085 – Lots of fun during exam period! # 2

085 – Lots of fun during exam period! # 2

Graham Academy’s midterms lasted about three days.

Even in the first grade of elementary school, there was no exception in taking the test for three days.

“Problem 5. You have a round strawberry cake (Figure 1). Use the knife three times to divide the meal evenly between Hans, Jack and Mir. +5 points.」

The problem of sharing the cake.

It was a problem of correctly dividing a figure into 4 equal parts by 3 divisions.

“How am I supposed to cut it three times… ? Whoa… . It seems that Miss Salome said that she would appear in the exam. Naru Molu… . Morumoru, what is the answer to this?”

– Kreureung… !

“Huh… . okay. Since it’s a test, you’re saying that Naru has to think by herself, right?”

Seeing the problem, Naru was deeply troubled.

“Share the strawberry cake… .”

Naru’s mind is full of strawberry cake.

Naru liked the cake and the strawberry.

It was like mom and dad.

If you ask me which of the two to choose, it’s enough to think about it in many ways.

But strawberry cake didn’t have to worry about that.

Because it was a combination of strawberries and cake!

Coming together is good in many ways.

So Naru liked to add.

‘Well then, Daddy said. Naruto also said that mom and dad came together. Is Naru like strawberry cake?’

“Okay, there are 5 minutes left for the test. Finish it soon.”

“hehehehe… !”

“Naru Baryuda, be quiet.”

Teacher Salome, who gives strict warnings, and wahahahahaha-smiling children.

After wasting time thinking about strawberry cake, Naru finally wrote on the answer sheet.

「I use the sword once against Hans, Jack, and Mir. Left alone, Naru eats the whole cake equally.”

After three uses of the knife, the remaining person eats their fair share of the cake.

No matter how much he thought about it, this was the only answer in Naru’s head.

With that feeling, the first day’s test ended.

math and science.

The school ended before lunchtime because the day was over when only two subjects were tested.

A time when all the children come to the school that ended early—and leave the classroom and rejoice.

“… No lunch today?”

Only Naru was shocked that lunch was not served today.

It was because the fun of eating lunch was taken away.

“Ugh, Naru, I hate exams.”

It was Naru who growled.

Tywin Cladeco laughs at Naru.

“Yeah, since you’re an idiot, it’s only natural that you hate exams.”

Sreuk, sreuk-.

Tywin skillfully packed his bag and left the classroom.

As soon as the classroom became quiet, like a beach where the waves had receded, someone approached Naru and held out a piece of bread.

“Naruya, the cream bread I bought at the store earlier. Do you want to eat it?”

“Ow, shack… ! I like Elizabeth!”

Warak-.

Naru hugged Elizabeth.

Seeing it, the children gossip.

“Naru makes Elizabeth buy bread until the test period.”

“He’s a scary kid too.”

Of course, it was good for Naru to gossip like this.

I just opened the packaging of the cream bread and ate it.

“delicious! Elizabeth, thank you! Can you help me too, Elizabeth?”

“yes? Then, that… Do you want to study for the exam together at my house today?”

Elizabeth asked cautiously.

Because Elizabeth had never invited a friend to her house since she was born.

Inviting a friend to my house to study for an exam——was quite a difficult task.

Naru asked.

“Is there more bread at Elizabeth’s house?”

“… no. Probably not… . If you need it, I can buy it with my pocket money… .”

“It’s fine without it!”

Warak – It was Naru who raised her hand.

Elizabeth was slightly relieved.

I thought it was fortunate when I almost ran out of pocket money.

‘You come to play even if you don’t have bread. Naru is nice.’

Soon, Naru looked around like a meerkat. Then, when he found something, he opened his black eyes wide and shouted.

“Cecily! Do you want to study at Elizabeth’s house together? Instead, they say there is no bread!”

Cecily von Regdoll.

The blonde little noblewoman turned her head at Naru’s words.

In his mind, he thought of himself studying together with his children.

It will definitely be a fun time.

Unfortunately, however, Cecily couldn’t be with them.

“I can’t.”

“No bread?”

“No, I have other business to see.”

“Looking for your parents?”

“yes. It really feels like time is running out now. Sooner or later, the last cherry blossoms of the year will fall.”

Cecily’s eyes turned to the outside of the classroom.

Freesia cherry blossoms start blooming in late March and continue until early May.

By the time the midterms were over, it was clear that the cherry blossoms would be gone.

‘I have to find my mom and dad before then.’

There was something I had to say to my mom and dad before the last cherry blossoms fell.

It was a very important word.

I forgot other things, but I still remember those words.

‘I have to tell my parents before the cherry blossoms fall. If you keep doing this, you won’t be able to tell your parents and the cherry blossoms will end. then… .’

Cecily felt sad for some reason.

I had a feeling that if Cecily couldn’t find her parents in time, something very sad would happen.

Beep-.

Then a high-pitched sound was heard from somewhere.

When I turned my head, Naru was holding the recorder in her hand.

said Elizabeth.

“Naruya, tomorrow is a music and rune test, so you must take that recorder home and practice today. Tomorrow will focus on practical exams.”

“Naru, I like music! Shall we show Naru blowing the recorder? Narubigi, blow the recorder!”

Fillili—Dumchit, Dumchit-.

“Naruya, how did you just make a drum sound with the recorder… !?”

“… Narudo Molu!”

Wow-.

As Naru and Elizabeth were chatting, Cecily’s eyes seemed to open.

recorder.

instrument.

Something flashed in Cecily’s mind.

“How come you forgot something so important?”

* * *

“I’m going to be running around a lot of tool shops today.”

Cecily growled.

these few days… A few days, maybe a day or four.

Anyway, I’ve been wandering the streets and forests with Cecily the past few days.

Of course, it was to find traces of Cecily’s mother and father.

To think that I, Cecily’s father, was wandering around looking for Cecily’s father.

It was very funny.

But no matter how many times she said “I’m your father,” Cecily said, “If you say that nonsense one more time, I’ll bite my fingers…” !” he said angrily.

I tried biting my finger, but it hurt more than I thought.

So, for now, I was tuning in to Cecily’s rhythm.

The fact that this guy was walking around the neighborhood with me looking for memories was progress in its own way.

Today’s theme is a tool shop?

I asked.

“Why a tool store?”

“Hey Cecily. There is an instrument you are looking for. If you can go to a tool store that sells musical instruments and buy them, it will make it easier for you to find Mom and Dad… !”

“instrument?”

what instrument.

I don’t really have anything to do with musical instruments.

If I had to look for a connection, it was all that my mother sent me to a piano academy to improve my brain when I was young.

I still don’t know what the piano academy has to do with getting better, but… .

anyway.

With that feeling in mind, I took Cecily to various tool shops.

Freesia is a city that has a good reputation for art in its own way, so there were plenty of places selling musical instruments.

The place we arrived at is called the street of art.

Bards of all kinds gathered in each park and sang songs, and people sat on secluded benches to rest.

peaceful space.

Soon Cecily, as if realizing something, pointed her finger at a tall building.

“Opera House! Cecily, I remember seeing the opera with my family and eating cotton candy over there on the way home… !”

Right.

Did I see the opera?

It was the unbelievable truth of the future.

“Cecily, did your father like opera?”

I pretended to know nothing.

Then Cecily spoke.

“Cecily’s dad always closed his eyes and meditated whenever he watched the performance. Close your eyes and listen to the sound with your mind’s eyes and ears. You could say it’s a very aristocratic sentiment.”

… No, he must have slept.

It was as if the scene of an opera theater I had never seen in my life was vividly pictured in my head.

Cecily immediately added,

“But, Cecily’s mother, when she watched operas and plays, she never blinked a single time and was immersed in watching them from beginning to end.”

“yes? It’s amazing that you don’t even blink once.”

“Yes! Mom told Cecily a lot about plays, such as The Demon of the Opera, Romeo and Julio, and The Merchant of Parnis! You said you went to see it a lot with your dad. The elegant cultural life of the nobility is such a law.”

Listening to it, it seems that the future me has watched a lot of plays.

I don’t think I, who have grown accustomed to the entertainment media of the 21st century, would have genuinely enjoyed watching this Pangea play… .

Perhaps Garot liked it.

Does Garot like to watch plays?

I decided to memorize it well in my head.

With this feeling, the wandering of the tool shop continued.

Cecily said, “Isn’t there a small family register-shaped instrument? Is it something made of bones?” I asked the shopkeepers.

Every time the shop owners shook their heads.

After going around most of the stores like that, Cecily’s shoulders drooped.

Today is also empty-.

I guess that’s what you think.

“What instrument are you looking for?”

“It’s something my mother gave to Cecily. Cecily needs the instrument to find her mother… . I’m sure I brought it, but I wonder where I lost it… .”

I lost it?

Right.

If I were to guess, Cecily had something, but seemed to have lost it.

It’s something that will help you find your mother.

“When did you lose it?”

“About three months ago? four months… ? When I came to my senses, Cecily was in the city of Phrygia. I remember walking around because I was so hungry… .”

Right.

Six years later, when she returned from the future to the past, Cecily seemed to have landed in the Duchy of Phrygia.

Soon after, Cecily said as if she had remembered something.

“Come to think of it… . It seems that Cecily wasn’t alone… ? the kids are… . ugh… . I think I’ll remember… . who… ?”

Cecily frowned as if suffering from a severe headache.

I put my hand on Cecily’s head.

“You don’t have to force yourself to remember too much.”

“It means don’t touch me… !”

“Oh, yes. Wasn’t it similar to petting your dad though?”

“Nothing was the same!”

Cecily was purring like a cat caught in cold water on the road.

Cecily chattered, as if her headache had gotten better though.

“That Cecily’s dad is a master at stroking. He was the kind of person who could stroke your hair fiercely and gently, right?”

I don’t know what ‘master of stroking’ is, but I think I roughly know what stroking gently and vigorously is.

I am the king of thieves.

I was confident in my dexterity.

This feeling?

Swish-.

I stroked Cecily’s hair.

Then, Cecily said, “Hmm, I guess this is similar… .” and then came to his senses with a “hot” sound, and then left as if he was wary of me.

“It means that thieves are not allowed to pat the aristocratic lady on the head… !”

“Right. Anyway, you’re looking for a lost item, isn’t it? Then there’s no use wandering around these tool shops. You have a high chance of finding it when you go to the fence.”

Shuk-.

I took Cecily to the Shadow Council in the Underground Market.

The basement is teeming with thieves.

Upon seeing it, Cecily said, “Such a lowly place existed under Phrygia. It’s not an aristocrat-friendly place,” he grumbled.

Then he added a word.

“But there are a lot of people wearing masks, right? It reminds me of an aristocrat-friendly masquerade, so there are parts that I like. It looks like the demon from the opera.”

it’s a mask

There are a lot of people wearing masks in the basement.

I bought Cecily a white mask.

They seem to like it because it resembles the mask from The Demon of the Opera.

“You feel like you’re at a prom?”

Cecily, who was wearing a mask, hummed as if she was in a good mood.

I don’t know what song it is, but for now I’d better pay attention.

“Hold my arm tight. This is a place where little kids like you disappear in a blink of an eye. Even if you wear a mask, you cannot hide your princess power.”

It was a light warning.

Fortunately, Cecily was a smart kid, and she held on tighter to the hem of my trousers.

Taking Cecily with me, I entered the Shadow Council.

The elderly thief, the manager of the Shadow Council, saw me and opened his arms.

“Welcome, Lord Judas. We, the House of Shadows, always welcome Lord Judas. next to it… .”

Soon the elderly thief turned his attention to Cecily, who had grabbed my pants. Interest seemed to grow in those eyes, but it quickly faded.

I guess I don’t want to ask anything about it.

“Prince Yuda, what are you doing here today?”

“I’m looking for an instrument. It’s probably an expensive item and it must have been stolen, so it’s highly likely that it flowed into this place. It sounds like an ocarina made of bone. It’s a very precious thing. Have you received anything like that in the last three months?”

He drew according to the explanation he had heard from Cecily.

A musical instrument made of bone.

Although the explanation was a bit extensive, the elderly thief, like a veteran, understood the story right away.

“If it’s three months, there are a few things you can figure out. The list that sold musical instruments made of bone… , Please wait a moment.”

pat-.

The elderly thief quickly disappeared.

After waiting for about five minutes, inspiration reappeared and opened the scroll.

“First of all, there is a nymph hand bone recorder. It’s a recorder made from the hand bones of a friend who was a nectar nymph before she was alive. They say you can control bees by blowing on the instrument.”

I looked at Cecily.

Cecily frowned and asked me.

“A recorder with the bones of a nymph? Why would you do that?”

Why?

“Nymphs are expensive without knowing it.”

It was also the reason I had a noisy Sifnoy.

That guy is like that, what, an emergency fund.

Of course, I didn’t talk about that and looked at the items further.

An item that even has a picture of the musical instrument drawn on it.

Cecily’s eyes widened as she slowly scanned them.

“here! This is it!”

「Flute of the Four Kings Dragon – Presumably made from the bones of Leviathan, the Death King Dragon who is said to have swam in the ancient sea.」

“This is for sure!”

Cecily jumped up and down like she was extremely happy.

After a few days of fussing, I finally achieved tangible results, so it must be natural.

The elderly thief also said as if he had something on his mind.

“Come to think of it, about three months ago, there was a time when the underground market was noisy with this item. It was sold at an exorbitant price. It was 1.5 billion arcs.”

1.5 billion?

1.5 billion for one instrument?

As I was admiring it, inspiration added a word.

“But you’d better give up on this. It is a rule of the Shadow Council not to reveal information about the buyer to anyone. I will only tell Prince Judas.”

Shuk-.

The old man spoke quietly in a voice that only I could hear.

“That flute was purchased by the devil.”