Chapter 399 – 399. Sibling Fight (2)
A private office prepared for Eleanor of the mansion.
Eleanor, who was sitting at her table and drinking her tea, stared with her keen eyes at her two siblings who were reflecting on their knees.
“You know why I was called, don’t you?”
“… Yes.”
“Sorry.”
Her two siblings are Erin and Alvin, who bow her head with her gloomy and calm expression and readily admit her own fault.
“It was good to fight. Still, I should have done my best.”
“But my brother…”
“It is not good to make excuses.”
“Yes… Sorry…”
What she tried to put in her mouth as an excuse was just the emotional words that her brother’s use of the spirit’s ability was too annoying.
Erin herself was well aware of how childish this excuse was.
Erin nodded at Eleanor’s scolding and apologized.
“Because you seem to be sincerely remorseful. How about we end it here?”
Alex, who was having tea with Eleanor in her office, interceded with a wry smile.
“Because I was the one who recommended the two of them to sparring in the training ground in the first place.”
There was also an underground training ground in the dungeon house as a place to train, but Alex recommended the training ground where the knights of Armitas were training.
In a way, the cause is also Alex.
“It must have been a great stimulus to the newcomers.”
The fight that Erwin and Erin showed was spectacular.
Erin drives her opponent by mixing her acrobatic taijutsu with her fast and sophisticated swordsmanship, or Elvin, who endures numerous attacks with dignity and counterattacks.
It was natural to receive the admiration of many knights.
In particular, the part that should be seen as an example for her was Erin.
In Elvin’s case, she is a special type of power that doesn’t mean she can recreate it just because she teaches someone how to fight using shadows.
In the first place, it is impossible for humans to reproduce the spirit’s power.
But Erin is different.
Aside from the extraneous element of divine beast power, Erin’s martial arts and swordsmanship were purely skills she had accumulated through her efforts under her graceful education.
He is a talented person who was raised by Eunhyeon, who raised such Erin, and at the same time, he is the man who was in charge of the basic education of Armitas knights today.
Alex wanted to stimulate that part to the new knights.
Even if the skills used, gender, and conditions are different, I wanted to show hope that if I received training from the Armitas Knights, I would be able to follow that level even a little bit.
The resulting cost was the damage to the walls of the training ground.
A bitter smile came out, perhaps because it was a bit violent.
“Whoa, I thought so.”
Exhaling her sigh, Eleanor nodded her head with a helpless expression.
But forgiveness is forgiveness, and you have to take responsibility for what happened after that.
Erin could have forgiven and not held any responsibility as it is, so she could have looked at it from a humane perspective, but Eleanor wanted to scold Erin so that she could reflect on herself after being properly punished for her wrongdoing.
“Still, I will pay for the repair of the wall to Erin and Alvin.”
“Yes, yes! Of course you have to pay! It broke because of us!”
“No, I…”
“Brother stay still!”
Erwin was hit by Erin’s attack and was only guilty of being thrown behind her, so she felt a bit remorseful, but she was at a loss for words after hearing Erin’s coercive words.
“…”
“Good. Then I will forgive you.”
“Really!? Thank you! Miss Eleanor! Oh!”
As soon as Eleanor’s forgiveness fell, her complexion lit up and Erin, who tried to get up from her seat, hesitated and almost fell back to her floor.
Because she had been sitting with her knees on her floor for a long time and her blood wasn’t getting through and she was numb.
Just as her Erin’s knee was about to hit the floor again, Elvin grabbed her Erin by the collar and lifted her up.
“Ah.”
“Thank you.”
“Thank you!”
Following Elvin lowering her head in her nod, Erin lowered her head belatedly.
“Erin. Is she going to go home right away?”
“Yes? No? My brother and I are going to stop by the nursery school and help out.”
“I see. Then I’ll come with Lily. Would you like to have dinner together after a long time?”
From the moment Eunhyeon and Illyana went to the forest of elves, the highest ranking person in the dungeon house was Eleanor.
At the same time, Eleanor hadn’t had dinner with Lily or Erin recently, perhaps because she was in charge of many things, including information gathering for the Black Wands, which were part of his work in Eunhyeon’s absence.
“Lol. Good! I will also tell Lily!”
Eleanor’s invitation was also welcomed by Erin, so she readily accepted with a nod of her head.
Erin put on a look of great anticipation at the thought that she had good news to tell Lily as well.
“Then see you tonight. I’ll get the money for repairing the training ground later.”
“Yes yes! All right!”
As the story of her repair bill came out, Erin hardened her complexion slightly and forced her to smile.
Before long, she grabbed Alvin’s arm and left her ducal residence.
“What’s the matter?”
“…”
She asked roughly why she left the mansion, as if she was in a hurry.
Erin, who looked around her and looked at her, finally opened her mouth.
“… Brother.”
“Why.”
“Do you have any money?”
“…”
At her sister’s direct question, Alvin was immediately able to figure out what was going on, and her face hardened.
“You have a lot of money.”
She hadn’t been on the side of spending excessively since before, and she must have more money than herself because her ransom price has risen significantly as she has been promoted to a gold-level adventurer.
She couldn’t understand her sister’s intentions in asking her this question.
“That, that…”
As Erin’s reluctance to speak continued to persist, Elvin also narrowed her eyes and glared at her Erin, questioning her.
“The money. Where did you write it?”
“Oh, some clothes and jewelry…”
“… How short are you?”
“About half…”
The area of the Armitas training ground is very large.
Since the wall was destroyed, the repair cost to be borne there is bound to be a huge amount.
As for Erin, she judged that there would be no problem in covering the repair cost, so she brought up the story of her repair cost by asking Eleanor to take responsibility for it as well.
But Erin told Alvin right away that the cash she had wasn’t enough to pay for all her repairs.
“…”
Elvin realized why, why Erin was desperately trying to shut her own mouth.
“Spent that much money on clothes or jewelry?”
“Did I know that I would be like this too? What! I wanted to look pretty for Hyuni, so I wanted to decorate her with expensive clothes or jewelry like Eleanor-sama!”
Her longing for her elegant Eleanor, who looked noble even when seen by women like her, and her desire to foolishly imitate her, had reached the present and acted as a very variable.
It would have been nice if she had been able to honestly explain her situation and get her a period of probation, but her own immature sister did not give her candid explanation to Eleanor for fear of getting her scolded further. .
“Hmm…”
Alvin thought about her, comparing the amount she lacked to the amount of money she had.
Borrowing her money wasn’t difficult in itself, but she was in trouble for what to do with her immature sister, who was in trouble for this pitiful reason.
“Good. I will lend you.”
“Really? Thank you! Brother!”
“There are conditions instead.”
“… Condition?”
When Erwin mentioned her condition, her Erin’s eyes widened and asked back.
“Take one adventurer job with me.”
Currently, in the absence of Derkin, Erwin is performing solo adventure work like Erin.
She carries out the requests assigned to silver-tier adventurers, and having the help of Erinn, a gold-tier adventurer, is a really strong support.
Even if her brother and sister split the cost of her request in half, from the perspective of Erin, who is no different from Erwin as a more advanced worker, labor at a very cheap price is not efficient.
“… I’m pretty expensive, right?”
“If you don’t like it, you can make money yourself and pay it back.”
Erin hurriedly grabbed Alvin’s shoulder as he turned her head away relentlessly and started walking towards her nursery.
“Okay! I’ll do it! I’ll do it like a request!”
It was none other than Erin who needed the cash right away, so she cried and ate mustard, and she had no choice but to accept Alvin’s offer.
“It was bad! You can just borrow it!”
“Have you not heard of this? Money matters should be thoroughly dealt with in family relationships as well.”
“It’s small!”
“Because you have an empty head, you end up overspending on such ignorance.”
No matter how many words of accusation he poured out while pouting her lips, Alvin didn’t budge and fought back.
Rather, it is always her sister who is hurt by her brother’s evaluation of her hard-heartedness.
“Hey…”
“… Ugh.”
As she became an adult and even had a man, she wanted to grow up a bit, but in Erwin’s eyes, Erin was still an immature younger sister.
“Stand by at the Adventurer’s Guild tomorrow morning. The guild will directly see and decide on the request.”
“… Okay.”
Erin let out a small sigh and nodded her head.
After a brief talk, the two siblings arrived at the orphanage.
As soon as we arrived at the entrance of the nursery school, we found two siblings who were young children playing in the yard.
“Ah! It’s Erin’s sister!”
“Uh? Really? Sister Erin is here!”
Upon spotting Erin, her children rose from their seats and swarmed with delighted looks around her Erin.
“Huh. Guys. I’m here.”
As Erin smiles and strokes each child’s head as she steps into the orphanage building.
Inside the building, Lily, wearing her apron, came out and greeted her two siblings.
“Come on.”
“Sister. Eleanor-sama wants to have dinner together tonight!”
As soon as Erin saw Lily’s face, she immediately relayed Eleanor’s message.
“Okay? Then I should go home a little early today.”
Lily smiled and nodded, then shifted her gaze to Alvin.
“Alvin. A guest is coming.”
“Customer? To me?”
As soon as Elvin heard her guest’s story, he tilted her head and asked again.
“Huh.”
The fact that he is staying at this nursery school is a fact that can be known by doing a little research, perhaps because he is the older brother of Erin in the adventurer’s guild of Armitas, or because he is gradually becoming famous for his overwhelming visual as a black knight. .
Occasionally, there are cases where the adventurer’s guild directly visits the adventurer’s place of stay for a personal nomination request, but in that case, it is similar to the preferential treatment applied to adventurers of the gold ranks like Erin.
This is not applicable to him, who is still a silver-tier adventurer.
“Who?”
“Hmm… He didn’t mention his name, but he’s a very old man.”
“… Old man?”
“Huh. Maybe… It’s not to the extent of Illyana-sama, but you seem like a wizard with very strong magical powers.”
As a half-demon succubus, sensitive to the energy of others, Lily recognized at once that her guests were of an unusual level.
“An elderly wizard with strong magical powers…”
Erin’s impression frowned at once as she pondered over the customer’s appearance Lily described.
Eventually, Erin glanced at her side and studied Alvin’s expression.
“…”
Alvin, who didn’t say anything with her stiff expression, eventually opened her mouth and moved her steps to the guest parlor that Lily had mentioned.
“Who is that guest and why is Alvin’s face hardened like that?”
Lily asked Erin with an expression wondering if Erin knew.
Erin, who had the same bad expression on her face as Elvin headed to her drawing room, answered Lily’s question with a small sigh.
“Maybe… It’s like her brother’s old boss.”
“… Superior?”
“Huh. That too… The one who was at the top of the bosses.”
“…”
Lily knew about the story of Erwin and Erin’s past, even if it was only fragmentary.
The place where Elvin took part in her human days is the ‘Magus Wizard Troupe’, which is said to be able to join only the elite wizards of the Kingdom of Fernias.
Then she said that she was the one who was at the top of the Magus Wizards.
“… A high-ranking magician like Illyana-sama?”
