Chapter 117 – Adventure’s Lightning Mage (3)
Marid, frowned, dragged me into an empty room. I also asked, frowning.
“What is it?”
Thud. Marid hit the wall next to her head with her right arm.
I didn’t know that I would be hit with a wall like this. It was obvious, but I wasn’t thrilled or excited.
Marid said with her bloody face.
“Hey, what are you doing these days?”
“Yes?”
“What are you doing, and your name comes out of Orca-sama’s mouth?”
“…Did Orca mention my name?”
“Okay!”
Marid shouted loudly in response. My brow narrowed to the temple.
Doesn’t that gentleman even notice?
No, from what I experienced last time, I wasn’t an insensitive person. They’re just not interested in politics.
In many ways, he is a person who is lacking as a boss.
I held my breath and looked at Marid. Her eyes were burning.
He probably thinks I’m a threat to his ranks.
How can I effectively express ‘I won’t hurt you’ to this person?
As I thought about it, there was an involuntary silence. Marid clicked her tongue out loud as if to hear if that was wrong.
“Just try to get your name out of Orca-sama’s mouth one more time. I’m going to use all my influence to ruin your adventurous life. Be mindful.”
Marid stepped out of her room with her warning. Showing her annoyance, she slammed the door shut.
I stared at the closed door and scratched my head.
“Write… It’s bothering me. I will have to buy it for a while.”
I have to row when the water comes in, but in this situation, I can’t help it. I don’t know if I ignored the warning that I gave you, and something very annoying would happen.
Like bullying at work.
I sighed and went home.
As I entered the front door, a delicious smell tickled my nose.
“Ah, Yoosung, are you here?”
“Is your brother here?”
Seris smiled and came out to meet me. In her room, Kara sticks her head out.
“It smells delicious. What’s for dinner tonight?”
“It’s beef stew. I was making it with Ariel right now.”
When I went inside, I saw Ariel staring at me with clear eyes. Her hands diligently stir the stew.
“How is it? Did you do it well?”
“Uh… Well… If you practice slowly, you’ll get better at it.”
Maybe. Celis muttered softly behind her back.
How much could such words come out of Seris’ mouth, who once couldn’t cook her?
“Did you almost cut her finger while peeling vegetables?”
Ariel startled and shuddered at her. Seris smiled awkwardly.
“…Are you hurt?”
“Yes… Fortunately, I missed it…”
I turned her gaze to Ariel with a puzzled look. She turned her gaze away from me and became absorbed in stirring the stew.
…Is it right to use her as a housekeeper?
It’s a thought I keep thinking about these days.
When they are cleaned, they make a fuss, then lie down on the bed when not looking.
I ordered the laundry, rinsed it only with water, and went back to bed.
A very lazy elf.
Of course, Ariel was brought here because of the quest. However, on the surface, there was a reason for being a housekeeper, and she honestly had a hard time feeding her free meals.
‘I think I’ll have to use it somehow to get rid of my aptitude…’
As she sat at the table and pondered, the stew was complete. We sat around the table and chatted and ate the stew.
“…”
Almost simultaneously, he frowned.
Sweet.
A stew that should be salty is sweet.
There was nothing she could do about what she had already put in her mouth, so she forced it down her throat.
“Ceris, did you mistake salt and sugar again?”
Seris shook her head.
“Oh no! After making a few mistakes, I taste it before adding it. I added salt correctly.”
“But why does it taste…”
“Poof…”
Laughter that I couldn’t stand.
Me, Celis, and Kara’s eyes turned to the source of the sound. The elf, who was the only one among us, was desperately holding back his laughter.
In the end, I burst into bread as if I couldn’t stand it. What was so funny, I grabbed her stomach and rolled her feet.
“Ahahahaha!! Idiot! Stupid humans! Ahahaha!”
“…Did you make this like this?”
“Okay! It’s a punishment for daring me to cook food for humans! How about a candied stew? Can I eat it? Ahahaha!”
She laughed out loud as if she was really excited.
Ever since she came into my house, she has always been the one who only made a sad face. She was taken as a slave, so of course she was always on my mind, but it’s good that she looks happy now.
I nodded with a happy face.
“Ariel, this is an order. You will eat all of this stew.”
“Ahahaha…Hah…Ha…?”
Ariel’s expression gradually hardened.
…
“Ugh, ugh… Bad guy… Damn guy… They always eat delicious food except for me…”
Ariel muttered as she ate the sweet stew. She has just finished one bowl, but there are still three more in front of her. She’ll probably have to eat it by tomorrow, considering what’s left in the pot.
“Damn human… Damn…”
Did she intuit her own future? Ariel scooped up her next bowl of stew with her spoon, and she burst into tears.
She didn’t feel guilty because she had seen her bright smile earlier.
No, I’m rather angry.
“That’s what you made, Kamp bitch.”
“Don’t call me Kamp!”
* * *
Square square.
The pen danced on the empty parchment and conceived the letters. The letters gathered into sentences, the sentences became paragraphs, and the paragraphs turned parchment into documents.
When I signed the end of the parchment, the report was finished.
A report showing the appearance of monsters in southern villages. You might want to write something like this in the adventure team instead of the garrison, but monsters directly affect adventurers’ income.
In particular, since it was an adventure group composed of high-ranking adventurers, it was necessary to observe it more closely.
Orca looked at the neatly organized report and put on a proud expression.
She praised herself inwardly, wondering if she was too perfect. When she saw the next task piled up on her desk, the corners of her mouth went down.
Stress builds up.
Her brain sags and she complains to stop.
‘…Wasn’t it soon?’
She habitually looked at her watch.
I see a watch with only an hour hand. The hour hand pointed to the second side.
‘…There’s still an hour left.’
Having a tea time in the hall at 3 am is an unspoken rule for him and her. I wonder if it would be okay to arrange a time and meet a little earlier, but there were reasons for not doing so.
‘It just seems like what I’m expecting.’
Tea time at 3:00 in the morning is what Yuseong Han wants to do. He kind of wants to get close to her… Is that, what, her friend Rain? Entertainment?
Yes, entertaining
It’s all because he regrets it.
She just accepts it because she has no choice but to accept it.
Orca began writing her next report with her reference papers.
Intermediate glances at the clock.
Time passed and it was three o’clock.
Orca stood up. The report was unfinished, but I didn’t mind.
Proper rest increases work efficiency. Her actions now are conducive to work.
After rationalizing her self, she stepped out of her room.
‘What am I going to talk about today?’
While enjoying her tea time, Yuseong Han tells her about her story.
It’s not a very great story.
Talk to the merchants at the market, or the funny or sad stories you hear.
It’s just such trivial stories.
But when he talked about it, it sounded funny.
Why? Curious, she analyzed it once. The answer was not difficult for her.
Speech is also narration, but more than anything, he got the timing right.
When Orca savors coffee and cake, she quietly eats with them. By the time she felt she was bored, she quietly unraveled her bundle of stories.
If I didn’t measure the timing and talked to her, no matter how delicious the cake and coffee were, she would have been irritated. She probably never had tea time with him again.
‘Hmm…’
Looking back now, she had never felt uncomfortable with his expression, tone or gesture.
Of course it wouldn’t be a match made in heaven, so he must have been paying attention.
‘Skillful…’
But I didn’t hate that cleverness.
To put it in a good way, it means that you have a good eye.
Orca went into the hall looking forward to tea time. The hall was empty.
‘..?’
When she couldn’t see the familiar landscape, she closed her eyes and opened them.
Nothing has changed.
The hall is empty and shallow, but there is no ecstatic scent anymore.
When she comes in, there is no man who is trying to match her mood by preparing coffee and dessert with a smirk on her face.
Orca’s mood sank.
The expectations she harbored became poison and colored her mood black.
Orca stared blankly across her hall for a moment. She came to her senses and analyzed why he hadn’t come.
‘Did something happen? Didn’t he come because he was tired after work?’
It was very likely.
Han Yuseong is an adventurer, and being an adventurer is a job that you earn with your body. She had to move her body unless, like her, she was academically literate.
After work, your body will be very tired. It might have been that I fell asleep.
‘…Then have I been unable to work until now?’
He drank coffee in the hall every morning except today. That means he even abandoned her job and served her coffee.
‘…It would be okay if I adjusted the time.’
Then he will be moved and make a more delicious cake.
Good for each other
Orca understood that and soothed his disappointment.
* * *
The next morning, the hall was empty.
Orca thought his pockets were tight, and she agreed.
Early the next morning, the hall was empty.
She was convinced that she was coming to make some spare money.
Dada The next morning, the same.
Isn’t it enough money if the same grade worked for two days? I wondered, but I thought so.
Dada, the next morning,
Slowly I started to worry. Could it be that you went to work and got seriously injured?
The next morning, he checked his figure. He was walking without any injuries.
She was relieved
Will you come out this morning?
She thought about it and returned to her work.
But even at dawn that day, he didn’t come out.
A week passed like that.
“Marid, call Yuseong Han.”
I can’t possibly be bothered.
