212. year-end banquet
“What, when did you prepare all of that?”
After an audience with the king, I returned to the room and asked Elise as I undid the tie I was wearing around my neck. Then Elise replied with a playful laugh.
“How was it? Were you very surprised?”
“Really awesome.”
I didn’t know Eris and other people would pour out such excellent numbers. Elise reached out to Bertia, who followed, and the two of them joined hands.
“Well done. The operation is a success.”
“I will never forget the look on Daniel’s surprised face.”
“her.”
If I was openly deceived like this, even if they made fun of me, I would feel nothing but stupidity. And besides, it wasn’t an unpleasant trick, it was a comforting prank.
People rushed in from behind Bertia.
The King of Phrygia sent us out saying that he needed to discuss it with his vassals, so everyone except for Raizel, the beast king, was pushed into the guest room.
“Why me…”
Ares grumbled, asking if he had to reveal himself like this. The other day, when he told me it would be the next apocalypse, I remember half crying.
“It can’t be helped. I had to let my father know that we had been preparing so well.”
Elise was right.
Rather than simply going and saying that there is a disaster, it was much more reliable to say who was the disaster and that we had come.
Ares didn’t seem to like it.
At that time, Coolica, who occupied the largest seat in the room, walked forward and said. He was sniffing and frowning oddly.
“Daniel MacLean. The situation in the country of beastmen was exactly as you said. A prisoner named Hobaek revolted with a grudge against the death of his daughter.”
“right?”
Until he left, he was so dubious that he didn’t believe it, and then Coolica nodded with a more relaxed look.
“Thanks to that, I was able to take responsibility for what I did. I will believe your words that the Goddess of Time told me what to do next.”
I also gained the trust of Coolika. When I stretched out my hand out of pride for no reason, he too smiled and grabbed it.
“It’s comfortable to talk to you.”
“Let’s have a drink or something. There are so many things I want to talk to you about.”
“Is it a masterpiece? It’s good.”
“If you drink, you can’t miss a dwarf again!”
When it comes to alcohol and weapons, the dwarf Hot-Sim Bellok, who is dying again, intervenes.
Being imprisoned in a country of prisoners, I couldn’t drink or eat properly, so my bulging stomach was swollen.
Since it’s the capital of the kingdom anyway, I raised my expectations that there would be many good bars nearby, but Rin peeked out from behind Coolica and said.
“Daniel is still old enough to drink.”
“ah……”
Come to think of it, yes.
I was still old enough to not drink.
“Your mental age can be considered an adult, so how can it not be?”
“Of course not.”
Rin answered firmly.
Then the two people who asked me to have a drinking party together in front of me chuckle.
“I wasn’t even old enough to make a masterpiece.”
“Shut up! Drink orange juice next to you!”
“……”
As I sighed and grumbled, Rin slowly approached me. She looks at me here and there, and at the end she closes her eyes and tilts her head and asks.
“Are you okay now?”
“uh?”
“You made me feel uncomfortable. suddenly too. So I was still a little worried about what to do with it, but it seems to be okay now.”
“……”
As I kept my mouth shut for a moment and looked at Rin’s bright expression, my hand went to her cheek without realizing it.
“Uh?”
Stretching out my cheeks and feeling her touch, I gave a small smile.
“it’s okay.”
Letting go, Rin nodded as if it was okay as long as she ran her hand over her cheek.
And last.
Eris, who had been staring blankly at Rin from behind, suddenly came to her senses as if she had been hit by something, and approached.
“Daniel, long time no see.”
“Well, I’m glad you’re okay. I was very worried.”
I replied with a smile to Eris as well, but she wiggled her fingers as if something was dissatisfied, but I forced myself to turn around and deliberately avoided the conversation.
“For now, your Majesty will not be able to draw any conclusions. So let’s all get some rest. Fatigue is no joke when you come by train.”
“Ha, the wagon was useless.”
Hassim Bellock, a former artisan, shakes his head violently and kicks his tongue.
“I heard there are groups of people who give up their emotions to kill their enemies. That wagon was just that. I gave up a lot just for speed.”
“Thanks to you, I was able to come quickly, but it was brutal.”
Eris, who lives in harmony with nature, also helps by saying that he doesn’t like the Cheongeuk Railway. Elise, who was no different than the owner, shrugged her shoulders and didn’t bother answering.
Because there was no other car that was that great.
“If there is a call, I and Elysee can come, so I think it would be good to prepare a place for everyone to take a break?”
When I told Bertia, she said yes, and quickly opened the door and started to guide me.
He already knew that they were coming, so of course he had prepared a place to stay.
So everyone left with Bertia, leaving me and the two of Elise. If the current king calls, I have to run right away, so I was thinking of killing time for a while.
Elise was surprised and had a sad expression on her face.
“what’s the matter?”
She gestured too proudly, so she wondered what was going on, but Elise looked up to the sky and answered without shame.
“I should have told Bertia to bring a change of underwear, but I forgot.”
“……”
“Did you notice the beast named Coolika?”
“Go back and apologize later.”
Somehow, the expression was not good.
What do you want your guests to smell?
*
next day.
“Ha, I still have the orange taste in my mouth.”
Coolica was shown to the largest room. Thanks to that, Hassim Bellok and I poured out glasses in his room and had our own drinking party at lunchtime.
However, it was a problem that Eris came running and took away the drinking cup, saying it was a crackdown. She sat next to me and closely watched me in case I drank.
In the meantime, he drank sips and sips.
In the end, Eris ended up doing the masterpiece, not me, and I filled my stomach while soothing my burning heart with orange juice.
Halfway through, Eris told me, “Bad guy”, “I’ve already told the other elves”, “I’ve got a house”, “It’s not over yet.” While drunkenly saying the same sorry words, he is now asleep in his room.
FYI, we were at the year-end banquet. In the case of Kulika, he was too conspicuous to attend, and Hashim Bellok did not attend, saying that he did not like this kind of place.
eventually attended.
“Doesn’t your skin look too white in a black dress?”
Elegantly decorated Lin.
“Ha, I was wondering if I could monopolize it, but they came right after.”
Mei, annoyed, taps me on the side.
“This is loose.”
Sen unintentionally appeals to her weakness by saying that the dress she is wearing is baggy.
“Ah, I love this atmosphere!”
Even Adrina, who has lived her entire life in the forest of the demon realm and never dreamed of a royal party.
Elysee said she would join us later because she is a princess.
In the end, an academy party-like combination was completed.
Besides, as far as I know, Tanah, Eve, and Ha-yun, who stopped by the family, were also attending this party.
It really felt like an outpouring.
“There are so many bean dishes.”
It was a year-end banquet, so of course the food was spread out. To cater to the high palate of the aristocracy, various foods were listed, and meat dishes were waiting in front of the chefs to grill them.
Meanwhile, Sen was preparing himself by looking at the bean dishes one by one.
“bean? what beans? You don’t like things like that, do you?”
Sen basically didn’t like beans or bread. It’s because while active in the Killing Squad, he only fed the kids with food that could simply satisfy their hunger.
In his own words, he appealed that his growth was slow.
“Yeah, I don’t like it, but I heard from Eris-sama that eating beans makes your breasts grow. He said he did.”
“……”
Meanwhile, Sen glanced at Adrina.
It must be a bit difficult to target Adrina. It was fortunate that Eris and Eve, who had violent developments on a different level, weren’t here.
“But then, isn’t there something strange?”
He said while grabbing Sen who was about to run to the bean dish.
“I heard you only fed boiled beans in the Extermination Corps until now.”
“……ah?”
He was seduced by Eris’ words and overlooked an important fact. He said that he disliked beans because he ate a lot of beans.
Sen, realizing he was an idiot, droops. I let out a sigh as I saw her crying like a child who had been deprived of a present she had received.
“Hey, don’t be too heartbroken. Even without that, you are attractive enough.”
Then, as if Sen had cat ears, he straightened up and looked at me.
“really?”
“Well, of course not. If it’s too much, it’s rather burdensome.”
“Huh?”
The snort you just heard wasn’t from Sen.
The heavy yet soft touch I felt behind my back made my back straight up without realizing it, and my senses were focused on it.
When I slowly turned my head, there was Eve, the owner of a truly violent body, with her chest hidden in a blue dress attached to my back.
“Are you embarrassed?”
“no.”
Sen pursed his lips in response to my answer and looked at me. I had no choice but to answer honestly.
“sorry.”