I Was Not Popular With Girls in My Previous Life, but I Was Reincarnated Into a World Where Harems Are the Norm, and a Mentally Unstable Elf Beauty Follows Me Around

Let’s Create a World Just for the Two of Us

“I just wanted to get married once.”

This was the last thought I had. In my thirty years of life, I had not only failed to get married but had not even managed to have a girlfriend, and so I ended my life.

Of course, I thought I had made efforts. But since it involves another person, there are things that simply cannot be helped.

The reason my life ended was the commonplace one of unreasonable stress from my boss. I had just been diligently doing my job.

Physical ailments strike suddenly, no matter how careful you are.

Even as I collapsed right in front of him, he probably thought something like, “Don’t collapse here; that’s a hassle.”

And then I was reincarnated into another world. As for why it was me, the goddess said, “You worked hard.” That was probably referring to my job.

There might be others in circumstances like mine. I hope those people can find some reward, even if just a little.

My age started at twenty-two. Apparently, that was the limit for rejuvenation, and the goddess looked apologetic about it.

But becoming eight years younger was more than enough. After all, your twenties and thirties are completely different. I politely thanked the goddess.

On top of that, the goddess granted me cheat abilities, and it was up to me how to use them.

Well, it was something like her recommending, “Adventuring is great!”

That was how I became an adventurer, but not because I wanted to reach S-rank or form the strongest party. The reason was precisely for marriage hunting.

I had learned from my experiences in my previous life. I had taken it too seriously too late.

Until my mid-twenties, I thought, “Romance isn’t for me, so that’s fine. I’m still young, and there’s plenty of time.”

But in my late twenties, anxiety began to creep in, and it grew larger as I approached thirty.

By worldly standards, I might still have been young, but for a man with little experience and no appeal to women, it was quite harsh, and I regretted it.

So, this time, I decided to start marriage hunting right away, now that I had returned to twenty-two.

However, this was another world, where various races lived. The people passing by included not only humans but also beastmen, dragons, and many other races.

Honestly, I thought, “I’m done for…” But when I thought about it calmly, it was a peaceful world where multiple races coexisted. And I realized that no race looked much different from humans, especially the girls.

Even beastmen were to the extent of thinking, “Natural cat ears!” The visible parts were almost the same as humans. They would look great in maid outfits.

Dragons, too, just had a little horn on their heads, and the visible parts were almost the same as humans. They would look great in maid outfits.

You know, it’s that common thing in otherworldly stories called “humanization.” Like when a dragon humanizes and turns out to be a beautiful girl.

The same went for other races. Their appearances were almost human. So, wouldn’t marrying a non-human race be an option too?

I resolved to do so, but first, I needed to set up my living situation.

The goddess had given me funds for the time being, but just living off them would make me a NEET. You still have to work to live, even in another world.

So, I went to the adventurer’s guild and completed my adventurer registration. My name here was my given name from my previous life, “Kaito.”

Apparently, being an adventurer in this world carried quite a good status on its own, and it was considered one of the dream jobs.

Plus, since you form parties, cooperate with other parties, and travel around the world, it surprisingly offers many opportunities to meet people.

That’s why it was time for my cheat abilities to shine from here on, but there were problems that couldn’t be solved just with that. It was that I knew too little about this world.

There was no helping that; I had to broaden my own knowledge. So, I went to the adventurer’s guild and put out a recruitment for party members.

But no one gathered at all. My adventurer rank was F, the lowest. No one would want to join a guy like that recruiting members.

Then, a month later, I was now adventuring with a beautiful elf girl, just the two of us.

At that time, surprisingly, the elf beauty approached me and spoke to me.

The elf beauty, who had been an adventurer for a long time, taught me the basics of being an adventurer.

And this was important, but I had politely explained to her from the start that the reason I became an adventurer was for my own marriage hunting.

After all, I couldn’t keep having her go along with such a personal reason forever.

Despite that, the elf beauty “Airi” had come along with me.

She had glossy long golden hair, refined features, and slightly pointed ears. The pointed parts extended sideways, not upward. It was exactly the image of an elf from fantasy works.

She wore a dress-like outfit mainly in green, with white tights up to her knees, slightly exposing her translucent white thighs. Her weapon was a bow, and her appearance and movements had a beauty that felt almost mystical.

Actually, the first marriage candidate that came to my mind was an elf. They had that pure and gentle image. And right on cue, an elf beauty joined as a companion!

But it didn’t turn out like, “Mission accomplished! The fun otherworldly life begins!” There was a reason for that, and even I wasn’t the type to settle for just anyone.

We were now in a certain forest on a request from the guild. It was a forest where monsters appeared in droves, the kind that non-adventurers wouldn’t approach.

As expected, a large number of monsters attacked, but Kaito and Airi coordinated and easily wiped them all out.

“Airi, you saved me. Thanks. Your archery skills are reliable as ever. I honestly think it’s amazing.”

“You’re welcome. You could praise me more, you know? It’d be thrilling if you patted my head too. By the way, it’s been a month since we formed the party, right? If I recall, Kaito became an adventurer to find a marriage partner? But it seems you haven’t found one yet. In that case, why not just decide on me already? I’ll definitely make you happy. How about we even live in this forest right now, just the two of us? As an elf, I’m familiar with the forest, you know? Let’s start by wiping out all the monsters in the forest? Let’s create a world just for the two of us.”

“Aren’t you talking too much?”

This was the reason I couldn’t see Airi as a romantic interest. After all, there’s no way I could live forever with a girl who says things like that.