Maria Caria’s Adventure in Strange Lands Chapter 1

My eyes may be dirty, but I am honored if you can like this stupid story.

Spirit Guard 1 The hallway of the security bureau is the epitome of dreariness..
Not only is the pipe exposed in the ceiling, lamps hanging at 15 meter intervals are just subst.i.tutes for a small umbrella.
Furthermore, the walls are not painted whatsoever. It still has its original white plaster color. In front of the turning corner of the corridor, there is a desk with one black rotary phone.

The desk was located on a corridor intersection in Building B, facing the Room 307. That’s why I am forced to make this small desk my unofficial office.

“Captain Maria Carria, thank you for your trouble.”
The watch on tonight was Elizabeth corporal. She has a pair of green eyes and a red golden hair.
“Good work, this night is quiet also, huh?”
I also salute Corporal Elizabeth  with one hand.

I originally worked as a lieutenant in the volunteer army of the Kingdom of Melalia. However, due to the dream I saw on that busy day, I was able to meet with turtles with the spirits, and I was told of the existence of a different world from them, leading to me getting stuck with the job to act as their guardian.
Tonight I am coming to the security bureau at that work.
By the way, all the security staff are spirits. Corporal Elizabeth who saluted each other now is also a spirit of course.

Lieutenant Anne, who was in charge of the interrogation, enters the Room 307.

This is also a dready room with no paint on its walls. Only one bare light bulb is hung from the ceiling. There is a singular square desk with three chairs where you can’t lean on.

A person sits on one of the chair. Her name is Moline Du Merlot, daughter of a viscount. She is 15 years old. She was taken in at daytime since she is still wearing a white and light blue afternoon dress. Fatigue is on the face.

“Does she still won’t admit it?”
I come closer as Lieutenant Anne salutes me.
“Ha… this girl is pretty stubborn.”

I hurriedly return the lieutenant’s salute in front of the girl before I stand in front of her.

“What are you afraid of, reincarnator?”

Yes, she is being suspected as a reincarnator.

“… … I’m not a reincarnator…”
Moline is a girl with rose-colored cheeks up with blackish flaxish hair. Even so tears are about to fall from the blue eyes.
But I will not be cheated.
A real girl is a creature that can shed tears at any time for self-protection. Although she had been interrogated for a long time and her body must also be at its limit, there are no traces of tears in her cheeks. Even now she refuses to shed tears. In other words, she dislikes shedding tears in front of others.

I know only one kind of creature that possesses such a useless fake courage.

I sigh, deciding to use the usual pattern.

I lean down over her and point my fingers, while looking at her eyes.
“You must have been a greasy middle-aged man in the original world, you will be able to tell in the atmosphere. It would have been a pleasant experience since I was incarnated here, this transformation”
“N-no–“
“There is nothing wrong, hey hey, you seem to have had fun every morning every night. Have you been enjoying having your body copied in the mirror, tell me, you perverted guy”
“That, that kind of thing…”
“Have you not imagined funny things while taking a bath everyday, you perverted guy? In the original world, you must have been a filthy hikkikomori that rarely entered the bathroom. Well, now you get a habit of bathing because it’s a beautiful body, completely different from the original one. Aren’t you lucky, you filthy b.a.s.t.a.r.d?”
“I was not unclean, I was not a hikkikomori, even baths were included everyday, and my body was never smelly!”
Moline gets upset.
Why the different world people show abnormal attention to body odor and cleanliness. It may be a body odor phobia. It is a kind of obsession.

“Anne, you heard the current statement”
“Yes, Morine de Merlo has accepted that he is a male foreigner”

“Kusso…”
I give a blue-colored badge to the now upset Moline, due to his true self being revealed. Now he can no longer hide behind his mask as a girl

“This badge is good, wear it at all times. Discounts will be given to shopping at specific stores and parking lots for public facilities such as libraries will be free.”