54-3. Force and force.
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The voices of the boisterous people.
A place where the solicitation of merchants is mixed and deafening.
“Guest, this is Salt Lizard Jerky that came in today!”
In the empire, there is a market that opens at night.
“Come here and buy me a red Kraken leg!!”
Moonlight Night Market.
A place that opens at sunset, where you can purchase items that you couldn’t buy during the day.
‘Like I found a black dealer in Iron Wolf Village.’
As such, in games, the environment often changes by time of day, so there were people who deliberately set the time back.
Lights and turmoil mix, making it different from daytime.
“I think this will be delicious too.. I’m worried… what should I do? What should I buy… Kai?”
“Ariel, weren’t you on a diet? Eat in moderation…. It hurts, stop pinching.”
Kinel and Ariel were looking around and thinking about ingredients.
“Licht, try this.”
“Pine, we are going to the valley now to buy ingredients for cooking, right?”
Fine was pushing a plump octopus leg into my mouth when she bought it.
The day before going to Calliceum Valley. I made a suggestion to Fine.
How about shopping together?
Just in time, we ran out of ingredients, and the hero couple’s romance needed to be increased from 50%.
“..It’s delicious. Thank you.”
Is this the Kraken’s legs? Thicker than a human arm.
A savory taste like a mixture of squid and octopus spread in your mouth.
“I knew you would like it. Licht.”
Pine wags her pure white wolf tail with a whooping laugh.
We walked side by side through the market alley.
Fine looks uncomfortable outside the academy, not wearing a masterpiece.
Wouldn’t it be dangerous if it stayed like this?
“Pine, there are a lot of people here, so let’s go hand in hand.”
As I stepped into the market, I came up with a trick.
“..Hot.”
I joined hands with Fine.
The warmth of her soft and warm body rushes up my arm.
It’s surprisingly quiet. The wolf’s ears are flapping and his tail is wagging, but he doesn’t seem to hate it.
With Fine’s strength, she would already be able to pin me to the ground, but she plays with my hands.
“Then Ariel, shall we go hand in hand?”
Looking at us like that, Kainel followed suit and made a suggestion to Ariel.
“What, what kind of crazy thoughts are you thinking! Do you think you would like it if I held hands with Kai?”
Kinel carefully observed that the elf’s long ears were slightly red.
Nodding. The blonde-haired warrior shook his head as if he was used to it.
“..Because he’s my boyfriend, he catches me. Kai.”
The red-robed wizard hums softly as he grabs his hand.
You’re still shy. Well, a person’s personality can’t change that easily.
However, their relationship has grown from childhood friends to lovers.
[Kynel♡Ariel 52% ‘NEW!’]
A status window floating in front of my eyes. I smiled at the corners of my mouth as I watched the heart that inflated and burst like a balloon.
Will I be able to live like this someday with Fine?
This number is not absolute, but rather a relative number. Rather than what others think of me.
“Kai.. Even when we were young, we often ran errands for our parents. I remember?”
“Of course I remember. I always bought sweets with the money I had left over.”
I keep getting the feeling that the progress of dating is being marked.
Hagi, even in the original work, even if the likability rating was 100%, that didn’t mean the character completely liked me.
It could mean trusting, or it could mean thinking favorably of that person.
Because human emotions are not simple things that can be expressed in numbers.
It was the same with Fine when she was a nameless saint. Even if you fill the favorability with 100%.
Because I couldn’t go on a date with other heroines, or act like a lover at all.
‘This is the reason why I wished for Fine’s happiness so much.’
Can’t even a supporting actor be a little happy? The woman who longed for a white wedding dress is now holding my hand.
“Licht.. They sell ingredients over there?”
“..Ah, thank you. Blood.”
Like a broken wind-up doll, her arms and legs go out together. My face and ears are hot.
“Licht, your hands are sweating.. Are you okay..?”
How did they survive when they were bathing together in the North? Even when she saw Fine’s naked body, she barely harbored lust.
Is it because these days, I express my selfishness without any filtering? The feelings I feel when I get to know Fine are strange.
I feel like my breathing stops even if I am close to it, and my heart is pounding wildly.
As I tried to let go of her hand, Fine held my hand tighter.
“Licht, what do you prefer to put in the stew?”
Fine whispers in my ear, trying to distract her. A tickling breath hit my brain.
“Oh, maybe beef stew.”
“I see…. It was like that last time too.”
She thinks hard about whether she recalls the beef stew she ate during group assignments, and continues her words. Eyes are already on the beef and vegetables.
“Then.. What kind of sauce do you usually use when eating pasta?”
“It’s a tomato.”
“Potatoes… Are they salt or sugar?”
She tilts her head slightly while asking me questions.
“Sugar. But why are you asking this question?”
Why is she asking such a thing all of a sudden? Fine even wrote her notes on her small floating glass plate.
“I just.. Want to know..?”
Prick, is it curiosity when you see the wolf’s ears moving?
Glass baskets made by other hands.
Fine was putting together meat, fish, and vegetables to buy, as if she were going to cook for me.
I wish she knew only that she couldn’t eat bitter things.
Should I cook for Fine? I did stew last time.
Now, in front of my eyes, there were many kinds of ingredients gathered together. There are also various vendors selling food at the stalls.
“Hey, bro. There are some great spices here.”
Among them, there was a merchant who recommended yellow powder to me.
An appearance of a demon with horns on its head. The red face, like boiling magma, was like a bomb about to explode.
“It’s passed down from generation to generation in our family!”
This is curry powder.
The curry-scented powder mixed with turmeric and various spices made my mouth water.
I don’t know if Fine also likes curry rice.
“..Ah”
Then, someone shoves Fine in the back of her. Equilibrium collapses in an instant.
I immediately hugged and caught her as she fell in front of her. The touch of the flesh here and there was soft.
“Are you okay..?”
I managed to manage her expression and asked if she was hurt.
“….”
Ah, your face is red.
***
Around the time when Licht and his party were shopping at the night market.
“The silver wolf catches those with suspicious behavior.”
One of the imperial guards escorting Fine on all sides noticed something.
A bobbed-haired woman who had been watching Licht’s party from a distance a while ago.
It was Blanc who had pointed a dagger at the princess before.
The person who had already posed a threat once again appears around Richt’s party.
She must have been cleverly punished to prevent further access.
How the hell? Seeing that all the secret magic was destroyed, Silver had doubts.
“Silver, for the safety of the princess.”
A knight with her silver hair in a ponytail, wolf ears and a tail.
Silver sent a telegram to the guards nearby and followed someone.
A knight began to step on the back of a woman wearing a black cloak and hiding like a shadow.
Blanc headed down the alley, probably noticing the chase.
The sound of the footsteps of two people getting faster and faster echoed through the market. A pursuer and a fugitive passing through people here and there.
Silver also missed her tooth, and Sera rushed ahead of her to catch her.
The moment I entered a dark alley.
‘Did I miss it….’
The sound of footsteps that had been continuing just now stopped and a dead end appeared.
[Silver, where are you?! Knowing that acting alone is against the rules!]
[Sorry. Leader. I felt something strange….]
With her telephonic magic, her other bodyguards were looking for her when she disappeared.
[Come out of there right away. Silver. It’s dangerous because the smell is gone…]
At that moment, the voice cut off as if it had been cut with a knife.
“Oh, how did you know that I erased your presence?”
In the darkness, I could see two eyes that glowed green.
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A pretending to be walking with a clattering sound.
It was obviously a dead end. Looking back now, I can’t see the way I came.
It has turned into a darkroom that is completely blocked off.
“As expected, the Inrang tribe is tricky.. Should I have been more careful?”
Someone who appeared in the darkness sighed.
Blanc was the one who took off the cloak, but soon the demon king’s face was changing.
From the wrinkled face of an old man to the innocent face of a baby who knows nothing.
“What is your true identity? Why did you approach Richt?”
Her silver raised her sword towards her. The blade trembled at the instinctive anxiety.
A sense of heterogeneity when faced with a monster covered in human flesh.
Even though she had fought Emperor Locke before, her survival instincts were ringing the alarm.
Blanc is now close to Silver. Her figure was reflected in her emerald green eyes.
“Okay. I don’t even know anymore….”
Blanc smiled.
“Can you guess?”
While transforming into the same figure as the silver female warrior in front of her eyes.
Noooo