Chapter 468 – Wreath.
“I’ll take your order.”
It was the waitress who intervened in the sweltering air. She was standing beside them, tapping the small menu board with her pen, frowning at what was so dissatisfying.
“Yeah, that’s right. You have to order it!”
When Lydica heard her and seemed to come to her senses, Usher reached out to see her menu board.
“”…””
This time, each other’s hands overlapped the menu board. Usher wondered if someone was playing a joke at this point, but he noticed the waiter’s eyes sharper and he quickly checked the menu.
“Kuricha barbicium, aurochs shaslik, catopsis alodi. Please give me three drinks, including Amanas kvass.”
He looked up and down the menu and ordered the most expensive food that caught his eye. The waitress looked surprised for a moment, but wrote it down on the menu and took it away.
“Can I order just like that?”
“It’s not that expensive, so don’t worry.”
“Yes? It can’t be. The food served at the festival will be more expensive than usual.”
Lydica listened to him, and as she checked the menu, she began to make strange faces.
“Kuricha Barbikium 3 iron battles…? Orox Shaslik 7 iron battles?! Catopsis Alodi also 3 iron battles!”
Her expression was more than angry, her face was frowning, as if it were absurd.
“No matter how festive it is, this is too expensive!”
“Is it that expensive?”
“You, Kum, Mr. Usher, are foreigners, so I don’t know, but Kuricharaptor is not a very expensive livestock.”
That’s why you can enjoy meat at a low price, so it’s often fried and sold to workers quickly. It is such a cheap and easy-to-eat food.
“That’s also why I usually don’t even pay a penny! Everything else is overpriced!”
Even Kvass is a well-spoken liquor, but it is said to be a low-grade drink among Pacipenia’s liquors because it is made using something that is not so good in marketability among Amanas.
“I’ll pay for it, so don’t worry too much.”
“It’s not that kind of problem! You, it must be difficult to earn money from abroad.”
“You don’t have to worry about that.”
He stopped by a shop that handled money for a while while researching about this place.
‘This is Parzu’s gold coin…? How to do this No, it must have come from a foreign country.’
Even though Parz was newly created, even the currency there did not change. Parzu was originally located in a very advantageous place for trade from various places to come and go.
It was because he knew that Parzu’s currency was valued higher than that of other countries. It was rare to find an exchange office like Parz.
That’s why he stopped by the money shop.
‘Eight coins in Pacifenian gold coins…’
‘I want you to pay the price for sure. Did you get an introduction here and there?’
Of course, the source of the information was the adventurer he had bought a drink for.
‘…14 years ago.’
I wonder if there is a big difference, but the gold coins of Parzu were exceptionally valuable gold coins that were hard to find even among most merchants in Parzu. I heard that there are many people who will buy it even if they ask for a higher price.
“That way, the money problem was solved.”
“You were holding something like that?”
Lidica looked dumbfounded, as if she had never thought that she would have increased her money that way. This was one of the reasons many merchants left with their caravans despite the great distances between countries.
To add a bit of exaggeration, there was even a saying that even a beggar in one country could become rich if he could hold a silver coin in his hand and go to a country on the other side.
In that sense, Parz was an essential country to pass through. Most of the country is close to the cloud belt. Alone settled in the center of the wilderness.
Even if you do business with a nearby country, you won’t get much money, but if you can do business with a distant country, you can of course get more money. Because Parz was the one who could effectively reduce that distance.
‘Because it’s not different now.’
Even after Parz was newly created, several guilds continued to pass through or settle.
‘I’m not going to settle down here, so I’ll have to change only as much as necessary.’
If it was a good place to live, Parz would be a good place. There were many other things that prevented me from settling down in Pacifenia.
‘It’s the tomb of knights…’
Krikaliev’s comments about Paciphenia were still deeply etched in his memory.
‘I think I know why.’
Just looking at the store that gave away the teddy bear that was sitting next to Lidika as a prize, it was the same. Originally, it was picking a product, so I wouldn’t have done it properly out of etiquette.
He openly looked down on the article and gave a penalty. It was a sight I hadn’t seen anywhere else. They should have given benefits to knights and soldiers, or respected them.
‘If even simple common sense is ignored, how many things can be ignored?’
There are many reasons, but Usher couldn’t trust this country at the point of showing that a citizen, not a country, treated a knight like that, and there were no people who refuted even those who played the game together.
“The food you ordered is here!”
While I was lost in my thoughts, a waitress approached me with food.
“Is there any problem with eating meat, Lidika?”
“Yes? There is no particular problem…”
As she answered Usher’s question, she heard her voice break, and when she looked at her, there was Lydica, who was looking at him with her strange expression.
“…You seem to be really acquainted with my sister.”
Come to think of it, if her sister was also sure of her girl’s pieces, there was a high possibility that she would not be able to eat meat. Because neither Belka nor Erica could eat meat.
‘It’s not confirmed yet…’
It is true that her chances are higher, so she keeps her mouth shut, so Lydika reaches out her hand and takes one of her skewers, aurox shaslik, seemingly meat and vegetable skewered with a flower at the end. I tore the meat together.
“Mummmm” How is it? Are you disappointed that I’m different from her?”
She chewed and swallowed it proudly, and asked, showing her slightly empty mouth. Usher realized it was Lidica’s question.
At the same time, it was also a protest that she did not see herself as the witch he knew. He took off his helmet, seeing blue eyes shimmering faintly as if soaked in a drop of rainwater.
Also, like her, he picks up a shashlik and bites off the meat along with the flower, and when he looks at Lidika, he sees him looking at him with a puzzled look.
“Did you say this is the meat of an aurochs? It suits your taste quite a bit.”
“That’s right, aurochs are usually high-class livestock… Wait! What are you talking about without answering me?!”
Usher calmly asked about the meat, and even though she answered kindly, laughter leaked out at the sight of her shouting.
“Yes, I like meat too.”
Do you just like it? Usher preferred a meat-based diet, and if that wasn’t possible, she would ask Helena to cook, even if she had to buy the ingredients herself.
“I don’t mean that!”
“And I want my friends, co-workers, lovers and family to eat and enjoy with me.”
Then, as if realizing the meaning of his actions, Lidika stared blankly at him. In fact, it didn’t matter if his tastes were different.
It would be nice to have a meal with you at the same table and laugh together, but wouldn’t it be rare to be happier if you could eat the same food and savor the taste together?
“Ooh, ah, ah.”
Her face slowly turned red from below, and then she sat down and munched on a fork of catopsis alodi that came with Shashlik.
If you check it out and eat it, it doesn’t have a special taste. It was as if the petals of some kind of flower were made from flour before being baked.
“They say it’s a flower festival, and it’s food and decoration, and they either put flowers on it or use it.”
“Huuu, it’s so much that even the name of the festival has flowers in it.”
She found out what he might be asking her question, and although Lydica’s face was still red, she answered calmly, as if to some extent.
“I don’t know to whom they prepare so many flowers.”
Fortunately, outside the tent, the momentum of the rain had decreased enough that I could walk around without an umbrella, but it was still raining incessantly.
“Hang this over there!”
“Ac! It’s the one I had in the morning!”
“What can I do? This is our job.”
There, the flowers that were decorated on the lampposts had fallen or been damaged by the rain that had fallen for a while, so the same decorations were being put on again.
Even if I didn’t do that, the scent of flowers that filled the whole street vibrated to such an extent that it was difficult to tell which scent belonged to which flower.
“Whoops, wasn’t it our bet that Mr. Usher figured it out?”
“Still, I think the prize is too weak compared to the bee.”
She seemed to be in a better mood, so she glared at him as she jokingly talked about the prize of the bet.
“Then what do you mean by that?”
“If you’re not satisfied, can’t you lower the level of punishment?”
“Oops, that’s it.”
Lydica thoughtfully wrapped her hair and she glanced at him sideways.
“I can’t help it. Joe, fine. I’ll do whatever you want.”
“That word…”
“I’m allowed to do naughty things…
Her voice continued to grow quieter and harder to hear, but Usher could hear everything.
“Eh, I’ll tell you, it’s only when you win!”
Of course, it wasn’t the award he had hoped for, but she couldn’t even deny her words.
