172 – 172 – Vacation Starts #2
172 – Vacation Starts Now #2
Nike got up from his seat.
And then he clenched his fists.
“Do you know that you can’t hit me if I tell you to hit me?”
Nike seemed to have a big resentment in his heart in many ways.
It is eating away at Nike like a flame.
Seruk.
Nike pulls his tightly clenched fist back with all his might.
“… … .”
Rebekah closed her eyes like a detached person.
However, Nike did not release his clenched fist and relaxed.
And then he slumps down on the floor.
“… It’s stupid.”
Then, he hugged his knees with his hands and buried his face between them.
The two-piece hair, which had been loosened due to the fight with Rebekah, falls down and wraps around Nike’s body like a flower bud.
“… I thought it would get better if I got angry. Rather, I became unaware.”
Nike seemed confused in many ways.
There is a word called gale-force anger.
It means typhoons and whirlpools that run wild.
It was a word often used to describe puberty.
Adolescence in full swing is like a whirlpool in a shaken cup. Everything is confused.
In such a situation, going through difficult problems makes it harder for a person to maintain composure.
The old me was like that.
Nike was just like that.
After a fight with Rebekah, Nike returned to the club room and lay there blankly.
“Nike.”
Either I call Nike’s name.
match-.
or clap.
Even if I tickle the soles of my feet, there is absolutely no reaction like a person who has gone crazy.
“Hee hee hee!”
It has a reaction.
Nike, who came to his senses, said as he hid his tiny feet inside a thin blanket.
“… Don’t tickle me!”
“I get it.”
After a moment of silence, Nike speaks quietly and calmly.
“Me, in the past. I had a vague thought that I should get revenge. Now that I’m in that situation, I don’t know what to do.”
“is it.”
“Even so, I cannot forgive Count de Winter.”
“That I agree with. Nike, it’s no longer just your revenge. The damage we suffered because of the Count in the City of Flowers is enormous.”
It was a kind of debt.
The rule is that debt must be paid.
The words that true revenge is forgiveness, or that revenge only breeds revenge, so we must stop?
I can never stand such lukewarm things.
“You have to pay for what you suffered. That way the world won’t look down on you.”
“But… . I have no power right now… . I felt it in the city of flowers. Now I… . Even if your parents’ enemies are right in front of you, you’re a person who can’t do anything… .”
Nike was sluggish.
Then he jumps up.
“So, I made up my mind. I will become a great person… !”
“A great man… ?”
Arnoi, who came to the club room before he knew it, tilted his head.
At Arnoi’s question, Nike speaks even louder.
“They say this Ludens has a crown… ! I, I will find it and become a very big and great person! So, I am punishing all the people who have bullied me!”
indeed.
It was a great plan in its own way.
Arnoy was also very impressed with this great plan.
“Indeed, if you find the crown, you can become greater than anyone else… ! However, countless people explored the island to find the crown, but they failed… .”
“That’s it… . i have a way This is it.”
Nike rummaged through his pockets and pulled out something.
It was a fragment of a broken mirror, something familiar to me.
“My father said this… . They said it was a very valuable item. It’s a place that tells you the location of an incredibly awesome treasure… . This will tell you where the crown is.”
“Ah-! That’s pretty awesome… !”
Arnoy was genuinely impressed.
I was surprised too.
A treasure that can find the location of the crown.
Did such an item exist?
“Nike, can you tell us something like that?”
I asked about Nike’s decision.
Then, Nike looked at her face through the shards of the broken mirror and said as if she had made up her mind.
“I think I can trust you guys. Originally, I wouldn’t have told anyone. If you guys… .”
is it.
Nike seems to have a lot of trust in us.
Of course, I already knew how to find the crown without that mirror.
If you put your mind to it, you can find it right now.
It’ll take some time, though.
But there was a reason I didn’t bother looking for it.
I don’t know about Nike, but that ‘crown’ isn’t even a very sweet item.
I said.
“Nike, it would be nice to find that crown. We want to take revenge on our own. at least that’s what i think If you borrow the power of something else big, you will only end up in debt again.”
“Is that so… ?”
Nike looked at the mirror fragment in her hand.
And then, “That’s right. And in the first place, this piece of mirror… . It’s actually not perfect because of the lack of fragments.”
It’s an item that can only be completed by collecting all the pieces.
Then Arnoi asks.
“Does Chef Victor know how to punish Count de Winter?”
“Yeah-.”
There are many ways.
It’s your job to think about which of them will be the most effective and vicious.
Are you sending the cursed item that exists in Ludens by parcel?
There’s something like the “monkey hand” that grants a curse state to the owner.
… No, that’s too merciful.
While I was thinking for a while, Arnoi trembled.
“This Arnoi, the disgrace you suffered at that time… . It is something I will never forget for the rest of my life… ! The nymph’s resentment… ! From today, whenever the Count sleeps, mosquitoes will buzz in his ears… !”
It’s a terrible curse.
I don’t know if it will work.
“Let’s eat first.”
Lunch hour.
Nike came to his senses after eating the ramen I cooked.
“Come to think of it, Victor. I saw a strange article. I heard that Miss Victoria is engaged to someone in the Seonghwangcheong? What the hell is this story about?”
It seems like you now have enough time to be curious about other people’s stories.
At Nike’s question, I just shook my head.
“I do not know either. Maybe even Victoria didn’t know.”
Was it the day I returned to Ludens? He remembered that Victoria had a new fiancé.
“I thought it was Eclair, the priest of the Holy Emperor.”
I remember it because it’s a name like bread.
It’s chocolate flavored bread.
“Perhaps the engagement was arbitrarily arranged by the family. That’s what noble ladies are like.”
I heard that chaebols in modern society also marry for the sake of their companies.
Not to mention, the sons and daughters of nobles are just tools to increase the power of the family.
Especially for a man like Cain who has no affection for his children.
Then Arnoi asked.
“Come to think of it, I heard that Manager Nike is actually the daughter of a great family… ! Could it be that Captain Nike was also engaged when he was young… ?”
“me? I didn’t have that… . In my childhood, I got sick a lot… . I was lying in bed most of the time.”
To think Nike was sick when he was young.
It was a story that couldn’t be imagined when looking at the lively and healthy Nike now.
“By the way, there was a boy who might become engaged if he got well. He was my father’s friend’s son… . I’ve only seen her face once or so.”
Nike, too, has been talked about like an engagement since childhood.
sneak
For some reason, Nike seemed to be looking at my complexion.
Do you have anything to say to me?
“what?”
“what?”
When I ask, he tilts his head and asks back.
I wondered if there was something on my face, so I touched it, but it was neat as usual.
* * *
around two in the afternoon.
A few “snow lilies” were planted in pots, so even in the summer the club room was cool as if an air conditioner was turned on. Yes, relaxing in a cool room in summer is healing.
Seruk. Seruk.
Nike is brushing Arnoi’s long hair with a comb.
-Gureureung, gurreung… .
A situation where Kyeongkyong is snoring pleasantly on a soft cushion.
I don’t know how spiders snore, but anyway.
Boo Woo-.
At that time, a queen bee flew in from somewhere and held out a cup held in her leg to me.
“Is it honey? thanks.”
ㅡBee.
I also put ice in it.
In the hot summer, I enjoy my leisure time at my cool house while drinking iced honey water.
To be honest, I like this better than when I went to the mainland by boat.
I guess I’m a homebody that can’t be helped.
But it’s also relaxing until today.
Starting tomorrow, I’ll be busy with this and that.
Because I have to pay back what I fucked the Count.
How long did it take to acquire the “Monkey Hand”?
I think it would be nice if you could send me something like a stone mask.
“But, are you really doing it?”
Nike asked.
“What?”
“I mean engagement. Miss Victoria is engaged. How was that Eclair? Aren’t the priests of the Seonghwangcheong really great?”
“He is not a great person. But it’s a Victorian. There’s no way he’s going to be obedient to something like an engagement now.”
Wouldn’t you reject it right away?
It wouldn’t be strange if they broke up.
So that evening.
While I was making dinner, someone knocked on the club room.
smart.
Wondering if Nike, who had just left, had come to grab dinner, I opened the door, and my eyes were dazzled by silvery, shiny hair.
“What, why do you frown when you see a person?”
“It is dazzling.”
“It’s not my fault.”
“That’s right. So, Victoria. What are you doing here at this hour? If you’re thinking about getting dinner, I’ll get paid.”
“… … .”
through.
Victoria’s eyes narrowed.
Then he rushed into the club room and sat down on a chair. Again, without asking, he started talking on his own.
“… You know I got engaged, right?”
“Yeah, roughly.”
“house owner… , It’s an engagement that my father arranged at will. Just like yours.”
“Yeah, well, it looks like that.”
I reduced the ramen I just cooked to Victoriaka’s share.
The sirens gave me a lot of dried fish, which is important for making the soup.
「Siren-style seafood ramen: The cool soup is excellent!」
meal begins.
When the sound of chopsticks moving and the sound of flipping noodles followed.
I asked.
“So what are you going to do?”
“… … .”
Instead of answering, Victoria shut her mouth.
It seemed like he was staring at the face reflected in the soup in his bowl for a long time.
About ten seconds later, he opens his mouth.
“I don’t know.”
“I don’t know. It’s a carefree story. Last time I got engaged to something I didn’t want. Are you going to obediently obey him when he asks you to get engaged again to a priest you don’t know where he came from?”
“… … .”
Victoria frowned and glanced at me.
“I really hate you.”
“I know. That you hate me.”
“… I really hate it.”
how much do you hate me
Negative likability can’t penetrate the bottom, so it’s heading to the inner core.
Who as a man likes to be hated by a woman?
How much more does an S-class beautiful girl in school who is popular and friendly with everyone like Victoria hate only me?
It’s hard to bear this.
So prepared.
“Victoria. take it.”
“… What.”
What I presented to Victoria was a ring made of flowers.
It is a [Rosemary Ring] made by weaving grass and flowers.
「Rosemary Ring: Slightly increases luck. The language of flowers is memory.”
“This… .”
Victoria’s expression relaxed a little.
I was able to confirm once again that the liking increase item I knew was working well here.
“What, a ring at this timing? you now–”
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Just as Victoria was about to say something, the door suddenly opened and someone came in.
The guy was a priest with black long hair tied back in a ponytail.
The guy walks in and says, looking around.
“My fiancée, Miss Victoria, you are in such a shabby place. Were you looking for it? Rather, what is this?”
Eclair, the priest of the Imperial Palace, looked at the [Rosemary Ring] in Victoria’s hand.
Then, after looking at Victorica’s face and me, didn’t he snatch the flower ring and crush it with his hands?
“For a lady as beautiful and noble as the sun in the sky, a ring like this is not suitable for children’s play. If there is anything that suits you, wouldn’t it be a ring made of platinum and garnet like this?”
Seruk.
What was taken out of Eclair’s pocket was a ring case.
The shiny ring inside it looks quite expensive.
“Originally, it was supposed to be handed over at the engagement ceremony to be held shortly after. Things have changed. Lady Victoria, please accept my heart for the sake of peace in the world.”
“engagement ceremony?”
Eclair said when I asked with a puzzled feeling.
“Yes, it is an engagement ceremony, Victor. I would like you to come as a guest too. It will open brilliantly, befitting Miss Victoria’s beauty and brilliance. We will do it on Ludens Island.”
“But before that, I have something to say. This is private property and you are not allowed to enter. And you destroyed the ring I worked hard for. Therefore, only one hit.”
After clenching my fists, I hit the bamboo tube of the priest Eclair.
puck.
“Wow!”
The eclair falls out with a loud scream.
“He looks pretty and even screams like a girl. Is it running properly?”
“What, what?”
The boy stumbled over and wiped his mouth with his hand in a white glove, embarrassed.
“Blood, blood… !? You bastard, Victor! me again… !”
“… Again?”
“I think I am the crybaby Eclair back then… !? Don’t you think I’m still the shorty that used to buy your bread! I can’t forgive you!”
Eclair’s hand began to carry a strange energy.
Is it the sacred magic of the priests?
It’s probably «Holy Light».
Are you really sane?
Using such a huge magic in the club?
-Hooong… .
Kyeongkong, who had been sleeping peacefully, trembled as if feeling fear.
Unable to watch the tyranny of an outsider any longer, I put my hand on the sword at my waist.
That seems to have offended Priest Eclair even more.
“Are you dare to draw a sword against the priest of Seonghwangcheong? Viktor, I never thought you’d be such an idiot. great. Let’s put an end to the long-standing bad relationship.”
It’s a really touch-and-go situation.
“Until there. Everyone stop.”
Victoria opened her mouth.
The guy approached Eclair and held out his hand.
“Let’s get out of here, Eclair. It’s something you just have to be patient with.”
The priest, who had been openly hostile, withdrew his hostility at Victoria’s touch.
Then he looks at me and gives me a bad-ass smile.
“See, Miss Victoria picked me, not you.”
You look elated for some reason.
swish
With that, all the visitors left the club room.
The only thing left in the seat was me and the dog.
-Hooong… .
“Yeah, I got excited uncharacteristically for me.”
reflect on
But the Eclair guy was unlucky.
How dare you break the ring I’ve been working on for five hours.
“… … .”
I retrieved the remains of the ring from the floor.
“Can you fix it?”
When I was picking up petals like that.
I found something strange on the floor.
“This… .”
It was a small pouch.
Will it be about the size of my palm?
“what.”
When I opened it, everything from women’s cosmetics such as lipstick to a strange handkerchief came out.
No, it’s not a handkerchief, it’s women’s underwear with lace.
There are also women’s products.
Among them, this was the one I cared about the most.
ㅡGiyiing.
“What the hell is this strange vibration?”
I don’t know.
As a deceased person in the game, I can’t figure out the identity of this item.
“Are these Victorian items?”
No, there are a lot of traces of use in various ways, but it doesn’t smell like peaches at all.
Then there is only one culprit left.
“Eclair you bastard.”
-Hooong… ?
“I could never have thought he was a pervert who liked dressing up as a woman. The only pervert who likes to dress as a woman is the only one who wears something like this as a man. Somehow even the screams sounded like perverts.”
– Kreureung… !
“Yes, it is as you said. But after all, these things must be returned to their owners.”
Such a perverted tool is in my club room.
It is unacceptable.