053 – School tuition is more expensive than you think! # 4

053 – School tuition is more expensive than you think! # 4

A cabin house introduced by Horohoro, a stranger from Class H.

It was cramped and full of old junk.

“Is this a warehouse?”

Cecily asked the pink-haired girl who seemed to be a resident of the cabin.

Cecily, who lived in the mansion, couldn’t believe that people could live in such a cramped space.

“This is not a warehouse… . I’m Hina… my… House… .”

The pink-haired girl answered in a low voice.

It was such a thin voice that you couldn’t hear it unless you paid close attention.

“you… .”

“What a wonderful house! Lots of rats running around!”

A girl with pink hair.

——When the gluttonous shrine maiden was about to say something, Naru shouted.

A mouse was roaming around where Naru’s finger pointed, but seeing as it was large and plump, it was clear that it had eaten a lot of crumbs.

“Dad did. They said that rats are born thieves! He must be the thief in charge of this cabin!”

hehehehe – it was Naru who was smiling.

However, Cecily was frightened beside her.

“… Mice!”

Are you startled by that loud sound?

The mouse, which had been curled up on the floor, started running around like it was going wild.

– Take it!

A rat running wild.

It was a sight enough to enrage Cecily, a noble-bred young lady.

“… city… Fuck! go away… !!!”

“Ow, shack… ! Rats are so fast!”

Cecily stomped her shoe-clad feet to avoid the rats. Beside him, Naru raised her hands high and smiled and admired the situation.

Tywin frowned at the sight.

“What are you doing for just one mouse? This is why stupid kids… .”

Having said that, Tywin also climbed into the chair.

He seemed to hate rats running around on the floor.

Elizabeth, who was able to remain calm in this situation, thought it best to calm Cecily first.

“Cecily, calm down.”

“Clean it up! hurry! mouse!”

“Cecily, you catch squirrels well, but are you afraid of mice?”

“… It’s not scary, it’s dirty! Just move the bottle!”

It was.

Still, Elizabeth was quite familiar with mice.

Because there were a lot of rats called guinea pigs in the laboratory of my father, who was reputed to be the best pharmacist in the Principality of Phrygia.

So it was when she had no choice but to think whether Elizabeth had to step in.

pat-.

Something came out of the naru’s shadow.

It was an anvil of black hair.

– Meowong.

ㅁ Chii Iik!

Morumoru caught the mouse.

It had neither front nor hind limbs, but it looked like a nimble cat.

“Morumoru caught a mouse! Are you eating it?”

Naru was interested in seeing that.

Morumoru did not eat mice or anything.

He was just suppressing it with his own fluffy body.

Seeing that, Naru shouted as if she had realized it.

“Morumoru has a bad diet!”

Shuk-.

Naru grabbed the tail of the rat caught by Morumoru.

Then he threw it out of the old window of the cabin.

Only then did it feel that peace had finally arrived in this narrow cabin.

“This… .”

The pink-haired girl showed interest in Morumoru.

“home town… this… ? I don’t think… .”

He picked it up with his hand, but it was an act that seemed quite cautious.

“This is Morumoru! I don’t know what animal it is! Are you a gluttonous priestess? They said they would tell you everything if you give them something to eat, so I came to see you! This is the cheese pork cutlet that Naru got earlier!”

Shuk-.

Naru held out the cheese pork cutlet he had kept in his bag wrapped in paper.

It was the food obtained from Tywin.

Gooo-.

Seeing that, the pink-haired girl’s stomach roared.

* * *

The pink-haired girl’s name was Hina.

Living in a hut in this Provence village, she is called the gluttonous priestess.

“Can you really guess what happens in the future?”

Tywin asked frowning.

Hina looked like an ordinary girl, no matter how she looked at it, unlike herself, the shaman of Epar.

Of course, it was strange that they already knew the names of Tywin and Elizabeth, Cecily and Naru, even though they hadn’t been introduced.

I thought there must be some trick.

Shuk-.

Hina, who finished her meal with cheese pork cutlet before she knew it, said while wiping her lips with the back of her hand.

“Calling the gluttonous priestess… . It’s just what people call it that way… . Hina is not particularly a shrine maiden.”

It was clearer than before.

It seems that he simply lacked energy because he was hungry.

but.

The content of the story offended Tywin.

“Then it is. It’s fake too.”

FALSE.

It was only then that Tywin felt that his curiosity had been answered.

However, the story of the girl who identified herself as Hina is not over.

“… But I know what to do. If you have any questions, ask. Hina, since you got something to eat… I will tell you what I know.”

“Then can you tell what kind of animal Morumoru is?”

Naru asked while hugging the black fur anvil.

It was a bit frustrating to see him being hugged like a doll, but Morumoru was calm.

It was because he got a strawberry from Naru and ate it.

“… I don’t know. like this… . strange animal… . animal… ?”

Hina shook her head.

Soon, Naru shouted.

“Ow, shack! Morumoru was just Morumoru! It meows like a cat, but it also barks! I have no idea what kind of animal it is!”

ㅁ Kungkong!

It was when Tywin looked at it and said, “You’re saying that you walked in vain after all.”

Hina’s eyes turned to Cecily.

“Cecily.”

“… Who, me?”

“you… Dad and Mom… you will be looking for Cecily, your mother… Go to Kowloon’s wild vegetables soon. maybe tonight… . If you want to meet your mother, you have to go to the mountain in Kowloon… .”

Cecily was taken aback.

I couldn’t believe that Hina knew what she was thinking even though she never said anything about her mother and father.

‘What are wild vegetables in Kowloon?’

smart-.

Then someone knocked on the cabin door.

“Is there a nobleman called the Shaman of Gluttony here by any chance?”

Suddenly, the door opened and someone entered the cabin.

He was a man with a hook in his hand, and he seemed to be in his forties.

His brown beard had a messy face and sparse teeth that made him look like a bandit or thief.

“… Why are there so many kids? Who is the gluttonous priestess here?”

Shuk-.

Hina raised her hand.

Then the hook-handed rogue laughed and drew out a dagger.

“Are you a gluttonous priestess? You really are a small kid like the rumors say. Okay, kill everyone else but you. Shouldn’t there be witnesses to what’s taking you. The swordsman is a bit picky about things like this.”

In this Phrygian principality, children were valued above all else.

Even thieves and bandits don’t use the word “kill carelessly” when it comes to children.

At best, to the extent of kidnapping and receiving a ransom.

however.

The man with the hook hand said without hesitation that he would ‘kill’ children.

Clever Tywin could see that it was no mere bluff.

‘Are you a villain aiming for the priestess of gluttony? He’s also great. At least gold grade… . So what I need to do here is… .’

Shuk-.

Tywin raised his hand.

“I am also a gluttonous priestess.”

“… yes?”

It was the moment when the face of the threatening thief looked ferocious, perhaps because he frowned.

Even Elizabeth, who was afraid to pee on her skirt, soon understood the situation.

“Me too!”

Shuk-.

Elizabeth raising her hand.

Soon, the young lady Cecily, wise in her own way, also raised her hand.

“… I-I am also a shrine maiden!”

The strength of the hook hand.

Conrad on one hand felt embarrassed.

I heard from my boss, ‘Bring the gluttonous shrine maiden by tonight—.’ I hadn’t heard that there were multiple priestesses.

“They said he was an unknown kid. I didn’t know there were multiple people. I was only in the wild, but the news is slow, so I’m getting out of here. It’s annoying to take Then, are you also a gluttonous priestess?”

The robber of the hook hand now looked at a kid.

When all the little boys’ eyes turned to the black-haired girl, he screamed.

“No, Naru is Naru! Naru Baryuda!”

“oh-.”

“Ahh… .”

All the children sighed at Naru’s cry.

However, the strength of the hook hand frowned and asked again.

“Barjuda?”

“that’s right! Naru is the daughter of Judas! The Princess of the Back Alley! Uncle, your hooked hand is cool!”

One hand Conrad’s expression became very serious.

And then mumbled something.

“… Judah… Barbari… Could it be that he is his daughter?”

Conrad touching his hooked hand.

His expression looked very distressed.

Then, he immediately shakes his head.

“No, that ugly bastard couldn’t have had children. Are you the old boss’s daughter? Tamar’s half-sister? Yes, most likely.”

sereung-.

Conrad said as he returned the dagger he had pulled out to his waist.

“Today, I thought I would meet the old boss’ illegitimate son. This must also be the fate that Nocturne guided. Let’s go, all of you, to the new ‘Kowloon Wildlife’. There is no time. Everyone get into the carriage.”

The children cautiously and slowly climbed into the wagon that the man had prepared.

Then Naru asked softly.

“Where is Horohoro… ?”

Horohoro from Class H.

I don’t know since when, but I couldn’t see him.

* * *

“I heard the carriage with the children was just leaving?”

Provence village.

In a small, rustic village that smells like cow dung, an old woman explained to us what had happened earlier in the afternoon.

“He was such a scary man that we all hid in the house with the windows closed. There are a lot of thieves coming from the mountains of Kowloon in this area. If you get entangled, you will see blood. Of course I sneaked a peek through the window.”

Upon hearing the story, pharmacist Ilgast Ranafeld puts his hand on his forehead and screams out loud.

“Ezebet! My God, it must be that Elizabeth has been kidnapped by the hook hand! Because Elizabeth is a cute and kind child! No wonder you want to kidnap them!”

Ilgast.

He was the best pharmacist in the Principality of Ifrisia.

And it seems that she is more of an idiot than I could have imagined.

I was surprised when a man knocked on the door of Brigitte’s lab and asked, “Is Elizabeth in there?”

The father visited a friend’s house in search of his daughter who did not return even after dinner time.

of course.

Elizabeth was not in Brigitte’s lab.

Naru also didn’t come back even though it was close to dinner time.

Are you at Cecily’s mansion?

He said that he followed the Ragdoll family’s mansion with that feeling, but Cecily didn’t come home either.

“Judas, something must be wrong.”

Garrot, who was staying at the Ragdoll family’s mansion, had talked to me.

“I also have something I want to ask Cecily about. It’s hard when the kid disappears. I will help you find it.”

I was able to reach the fact that some of the kids had boarded the mana-powered vehicle.

The driving vehicle was heading to a nearby Provence village, and it was the story until just now that I met an old woman who looked far away and heard the story in that Provence village.

“The carriage seemed to be headed that way. But be careful. See that mountain that’s as pointed as a thorn over there? Because bandits and thieves have made their lair in that mountain of thorns! Absolutely wild vegetables of Kowloon!”

Wild vegetables of Kowloon.

Although it was common for bandits to be stationed in the area, as a metaphor, it was said that it was ‘like a mountain in Kowloon’.

“Looks like bandits have kidnapped the children! what to do… !?”

Elizabeth’s father, Ilgast, was greatly embarrassed and restless.

He was asserting that his own daughter had been kidnapped.

As I listened to the story, I felt a little strange.

“You said the kids obediently followed. And if they were going to kidnap, they would have dragged the wagon and thrown it into the back compartment. But they said the kids rode in a luxury carriage pulled by four horses.”

It was strangely polite for simply having a robber take the children by force.

The kids didn’t make a fuss either.

Naru and Cecily aren’t the ones who will just be quiet just because they’re threatening to be quiet.

“Maybe it’s not a kidnapping case.”

“… How do you know that?”

“Are you asking because you don’t know who I am? I am an expert on this.”

“ah.”

Pharmacist Ilgast seemed a little convinced.

Of course, I couldn’t say for sure that it wasn’t a simple kidnapping either.

“I was thinking of going to the thieves’ living today anyway. But I never thought I would be entangled in this way again.”

Naru kept getting caught up in the incident.

Living as a daughter of Judas is originally like that, though. Oddly enough, I feel like someone has ‘designed’ the way I’m supposed to go and Naru’s entanglement.

I’m not sure, it was just my gut feeling.

And my feelings were better than I thought.

Brigitte, who was examining the wand with her gloves on, said.

“Yuda, you won’t listen even if I tell you that you’re out, right? Then I think it would be good to finish the work as short and concise as possible. Let’s split it into two groups. I’ll be in charge of the Extermination Bird, so you’ll lead the way.”

“great. First, I break into the thieves’ living quarters and check where they are. I’ll secure safety and give you a signal, so Garot and you go in.”

Brigitte was a black wizard.

Efficiency will be maximized in simple annihilation work.

Also, because we have been together for a long time, our hands and feet fit well with each other.

“I, I, what can I do? Would it be okay if I go with you?”

Pharmacist Ilgast asked.

This man was a saengnim style who was far from fighting even if he pretended to be.

Even so, to save his daughter, he tried to enter the living quarters infested with a thousand thieves.

Could this be the father?

“Did you say pharmacist? Can you make some of the things I tell you?”