212. Touhou, Ishai (complete)
When you drink alcohol, you can’t control your emotions well and get angry. Even more so if you drink too much.
Apart from this, their usual reactions are excessive. To be precise, it seems that my death became a trauma for them, and they became sensitive to trivial things.
Of course, I can accept all of their excessive expressions of affection, but I don’t want them to live with negative emotions.
“Princess Kimei, is there a flower shop nearby?”
I asked while looking at the relationship diagram in the status window.
“…There’s a flower shop, but it wouldn’t be open by this hour. There’s a flower garden managed by the royal family, and if you need flowers, that’s the quickest way.”
“May I please?”
“If it’s your benefactor’s request, you’re welcome. Are you thinking of giving a woman a present?”
“Well… That’s right.”
“I think I know what kind of people you’re talking about. There were some women who couldn’t take their eyes off you at the banquet hall earlier.”
Kim Mei covers her mouth with her sleeve and she smiles lightly.
“You can clearly see that I value my benefactor, so I might have been a little bit mischievous out of jealousy.”
“Did the princess do something?”
“hehehe, benefactor don’t have to know.”
“Please don’t be so naughty. They are precious to me.”
“…Knowing that made me even more envious.”
At my answer, Kim Mei looked away from her and murmured softly. I don’t think she meant to listen, so she didn’t really answer.
As I followed Kimei to the flower garden, the night roads in the palace were quiet and deserted, so I brought up the topic of conversation I had with Surui earlier.
“From what I’ve heard, Princess Kimei seems to have been through a lot of dangerous things since she was a child.”
“Well, it was inevitable. Did your uncle say that?”
“I’ve heard a bit about the history of Ishai.”
“It’s all over now.”
“Aren’t you tired?”
“It was quite fun. I got tired of meeting dark women… Gamaru protected me a lot.”
Kimei walks her way and turns her head back, and then her escort, Gamaru, who has been following her, quietly bows her head.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you more perfectly.”
“Has the escort ever been breached?”
Gamaru’s words made her question, so she asked.
“It wasn’t often, but it happened a few times. Poison was especially difficult to prevent. When I was young, there was a time when I really wanted to eat Western cakes, but all of a sudden, those cakes had poison in them.”
“I must have been upset.”
“I cried a lot. Other than that, when I met ‘Inrang’…”
“Inlang?”
“It’s a story from a few years ago. There was a time when a little boy with long, silver hair broke through the escort and came in front of me.”
“Hey, princess? This is a story I’ve never heard of before…”
Gamaru was taken aback and widened her eyes.
“It’s okay. It’s not dangerous.”
I think I know who you’re talking about.
Inlang, I mean lycanthrope.
There was a time when Kimei was targeted by ‘wild dogs’.
If it was a wild dog, even Gamaru behind her wouldn’t be an opponent.
“I still remember it vividly. A boy who was a lot shorter than me said, ‘I can’t kill a child either.’ And just turned her away.”
After Ki Mei said that, she thrust her face into my ear and said, ‘Of course, the benefactor was the most secretive.’ She whispered something like
“Hmm…”
After hearing the story, I thought of something I needed to do, so I asked Kimei.
“…Would you like me to write you a note?”
After hearing my request, Kimei tilted her head in doubt.
“Simple sentences are enough.”
A wild dog, he always visits me.
But if he’s delayed by a step, it must be after I left Ishai.
So, if I didn’t do this at least, I felt like he would be wasting his time in a pointless place.
You can be sure.
Because wild dogs are that stupid.
So it would be better to use this method.
“As long as it’s not just a note exchanged between lovers… I can write it.”
We are not lovers.
Should we call it a master-servant relationship in the not-too-distant future?
Anyway, considering the characteristics of a guy with a good nose, he must have something containing my ‘body odor’.
***
After that, I went to the flower garden to get her flowers, put a note written by Kim Mei in my arms and went looking for them.
‘I don’t think I’ll stay at the dorm…’
The first thing I found was Kaen.
As soon as she got out of the palace, she was touched by her presence.
I went straight to the place where I could feel Kaen’s presence, and there, a girl with pink hair was squatting with her knees bent.
“…Miss Kaen?”
“Uh, cadet Jeto. Hee hee…”
“What are you doing in a place like this?”
“I was looking for… Cadet Zetto.”
While she was talking, she got up from her seat within her hiccup, and she grabbed my sleeve and she smiled broadly.
“Caught…”
The strong smell of alcohol wafted from her breath as her face was reddish.
“Let’s go back to the inn.”
“Cadet Zeto… You came to meet the princess, right?”
“…That’s right.”
“Because I’m not a princess or a nobleman, but a commoner… Are you saying you won’t see me even if I help you?”
“You never said that?”
“Are Cadet Zeto looking for an opportunity to rise in status…?!”
Kaen asked, frowning.
She didn’t seem to be asking seriously, it felt like she was whining at her drunkenness.
“……”
“It’s okay… Cadet Jeto, don’t be alarmed. My grandfather is… Almost… Ugh…”
I hurriedly covered her mouth with my hand.
[ Grandpa? ]
Sierra, who heard this at the same time, had a question.
I haven’t told Sierra yet that she is a disciple of the Sword Saint. I’m worried that they don’t get along well these days, but she was in trouble if Sierra caught fire.
“Puha… It’s suffocating… Cadet Jeto… But this kind of play isn’t bad…”
Caen, who had managed to escape my silence, smiled lightly with her eyes relaxed.
What kind of play is that?
I don’t know that. Scared.
Soon Kaen stumbles over her body and hugs me.
“……”
Kaen fell asleep right away.
Of course, it was my job to clean up after her.
She carried her on her back and immediately set out in search of the rest of her women.
The next discovery was glass.
The glass was found in a tavern in the city.
Yuri, her red hair that was finely braided and slightly tousled, was screaming and screaming among the men at the tavern.
“…But he’s still flirting with the princess…!”
Let’s shout like Yuri is angry.
“For such a beautiful woman… What a wretch…”
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A middle-aged man who was drinking with her sympathized with her.
But as soon as she hears that sound, Yuri gets up from her seat and grabs the man by the collar.
“Don’t call me a bad guy…!”
“Go, why suddenly but…”
“Something…Something must have happened… Zeto isn’t such a bad guy…”
“Until a while ago, you… I get it. I get it. You’re such a strong woman.”
“Hmm…”
It seems like you made a lot of drinking friends while you haven’t seen each other for a while. Even after the banquet ended, Yuri seemed to want to drink more of her.
“So what does he look like…?”
She asked as if she was curious about another man. In response, Yuri, who drank a large glass of her drink, put her glass down and opened her mouth.
“I have the same black hair as you guys.”
“Ohhh… Are you from the East?”
I wondered if the men around her were aiming for her drunk Yuri, but it wasn’t like that, she just wanted to hear something interesting.
“I don’t know that. They don’t tell me that well. And I always cover my eyes with white bandages…”
“A white bandage?”
“Ah, am I blind…”
“And… And…”
“…”
“…He’s filthy handsome.”
“Well, if a woman like you is completely infatuated, then of course it is.”
The man who just said that makes eye contact with me.
“Oh…”
I turned to the man, put my finger on his lips and hissed.
I wanted to hear more about what you were talking about.
Then Yuri, who has not yet found me, continues to talk.
“What are you doing if you’re handsome. That’s how much bugs attract… Jetto doesn’t even care about me. I took care of him that way…”
Yuri took care of me a lot.
She is always grateful to her.
“Yeah, but didn’t I say that I’m closest to you? I’m sure she has a heart to think of you…”
The men who noticed my existence told Yuri not to make things worse.
“That guy…? Then she got engaged to me…!”
Yuri screamed as if he couldn’t hear her.
“Shall we get engaged… Then…?”
She asked softly as she grabbed her shoulder.
“Jetto…?”
Soon after, Yuri slowly turns her head away and turns into her terrified face as if she had seen her ghost.
“Uh…”
Yuri then collapses as if fainting.
Could she have been drunk or fainted from surprise?
Whatever happens, she will have to deal with the aftermath on her own.
Won’t you say something like alcohol is a problem?
“…We’ll pay for the drink, lady.”
“Are you really okay? If it’s money…”
“It’s fine. I didn’t drink too much. The conversation was fun…”
“…Thank you.”
I bowed my head to her drinking buddies for her one night in the glass, thanked her, and lifted her glass.
‘It might be a bit daunting to move two people at the same time…’
It seems like I’ll have to carry it on my shoulder, but I thought it would be difficult if I poured out Tora.
After recovering Yuri safely, I thought I needed to stop by the dorm quickly before heading out to find Eisel, so I went to the dorm first.
The fortunate thing was that I could feel Eisel’s presence in the dorm.
The bad news is that the only place I could feel Eisel’s presence was in my room.
When I opened the door and entered the room, I could see Eisel holding her lap.
“…The load looks heavy.”
“Miss Eisel… Isn’t this my room?”
How did she get in when she didn’t even have her key to her?
“Should I leave if it’s inconvenient…?”
“No. I think we’ll have to sleep these ladies here anyway…”
I said, carefully laying Kaen and Yuri on the bed.
Eisel was quiet and gentle.
She wasn’t being rowdy, or being childish.
Because her emotion shown in the relationship chart was ‘depression’.
I don’t know how she became depressed.
But I knew how to solve it.
I took out her prepared flower from her arms and held it out to her.
“This is… What is…?”
“It’s a gift. It reminded me of Miss Eisel.”
“Gift…”
“It is a flower called Wolhyangcho. It is said that it was named so because you can smell the scent of the flower even from a distance of a thousand miles. Just like you can see the moon from anywhere when you look up at the night sky.”
Eisel accepts the moon scented candle and looks at it quietly. She suddenly thinks of something and takes out her notebook.
“…Thank you.”
Eisel scribbled something on her notebook, looked away from me, and smiled lightly.
Receive flowers as a gift from Jeto.
Maybe she put a check mark on that sentence in her list.
***
“Ah… It’s the head…”
“Looks like you drank too much, tsk…”
“By the way, where did Zeto go again?”
Yuri, who was holding the ice she received from Orpheel on her forehead, looks around to find Zeto.
“…Haven’t you left yet?”
Jeto arrived just in time and wiped away his sweat while breathing heavily.
After finishing all of Yishai’s short but long schedule, she was scheduled to leave for her next destination, Hwaguk.
The train station was crowded with cadets who had to use the train again.
“I didn’t start… Cadet Jetto, what about your coat?”
I couldn’t see the jet-black coat that Zeto was wearing every time.
“I think it was… Lost.”
Uncharacteristically, Jeto scratches his head, saying that he has lost something.
“Wasn’t it an expensive coat? Shall I tell the instructor?”
“No, that’s fine. I can’t just keep the cadets on their schedule. Court… I don’t know if I’ll ever find them again.”
“I don’t know when I’ll return to Ishai, so what’s the point of finding it…”
Yuri tilted her head, not understanding, but Jeto just smiled as if nothing was wrong.
“Well, when we get back… I’ll give Zeto a suitable coat.”
“Oh, so the coat is a gift?”
Jetto whispered to Yuri with a mischievous smile.
“I want you to pretend I didn’t hear that…”
***
After that, around the time the cadets of Innocence Academy were leaving on the train for Hwaguk.
A silver-haired boy arrives in Ishai by a short haircut.
Behind the silver-haired boy’s back was a red coffin that was not befitting the boy’s size.
The boy carrying the coffin sniffed at him without a hint of difficulty.
Instantly, put the coffin down on the ground, open the empty coffin, and smell the inside of the coffin.
“…It smells like him.”
The boy then gave a sinister smile.
“Keuhehehe… I can see 50,000 gold right in front of my eyes.”
The boy was delighted.
Until I read the coat I found while following the reverberation of the target and the note written inside the coat.
“…Come to Hwaguk…?”
The boy reads the contents of the note and smells the coat he was holding once again.
“I’m sure his clothes are…”
The body odor of the target that was subtly wafting from inside the coffin and the body odor remaining on the coat were exactly the same.
A normal human would not be able to distinguish the smell, but it was different in the case of a boy.
“Did I miss it?”
The boy threw his coat into the coffin with an annoyed face and scratched his head.
“…So where is Hwaguk?”
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