What Do You Mean There Are Other Transmigrators In My Harem Fantasy? - Chapter 1135: Metro Vs Nomad

Chapter 1135: Metro Vs Nomad

The group of merchants approached us and it was clear that this was a Nekomata merchant group.

Their leader was a rather young man with brown hair and cat ears and he immediately came over to us.

“Thank you, thank you! If you hadn’t came to help us, we would have been in so much trouble!!”

He then stretched out his hand and extended it towards Odeta.

Ah… He must have thought she was the leader of this group.

Odeta looked down at the hand that he was sticking out towards her before frowning at him and gesturing at me, “I’m not the leader. She is.”

He turned and looked at me in surprise, “Eh? She is? But you look the strongest?”

“Wahahaha! Sister Aster is way stronger than I am!”

“Huh… Umm… Please accept my apologies! And thank you for your help!” He bowed, turning to offer his hand to me instead.

I touched it politely, “It was nothing… Although I can’t help but notice that I heard some shouting coming in your group’s direction earlier that might have attracted these monsters in the first place… So could I know what happened?”

“Ah… Well… You see…” He turned back to look at his group and it was only now did I realise that all of the other Nekomatas were female aside from this guy.

The Mahuns were the Mercenaries that I assumed were escorting this group but they had a balanced mix of males and females.

“We had a little disagreement on something and things got a little heated… It’s nothing serious so don’t worry about it.”

As though that was the trigger, one of the female Nekomatas immediately pointed her finger at another Nekomata, “No big deal?! It absolutely is a big deal! I already told you that we shouldn’t be letting these uncivilised Nomads into our group, didn’t I?!”

The other Nekomata growled back at her, “Oh, the one that immediately started shouting to attract more monsters is the civilised one then? You puffed up Metropolitans are always so full of yourselves.”

“If it wasn’t because of you forest savages ruining the mood!”

“Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t know that your mood was more important than our fucking life. Should have expected that from city pets like you.”

Ah… I think I heard about this before…

The Nekomatas supposedly had nomadic roots and usually would live out in the wild and survive off the forest. But now there’s a percentage of them who have emigrated to cities to live there instead.

And because of that, there’s now a rift between the two groups where the ones who cling to the nomadic way of life accuse the city dwellers of abandoning tradition and the city dwellers calling the nomads uncivilised and backwards.

As we can already clearly see, they are not on good terms with each other.

If I remember correctly, Emilia should also belong to the Metropolitans side as well and I remember her cussing out the Nomads before at one point too.

Now that I look at them closely, I can quite easily tell which half of the merchant group belonged to which side. The city dwellers were clearly wearing professionally made clothes that look like they were made with smooth cotton or silk that they must have bought inside cities while the nomads were wearing rough, homespun clothes that were a mix of rough cotton and leather.

The male Nekomata in front of me quickly turned to them, “Shh… Shh… Did the both of you just forget we literally almost died? Instead of thanking our saviours, the both of you went right back to arguing… At least have the decency to apologise to our escorts…”

The four Mahun Mercenaries look a little awkward after being mentioned, probably because they felt a little ashamed that they had to run away with them.

I believe they should be around C or D ranked at most so expecting them to deal with a group of those bears would be ridiculous though.

Both of the Nekomatas that had been arguing with each other scoffed before turning away from each other, clearly still upset but not willing to escalate further either.

The guy sighed and turned back to me, pulling out a small pouch from his side to pull out five Large Bronze coins that he slipped into my hand.

“Please take this as thanks for your help. And feel free to claim these monsters as your spoils.”

Oh, not bad, fifty Creas just for that.

Sure, if this was a normal subjugation request for these bears, we should be paid at least twenty times or more of that amount easily. But since this was more as a gift for helping them out, it’s quite a large amount to be giving away freely.

Plus, we’re getting the spoils of the monster corpses too and those would be worth quite a bit of money as well after we sell them.

“Where are you all headed to?” I asked, pocketing the coins.

“We’re headed for the capital but we will be passing through Shippo Village on the way there. What about you?”

Hmm… When he says ’capital’, I believe he’s referring to Keminomi Capital City, the capital of the Nekinumi Empire and not Crown Capital City.

“We’re heading towards Shippo Village ourselves as well.”

“Oh! What a coincidence! In that case, would you like to travel together? I think it would be safer if there’s more of us, right?”

Obviously I’m not stupid and I could tell that this was clearly him trying to rope us in as additional escorts for his group without paying us an escort fee like they were probably doing with those Mercenaries over there.

Well… Looking at the four of them, they were also looking at us with concern because they knew that our party was obviously more competent than theirs. And right now, their client was over here talking to me in a voice they couldn’t hear so for all they know, he might be negotiating with us to replace them.

I’m not that big of an asshole to steal someone else’s job but I wouldn’t say no to getting more benefits so I nodded at him, “What are you guys transporting?”

His eyes lit up, “Oh! I’m so glad you asked! We’re traders that trade in exotic goods within this forest so we have things from the Elhiria Republic and even from the Amrap and Wrunch territories! I’m sure we might have something that you might like!”

Well, now you have my curiosity.

While the rest of my girls started cutting up the bears for their parts and Mana Crystals, I went with him to his group to see what goods they were selling with Emilia accompanying me.

The Nomads in his group instantly recognised Emilia as another Metropolitan Nekomata and did not bother to hide their disdain of her but they still held their tongues.

On the other hand, the Metropolitan Nekomatas on the other side looked happy to see another comrade and were greeting her enthusiastically.

The male Nekomata turned and gave me a bow, “Please forgive me for forgetting my manners. I am Albert Bluth. It is a pleasure to meet you.”

I returned his bow with a curtsy, “Well met, Albert. I am Aster, leader of the White Dragon’s Sword Maidens.”

He definitely guessed that I was a noble from how I curtsied but since I did not give him a family name, he chose not to ask about it and merely started laying a cloth on the ground before pulling several things out of his bag.

“Here! Please take a look at these! These were specifically imported from Elhiria Republic! All of them are genuine articles!”

I blinked at him.

What he pulled out… Were several pairs of panties.

What the hell?

“What… Are these?” I asked.

“Oh! Have you not seen Trasif crafted underwear before? Specifically made using the softest of fabrics and crafted with the utmost care, they are the unrivaled artisans of underwear crafting! Just have a feel of it yourself!”

He offered one of the plain white panties to me and I just took it out of instinct and…

Woooooahh!! He’s not kidding!! It’s really, really soft!! And it feels cool to the touch as well! What’s this?! What’s this?! I can’t stop touching it!

The current underwear that I’m wearing are all really comfortable and they’re no doubt also quite expensive since they were made by high end stores in Crown Capital City… But this is just on another level!

But…

I turned back to him, “I’m a futa though…”

Without even missing a beat, he reached back inside his pack and pulled out a new set of underwear.

“Here you go, Lady Aster! These are underwear designed for futas!”

There were various designs too, with some of them having the penis sheath attached directly to the underwear instead of being separate from them.

And when I went to touch those sheaths…

Waaaaa!! They’re also really smooth and soft!! It’s like they were made with really high quality silk or something!

How?! How are they able to make this?!

That’s it, we’re going to the Trasif cities as well just to see if they have more of this after we finish dealing with those illegal slavers!!