DONE! I FINISHED THE 37 CHAPTER!
I supposed to finished it earlier like....t...wo...weeks...ago.... (T_T)
There are several reason:
1. My school somehow like to call their student in the middle of their semester vacation to do some important presentation project which will determine their grade for the next two semester till they graduate.
2. The new head teacher really loves their student to the point where he cuts off the student vacation by one week (The school start one week early from now on).
3. Somehow my phone and computer is really hard to cooperated with whenever I open the royalroadl (they would either processing everything very slowly, the space bar gone missing and freeze up, probably because my computer is old).
4. I got stuck with some video games which have to be played at certain time to progress toward the next level now my sleeping time is all messed up since some event appeared at 12 a.m. or 2-3 a.m.)
5. I..... I got caught watching some drama show with 8 season series....(I no longer know which is gong to marry whom and who is the bad or the good guy anymore...and I'm regreting it since I hate the ending)
Well, the mostly part is my fault (> w <)/ I can't stand the temptation to stop watching nor playing the game.
Here is chapter 37, thanks for reading (^_^)/
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Chapter 37[Unedited]
After we ate, Kulak and his member seperated themself from us. He said they have some place to visit. Just before we part, once again, the three idiots give me those sympathetic look.
“Take care yourself”(Kalan)
“Eat more!”(Morty)
“Don’t give up kid!”(Herald)
Even Josha didn’t say anything except pats me in the head. Those guys….seriously, what happened?
The night bell chime, declaring the time for shops to close. Julia’s maid have been waiting for us in the previous location. She look at me with a smile before she take a bow toward me.
“Thank you for today. Despited for my selfish request, you kindly accompany me all night”(Julia)
She said with smile all over her face.
Nuooo! The mini Julia just gave me destructive smile!!!! She is so cute!
Julia gave me a gold coin for today request, but that is to much for just walking her around the town.
“I have fun today, so your gratituted is enough”(Rune/Crev)
Rather than paying me, walking with my favourite heroine is enough reward for me. I wouldn’t meet with her anymore after all.
I really want her authograp or maybe a picture together as a memento!!! At least I was holding hand with her!
Her maid seems startled for a moment because of my answer before she looking at me with pity in her eyes.
Seriously, what is wrong with people today?!
Since I’m already near the inn, I just walk slowly back. Just a few houses away, I decided to stealthy back to my room.
In the end, I’m unable to find anything for Kiel. I will try again tomorrow. Worse case, I will try to make something myself, my crafting level is 57 so I’m sure it will be quite decent!
...But I’m not sure to be able to create something that Kiel like… Let’s just say I have no sense in what kind of jewellary high society girls into. This time I will find something useful and pretty for her! She is my first woman friend after all!
As my mind wander on what kind present I should find, I manage to jump from wall to wall and reach my room’s window. Just when I’m about to enter, my eyes lock up with someone’s
“......”(Kena)
“.......”(Lila)
“....H-hey…..?”(Rune/Crev)
Kena is looking really mad while Lila had a teary eyes.
“Ruuunnee!”(Lila)
Lila suddenly charged toward me with full force, almost causing me fall back down.
“Why did you go out with out telling anyone!”(Kena)
This time Kena is charging toward me. Her big body push all of us fall down the window.
“W-waa!”(Rune/Crev)
Just before we hit the ground, Kena lift the two of us with her wings and we land safely.
“That was dangerous you two!”(Rune/Crev)
Just I was about to be angry at them, both Lila and Kena grab me tightly with a very worried look. Both of them talking at the same time as their faces getting closer to mine.
“Walking in the middle of the night is dangerous!”(Kena)
“I was so scared because you’re not in your room!!”(Lila)
“Small child like you walking alone is dangerous!”(Kena)
“I was so surprised when you weren’t in your room”(Lila)
“It’s not because I want to search your clothes and Lila tried to stop me or anything! I just sincerely worried!”(Kena)
...I’m doubting you the moment you say that...
“I was so worried since your [Xiarxa Crystal] isn’t inside the inn anymore!”(Lila)
“If anything happened to you, Kiel will kill us!”(Kena)
Space! I need space! Your faces is too close!!!
.....What was Kena said?
“Kena!”(Lila)
“What?...Oh shoot!”(Kena)
Kena just showing me a shocked face as if she just realized something.
“What about Kiel?”(Rune/Crev)
“K-Kiel was worried about...you?”(Lila)
Why are you end your sentences with question? Why are you look so scared?
“T-that’s right! Kiel is worried about you! That brat asked us to keep an eye on you!”(Kena)
“Kiel did?”(Rune/Crev)
“”Yeah!””
Both of them nods in affirmation as if their life depend on it.
Kiel...Seriously, I’m not a kid you know…
Althought in this world she is older than me, I’m older than her mentally. If I accumulated my age, I’m already an….old man.
....W-well, I’m not even 30 yet! Not an old man yet! Definetly not! Also, did she forget how dependable(?) I am back when we were in that slave trader cage?
“M-more importantly! Just where did you go?”(Kena)
“We were really worried. We’re just about to go after you. We thought you were kidnapped!”(Lila)
“I was just went sightseeing”(Rune/Crev)
It might better for me to not say anything about me meeting Julia or Kulak. It will be to much work to explain...
“It still dangerous for little kid to go alone!”(Kena)
“It is dangerous! Please don’t go alone at night!”(Lila)
I usually wandering alone at the dungeon whenever I go with the twins or Mark, only these two that always treat me like a child.
...Let just apologize, they both seems really scared and worried right now. Those glares scare me…
After looking at my dejected face, Kena and Lila soon calmed down.
“...Please inform us before you went out next time”(Lila)
“...I’m sorry”(Rune/Crev)
“*Sight*...Let’s just get some sleep now. We have to wake up early tomorrow”(Kena)
While looking tired, Kena hold my hand as we walk inside the inn. Why?
*kyun*kyun*kyun*
And why she is squishing it like that?
“...Even with out holding my hand, I won’t run away you know?”(Rune/Crev)
“I know, I just want to hold these soft, white, cute hands of yours”(Kena)
*slap*
Her last word make me slap her hand out of instict.
“.....”(Rune/Crev)
“....Kena...”(Lila)
“What? Her hands is really soft!”(Kena)
“...”(Rune/Crev)
There is nothing I can say about that peverted smile she have. If only she behave more and shut her mouth, Kena could pass as tomboyish beauty...Only if she behave and shut her mouth…
“W-why are you giving me that cold look? I just can’t help myself okay!”(Kena)
“*Sigh*...”(Rune/Crev)
She might be beyond repair…
“Stop looking at me like that! Even thought you look cute, somehow I feel a huge
dissapointment in your eyes! This make me feel bad!”(Kena)
“....Kena”(Lila)
“Lila! Heal my broken heart!”(Kena)
Kena turn around and hug Lila immidiently.
“*Sigh*”(Lila)
Even Lila seems to be giving up. Yup, just like usual coversation…
After we ascend to the second floor, the door which supposed to be Mark’s room suddenly open wide. The twins exited the room with tears in their eyes and run toward us.
““Crev!””
W-wait, what is going on here?! Why are they crying???
“We can’t do this anymore!”(Parika)
“My body can’t take it anymore!”(Perika)
“What happened?!”(Kena)
“”Mark force us!””(The twins)
“”“Mark did what?!”””
All of us dumbfounded… Kena seems to be beyond mad, Lila’s face went pale while I...still trying to processing what was happening right now.
“Who said I will let you take a break?”
Very omnious voice could be heard from Mark’s room. As he walk out of his room, Mark have a very scary face, a dead beat face…
The twins quickly hide behind Kena’s back while saying curses word toward Mark such as ‘Petty!’, ‘Devil’, ‘Heartless’, ‘Virgin’, and ‘Monster’.
“What this is about? How can you forcing on girl! Are you even a man?!”(Kena)
Kena seems to be really mad toward Mark, she seems ready to explode anytime.
“Crev! You are here!”(Mark)
But Mark just come toward me and ignoring Kena as if she didn’t exist.
“Where have you been?! I need someone to make the whipcream!”(Mark)
“...What?”(Rune/Crev)
“Those two glutton! They can’t do any simple task even thought it for their own sake that I’m cooking in the middle of night!”(Mark)
“We tried hard! We whisk for an hours!”(Perika)
“You just didn’t give us any rest and keep ordering us to make more wipe-cream!”(Parika)
“You guys keep eating them! Of course I need for you to make them again!”(Mark)
Now that Mark mention it, the twins have whip cream around their cheek.
“...Not our fault they were so tempting…”(Parika)
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“We work for it so it was given for us to earn it”(Perika)
“Crev, I really need you! I can’t work with these two!”(Mark)
“Why are you cooking in the middle of night in the first place?”(Kena)
I have the same question. Also, Mark seems a bit fire up?
“He have been dragging us to help ever since we told him our grandpa love sweet”(Perika)
“Your grandpa...like sweet?”(Rune/Crev)
With that scary look, how he handle the twins and now the fact he like sweet at that age...is your grandfather trying to win gap moe contest?
“Un! He often secretly order sweet from Tiera. But since he order it pretext that it is for us, the servant naturally bring the sweet to us”(Parika)
“When we eat it, grandpa will sulking for days”(Perika)
….That is…
“...Adorable…”(Rune/Crev)
I didn’t think everyone would heard me, but everyone look at me with awe.
“Grandpa...adorable…”(Perika)
“That is the first anyone ever say that…”(Parika)
“I do realize you are and odd kid...But not this odd”(Mark)
“R-...Crev, please don’t do that! Don’t fall in love with anyone close to you or close to your friend! It will shorten their lives!”(Kena)
“They will die!”(Lila)
Apparently both Lila and Kena look at me with fear while treating my affection as a lethal deases… Let’s just ignore their words or it will damage my heart...
“Anyway, you can just make the sweet tomorrow can’t you?”(Rune/Crev)
Mark’s skill is really good, although he is still lacking on dessert recipes, the number of sweets he made already plenty. He even could create a a simple cake in short amount of time. Why would bother himself prepare some sweet in the middle of night?
“That isn’t the issue!”(Mark)
I tilt my head slightly over Mark’s word
“Our grandpa, his servant just hand us a letter a few hours ago”(Parika)
He found out where his grandchildren inn already? He must be really worried about them.
Perika hand me a letter with her family crest. In the letter, the twins’ grandfather challange Mark as head of Tiera chef to create a dessert with the selected main ingredient. As I finished reading the letter, Mark bring out a bowl full of…Is that a fruit?
“It is a challange letter! To porposed this difficulty level...My blood is boiling!”(Mark)
Mark...I know you tend to excited about cooking, but I didn’t know that you are actually hot-blooded type...
“This! It might look similiar with Epgra berry, but it isn’t.”(Mark)
Epgra berry is what they call grape in this world. Apparently it was called berry intead a fruit here.
“The fruit’s skin is taut, it taste a bit sweet and there’s not much meat behind their red skin with the seed as hard as rock...This fruit give delicate and fleeting flavor”(Mark)
“It called Gredra berry, not epgra. It one of our local fruit”(Perika)
“This berry is grandpa’s favorite. He used to pick them with grandma at the forest”(Parika)
It seems the twins’ grandfather once said how nice to eat some sweet made out of gredra berry and they told Mark about it.
After buying some gredra in nearby stall, they have been practicing to make dessert with it. They were having hard time since the berry only have small amount of meat.
“But turn out this berries were hard to process! And the problem is this berries are actually used only the seed”(Perika)
“The seeds are really hard and used for deodorizer smelly room! While the berries can easily get stale”(Parika)
Although gredra a little bit similiar to grape, the color is green and white… Sometimes the plant in this world can be similiar, slightly different or completely different to the plant in the earth.
Just as he give me the bowl full of gredra berries, a familiar smell catch my nose…
“!...This smell…”(Rune/Crev)
“Gredra is known for the smell. It used to deodorized the changing room at the workshop or at home”(Perika)
“For us dwarf, gredra is delicious after long hard work as a snack because it’s cheap”(Perika)
“But the amount is to small for a dessert. There actually no one ever think to use them as a dessert since gredra’s meat mostly used as ingridient for tea”(Mark)
Mark is very knowledgeable about cooking. He already went to many places solely to learn recipes. If Mark doesn’t know how to turn this gredra into food, then this will be major break out for us…
“Fuh...”(Rune/Crev)
I, unconciously smile toward the berries in front of me…I was planning to sleep since I use a bit of mana today, but now I’m in high spirit on experimenting with the berries in front of me
“Perika, Parika, tell your grandfather to give us more time, at least a week to create the dessert. We will not bring just one but several dessert out of gredra”(Rune/Crev)
““Okay!””
“Also, we need to contact Shena”(Rune/Crev)
“Eh? Contacting Lady?”(Kena)
I smile toward the confused Kena.
“She will love this”(Rune/Crev)
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(Kulak’s Pov)
Even thought the night wind feels cold as it blows againts my skin, since the dwarf kingdom located at the volcanic mountain, the ground feel so warm as I walk at the chilly night. It suppossed to be lively like any other night. After drinking some booze, eating meat and then having ourselves entertained
“......”(Kulak)
Glancing at my back, three men are having down pour at their face.
…..We are about to enter the red-light district, but what is going on with this uncomfortable mood?! Unable to bear this sense of discomfort, I start open my mouth toward crying men.
“Stop crying! You all grown man for God sake!”(Kulak)
“...Sob*...”(Morty)
Just what happened when I was gone to get the food?
“You can’t blame them Kulak...Even I, feel the pain of that young one…”(Josha)
“H-he...lose his family at such young ageeeeeee!!!! Uugguhh…”(Kalan)
“He was sold as slave at young age and tortured by those evil noble!!! Uwaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!”(Morty)
“Nuoh!!!! He was sent to be child labour at the mine! Being tricked many time by those nasty people! Guuuuhhhh”(Herald)
These men… Even thought they all grown men, to cry like that don’t they feel ashame?
“He used to have happy family...But the bandits destroy his village! Now he is on journey to get revenge!”(Kalan)
“it isn’t like that! He is on journey to find his long lost twin brother!”(Herald)
“Nooo! He used to be noble’s child! But his evil uncle kill his family over inheritance and tried to controlling him! Now he is on the run!”(Morty)
Oi,oi,oi! Everyone of them is having a different story!
“He have wear that mask to hide his face from the evil uncle!”(Morty)
“What are you saying! That is clearly because he have huge scar near his mouth from the bandits’ attack!”(Kalan)
“No! He have to hide his face because his promised toward his twin brother!”(Herald)
No, you guys...can’t you see that you each have different story?!
“.....That kid...he have trought a lot…”(Josha)
That isn’t the point Josha!!!!
“Just where did you heard such story?!”(Kulak)
“”””From his fianceè””””
Fianceè?
The image of sweet girl that was with that kid enter my memory.
...That girl is his fianceè? True that he seems to be overprotective toward her, but is she really his woman? That kid was keeping his distance to that girl. He guard her, care for her but at the same time trying to not to be friendly with her.
Even thought he admit himself to be at least 10 years old, I can tell that he isn’t. His body is to small to be 10 years old beastman. Crev, that kid keep hiding his face. Even when he eat, he tie up a handkerchief to cover his mouth when he eat or find secluded place so his face is not seen. He seems wary toward his surrounding yet he able to eat with manner that fit those high society people. He is weird and mysterious.
At the age of ten, beastman will start to develop an ability such as sensitive hearing or sharp sense of smell. Depend on which tribe, the ability will variate.
As a wolf-tribe, his ability should be similiar to mine, the tiger-tribe. although he somehow able to sense enemy at a very far distance, it wasn't because his ability as beastman, but something else entirely different. Unless he is awake or on guard, he can't sense even the nearest monsters just like the turtle shell bear back then. Even when I'm sleeping, I can somehow sense such high rank monster out of instinct.
On the other hand, that kid have a very strange smell. In the morning, he have a very dangerous smell to the point that I sometimes feel chills to my body. Yet after some point, he gave off some sweet, fluffy smell, just like a morning's dew.
Despite how much he act and speak just like an adult, I just can't see him other than a child.
This of course this make him very strange to me.
Lying and hiding to such length…Did he do something bad and on the run?
.............Heh!
“Chuckle*...”(Kulak)
That kid, he might be weird but he isn’t bad person. He help me and my men despited how they treated him. What a silly question I have.
“Let’s just go back and have some nice sleep!”(Kulak)
I help my crying men walk straight as we change our destination.
What ever happen to that kid, what reason he have or what ever he run from, I will pray for his safety and hope that one day, we can all have another nice dinner together like this and of course with out any mask or secrecy.
As I look up at the clear bright moon, I thought to myself, ‘Ah, today is also a good night’.
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I hope I can write faster for the next chapter.
(T_T)