Chapter 35 – The White Mage (5)
─Pogrure rrrr.
I dived for about 30 seconds, and when I felt the heat of the hot water hotter than the heat of my head, I disengaged.
With a splash…
Like an Assassin hiding in the water, only his eyes were sticking out of the water. Frank covered her cheeks with his hands, embarrassed, then returned the topic.
“But if that’s the case, I’ll go to the wizard guild soon.”
“… Yes. If things don’t go well, I’ll have to go, even if I have to bare my bare face. Because early treatment is the most important.”
Sensing Fran was trying to catch her breath first, she replied that I also quietly came out of the surface. She said while thinking.
“Should I just stay awake and do mending? Dwarves don’t die even if they don’t sleep for a week!”
“Let’s not do that…”
Why do you think death is the standard? It didn’t seem like a joke when the guy who counted the amount of alcohol he had to drink until just before he ran out was the limit when he said that.
As I shook her head again, Fran sat down on the floor of her bath and stroked her splash, twisting her head in a corner, as she suddenly lit up her face and she shouted:
“That’s right! I wish it was like this! I’ll finish the quest today and spend the rest of the day mending clothes!”
“What?”
Making a funk at work? I doubted her ears at the sound that Fran was unlikely to say.
“Funk? Are you saying you’re going to cut off a request today?”
“Yes! Oh, but I still have to tell the receptionist and the people who work with me, right?”
It sounds sincere, but it was the words of a person who was going to play polka dots.
“Hmm.”
I was amazed at the change in her francs. I’ve heard that some women change after starting a relationship, as if their former sincerity was a lie. Does Fran have that tendency?
‘Aren’t you going to dye your hair and tan your skin later?’
I pictured Francesca, a blonde-tanned half-dwarf asshole, and grimaced at her.
After all that shit, the innkeeper, Ms. Bainya, would come with a kitchen-style cooking shovel and blast my hair like a filament light bulb!
“Quit. If you break the job, your promotion will be hindered.”
“I don’t care? I’m not even targeting the receptionist anymore. And more than anything else—”
Fran said with a big smile.
“As an adventurer, I’m older than Norr, so I’ll be promoted first, but what am I going to do if I put on a bronze plate first? I want to work with Nord even if my promotion is delayed a little?”
It’s an angel
Damn there’s an angel here
I closed my eyes tightly as if I were blinded by Fran’s Mercy, where I could even feel the halo. Shit, this isn’t a bathhouse for couples, it’s a waterside where people get baptized. She trembled with emotion and put her hands together.
“… Nor. Are you crying?”
“Heh. Crying. Why am I crying In our country, it is said that a man only cries three times in his life. Sniff.”
So these are not tears. It’s just the pre-cum of the heart that comes out when you’re moved.
The pre-cum of the heart is mainly classified as a physiological phenomenon. It was the same as not saying that I cried with the tears that came out while yawning.
“Dahhh…”
I was moved by Fran’s boundless love, spilling copper in my heart. It was unconditional love, almost motherly. Her vocal chords, thirsty for love, cried out.
“Damn it…”
“Damn?”
“… …”
Hey, you fucking vocalist, what if you really make a sound?
“Oh, no. Franc? It’s not like that…”
I stopped crying at the comment that came out without filtering in my brain!!
Fuck this was a little too much Eva. There is no woman who doesn’t fall in love when her boyfriend says something. Dog drip like Mom’s Mamajo was the only way to do it on the Internet!!
‘Are you a demon? What a fucking devil?’
Speaking in terms of fucking upbringing, this was a statement beyond expression and nothing strange about being frightened!! In this case, it is easier to understand if you think about it in reverse!!!
─Papa. Sleep on me Joe. Haum. Tsk tsk.
Imagine if your girlfriend said that while sucking her dick!! It was impossible for Juji to stop there without going crazy!!
It was no different than that for a man to tease his girlfriend!!
“Damn it… Hopefully… ?”
I tried to explain something, but Fran muttered as if she couldn’t hear me, and she quickly looked up.
“Hmm~?”
On Fran’s face, there was a mischievous smile that he had never seen before, and a joy that could not be hidden.
Then Fran opened her arms and shouted in a bright voice.
“It’s Mama!”
“… Det?”
Sitting on the steps of the bathtub, Fran has the attitude of accepting all of me.
It was my own Virgin Mary with the same loving kindness as the statue of the Virgin Mary!!
“Fran Maman… !!”
I felt Jammin cry in my heart at the sight of Fran. The pre-cum in the stopped mind overflowed again.
Fran’s motherhood was as tender as her size.
Hey, this is sex.
***
Around 10:30, Frank and I left the bathhouse.
“I look forward to the next use.”
We quickly ran away from the receptionist, who had a pleased look on his face. The fact that others knew clearly that we had fallen in love with sex in broad daylight gave us an incomparable sense of shame.
Coming out under such a clear blue sky, we exchanged glances.
“… Shall we eat?”
“… Will you?”
Fran nodded her head at my suggestion. She drank wine in between and ate some fruit, but other than that, she had been starving all day and was filthy hungry.
“I know a cheap and delicious place. But the amount is so large that I always can’t eat it all and take it separately.”
“Let’s go there. Right now, I could eat 1.5 servings, including what you left behind.”
“Okay, I get it. This way.”
I followed Frank to a nearby store, ordered food in moderation, and finished my meal.
The taste was better at Dorcane Inn, but the value for money is probably better here. To compare, Galbi-tang for 10,000 won and Makguksu for 5,000 won. Which one to choose would be a personal preference.
After I finished eating, I put down the spoon and said,
“Franc. I’ve been thinking about it for a while too, but can I go ahead with the request you received instead?”
“Norga?”
“Yes. I’m off duty today, and if I come in as a pinch hitter while Fran fixes your clothes, the penalty will be less than getting a puncture.”
It’s a kind of big hit. It may depend on the job, but it doesn’t matter if I go for the request, which is just a chore. He probably didn’t want Agtag to have Fran level dexterity or the ability to pick locks.
Then Fran asked with a worried look.
“… Is it a sewer request today?”
“… It’s okay.”
I felt a recurrence of PTSD with the katydids, but I showed grit and endured it. He seemed to understand why men get into accidents while catching Gao in front of their girlfriends.
‘Cee haircut!! Fuck all the trauma, yes. Fear is cured by confronting it and overcoming it!!!’
It was bullshit that the psychiatrist would stop pouring chloroform on his face if he heard it.
But there are no psychiatrists in this world. Freud, you are just a pervert grandpa here!!
─It rattles.
“I’m going to go and come back!!”
“Joe, should I be careful?”
So I went back to the inn, showing off my bravery like a Death Knight of the Bloody Law waving a frozen flag.
I packed up my equipment in my room, went to the adventurer’s guild reception, told him about a pinch hitter, and went to work by 12:00. In terms of time, it was enough to relax.
─It’s cool.
Back at the inn, Dorka was sitting at the counter reading her newspaper. Aren’t you doing this bastard job? Oh, no guests.
“Who is this? The tallest guest at our inn has returned.”
The innkeeper with a savage face looked at me and folded the newspaper with a smirk.
“Why am I such a big customer? Rhymes are coming.”
“You skipped the free breakfast and stayed out all night. I don’t have a customer who costs less money and helps me make money like you.”
“Ah, it’s an adventurer, so I can’t help it. I went to work yesterday too.”
“Quack. It’s funny Leave the armor and weapons?”
When I said that, Dorca pointed at my torso with the newspaper as if it were not right.
“It wasn’t very dangerous. So I just went and came.”
“Where are you from? What kind of person would go out with heavy armament even on delivery day?”
“Uh huh. How long have you been saying this guy has been hanging out with me? What kind of guy do you think I am in your eyes?”
“I’m the type of person who has a lot of miscellaneous thoughts and misses the issues that are close to me. The one who stumbles over a stone at his feet, worried about a monster behind a rock in the distance.
“No shit.”
Are you fucking accurate?
When I couldn’t retort, Dorca giggled.
“I see you are aware. Find a reliable colleague in the future. Why are you saying this? “A giant needs a small man to ride on his shoulders.”
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”
“That type of person like you needs someone who is meticulous and takes good care of others.”
Dorca tapped her on the shoulder before I could say anything.
“A person who points in the same direction as the giants and tells them what the giants cannot see. A small man who does not get crushed by the giant’s feet and speaks to the giant’s ears.”
“A giant. I am a big man after all.”
“The expression giant is just a metaphor, so don’t be too proud.”
“Except for my confidence, I am a corpse. Are you asking me to follow you?”
“What? Why did the goal sometimes look empty?”
“Blank refers to the space to be filled from now on. Even the world’s best masterpieces start from an empty campus.”
“Looking at the giant teasing, I don’t think I’ll die of starvation anywhere. Still, if you’re planning to go on a long run as an adventurer rather than a member of a circus, you must have a friend to entrust your back to.”
─Such.
Dorca’s thick fingers ran over the huge scar on her face.
“It is arrogance to try to do everything by yourself, no matter what. Even if it’s just me, I leave serving and running the store to my wife during busy nights. Even if people don’t have the same dream, can’t they sleep with their heads together?”
“Oh my God!! You can feel the intelligence between the words!! Are you not this baby dorca? Give me back my friend’s body!!”
“Quack. Give up. Please take this instead.”
Poof!
Dorca tossed the thick wrapping paper. It was smoked beef jerky that was slightly fragrant.
“You’re the first bastard to pay 3 coppers and skip breakfast like that while I was running an inn. My conscience was pricked, so I took it out separately. It’s the leftovers from the stew, so eat that at all.”
“I can’t eat today because I’m going to go to the sewer now. Still very thank you very much.”
“Hey. Are you a true adventurer when you can eat three meals a day, even next to a corpse flying by flies?”
“Hoo. Dorka. You’re pretty good at detecting that I’m a fake adventurer. In honor of you, I will take this meat.”
Haha! Crazy guy anyway.”
Dorca burst into laughter as I said it in a bizarre pose. I giggled along with him and said a word.
“Heh heh. Oh, and speaking of cows you mentioned. I don’t think there’s any need to look for it.”
“What? Why.”
“——I went. I saw. Got it.”
I raised my little finger with a solemn expression. Then Dorca smirked with a look of fucking interest.
“You bastard, I knew I would! Hey! Go and come and talk to me!”
“1 Cooper, sir.”
“Hey, you bastard. I didn’t mean to take care of smoked things.”
That’s how I parted with Dorca giggling. I went to the room, left smoke, packed my armor and sword, and beat the report to the effect that I was coming to the guild with a pinch hit.
“All right. Francesca wasn’t even the head of the party for this request, and it’s better than having fun at all.”
The receptionist didn’t like it, but allowed the pinch hitter itself.
“Could you still tell Francesca? If this happens over and over again, there will be flaws in the evaluation. The results of this work will also be passed on to Mr. Nord.”
“All right.”
It must be a measure to prevent people from making pinch hitters like Deputy Lange. After finishing the measures, I moved to the meeting place and started the request.
Everyone was new to it, but the request went smoothly.
… Still, I don’t want to describe the sewer scene that day.
“Guaaaaa!!! It’s a fucking great big katydid steak!!!!”
How these fucking adventurers handled their work, there were plenty of medium rare grilled katydids all over the sewers. What if you fire a flamethrower at a place full of fucking toxic gas? These chews.
Anyway, I hope I never come back here in the sewers.
The fucking smell was twice as annoying as it was fucking savory.
