Maou na Ore to Fushihime no Yubiwa:Volume 5 Epilogue

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Epilogue

Since then.

Four years have passed by.

The days since that one when our fight with Luka-san ended have passed in the blink of an eye.

Saying it like this may reek of an old man, but… They often say that time waits for no one and that the time known as a person’s teens is but an instant in a long life.

I, Kusumi Chiharu, welcome this very day; my twentieth birthday.

“Chiharu. Once again, thanks for bearing with me.”

When I got home, Zonmi, wearing the tattered T-shirt that I handed her quite a long time ago, came to greet me.

“… That you still haven’t throw out.”

“Yeah. Since it’s the first present that you gave me, Chiharu. Forever and ever… Until this body rots, I’ll cherish it.”

“… That’d be speaking for long term.”

The undead tribe is known as a long-lived race even among monsters, and rounding it down it seems that Zonmi thinks of cherishing the T-shirt that I handed to her for around three centuries.

“Now that I think of it… Have you made contact with Kyouko or Iris?”

“… I beg your pardon. I’ve been busy with home issues and haven’t had the time to contact those two.”

“I see. Since all of you have been busy at work everyday, it can’t be helped.”

As you know, the Princess of the Ghouls.

Zonmi Ra McKenzie has welcomed her birthday a step ahead from me and has grown into an adult woman

Zonmi, as of now.

Having earned the achievement of saving the human world from the Black Tamers, she became the ghoul’s clan first queen.

“… Even if we say that, I’m still nothing more than a figurehead. The one who holds the essential authority is my father.”

“It’s amazing nonetheless, Zonmi.”

Zonmi, who had saved the world from a crisis, earned high support as the hero of the ghoul clan and, as a result, the queenly path once closed to her had opened, but… It seems that she herself was currently realizing that her own power was not enough.

With the support of her sisters Aruru & Meruru, she was wholeheartedly striving for further prosperity of the ghoul clan.

“O—h. It’s been so long since I came to this house. How nostalgic. It’s the scent of Haru’s home.”

“Kyouko!?”

Kurose Kyouko. 20 yo.

By now, there isn’t a day her name is not heard of in the Netherworld’s media.

Kyouko, motivated by the big trauma she experienced with the Netherworld’s food when she travelled there with us, she developed a talent as a capable female firm president who manages more than 20,000 restaurants in a mere 4 years.

Of course, the feat of increasing by lawful means in four years from her own shop to twenty thousand stores is next to a miracle. I’ve known just recently from the Netherworld’s media, but it seems that there has been a series of M&A (mergers and acquisitions of different companies) bordering the illegality (gray area).

Now that I mention it this girl… She once thought of stealing the contract from Zonmi. Thinking like this, Kyouko, unexpectedly… May be a girl with a forte of stealing other people’s achievements.

“… Hey, Haru. Right now, you, haven’t you thought of something terribly rude about me?”

“H-how would I, of course I did not!?”

“Hu-mph. It’s suspicious that you’ve suddenly changed to a polite tone, but since today is a special day… I’ll let it slide.”

“…”

A close call.

Most likely, Kyouko has went through many hardships in these four years and her intuition has sharpened.

Expect her chorokawaii disposition from until now and you may get hurt.

“… Nu. Excuse me for being late, Chiharu. The afternoon lectures got ended up stretching a tad.”

“Iris… Is it you?”

The last time I saw her was forever ago.

Though we have exchanged letters a couple of times, it may have been around three years since we actually last met.

“… Sorry. Excuse me, but I shall borrow a seat without delay. With these… It can’t be helped that my shoulders get stiff.”

Muttered Iris, lowering her chest on the table.

“… Y-yeah.”

Meeting again after 3 years, no wonder I behave strange.

In the while that I haven’t see her, Iris… Erm… Bodywise, she seems to have had a plentiful development that unconsciously makes you unable to stand out of surprise, and her body clad in a red dress like those of red dragons brings about a voluptuous sensualiry .

T-these are…

D… No, they may be E cups.

As expected, if compared with the original boobs daimajin Lilith-san she’ll lost in terms of volume, but unexpectedly Iris’s chest has grown this much—.

““…””

Contrasting with me, who was rejoicing at Iris’s growth in a pure way & a wicked way, Zonmi & Kyouko’s expressions clouded.

Suddenly, while patting their own chests, they were wrapped in *GLOOM!* a heavy mood like someone who has gotten back from a funeral.

“I lost… To that red dragon…!? It’s the first time that I tasted this sense of loss as a woman.”

“By some chance… No need to guess, I am the one with the smallest chest from all the girls here!?”

By the way, there’s a reason for the fact that out of us four, only Iris has grown in outward appearance.

I, Zonmi, Kyouko, us three were already 16 when we met.

Even if 4 years have passed invoking the eternal seventeen (christened by my sister) peculiar of monsters, I fact, we’ve only aged a year’s share, but… Iris is different.

In Iris’s case, since she was outside of the scope where eternal seventeen would apply, like that she shows a growth of four years.

Iris Scarlet Lindwurm.

She who had more interest than others in ‘knowing’ from among the one’s we’ve met, as she declared, from Netherworld high school to university, she skipped grades and graduated in a mere 3 years, and currently she holds a position as teaching staff at a Netherworld university.

With a knowledge that puts adults to shame and a lovely appearance, Iris’s lectures have become already so popular that students from other universities go attend them.

“Since we are all gathered, do I announce that now?

What I couldn’t make my mind on four years ago… Let’s start with the continuation of that day.”

“““…”””

Four years.

Until the day that’s today, four years have gone by.

A man who has delayed this far the reply to a girl’s confession, wouldn’t it be a historical existence?

Even I am amazed with my shilly-shallyness, but… Surprisingly, Zonmi, Kyouko and Iris, those three nevertheless have waited for my reply today.

The truth is, I… Think I’m a man with the utmost happiness of receiving the favor of the bist girls.

“The girl I choose as my girlfriend. That is…”

I’ve started with my confession, yet, miraculously, the mood didn’t grow strained.

No matter who’s chosen, no hard feelings.

Could it be… Maybe the three, in their hearts, have reached that agreement.

“You… All of you!”

“““…?”””

Next instant after I replied to their confessions.

The atmosphere promptly turned into silence and the three of them at once fell into a daze with faces of “I don’t understand what’s going on”.

…

……

Eeerm. Yeah.

To some extent, it’s like I had predicted, but this mood is quite painful.

Inside the silent mood as if time had stopped, the one who was first to show reaction to my conclusion was, unexpectedly, Kyouko.

“Wait, Haru! What the heck does that mean!?”

*BLAM*

Raising a loud noise by banging the table, Kyouko bared her feelings.

“Cut the bad jokes! We… It’s not like we have been waiting for four years wanting to hear those words! Is this a manga or a game!? Haru, you think you’ve been born in a country that allows polygyny or something!?”

Hearing Kyouko’s words, the other girls too raised after that words of objection.

“Of course it is like that in an overwhelming number of countries at the human world, but in all Netherworld without exception multiple marriages are forbidden. Like the Nephilim has said, I also don’t believe that your idea, Chiharu, is a feasible option.”

“If such is the response thy hath given, I shall comply, but… In many a sense the option of multiple wedlock will be difficult.”

“…”

Until now, it’s roughly as I predicted.

I’m not the MC from a harem love comedy… If anyone is told this… Crazy thing, they will refuse.

“… Well, understood.

In that case, you lot, if you found that my conclusion was feasible… Would you consent then?”

“… Understood. If that thing was possible, I’ll agree.

Something like polygyny, thinking normally, would be impossible, but… It’s not like I… Hate these girls.”

“… It’s not like I have no objections, but if I can receive your affection, Chiharu… I… Even so.”

“If I can be by thy side, I shan’t question the means.”

“…”

Good.

If I didn’t got their consent here, in a certain sense, my… Efforts these four years may had been for naught, but It seems that my worries ended as needless anxiety.

“… Girls, thank you. First, I want you to watch this.”

What I took out, waiting for the right time, was, to be frank, my home’s TV remote.

Since I’ve been living a busy life recently, I didn’t have many chances to watch TV and it was totally covered in dust.

Coordinating my timing by looking at the clock, once I had confirmed that the time was exactly 17:00, I turned on the TV.

And now, what.

‘… The show’s still midway, but we have an special news feed to broadcast just now.’

Yeah!

Just timing! [note: engrish; it should be something like “right on the mark”]

It seems that, like I had planned beforehand, I could catch the start of the news program.

‘What we dwellers of the human world feared has happened at last.

Seven months ago. Kusumi Chiharu-san was inaugurated as the 48th maou of the Netherworld and has stablished many ground-breaking laws to build friendly relationships between humans and monsters, but… As if us humankind would be deceived by his actions!

Look!

This is a copy of a threatening letter from the maou that the Japanese government has received.

What’s terrible is that the maou, by brandishing his tremendous influence schemes to intervene in the law-making of our country!

Let’s read the maou’s demands.

Make polygyny fully legal in the human world, as well as in the Netherworld. However, restricted to just men who can definitely make girls happy.

… We don’t know what king of intentions has the current maou with these requests.

However, because of this turmoil, clashes with women right activists from all over the globe are expec…’

“…”

Listening until there, I turned off the TV with the remote.

“… Then, well, it’s like that.

From now on, I think the age has come where, be it polygyny, be it harem, such a lifestyle can be led with no one talking behind anyone’s back.”

“““…”””

Taking as truth the surprise I had prepared for them, darting their eyes about in bewilderment, the monster girl trio got stiff.

Aah.

That’s right.

I’ve told you the ‘after that’ of the girls I will be marrying, but I still haven’t told the story of none other than myself.

I, who during the battle with Luka-san could brandish the treasured sword used by the former maou—“Shiden”, was advised by Lilith-san that “What about you try to become the Netherworld’s maou?”

They say that the weapon called Shiden is a special weapon that can only be brandished by those who meet the qualifications as the rightful maou successor… After that, I, in the blink of an eye, put aside the many other maou candidates and was inaugurated to the maou’s seat.

Though I say it like that, the way till now has by no means been a bed of roses.

I’ve been thought day after day, fourteen hours a day, by Lilith-san, who took over the position of a tutor, and there has been more and more open harassment from the rest of the maou candidates that didn’t look so glad of my dancing ahead.

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