Chapter 46
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Chapter 46
Elliott tilted his head seeing this scene that was hard to understand.......and then started yelling at Rachel when he remembered why he had come to this place to begin with.
“So you’re the one who arbitrarily took the cat without permission Rachel! With his cute cat gone, Raymond was........”
“Slow!!”
Rachel responded to the shouting with a scream of her own. Even though he was the prince.
“.............worried.............eh?”
Elliott forcefully swallowed what he was going to say as this rarely anger Rachel continued to viciously denounce him.
“Really, why are you here only now!? You really are useless you know that!? It’s already over!”
“Eh? It’s over.........what is?”
“Not what! When you’re only redeeming quality is being able to talk with animals on the same level as you, what were you doing when you were needed during a real emergency!?”
Elliott furrowed his brow when he heard Rachel’s unreasonable complaint.
“Haah!? You, what are you saying! My only redeeming feature is my face, the face!”
Somebody who doesn’t notice they’re on the same level as a monkey while saying something only somebody on the same level as a monkey would say.
“Your Highness, you shouldn’t be saying that yourself!”
“Is that so.”
While Wolanski was chiding Elliott, Rachel continued.
“Do you know how grave the situation was!? Ooh, I couldn’t understand what Haley or Mister Cat were saying.......you can’t arbitrate a fight unless you have the same level of intelligence as the participants, so try and be alert for when you’re needed! You’re always here when you aren’t needed after all!”
“Oi wait Rachel, are you telling me to be an interpreter for a monkey and a cat!?”
“What else are you good for!?”
“Eh? No, that is.........maybe something.........I’m capable of...........I could...........”
“What is ‘maybe something’ supposed to be!? I don’t expect much from you, so do your best at the things you’re actually capable of! All right? Then take care from now on!”
“Ummm? That........sorry I guess..........”
When Elliott returned above ground with the recovered cat, he hesitated for a moment before asking Wolanski a question.
“Hey Wolanski.........this cat and Rachel’s monkey’s fight isn’t my responsibility right?”
“Why would it be?”
After getting a confirmation from his close friend, Elliott started to get his confidence back and let his emotions leak out.
“Mm, that’s right! That’s right, I’m not at fault here! The cat, monkey, and I can’t be so easily disciplined!”
That’s not the problem here.
Rachel may have acted disrespectfully back there, but it’s not Elliott’s duty to arbitrate on her behalf, and why should he rush there when Rachel needs help anyway, not that it matters at this point.
Elliott wrote off the previous incident just like that, but there was one part of the previous discussion that did interest him which was why he asked Wolanski another question.
“..........Hey, Wolanski.”
“Huh, what is it?”
“If I really could do what Rachel described, perhaps I would end up ruling the animal kingdom?”
“Your Highness. Before trying to rule the animal kingdom, perhaps you could put in a little effort to ruling the human kingdom instead?”
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“Oi, Rachel! You, are you properly listening!?”
Elliott continued to preach to Rachel day after day since her attitude wasn’t getting any better at all.
“............I’m listening. You’re talking about that time you scooped up an amazingly big fish while at a banquet.”
As prompted, she gave him some false praise.
“Who did that when!? From what I was just saying, where exactly did that topic appear in my story!?”
“Enough, you’re being too noisy and I can’t read.”
Elliott’s face was turning red as he continued to shout, but Rachel wouldn’t leave her bed and kept her eyes glued to her book. He was being completely looked down upon.
“While the Prince! Is Talking! You don’t read a book!”
“Can’t Your Highness come back later?”
While Elliott was stamping his feet around, Rachel was giving him half-hearted replies and ignoring the noise. Such arrogance towards a prince cannot be allowed. Elliott tried to yell at her even more.......but just as he opened his mouth
“Ooki!”
a monkey yelled at him from behind. Turning back he found Rachel’s monkey carrying a mountain of paper bags. Because he was carrying so much luggage, it looks like he was forced to take the front entrance and walk down the stairs.
“Wh-What is it?”
“Your Highness, isn’t he telling you to stop blocking traffic?”
“A, Ah. I see.”
Once Elliott had stepped out of the way, the monkey took a small bow in thanks before walking past him, and then pushing the goods he had brought with him inbetween the bars of his master’s cell.
Rachel, who had been lying back reading a book until now, happily stood up because her monkey had returned.
“Welcome Haley! Did you buy everything I ordered?”
“Ooki!”
When the monkey opened up the bag marked from a major retail store, one after another there were manga and light novels...........and the monkey started stacking these books he just bought up on the desk.
And then he opened up a plastic bag he had been carrying, and pulling out two parcels wrapped in paper, he immediately handed one over to Rachel.
“Thank you Haley. I really wanted to eat this after how long its been.”
“Ooki!”
The one human and one animal unwrapped their little parcels, and with the still steaming contents exposed, they showed extremely poor manners and immediately sunk their teeth into it.
“Delicious~!”
“Ooki~!”
At the moment that Rachel and her monkey cheerfully cried out because of how tasty their food was,
“.........no, a prince stepping aside for a monkey is impossible!”
Elliott returned to his senses.
“Your Highness, that was much too delayed.”
“Shut up!”
“And didn’t Your Highness tell me before that nothing is impossible for you?”
“Yes but!? I did but!?”
Elliott ground his teeth unable to retort..........when suddenly, he became interested in the items that the monkey had brought in.
“Oi Rachel, what is that you’re eating?”
“Huh?”
Rachel and Haley shared a glance.
“It’s just a normal doner kebab.”
“Where in our country do we usually sell doner kebabs!? Where the heck did this monkey go!?”
“Where..........”
Rachel tilted her head.
“Akihabara”
Elliott took a moment to digest Rachel’s words.
“Akihabara?”
“Akihabara.”
Rachel answered Elliott’s question with a very serious look on her face.
“This monkey, did he go all the way to Akihabara on his own?”
“Oh my Your Highness, are you doubting Haley’s awesomeness?”
“My doubts are a different problem. How did this monkey get all the way there?”
“Well Your Highness. Haley has a good head on his shoulders? Anyhow”
From on the desk, Haley pulled out a silver and green card out of his pouch.
“needless to say with his rail pass his switch between subways is perfect!”
“Ooki! Ooki!”
The monkey mimicked the motion with the card as if he were flashing it before switching rail lines.
“How about it, he can even use a Suica pre-paid card! Amazing!”
When Haley pulled out a silver and pink card, he jumped up so that he could violently throw it down on the ground.
“Ookii!”
“So! He enjoys the feel of dunking a Pasmo pre-paid card that much!?”
“No, he’s just not supposed have it.”¹
Rachel stroked Haley’s head after he rested it on her chest.
“But that’s not all. Haley can do even more amazing things!”
“Ooki!”
Haley took a stance with both his hands out as if he were holding the top of a ring.
“Haley is able to travel through the entire Shuto Expressway without a car navigation system!”
“Like a countryside bumpkin bragging about how they’ve mastered Tokyo..........wait, what I meant to say is, Hey! Is this monkey driving!? He wouldn’t be able to see out the front even if he stood on the seat!? And to begin with how would he work the accelerator and the brake!?”
Haley pulled out another card and swung his arm again to mimic a couple of swipes.
“Ooki!”
“How is it! Haley’s handling of an ETC card!”
“That’s not how ETC cards even work!?”²
“In addition, Haley’s recently started using a rare manual transmission car these days.”
“So he has to work even even the clutch and a shift knob!? A team!? Do you have a whole group of animals gathered together to work this thing!?”
In front of Elliott who was getting tired out from yelling so much, the monkey suddenly remembered something and started fishing through a handbag from an electronics retailer. When he found what he was looking for, he pulled out a cardboard box. He then presented said box to Elliott.
“Ooki”
“A souvenir for His Highness. Buying souvenirs even for people you don’t care about in the slightest, Haley’s such a good boy!”
“Don’t care, Rachel you...........”
While thinking to himself, “I’m going to kill this woman,” Elliott reflexively took the box the monkey was offering him. When he looked, a bunch of cute girls were drawn on the package in vivid pastel colors with the title scrawled across the front in big bubble letters.
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“..........Monkey”
“Ooki!”
“You, what kind of man do you think I am buying an adults only game for me!?”
“Ooki?”
The monkey tilted his head to the side, now sure what the prince wanted him to say as Elliott furiously pointed towards the box in his hand.
“And it’s a half-baked joke as well! Wolanski is the petaist, not me!”
“No, doesn’t Your Highness have those tendencies as well?”
“Shut up George. And why is it ‘ ’ anyway!? Only idiots abruptly buy the sequel, so you should have bought ‘ ’ instead!”
“If you don’t want it, I’ll take it. I’ve been meaning to get .”
“You be quiet too Wolanski. Moreover Monkey. This s**t game came out three years ago, so did you just pick something up from the bargain bin!? Are you making fun of me!? Or are you just too simple to have picked something out from the new stacked shelves area!?”
“This monkey, he’s definitely trying to put you down.”³
“Shut up Sykes! ..........And back to what we were originally talking about! The game has a completely linear story, only giving you a choice of three options at the very end, so how dare they call it a grand adventure game with multiple endings!”
“As expected of Your Highness, the weight of something a man has to say is certainly different after someone’s stepped on a landmine.”
“Outsiders should keep quiet!”
Elliott threw the game box back at his aides who kept making unnecessary comments behind him. But once his back was turned, a chilly voice asked him a question from the cell.
“Your Highness. How do you know so much about a game after just seeing the title.........?”
“Putting that aside”
“How about we leave it right where it is and discuss it a little more instead?”
Anyhow it looks like the blonde i***t is dissatisfied with the souvenir he got.
Haley figured it couldn’t be helped, so he pulled something else out.
“Ooki”
“Hm?”
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