Episode 26.
#26 Episode.
150 Gold.
That was all my gold.
Of course, there were a few gems left, but that amount of money couldn’t last until they were completely settled.
‘I have to endure at least until I can make money…’
What can you do while you can’t even hide your angel wings?
If you do something drastic, you will definitely get wings.
If that happens, I’m sure the emperor will find out my location.
I could never do anything that would expose my wings.
The problem is…
Unlike today, where you can sit down and work with just a computer, the labor force here is the human body.
I did as little as I could.
That’s why I was thinking of selling potions.
My blood can make the best potion.
If you spread word of mouth to people, you can definitely make money.
At least it’s assuming that it gets word of mouth.
I don’t know how long it will take to get there, and if there is no glass bottle to put the potion in, it’s a joke.
So, the price the guild master offered just now meant that it sounded like a thunderbolt to me.
“…”
My arm, which was holding Lucia’s hand, trembled.
I knew that reality was so cold.
However, even if I expected it, I couldn’t help but feel the pain in my bones when I faced it.
Up until now, I might have been living in a dream while chatting with Lucia.
I thought that the world and others would approach me optimistically.
It was an appropriate behavior to say that his head had become a flower garden.
This reality I live in has never been warm to me.
The happiness of being freed from the emperor was what put my colored glasses on.
Now is the time to face reality.
“…I will make a contract.”
“What…?”
Seeing me pick up the contract as if I had made up my mind on something, Lucia shouted in surprise.
“Iris, but…!”
“It can’t be helped. I have to live here.”
“……”
No matter how fraudulent it was, it was inevitable.
Perhaps the guild master suggested this price because he knew that well.
Sigh.
Lucia gnashed her teeth at my words that seemed completely resigned.
Her blue eyes rippled like a stormy sea.
But within.
He said with a deep sigh.
“Iris, if that’s what you mean… I’ll see if the contract is weird. How do you know what that man did?”
“Yes. Thanks.”
“What? It’s Iris’s decision. I also… Have other thoughts.”
After saying that, Lucia seemed to show a small smile, but she soon accepted the contract in my hand.
“Puheh. I didn’t do anything strange to the contract, so don’t worry too much. Because it’s already a business left over. Rather… there must be a down payment, right?”
“…”
I took out a bag containing gold coins instead of Lucia, who was reading the contract while ignoring the guild master’s words.
Kung–!
A bundle full of gold coins was placed on the counter.
“Hoo..!”
“How hot!”
The guests cheered when they saw me like that.
“Hmm…”
Amid such noise, the drunken guild master’s eyes shone viciously.
Indeed.
Are you saying you’re not a guild master for nothing?
Those eyes were like those of a beast glaring at its prey.
The guild master shouted.
“Look!”
“Yes, yes!”
“Come and check it out. Is 150 gold right?”
“Yes!”
At the guild master’s command, a man ran quickly and hurriedly walked away holding a bundle.
Taktak.
Looking at it, the guild master lit a cigarette in his mouth.
At the same time.
“There is no problem with the contract.”
Lucia, who was reading the contract as if lasers were coming out of her eyes, lifted her head.
“There is no provision to be a problem.”
“Really? Thank god.”
I, who was worried about whether there was a problem with the contract, let out a sigh of relief.
At the same time, pure white cigarette smoke gushed out of my face.
“Sup…Hu. Didn’t i tell you It’s already a business that remains.”
His lungs, defenselessly inhaling the smoke, screamed in pain.
My throat was sharp.
It was clearly a very strong cigarette.
“…Are you okay?”
As I held her by the throat and coughed, Lucia looked at me worriedly and said,
I tried to nod her head at that.
“…”
Patting my back, Lucia glared at the guild master.
The eyes of the two bloody men and women collided in the air.
Will there be sparks?
A gaze so intense that it made me think that way.
But that’s only for a while.
The fight between the two ended at the words of a man carrying a bundle.
“Master, verification is complete! But is it 149 gold?”
“What?”
Lucia asked.
“I counted 3 times, but it is 149 gold.”
“Hmm…”
And then, the man put down the bundle.
At that, my expression was stained with futility.
‘Chicken skewers…!’
The cause of trouble was that I bought chicken skewers in the morning.
The chicken skewers, which rolled all over the floor without even eating a few bites, caught my ankle like this.
“……”
My expression started to darken.
At that moment when the thought that maybe I really should be homeless today fills my head.
Feeding.
The guild master smiled and told me.
“All right. I’ll close my eyes for about 1 gold. From now on, the house belongs to you, so you can get raped or starve to death.”
The guild master waved his hand while doing so.
Until the very end, he was a man who really ran to the extreme of unlikability.
“Let’s go.”
Lucia pulled me by the hand.
I didn’t want to be here anymore.
After picking up the contract roughly, Lucia and I got out of the guild like that.
Kung–!
Lucia strongly closed the door of the guild.
I came out holding Lucia’s hand and looked at the blue sky for a while and took a deep breath.
Clear sky without a single cloud.
Ah, I see a rabbit-shaped cloud floating there.
As she gazed at the sky while thinking such empty thoughts, she felt Lucia’s staring gaze beside her.
Then she turned her head and saw Lucia looking at me with her blue eyes sparkling.
“Why?”
I asked Lucia.
Then, Lucia answered with a soft voice.
“Just.”
“Yes.”
I shook my head at her words.
I just saw it.
Well, it could be.
Yes.
“…”
At the same time, an untimely silence came between the two of us.
Under the warm sunlight, the two of us looked into each other’s eyes and sorted out our thoughts.
Looking at the blue eyes immersed in contemplation, I also thought it was pretty.
Feeling the sweat on my hands as we held each other, I thought it was hot.
All the emotions I felt right now passed by me like a kaleidoscope, as if I was being washed away by a flowing river.
As I flowed along the flow of such emotions, my mind arrived somewhere and thought of the days at the academy that flew by like an arrow.
“…”
Now that I think about it, the time I spent at the academy was like a dream, rather than this situation.
It looks like a rabbit-shaped cloud floating in the sky, but I can’t catch it, and I don’t want to catch it again.
Why?
If you go up to catch a cloud and fall, it hurts.
“Puheh.”
As expected of the idea that started without a facade, the conclusion also ended in vain.
But if you say there was no substance in that thought, then that’s not the case again.
Whatever it is, this moment is happiness to me, and it is not a dream, but a reality.
Something like that.
“…?”
Lucia looked at me curiously, probably because of my laughter.
I looked at Lucia like that.
She then smiled bashfully and said.
“Let’s go home.”
“Yes. Let’s go.”
Lucia also smiled brightly like a flower, as if responding to my smile.
So the two of us walked forward, keeping pace with each other.
It was then.
Lucia spoke to me in a mischievous voice.
“Iris.”
“Uh, huh…?”
Whenever a voice like that came out, Lucia would play an outrageous prank.
That’s why my voice trembled a little because I was anxious.
Lick.
Lucia’s little, bright red tongue sticking out licked her lips and at the same time her mouth opened.
“It’s nothing special, just…Would you like some chicken skewers?”
“What…Really??”
My eyes widened at those words.
I was sad that I couldn’t eat a lot of chicken skewers, but I thought I’d buy them!
I hurriedly nodded at her as Lucia changed her words.
Then Lucia laughed and said.
“Okay, okay! I’ll buy it, so don’t do it too much. Hurt your neck.”
“Yes! I will restrain myself a little.”
Although he said so, he was actually a little self-respecting, but the tone of his voice went up as if it would pierce the roof.
* * *
Lucia looked at the little girl sitting in front of her.
The little child was eagerly eating while holding two large chicken skewers in her dainty hands.
It was as lovely as a rabbit digging up and eating a carrot.
“What kind of chicken skewers are so expensive?”
Well well.
“I heard there was a war.”
Well, well, well.
“Puheh. I will buy it often. So eat slowly. Because no one will take it away.”
“Hmm.”
Could it be that the mouth is full of chicken skewers?
Iris, whose cheeks were puffy, shook her head.
Lucia’s face, which held that figure in her eyes, naturally spread a hearty smile.
But that’s only for a while.
Lucia’s face hardened coldly.
This was the moment Iris started focusing on the chicken skewers.
‘That doggie…’
Lucia said she now has her own little house.
So I remembered the face of the guild master who sold Iris’s house.
You’re such a piece of garbage that no matter how many times you chew on it.
‘I’m going to tear you to death.’
The man who lashed out at Iris severely, not even ignoring the daughter of an imperial duke.
Anyway, there was no normal among the guys with peppers.
‘They look like cockroaches.’
How nice it would have been if all the men disappeared and only children like Iris would remain.
Unfortunately, that won’t happen.
The world is overflowing with bug-like men.
It would be nice to live in silence.
Guys like the guild master used to fly in front of me.
Sigh.
His teeth gnashed at the sight of that disgusting face.
In a hurry he wanted to cut off the bastard’s head.
But he had to put up with it.
I can’t show that kind of side in front of Iris.
“After…”
Taking a deep breath, Lucia looked at Iris.
She enjoyed it so much that her mouth was covered in sauce from the chicken skewers.
“Ugh…Is Iris a kid?”
Lucia said playfully.
Then, Iris opened her eyes wide as if she had been electrocuted.
I often react like that when I am told that I am particularly feminine and that I am like a child.
It was a cute reaction.
Why do I keep wanting to bully you?
That’s probably because of Iris’ sound skill that possesses the succubus.
“Stay still.”
Sadism exploded in Lucia’s chest at the sound of Iris’ voice that had already filled her room.
It was a big deal.
First of all, I need to relieve myself a little bit.
Lucia thought so and stretched out her hand.
She wiped the sauce around her iris’ mouth with her thumb.
Then she ran the rest of her index finger across her iris’ lips.
Let the startled Iris open her mouth to see what she is about to say.
Her index finger slipped between them and touched Iris’ tongue.
“Oooh…!”
His soft, warm tongue moved back and forth in bewilderment.
Lucia tapped her tongue with the tip of her fingernail and pressed it again.
Having quenched her thirst for a while, Lucia pulled out her finger.
Oops!
It sounded like that.
Lucia’s index finger shone brightly.
“You, you…!”
Iris trembled as if she was embarrassed, she shouted.
Looking at that, Lucia grinned and said.
“I will eat well.”
Sum.
With her mouth wide open, Lucia placed her thumb and index finger in her mouth.
She then closed her eyes as she savored the taste.
Iris was delicious again today.