil, forcibly lead a party with a witch, a dwarf, and a beastman to come see me?

But Eris’ face was as red as an apple waiting to be harvested.

“Oh?”

Seeing her expression, I felt bewildered, but a subtle joy also welled up.

I knew that even a moment of silence would be embarrassing for Eris.

“Well, I’ll step out for a bit. I have something to say to Eris.”

Even with my sister and Adriana watching, I immediately grabbed Eris’ hand and took her out of the infirmary.

“Kya, young love!”

My sister’s middle-aged man-like voice echoed in my ears.

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Ignoring the dwarf and the beast who had just been poking at each other and were now whistling and suddenly working together to cheer us on, we walked down the corridor.

I was going to suggest going out to the city and eating something delicious, but Eris politely refused and instead said she wanted to look around the academy I attended.

Since it was the weekend anyway, it was empty except for the students doing club activities, so I introduced Eris to my 3rd-year Class E without much problem.

“Where is Daniel’s seat?”

“There’s no designated spot, but I always sit over here with the others.”

When I said that while wiping the back corner seat where I usually sat, she immediately sat in my seat and carefully scanned the classroom with her eyes.

“This is the view Daniel usually sees.”

“It’s not much, right?”

“It’s peaceful and nice. Do your other friends sit next to you? Can you introduce them to me?”

“……You probably saw them earlier. I’ll formally introduce you when I get the chance.”

I didn’t know about Tana, but for some reason, Eve seemed likely to burn with strange competitiveness.

Recently Eve never backed down from a fight that came her way.

I was about to suggest going to another place, but Eris, who was receiving the sunlight streaming through the window, had a pleasant smile on her face.

Without realizing it, I wanted to see that sight more, so I just stood there blankly without saying anything to her.

“Um, Daniel.”

Eris slowly and very carefully parted her lips.

With her eyes still on the chalkboard hanging on the classroom wall, she continued.

“Do you remember the day you confessed to me when you came to Yggdrasil?”

“Huh? O-Of course I remember.”

I was caught off guard and unconsciously scratched the back of my head since I didn’t expect her to bring up that story all of a sudden, but Eris was still smiling as if she was happy about something.

I thought she might be accepting the confession that had been put on hold for a while, but she brought up the story after that.

“And that dawn, you talked with a child named Rin by the lake. Actually, I heard it then, that you said you saw the future, Daniel.”

“……!”

She heard that?

At that time, my attention was too focused on Rin, so I must have missed her presence.

Especially since elves were difficult to find as they blended in well with the forest.

As if not to miss my wavering eyes, Eris naturally shifted her gaze from the chalkboard to me.

“So I naturally started to understand. Why you were attracted to me even though you were seeing me for the first time, and why you knew my food preferences well. Of course, I wondered what kind of future you had seen.”

“……”

Eris was trying hard to smile.

She was anxious now.

As a foolish sherpa, I didn’t know what she was anxious about, but she considerately told me straightforwardly.

“Daniel, could it be that you like the ‘future’ me, not the current me?”

“……”

I couldn’t answer.

That question pierced my heart too deeply, and it hurt, hitting the core.

“While looking at you, Daniel, I thought. There are so many lovely women who like you, so why do you like me? Actually, we didn’t have such a deep connection.”

Eris’ hand gently swept the desk she was sitting at again.

Her hand, wiping away non-existent dust, seemed as if…

She was wiping away the memories she didn’t have.

“Daniel, I don’t know how the future unfolded, but I’m not the Eris you remember.”

It was true.

The one who had whispered love to me.

The one who had struggled with me until the very end for the sake of life.

The one who had been pierced through the heart with a spear at the last moment but still cared for me.

Eris was just a vain hope, desire, deceased, and illusion left in my memory.

“So I think we need to sort out our relationship. Since I’ll be leaving for the beastman’ land soon, I think we’ll have plenty of time to think about it.”

“……”

Seeing me unable to say anything, Eris gently held my hand.

“This is not your fault, Daniel. It’s natural to see the future me and the present me as the same. But you can’t determine the present based on the results of the future. That’s no different from the superstitious people who are dragged by fate.”

She was scolding me sharply, but the hand holding mine was extremely gentle.

“Don’t make me a pitiful woman. Don’t make me crave false affection by identifying me with the woman in your memories.”

In the end, I had no choice but to admit it.

“Okay. Let’s give it some time.”

“Thank you.”

Eris slowly let go of my hand and, in an uncharacteristically playful tone to deliberately lighten the mood, asked.

“But what kind of relationship did we have in the future?”

I understood that she couldn’t help but be curious.

This time, I held her hand and looked her straight in the eye.

“I liked you a lot.”

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