10. First Task – 06

After shopping, a dessert shop located in the middle of the shopping street.

There, Jin and Erekaya were eating dessert while sitting opposite each other on the terrace installed at the back of the store.

sniffling.

Erekaya was sipping black tea in an elegant manner that wouldn’t be strange even if it were in a textbook tomorrow, and Jin was eating the best-selling affogato in the store.

“How are you, Jean? Do you think it suits your taste?”

“tasty. It is so delicious that I can count it on one hand among the desserts I have eaten.”

In fact, Jin didn’t really enjoy or dislike sweet things, but he accepted the taste as he ate an affogato that perfectly blended the sweetness of ice cream with the bitterness of espresso.

Because this dessert wasn’t bought by Jin, it was bought for him with money from Erekaya’s pocket.

No matter how much Jin is a person who is not cheap, it is not a person who is not a person who has no case to say out of his mouth whether it is delicious or not while eating what others bought.

In addition, this affogato was actually delicious enough to satisfy Jin’s picky taste buds.

‘Well, if the price is this way and it’s not delicious, that would be even weirder.’

The moment she entered the dessert shop and saw the prices on the menu, Jin had to resist the urge to drop everything and run out of the store.

No, does it make sense that some of his desserts cost so much more than a decent restaurant meal?

And the damn bourgeois are casually munching on these eye-popping desserts?

… It’s scary, really scary.

Does this mean that rich people in the world live luxurious lives enough to casually buy and eat such expensive desserts?

It is certain that such people will commit horrible acts such as throwing away without even licking the lid of Yoplait, or throwing away 100 won in a shopping cart in the parking lot without collecting it.

Such people will unite and eventually become the cause of the destruction of the world. In other words, wouldn’t it be like the cancerous cells of the earth or locusts that gnaw on grain right before harvest…

– I’m giving you some advice, but please be a little bit in a hurry in front of me. And when you’re eating something, shouldn’t you be a little more elegant? Watching what you are eating, it seems very appropriate to say that you are not eating, but eating.

‘… I heard that even dogs don’t touch them when they eat. Can you look after them?’

– I’m just saying that because that dog will eat more elegantly than you.

While I was eating the affogato while listening to Erekaya’s muttering in my head, Erekaya, who was sitting across from him, smiled and opened her mouth to him.

“right? I’ve been to several dessert shops in Jedo, and this one is the best. And since it’s close to Nineveh, it’s easy to come out and buy something to eat… ”

“…..”

Apparently, the lady of a noble duke family had no intention of attaching much importance to trivial factors such as ‘price’.

“But why don’t you eat this? At first glance, I heard people say that this is the signboard menu of this store.”

The weather has now entered early summer, and the people sitting around them are all eating only affogatos, probably because it is a store that is pushing affogato as its main menu.

Right now, Erekaya was the only person drinking hot black tea in the store.

Of course, those who have reached the master’s level have reached the level of being immune to cold weather, which is often talked about in martial arts. Isn’t there something

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Masters are human after all. Isn’t it fundamental human physiology to want to drink something cold when the weather is hot and eat something warm when it’s cold?

“Actually, I don’t like sweets very much. It’s not that I don’t like it, but I shouldn’t have to find it and eat it.”

“… Then why the hell did you come to the dessert shop? He said he didn’t like sweet things.”

“I want to buy you.”

Saying that, Erekaya rested her arms on the table, then put her face on top of it and looked at Jin intently.

“Today, you put a lot of effort into matching my compulsion. So, although it is small, this dessert pays off.”

“What is trouble… I haven’t done anything.”

This was not a word of humility, but the fact itself.

No matter how hard he tried, Jin did nothing but walk around, being led by Erekaya’s hand.

to buy something? Erekaya did everything. How to draw a traffic line? Erekaya also took care of everything.

Even though she came as a porter, Erekaya took care of all the lifting. I don’t know when I brought it, but I pulled out a pocket from somewhere and put all my stuff in it.

In the end, all Jin did was follow Erekaya like a puppy, then came to the dessert shop and ate nothing but affogato.

He himself was in extreme denial, but it was only when he acted like this that Jin’s flirtation was similar…

– It’s like a pillar west. isn’t it?

‘What nonsense is that?’

Jin jumped up at Erekaya’s words and denied it, but unfortunately, it wasn’t very convincing.

– What, the man’s incompetence isn’t enough, he doesn’t work, and now he’s eating that expensive dessert without shame. No matter how much I think about it, your behavior doesn’t seem to be enough to be called a pillar west?

‘… Damn it.’

Cowardly beating people only with facts.

After confirming once again that he couldn’t win the argument with Erekaya, Jin sighed lightly and took out a small box from his pocket.

It was one of the secret weapons he had prepared long before to attack her, assuming only this moment when he would be alone with Erekaya.

“yes? what is that?”

“It’s nothing special, it’s a present for you.”

“… Gift?”

Click.

Inside the box was a necklace, seemingly nothing special.

… No, it’s a little too much to say that there is nothing special.

It was basically a beautiful necklace made of wood, with thin gold and silver inlaid around it, and a delicate green jade in the center of the necklace.

“This?”

“I bought one while you were away. to give you.”

It’s actually a lie. This necklace was made with great care to give as a gift to Erekaya after he entered Nineveh.

Of course, he didn’t have the craftsmanship skills to make a necklace, but wasn’t there a woman who had a delicate sense and sense in his head that made him put down the spoons of quite a few artisans?

Besides, Jin didn’t play and eat without thinking for the past 100 years, so even if he wasn’t at the level of a craftsman, he had skills and dexterity enough to make a necklace like this…

Over the course of two months, I thought I was going to lose my eyeballs making this every morning following Erekaya’s instructions, but fortunately, I was able to complete the necklace on time.

– There’s nothing like a gift to increase a woman’s liking. The necklace was made to suit my taste, so I wouldn’t be able to do it if I didn’t like it.

‘… But why did I have to make that myself? Couldn’t I just buy something similar from a jeweler?’

At Jin’s grumbling, Erekaya sneezed and snorted.

– If you want to buy a necklace with such craftsmanship at a jewelry store, let me tell you that it is absolutely impossible even if you sell your body right now.

‘…..’

– Besides, what the hell is the meaning of a necklace that can be obtained from the market if you give it money? No matter how you look at it, I am the daughter of a ducal family. Excluding the imperial family, he is the heir to the richest family in the empire. As such, the current me looking at things is terribly picky.

– As such, to me at this point, something material has no value. To me like that, the only thing that has value is not the price of the gift, but only the gift giver’s heart itself.

‘Heart, Ira.’

Well, I don’t know about such complicated things, but it seemed true that Jin’s heart was in this necklace.

Because I still have a tantrum when I think about not sleeping well over the past two months making this necklace.

“… It’s pretty.”

Erekaya muttered softly as she watched the jade in the middle of the necklace reflect the light and sway around her.

That, of course, is bound to be pretty. Because I put a lot of hard work into making it just for your taste.

“They introduced me to the student council, and it felt like I hadn’t done much in my shopping today. I wanted to repay you in this way. It’s a small gift, so please accept it without burden. You can throw it away if you don’t need it.”

At the words that came out of Jin’s mouth, Erekaya shook her head.

“… No, it’s not. Really, thank you.”

Saying that, Erekaya shook her head toward Jin.

“Since it’s the necklace you bought me, can you wear it yourself?”

“… I?”

“yes.”

no… It doesn’t matter if you wear a necklace, but isn’t that kind of thing only between lovers?

I think it’s a little manly to do such a thing in broad daylight, with everyone watching.

Crucially, if someone were to see this spectacle, they might misunderstand-

“…..”

But Erekaya was already sticking her head out towards him with her eyes tightly closed.

Now, pulling back like a coward is not only out of character, and isn’t it funny to attach a strange meaning to something that is nothing more than a necklace?

“Um… .”

In the end, Jin took out the necklace from the box with his own hands and quietly put it on Erekaya’s neck.

“… Ugh.”

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My hands are shaking. My eyes keep going to the nape of Erekaya’s pure white neck without any blemishes and the lower part of it.

I know very well that I feel like an idiot peeping at women’s breasts in this situation, but this is really irresistible!

“Go, tickle… .”

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My hands are shaking as if I had epilepsy, so I can’t put the necklace on properly.

As Jin’s hand kept brushing the nape of her neck, a strange breath escaped from the corner of Erekaya’s mouth.

Suddenly, she turned her head and looked to the side, realizing that his face and Erekaya’s face were positioned so close that their breaths collided with each other.

“…..”

“…..”

There is something really strange about the atmosphere.

I was just trying to put on a necklace, but why are things going this way?

Anyway, this isn’t much. Because it’s broad daylight now, and this is in the middle of a store on the busiest street in the islands!

Then, if someone passing by even sees them, then even if a really strange rumor spreads, they might not be able to leave it out-

“… Hwa, Chairman?”

“what? this. Jin is more romantic than I thought. In broad daylight like this, he didn’t care about the stares of so many people, and he trampled on women. Should I say that Celica-senpai was able to instinctively feel a sense of danger?”

“…..”

When I turned my head, there were Celica with an expression that said that it was finally here, and Shura with a smile on her face.

“yes? Alas, we were just passing through, so don’t mind it and keep doing what you’re doing. Even if you look at me like this, I’m not such a careless woman.”

… Would that be like you?

When Jin, who finally came to his senses, looked around, it wasn’t just Serika and Shura around here.

Around here, students who were already wearing school uniforms were watching Jin and Erekaya, whispering something in each other’s ears as if they were having a spectacle!

Watching that bastard’s chatter, it’s probably not even time for dinner, so it’s obvious that what the hell happened here today will spread to all of Nineveh.

And by tomorrow, what kind of rumors will be circulating about Jin… I really didn’t even want to imagine it.

… Ah, fuck. life real