Chapter 72 – Beatrice’s Date -3-
To be honest, I’ve never enjoyed a festival.
A festival in Korea is a college festival, but I thought I shouldn’t go because I’m not a college student.
You know I should have been to college.
“Have you eaten?”
While rolling my head at such anguish, I looked at Beatrice and asked.
She trembled as she followed me while keeping a reasonable distance from me.
Then she shook her head weakly.
“It’s just fine.”
Hegrove was now in festival season.
That’s why there were a lot of stalls in this plaza alone, and there were various stalls and entertainment in other places.
I walked slowly, following Beatrice’s stride, and stopped in front of a stall selling charcoal-grilled chicken.
After ordering the master, I looked at Beatrice.
Now it was covered by the hood again, so I couldn’t see it well, but it was a pretty cute face.
“A festival with a cute person like you, I guess I’m very lucky too.”
“Ah, ugh….”
Then Beatrice lowered her head and her body trembled.
At first she pretended to be an unsuitable gentleman to hand her a handkerchief dipped in her sleeping pills, but luckily it worked.
“Go, thank you… Ha, I do. All, you too… Ugh, ugh.”
I stammered her a lot.
‘What’s so easy for a kid… ?’
Could it be that because of hanging out with the bad-tempered Jurgen, there was a lack of affection?
Looking at the way she treated Beatrice at the restaurant earlier, I could understand it to a certain extent.
“Here, it’s done. Take it.”
“Thank you.”
She picked up the chicken dish that came out sooner than expected and held it out to Beatrice.
I wanted to go to a restaurant, but since it was the festival, I thought it would be better to buy various food from the stalls.
“Oh, do you like chicken dishes? I should have asked and bought it first, but I made a mistake.”
I didn’t see people who hated chicken, but when I thought about it, I thought that Beatrice might hate it because she was of a different race.
“Anyway, this is my first date….”
After saying that, Beatrice started wiggling her fingers really fast.
“Joe, I like you… Ah! It was all about chicken, ugh… !”
Beatrice, who had been stuttering and chewing her tongue, covered her mouth with her hand.
The kid seemed a bit clumsy.
“Are you okay?”
As he said that, he approached her face, his neck tightened and his gaze averted.
‘Is it cute?’
He seems to be close to 160, but his posture is stooped, so he looks smaller.
And I didn’t see it on purpose, but at first glance, the body was a little dwarfed.
She must have suffered a lot during that time.
“Dog, it’s okay… Biting off a bit….”
I nodded and put a piece of chicken in my mouth and chewed it.
Whether it was because he was hungry or if the stall owner was a reclusive master, it tasted better than most restaurant dishes.
Perhaps the pain had gone, Beatrice took a hand out of her mouth and picked up a piece with a skewer and held it out.
“Try it. It’s delicious.”
“I, I will eat, ah, ah.”
Feeling like a shy little sister, I put the chicken dish in the middle of the conversation, so I ate it well with my small mouth.
By the way, since I was an orphan and didn’t have a younger sister, I had a bit of a fetish for that side before.
“M-M-Sit….”
I bought some food from other stalls while feeding her a few more pieces, who didn’t even chew it all and opened her mouth slightly in admiration.
* * *
After some time passed, performances began all over the street.
The sounds of portable organs, lutes, and flutes were heard through the central heating room, and people singing to match the festive mood appeared one by one.
“Come to think of it, we don’t even know each other’s names.”
Beatrice turned her head towards the man who reached out to her.
In fact, she had been curious about her man’s name before, but she was too shy to ask.
“My name is Ed.”
The man who said that held out her hand again.
Beatrice repeated her name three times to avoid stuttering, then took his hand and shook it.
“Bee, this is Beatrice….”
But it failed.
The man still grinned and enjoyed the festive atmosphere.
Beatrice also felt the unfamiliar emotion of joy, but was puzzled.
‘All humans must have been matched….’
She obviously knew that.
That all human beings are bound to other human beings of the opposite sex.
All the humans he met during his wanderings were like that, so this was a fact that would never change.
‘Yeah, by the way! Do you think I’m cute….’
She couldn’t believe it because it was the first time she had heard it, but her man’s words were sincere.
As they pondered on their own, a long human appeared in front of Ed and Beatrice.
He was the mascot of the Hegrove festival, covering his long wooden shoes with his pants and pretending to be tall.
“Oh oh! This is so fresh, it’s nice to see it!”
When the mascot said that and made an exaggerated gesture, Ed smiled and handed over some coins from his bosom.
The mascot that received it said a blessing to Ed and Beatrice and headed towards the others.
Then, after thinking about something for a while, Beatrice hinted at Ed.
“Oh, it looks like a monster! I’m tall….”
I even immediately regretted it.
Like a monster, what kind of stupid word is this?
Beatrice felt a sense of shame at the fact that she had tried to leave Ed.
“A monster?”
But soon, shocking words came out of Ed’s mouth.
“Um… Rather than being a monster, it must be a different species. It’s just that they have long legs with a human appearance. Haha….”
He said scratching the back of his head.
‘This… Tribe?’
It was something a normal human could not say.
Right now, if Yurgon were to say that he was of a different race, it would cause a fight.
It was humans who classified even beastmen who did not differ greatly in appearance from humans as monsters.
At least the elves were called a different race.
“Oh, I’m sorry if I offended you. I didn’t mean to.”
“Oh, no… Rather….”
Thank you for saying that.
However, she swallowed her afterwords.
―The play starts in a minute! Please take a look at Hegrove’s specialties!
Ed and Beatrice looked at each other for a moment and nodded.
Then, I bought a simple jujeonburi, and waited for the play to start by preoccupying a good seat.
“Do you know what kind of festival is Hegrove’s festival?”
Ed spoke quietly to Beatrice.
“Ah… Now, I’m not sure. In fact, I know today whether it’s Chu or a festival….”
After thinking for a moment, Ed slowly opened his mouth.
“This city, Hegrove, used to be a specialty of heterogeneous slaves. Prisoners and small men, as well as human beings, were caught as slaves and sold to other cities if they were slightly different.”
At those words, Beatrice began to feel sick to her stomach little by little.
It started to look ugly when I learned that the city’s festival, which had been enjoyable until just now, had started with that purpose.
“But one day, all the slaves ran away. The people of this city must have been unfair that they couldn’t prevent the escape, and they have a festival like this every year to solve it, I know it’s a festival like that.”
The play began with Ed’s words.
As soon as the play began, people wearing stupid animal masks and people imitating dwarfs with duck steps were all slaughtered by humans with prop swords.
-Everyone die! Evil monsters who don’t even know grace!
– Whoa!
-Human!
The repulsion felt inside Beatrice had reached its peak.
Ed and himself were the only ones not laughing in the crowd chattering around them.
Did he try to rely on this kind of race?
I wonder if all the people who were a little kind to him who risked their lives to run away and find a human who uses special powers were hiding this inside.
No, he was hiding it.
Then.
If only they hadn’t hidden their race, and hadn’t imitated humans.
Ed, who was sitting next to him, would be the same.
I didn’t want to see Ed’s face.
Because if by any chance he was smiling at this low play, he would vomit.
However, Beatrice looked at his face instinctively.
By the way,
Ed’s face was frowning.
To the point where anger oozes out, as if he hates the odd play.
‘Uh, why… You are human….’
As such questions bloomed, the disgusting stomach gradually calmed down.
Ed’s mouth, which Beatrice had been staring at blankly, moved.
“I… I think this species is also human. They are never monsters. This, this is the evil of bad habits.”
Beatrice’s complicated mind began to clear.
“If humans first try to communicate without hostile to them, and if that is possible. They’re not monsters, they’re a different species. It’s impossible because it’s already too late, but… I think we should stop ostracizing now.”
There was power in his voice.
It’s also very special.
‘A person who uses special powers….’
Maybe that’s you, Ed.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Beatrice’s heart beat wildly, and a single desire bloomed.
😭pro
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