world of inverted chastity, however, men have no human rights

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

"Eugene, are you hungry? I bought some apples for a snack. Let's eat them together. You're terrible with a knife. Do you want me to peel it for you? Hehe, I'm good at peeling apples. Can you eat it by yourself? Shall I feed you?"

　I sat right next to him on the right and nodded vigorously as Ursuna chatted away. I munched on the apple she handed me. It was a little sour, but fresh and full of moisture.

　Rumble, rumble, rumble.

　Irene, sitting diagonally across from me, was staring at me with a displeased look in her eyes. When I looked up, she turned her face away as if to avoid eye contact.

"You're such an idiot, trying to flatter me in a disgusting way."

"Oh? What, you want to do it? It's fine if we clarify the hierarchy for now."

"Hmph, if you're stupid you resort to violence right away. Wouldn't you be better suited to being a thug in the slums instead of an adventurer? I'll even introduce you to a new job if you want."

　As the two exchanged glances, Deabolica, who was sitting directly opposite me, quietly spoke, his eyes still on the book he was reading.

"Stop it already. I didn't send out this request to get you guys fighting. If you cause any trouble, I'll have you all get off the carriage."

　Ursuna and Irene turned away from each other with a huff at the guild master's words.

　Ursuna and Irene's companions in the same carriage let out deep sighs.

　Deabolica tapped his temple with his white-gloved fingertips.

"Hmm... Really, if I had known you two didn't get along that well, I wouldn't have let you accompany me on this request."

"It's not usually this bad. It's really strange."

　The excuse that Irene's leader gave sounded somewhat insincere.

　About two weeks have passed since the medical treatment incident.

　Now we are traveling in a carriage.

　This was no aimless adventure, but rather a request to treat a lord who was suffering from an illness that Deabolica knew.

　Deabolika told me that for the time being I'd be dragged around everywhere by her. I'd be traveling, but she'd pay me well. She even offered me three gold coins for each treatment. That's 300 silver coins. Apparently, this is the same amount that the doctor her family employs charges per treatment.

　I wondered if Deabolica wouldn't make any profit from that, but Deabolica replied with a relaxed attitude, "Don't worry about it, I'll make money from other things. Well, you should be grateful to your employer who pays you so well." If cunning Deabolica said so, then I guess there's no need to worry.

"Have a nice trip. I hope you'll tell me some fun stories about your trip."

　Waving back at Wes, who had seen me off up to the castle gate, I set off on my first journey since coming to another world.

　It takes a full half day to reach our destination by carriage. Horse-drawn carriages aren't as fast as you might imagine. Apparently, the speed at which a human would run is the limit for not putting too much strain on the pack horses.

　It feels like it's about 1/5 the speed of a car going at 60km/h. And if you leave at sunrise and arrive at sunset, it takes 10 hours. In other words, 12km/h x 10 hours, so it's about 120km away. I think that's about the distance from Tokyo to Karuizawa or Nikko. I think it's 100km from Tokyo to Mount Fuji, so it's farther than that. It's pretty far away.

　When she said it was a city where she has acquaintances, I assumed it was somewhere within Tokyo's 23 wards. After all, Deabolica is the third daughter of a feudal lord in a regional city. Even if she runs the Adventurer's Guild, is it really possible for someone who isn't the next heir to have personal contact with an aristocrat from such a faraway city? In Warring States Japan, it's as strange as if a vassal of the Satomi clan and Imagawa Yoshimoto were best friends. How did they get to know each other? Well, I'm not particularly interested in her social circle, anyway.

　Since they were traveling a long distance, they decided to hire two parties from the adventurer's guild as escorts. The two parties that volunteered were Irene and Ursuna.

　This was a bit surprising. Even if you do jobs other than monster extermination, you get paid, but it doesn't count as a major achievement. I always thought that Eileen and Ursuna were the type who wanted to achieve great things and get promoted, so maybe it's just a change of pace.

　And they're both always by my side. Ursuna was in such a good mood it was hard to believe she'd been depressed just the other day, and she keeps finding topics to talk to me about. To be honest, I'm quite the introvert myself, so I do feel a bit overwhelmed by the energy that these hardcore extroverts give off, but it's nice and easy to have them start a conversation. It's the perfect way to kill time.

　Irene was in a really bad mood. Well, she'd always been the type to make nasty remarks whenever she saw me, but she was especially aggressive towards Ursuna. She doesn't say much to me, so it seems like Ursuna is absorbing all of her targets. Ursuna dodges Irene's verbal attacks with a grin or retaliates by taunting her, but it seems she doesn't think much of Irene either.

　I wonder what it is, maybe we just don't get along.

　Other than Irene and Ursuna, the other adventurers seem to be blatantly keeping their distance from me and trying not to become too friendly with me.

　I'm a teleporter, but the atmosphere inside the carriage is awful... I have [Mental Resistance] so I don't feel stressed even when there's a tense atmosphere, but I wonder if they can make the atmosphere a little more harmonious. Of course, this is just work, so if I get so engrossed in pleasant conversation that I don't notice the enemy's surprise attack, I'll be disqualified as a professional.

　I quietly spoke to the leader of Irene's party, who was sitting next to me.

"...Are these two rivals or something?"

"Hmm. Well, they're pretty tough rivals."

"I see. So you're competing to see who can defeat a big monster first?"

"No, it's a love thing."

"Iroquois?"

　Is it a rivalry over the Iroquois Indians...?

"leader!"

"Yes, yes."

　Irene shouted with a sullen look on her face, and Leader-san shrugged his shoulders.

　...Just kidding. I'm insensitive too, but I don't suffer from sudden hearing loss.

　Well, I can guess a lot of things.

　After all, Ursuna has been getting closer to me for a while now, so I guess I'm a love rival.

"Do you like me, Irene?"

"!?"

　Irene turned bright red after I pointed it out so directly.

"Who cares about you?"

"Oh, I see. Ah, the carriage is shaking."

　As I innocently said this and touched Ursuna's stomach, she trembled and said "Ah...♥", her cheeks turning red. Huh? I thought you were used to playing around, but your reaction was surprisingly innocent.

"ah!"

　Irene kicked her seat hard and stood up, but quickly came to her senses and sat back down with a sullen look on her face.

　I see, now, now.

　...Honestly, when she made fun of me every time she saw the results of my hunting, I thought she was a really hateful woman.

"This one is cute."

　When I spoke to Leader-san while pointing at Irene, she nodded approvingly.

"I guess so. My Irene is cute."

"So, so cute...!?"

"Ouch!"

　The person to my right pinched my side hard, and I couldn't help but cry out.

　Ursuna puffed out her cheeks slightly and glared at me with a stern look in her eyes.

　I have pain tolerance so I can endure it, but it's unpleasant to have pain signals sent to my brain all the time, so I grab his hand to make it stop.

　Huh. Does Ursuna get jealous like that?

　You're a selfish character who's used to having fun, so I thought it would be okay to tease you like a bad friend, but you're not exactly like that image, are you?

　I suddenly sensed that I was becoming popular, and I was secretly feeling elated, but to be honest, I'm confused because they're reacting differently than I expected. Irene is a small animal type, and Ursuna actually seems a bit emotional. Especially Irene, even her tone of voice has changed.

"Look. There she is, a cunning creature who was acting tough in front of a man she was interested in, but with the naive, tomboyish Ursuna nearby, she thought she couldn't win by acting the same way, so she went back to her normal way of speaking. How cute."

"Shut up!?"

　Ah, Leader's hobby is messing with Irene...

　Well, speaking of similar ways of speaking, Leader and Deabolica also have similar ways of speaking, but Deabolica's true personality is probably what you see when he pounces on you with the sound of the mysterious bird.

"...Is there something you want to say?"

"No, nothing."

　I looked away from the yakuza aristocrat who pretended to be an intellectual.

　Since he showed me his true colors once, it seems like he doesn't mind directing his murderous intent towards me...

　This is uncomfortable, so let's change the subject a bit.

"Even so, this carriage doesn't shake much. I've heard that the ground vibrates so much that it's hard to sit in."

　It's a common theme in reincarnations in other worlds where the carriage vibrates so badly that it's difficult to sit in, and the protagonist uses his cheat knowledge to develop a suspension. I wanted to try riding it just once, just out of curiosity, to see what it would be like to ride in a carriage that bad.

"Yeah, this carriage has the seats suspended like a gondola with leather straps. The vibrations from the wheels aren't transmitted directly to the seat, so it's gentle on the buttocks. It belongs to the Adventurer's Guild, and it's a pretty good item. It was quite expensive, though."

"Wow."

　So it was an already improved horse-drawn carriage. I'm sure that improvements to the suspension led to the invention of the automobile and the railway.

　So does that mean the civilization level of this world is somewhere around the end of the Middle Ages? Well, it's unlikely that this world's history is the same as ours.

"Also, horses have thicker and sturdier legs than I thought. I thought they'd be thinner and more slender."

　Then Deabolica chuckled, as if she found something funny.

"Are you perhaps talking about horses with slender legs that can move quickly? Those are horses used for racing and riding. If you ask such delicate horses to pull heavy loads like carriages, they will quickly hurt their legs. Horses used in carriages need to be sturdy and powerful like these. Really, you must come from a place where there aren't even carriages, you know, very backward in civilization."

　Huh? Aren't horse-drawn carriages just outdated forms of transportation? We're in the Reiwa era, after all?

　Ah, I want to show them the bullet trains and jet planes and blow their minds.

"The nobles of Great Brishab are quick to look down on other countries."

　I don't think that's a good thing. Well, I don't know any nobles other than Deabolica and Wes.

　Hearing my words, Deabolica puffed her chest out in pride.

"Of course, the Great Brishab Empire is the world's greatest power. From Indispice in the east to Thirteen in the west, we rule across the seas; we are the 'Empire on which the sun never sets'! We are the greatest civilization in human history! We will one day gain the largest territory in history, surpassing even the ancient Roman Empire, and lead the world forever!"

"The Empire is great, but you're just a country bumpkin."

"I'll kill you!?"

"Wow, hooray for the Empire!"

　I raised my hands in surrender and praised the Empire.

　More importantly... Deabolica's breasts, which look slimmer than I expected, are pushing up her lace blouse. She may have the worst personality, but she has some great breasts. I was staring at her...

"...Ouch."

　I grimaced at the pain I felt as Ursuna pinched my side and Irene stepped on my toes. It's not like I don't feel any pain, so I wish they'd stop.

"Pervert...!"

"Yes, yes, I'm a pervert."

　I shook my head at Irene's words.

　Ahh. Irene's contemptuous attitude somehow reminds me of modern Japan, and makes me feel incredibly nostalgic. In a world where the world itself is a TS-like, crazy chastity-reversed world, she's a very refreshing presence. My liking for Irene has risen yet again. I want you to stay the way you are.

　Even so, in modern Japan, staring at a girl's breasts would be met with a lot of disgust, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. In fact, even Diabolica seems a bit proud of it.

　Even though I openly declare that I'm a pervert, no one except Irene seems to look down on me, which is quite strange.

Let me explain!

　It's like when you're traveling in a van with a group of guys and there's just one girl among them, and she compliments you on how muscular your chest is! No man would mind being complimented on his body! What's more, she even says, "I'm actually quite naughty," and the air is a little pink!

　By the way, the reason why Irene seems to be on edge is because she's a shota suffering from the obsessive cleanliness typical of adolescence! She's worried because the girl she admires is acting casually with another guy, but deep down she's horny and her shota penis is getting a gentle erection! ≫

　In this way, we continued our journey with a somewhat restless feeling for half a day.

　We arrived at our destination without any problems.

"...Huh!? What about monster attacks!? Isn't it inevitable that monsters will surprise you in the middle of a journey like this!?"

"It's obvious that any monsters along the highway have been exterminated. There are four people on guard duty in the upper seats, so a surprise attack is out of the question. What are you talking about?"

　Why not try to make it a little more exciting?

　Well, I have no fighting ability whatsoever, so all I can do is tremble in the carriage. It wouldn't be a good picture if a man just cheered on strong girls fighting, so maybe it's better this way...