Chapter 503 Chainsmoker Cat 7

Chapter 503: 503 Chainsmoker Cat 7

As we entered Alpha Village, a slightly different appearance than before caught our eyes.

Originally, roads or bridges were not properly ??, but it seems they touched it up to some extent, the road was fairly neatly ??.

They even installed railings on the bridge so people could come and go safely, and they clearly distinguished places where entry is possible and places where you shouldn’t enter.

Moreover, seeing that even bathrooms were cleanly prepared, it seemed preparations for making it a tourist destination were gradually being equipped.

"Oh, isn’t it Yaku and Jin. Are those three your friends?"

"Chieftain! Nice to meet you."

"Chieftain Rani, long time no see."

Yakuneko introduced the chieftain to the group.

"This person is the chief who is the head of this place."

Then the group each greeted.

"I’m Hame!"

"I’m Yaniko nya."

"I’m Kansai."

"Hmm, I’m Chieftain Rani. Nice to meet you."

When Rani also welcomed them gladly, I asked her.

"The village has changed a bit?"

"This was just done according to the mayor’s opinion. He said humans have many fools and can get hurt, so we must be careful."

"Well..."

It seems the mayor came directly and gave various opinions.

Certainly, if there is human casualty from the beginning and image is cut, it would be a big deal.

Yakuneko made a request to Chieftain Rani.

"Chieftain, I’m sorry to say such a thing suddenly, but could you share some tobacco?"

"Of course, it’s harvest season. Tobacco leaves are overflowing, so smoke as much as you want."

"Yes! Thank you Chieftain!"

"And since you came, learn our village’s customs together with your group."

Then Yanineko and Hameneeko made a face that openly says they don’t like it and said.

"I don’t want to study, I want to smoke nya."

"Yeah, let’s smoke quickly!"

Then Kansai Neko hurriedly stopped the two, looking awkward.

"What’s wrong with you guys here! So rude. I’m sorry, Chieftain."

"It’s okay. Anyway, for now we harvest grapes. The fruits make wine and the leaves are dried. Dried in shade for about 3～6 months, remove the leaf veins and chop the remaining part finely, then tobacco is completed. This is a tobacco village among Alpha tribe villages, so all residents here do tobacco making work. If you don’t work, there’s no tobacco either. That is, you also have to work."

"Annoying nya..."

"Senpai..."

"Kya kya kya, so you have to smoke tobacco that you chopped directly. Then tobacco tastes good. So hurry and move."

In the end, we followed Rani and experienced chopping tobacco leaves.

"Oh, Jin and Kansai and Yaku do well. Hame is hmm... The sizes are all different but still can be smoked. But Yaniko..."

Yanineko made the tobacco leaves completely into rags.

"The knife doesn’t cut well nya..."

"...It’s okay. It can’t be helped."

Rani handed each a tobacco pipe, so each started to put their own trimmed tobacco leaves and smoke.

Since I don’t smoke, I gave what I trimmed to Yanineko.

"It’s the best nya!"

"Right? It’s the best, right?"

"Yeah, super delicious!"

When everyone admired, Rani was extremely proud.

"Right, right? Village tobacco is our pride. The rich aroma is very addictive..."

But it seems not everyone was like that.

"Uwek... Cough! Uek! Tasteless! Hame likes electronic cigarettes that she usually smokes more! Granny, if you put menthol, it’s easier to smoke."

When Hame made a remark crossing the line, Yakuneko hurriedly shook Hame and urged her.

"You bastard! Can’t you shut up! How can you say such a thing...!"

"It’s okay, it’s okay. Tastes are different. We can’t satisfy everyone."

"I’m sorry, Chieftain..."

It seemed Chieftain Rani forgave generously, but from what I saw, it seemed a bit risky.

Because for a moment, an expression as if holding back anger passed by.

Rani, while smiling outwardly like that, cooled her anger inside and went outside, and looked at the statue in the center of the village and talked.

"Look over there. The god that Alpha tribe has protected for generations. We enshrine that statue."

"I thought it was a huge wall nya."

"In times when war was rampant on this land, cat crying and screams never ceased, but now it just quietly looks down on us. We pray to that statue when we make tobacco. We show our devotion while trimming leaves. Every day we report to god and ancestors that we live peacefully on this land."

In fact, beastmen were aliens.

A very long time ago, they crossed over to Earth riding the huge spaceship standing tall in the center of Alpha Village.

At first, they lived together with humans on Earth, but eventually they went to war with humans, and beastmen lost.

As a result, some beastmen became the property of lords, and others had to be dragged to the lords’ armies and fight whenever war broke out.

After a long time passed like that, beastmen settled in this place where their spaceship was, Alpha Village.

And now they are living a fairly peaceful life without being involved in war anymore.

Without knowing that the statue they believe to be their god is actually the spaceship they rode.

This was the reality of Alpha Village.

Rani finished explaining and showed both backs of her hands.

On her backs of hands, different tattoos were engraved.

"Look at this, these tattoos also have the same meaning. I modeled the statue that towers toward the sun. When my heart wavers, I look at this tattoo and reflect."

On Rani’s right back of hand, a statue-shaped tattoo was engraved, and on her left back of hand, a tattoo embodying the sun was engraved.

But the problem was that the statue tattoo on the right strangely resembled a male genitalia, and the sun tattoo on the left also had a shape reminiscent of female genitalia.

Thanks to that, I almost burst into laughter, but I barely held it in.

Moreover, it seems I’m not the only one who felt that way, Kansai Neko was also covering her mouth with her hand and holding back laughter, and Hameneeko and Yakuneko were also watching.

"It’s a dick nya."

But Yanineko didn’t.

She just spat out her thoughts out of her mouth as they were.

Then the group looked at Yanineko with a momentarily flustered expression, but she didn’t give other people time to stop her and spat out one more word.

"It’s dick and pussy nya."

The moment those words fell, everyone froze as if time around stopped.

Rani, as if she couldn’t bear it anymore, slyly put her hand behind her back and took out something that looks like a hair dryer, aimed it at Yanineko and pressed the button.

Whirrrrr-!!! Phew!!!

Kwa kwa kwa kwang!!!!!

Then energy began to gather in front of the hair dryer, and soon a powerful laser was shot forward.

Its power was beyond imagination.

"Whooosh!!!"

The place where the laser passed, trees evaporated without a trace as if a huge hole was drilled, and tremendous heat spread around, and trees and grass began to burn all over.

But Yanineko was still alive.

It seems Rani deliberately shot slightly off.

"Eeeek-!!!!"

The group fell into tremendous shock seeing the spectacle before their eyes.

"You have insulted god, so you must perform a ritual! Follow me!"

When Rani said that, the group followed Rani without a word.

Having seen the power of the ray gun that looks like a hair dryer directly, there was no way they could argue.

We rode a manual lift installed on the statue and went up to the top of the statue.

Since the statue is so huge, we had to go up for a long time, and it felt like we went up at least 800 meters.

When we came up to such a high place, not only Alpha Village but also the whole Nyagamihara City came into view at a glance, and perhaps because it’s such a high place, the wind also blew quite strongly.

Whooo-!!

Because of that, the group was stuck to the floor, fearing they might be blown away, and couldn’t stand up.

Of course, Chieftain Rani was the same.

"Cheeky Yan and Hame! Wear this right now."

Rani handed harness (device that fixes body safely) to Yanineko and Hameneeko.

Then the two girls wore harnesses with an expression that they didn’t really want to.

Rani then connected the safety rope fixed to the floor to the harnesses of the two girls.

"Those who insulted god must perform a ritual to ask forgiveness from god. The ritual is simple. Just jump from the end over there. It’s a safe ritual that even kids do."

At those words, Hame said with a scared face.

"How do you jump here!? Even this is not even a rope!"

"Don’t worry. It’s made by weaving the vines of grapes we harvest, so it’s sturdy and elastic."

At Rani’s words, I thought what an all-purpose grape it is.

"I’m going to die doing this, I absolutely can’t do it!"

"Come on, hurry and jump!"

Yanineko also looked below once and seemed to think this is not it.

"If I fall from here, I’ll die nya."

"Heung, are you afraid of death? In our tribe, there’s such a proverb. ’Stay close to death and treat it like a friend.’"

"If I die, I can’t smoke nya."

"Hehehe! If you jump, I’ll give you a lot of cigarettes. Hmm?"

Yanineko jumped right away without a shred of hesitation at the words that she will be given a lot of cigarettes.

It seems this girl’s cigarettes are more important than her own life.

Rani as well as the group were looking at that with surprised expressions.

"How... Doesn’t she feel fear?"

When Yanineko did that, Hameneeko also thought it was nothing and suddenly turned on broadcasting, and started to act scared, making all kinds of cute expressions towards the camera.

"Yaaaang... If I don’t jump from here, they say they’ll kill Hame! So scary~! Hame doesn’t want to die! Viewers, please cheer for Hame-chan! If I fall like this, Hame-chan might die~! These people here are quite barbaric?"

At those words, Rani got properly pissed, and just kicked Hameneeko with her foot and pushed her below.

"Go quickly!"

Thud!

"Ah...."

Hameneeko had a blank expression, not even understanding what happened to her in an instant.

But soon her body floated in the air and gravity began to pull down, and as if she realized the situation, her face hardened white.

"Uwaaaaaaak-!!!"

Belatedly, she started to struggle, flailing her limbs wildly, but rather her posture became more messy.

In the end, she started to fall in a ridiculous appearance, rotating round and round in the air.

"Haaaang!!!"

And it seems she was too scared, and she even peed her pants in the meantime.

Pshhhh-!!!

But since she was falling while spinning round and round, the urine stream also spread in all directions with centrifugal force.

That appearance looked as if it became a huge sprinkler.

Urine droplets scattered in all directions sparkled receiving sunlight, and soon made a huge rainbow in the air.

"Oh, wonderful rainbow."

"Um, Chieftain... We can just go down, right?"

"Hmm, you have never insulted god, so you don’t need to perform ritual. Let’s go down now."

At those words, the remaining group sighed in relief and rode the lift again and came down below.

Below, tribespeople were giving Hameneeko a shoulder ride, and the chant was quite funny.

Wawa-!

"Rainbow summoner!"

"Rainbow summoner!"

"Rainbow, rainbow!"

But Hameneeko herself had an expression as if half her soul had left.

"Man, it was a very moving descent. You are now no different from our family. Everyone have dinner and watch the festival before going. And Jin, I would like to talk with you a bit."

Rani called me separately and told me about the average amount of grapes and leaves harvested and the amount of tobacco leaves and wine made there.

Certainly, since it’s a small village, the harvest amount wasn’t that large.

Moreover, about 2/3 of the harvest was consumed in the village or shared with beastmen in the city, and only the rest could be sold.

With this, it might be difficult to make brandy, which is a distilled liquor, as well as sell wine in large quantities.

So I decided to sell Alpha Village tobacco mixed with other tobacco leaves, and brandy also made blended like blended whiskey.

But then the taste might drop.

So the work of Yanineko and Aruneeko who will distinguish the taste became even more important.

"And this is one grapevine you requested."

"Thank you for taking care of it."

"No. We also might need funds from now on to communicate with outside, so Jin’s role is important. So you don’t have to worry. And I have one request, please open the convenience store quickly."

"Okay, I will."

Although it’s called a convenience store, I was thinking of selling not only souvenirs but also food ingredients and various daily necessities that beastmen eat inside, so it was essentially no different from a small mart.

Rani also knew that fact, and since the number of wild animals is gradually decreasing, it was becoming difficult to obtain meat only by hunting, so she was asking to open it quickly.

We had a meal in the evening that was not that delicious but still edible, and watched the festival.

The beastmen, having actively accepted my opinion, lit torches here and there, beat drums, and began to dance in a certain motion while going round and round around the statue to the rhythm.

But the dance was a bit strange.

"That somehow... Looks like a dance I’ve seen somewhere?"

"Th, that... Belly dance? Indian dance?"

I also thought they would at least dance Japanese traditional dance like Awa Odori.

But I never thought they would dance belly dance in a group.

’My goodness...’

It was absurd, but still, rather than grandfathers with protruding bellies dancing, it was a sight worth seeing in its own way since beastmen with good figures were dancing uniformly.

’Unexpectedly it has feeling, so should I just leave it...’

When the dance ended like that, the beastmen all offered a prayer of gratitude to the statue, and the festival ended.

"How is it, worth watching?"

"Yes... Chieftain..."

"Kya kya kya, it was worth all the hard work preparing for the festival."

"Chieftain, we had fun today. We think we should go back now."

"Ah, it’s already that time. I got it. Come again next time."

I also quietly put the grapevine that Rani separately gave me into the inventory without the group noticing and prepared to leave.

Although harvesting is over, tobacco leaves and grapes, etc., were not properly processed yet, so I decided to buy the rest of the harvest after processing is over.

We were returning to the beastman apartment riding the Alphard.

"Alpha Village tobacco is delicious nya. I’ll smoke for 3 days nya."

"Anyway, it was fun. Let’s go again next time, senpai."

"It was indeed a village where you don’t know where it will bounce, but it was certainly fun."

Everyone found Alpha Village interesting, but only one person was not.

It was Hameneeko.

Because the scene of her making a rainbow with urine was broadcast as it was through personal broadcasting.

Moreover, she had to change pants because of that, so she was in a bad mood all the way back.

"Never going again."

"Why? How much Alpha tribe likes you, they even gave you a nickname ’Rainbow summoner’. In fact, it was urine rainbow though kekeke..."

"Shut up! By the way, what does ’Alpha’ mean?"

When Hameneeko asked like that, Kansai Neko searched with her phone.

"Where where... Alpha means the first letter of Greek, meaning ’beginning’ or ’start’."

"Somehow creepy."

"Do you want to get hit by ray gun again?"

In fact, I also have questions about Alpha Village.

No matter how much I think about it, I couldn’t understand that they had such a powerful ray gun a long time ago and still lost to humans.

At that time Yaniko said.

"My mouth is bored nya. I want to eat snacks nya."

"Then, shall we eat cake nearby?"

"Good idea nya."

"Hame wants to eat chocolate cake!"

At those words, Yakuneko chuckled.

"You, after shitting, you can eat chocolate cake?"

"I didn’t shit!"

When Hameneeko flared up, the group all started laughing loudly because it was funny.