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“If we can’t find anything new, we’ll travel to the other Tartarus on this continent.” “Well, let’s head over there and see if there’s anything they might have missed,” Alice suggested. I’m sure they’ve been to Harpy Village to look for clues.”
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“I doubt I’d be able to figure anything out beyond what these villagers would have already found out themselves. “I’m afraid that’s not one of my strengths,” I said. “I’ve always wanted to do detective work.” “I guess the only thing to do now is head to Harpy Village and see if we can find out what happened,” Sonya said. I’m just glad that what went on here was consensual.” And as Alice pointed out, with human males being the only way they can reproduce, it’s not like they have a choice. “I’m sure the love between these men and their wives is real, but there is an addictive element that monsters can’t help. “Ilias is right about the men being despondent,” I said, making Ilias smile. “Quite an oversight on your part, goddess of creation, wouldn’t you say?” “Perhaps you should have given us male monsters,” Alice retorted. They become addicted to them and can’t live without them.” “Humans weren’t meant to be mates of monsters,” Ilias replied. “I don’t see why the men being depressed means they can’t produce Happiness Honey,” Sonya observed. I was very lucky things had ended up all right. My moronic rantings had been ignored by the harpy queen, and then I’d pulled my sword on her. Back then, I had no diplomatic skills and couldn’t argue to save my life. I was far more confident in my ability to settle things without a fight. I was almost hoping that I’d find the same situation in this village. I didn’t mention that the ”talk” with the queen had involved a lot of punching, biting, scratching, talon slashes, sword strikes, and several kinds of pleasure attacks on my person. Except now it’s the harpies who are missing, rather than the men.” It looks like that already happened here, after the Great Disaster. The villages agreed to work together in the future and became one. “I had a little talk with the queen and it was all resolved. “What did you do when you heard about that?” Sonya asked. The harpies had been taking them as mates.” The mystery there was that the men were disappearing. “In my world, monsters and humans didn’t get along well enough on this continent for the harpies and humans to interact positively in the first place. “I take it this didn’t happen in your world?” “Any idea what would make the harpies voluntarily leave like that?” I asked Alice. Their female monster children had been taken to wherever the harpies had gone. The harpies had left in the middle of the night, without explanation, together, leaving behind lonely men and male human children they’d borne the men. The only thing we learned from the villagers was that the exodus had been sudden. I’m sure it had nothing to do with you, or any of the other men in this village.” “I don’t understand why Peggy left me,” one man told us. I wasn’t quite sure why Happiness Honey wasn’t making it to Iliasburg, given that Happiness Village had the same labor force it had in my world before the harpies had begun kidnapping all the males.
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Happiness Village looked basically the same as it did the first time I’d seen it, except for the fact that there were men everywhere. I could get used to traveling in a group.
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We arrived at Happiness Village without having to fight anyone. We also saw a wolf girl prowling around in the forest, but she apparently wasn’t hungry enough to risk a confrontation with all four of us. Fortunately, it was not rabbit mating season. Not that they were mean during mating season, but they didn’t take no for an answer when they were in that state. As long as they weren’t in mating season. I hadn’t met any rabbit girls on my first journey, but I’d met many afterwards and they were all pleasant and friendly. A friendly rabbit girl stopped for a moment to chat with us. The journey took two days and there were no encounters. Probably due to our little chat the previous night. Ilias, if anything, was more subdued than usual. Thankfully, Alice and Ilias didn’t try to do harm to one another while I was sleeping. There was no impression of movement as they walked, so long as I was inside. The pocket castle’s magic was quite impressive. Alice did in fact let me sleep in a few extra hours, carrying the pocket castle with her as she, Ilias, and Sonya traveled without me present.