I Am Sought After by Everyone in a Different World Where the Power and Chastity of Men and Women Are Reversed - 174

Chapter 174: Epilogue ④

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“Good grief! Even though Souma has done so much to us!”

“I’m so disappointed in Guild Master!”

“Rather than decreasing Souma’s bodyguard, they should’ve increased it even more! Just what is Thalia-dono thinking?!”

“Everyone, please calm down. I don’t think Thalia-san wants to do this either. I believe she doesn’t have any other choice.”

Everyone was still angry even while we were on our way back to Blue Eternity’s party house. But yeah, Thalia-san might had no other option either. She had to choose the hard route. Thinking back, I realized that I had been monopolizing a precious A-rank party to guard me. Not to mention, the Adventurers’ Guild was the one who had to cover the cost. It was only natural that they couldn’t keep hiring Blue Eternity to guard me forever.

Even on the way back to the party house from the Adventurers’ Guild, everyone remained angry. It might be that Talia-san had no other choice but to act this way.

If you think about it, they had monopolized all the A-rank adventurers until now, and the Adventurers’ Guild had covered the cost of the guard requests. It might be that they can’t keep having everyone guard them forever.

“That’s right. How about if I send a personal request to have all of you guard me? In that way, we can keep the status quo for as long as we want!”

“No. We definitely can’t accept payment from Souma.”

“Yeah and besides, we’re pretty expensive.”

“If we made it free just for Souma, the other adventurers and the Adventurers’ Guild are going to have a problem with it too.”

“I see… We really don’t have any other choice, huh…”

I thought I was able to find a good solution to our problem, but it seemed my idea wasn’t as good as I thought. It seemed hiring three A-rank adventurers to guard someone would be quite expensive. I was only able to receive this preferential treatment because of my job as a male saint, but now I wasn’t a male saint anymore. I was just an ordinary healer.

“…We still have some time before the final decision. Let’s try to think of a solution for a bit more. Maybe we can come up with a good idea.”

“Yeah. Let’s think about it more…”

“Understood.”

The day was getting late, so we decided to rest for today and think about this problem on our own. Hopefully we could come up with a good solution.

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“Hmm… What should we do…”

Morning came and it seemed everyone had stayed up the night to think of a solution. Personally speaking, I also couldn’t imagine having other people acting as my bodyguard. But that meant, I needed to come up with a valid reason to have everyone keep being my guard. Unfortunately, nothing came to my mind no matter how hard I thought about it. I barely received any reward for my contribution in defeating the mutated Cursed Dragon since I still had plenty of money saved up. I could ask the King for a reward, but money couldn’t solve the other problem we had in hand. I couldn’t possibly keep monopolizing 3 A-rank adventurers just to guard me. Just like what Thalia-san mentioned, the Adventurers’ Guild had a lot of buried requests that required A-rank adventurers to do it. I also thought of becoming an adventurer and joining their party, but I couldn’t possibly stop offering my healing service at the city’s treatment center. Everyone would definitely try to stop me too if I told them I wanted to become an adventurer. Ah…. I really didn’t know what to do.

“Ah. Good morning, everyone.”

“Good morning, Souma.”

“Hey, good morning, Souma.”

“Souma, good morning.”

I came out of my room and went downstairs. To my surprise, everyone was already awake. It was strange for Ferris to be awake at this hour. She usually was still sleeping this early in the morning. 

“Everyone woke up early today, huh? Please wait a moment. I will start preparing breakfast now.”

“Wait, Souma. We have something important to discuss before breakfast.”

“Something important to discuss?”

I was about to start preparing breakfast like usual, but Elmie stopped me. 

“Yes. Actually, the three of us spent the night talking about our future plans.”

“We gave it a lot of thought.”

It seemed everyone had been having a discussion about the thing Thalia-san mentioned yesterday without me around. 

“…Ah… I’m getting nervous now. Is this what people call ‘getting the cold feet’?”

“Yeah, I totally get it, Elmie. I think fighting that dragon again is less scary than this.”

“This is a once in a lifetime gamble for us.”

No,no,no. No matter what they were talking about, it was clear nothing could top fighting that dragon again.

“Souma! We want you to marry us!”

“…Ma-Marry?!?!?!”

Pardon?! Marry? I wasn’t hallucinating, right? This… This wasn’t a dream, right?! I mean, we were jumping straight to marriage and skipped dating and all other stuff?! No,no,no! My brain couldn’t keep up! I really didn’t expect a marriage proposal out of the blue!

“Yeah. We’ve talked about it and we believe this is the perfect opportunity to get married. If we all marry you, we will be able to stay with you forever, regardless of the quests.”

“The guild won’t be able to say anything if we get married. They won’t be able to assign another female to guard you either. We’ve spent a long time together, but we’ve been afraid of getting turned down by you, hence why we never made any move on you. But now… We finally got the courage to do it.”

“We died once during the battle against the mutated Cursed Dragon, but we were brought back to life thanks to Souma. Miracle like that won’t come again and we really don’t want to live with regrets.”

I see… So everyone felt the same way about me.

“I see… I’m so happy. Me too. I feel the same way as everyone else too. In fact, allow me to propose to you all! Please marry me!”

“Re-Really, Souma?!”

“You’re not pulling a prank on us, right?!”

“This is not a dream, right…?”

Everyone had a hard time believing my sincere feelings. Well, I was so happy that I also wondered if this was a dream or not too. I was still tired from the journey, so maybe this was all just a dream that my tired body formed to cheer me up… This marriage came out of nowhere, but thinking back… We had been living together for a long time anyway. I really couldn’t imagine spending the rest of my life in any other way than this.

“I can’t believe this either, but… To be honest, I wanted to be the one to propose…”

“Well, normally a proposal should be done by the woman… Oh, right. It’s the other way around in Souma’s world, huh?”

“To be fair, it’s becoming more common for women to propose too.”

I had already told them about the common sense in my world. But, I had heard recently women also started to propose, not just the man. That being said, I still preferred to be the one proposing. I still wanted to show my manliness somehow. Well, it didn’t really matter though. What was important was I get to marry all of them and stay together with them.

“…So that means we don’t have to hold back anymore, right?!”

“We can touch Souma’s body now?”

“Wa-Wait a minute! Ferris!! Flora!! You guys are being so vulgar right now!!”

“…………”

Ri-Right… Getting married meant we would do all those things… But! I was the one who had been holding back until now! Not them!

“Hmm… But wait a minute. Who gets to be the first to… With Souma?”

“I won’t give Souma’s first time to you both!”

“Wha-What?!”

Ri-Right. In this world, a man’s virginity was more precious.

“Besides, Elmie. You don’t want to do anything inappropriate yet, right? Then it’s down to Flora and me. Sorry, Flora. But I won’t back down on this!”

“I won’t back down either!”

“Wai-Wait a minute! This and that are totally different! I want Souma’s first time too!”

Wait… The conversation was taking a strange turn now…

“Tch. Fine. Let’s have Souma decide! You guys are okay with it, right?!”

“No complaints here.”

“Yeah. Souma should be the one choosing.”

“….”

Wa-Wait?! There was no way I could choose! I loved all three of them equally and besides… As a virgin, I really couldn’t decide who got to be my first!

“Umm… I love all three of you equally, so how about if we decide on it with a rock-paper-scissors game that I taught you guys before…?”

“Of course not! We can’t leave this up to luck!”

“Yeah! Souma, you need to choose!”

“Don’t worry, Souma. We will respect your choice. There won’t be any hard feelings here.”

No,no,no! I wasn’t that dense to not know there would be a problem if I had to choose here! 

“So? Souma? Who are you going to pick? Of course it’s me, right?”

“It’s me, right?!”

“It’s me!”

“…..”

After solving one problem, another problem arose. We had agreed to get married together, but one big problem still remained…

Please help me, Male Saint-sama!!

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