Chapter 42 – Episode 42. Clothes, Oh Clothes!!!
“What, uh, uh?”
What just happened?
His hand touched his chest, and he let out a moan, unable to resist the sensation from it.
‘What, what did you feel? I?’
Ymir is confused by what he is experiencing for the first time in his life. If she had been alone in this place, wouldn’t her time have stopped, she would have even felt her illusion.
“… Mr. Ymir.”
But now there is only one person facing each other.
Ymir, who belatedly faced it, trembled at a loss for what to do, and began to carefully examine his gaze.
“Oh, no. This is that… That, so…”
“You don’t have to push yourself.”
Unlike himself who trembled with his face reddened, the figure of a man who tried to treat himself with the utmost calm even though it had happened before.
“Impossible…”
“I have no intention of ignoring Ymir’s sincerity.”
Facing him, Ymir made a puzzled expression, and Dave said while holding Ymir’s hand, which he had pulled toward his chest.
“What can I say, it was just because I didn’t know what to receive because I hadn’t had this kind of experience before. On the contrary, if I ignore the reward that Mr. Ymir is going to give here, it will be an offense on my part too…”
In a very polite voice.
On the contrary, a man who gently admonishes himself for rudeness.
“So, I’m thinking of trying to find something from now on…”
And what he spat out at the end was what he could call an ‘opportunity’ to make up for the things he had done so far.
“If it’s okay, could you go downtown and hang out with me?”
“… Downtown?”
“Yes, since Yumir-san is finally enjoying his rest, I thought it wouldn’t be bad to go out and ponder slowly together at this time.”
After saying that, Dave cautiously smiled as if waiting for an answer.
Facing him, Yumir blinked his eyes, then subconsciously nodded his head.
“Oh, um, that would be fine too. Huh…”
“Okay, then let’s get ready to go out right away. I’ll take care of the necessary luggage, so I think you can change Yumir’s clothes and come out.”
“Oh, yes. I’ll change my clothes and go straight to the front door.”
Ymir matched Dave’s words without hesitation. It was only after Dave was completely out of sight that she came to grips with her situation.
‘… What just happened?’
Apparently he asked me to go out with him.
He said that he would go find out what to ask for in return for the words that demanded compensation.
‘Going out with me…’
Yumir, who was chewing on the contents, went back to his room and started resting on his chin.
‘Men and women go out together… Date?’
Date.
A common sense action that best expresses the current situation.
‘No, that’s not it.’
Ymir laughed and shook his head.
‘I’m dating some guy’s boyfriend. If I wanted to do something like that, I would have done it sooner, but it’s nonsense.’
Yes, isn’t it the one who has lived a life without ties to such things?
Dave would have said that without caring about that part at all. Yes, it must be, but…
– Thump, thump, thump, thump!
Why are my steps going to my room quicker?
-Bang!!
Did he even kick open the door he reached at the end with his foot, not his hand?
“… Clothes.”
No, that’s not important right now.
After breaking into her room and opening the door to the storage room where she had stuffed her stuff, she started to wander inside.
“Clothes, oh clothes!!!”
It’s been almost 10 years since I last went out. After she entered the academy, she graduated, and until she achieved results as a great mage, she had to hire people to buy it.
Even such employees have been kicked out because they interfere with research. If I need anything, I tend to write a receipt and have it delivered, but there was no clothing among the items brought in.
“Shit! I didn’t buy anything like clothes!!”
Until now, I thought it would be okay to be naked, but couldn’t you go out like that for the first time out?
Of course, it’s not like I’ve lived my life caring about other people’s eyes, but at least I didn’t want to show that kind of ugliness to the man who asked me to go out with him.
‘How… Don’t you have the right clothes? It’s not like a robe or nightgown, but proper clothes… Uh?’
Dozens of minutes to go through the warehouse without giving up. At the end of it, Ymir found a box shoved in the corner, unfolded the clothes inside and revealed it in front of me.
“… This, I managed to keep it.”
Yeah, I’ve definitely worn something like this before. It was also prepared by measuring it himself.
Of course, it’s been several years since I last wore it, but these clothes are made of a material that reacts to the user’s magic and causes minute changes.
It even has additional effects that adjust to the degree of ‘minor difference’ such as the chest or silence followed.
Above all, the design is quite classy.
Since it was originally made as a ‘uniform’ that symbolizes the group, it can be said that only one appearance was guaranteed.
The question is whether the current self is allowed to wear this.
“Ymir, are you still far away?”
“It’s all over, wait a minute!!”
Ymir reluctantly answers the voice from afar.
Her struggles were still severe, but her tight end of time forced her to make a decision.
A decision that will surely come to regret later.
***
“… Me, Mr. Ymir?”
“Why.”
“Is that…”
“What you think is right.”
As always, with her shoulders drooping.
However, Ymir speaks to Dave with very empty eyes.
In that appearance, she couldn’t find the confidence she had felt so far anywhere.
It is natural.
No matter how much Yumir has lived her life without caring about her public opinion, she was aware that the clothes she was wearing were not suitable for going out.
‘I’m an asshole, no matter how much I don’t have clothes to wear, I’m wearing a school uniform…’
Yes, she is wearing a white-based school uniform…
The pattern engraved on the cape draped over it taught me that it was not the last university I stayed at, but the ‘high school’ I attended before.
What I used to wear when I was a minor, I only started wearing now after a considerable amount of time has passed since I became an adult. Anyone who wears such a thing proudly will have an empty wind blowing in their hearts.
“… Haha, isn’t it strange?”
Recognizing this, Yu Mir smiled emptyly with the corner of her mouth raised.
Yumir reluctantly averted his gaze, thinking that he wouldn’t have much to say even if he laughed at him here.
“Well, even though I graduated, it must be a bit strange that I brought out my school uniform now. I’m sorry. I’m not really the type to buy clothes…”
“No, it suits you well.”
“… What?”
In the midst of self-help, a low-pitched answer comes.
Thinking I had heard it wrong, I turned around and saw Dave staring at me in school uniform with admiration.
“Ymir may not be so sure, but from my point of view, I think it is a really attractive outfit. Even if it’s a school uniform, ordinary people like me don’t have a chance to go to school, so it’s also an object of admiration.”
“No, that, that…”
“You are pretty. Whopping.”
Praise continued like throwing a fastball.
Ymir, who blushed at the smile that was built with him, raised his hand reflexively in embarrassment.
And the hand jjigeom that follows…
– Arrive!!
No, this time it’s not a hand jab.
The hand that was supposed to hit his shoulder went down below him, grabbing the hand that was hanging down and pulling it.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes? Where…”
“Let’s go downtown!! I’ll buy you anything, so just follow me!”
Whatever it is, I don’t want to react to his praise for nothing.
Thinking of it, Ymir felt impatient and started to walk down the street.
– Pounding, pounding.
At this moment when the distance narrowed, I could clearly feel my heart beating.
Worried that it would somehow pass through my hands to him.
***
I didn’t like people.
Because her body, which is not like a child of the same age, usually catches the attention of those who encounter it in a bad way.
I didn’t like that, so I kept a distance from people and lived only looking at books.
– Hung-seong-gung-seong.
This moment when I happened to be walking around the city.
Among his hints, Ymir realized that the eyes of people passing by on the street were focused on him.
‘Oh yeah. That’s why I didn’t want to go outside.’
Mostly it wasn’t because she recognized herself as an archmage.
Mage Tower, royal family, etc. Her face is known to some extent in public settings, but in other places, few people know that she is a great mage.
“Look over there. That kid…”
Of course, the eyes we encounter in the process of walking down the street are usually ‘that way’.
“Who? The kid in the school uniform over there?”
“It is rare. To come from an academy in a place full of adventurers.”
“It is wonderful in many ways. The bottom of her head…”
“Shh, what if I hear it?”
“It will be fine to see.”
Men were always the same.
Once the gaze is directed, it does not take its gaze away from itself until it is completely out of the place, so the market, which should have been a lively commotion, is filled with only uneasy buzz.
“Tch, look at how shameless you are.”
And such an atmosphere was affecting not only the same men but also some women.
“Do you know who will like it if you go around like that?”
“Is it because you’re still young? Looking at the school uniform, it looks very classy, but it looks like someone from a family…”
“If I have to get a big nose injury like that, I won’t be able to walk around like that again.”
A gaze of blatant hostility.
The words spoken with him were more like curses than simple accusations.
And there were fewer of them than men, and during the academy, that kind of atmosphere sometimes led to direct harm.
‘If it was now, I would have just burned the muzzle. Why was I so frightened at the time?’
Recalling those days, Ymir laughs and ignores their attention.
To the extent that it was not a big deal, she was in a much different state from then.
In the past, that gaze was burdensome, so I dressed as thickly as possible and narrowed my waist and shoulders.
‘Compared to the time I dealt with the crooks of the Mage Tower, this kind of gaze is a miracle.’
They can’t even imagine how many hardships they went through to reach the pinnacle of humanity as an archmage.
Compared to that period of suffering, the attention now is no different from the buzzing of mosquitoes.
It is a problem at a level that can be ignored and passed on unless it comes close to you and directly annoys you.
“The surroundings are quite noisy.”
Yeah, if it wasn’t for the man next to me, I wouldn’t have taken it seriously.
“Oh, yes.”
“Do you not like places with a lot of people?”
“I don’t like it.”
Ymir gives a blunt answer to his companion who looks around.
Afterwards, as her gaze was taken away from him, Ymir began to take a quick glance at his complexion.
A man who is intent on looking around even while walking side by side with me.
It’s not just my feelings that those eyes look strangely hardened.
