131 – Delinia – 5
“It’s fruit dressed in sugar! welcome!”
“It is a statue that drives away bad luck~ Give it to your children as a gift!”
“You’re a cool elf brother! How about a gift of flowers to your lover?”
“Aren’t you, Mr. Kiril, who lives at the bottom of the hill? Everyone in the neighborhood knows you’re over 200 years old, so who’s wrong!”
“Shut up, damn kid!”
As soon as I entered the village, perhaps because it was a festival, a very noisy scene unfolded.
“and! It’s Euglia’s Halloween festival, it’s been a while since I’ve known you!”
Rosé jumps and shouts as if she is excited about the beautiful scenery in front of her eyes.
Ella, who was watching the scene from the side, let out a sigh.
“Sister, you came with me once before you entered the academy, right? It’s been a long time since I came to the once-a-year festival… … .”
“It’s been a while for me, right? Do you know how busy I was?!”
“… … Do I have a clue! Is it because you left me here and entered the academy alone?”
“… … brother… … retort?!”
“Where did you learn that again!”
“You don’t have to know Ella! now! Gregory! Tequila! Demonic! Go quickly!”
Rose takes my hand and leads me into the village.
A lantern emitting orange light, a pumpkin lantern made by digging out the inside of a pumpkin, stores on both sides along the road, and even the appearance of children and adults dressed up in various ways.
It was truly a festival.
“Goodbye everyone!”
Rose suddenly looked around and waved her arms around.
While I was taken aback by Rosé’s sudden action, the people around me started looking this way.
“I thought it was Miss Ella, but judging by her voice and behavior, it seems to be Miss Rose.”
“Oh my, Roger. Did you dye it too? Are you back?”
“Roger! long time no see!”
“hehehe, it’s been a while, everyone~”
At first, I thought that Rosé suddenly greeted everyone here and there, but more than I thought, the people around me greeted me as if I was familiar with them.
It seemed that the people on this side took Rosé’s behavior for granted.
“Oops. our rose. Look how skinny it is! How hard did you go to the academy?”
“there! Bring some chicken skewers! Our Rosé-nim is so skinny!”
And soon, the crowds start pouring in. Receiving the food shared by the people around her, Rosé happily puts the food into her mouth.
“hehehe, thank you everyone~”
Rosé holds both hands full of the food that is handed down to her. In the process, it was natural for the hand holding me to fall off.
“Rosé, were you originally this popular in your hometown?”
“yes? Of course~ I am Rosé!”
As we look at Rosé with suspicious eyes, Ella follows us and gives an additional explanation.
“Since I was a child, I have been a trouble maker in the village. Because of that, adults like unnie a little more.”
… … It must have felt like a troublemaker idol in the neighborhood.
“Oh, Ella-sama too? Miss Ella. Try this!”
“Ella. You are beautiful today.”
“Ella-nim, did you come to play with Rosé-nim?”
And soon, the attention is focused on Ella.
I thought it was only Rosé, but it seemed that the pair of sisters were in the same position as idols in the village.
“Rosé and Ella… … . It’s popular.”
“I mean.”
I thought it was unreasonable to go around with guys in such a state.
“I guess I’ll just leave those guys there and look around.”
“… … yes. There doesn’t seem to be any room to intervene.”
“Let’s take a tour of the village by ourselves. however… … What about Demonic?”
While talking with Tequila, she realized that the Demonic, who had been clinging to her side all this time, was gone.
“Demonic-nim said he was meeting someone he knew and was away for a while.”
“… … Does Demonic know someone?”
“Yes, I don’t know the details because you didn’t say who exactly you were going to meet.”
“Then we should go around together.”
“yes… … . Maybe the two of you are in that situation… … .”
Saying that, Tequila glanced in the direction where Rosé and Ella were. Still surrounded by numerous crowds, the two were frantically receiving greetings from the people around them.
No, come to think of it, have I ever been with tequila?
When I met tequila, rosé was usually with me, but rarely, no. virtually none
… … What should I say at a time like this? What should we go see?
hmm… … .
“Would you like to go smoke a cigarette?”
“Ah, yes. It was a car that I wanted to smoke.”
“I can go over there and smoke.”
Just then, a place with no one on one side of the village caught my eye, and I pointed to it. Cigarette butts on the floor. Again, the way to find a smoking place in this situation was to look carefully at the floor.
I took out a cigar I had put in my inside pocket, cut off the end, and held it in my mouth when I saw Tequila, who was staring at me with a restless gaze while holding a cigarette in his mouth.
“… … It looks like you left the fire inside.”
“okay?”
Since the index finger was still on fire, light the tequila tobacco.
Tequila, tilting his head slightly, receives the fire.
Whoa. Tequila exhaled smoke and opened her mouth as she looked towards Rosé and Ella, who could still hear the laughter.
“You look happy.”
“It is a festival. Aren’t there festivals in your hometown?”
“Hometown, you mean?”
As soon as the word “hometown” comes out, Tequila’s expression rapidly darkens.
“Yes, I don’t remember. Rather, the festival came today for the first time.”
Have you been to a festival for the first time?
How did Tequila survive? In the past, there was no character using the surname Croft, so it is not even predictable.
Come to think of it, did Tequila say that she was alone until Rose started talking to her?
“Tequila. let’s go.”
“yes?”
After throwing his cigar on the ground, he stepped on it and reached for tequila.
“Isn’t it the first festival you enjoy? Shouldn’t we enjoy it properly?”
Tequila suddenly grabs my hand. He took her with him to the middle of the festival and looked around. A booth with a familiar appearance caught my eye.
“Do you know how to throw a ball?”
“Are you throwing a ball?”
Upon entering the booth, the owner, who had put a ball a little smaller than a fist in a wooden plate, stood up and smiled.
“They are a good couple. Are you trying to play a game? There are 4 fairy tales, but since you are such a beautiful couple, please give me only 3 fairy tales.”
“Come on, a couple. It’s not like that.”
Leaving the embarrassed tequila behind, I handed the owner three fairy tales from his pocket.
“Let’s play a game.”
I’m offering a discount, but do I have to refuse it? I immediately handed the bucket handed over to the owner to Tequila.
“All you have to do is hit the wooden cups piled up over there and knock them down. It’s a simple rule. owner. What about the product?”
“Yes, if you defeat all of them, we will give you a leaf from the World Tree, and if you defeat 3, the dolls here. One is a collection of pretty stones that I diligently collected.”
One just wraps up what can be said to be trash.
“I see. Tequila. Is there a product you want?”
“uh… … . Pretty stones are enough for me.”
Even as she said that, Tequila kept her eyes on the doll. I wondered what I was looking at, but my eyes were fixed on the cute white ghost doll.
is it a doll
“Why don’t you throw it first? Because there are three balls.”
“All right.”
Tequila holding a ball lightly and looking at the cups stacked in a pyramid shape.
First of all, she is also a student at the academy. If it’s her, those cups are enough—-
“Eight.”
A ball that goes over and hits the wall.
“Oh, that’s too bad.”
The owner, who was looking at the scene, exaggeratedly sighed.
“… … It doesn’t fit well. Let’s do it one more time.”
Tequila looked at the cups more carefully than before. The ball thrown this time will surely draw a trajectory and fly towards the cup───
“oh my. It’s a waste.”
As they approached, the trajectory bent significantly, and it crashed into the wall again.
“sorry. It seems that it is not as easy as I thought.”
After failing twice, Tequila backed away with her shoulders drooping.
“No, can I throw the remaining one?”
“… … please.”
I held the one remaining ball in the bucket and looked in the direction of the stack of cups. Let’s concentrate quietly and feel the flow of air in front of us.
I sensed that something alien existed between the cup and me.
Judging from my experience and the flow of air so far, I was convinced that it was a spirit that was disturbing us.
If so, I’ll just have to deal with it my way.
“Master.”
“yes. Gentleman Nari.”
“If you don’t want to see the sylph return to the spirit realm, you’d better get rid of it.”
“… … yes?”
Leaving behind the owner who was riding a horse, he took a perfect pitching stance and threw it towards the cup with all his might.
At the same time, the shards of the cup that fell and broke. The ball shattered the cup and flew out, breaking the wall of the store.
“Oh, I broke three. The prize for defeating three was a doll, right?”
“… … yes? Ah yes!”
Pick up the ghost doll that was on the stall and hand it to Tequila.
“I don’t have a hobby of collecting dolls, so you’d better have one.”
Tequila accepts the doll I gave her with a bewildered expression. Soon, the corner of Tequila’s mouth went up slightly as she looked at the doll in her hand.
“… … really. thank you.”
Tequila nods and bows her head while hugging the doll.
“It wasn’t a big deal, so there’s no need to thank you.”
Like that, when I was hiding my embarrassment and telling Tequila that.
“Ahh!! Gregory and tequila! Everyone is playing without us!”
Rosé, who was holding both hands full of food from behind, started running toward me.
“Let me play too!”
“Ro, Rosé. If you fall while carrying something like that, you will be seriously injured!”
Tequila shouts as she watches Rosé rushing towards her. However, Rosé had already arrived right in front of him.
“Huh, I don’t fall because I have excellent motor skills. however… … Tequila. Are you holding a doll you haven’t seen before?”
Rosé asks a question while looking at the doll in Tequila’s arms.
“Ah, Gregory-sama won.”
“Ahh! You’re doing this without me! I’m good at throwing balls too! 1st prize… … The leaves of the world tree? oh, that’s not good… … . Let’s go do something else!”
“sister! What if you leave me alone!”
“Ah, Ella! Let’s go over there!”
“Sister profit!”
“As expected, since we’re together again, it gets noisy in an instant.”
“So it is.”
Like that, the time with Tequila was over in an instant.
Well, maybe it was because it was fun.
“and! Ella! The best food in the world, eat a lot! Let’s go do that!”
“Before that, do something with the food in your hand first!”
“Then Ella, listen for a second!”
“I-I have a lot too! Wow!”
“… … It’s a festival.”
Tequila, who was watching the two of them, opens her mouth.
“It’s interesting.”
I glanced to the side and saw Tequila smiling at Ella and Rosé.
… … Until now, Tequila, who has always maintained an expressionless expression and can only occasionally see the corner of her mouth rising, smiles. I too smile at that mysterious sight.
“I mean.”
yeah, that’s what makes it fun
Festivals are supposed to be fun.