148 – Even a scumbag has a bottom
Right after Talia was helpless by Ian’s words.
-Well-well.
Ian, savoring the victory he had won after a long time, cut the dessert cake with a fork and put it into his mouth.
‘I thought it was a carrot cake, but this is surprisingly delicious.’
He had a strong reluctance to eat carrots, so it was a food he would never have a relationship with, but the only dessert left in the restaurant was it and strawberry cake.
Strawberry cake was Talia’s reason for visiting this place, so she gave it up and ordered it with the intention of leaving it if the taste was strange, but she didn’t think it was too bad.
The carrots were finely grated, so there was no chewing while eating, and the sweetness that comes after the rough texture brought a healthy yet unique flavor.
If modern cakes feel like they melt away as soon as you put them in your mouth, is there a difference that this one is only completed by the person who eats it?
Maybe I just got used to it.
– Hurup.
Feeling a bit bitter at the localized taste, I sighed with the tea I ordered, then raised my head and looked at the other person sitting across from me.
Wriggling, wiggling.
There was Talia, who was not touching the cake, but was fiddling with the elongated fork.
What is it? Are you going to bend the fork?
Unlike Ian, who seemed to stand out even with her telekinesis, Talia was currently in a panic.
‘Why does this work… ?’
It was a very embarrassing situation for her, who misunderstood that the potion she had used just to play a trick on her had worked.
‘It’s normal that there should be no effect….’
She came up with two hypotheses.
As mentioned earlier, the potion might be real, or.
‘Have you always liked me….’
Woe.
At the appearance of another possibility, her face turned red even more.
“Are you doing this because of me? This might make you happy.”
Talia gets red hot like a carrot at the words of Ian, who doesn’t miss her appearance and puts in extra strokes without fail.
Ever since she became a wizard, did she ever anticipate a situation where she would get into trouble with someone who had only been over her head?
Unlike usual, she was in a completely reversed situation, but she was not so bad when she was treated like this. It might even be better
She tried to calm her throbbing heart, but the opponent who made her this way did not stay still.
“Don’t you want to eat? You came here to eat this.”
“Mmm, I’m going to eat…”
Her Ian asked, and then she stopped rubbing and took a fork to her strawberry cake.
There was no time to worry about the taste.
With Taliae now, everything will feel sweet.
I couldn’t tell if the cake was going into my mouth or my nose.
Is that why? Talia eats, smearing cream here and there, like a pink cat drinking milk and leaving whiskers.
Seeing that, Ian’s eyebrows naturally furrowed.
‘It’s buried and eaten again.’
Sure.
Sensitive to this, he pushed the cake she was eating to the side of her, then stood her halfway up and leaned towards her.
“Huh…?”
Leaving her behind as she let out her stupid noises, Ian wiped the cream off her, running her thumb over her mouth, holding her chin with one hand.
Flinch.
Every time his fingers touched her lips, Thalia couldn’t help but shudder at the sensation of an electric current running through her body.
It was only after the process was repeated several times that Ian returned to his seat with a satisfied face.
Thalia, staring blankly at it, remembered that something like this had happened before.
‘At that time, I was sure to put the cream I wiped off….’
As expected. Ian, again trying to put her finger in her mouth.
Gasp.
Thalia grabbed his hand without realizing it.
Nelm.
As if possessed by something in her, she suddenly starts licking the cream on her hands with her tongue.
Ian froze at the carefully continued action as if it was a waste.
‘What is this….’
The sight of him sucking someone else’s finger on one side felt strange for some reason.
Thanks to that, Ian’s face also turned red as he recalled her dream of Talia, which he had forgotten so far, and a strange atmosphere settled down between the two.
“…Hmm.”
A waitress came up to the table where we were sitting and carefully cleared her throat.
“I’m sorry, sir, but please refrain from such behavior in our store. There are other customers as well…”
Looking around, as the waitress said, other people were also looking at us.
“…Sorry.”
I hurriedly picked up Talia, finished her checkout, and hurriedly left the restaurant.
-Side.
Meanwhile, Talia was coveting her fingers in his arms.
***
At that time, a strange current was blowing in the relationship between Ian and Talia. An office in the Knights Templar branch located in the capital.
“…How many times is this, Sonia.”
A sultry blonde woman at her desk was scribbling something on her paper as she let out a sigh.
“I’m sorry Instructor Viola…”
In front of him, Sonia put her hands behind her back and bowed her head, begging her forgiveness in a crawling voice.
“No matter how much equipment is consumable, you are too harsh. It’s a shame that there are still a lot of shields left, what would have happened otherwise?”
“I’m so sorry…”
It was an occasional occurrence for a trainee knight to eat equipment, but it was unprecedented that it was repeated constantly, so it was not unreasonable for Viola to say such a thing.
“I should have noticed it beforehand when I tried it from the entrance exam…”
Sonia quietly opened her mouth at Viola’s words, which she spat out as if lamenting.
“Me, Instructor.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know anything else, but I think it’s because of the captain…”
“….”
Viola had no choice but to shut her mouth at Sonia’s statement.
“…That sounds like you’re right.”
Sonia asked after talking about her equipment.
“Why didn’t you tell me? You told me to win and come back.”
“I thought I would go and have a good experience. Who knew I would really win.”
“Does the instructor not trust me to go as a porter for the warrior’s party?”
“Of course. It doesn’t matter if you’re a warrior, your skills support it, but you…”
She paused her for a moment before continuing.
“You still have a lot of shortcomings. Technically speaking, you’re not at the level of being there.”
Leaving aside the fact that a competent subordinate was leaving, it was close to suicide for an apprentice knight to follow the hero’s party.
It’s not because the empire has formed an elite by seeking cooperation from each faction for nothing.
Originally, I should have opposed it, but I couldn’t.
-We decided to send the youngest.
– Yes? Where are you?
-The warrior’s party.
Because the captain of the knights plugged it in without a word of advice about what he ate wrong, and when he heard the news, he had already paid for it.
‘For those who don’t normally do their job properly….’
It was like literally opening my eyes and cutting my nose.
The captain hit himself and Harold with work and went out to play.
Viola sighed and looked at Sonia.
“Going could be dangerous. Are you still going?”
Sonia gave a firm answer to the last question asked.
“Yes. That’s why I became a knight.”
“Really…”
Viola, realizing that it would not work even if it was dried, moved her gaze to the paper.
“I want to give you good equipment, but all the remaining shields are there.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Your lover, I hear you say he has a lot of money. If he owns a mansion, ask him to buy one.”
“…Who else did you hear that from?
“Bianca said.”
“….”
Since moving into Ian’s mansion a few days ago, she had been visited by Bianca at her previous house.
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– Sonia! I heard that he won the porter competition or something, so I went to visit him, but why didn’t he open the door! Have you already cooled your feelings for me?
-I don’t live there anymore, senior.
– What? You liked it because it was where your dad lived.
-Well, somehow it happened.
-It’s strange… Where did you get the money…. Wait, are you living with that person? Is that so?
-Shh! Your voice is too loud, senior… !
-Sonia climbed the adult stairs before me…. It’s a pity, but now this chest is jointly owned….
-Co-owned by anyone… ! Don’t touch it naturally!
-Cheap. It’s not even worn out.
-Anyway, it’s a secret, so don’t talk about it.
-Sure. Do you think I’m going to say that to others? I’ll carry you to the grave!
Softly.
My teeth trembled at the betrayal of the senior I trusted.
After all, her older sister, Viola, is not a man by chance, but she didn’t mean it that way.
Seeing that, Viola gave me a word of advice.
“Don’t go all the way to the bottom.”
“…Yes, Instructor.”
Her moderate level of punishment was the statement that she would close her eyes.
***
“….”
“….”
Even after leaving the restaurant, the atmosphere between the two did not disappear.
‘Why are you doing this today….’
‘Why don’t you talk…. Has the effect already expired….’
As we walked with different thoughts, a shop selling drinks appeared in front of us, and Talia broke her silence and opened her mouth.
“I heard that the strawberry milk here is so delicious…”
It looks like he’s trying to feed me the love potion once again. It’s obvious that he’s trying to induce you to eat something sneakily.
‘Somehow, the tomato soup tasted like strawberries….’
It’s a bit too much to feed openly, so it seems like they’re trying to hide the strawberry flavor in strawberry milk. Be thorough too.
“I’ll buy it for you! Huh? Huh?”
When I didn’t answer, she rubbed her face against her chest and whined.
She had felt it before, but she couldn’t help but stick her tongue out at her face, which didn’t care about other people’s eyes.
“Two glasses of strawberry milk are 6 coopers~”
In the end, I had to come because she continued to use her group.
Life.
“I don’t have any copper coins with me. Do you get silver coins here too?”
“Of course. Unless it’s a gold coin.”
“Here.”
Her conscience stung a little as she held out her coins from her newly purchased wallet.
Her wallet, which she used to carry, is still enshrined in my pocket.
I think I missed the timing to talk.
“Here’s my 94 cooper back.”
When she saw the owner handing over the change, Ian thought to himself.
‘I got the shop owner. Talia never takes change.’
She said that her wallet would become heavy, and since she was aiming for a cool deal that made her feel cold, she thought that this time too.
Sure.
She was caught reaching out her hand for her change.
‘What is it? I’ve never been like this before?’
But she soon found out why.
– Clink.
I had to watch her take her change and she spilled her coins with her unnatural gesture.
“Sorry, pick up the coin, Ian.”
‘It’s the same trick as before….’
Fork followed by coin.
“Hurry~ I want to eat this while it’s cool.”
In the meantime, with a drink in both her hands, she has been appealing that her hands are not empty.
“….”
I couldn’t help it, while I lowered my head to pick up the coin. Her shadow reflected on the ground began to move busily.
‘This mesgaki is real….’
After picking up all the coins, she stood up and held out one of the drinks in her hand to me with a face that said she didn’t know anything.
‘It’s like a dream….’
It was the same with the tomato soup, but it didn’t show at all from the outside, perhaps because it had a strawberry base.
“Eat it now!”
Talia, suspiciously, recommends tasting it to me.
But I’m not the type to fall victim to the same trick again, even after experiencing discomfort.
“What, Sonia?”
“What…?”
At the mention of Sonia, she put down the drink in her hand and reflexively began to look around her.
‘I knew you hated Sonia, but I never thought it would be this much. The effect is certain.’
Swipe.
While she entered the boundary of Saju. She quickly switched her drinks.
“Ah, I misunderstood. Maybe it’s because their hairstyles are a bit similar.”
“Ian. You’re with me, are you going to talk about the country girl?”
Talia has puffed out her cheeks, expressing her intention that she clearly doesn’t like it.
“Okay, eat quickly. This is so delicious!”
In the meantime, she took a sip and tried to sell strawberry milk again.
‘It must be delicious. There are also special ingredients, so it must be very delicious.’
-Gulp.
As soon as I took a sip, the strawberries melted in the fresh milk were softly chewed and harmonized.
Anyway, it’s strange that strawberries come out even though it’s autumn. Are there magic tools like vinyl houses?
While she was thinking about something else for a moment. Confirming that she drank, Talia moved.
“I’m cold Ian…”
She naturally digs into my arms.
You said you just wanted to drink while it was cool, but what are you talking about now?
“Why are you doing this in front of everyone else?”
“Huh…?”
I could see that her face was filled with embarrassment, probably because it was a lukewarm reaction than I thought.
“Now, look closely! Talia is hugging you right now?!”
Oops. It seems you haven’t noticed yet.
“Huh? Didn’t I ask you to do that?”
“What…?”
“Certainly, it seems to be right because it has less cream. It can’t be helped.”
Talia stared blankly at the drink I was holding.
‘Where are you going to make fun of people with such shallow tricks? Mesgaki, you are still far away.’
Thinking that everything went according to plan, Ian takes a drink.
But there was one fact he overlooked.
The placebo effect.
It is a phenomenon in which the body mistakenly believes that the action of taking a medicine is effective even though it is a medicine that has no effect.
Then, how will it work if the effect of the elixir is manifested in a state where emotions are present in the first place?
-Kongdakdakdak.
‘Why am I doing this… ?’
Talia felt her chest beat non-stop. Now she’s having a hard time even making eye contact with him.
“Mr. Thalia?”
“It’s been a while…!”
Talia, sensing that something is not right about her, calls her and Talia sits down in her seat.
“What’s wrong! Did you get sick somewhere?!”
Worried about her sudden collapse, he tried to talk to her, but it had the opposite effect.
“Hey…”
Currently, Thalia’s voice seemed to melt her ears.
Her timbre, familiar until now, sweetly comes to her as if she had applied honey, and she feels as if she is loosening the bolts in her own heart.
She couldn’t keep her hands still for even a moment, and when her feelings of not knowing where to direct her gaze took over her, she finally realized.
It wasn’t him who was ugly, it was himself.
“Ian…”
“Yes, I’m listening, so tell me.”
Thalia put her concerned Ian’s hand on her belly and opened her mouth.
“Nah, this place is strange…”