What If the Strongest Villain from the Original Story Became the Protagonist's Ally?

“Oh! This soup is pretty good.”

After buying soup from the stall, we drank it in a place slightly away from the crowd. For commoner food, it was quite delicious. The satisfaction was high for the price.

“It really is delicious… I wonder if the shopkeeper is skilled?”

“Probably. I couldn’t make the same taste.”

“Can you cook, Yuu-san?”

“So-so. Ordinary if you call it ordinary. Lacking if you call it lacking.”

“I don’t really understand.”

“I don’t understand either.”

The cooking was from my previous life, and I couldn’t imagine Yuguram being unable to cook. But it probably wasn’t something to be proud of. I didn’t have opportunities to cook anyway.

“More importantly, after drinking soup, I’m wanting some food now.”

“What will you eat?”

“Meat, obviously.”

“Yuu-san does eat quite a lot.”

“Maybe I’m energy inefficient.”

Yuguram was quite a big eater. He normally ate two or three times as much as ordinary people. Iris was normal, so it might be the influence of the magic core.

Well, I didn’t gain weight, so eating a lot wasn’t a problem.

“Then, let’s go to that shop over there. I think there’s a shop that cuts and sells large pieces of meat… hm?”

“Iris?”

Iris suddenly stopped moving.

She was looking at a spot somewhat ahead. Following her gaze…

“Is that… a fight?”

“That’s right. No doubt about it. This area has many people, so fights happen all the time.”

“Aren’t there guards to maintain order?”

“There are. But they don’t seem to have arrived yet. I’m worried, so I’ll go stop it.”

“Ah, wait!”

Ignoring my restraint, Iris ran off. Had she forgotten she was here incognito? She was needlessly justice-minded, or rather, a serious girl.

I had no choice but to follow her.

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“You’re the one who suddenly bumped into me! Apologize!”

“Your food got my clothes dirty! Pay compensation, damn it!”

Yammer yammer.

In the center surrounded by many residents, two men had started a grappling fight.

There was a slight smell of alcohol. Probably both were drunk? Iris noticed that too and approached the men while sighing in exasperation.

“Please stop the violent behavior. This is a public street. You’re bothering other people too.”

“Hah!? Don’t butt into men’s fights, woman!!”

“!”

The enraged man swung his fist indiscriminately. However, there was no way a drunk’s fist could hit the protagonist Iris.

She nimbly avoided it and got behind him, then bent his arm and subdued him.

“Well done. Clap clap clap”

“Don’t just watch, help me.”

“If I carelessly intervene, I might kill them, you know? Is that okay?”

“Do you think it’s okay?”

“I don’t.”

That’s why I wasn’t interfering. If I got heated and punched, ordinary people would become just lumps of meat.

“Damn it! Don’t mess with me!”

“—What!?”

The man who’d been fighting with the subdued man suddenly hugged Iris from behind.

Even though they’d been fighting just moments before, they’d apparently become friends after finding a common enemy.

The drunk’s hand reached toward Iris’s chest—

“Get off, scum.”

“Ogh!?”

I kicked the man away before he could touch her. The man rolled pathetically on the ground and collapsed.

“Don’t touch Iris with your dirty hands. I’ll kill you.”

I’d slightly stopped my foot at the moment of kicking to reduce the power. Thanks to that, the man was unharmed.

“Are you okay, Iris?”

“………..”

“Iris?”

For some reason, Iris was frozen looking up at me. Even so, she was properly restraining the arm of the man she’d subdued, so she was admirable.

“Yuu-san just now… ~~~~~~!?”

Blush!

Iris’s face suddenly turned bright red. It was a familiar sight by now.

Despite that, she was smiling, so whether she was embarrassed or happy was unclear. It was amusing, so I just watched.

“Owww!? It hurts! It hurtssss! It’s breaking! My armmmmm!?”

“Iris, that person’s arm is going to break?”

“Ehehehehe! Ehe…”

“Iris-san?”

She wasn’t listening to people.

Unconsciously, quite a bit of force was being applied, and the man’s arm was screaming. The man was screaming too.

On the other hand, Iris couldn’t stop grinning.

In a small voice, she was saying things like:

“Just like a princess from a picture book…”

And while her face was red, she wriggled her body and—ah.

Crack! and

“GYAAAAAAAAAAA!?”

The sound and the man’s scream echoed almost simultaneously.

My condolences…

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“Ugh… The guards looked at me with disgust…”

On the way back. Heading toward the central plaza where the carriage was waiting, Iris sighed deeply.

After that, guards who’d heard the commotion appeared and dragged the men away.

At that time, breaking the arm went unquestioned. The man who’d thrown the punch was at fault.

However, perhaps thinking she was a violent woman, the guards were smiling wryly. That attacked Iris’s psyche.

“What if they think I’m a gorilla woman when we meet face-to-face during missions tomorrow…”

“Isn’t that already too late?”

“I’ll kill you.”

“I’m sorry. …Wait, missions?”

What was she talking about?

“Ah… come to think of it, I hadn’t told Yuu-san yet. Yesterday, a request was delivered from a village chief in a village within the Kingdom’s territory. Not to the royal palace, but to the Adventurer’s Guild.”

“Village chief… Adventurer’s Guild…”

Hmm? I felt like I’d heard that somewhere…

“Apparently, monsters have been appearing near the village recently and they’re troubled. Since it seemed like a simple request, I was to accompany the investigation team as one of the members, for training—”

“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!?”

Oh, I remembered!

That was… an event from the original story!?