I was Caught up in a Hero Summoning, but that World is at Peace (WN)
Chapter 2287: Miyama Kaitos Birthday Celebration Party Continues ㉛

The present-giving continued. Though Tre-san and Akane-san expressed concern, I could honestly say that I didn’t feel mentally tired at all.

Since I was simply enjoying some pleasant conversations while receiving presents, it felt like I could keep going without needing a break.

<TIAMAT>

……Hmm, maybe I should take a break after all. I let my guard down because I’d already dealt with the mentally exhausting folks, Shiro-san, Makina-san, and Pandora-san, but…… yeah, there’s Medea-san and Phenex-san still left……

[Hello, Miyama Kaito-san. A fine day, isn’t it? Though this world is filled with sorrow, it is also a day that reminds us this world isn’t filled with sorrow alone…… Happy birthday.]

[Thank you. You’re in your human form today, Medea-san?]

Apparently, Medea-san isn’t on any infiltration missions at the moment, so she herself said it was fine to call her by her real name even in a crowd like this. That’s why I just refer to her normally as Medea-san.

She and Phenex-san had performed together at a live concert before, where she appeared in her usual lamia form, but today, she had taken on a human shape.

[My original body is rather large, you see. There’s a chance I might obstruct someone’s view and inadvertently cause sadness. And more importantly, they say meeting someone’s gaze is the first step to forming a closer connection. Moments like these give rise to wonderful encounters, and I wouldn’t want to miss the chance to make new friends……]

On the surface, it sounded like a normal statement about wanting to meet new people at a party where there were many strangers. But in Medea-san’s case, with her peculiar preferences and the ecstatic look on her face, it came off like she was scheming something indecent.

Well, despite how she talks, I get the feeling that Medea-san probably won’t actually try to make new “friends” or anything. She may seem to act on madness, but she knows how to hit the brakes right at the edge. Still…… the look she had, like she was about to drool, was honestly a little concerning.

[Fufufu, don’t worry. I do understand that publicly displaying one’s fetishes in a place like this is essentially suicide. The feelings just overflow from within me, nothing more, I have no intention of acting on them.]

[Well, yeah, I figured…… I actually think you’re someone who knows when and how to restrain yourself.]

[Indeed, you may rest assured…… That said, while it’s a joyful thing, the world has been peaceful lately, so I haven’t had many chances to meet and part with new friends, which saddens me. Phenex does allow me to kill her from time to time, so that keeps my heart content though.]

[……You two sure are close.]

Yeah, as I thought, Medea-san is someone who can look at herself objectively. She understands her preferences are seen as deviant by society, which is why she laments the lack of opportunities to indulge in them while also expressing happiness over the world being at peace. If you ignore her unusual fetishes, she’s actually a fairly reasonable person.

Well, that fetish is the one and only major issue about her but…… as long as she’s goofing off with someone like Phenex-san, who shares her tastes, it’s probably fine.

[Now then, for your birthday gift…… Back when Miyama Kaito-san visited the forest, you didn’t seem very satisfied with the chair, so I’ve been making chairs myself since then. I’ve brought one of my best creations today.]

[A chair? Thank you…… It’s beautifully wrapped, but what kind of chair is it?]

Back when I visited the Dark Forest where Tiamat-san lives, she brought out a chair made of bones…… the creator was apparently Rasal-san, but Pandora-san even commented on it at the time.

It seems that inspired her to start making chairs, and now she’d brought one as a birthday present.

[It’s a snakeskin chair.]

[……………………]

[Ahh, please don’t worry…… It’s not made from my skin or anything like that. I used the skin of a species called the Grey Python, which is commonly used for leather goods.]

[A- Ahhhh, I see. Sorry, I just…… made a weird assumption there……]

When she said “snakeskin”, for a moment I thought Medea-san had made a chair out of her own skin and given it to me as a gift, but apparently, that wasn’t the case.

[Think nothing of it…… In fact, I did initially consider gifting you a chair made from my own skin, but then Shalltear-sama suddenly appeared and said “He’s going to be utterly horrified, so stop it”, so I prepared something else instead.]

[I- I see……]

Alice really is always reliable. I mean, Medea-san’s lower body is technically that of a snake, so it wouldn’t be impossible…… but still, if an acquaintance handed me a chair and said “I made this using my own skin”, I honestly wouldn’t know how to react. I’m incredibly glad that got nipped in the bud ahead of time.

<Afterword>

Serious-senpai : [By the way, with their conversation like that, didn’t Kaito take some mental damage from this……?]

? ? ? : [Not really, no. When he’s listening to stuff like my group, Ein-san’s maid theories, or Kuro-san’s baby castella rants, he just ends up looking fed up because he’s completely uninterested. He feels mentally tired, but his SAN value doesn’t drop at all. I doubt he’ll even need a break.]

Serious-senpai : [Feeling tired but taking no actual damage…… I’m impressed.]

? ? ? : [Well, I mean, it is Kaito-san we’re talking about here. He deals with Makina, who shows up at his place like 5 times a week or summons him into a synchronized dream, and still acts totally unfazed. Of course his mental fortitude is monstrous.]

Serious-senpai : [Now that you mention it, I remember the narration briefly touched on it, but I just glossed over it…… He’s so used to Makina’s rampages that he can even tell what stage of a meltdown she’s in…… This guy’s really got the mental strength of a monster……]

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