066 – It’s hard to buy my own house! #6

066 – It’s hard to buy my own house! #6

Brigitte’s lab.

Tonight’s dinner was beef steak bought at a special price.

I bought it with my money and baked it myself, but Enkidus was surprised because it tasted pretty good.

“Yuda, it’s amazing that there’s a dish you can make well besides eggs.”

“I find it more interesting that you eat meat. But how did people get rumors that he was a vegetarian? What’s the secret to reputation management?”

“It is not very important. So Naru-san, did you enjoy school today?”

Enkidus skillfully changed the subject of conversation and spoke to Naaru.

Naru started talking as if she had been waiting.

“So the teacher asked who knows the answer—and Naru raised her hand! And Naru said after getting up from her seat! I don’t know Naru… !”

evening time.

As always, Naru talked a lot about what happened at school today.

It was easy to picture what Naru had been through because he always said everything he had been up to without wondering too much.

Listening to the story, the teacher asked the children for the correct answer to the problem, but Naru raised her hand and answered, “I don’t know.”

Brigitte, who had heard the story, said while adding a little more asparagus to Naru’s plate.

“Naruya, if you don’t know the answer, you don’t have to raise your hand and announce it.”

“But I like naru announcements! I have to do it tomorrow too!”

That’s right.

Her grades are going up lower than expected, but Naru seems to enjoy going to school.

“I’m making a lot of friends too! Yesterday, I had lunch with Malty, who is on duty for milk school. Today, my parents played tag with Lobotomy, the owner of a toy store, during break time!”

He seems to be making a lot of friends too.

“Ow, shack… ! I wish morning would come and go to school… ! Tomorrow, during lunch breaks, I’m going to go pick flowers with Cecily and Elizabeth… !”

Do you enjoy going to school?

When I was in high school or middle school, I didn’t want to go to school, so I slept in every day.

I also had a lot of tardiness.

But Naru seemed to enjoy every day.

Did I enjoy going to school when I was that age?

I mean when I was in the first year of elementary school.

All I remember is that my mother scolded me for sleeping late every morning.

I think school life itself was quite interesting.

As I was thinking about that, Brigitte said.

“I remember seeing Naru. I also loved going to school since I was little. Because every day I waited for the time to go to school. I rather hated vacation. You couldn’t go to school during vacation.”

Did you wait for school hours?

Did you even say you hated vacation?

I waited only during vacation.

After playing to my heart’s content, I went back and did a lot of vacation homework that was overdue the day before.

But Brigitte didn’t seem to be like that.

I quietly imagined Brigitte’s school days.

He must have been an excellent student who filled his timetable with classes.

Like Helmione.

Sifnoy, who was eating at the time, said, dipping a piece of steak into his mouth with a fork.

“Come to think of it, isn’t Brigitte-sama from the West… ? There is already an excellent educational institution called ‘The Magic Tower’ in the west, but how did you come to Graham Academy in the center of this continent… ?”

“Well, there were several circumstances. When I was the same age as Naru, I lived in a dormitory by myself. The kids were territorial, so it was very difficult at first. I got used to it later.”

From what I heard, it seemed that Brigitte lived in a dormitory from the first year of elementary school to the senior year of high school.

Falling into a foreign land with no family.

As someone who had suffered a sudden arrival on the continent of Pangea, I could sympathize with him a little.

Then I suddenly remembered that I had met his family today.

“Come to think of it, Brigitte, I met your sister today.”

“… sister? Which sister?”

Brigitte, who had been talking well until just now, frowned.

It was as if he had heard a very unpleasant story.

“I don’t know how many times. What did you say your name was? Friede? that was the name He was wearing an eyepatch on one eye. I heard you’re a white wizard.”

“Damn it, it’s the big sister’s side. I wouldn’t have met him and had a good talk. How did you meet?”

Brigitte’s demeanor was rather sharp.

Should I say it feels like a porcupine with its thorns stretched out?

“I’ll get up first.”

drooling-.

Enkidus got up from his seat and left the laboratory altogether, probably thinking that the atmosphere would become threatening.

“Sifnoy! Let’s play princess today! Today, Naru is a princess who spews ice from her hands! Morumoru plays the role of Morumoru, and Sifnoi plays the role of being buried in the ground!”

– Meowong.

“hehehehe… ! Why are you burying Sifnoi… ? I don’t know what role it is… !”

Sifnoy, Naru, and Morumoru are also away to play strange roles.

There were only leftover beef on the table, me and Brigitte.

Brigitte asked again.

“What does Friede say? If I came to you, there must have been a purpose. Did you ever talk about me?”

“Well, it’s not a big deal, they just ask for it. He asked me to steal something. I didn’t talk about you.”

“… request? what request? Those naive and stiff people would never entrust a request to a thief? I don’t even want to do business with you.”

Brigitte seemed puzzled by the circumstances in which her family had contacted me.

I heard that Walpurgis is an extremely famous and noble aristocrat as the ‘family of the first people’.

In other words, they are the nobility among nobility, the super nobility.

“They approached you and asked for a request? Nonsense. They see humans other than themselves as lower creatures. He would hate just being mentioned together with the thief.”

“Like you when you first met me?”

I asked.

Then Brigitte averted her gaze.

“… don’t talk then That… , Because I’ve been stupid too. Anyway, so what request did my sister make?”

“I don’t know the details. We’ll talk about it later. I got an invitation here. They said it was an invitation to Walpurgis blah blah.”

“Walpurgis Night.”

Brigitte touched her forehead with the palm of her hand.

It was like a headache coming on.

Shuk-.

He got up from his seat and headed for the refrigerator.

Then, after pulling the cork of the still unopened wine with his hand, he took several sips without pouring the contents into a glass.

After that, he let out a sigh that smelled like fu-drinking.

“I didn’t want to see those humans, so I came all the way to this distant Principality of Phrygia. It’s really terrible that you’re trying to take away even this place.”

I’m not stupid.

Rather, it was rather quick.

Thanks to that, he knew very well that Brigitte hated his family.

So I was a little cautious about bringing up the story.

Brigitte’s personality becomes violent once she gets angry.

Fortunately, the boy calmed down as if he had managed his emotions well.

“After, after. under.”

thru-.

I closed my eyes and breathed as if meditating, then slowly opened my lips.

“To be honest, I hate my family. They will hate me too. It was to the point of sending me to study abroad because I didn’t want to look like I was only six years old.”

“yes?”

“Judas, I want you to leave me out no matter what happens this time.”

Brigitte crossed her arms.

According to my brain, Brigitte with arms folded is as strong as a turtle in its shell.

Persuasion was impossible.

Of course, I had no intention of persuading him.

I also had no desire to get involved in other people’s family affairs.

I’m not a good enough guy to be rude, am I?

Let’s just get over it in moderation.

“do whatever you want. I’m thinking of participating. That witch’s night or something. It seems that Naru remembers something.”

“… … .”

“And do you know what a homunculus is? Your older sister saw Naru and said she was a homunculus.”

“… … !”

I asked Brigitte the word I was concerned about.

Then Brigitte opened her mouth wide as if she was very embarrassed.

“That… that’s… !”

His eyes widened and his breathing became rough, and he looked very nervous.

This is exactly what it felt like to be stabbed in the stomach by an unexpected dagger.

Soon Brigitte put her fingers on her eyes and said.

“I guess I should go too. On Walpurgis Night.”

* * *

“It’s fucking uncomfortable to move. These prison-like clothes cost 5 million arcs a piece?”

A piece of clothing worth 5 million won.

If I stole it, I stole it. It was my first time trying it on.

As I was frowning on my uncomfortable tailcoat, Brigitte said, adjusting the tie around my neck.

“If you don’t dress like this, you won’t be able to participate in Walpurgis Night. It’s an event where all kinds of wizards and witches come and show off to each other. But no matter what you wear, you can’t hide something like a thief.”

“I see.”

I looked into the long mirror.

My reflection there was more neat and gentlemanly than I thought.

It’s like a groom going to a wedding.

“Dad, look at this! I’m wearing a naru dress! Are you like a princess?”

Cheek-.

Naru tugged at my sleeve.

Naru was wearing a black dress and it suited her very well.

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Just by wearing the dress, it felt like her princess power rose from C- to C+ in an instant.

I’ve heard that drawing lines on a pumpkin doesn’t make it a watermelon, but if you look at it this way, your clothes are truly wings.

I decided to praise Naru honestly.

“Hey, what is it? She looks like the daughter of a mafia boss. You look like a princess from the underworld.”

“Naru is the boss’s daughter… !”

The daughter of a mafia boss.

In retrospect, it wasn’t a mistake.

While I was giggling with Naru with that feeling, Brigitte also changed clothes.

She was wearing an evening dress that shimmered like silk, a cone-shaped hat that towered high into the sky, and a scarf made of black fox fur was wrapped around her shoulders.

She was wearing white gloves and carrying a leather bag that could be called a handbag, just like an actress attending an awards ceremony.

“Brigitte is pretty!”

Warak – Naru raising his hand.

Kids seem to be honest.

I also nodded.

“You look incredibly strong.”

It was like a wife going to the department store to get a refund.

Of course, I didn’t say anything like that.

It was because Brigitte calculated with a solemn expression.

“A dress made of silk with a black night fox’s scarf… . shoes in the bag… . From children’s party dresses to men’s tailcoats, we will have a total of 35 million customers.”

35 million?

It was too much money.

This must be an incredibly burdensome amount for Brigitte, right?

“Hey, aren’t you overdoing it? You seem to pay more attention to your appearance than when you went to the banquet hall of the Duke of Phrygia.”

“I have to do this much.”

Brigitte filled out the check and, without looking back, came out and pulled Naru’s arm.

“let’s go.”

“uh.”

I got out of the store on a whim.

After all, it is evening.

Today is Walpurgis Night, when witches and wizards gather in the palace and hold a classy party.

The day it is hosted in this Phrygian principality.

Brigitte said with a very nervous expression.

“I don’t know what will happen. So don’t be discouraged And Judas, the wizards will surely be rude if they know you’re here, so be prepared in advance.”

“it’s okay. You couldn’t be more rude than me.”

“… … .”