Chapter 277 – Ep.276 Smith, a Black Company in Another World
Six days have passed since the Holy Knight left.
“Is it too clunky?”
Small boxes lined up on the floor.
It contains a token to give as a gift to Siron and other lovers.
I tried to package it somehow to make it look presentable, but my hands were actually less dexterous than I thought. So I just put it in a small paper box sold at a street vendor.
Toouk.
When I heard the sound of someone stepping down the stairs, I grabbed the box I had left at the far left and got up.
“Smith.”
Soon, Beneo’s voice came from behind me.
“Everyone gathered together.”
At her words, I nodded and turned around.
Beneo is looking this way with his arms crossed under his chest in front of the stairs going up.
The soft light of the magic lamp illuminating the basement combined with her gray hair naturally created a mysterious yet beautiful atmosphere.
“Please come for a moment.”
As I gestured, her eyes turned to the small box in her hand. Then he walked slowly and stood in front of me.
“It’s a gift.”
“Hmm. “I’m happy, but I’m not excited because I already know I’m going to get it.”
As she spoke, the corners of her mouth turned up, which was rare. Beneo took the box in my hand and immediately opened the lid. I reached out and took out the token from the box. And he stuffed it down her neck himself.
“Umm… “This is a little exciting.”
Beneo blushed as she fiddled with the decoration of the token strapped around her neck. I don’t know if it was because she knew the contents in advance, but unlike her sister, she said it with a very pleased expression.
“I feel like it’s completely yours… So it’s good.”
“I hope other kids like it too.”
“I don’t think anyone will refuse if you fill it in yourself. Siron and Cernax. Those two might be a little uncomfortable. “But I won’t refuse.”
I nodded to her answer and took the remaining boxes lined up on the floor.
“But how long are you going to hide?”
“I think it’s a little strange that it suddenly appears.”
“Personally, I think it will be okay.”
“I am not okay.”
Beneo, who was climbing the stairs next to her, shook her head.
“I don’t mind continuing to live like this, but… Since you don’t want that, I’ll reveal it after I visit Goldias Kingdom.”
“There is no point in going back then.”
“… “I won’t soften it.”
After chatting briefly with Beneo, I went up to the second floor. We closed our mouths quietly, as we had promised, and opened the bedroom door.
The lovers who were waiting for me sitting on the sofa in the center all turned their heads in this direction.
Siron, Cernax, Giena, Nyaho.
Kernax spent time with me instead of going to work at the security post since yesterday, and Siron and Gienna also returned before sunset today, thanks to their sister’s consideration. Nyaho also didn’t leave the house today.
I closed the bedroom door and approached them. Their eyes were focused directly on the box in my hand.
‘I think I’m expecting too much.’
Even Shiron, who would normally have been the first to ask, ‘What is that?’, Couldn’t take his eyes off the box in her hand. I quietly put down the boxes I was holding on the table.
“Shiron. “Come here.”
“… Huh.”
When I made a gesture, Siron stood up and approached me, looking at the box and then back at me.
It would have been better if each token had a slightly different design, but unfortunately, unlike stockings, only one design could be registered per slot, so all tokens had the same shape.
I picked up a box and handed it to Shiron. Siron stared at the box held out for a moment, then she carefully stretched out her hand and took the box.
“Open it.”
“…”
Gulp – Siron swallowed his saliva once and opened the lid of the box. And after checking the contents inside, I blinked several times.
“… ?”
Slightly tilted head.
I took out the token and stood close in front of Siron before he opened his mouth.
“W-what is it… ?”
“Wait for a sec. “Just stay still.”
He bent down slightly and placed the mark directly on Siron’s neck.
“… ?”
As I took a step away, Siron stroked the token around his neck and continued to blink. As if I don’t know what this is.
I cleared my throat briefly and spoke to Siron, who was giving me an intense look demanding an explanation.
“It’s a sign that she’s mine.”
“… Ticket, ceremony?”
Siron tilted his head slightly to the other side. Fortunately, he did not furrow his forehead or lower his eyebrows.
She stretched out her arm and gently wrapped Siron’s waist and pulled him into her arms. I said looking at the red eyes looking up at me.
“She’s my girl.” It’s mine. A sign to let people know.”
“…”
Siron’s cheeks gradually turn red. The eyes that were looking up at me turned slightly downward.
“Well, there are rings and other things too.”
“No?”
“City… !! What I don’t like is… It’s not… It’s a bit embarrassing…”
“Shiron, are you ashamed of me?”
“Well, that’s not what I said… !!”
Siron, who had lowered her head, looked up at me again and pursed her lips.
“… Isn’t it okay to do it…”
“Thank you.”
As she lightly pressed her lips to her heated forehead, Shiron jumped out of her embrace. She then sat down, fiddling with the decoration of the token.
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like he really disliked it.
“Cernax?”
“… Huh.”
Cernax, whose face was as red as Siron’s, quietly got up and came in front of me. I likewise held out her box to her.
“You don’t like it, do you?”
“Never… Smith, I am happy to receive anything you give me.”
With a click, the mark was placed around Kernax’s neck. Like Siron, she touched the decoration of her token and muttered softly.
“I can already picture Lina making a fuss…”
“Wouldn’t you be jealous if I told you I gave it to you as a gift?”
“I guess so… Tsk.”
As he unexpectedly kissed her forehead, Cernax kissed her lips and quietly retreated behind her. Then she turned around and sat down next to Siron.
“Giena.”
“Yes.”
He came in front of her and filled her with her mark.
I didn’t make her blush or feel embarrassed. She just smiles softly.
“Thank you.”
“I am more grateful.”
After kissing her forehead, I quietly returned to her seat. I looked at Nyaho, her eyes sparkling and looking very expectant.
“Come on.”
“Yes~!!”
She stands in front of me, wagging her tail as if she was waiting. Then she closed her eyes and craned her neck.
I smiled at that sight, opened the box myself, and stuffed the token onto Nyaho’s pure white neck. Nyaho’s tail began to wave more roughly.
“Do you like it that much?”
“It’s so good~”
Nyaho hugged my waist and came into my arms.
“Nyahoya.”
“Yes~?”
Nya Ho raised his head, widening his eyes. I bent down slightly and whispered the secret hidden in her mark into her ear on top of her head.
“… Really?”
“Huh. Now, look at the kids and tell them.”
Nya Ho nodded her head and got away from me. Then she turned her body to face the lovers who were looking at her with slightly sharp eyes and pursed her lips.
“Nyan nyang nyang.”
A word that suited her appearance very well came out of Nya Ho’s mouth. As soon as her cute lips closed, a change occurred in her body.
Nyaho’s color faded in an instant.
The faces of the three people who were watching this showed confusion and surprise at the same time.
“And… “The color has really faded.”
Nyaho was also amazed by the changes that had occurred in her own body, and her eyes twinkled at me as she examined her half-transparent body here and there. I stroked her hair, wagging her tail, and told the three people who were still looking at me in amazement about the hidden function of the sign.
Siron, who heard my entire explanation, said with an expression of disbelief.
“Becoming transparent… ? Well, that makes sense… ?”
“Come here.”
As I gestured, Siron blinked her eyes and approached me. I bent down and untied her token from Siron’s neck.
“How is it?”
“What… ?”
Shiron turns her body and blinks her eyes blankly. And raised her hand toward where Nyaho was –
Bah!!
“Nya?!”
Nyaho was hit on the back of her head by Siron’s palm and fell in front of her.
Siron let out a long sigh, looking down at the palm of her hand that had hit the back of her head.
“I had a taste… I can not see…”
“…”
I was about to tell her what to say, but then I quietly put the sign around Siron’s neck again. Only then did Siron move her eyes towards Nyaho, who was lying on the floor and squirming.
“… That’s interesting. Hey. “You guys take it off too.”
Kernax and Geena looked at me. When I nodded, they released the sign themselves. And just like Siron, her eyes widened and an expression of surprise appeared on her face.
“You understand now, right? “What a wonderful gift I have given you.”
“… It’s amazing, it’s amazing. But why is your starter word like that?”
Siron asked, looking up at me with wide-open eyes. I answered confidently, hugging Siron’s waist.
“Because I want to hear it. Why. No?”
“… Who said no… “I was just asking.”
Danny Shiron averted his gaze as he brought her face closer.
“Shiron.”
“… Huh?”
When I suddenly pulled his cheek, Shiron looked at me with a blank expression.
“Please be friendly with Nyaho too.”
“… Ugh.”
Shiron glanced sideways at Nyaho, who was lying on her floor, and she nodded once with a slightly dissatisfied look in her eyes. I let go of Siron’s cheek that I was pulling. And then I lightly kissed her protruding lips.
Siron’s protruding lips slowly return to their original position. I laughed to myself and walked over to Nyaho, who was lying on the floor. He carefully turned his body over and lifted it up.
“Shall we talk about the rest in bed?”
**
The day of departure dawned.
“Is it really okay if I just take that with me?”
“You’re right. Anyway, I think it would be a good idea to bring at least a change of clothes.”
“It seems like the clothes are a little thinner than that.”
The road to the temple.
The three lovers sat next to me and talked about various concerns.
“Uh, uhm… “Thank you for your concern, but this is enough.”
How many times have I been repeating these words?
Since I had to be away for at least three months, I tried to leave my mark as vividly as possible. But for some reason, the three of us, excluding Nyaho, clung to me and went to sleep as if they were satisfied even before midnight.
Thanks to this, I was forced to sleep in a slightly deprived state. As a result, I opened my eyes as soon as the sun began to rise and immediately prepared to leave.
The high priest told me to come visit him at a convenient time, but when it comes to leaving a place you have always loved, the longer you wait, the more regret you have. For that reason, I had decided to leave early in the morning from the day the paladin came.
‘… ‘I was planning to leave quietly.’
I thought that if I were to see him off for no reason, my longing would only increase, so I thought I would leave a letter for him while he was asleep from exhaustion. But as if they knew what I was thinking in advance, the three of them woke up at the same time as me and are now clinging to my side and walking together to see me off.
For your information, Beneo and Nyaho headed to the guard’s Masa to prepare the carriage.
“More than that, that she-cat bitch…” …”
Siron, who was walking while holding hands, suddenly started grinding his teeth.
“I definitely think we need to punish him harshly this time.”
Even Giena showed a straight face.
“Keu, keuhm.”
Kernax was the only one who cleared his throat as if he had been stabbed somewhere.
As I tried to calm down the angry Siron and Giena, I soon arrived at the Temple of Abundance. And then, as if waiting, someone in familiar clothes walked towards me from inside the temple.
A person wearing mysteriously deep white robes stopped in front of us.
A dark shadow over the nose.
A long scar on the left cheek.
A being that cannot be felt even though it is right in front of you.
“Nimea… ?”
When I called his name, the person wearing a robe raised his head and looked at me. The bright sunlight could not erase the shadows cast on the mysterious robe.
“I see you often.”
The mouth exposed under the shade drew a soft curved line and revealed fangs like those of a wild beast.
Nemea stared at my face for a moment, then glanced at the three lovers standing on the left and right.
“Have you finished saying goodbye?”
“Yes. “Have you done enough?!”
Two legs suddenly fell off the floor. Upper body leaning backwards. Yes. Nemea suddenly held me in her arms like a princess.
“Then I’ll take this guy with me.”
“Sleep, sleep, nemeeeeek!!”
I could once again feel what it felt like to fly.
**
“… “What happened now?”
“I think Mr. Smith has been kidnapped.”
“… It’s not kidnapping. It’s not kidnapping… Kidnap… “Okay.”
The three of them hugged Smith at an imperceptible speed, crumpling her face as she remembered Nemea jumping off the top of a tall building and disappearing.
“…”
“…”
“…”
In a situation no one expected, the three stood in front of the temple for a while, staring blankly in the direction where Smith had disappeared.
A few minutes passed like that.
“Well, I have something to tell you.”
“… What.”
Cernax opened her mouth and looked at her with a sullen look on her face.
“… “I must leave the city in two days at the latest in order to take care of the business that the lord has assigned me.”
“…”
Siron’s eyes narrowed.
Cernax continued as she spoke, avoiding her furtive gaze.
“Well, um… If I leave the city this time, I won’t be back for quite some time. So, please take care of the house in the meantime-“
“Hey.”
Kernax rolled his eyes at Siron’s low voice. Siron was glaring at Cernax with her evil aura fluttering as if she was going to eat her at any moment.
Said Cernax, swallowing her saliva.
“I’m just listening.”
“… “I’m really sorry.”
It was not the face of someone who would never feel sorry.
“Me and Giena are planning to leave the city soon due to a special request from the guild headquarters.”
“T-special request?”
“Uh. Special. Star. Of. Roe. “So I’m really sorry, but I don’t think I can take care of the house.”
“Yeah, I see. It can’t be helped. Hmm.”
Siron’s eyes narrowed even further.
“By the way.”
Siron took a step closer to Kernax. Then she forced herself to look into the eyes of Cernax, who had avoided her gaze by tilting her head at an odd angle.
“Really, really coincidentally.”
Between the narrowed eyes, the cold red eyes accurately captured Kernax’s face.
“If we leave here and meet by chance…”
The corners of Siron’s mouth slowly turned upward.
“I think it’ll be really fun. Right?”
“… Well, I guess so. Haha…”
Cernax followed Siron’s lead and raised the corners of his mouth. But her eyes were not smiling at all.
