What Do You Mean There Are Other Transmigrators In My Harem Fantasy? - Chapter 1318: They’re Also Fans
Chapter 1318: They’re Also Fans
Ugghh…
“Good work, Mistress,” Katsuki consoled me.
I don’t wanna step outside for the next few days… Everything about that was both embarrassing and stressful…
Ira looked at where I was laying down on the couch in Katsuki’s lap, “Hmm… I’m surprised that you would let yourself go through something like that.”
I turned my head slightly as Katsuki continued to pat me, “What do you mean?”
“I mean if you don’t like it that much, just tell everyone to fuck off or something? There’s no reason why you have to go along with what they ask of you just because they expect that from you, right?”
I frowned at her, “It’s because of duty, ok?”
“Duty? I don’t think you are beholden to these people are you?”
“Not in that sense… Look… Here’s my train of thought. I’m an Off-Worlder, I’m a visitor of this World, they are the residents whom I am imposing on to visit this World. They have their own customs and cultures so I try to understand them and play along with them instead of trying to impose my own culture and customs on them as long as it does not threaten the well being of myself or anyone I might care about.”
She frowned at me, “What I’m hearing is that you’re lowering yourself to their level.”
“That only happens when you believe you are above the people of this World to begin with, which I do not. They are also people just like you and me. My main goal in my travels is to experience this World to its purest extent and understand it. So for the Trasifs, they believe that should repay me for what I have done, that’s why I play along with it to experience what it’s like.”
Ira huffed but said nothing more.
On the other hand, Tsara clasped her hands together in prayer, “Ah~ As expected of Lady Aster who is loved by the Gods! For you to have such compassion and love~”
“Unnggghh… Don’t mistake that, Tsara… I’m not doing it out of love or compassion like you said. I’m doing it to preserve the status quo just so that I can see for myself what it is like.”
Ira tilted her head, “I don’t understand… Why then?”
“Why what?”
“Why are you doing this experiences as you said?”
I jerked a little, “Oh? I didn’t tell you two yet? I’m planning to write an epic centered around my experiences of this World! In order to do that, I need to have as authentic an experience as I can!”
That caught their attention as both of them tilted their heads at me.
“An epic?” Tsara asked, her gaze curious. “I did not know you wrote, Lady Aster.”
Ira tapped the side of her cheek, “Write? Aster… Aster… You can’t be… The same person who wrote ’To Tear Over A Tear’?!”
I blinked at her, “Oh? I didn’t know you read books here… But yes, that’s one of my works.”
Both of them let out a gasp and they were instantly by my side and grabbing my hand at the same time.
“Aster?!! Truly?! You are the same person as Aster the author?!”
“Lady Aster!! So it’s really you?! I should have known that something like this is only possible to be written by someone who is favoured by the Gods!!”
Ok, now this is a surprise…
“I didn’t know both of you were fans…”
Ira tightened her grip on my hand, “How can I not be!! They are all works of art!! If anyone didn’t like them, they must be completely unable to understand art at all!!”
“I’m honestly surprised that you would read any book in this World… I thought you would hate everything about it…”
Ira actually puffed up her cheeks to pout at me, “Aster… You seem to have the wrong idea about me… I don’t hate this World and its inhabitants and I’m also not seeking to destroy it either. I just think that it would be better under new management. So creations like these is something I would like to preserve as well!”
And that management happens to be you, of course…
Naturally, I didn’t say that part out loud, especially since Tsara was letting it slide just to ask me, “Lady Aster!! Does that mean you also wrote the book ’A Confessional’s Sin’ too?!”
I shifted my gaze to her, “Eh? Oh… I’m assuming you like that one? But yes, that was me too. Honestly I felt that work was a little tacky but I can see why you might like it.”
She released my hand to clasp hers together, “Oh how could I not? For the God that the priestess worships to take notice of her after all her years of devotion and bring her to their side… It’s just so wonderful!”
Yeah… On the surface, the story reads like a simple love story where a priestess is devoted to her god and her devotion caught the god’s attention. He would bring her up to his domain and you might think that they would fall in love and eventually live happily ever after but… It’s not that kind of story.
The priestess would serve the god with pure intentions of worship and respect while the god would fall in love with her. Even despite all that the god does, the priestess never actually falls in love with the god because her feelings for him goes to the extreme end of worship.
He still lays with her but he knows that she does not love him like he does to her and if you were to just read it on the surface level, it does seem like a happily ever after. But if you look deep enough, it’s basically an eternal torture for both parties as the god can never get the love from her that he seeks and the priestess is doomed to play a role that she has never asked for.
Ira immediately turned towards Tsara to scowl at her, “Should have figured that your taste in art would be trashy as well. If you had any taste, you would know that the ’Beyond The Frontiers’ series is the best one that has ever been written!”
Oh? Ok, that was surprising…
That story is actually an adventure story where a person from my old World was dropped into a fantasy World and goes on a journey to survive in that World. It was different to the standard fantasy isekai stories as the World he was dropped into was untamed and wild with no trace of civilisation. He would try to carve out a life for himself but eventually, the wilderness of the World would claim him and he would slowly descend into madness and become part of the World as well.
It was not a pretty story as the main character tries and fails repeatedly to carve out a place of civilisation in that World and eventually descends to savagery and lives just like the monsters do.
He basically prioritised his survival and traded his wisdom for it.
I wouldn’t have expected Ira to like that particular one since it kind of showed the Off-Worlder being consumed by the World he was dropped into…
Tsara turned to scowl back at her, “You wouldn’t even understand love and devotion if it was thrown in your face.”
Ira crossed her arms, “And you wouldn’t understand the beauty of survival and hardship because you’ve lived such a cushy life yourself.”
Err… Is that what they understood from those stories? I suppose they are free to interpret it however they want I guess?
Right as it looked like they were going to fight over this topic, Lisa chimed in from the side.
“Oh please, you two have no taste. It’s obvious that ’My Debaucherous Life With My Step Family And Friends’ is the best one!!”
…
I’m not going to explain what that story is about.
Odeta chuckled, “Oh! My personal favourite is ’The Underworld Odyssey’ though! Especially after Minnera had adapted it to a… What did she call it? A visual novel? That one is awesome!”
Well… It’s technically a manga but that word doesn’t make sense here so Minnera co-opted the term ’visual novel’ to describe it.
And yes, that story is an action packed story where it’s fight scenes after fight scenes most of the time.
Emilia grinned, “It’s all of you who don’t have any taste. ’To Tear Over A Tear’ is still the best!”
Oh? So she likes the classic love triangle story?
“Because it’s the one that is earning the most money!” She finished.
… How did I not see that coming?
Minnera shook her head, “I would have to disagree. ’Cheap Show Tricks’ is the best since the visuals adapted from the book are the nicest to draw.”
Delmare was still with her sister so she wasn’t here to give her opinion but it looks like everyone here was ready to throw down to fight for their opinion.
Unexpectedly, Katsuki also chimed in while still patting my head, “Everything that Mistress writes is a masterpiece… But I believe the greatest masterpiece is the one that she is currently writing where Mistress is compiling all of our adventures into her epic.”
Everyone paused before turning to look at Katsuki who was just calmly stroking my head while I continued to lay on her lap.
And just like that, all the tension in the room disappeared.
Awww~ Katsuki, you cutie pie you~ I’m definitely going to take you somewhere to fluff those tails of yours!!
