Episode 68
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Lamb, salad, and kebabs.
The menu on the table was quite fancy.
They started eating naturally, and Aveiro, who had become a sack of barley, ate very quietly.
I suddenly became curious.
“Why did you accept Dietrich’s request?”
Aveiro, who was about to tear at the lamb, quietly puts the meat down.
“Because I was told to accept it from above.”
Look at this.
“You were just hands and feet?”
“It’s probably not hands or feet. It’s just… …tool, I guess the word tool would be more appropriate.”
I ended up laughing hysterically.
“Yeah, by the way, you said you found half of it? So how much was the total deposit?”
“It’s 500,000 gold.”
Honestly, I was a little surprised.
“500,000? Not 50,000?”
“Yes, 500,000 gold. Exactly 500,000 gold.”
“That damn bastard must have been quite capable. How did he manage to borrow 500,000 gold?”
“It seems like you’ve done a lot of different businesses.”
Aveiro picks up the meat as if it were no big deal.
But why aren’t you focusing on the meat and are you focusing all your senses on me?
“What, are you trying to leave me?”
“… … Did you feel that way?”
This guy is more interesting than I thought.
“If you don’t notice when all your senses are focused on me, then you’re a f*cking idiot. Is there something to this ‘various businesses’ thing?”
“… … I can’t answer for free.”
“Who asked you to answer? Just finish eating. You’re the one who has to pay half.”
“……yes?”
The guy is confused.
No, but why are you embarrassed?
“It’s Dutch pay.”
“… … If we split the bill, there are five of us including me, so I only have to pay one-fifth, right?”
“Oh, no. Actually, I was going to eat all this food by myself. Since you’re here with me, we’re splitting the bill.”
“That doesn’t make any sense… … .”
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He smiled brightly.
“Why doesn’t it make sense? This is a Dutch page.”
Aveiro, who was at a loss for words as he laughed heartily, kept his mouth shut.
Let’s stop joking around here.
“I’m just joking. Eat the rest. You don’t have to pay for it. Should I call this a gift for my journey to the afterlife?”
“… … .”
“Of course, if you finish your work properly, it won’t be a gift from the afterlife.”
Aveiro, who was looking back and forth between the teacher and me, had an expression on his face that seemed to suggest that he really didn’t have to pay.
“Just eat it. I was just joking.”
“… … Yes, I understand.”
The meal continues again.
After a short while, the teacher said.
[Time is up.]
I slowly raised my head.
The sun has long since set, and the moon is still high in the sky.
When I looked down again, Cell, Charlotte, and Aveiro had stopped eating and were standing still.
The gaze shifts to the side.
Light slowly emanating from the Master’s body.
Then, with a squeaking sound, the Master’s body turned into a doll on the spot.
Aveiro’s mouth, which had been blank for a moment, suddenly opens wide.
“What the heck is this… … .”
After standing up, he sat the teacher on his shoulders and carefully folded the clothes the teacher was wearing.
“It doesn’t matter where you go and talk, but if possible, just keep your mouth shut. Okay?”
“……yes.”
Master’s secret and my secret.
Honestly, I don’t care if that becomes known to the world.
If you don’t bother me, I’m not joking, I’ll just leave you alone.
However, looking at it now, it seems that Aveiro feels that our Master has cast a fairly high level of ‘polymorph’.
By the way.
“It really suits you, Master, to sit on my shoulders.”
The master’s little finger taps my head.
After finishing the meal in a hurry, I paid the bill with the money I had ripped off from Dietrich.
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As we come out, Aveiro still has a blank expression on his face and bows his head to the Master.
“Uh… … um… … I guess I’ll go now.”
“Okay. Bye.”
Aveiro disappears.
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The teacher said while looking at his back.
[I probably never said anything like that in my past life.]
“What do you mean?”
The master, who had become a doll, spoke without taking his eyes off Abeiro’s back.
[I don’t know if I should call it intuition. Maybe it’s because I’m so familiar with death, but strangely, children who are about to die have that kind of smell.]
This is definitely the first time I’ve heard of it.
And now I’m saying this.
“Are you saying that the branch manager is going to die soon?”
[Yeah, but I don’t think you’ll kill me.]
“Is that also an intuition?”
The Master’s small, bare hand gently strokes my hair.
That was the end.
I didn’t say anything.
The teacher didn’t say anything else either.
‘I heard that many talented people died in the kingdom during this period. Is this one of them?’
Hmm… … .
[It looks like you’re having trouble.]
“I’m worried about it… … Honestly, I don’t know.”
I don’t really know what kind of person he is.
I only know the name and title.
Sure, he seems to have some ability, but he hasn’t really shown me anything for sure.
I thought only up to that point.
So, we went back to the villa.
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The next day.
My teacher speaks to me as I am soaking in the rooftop pool wearing only my pants.
[There is no such thing as a freeloader.]
“Haha. Isn’t this all a vacation? Why don’t you come in too, Master?”
The teacher chuckles and turns his head.
In that direction, there was a cell with only its feet in the water, thinking deeply about something.
I swam toward him.
“Have you thought about it?”
-Are you worried?
“What to do next, things like that.”
-… … Yes. I decided.
The little boy’s words are quite serious.
hmm.
“Can I ask you something?”
Cell looks at me and speaks slowly, but firmly.
-I will take revenge.
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“Revenge? On whom?”
-… … To my parents who handed me over to them, and to the man named Beckerman who cut off my arm.
I ended up laughing faintly.
It looks like Thanos now has a competitor.
That’s a very strong competitor too.
-Is it difficult?
The voice asking hesitantly lacks strength.
Why does this guy’s emotions change so quickly?
“It’s hard, but you have to hurry. They might pass away before you can get your revenge.”
-Ah… … Then what should I do then?
A child is still a child.
“You can think about that when the time comes. Things always change.”
Cell nods as if he understands.
-By the way, where have Charlotte and Thanos been since this morning?
Charlotte and Thanos.
I wonder if the titles haven’t been sorted out yet.
Let’s just move on.
“I went to the academy. Oh, right. You were sleeping then, weren’t you?”
-……yes.
There was no need to wake up the sleeping child.
anyway.
“There were more things to learn there than I thought. That’s why I sent you there.”
-Is it different from learning under a boss?
Oh, and by the way, since last night, Cell has been calling me Boss, just like Charlotte.
“Actually, the only area I’m confident enough to teach anyone is fighting.”
-ah…….
Although Cell is a dragon, he is young and lacks experience.
He knows he is smart, but when it comes to making decisions, he is like a child.
So I decided to elaborate a little bit.
“Building relationships with someone, forming natural communication, things like that don’t develop just by spending time with a limited group of people. There are quite a lot of people at the academy. Should I say that it’s overflowing with kids from all over the country? If you talk to those kids and spend time with them, your thinking will naturally broaden. That’s called growth. In fact, I’d like to send you there too, but I don’t think you’re ready yet.”
This is absolutely not an exaggeration.
I have nothing to learn at the academy, but other kids have a lot to learn.
How to train mana or how to swing a sword.
I can tell you all these things, but I can’t tell you about how to build relationships with people.
I, too, am very immature in that regard.
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Cell tells me like that.
-I… I can’t get along well with anyone.
“why?”
-… … It’s just like that.
I stroked the guy’s head with my wet hands.
“The past is the past. There’s no need to be tied down by it.”
At that moment, I paused and thought about what I should say.
-Isn’t the boss stuck in the past?
Did you know that before you said it, or did you just point it out?
Or is it just the innocence of a child?
He quietly stroked Cell’s head.
“Does it matter? I am me, and you are you. And you are much younger than me. So live freely, freely. And if you want to go to the Academy, just tell me.”
As I was talking, I forgot that I am currently 14 years old.
I forgot, let’s just skip this too.
Because that’s not the important part.
As if he had read the strange atmosphere, Sel nodded silently.
Cute guy.
Then Guinness came up to the rooftop.
“There is a guest who has come to see Confucius.”
“me?”
“yes.”
“Who is it?”
“I heard he’s the Ascendant branch manager of the Alaves Guild.”
I turned my head slightly towards my teacher.
“I guess he’s not dead yet?”
The master did not answer.
He shrugged and said to Guinness.
“Tell them to come up here first.”
“Yes, I understand.”
“Oh, and that northern region? I think there’s a food called Schwein… something over there?”
Guinness immediately takes up the phone with a soft smile on his lips.
“You mean Schweinshaxe? It’s a pretty famous dish even in the northern regions.”
“Would that be possible this evening?”
Guinness answered with the same gentle smile as before.
“Of course it is possible.”
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So Guinness goes down, and soon a man comes up.
A face worn out with fatigue.
A bit different from the neat impression I had seen last night, dark circles were running down his eyes, and even his complexion itself was quite dark. Aveiro bowed his head to the master sitting on the chair, looked at Cell, who was just dipping his feet in the pool, and then turned his gaze to look at me one last time.
“The bribe. I brought it.”
Wow, things are getting done really quickly.
“You found half of them in one day?”
“yes.”
Aveiro takes six pieces of paper out of his pocket and hands them to me.
This looks familiar.
Upon closer inspection, I noticed that it was similar to the receipt I had taken when I robbed Dietrich Hermann.
After roughly pulling up Manaman and shaking off the moisture in his hands, he received six slips, and Aveiro gave a further explanation.
“This is a bearer check issued on the Continental Battlefield. Just show the check and you will receive the gold on the spot.”
