96 – Drunk
After getting money stolen by Shael. As she sighed at her lighter purse, Shael pulled something out of her.
“What book is that?”
“It’s a book I picked up on the way back.”
It was a clean-looking book that I picked up on the way. Glancing at the cover of the book, the book was titled .
‘Does he know that I went to the gambling house?’
But I have a question. I used magic to erase the presence of people and disguise magic tools. Even when he looked around from time to time, Shael was nowhere to be seen.
Then a simple assumption came to mind. She is the woman in the picture Shael showed me.
She may have said something of her to Shael after the woman followed me until I undid her camouflage harness.
If she was a woman with that much money, she would of course have good magic tools and magic to follow me secretly.
“They say gambling is not good.”
Who doesn’t know that?
Sael began reading the contents of the book as if she were giving me an admonition.
“If you become addicted, you will keep thinking about gambling, and it is said that the operation of magic is also dangerous.”
“I see.”
“It is said that gambling has a great influence on family discord…!”
As if emphasizing the dangers of gambling, he speaks with strength at the end. It was an accent that wasn’t like Sael’s.
“So, if someone asked you to gamble, would you decline right away?”
Along with her mournful voice, her earnest eyes were a bonus. When she was speechless in the absurd situation and couldn’t answer properly, Shael held my hand nervously.
I couldn’t think of answering Shael. It was because the thoughts she was feeling while looking at Shael were floating in her head.
I thought it was cute. Shael, who was restless at the thought that I had become a gambling addict, couldn’t even say ‘cute’.
It was overwhelmingly cute. Like most people, I wanted to bully cute Shael.
She said to Shael, determined to be a scumbag for now.
“Still, I think I will.”
“Yes?”
“You can get money, and you can also get fun. It kills two birds with one stone.”
It was Shael who listened to me with her mouth wide open. Next, I saw Shael trying to convince me after she came to her senses.
“Can I lose money?”
“Well, if you meet even a stupid opponent, you won’t lose.”
“Yeah, but…”
Shael’s mouth was closed. She seemed to have nothing to say. Now was the time for me to go on the offensive.
“Actually, I have a lot of money, so I can lose it. Wouldn’t it be enough to have fun?”
“Fun⋯.”
I tried to quit after playing around for a bit. But seeing Shael embarrassed for the first time in a long time makes her grumpy. She thought she wanted the prank to go on longer.
After chatting with her for several minutes, Shael shook her head as if she had surrendered, then pulled something out of her pocket.
“By the way. I need you to explain this potion.”
The potion I thought was lost was in Shael’s hand. It was the potion that Rayel Tarden had given him in the Azbel household.
‘Was it a potion that helps love?’
I didn’t hear anything when I received it. When she asked one day, she had been told that way.
Anyway, it must have been a strange drug. So she couldn’t say that to Shael. If I said that, it was clear that Shael would give me a potion.
“I can’t remember right. It seems to have been a bad medicine for the body, so it would be better to throw it away.”
Shael nodded. After that, Shael immediately opened her mouth.
“So gambling…”
Once again the controversy has begun. I could continue to appreciate the cute Sael.
* * *
It was time to head to her room with her wine in her hand. On the way, Duke Jespen caught Shael’s eye.
“Father?”
Shael felt strange. It was because Duke Jespen, who would normally stick close to Enella and never fall apart, was walking alone in the Azbel family hallway.
Duke Jespen stood in front of the room he shared with Enella with a gloomy expression on his face.
This was when Shael tried to talk her out of the Duke of Jespen. Enella’s voice came from beyond the door.
“Jespen, don’t come in until the number of gold coins you gambled has passed.”
“That, the number of gold coins⋯.”
I didn’t pay much attention and tried to go to Eran. Thoughts of her, who had been tormenting her all day, popped into Shael’s head.
Of course, that was Eran’s idea.
The question of who the hell the good Eran learned to gamble from.
The culprit was not far away. It was also very close.
After confirming Shael, Duke Jespen opened her mouth.
“Hmm, Shael. Would you like to have a cup of tea with this father?”
It was the Duke of Jespen’s request to remind her of her lovely daughter, even though she was unable to spend time with her beloved wife.
Poof.
Shael did not respond to that request. After she proudly turned around, she calmly walked to the room where Eran was.
“Sha, Shael?”
I could feel Duke Jespen’s screams, but he couldn’t help it. He was punished for dragging Eran down a bad path.
No, even if that wasn’t the case, Shael wanted to spend her time with Eran. In fact, this was a more important moment than any other time.
Oops. Again.
I opened the wine bottle that Sael was holding. It was a wine known for its strength. The juice of intoxication entered it.
It was something Sael had bought on the black market before. A juice that prevents drunkenness from being shaken off with magical power, and makes it impossible for even a superhuman to overcome drunkenness.
It was perfect. The wine that should have made even Eran drunk was placed in Shael’s left hand.
There was a small potion in Shael’s right hand. It was a potion she found in his clothes while riding with Eran.
-‘I can’t remember what kind of potion it was.’
Eran made such an excuse. However, he must have known the use of the potion.
It would be convenient if you go to the pharmacist in the Azbel family. Shael planned to make Eran speak directly about the use of the potion if she got drunk.
I’m going to scold Eran, who seems to be addicted to gambling these days.
She was also planning to fulfill her personal interest. A very perfect plan. Shael smiled with satisfaction and headed towards Eran.
* * *
The situation went according to Shael’s plan. Shael passed the wine to Eran, and Eran drank it.
Actually, Eran must have noticed something strange in the wine glass. But he had great faith in Shael, so he drank the wine without question.
“Go ahead, drink.”
Even though his throat was so sore, Eran, drunk, could not refuse Shael’s order and emptied his wine glass.
“Mmm…”
Eran spat. Unlike usual, I saw Eran’s face flushed red.
It meant that Sael’s covert operation had succeeded.
Shael spoke to Eran, expecting a new side of him.
“Are you okay?”
Eran’s eyes stayed on Shael. After brushing her face for a moment, he finally opened his mouth.
“Hogu?”
“⋯?”
Sael doubted her own ears. What did Ran say to her now?
Hogu?
This is nonsense. It was clear that I had heard wrong. Shael listened to Eran’s words, hoping for that.
“You are the hukou who robbed me of money at the gambling house.”
I tried my best to deny it, but Sael was convinced. Eran mistook Shael for another form of Shael who used her camouflage tools.
That’s why Ran called Shael now a pet who robbed her of money.
Shael compromised with reality. She then resolved to ask Eran anything she had always wanted to know.
“Do you know about a man named Sael?”
That’s actually me, though. Shael put on a graceful performance, just like when she used her camouflage horse tool, and asked Eran about her evaluation of herself.
“Shael is cute. Appearance isn’t everything, what you do is everything.”
Shael blushed at her burdensome words. Even though she didn’t ask for more, Eran kept talking to her.
“It’s lovely to feel like I’m addicted to gambling. And…”
A few minutes like that. From Eran’s mouth, her praise for Shael continued to flow.
Shael was on the verge of dying of shame.
‘This person….’
What is the reason for the injection?
She must have been Eran, who refrained from saying such things, saying that she was usually cheesy.
Not now. The reason was that it was Ran’s injection to tell her story about Shael.
Shael’s shame made her want to die.
However, the corner of Shael’s mouth was still pointing toward the sky.
Obviously embarrassing. Shael felt good without knowing why.
“Oh, come to think of it.”
Finally Eran stopped praising her Shael. Sael was a little sad about that, but she wasn’t too sad.
Eran’s words will also make Shael happy.
Shael waited and waited for Eran to finish her words.
“I really wanted to meet you.”
Shael startled and shuddered at her. Did she want to meet another woman?
There was no word more irritating to Sael than that. Shael waited for Eran’s words, blowing air into her cheeks to hold back her anger.
“Because our Shael took all her money. So, I need to get some money back.”
If others listen, there won’t be a more trashy remark than this.
It wouldn’t be strange if I held out my hand to slap her.
But Shael wasn’t in a bad mood. Rather, Shael was smiling shyly.
She’s ‘our’ Shael while taking money while drunk.
It was as if she was bragging about her feelings for Shael to another woman.
If it was Ran, she was willing to extort money.
Eran’s new look was thrilling and new. Shael set her eyes on Eran as she vowed to dig through all of her appearances and her secrets.