Certainly it wasn’t impossible.
In truth he wanted to go to a large town and confirm with more people, but right now that would be difficult.
However, adventurers like Gran and Yuumis were at the end of the day, essentially jack of all trades.
Their knowledge covered things from the everyday to the professional.
It was difficult to imagine that they didn’t even have a common sense level of knowledge.
If Yuumis didn’t know either, then it wouldn’t it support his theory? Or so Luru was thinking.
Yuumis was an ancient demon race freak, and should have known about them in more detail than the average person. For even somebody like her to be unaware of the racial traits of the demon race, meant that Luru’s prediction was correct, you could say.
That’s why Luru explained this to Iris, with that thought as the main principle.
“I think it’d be best to consider such information as something that wasn’t passed down, not only to Gran, but to normal people as well. It seems that that guy is a pretty skilled adventurer, after all. I don’t think there’s any mistake in seeing it as something that normal people don’t know. I don’t know about people with a scholar’s level of knowledge but… We can confirm that later.”
Having heard that much, Iris seemed to finally accept it.
Nodding with a smile, she said,
“I understand. From what I have heard, there seem to be few obstacles that stand in the way of my being by your side, Ojisama.”
Like that, Iris touched on the heart of the matter.
Indeed, you could say that having thought it out that far, there probably wouldn’t be any problems regarding her race.
However, if Iris wanted to stay by Luru’s side, there was a problem that she had to overcome no matter what.
“Yeah, you’re right. There basically don’t seem to be any problems. Like I mentioned before, if we play you off as a human, and moreover an orphan who’s lost her parents, then… But, I also mentioned earlier that I have parents, you see. If we’re to live together, it’s something that we’ll have to overcome no matter what.”
So he said, but Luru didn’t think that it would be a big deal.
As long as Iris understood a certain amount about this era, if they could adjust her story later then things would probably work out somehow.
Hearing Luru’s words, Iris tilted her head to the side.
“Regarding your… parents…? Indeed. I have no skills to offer, and would just become a bother if I did nothing but eat, wouldn’t I…?”
Saying that, Iris began feeling depressed, to which Luru shook his head in a panic.
“No, no, it’s not that! It’s nothing so difficult. It’s just that, if I brought home a girl and told them that I wanted to live with her, my parents wouldn’t just casually accept, right? That’s why I was thinking that we had to deal with that somehow…”
Having heard that, Iris’s expression seemed to say ‘Whaat, is that it?‘ as she clapped her hands together as though she had thought of a good idea.
“In that case, if they hire me as a maid, then!”
What came out of her mouth was that shocking proposal.
However, there was of course no way he could get on board with this.
His home was the house of a noble family. Because of that, they could certainly go ahead with the idea if they wanted, but Iris was the daughter of his friend, and he knew that his friend cared quite a lot for her.
Because of that, there were certainly feelings of wanting to spoil Iris in Luru’s heart.
That’s why Luru shook his head.
“That’s no good… Your hands will become rough.”
That’s why he had no choice but to saying something subtle that seemed like an excuse.
However, it seems that Iris wouldn’t accept it.
“It is all right! Even as I am, I am still a member of the demon race, low my position may be. My hands will not become rough with just something like washing dishes!”
Certainly, that might have been true, but that wasn’t what Luru really wanted to say.
However, because he didn’t have any way of saying it aloud, Luru decided that he had no choice but to deal with the problem later.
“…Well, how about we leave that aside for now? We can just decide later. Ahh, I’m sure it’ll work out. Anyway… let’s go together to the village I’m living in, and have you meet my mother in person. After that, we’ll talk her into accepting you into our house. Yeah, let’s do that.”
At last, Luru ended up forming some haphazard plan, and Iris sighed at him.
“…Like I said, I would have been fine as a maid…”
Iris said.