Episode 102 – Outings are always noisy
Adalbert Rainmed.
If I had to describe him in one sentence, I could say that he is a handsome man with white hair and two slender eyes that are very impressive.
Originally, when he was living as Alberto, he had long golden-toned silver hair.
However, after the descent of the evil god, his hair turned white after the ‘God Slaughter Ritual’ in which the god slayer was killed with the god slayer’s anvil and the god slayer’s hammer.
Adalbert bought commercially available hair dye and tried to dye his hair, but none of them dyed his hair.
In addition, even if he tried to cut his cumbersome hair, the next day his hair would grow back long, so it could be said that it was just a nuisance.
Anyway, Adalbert gave up dyeing and trimming his hair and was now living with the length of his waist-length hair.
Alberto, no, now living under the name of Adalbert, he left his lodgings early in the morning.
After a light breakfast of bread and stew provided by the lodging, he leisurely walked around the streets.
Adalbert’s long, waist-length gray hair was enough to attract the attention of passers-by.
“Wow… Look at that guy over there.”
“You have gray hair up to your waist? How hard did you manage?”
Most of the men were amazed that Adalbert had grown her hair down to her waist.
The longer the hair, the more difficult it is to manage, so most of it is cut at the line that covers the shoulders or nape, and very occasionally, those who are diligent in maintaining it even come down to the tip of the wing.
Thus, Adalbert’s waist-length hair was literally long enough to hold people’s eyes.
“Don’t you feel a bit mysterious about that person? White hair, closed eyes, and a smile on his lips… It is truly ‘sacred’ itself.”
“Well… It looks a bit suspicious to me…….”
“You look more suspicious to me.”
“What? This b*tch is real!”
A woman admiring her Adalbert made fun of her woman who seemed to be her friend who was next to her, and it was unfortunate that the two of them would fight back and forth.
Adalbert, the person in charge, was just walking along, thinking that the streets were more lively than usual.
The street Adalbert was walking on now connected the entrance of the Noble Academy with the entrance to the city.
That meant that it was full of people coming in and out of the Noble Academy, as well as people living and doing business around it.
Where a lot of people gather, commercial districts are bound to form, and where commercial districts are formed, residential areas are bound to emerge.
In other words, this place is a place to live thanks to the Noble Academy.
Maybe that’s why there are so many dessert shops here unlike other places.
Most of the students at Noble Academy were young, between their teens and 20s, so they were very interested in desserts like this.
Unlike the royal academy where men do not go to the dessert shop alone because they say they keep their body shape, the people here are men alone going to the dessert shop without hesitation.
As the local proverb goes, how can a sparrow pass by a mill, Adalbert did not pass by a dessert shop.
[Sweet & Sweet Dessert]
Today, the store he entered was a store named Sweet and Sweet Dessert.
As soon as Adalbert opened the door and entered the store, a cheerful sound filled the interior of the store.
“Oh! Hurry… Come, guest!”
A woman who looked like an employee looked at Adalbert and paused for a moment before continuing.
The reason she paused at the sight of him was the tremendous aura she felt from him.
It was because looking at Adalbert’s appearance, which seemed to radiate a lofty aura that no worldly things could invade, he felt like he had to confess the sins he didn’t have.
“I came in because it smelled good. Can you recommend a good guy?”
Adalbert approached her waiter and asked what kind of dessert she recommended.
Actually, each store is different, and each employee is different, but usually, when a customer asks the waiter for a menu recommendation, it’s like asking for the best thing in the store.
Here, in the general case, they would bring the really popular item from the store, but in a very poor quality store, they would bring the lowest-selling item to clear their inventory.
Of course, in the case of the former, the business would go well, but in the case of the latter, most of the business was closed due to complaints from customers.
Fortunately for Adalbert, the waiter began to think of the most delicious dessert combination he knew.
This employee could be seen as someone close to the former.
“Well then, how about a set of hot black tea, crescent moon bread and sweet orange marmalade? They are freshly baked, so if you eat them with orange marmalade, they will be very delicious.”
“Oh, crescent moon bread and orange marmalade. Huhu, is it a combination that makes you look forward to just hearing the name? I will ask for that.”
“Yes! Then I’ll bring it to you as soon as it comes out!”
After listening to her waitress, Adalbert walked over to a window seat with a view of the outside of her shop and sat down.
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As it was with Alberto, even now he prefers a window seat.
If you ask him why, he will surely answer like this.
“Eating dessert while looking at the scenery outside the window is special. What can I say? Yeah, should I say it’s the same as people eating at a place with a good view?”
In a word, it was good to eat something while looking outside.
“Here, the black tea you ordered, the crescent moon bread, and the orange marmalade you can use on the bread. And this is my service.”
She placed two small sugar cubes wrapped in paper on a small tray, along with the black tea, crescent moon bread, and orange marmalade Adalbert had ordered, bowed her head in greeting, and went back to the counter.
Adalbert picked up what she called service, a small sugar cube wrapped in paper, and threw it into the tea.
Someone would say that this is an act that spoils the aroma and taste of black tea, but Adalbert preferred sweet black tea to bitter black tea.
‘The desserts here are quite different from those of the Bregern Empire.’
Adalbert was drinking black tea and taking a bite of bread coated with orange marmalade, comparing the dessert cultures of the Bregern Empire and El Pario Empire.
Desserts in the Bregern Empire were not eaten with something like cakes and cookies, but a variety of desserts developed with the dessert itself.
On the contrary, the Elpario Empire has very little flavor alone as a dessert alone.
Instead, various kinds of spreads have developed that can be spread on bread to enhance flavor, such as jams, marmalades, and various kinds of candied or honeyed preserves.
So when the people of the two empires fought each other, they used to demean each other with these words.
“Hey, the Elpario Empire doesn’t have the technology to make luxurious desserts, so they only research what can be spread on bread and eaten? How vulgar it really is!”
“Ohoho, to be vulgar, the people of the Bregern Empire, who try to make several flavors with one dessert, look even more vulgar. Isn’t it vulgar development to not fully appreciate the natural taste of ingredients?”
Well, anyway, that’s what it meant to fight like this.
Simply summarizing, it can be said that the El Pario Empire developed individual breads and spreads, and the Bregern Empire developed desserts that provided everything on its own.
So now, Adalbert was in the process of expanding the horizons of new desserts, so life in the El Pario Empire was very satisfying.
He was determined to spread the advanced bread and spread culture of the El Pario Empire if he returned to the Bregern Empire someday.
The desserts of the Bregern Empire, which had to be decorated and decorated one by one, took several minutes to serve.
However, for the desserts of the El Pario Empire, spreads such as jam and marmalade are made in advance, and bread is baked with the prepared dough at that time, so it can be said to be very efficient in terms of time.
As Adalbert was spending time leisurely spreading crescent moon bread with orange marmalade and eating it, a buzz came from outside.
‘What happened?’
Adalbert, who was curious about the sound coming from outside, finished his checkout and left the store to find out what was going on.
I walked in the direction I heard the sound and saw a red-haired woman arguing with a brown-haired man.
“So you just touched my ass!”
“Ow, lady. Oh dear. Do you find it difficult to force yourself like that? It just brushed her hand for a moment.”
Anyway, the brown-haired man touched the red-haired woman’s ass, and the red-haired woman appeared to protest against the brown-haired man.
There were people standing around the two who seemed to have heard of the commotion and came to see them.
“Good! Then we’ll duel! There! The white-haired priest!”
“…… You mean that?”
At that time, a red-haired woman pointed at Adalbert and called her a priest.
Perhaps they mistook him for a priest because of his white hair, closed eyes, thrifty clothes, and an indescribable aura.
“Yeah, this guy is touching my butt and then faking it, right? Please witness this duel!”
She was telling Adalbert to witness the duel.
“Hmm, can’t that be?”
“Why? Aren’t you a priest?”
“Of course. I’m not a priest, but a swordsman training?”
Adalbert lifted the hem of her robe at the red-haired woman’s words and showed his sword underneath.
“Ugh, ugh! Unless you’re a priest, don’t go around dressed like that! Why are you misleading people!”
The red-haired woman seemed to be angry at Adalbert’s appearance, and with her face flushed, she screamed, and the brown-haired man smiled and approached Adalbert.
“Brother. It looks like you got into a fight with that girl, but please step back after she says something nice, huh? Since we are the ones who quarreled with this woman, we will take care of her hands first, and then we will hand her over to my older brother.”
“Well, if you don’t like it, we’ll take care of you first. Kuk-kuk.”
A man who appeared to be a colleague of the brown-haired man laughed at Adalbert and made a threatening comment.
This is how Adalbert responded to a black-haired colleague’s threat.
“Well? Why should I listen to you?”
“Huh? Hey brother, didn’t you understand what I said? Just leave, if you don’t want to see blood.”
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“Has the victim been threatening other victims these days? What a strange world.”
Adalbert was really puzzled.
No, I got into a fight with that woman myself, so why are you telling me to step down?
In addition, if they are victims, why are they in trouble with themselves, who are also victims?
So Adalbert just asked the two what they were curious about.
However, it was the brown-haired man’s fist that flew in return.
“You bastard!”
He thought Adalbert was making fun of him, so he blew his fist.
It was so fast that even the red-haired woman didn’t notice.
“Kuuk!”
However, it was the brown-haired man who rolled to the ground.
“This is slow. Neither you nor your friend.”
Adalbert just dodged and stepped on the brown-haired man.
And he couldn’t avoid it, and he just fell awkwardly on the floor.
“You bastard!”
At this, the brown-haired man’s colleague rushed at Adalbert, but he, too, collapsed on the floor looking as ugly as his friend.
“Oops, oops, can we stop? I went out for a walk happily after a long time, but no one would be happy to see blood in a place like this.”
“Hey.”
Adalbert said with the intention of simply stepping aside.
However, the two bullies who saw him overpowering them without any damage heard his words like this.
‘If you don’t do it properly, you will see blood in this place today.’
In the end, the two were completely scared and apologized to Adalbert, and also to the red-haired woman.
The uproar ended with the guards called by the red-haired woman calmly taking them away.
“That, over there… ….”
After all the fuss was over, Adalbert was about to leave, and a red-haired woman spoke to him and grabbed him.
Her face was stained red, as if she had mistaken Adalbert for a priest earlier.