Chapter 133 – Master of Reunion (3)
“Uh… Are you done talking?”
Tirshi remained awkward in the world, and when we came down he asked.
It’s sad to see you staring. Maybe this person is the most pitiful today.
At best, he thought he had found a new party, so he came running with a magic book in the hopes of becoming friends, but wasn’t that the situation where the party ended up in a love affair?
He joined an acquaintance’s company, and it makes me feel so damn sorry to think that the relationship problem in the company has flared up there. So I hugged the franc and appealed to the strong relationship between us.
“Yes. As you all know, I am so blessed to be a wife. You don’t have to worry about it.”
“Whoa… Okay. I was relieved that it seemed to work out well.”
─Tight. Tirshi tied his hair in a ponytail as if his hair were cramped. Then he asked
“Today I was going to teach you the 〈 Lightning Arrow 〉 magic, but if you’re busy, how about another opportunity?”
“Well… Wait.”
We sat down in a chair once.
How is Dana doing? If it was the guy I knew, he’d stay idly, then he’d drink and fall asleep. It was like that when I made a big mistake during a research project at university.
Back then, there were people to drink with. My fellow research students and I did the same.
So what about now?
Dana is the director of the research center, so she flew to the site first, leaving other researchers and equipment behind. Did you get the inn? Perhaps she is alone in an unfinished research lab.
She said, ‘She said she would come find me first…’
She had no idea how long it would take for Dana to recover from her shock.
First of all, if it’s not our misunderstanding, Dana has a crush on me.
I don’t know if she was aware of it or not, but there was no doubt that she was fond of me, to the point that she was blinded by the fact that I had a wife for her. Dana’s reaction to her was just as stark.
What worries me is how Dana will accept this fact.
‘He knows very well that I will take several wives for her.’
Wasn’t she the one who brought that up to me in the first place?
The reason why I decided to walk the path of a forager in another world was because of the realities of marriage in another world, which Dana had listened to and worried about about my dreams.
Even if she didn’t think that Dana-even if she wanted a deep relationship with me-she wouldn’t think that she would be the only wife.
So the point of this thing is, Dana and she said, ‘I never thought I was going out with someone else’.
Even if he was aware of his love for me, he would not have thought of this form. That’s why she was so confused.
It was easy to understand if you think about it in reverse.
What if Dana showed up wearing her wedding ring one day after I couldn’t meet Fran and I was fucking an adventurer for a month? It must have left her mouth open because it was so damn shocking.
‘For now, as Dana said, let’s give her time to calm down.’
It was bad that we went first.
I have not been able to organize my mind, but the cause of confusion is the handshake.
It would be possible to have a calm conversation if Dana realized her feelings when her mind was complicated, or if she waited until she sorted things out.
And the process won’t be over in half a day.
It was right for me to learn magic in preparation for an escort request to explore the ruins, so that it wouldn’t matter how the relationship between Dana and I ended.
Except for me, of course.
“Tirshi. I’ll be fine later, so can you give Frank a magic lesson? I’m with another woman right now… I’m a little embarrassed by Dana.”
“Ah yes. I understand.”
At my words, Tirshi replied that he knew. The two gathered at a table and began studying magic, and I went out to the inn well.
─Thump.
I sat down on a rock and organized my thoughts. If you exercise, your thoughts will disappear. Because it was something I couldn’t get rid of.
But I hadn’t guessed until now.
The strong mentality of my friend Dana.
“Hey Nord. Sister is here.”
That night, at 6pm, less than 10 minutes after the sun set.
Dana came to the inn where we were staying.
***
Dana’s nickname for her, ‘Doggy Hair’, was given to me by me.
This expression, pointing to her messy hair, seems to have never been in Britannia, and Dana’s face, her indignation when she first heard it, is still vivid in her eyes.
There was a time when I was strangled by that guy as a joke because the drip I threw in moderation quickly spread to my labmates.
But even with such messy hair, Dana sometimes tidied her own hair. He combed his hair diligently when he went out to an empty seat or accompanied him to a recital.
Every time I saw Dana changing class from a lab slave to a career woman, I was amazed.
Even though I didn’t have time to take care of myself when I was a lab slave.
“… Are you here?”
That’s why I was surprised inside when I saw Dana.
Dana, who had come to the inn, had combed his hair and was wearing a neat dress.
Her feminine clothes, which she had never seen before, felt as stiff as if they had just bought them today. It’s not that it doesn’t suit her, but it was obvious that she was uncomfortable with herself, as if she had put a dress on a teddy bear.
“Yes. Came Baby, you are staying in a nice place.”
Said Dana, stopping in front of her inn.
─It’s gloomy.
The Inn Sam’s Shelter was very crowded that day. Possibly because the harvest season is almost over, people who appear to be farmers and peddlers who have been looking for them are unwinding.
I looked inside the inn and smiled.
“Uh. The food here is so fucking delicious. I’ve never had alcohol, but if you’re young, you might as well drink soup as a snack with alcohol.”
“You are laughing. Are you going to rummage around before you get drunk?”
Dana replies as if nothing happened. However, if it was usual, she would have been much more followed by a rally of horses.
─Poof.
Dana’s eyes scanned the inn as if searching for her topic.
I was a bit sad. Because the act of ‘looking for a topic’ itself was something that couldn’t have happened between us until recently.
How long had it been since I felt awkward in silence with this guy?
“… It’s cold.”
“… I know. I will have to be careful this winter.”
The conversation that was cut off in an ambiguous place gave birth to awkwardness.
──The reason we always exchanged tikitaka for a long time was because we had no consideration for each other.
Is it because you thought it was a guy who didn’t mind even if you hated the other person or had a bad relationship?
Can it be Up until half a day ago, we had the conviction that we could act innocently against this guy. It is not wrong to say that I was able to not cross the ‘line’.
In other words, Dana and I were close friends.
Friendship created by three years of close shared joys and sorrows.
That sense of distance widened slightly compared to half a day ago. Dana and I, who had no words to choose between what to say and what not to say, looked at each other.
That was the reason for the interrupted conversation and the awkward atmosphere.
“What are you doing. I came for a drink, are you going to keep me standing? I’m going to treat you to a snack today, so I’ll shoot it.”
Dana said as if trying to shake off the awkwardness. It was more contrived than when I first entered the lab as a research student slave.
Therefore I said
“No, let’s walk for a while.”
At my words, Dana widened her eyes and smiled.
“Why? I’m shooting, so go to a more expensive place? Like a smart kid. Okay. Bring your wife before I change my mind.”
“He’s not good at drinking. It’s a half dwarf, isn’t it amazing?”
“Yes? It’s the complete opposite of me.”
Dana smiled bitterly as she looked into the second floor of the inn.
“… Come wearing a coat Catch a cold.”
“Uh.”
Tirshi left before nightfall. She says that the only things left in the inn are Lari Lura and Fran, whom she later told about.
-Sureuk.
I went up to my room and put on my coat.
Frank, who was waiting in the room, helped me get dressed. She didn’t listen to me every time I tried to stop her from doing things like this.
“Nor.”
Frank stroked my cheek with the back of his hand. She then straightened her collar and she laughed.
“I am not Nord’s shackles. Do not forget?”
“… Yes. I will be back.”
I hugged her wife and I came downstairs.
Dana did not enter the inn. She kept waiting outside and when she saw me come out, she just smiled mischievously.
“Waiting inside, what are you doing in a hurry?”
“What are you saying? You, you’ve been wearing that outfit since college. If a guy who goes out well writes it then. Now you have to pay attention to your clothes.”
“Leave it. You call old clothes worn by handsome guys vintage fashion?”
“Aha! So you came to vintage fashion? You can’t go to expensive stores with that?”
“I do not care. I’m not drinking today.”
As she put her hands in the pockets of her coat, Dana frowned and frowned at her.
“Why? I want to drink Would you pass out if you listened to what you were doing and running around with your mind?”
I guess so. I want to get drunk today too. It would be really comfortable to have a candid conversation with the help of alcohol.
Wouldn’t it be better than breaking up after being awkward and unable to say anything even if you’re drunk? The fact that a drinking party is a good place for conversation remains unchanged in this world.
Still, I said it out loud.
“Dana. A month ago, we could talk as much as we wanted without getting drunk.”
“─────Yes.”
Dana, who was playing a close friend, bit her lip.
——Two weeks ago, Fran and I needed alcohol on our first night.
Frank did not know how to express the goodwill he cherished.
It was because of that that he borrowed courage from drunkenness and embraced me.
Frank, who did not know how to confess or seduce, showed me kindness when he was in my arms.
At that time, Fran didn’t know much about me yet, but she was captivated by my words and actions.
He gave his first love to me, who he didn’t know yet, because he thought, ‘If this person is, he can love as much as he wants’.
To put it simply, the francs were “Paying for love” To me.
So I tried to return the love she received from Fran. Is it because of hard work? Fran told me that he didn’t regret having a crush on me.
‘It’s funny for me to say it, but does it mean that Fran had eyes for men?’
As soon as he had a good feeling, Fran rushed into a relationship, and then sought out my strengths.
Maybe that’s why she said earlier that she ‘had a crush on me every day’.
If borrowing the power of alcohol to win your first love is like a dwarf, should I say it’s like a dwarf? Usually it’s the opposite.
It is a normal dating process to get to know the good points of the person you have a crush on and ride a ‘something’ as it is said in the 21st century.
──Really, just like Dana did a month ago.
“It’s easy to talk with the power of alcohol today. But it will definitely leave you with regret.”
I spoke confidently without avoiding Dana’s eyes.
What I said shamelessly was to get rid of this distance.
“Three years. The time you and I met During that time I showed you all of my personality. If you value the time we spend together, you should never substitute alcohol for it.”
I went over to Dana and took her hand. It was a cold hand. I put my hand in that hand.
I don’t care what answer Dana came up with.
No, it was okay even if I thought about going back after listening to the story without saying anything. If Dana can understand that conclusion.
──So.
“So, I won’t drink alcohol today. We can have a conversation with just the time we’ve been sharing for three years.”
That Dana got drunk here and went back after spilling her insides? If that happens, the feelings that Dana had so far become worse than the spirit of alcohol.
Whether it’s a belated confession or whatever, it’s not okay to spend more than three years holding on to words that can be uttered in just a few drinks.
Preventing Dana’s sincerity from becoming lighter than alcohol is my responsibility for creating ‘that feeling’.
“──Otherwise, Dana.”
I got down on her knees, leveled her eyes with Dana, and asked.
“In your eyes, am I a different person than I was three years ago?”
“──────.”
Dana couldn’t speak for a long time.
A time that makes me feel very anxious and sorry.
After that time, Dana’s lips opened.
“… Let’s go.”
Dana said, holding my hand.
“In the lab, I have my room.”
