Chapter 54 – 52. Dog
Weekend morning time.
Arthur was passing the time by reading a book, and Aris was sitting out of Arthur’s field of vision, scribbling words in a notebook.
ㅡSwoosh, swoosh.
Aris’s busy hands.
If someone else had seen it, they would have thought he was a student studying hard and passed over the sight, but unfortunately, the contents filled in the notes were not related to studying.
The contents were written in a format similar to a diary, and if she had been asked, she might have shown the organized contents and called it a record.
Of course, Aris had no intention of showing the contents of her notes to anyone else, and she would have torn them to shreds if Arthur tried to see them.
Why can’t she show it to others? This is because the book was full of gory details detailing Arthur’s reactions when she did certain things to annoy him.
“Hmm. I don’t know how much more I have to bother her.? “If I did this, I might get angry at least once.”
Aris was thinking for a moment as she tapped her notebook with her pen, then took out her red pen and marked off the parts she had cursed at Arthur.
Checked words are disabled, trash, orphan, slut, prostitute.
When she said these words, they were essential words for her to see Arthur’s despair because he reacted more violently than usual.
“I think there is a limit to just saying things. Other new methods should also be included.”
ㅡTap!
However, Aris closed her notebook in an attempt to finish talking to herself and looked back at her with a smile on her face.
Because a familiar figure was approaching.
“Aris~!!”
Arthur approaches, smiling brightly like a fool.
Whenever Aris saw Arthur like this, her desire to destroy him immediately arose.
Grab Arthur’s body with these two hands…
“Ha. Let’s hold on just a little longer…”
It’s not time yet. You have to make Arthur happy during the day, because the fun of torturing him at night will be doubled.
The more Arthur stays by her side and shows her happy expression, the more satisfaction she will feel from seeing Arthur’s face ruined and her tears falling due to her opposition.
“Huh? “Did you say something?”
“… “
“Aris…?”
“Ah! Sorry… I was thinking about something else for a moment.”
An indifferent attitude that oozes affection towards the other person.
It wasn’t really because Aris wasn’t interested in Arthur, it was just one of those things she did every night to make things easier.
Of course, under normal circumstances, doing this would often lead to a breakdown in the relationship, but Aris thought that the relationship between her and Arthur was not a horizontal one, but a vertical one where Aris himself was far above her. I decided to use it in reverse.
In fact, when she acted sad, Arthur could be seen finding the cause in himself rather than blaming Aris.
Arthur, whose mental strength was exhausted due to the accumulation of these situations, easily collapsed due to Aris’ rapidly changing attitude every night.
Well, it’s not that I really dislike Arthur, it’s just that I act as a seasoning to make the night’s situation comedy more interesting. And it’s fun to watch Arthur pretending like nothing’s wrong while looking at me.
“Aris!! We were supposed to go there! “Did you really forget?”
At the sound of Arthur’s words next to her, Aris stopped thinking for a moment and remembered a place she had heard about the other day called a ‘pet shop’.
From what I heard, it was a place where there were lots of cats and dogs, and if you paid money, you could play with them for a certain amount of time, and you could adopt the ones you liked. It was a new place that had recently opened and was very popular.
“Lol! “I want to see the cat quickly!!”
Arthur urged Aris with sparkling eyes as if she was already excited, and although Aris wasn’t really interested, she acted appropriately and agreed with her.
“Yeah, that sounds fun. “Then shall we go right away?”
At Aris’s words, she snorted and nodded, and Arthur began to walk in front of her with light steps, and Aris followed Arthur and thought.
Does Arthur like those animals? I don’t know.
In a way, it was natural that Aris could not understand Arthur. Because Aris had Arthur.
Arthur is a pet that is much cuter and easier to play with than those things.
There was even an after-sales service function that restored it to its original state overnight, even if it was accidentally broken, so it was rather a strange situation for her to become interested in compared to Arthur, who showed various reactions.
…
After leaving the academy and walking while chatting, Arthur and Aris were able to arrive at the pet shop faster than expected.
“Welcome!!”
As we entered the building, we were greeted by clerks dressed as dogs or cats, and Arthur approached the ticket sales clerk with a twinkle in her eye.
“I think it will be about 2 hours. How much is it?”
When Arthur asked about the price, the staff answered kindly.
“2 hours is 1 silver!”
Of course, unlike her friendly face, her prices were not friendly at all.
The employee, who saw Arthur’s surprised face at the price being higher than expected, continued with the next comment he had prepared as if he had expected this much.
“If you purchase a pet shop membership, you can enjoy it at the exceptional price of 10 copper per hour. How about that?”
Arthur began to fall for the words of the employee, who was observing her surroundings as if it were a secret.
“I really want to buy a membership. How much does it cost?”
Arthur, who had the qualities of a hukou, received the documents for membership without the slightest suspicion.
And Aris, who was watching all this from behind, sighed at the sight of Arthur being so weak to her temptation and took away Arthur’s papers.
“Uh? Ah, Aris!! “Give me that!”
“Huh. Arthur, this is all just a gimmick!”
“!!”
Arthur looked at the employee with a shocked expression because he believed Aris’ words first.
“Keuhum.”
The employee also looked away and began to clear his throat, as if his conscience had been pricked by Arthur’s empty eyes.
And Aris lightly ignored the employee and pointed out important parts of the documents he received and explained them to Arthur.
“Look here. The price is 10 silver, and membership lasts for 6 months from the date of creation.”
“… “
“1 silver is 100 copper, but 10 silver? Sigh… And I can’t even leave the academy once the semester starts, so how much time will I have this month just to get my money’s worth…!”
That’s how Aris’s storm of nagging began, and Arthur’s mentality began to fall into tatters.
Aris.? It’s true that I was wrong, but that expression hurts me…
In the end, Arthur became sullen. And Aris, who noticed her Arthur’s condition, stroked her Arthur’s head and said.
“Ugh. I’m doing it all for you! What are you going to do when I’m not around later? “You have to pay attention now, so you don’t get ripped off later!”
“Huh? Aris why are you not here? “Where are you planning to go?”
Are you too relaxed these days? I can’t believe you made such a mistake.
“What are you talking about. You can go to the practical training in class, or you can go alone if you are busy for a while.”
Arthur seemed to be somewhat convinced by Aris’ words and nodded his head briefly.
Unlike before, it was nice that Arthur was easy to deal with and agreed to without asking questions, but seeing him like this made Aris’ heartache.
She was clearly a normal Arthur when she first entered the academy, but after experiencing several incidents, she became so stupid and naive that it was hard to believe she was an adult.
And unfortunately, there was no way to help Arthur. The day she lost her memory, her speech became more and more childish, and after she was raped, she became completely strange, as if she had let go of something.
Of course she was smart, so she could easily memorize what she told her, but she couldn’t shake the feeling of seeing Arthur when she was young. On the contrary, all her vigilance disappeared, and she changed into a mindset of ‘Aris will do something!’ If something happened, so I thought it was probably worse than before.
“Haa…”
A sigh comes out of her mouth.
What on earth are you going to do if I die? There are a lot of people in the world who want to somehow catch a tiger fish and eat it.
However, despite Aris’ worries, she had a large part in the reason why Arthur became increasingly strange.
The reason Arthur was so stupid was because he was so smart, and when she closed her eyes, her memories of her time in the warehouse and the hellish times she had been through for two weeks came back as vividly as she had just remembered them, and Arthur was trying to escape from this.
I decided to forget it.
To forget. Unfortunately, the human mind is not easy enough to forget only the necessary things, and even though she was Arthur, she had to give up a lot of things to forget her painful memories even for a moment.
Excellent judgment and logical thinking.
These were things he could not do in exchange for forgetting painful memories, and the wounds that Aris engraved in Arthur’s heart every night remained in his subconscious and stimulated Arthur’s trauma, so Arthur had to give up more and more things to forget them.
Of course, for reasons unknown, Arthur tried to forget the trauma that grew every day, and there were many days when it was so difficult that he shed tears without Ari’s knowledge, but he still felt happy.
In exchange for her becoming a little dumber every day, her memories no longer hurt her, and by her side she had the person she loved most.
In any case, Arthur hid these facts out of fear that Aris would worry about her, and of course she had no way for Aris to know.
“Anyway! I’ll buy it for you today, so from now on, check the documents and contract carefully! “Understand, right?”
“Huh! Thank you, Aris!”
After receiving the pass from Aris, Arthur entered the space where her animals were.
After making sure that Arthur had completely entered, Aris did not immediately follow Arthur, but instead headed to her souvenir shop.
It wasn’t originally planned, but while I was at the pet shop, I got a good idea to send Arthur to the abyss.
As she entered the souvenir shop, Aris went into the corner with tools for her dog and found the item she was looking for.
“There are more types than I thought. There are so many different colors.”
She reached for something that had particularly striking eyes and had the same black hair color as Arthur.
“Shall we try this?”
Before she knew it, Aris had made up her mind and decided to buy it. As she was leaving the corner, her eyes were caught by a silver dog food bowl that she saw, and she unknowingly threw it away.
“Hmm. I’ll buy two of these.”
Aris tried to just buy quietly, but her employee suddenly started asking questions.
“I guess you have a pet dog?”
Dog…? Well, wouldn’t it be okay to call Arthur a pet?
“Ah yes. “I have a pet dog that I have had for a long time.”
“The product you are purchasing is a high-quality dog collar that is rarely sold. I guess you care a lot about your dog? “Normally, not many people spend this much money on their pets.”
Of course. It’s a necklace to put around Arthur’s neck, but you can’t use a cheap one, right?
“Well, I just want to always give you the best.”
“You are a total dog lover!! Oh, wait a minute. Here’s your receipt! Just check and pay!”
The man helping her pay showed her the receipt, and when Aris checked the price, her head started to hurt.
Oh, 20 silver for one necklace? Ha… She looked at the price tag wrong, she thought it was 2 silver.
“Can I get some information about the dog collar I’m purchasing?”
“Of course I have to tell you! Hmm. I looked up this dog collar, and it says it is made from the back skin of a black drake.”
Black Drake? It’s a monster that A-class adventurers catch at a party of 6 to 7 people! I wondered why it was so expensive…
It was impossible for her not to come here and buy it, so Aris wiped away her tears and handed over the money, including the price of her dog food bowl, which was 20 silver.
“Thank you for your purchase! Have a nice day at the pet shop~”
Aris was there with her smiling face in front of her staff, but after leaving her souvenir shop, Aris sighed heavily and put all of her purchases into her subspace pocket.
How hard is it to earn 20 silver? Since it’s something she’s going to use on Arthur anyway, she should get it all back from him, right?
And of course, there was no way Arthur had that much money. Because she didn’t have money to earn or anything like Aris if she worked as an adventurer. And Aris knew this fact well.
She said she would get it back for what it was worth, but she never said she would get it in cash.
“Well, Arthur can pay with his body instead of cash.!”
Aris, who had been offended by her spending a lot of money, felt better again, and in the evening she smiled bitterly as she thought about what she would do to Arthur.
She was already going crazy wondering how Arthur would react. She watched Arthur playing with the cats from afar and waited for night to come.
