"Hey, Lisa. Just hypothetically…"
"Eh? Y-yeah…"
"If I touched your breasts, what would happen to me?"
"I'd send you flying."
"And if you didn't have the strength to send me flying?"
"Well, then I'd just have to let you do it."
"Would I be charged with a crime for that?"
"No. I've been telling you that already."
At that point, I couldn't help but take it one step further.
Honestly, I knew in my head that this wasn't something I should be asking a girl younger than me. But I wouldn't be satisfied unless I asked. I was that messed up right now.
"Earlier, if you hadn't saved this woman, would those pigs have been charged with a crime…?"
"No. They wouldn't have been charged with anything."
"But… you killed those pigs, right? Wasn't that because they committed a crime?"
"No, that's not why. A woman who had been assaulted by those pigs before put out a quest at the Adventurers' Guild. I just took the job and killed them. I don't know what they were misunderstanding, but my request was to subjugate them. That's why I killed them."
I calmly processed the facts Lisa was telling me.
In other words, in this world, even if you did something that would generally be considered evil toward a woman—or the opposite sex—you wouldn't be charged with a crime or thrown in jail.
And the only time someone who did such things to the opposite sex would be punished was when someone submitted a quest to the Adventurers' Guild requesting their subjugation.
That meant… assaulting the opposite sex was essentially legal in this world.
When I looked around again, I could see similar acts happening here and there. Some were minor, some more blatant, but people were definitely touching members of the opposite sex.
"Hey, can I ask just one last thing?"
"What?"
"How many things are actually considered crimes in this world? And if you could tell me one or two examples, that'd help."
"I don't mind, but there's only one crime in this world."
"O-one…?"
"Yeah. Just the crime of murder—killing someone harmless."
Well, that one was obvious. Even in my original world, murder was one of the heaviest crimes.
But that wasn't what I wanted to know. I asked Lisa about the things that came to mind.
"What about stealing someone else's belongings?"
"That's just the owner's carelessness."
"What about tricking someone out of their money?"
"That just means the person who got tricked was stupid."
"What if you punch someone and they bleed…?"
"You'd have to treat the wound."
"That's not what I mean!"
"Wah!?"
I unintentionally raised my voice.
Because everything I just said was considered a crime in my world.
"They're crimes, right? Stealing is theft. Tricking someone out of money is fraud. Injuring someone by hitting them is assault. Don't you know any of those?"
"I-I don't know a single one. What world are those crimes from?"
They're from mine, I wanted to shout. But there was no way the blue-haired beauty in front of me would know about my world.
Besides, this wasn't my world anymore. It was the world of the people here.
It was only natural that the common sense from my world didn't apply. The mistake was me still thinking my old common sense should be normal here.
Lisa hadn't done anything wrong. The one at fault was me, still clinging to the past.
"Sorry. I was a little confused."
"E-eh, it's fine…"
"Let's head to the Adventurers' Guild."
"R-right…"
To cool my head, I started walking while looking down so I wouldn't see the scenes around me.
The crimes and common sense I knew had no power in this world. I needed to learn that starting now.
And no one would come to help me if something happened.
From the way Lisa spoke earlier, almost everything in this world was self-responsibility.
That was pretty harsh for someone in my position. Because I had none of this world's power and almost none of its knowledge.
Even if I managed to earn money as an adventurer from now on, I'd be the perfect target. And if I got robbed, no one would help me.
On the other hand, if I carelessly stole someone's things or played with a woman's body, I could get a quest put out on me by adventurers and die instantly.
Everything was way too hard mode. It almost made me want to cry.
But I wasn't the only one living in hard mode.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that everyone else was also living right next to death every day.
In this world, theft wasn't a crime, but there was still appropriate retribution. The same went for sexual harassment. If you went too far, you could end up dead. That was probably why people didn't casually commit evil deeds.
If that was the case, then if I became much stronger and gained a decent position in this world, I could do things I couldn't do in my previous world.
I could grope a beautiful woman's breasts or touch her tail like that old man, and it would just be treated as a harmless joke. If I cleverly sold even worthless things and made people buy them, I could become rich.
As the saying goes, it all depends on how you look at it.
In this world, I was going to do all the things I couldn't do in my previous one.
I'd live in a huge mansion, surround myself with beautiful women, and indulge in lazy, luxurious days.
With that fresh resolve, I tightened my grip just a little stronger on the soft thighs of the woman I was carrying on my back.