♪ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ♪

♪ How I Wonder What You Are ♪

♪ Up Above The World So High ♪

♪ Like A Diamond In The Sky ♪

♪ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ♪

♪ How I Wonder What You Are ♪

When he saw the stars above his head as he loaded the wealth on the ground into his wagons, he thought of a children's song and started singing it for Yurine.

Yu Valarfin didn't like nights because whenever he couldn't sleep at night, he always had disturbing thoughts in his mind, and he couldn't sleep at night because his sleep patterns were disturbed. So nights were a constant torture for him.

But even he could not deny that when he looked up at the sky in this world, the night scene was perfect. Where he lived in the First World, only a few stars could be seen in the sky because of the city lights, but here the whole firmament was decorated with stars.

“Ten thousand gold, huh... We spent two months in Rolderhelm for half that. A great haul in two weeks. Of course, in Rolderhelm, we were a handful of people with Marino's men.”

With a hundred men, they engaged in regular robbery and fraud and dealt a blow to İlonya that will be hard to repeat.

Yurine made sure that everyone lying on the ground was dead, while Yu watched her out of the corner of his eye.

“The fact that she killed them all without blinking an eye... Even though I understand the motivation behind it and I agree with it, when I think about her age... I don't know. Of course, since I was the instigator, it wouldn't be right for me to think how she could do such a thing now.”

Yet the fact that he watched her silently through all the bloodshed and brutality showed that there was something he didn't know about himself.

Why was it that he was upset about Satoshi's death, and even Sharley's death, but now he was silent about the slaughter of a hundred people?

Was it because they were bad people? Or because they would make amends? Or was his sorrow for the death of Satoshi and the others only to ease his conscience?

Yurine had one ear on Yu and was humming the melody of the song, although she could not sing along because the lyrics were in English.*

“Yu, why are you silent?”

“My jaw is tired. Do you want me to go on?”

“If you're tired, you should rest, Yu.”

“That's very kind of you.”

But Yu realized that she wanted to listen more and started singing a different children's song, even though he was tired. He was used to singing children's songs, they made him sing them every time he went to the orphanage.

The most comfortable of the wagons, but also the one with the highest load capacity, was the one belonging to Yu and Yurine. After calculating their share, the two had thought that this moment might come and had prepared accordingly.

Some rinos had been frightened away by Yurine's magic, but not the two rinos pulling Yu's vehicle. Yu had accustomed the rinos to Yurine's magic while learning to drive them.

After putting all the valuables in their own wagon, the space in the wagon was reduced. So much so that if they wanted to sleep in the wagon they would have to squeeze in, but they were already used to that.

The speed of the two rinos pulling their wagons would decrease with the added weight, so he took one of the rinos that had not escaped and tied it to his wagon.

“Okay, I'm going to name you after Red Kit's horse, so from now on, your name will be Düldül.”

He looked for other rinos to take it, but backed away when all the rinos he approached showed their teeth and growled at him.

“Yu, who's Red Kit?”

“A cartoon character.”

“Yu, what's the cartoon?”

Yurine's constant questions, like a four-year-old child, made him smile.

“The children's show for the children to watch... Hmm... It's like puppet shows, but they look like pictures drawn in books. They move around in frames and you can hear their voices.”

“I'd like to see it.”

“I wish it were possible, Yurine. I wish you could see it too.”

The animals were still growling at him as he cut the ropes of the rinos tied to the other wagons. After untying them, he carried the supplies from the wagons to his wagon. The only thing they didn't put in the wagon was the sack with the magic stones. After Yu put the magic stones in, they were completely finished.

“It was lucky that the magic stones didn't explode during the brawl...”

“No, it's not. I paid special attention.” Yurine interrupted Yu and put a big smile on her face.

“Well done, then.”

It was good to have magic stones and he had plans for them.

Yu was tired of always hiding behind someone in times of danger and he didn't want to let it hurt his pride any more.

Yurine said she would always be there to protect him, but Yu wanted to learn to fight in his own way and contribute to their group in times of danger.

So he thought of a few things he could do and decided that the magic stones could help him fight. He also had something to ask Sivina when they met Sivina and Ana waiting for them in Andromedia.

“Can we wipe this paint off now, Yu?”

“Let's get away from here first. According to the map, there should be a lake up ahead, we'll erase it there.”

Yu took a blanket for Yurine from inside the carriage and closed and locked the door. Then he first took Yurine out to the driver's side and then himself. He threw the blanket over Yurine's shoulder so she wouldn't get cold, but he felt the cold himself and got under the blanket.

“Deh?”

Yu still found it hard to believe that they could move some kind of dinosaur by command. So he called out in a strange way, as if pleading with the animal to move forward.

Rino understood the command when Yu tapped the halter and started walking forward.

Yu could not swim and was afraid of drowning. That's why he didn't go into the lake when they got there and didn't let Yurine go into the lake either. They would freeze if they did anything like that in November.

“You don't feel any monsters in the lake, do you?”

“No.”

Yurine could sense the mana in every living creature except Yu. That's why she could tell that there were no creatures in the lake, but Yu was still cautious and began to clean Yurine with buckets of water from the wagon.

He took care to wipe the brown dye from Yurine's hair and tail without getting her clothes wet, then wiped the white dye from her face.

“Yu... D-I'm freezing...”

“You can go inside the wagon if you want.”

“N-no, Yu. I want to be with you always.”

“Then go to the driver's seat and wrap yourself in a blanket, don't get any colder.”

Yu had dyed his hair white. After cleaning the white dye from his hair and face, he dried himself with a towel and took his place next to Yurine.

“Yu, brown hair looks better on you.”

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She blushed and struck a sweet pose as she praised Yu. She put her head on Yu's knees and fell asleep, hugging his waist.

***

He woke up before dawn. Although he had concerns about sleeping in a forest, he had to make this choice, knowing that the risk of being robbed would be higher if he slept on the main road than if he slept in the forest.

He already tried to use the main road as little as possible. They usually took the ring roads and went into the forest when they needed to sleep.

After their journey, they entered a town called Seussu around noon. Yurine woke up with Yu and sat next to him, not wanting to travel alone in the wagon.

But when she was with Yu, she put her heads on his knees and fell asleep again. Yu was holding the rino's halter with one hand and stroking Yurine's ears with the other as they walked through the town.

After crossing the river above Seussu, they would travel for a month and arrive in Andromedia, the capital of the Zodianist faction in the civil war, with its Cathedral of Virgo.

The route could have been shorter, but he didn't want to get caught, so he would take side roads instead of the main one, and the route would take about two weeks until they reached the mountains that form the border between Peloponnese and İlonya. Then the hard part would begin.

In Seussu, he would first buy a new wagon and place his belongings in it, then replace his old wagon with a rino and try to reach his planned travel speed with three rinos.

Now he had to look for a wagon. As there was no car dealership, wagons were made by carpenters and Yu could not have a new one made at any time. Instead of waiting for a wagon to be made for him, he looked around for a nice wagon and then he could buy it.

He thought he might find what he was looking for in Seussu. İlonya, though less fantastic than Rolderhelm, was a developed country and the town of Seussu was therefore a developed and populous town. Surely there must be something here that Yu wanted.

As he looked around, he smiled, thinking that he had soon found what he was looking for. On the side of the road was a white wagon, bigger than Yu's wagon.

It was incomparably more beautiful than his own wagon. The windows of Yu's carriage were made of wood, while those of the carriage opposite were made of glass.

On the top of the wagon there was a separate area for storing things and in the back there was a trunk. The entrance door on the side of the wagon was wider than the door of Yu's wagon and it would be easier to get things in and out.

When Yu pulled his carriage next to the white carriage, he liked the driver's seat very much. The seat was covered in leather, with wooden planks on the top and sides to keep out the rain. He gently lifted Yurine's head from his knees and then got down.

“Hello there.”

The purple-haired youth, wearing a suit similar to that of a servant, was wiping the window of the carriage. When he heard Yu's greeting, he returned it.

“Hello, sir.”

After Yu left the circus, he changed his clothes again and put on the clothes he had bought from Rolderhelm.

With the clothes he was wearing, he looked like a rich man, so people might try to rob him, which is why his former employees tried to scam him when he was in the city.

But he also gained people's respect when he was in these clothes, and he relied first on Yurine's strength and then on his own intelligence against the threat of being swindled and robbed.

So, in a society where people valued clothes, he had no problem wearing clothes that made him look rich. If he had been dressed in ordinary clothes instead of this outfit, probably a few women would have treated him with respect just because he was handsome.

“My name is Yin, what's yours?” he gave a fake name. He was never going to see his again anyway.

“Shin Rio.”

“Mr. Rio, does the wagon belong to you?”

“Yes.”

“Transportation business?”

Rolderhelm also had luxury wagons to transport the rich. Yu and Yurine had used the less luxurious ones when they had a little money, but they had never been in a carriage as luxurious as the one Yu was now in front of.

“Yeah, you need a wagon?”

“Sort of, I want to buy your wagon.”

“I'm sorry, it's not for-”

Yu didn't let him finish.

“I'll give you forty gold coins for the wagon with the two rinos in front of you.”

Forty gold coins was too expensive even for the wagon in front of them, but he had to buy a new wagon and dispose of the current one urgently. Moreover, under normal circumstances, with the already expensive rinos, forty gold coins would have been an acceptable price.

In Rolderhelm, workers had to be paid a minimum wage and the minimum wage set by the state was just over three gold pieces. In İlonya, which was not as rich as Rolderhelm, the minimum wage was two gold pieces. The young man in front of him probably earned a little more than two gold pieces at most. With the money Yu had given him, he could have bought a better wagon and had money left over.

Forty gold pieces was indeed a large sum of money, and it was very difficult for an ordinary person to accumulate such a sum in the Mora.

“I suppose you agree? Then let's move the wagons forward a bit.”

He wanted to move to a place where people could not see him well, so that he could exchange the goods inside between the wagons. Following Yu's wagon into a wooded area, the young man took his own goods out of the wagon while Yu took the fare out of his wagon.

“Here you go.”

The young man took his money, handed over the key and started to walk away. When Yu realized that there were not many people around, he started to move the crates and sacks from the old wagon to the new wagon.

The crates were heavy and Yu had a hard time doing it alone, but in the end he managed to carry them all without waking Yurine. Then he lifted them and put them in the driver's compartment of the new carriage, again being careful not to wake Yurine.

After petting his new rino for a while, he tied his old rino to the new wagon. After tying the old wagon to the back of the new wagon, he got into the driver's seat and gave names to his new rinos.

“Your name is Rin Tin Tin and yours is Dafidak. I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time coming up with names these days, so I'm going with these.”

He could not see his old wagon, which he had tied to the back of the new wagon, so he had to proceed carefully. Moving slowly, he made it to the square. Yu made sure that the door of the new wagon was locked and then took Yurine in his arms. He was afraid to leave her behind, so he was going to walk around like this.

Yurine woke up for a moment in Yu's embrace. She murmured Yu's name and fell asleep again, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.

He was careful with his steps to avoid a bumpy ride for her. When he asked people around him if there was anywhere he could buy rino, everyone told him about farms outside the town, but he couldn't waste his time going out of town. He continued to look for a rino inside the town.

Finally, he saw rinos tied up in front of a shop he liked and went inside to ask who owned the white rino he liked.

The place he described as a shop was a tavern. Those who saw the man entering the tavern with a little girl in his arms looked at Yu strangely.

“There's a white rino outside, I'm looking for its owner.”

A man shorter than Yu, bald, with a big nose and a pink beard stood up and spoke in a rude manner.

“Me?”

Yu was amused by the man's behavior combined with his looks, but he forced himself not to start a fight by laughing.

“Is there a problem?” the other man clicked his tongue and looked at Yu with a threatening expression. He was ready for a fight at any moment.

"Are you stupid?"

He was sure he could have beaten the man if man didn't have magic power, but ignoring his attitude and continuing to speak politely was the best option in his current situation.

“I have a small wagon outside, I don't want to bother selling the wagon as I need a rino urgently. I would like to exchange my wagon for your rino if it is available.”

“Show me the wagon.”

When Yu showed the man the wagon, the man first tried to rip Yu off by demanding money for it, but Yu refused since he had already given the wagon at a loss.

Fearing that Yu might back out, the man agreed to swap the rino and the wagon when he realized he couldn't cheat him.

So Yu tied his sixth rino to the front of his new wagon. Now they would reach Andromedia sooner than he had planned.

“It's time to buy clothes, I don't think a butler would dress like this.”

Without taking Yurine off his lap, he walked into a clothes shop.

“I'm looking for butler clothes, please show me the best quality ones.”

Although it's always best to have the clothes tailored, like the carpenter, it takes time and Yu didn't want to waste time.

The shopkeeper was surprised that Yu was looking for steward clothes because he looked like a rich man and it was unusual for a rich man to suddenly become a steward.

Yu would not have taken up stewardship or even considered the offer if it was someone else he was to serve. His pride would not have accepted being ordered around by people close to his age or older than him.

But Yurine was a child, and she was Yu's child. And the stewardship thing was just a little game to help them achieve their goal. It didn't hurt Yu's pride to be her steward.

As soon as the salesman smelled money, he quickly started to bring the most expensive clothes. Yu was checking to see if the clothes were as good as he wanted.

“Just black, white and gray. These are nice, but the design could be better. Is there anything with sharper lines? Solid colors, please.”

“Yes, sir.”

After placing Yurine on an armchair, he put on the clothes that had been brought and began to examine himself in front of the mirror.

“An elegant suit for an elegant man.”

“Exactly! I've never seen someone look so good in an outfit before.”

It was as if the outfit had been tailored just for Yu, waiting for him to come and pick it up.

“A guy like me always looks good no matter what he wears. I'll take this one, how many of these do you have?”

“Please let me count,” he said, disappearing between the shelves. “There are seven more, sir.”

“I'll take it all. Can I keep this?”

“Right away sir, of course sir.”

After Yu finished his shopping, he picked Yurine up again. Yurine hugged Yu again as if she was programmed to do so.

The next purchase was for herbs. This was where he would buy the ingredients to prepare the recipe for the medicine that the head physician at the Wizarding Academy had given him.

“Mitos herb... Does it really work?”

This grass only grew in a small area north of Seussu.

According to Yu, the medicine he was given was an old wives' remedy, but the description of the other medicines that Noteos gave him was so disgusting that Yu decided it was for the best.

After leaving Rolderhelm, the headaches, seizures and fainting continued. With each attack Yu would hear the same woman's voice and the attacks would get worse and worse. So much so that even Yurine could no longer cure him.

According to Yu's recipe, the mitos herb medicine was one of the most effective and widely used remedies for his problem, but in the end it would not prevent the bitter fate that awaited him.

“And he said that those who took it stopped having seizures, but he didn't talk much about the side effects. The only ones I noted here are lip discoloration and headache. He also says it can make you high.”

He felt bad when it came to this. Maybe in Mora he could find another solution.

He went to an herbalist to buy the herbs he was looking for. While he could find other herbs elsewhere, he could only store mitos herb while he was here.

“Good day, Miss... Eishe?”

The sign above the herbalist's shop read Eishe's Herbalist, so he assumed it was the dark red-haired woman behind the counter.

“Hello~ thank you,” she said with a big smile. “What did you need?”

“I have a list I need to get, besides these herbs here, I also need mitos herb.”

“How much do you need?”

Leaving her work at the counter, she turned around and started to take the jars down from the shelves.

“All your stock.”

Eishe turned to look at Yu and asked, “Did I hear right? You want the whole stock?” Her blue eyes widened in surprise.

“Yes.”

He didn't want to bother looking for herb later, or to collect it himself. Today he was going to buy as much as he could in this shop.

“Here you are, do you need anything else?” Eishe said as he handed Yu what he wanted.

“No need, thank you, have a nice day.”

After Yu got what he wanted, he carried the ingredients to the wagon and decided to wake Yurine up to show her his new style and have lunch.