167 – A Fortune Rolls in (1)
After a short one-day vacation, Celestine fell ill.
When I returned to reality, something similar to depression subsided.
“Oh my, oh my.”
Celestine groaned as she rubbed her forehead with one hand, demonstrating her divine power.
“Oh my gosh.”
“It’s noisy.”
As I was passing by while cleaning, Smarty fired a shot.
“Oh my, smart… It’s cold and my body hurts… I want to eat something hot and sweet…”
“You lie there like that, feeling anxious, but you never stop thinking about putting it in your stomach?”
Still, Smartie hurried to the kitchen and began to clatter some honey tea for Celestine.
“Hey, give it to me too.”
Lucene, who was basking in the warmth of the fireplace, stretched out on the carpet on the floor and raised her hand.
“They seem like shameless people.”
Smart took out another cup and muttered.
It rained a few times and the weather suddenly got colder.
According to Leana, winter in the principality is also quite cold.
It wasn’t anything compared to the Empire, but anyway, cold is cold, and that’s why everyone is huddled together in front of the fireplace like this.
Still, our guild is well kept warm.
“I think it’s going to get cold soon.”
As soon as the first winter rain arrives, Ttuk-gi declares that it will suddenly get cold and that she must prepare.
I grabbed Lucene, pulled a cart, went to the market, bought various things, and started preparing for winter.
We hung woolen curtains on all the windows of the guild and installed curtains on both sides of the entrance door to allow entry.
In addition, they cut rabbit skins into long, thin pieces, smeared them with a lot of glue, and stuffed them into the cracks of the windows and doors.
In modern terms, it is a method of attaching weather stripping to prevent drafts.
By doing so, the rabbit fur first blocks the wind, and secondly, the woolen curtain blocks the cold wind from outside.
I laid a soft carpet on the floor and pushed Lucene hard to move the bathtub from the backyard to one of the rooms on this floor.
During the winter, that is our bathroom.
Filling and emptying the water is the duty of Lucene, the strongest.
“Is this taking too much of a toll on me?”
“It’s not about coercing people, it’s about taking into account each individual’s abilities and using them in the most efficient way possible!”
And this time, they made a deal with me and signed a contract with a woodcutter hut on the outskirts of the city.
By providing a regular supply of firewood for use throughout the winter.
We will go to both our guild’s main building and the accommodation building where contract guild members stay.
Looking at the firewood piled up next to the shed in the backyard, Ttukgi nodded in satisfaction.
As if that wasn’t enough, they laid a mat made of twisted rough rope in front of the guild, wrapped the door handle with cloth, and prepared snow shovels and sandbags to prepare for unexpected heavy snowfall.
“It’s not snowing enough to require this.”
Leana said, but she kept buying them and stockpiling them, talking about contingencies.
For some reason, he seemed to enjoy spending a lot of money. Is it because of my mood?
It doesn’t end here.
We washed all the thin clothes that the guild members wore, dried them well, dusted them, ironed anything that needed to be ironed, and took everyone into another room on this floor and crammed them in there.
Of course, I came out here again and persuaded Lucene to buy a lot of hangers and wardrobes.
Afterwards, we purchased winter clothes for each guild member and filled them in their respective rooms.
And there is more.
The cupboard was filled with cocoa powder, honey, and other things to burn during the winter, and the inside of the furnace was covered in ashes due to deep cleaning, and there was also something else.
Anyway, after her first winter rain, she did a lot of work for a week.
And a week later, the temperature dropped like a ghost.
I was worried what would happen if the weather wasn’t as cold as I had prepared, but I’m glad I did.
Ttuktuk was so proud that he swaggered around and everyone burst out laughing.
In addition, when she lowers her eyes, her shoulders look like they are going to break through a beam.
“It’s strange. It’s already snowing.”
Leana tilted her head and looked out her window at the falling snow.
“Why?”
“They usually come a little later. They don’t come this much.”
“I see. Still, if it snows and is cold, won’t next year’s grape harvest be good?”
“It doesn’t really matter because the land is so fertile. Hmm, it’s strange.”
I’ve never wintered in the principality, so I’m not sure what’s strange.
“It’s snowing.”
Ornette, who came next to me, looked out the window and muttered.
“Is this your first time seeing snow?”
“Yes. It’s fascinating.”
“Do you want to go outside?”
“I don’t like being cold.”
“Wouldn’t it be pretty even if it’s cold?”
Then Ornette carefully put on the thick fur clothes that were hanging next to the front door.
This is also all Ttukgi’s idea.
Since it was inconvenient to go up to this floor every time and bring clothes, we decided to leave the winter clothes we wear outside by the door.
There is even a mat underneath to store fur boots.
Smart lives up to its name.
I went outside with Ornette, who was wearing fur clothes and boots.
The temperature itself was low, but it wasn’t very cold because there was no wind.
Rather, I felt a unique warmth on a snowy day.
“Wow.”
Ornette briefly expressed her admiration as she looked at the white alley with shallow snow.
“This is a snowy winter.”
“Isn’t it beautiful?”
“It’s beautiful.”
“Would you like to go there? That cliff I went to before.”
“I guess so.”
We went through the portal to the cliff where the mountain griffin’s nest was.
“Waa!!”
Ornette shouted loudly.
A heavy layer of snow was falling in the dark, milky sky.
Below, endless snow-covered hills and white shlesi gathered together like dollhouses.
It was a landscape like a painting.
“It’s really… Really pretty. I don’t know how to express it.”
That’s what I thought as I watched Ornette, who had silver hair and sea-green eyes, blowing his breath.
If this soft and gentle winter of the principality were to become human, wouldn’t it look like Ornette?
“Are you looking at me?”
Ornette made eye contact with me and asked.
“Yes.”
“Okay…”
Ornet looked away again, his face blushing.
Now Ornette has grown tall enough that she doesn’t have to look up at me.
If it continues to grow like this, it will probably become similar to Leana before spring next year.
So, can we say that Ornette has become an adult as of this year?
Although she still has a youthful face, I feel like she has become much more mature these days.
She is honest about her feelings, treats others as they are, is grateful for what she receives, and knows how to give back.
It’s just amazing to think about my days as a kid who was born out of a breakup at dawn half a year ago and used to annoy people.
In the end, Ornette is also doing something called growth.
Look, Orleans.
Your immature personality has now fully grown, communicated with other people, and become a member of the world.
“Leonard, you know.”
Ornette slowly opened her mouth.
“A story we shared here a long time ago. Do you remember?”
“Remember.”
“At that time, I told you to wait. Until I can be confident in front of you.”
“I did.”
Ornette turned to me and asked.
“Am I now more confident in front of you?”
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“That should be asked of you, not me.”
Ornet closed his mouth and was lost in thought.
While waiting for Ornette, I took in the scenery of the snowy field.
On the other side, I could see Carla’s milking pasture at dawn.
Even on this snowy day, cows were out in the pasture and wandering around slowly.
That’s where I first met Celestine.
She reported the absurdity of the sect to the religious order, but she was later sentenced to death and saved from being mobilized to hunt demons.
I had no place to go and there was a shortage of guild members, so they accepted me and I have been eating well and living well since then.
And the reed fields of the Lumine River can be seen vaguely over there.
While washing the head of a succubus she had hunted, she met Lucene, who was camping.
While wandering around looking for the constellation that had abandoned him, he briefly worked at our guild due to lack of money, which has continued to this day.
Plus Leana and Ornette.
Shlessi returned after being exiled for a small amount of money after defeating the Great Evil.
Here in Shlessi, I met the guild members I cherish and love the most.
He took over Leana’s failing guild and grew it by making various requests, eventually turning it into Shlessi’s exclusive guild.
For a life of playing games, I guess this is a pretty successful life.
“Leonard. You know.”
Ornet opened his mouth.
“I’ve been thinking about it all this time. I wonder if I’m really the right girl for you. You’re such a cool and amazing person.”
The snowflakes danced and fluttered under Ornette’s breath.
“You are a strong demon hunter, good at business, smart, and have a great personality. You are a good adult and a man, but I am not. So I guess the fact that I like you means insulting you. Dirty dirt splattered on a clean window. I’m worried… What is that?”
Before speaking, the right-hander raised his hand and pointed somewhere.
There, in the middle of a snowy field, a horse was trudging toward Shlessi.
There was a person riding on the saddle, but he had turned into a snowman because he had been hit by snow.
There’s no law that says you can’t ride a horse just because it’s snowing, but I noticed one strange thing there.
Black stains dotted behind the horse.
When I looked closely, I saw that some kind of liquid was dripping from the rider.
It felt ominous.
“I think I should go, Leonard.”
“Let’s go.”
Through the portal, we landed in front of the horse.
The horse that spotted us slowly stopped.
The rider was completely covered in snow and frozen, with his upper body lying down on the horse’s mane.
What is falling on the ground is the blood flowing from the rider’s body.
“Ornette. Go and bring Celestine. Quickly.”
“Okay!”
When I ran to the horse, I saw that there were not one but two riders.
A woman in front of her, and a man covering her as if to protect her.
“Hey! Wake up!”
I was surprised when I shook the man’s shoulder.
“Emeric?”
It was Emeric, his lips turning blue and his eyes closed.
Then who is the woman?
I was surprised for the second time when I lifted Emeric’s cloak and saw the woman’s face her.
“Isidore… ?”
An imperial mage from the punitive force who turned into a fool after making eye contact with Nightrend on the Plains of Tancred.
“Emeric! Isidor! Come to your senses!”
As I was trying to pull Emeric down, I was surprised for the third time.
Emeric’s left arm was missing.
The blood falling on the floor came from the cut on Emeric’s shoulder.
What on earth is going on?