[Episode 54]
“Yes…”
He rolled his eyes while answering.
‘So what should I do?’
I smiled awkwardly and nodded quietly at Duke Mirel’s words.
And Duke Mirel shut his mouth in some dissatisfaction.
So there was only silence between us. After a while, he let out a sigh and opened his mouth first.
“So what is a request?”
“Oh, are you going to rent it tomorrow with Unni at Hwangseong? I was told that I was going to have a good time…”
“Hwangseong? Why do you want to go there?”
“I want to follow you! Also, Ching-gu, who was kidnapped at the same time, is Lee Se-yeo.”
Duke Mirelle’s eyes narrowed. It was clear that he knew what I was talking about.
And what I don’t like about it too much.
‘I can’t do it…’
I bowed my head. The tail, which had been standing upright with my head, drooped down.
“It’s okay if I don’t face it…”
“Who said no! Why do you always make assumptions when I didn’t say anything?”
That’s why it was a face that I didn’t like at all.
Duke Mirel’s words made her even more depressed.
“Oh no… it’s class, just postpone it for a day or so! You can postpone it by two days. go away.”
Duke Mirel said coldly.
I widened my eyes and raised my head.
“Rent it anyway?”
“okay.”
“Harabuji is the best!”
As he smiled broadly, Duke Miriel raised his fist and hit the round table with all his might.
A round table made of marble.
“Ha Rabuji…?”
Kuo-
I called him blankly at the roaring noise and blowing dust, and he looked at me in surprise.
“There were bugs.”
“Bug…?”
“Yeah, the dark one with ten legs crawled creepily.”
“Ugh…”
I really hate that.
Still, he splits the round table with his fist…and marble….
I was a bit speechless.
“Is that all you wanted to ask?”
“yes!”
“Are you feeling okay?”
“yes.”
Compared to having collapsed from a fever, he was healthier than expected.
‘Is it because I ate well?’
Thinking about it, I feel like I’m slowly getting hungry.
‘At this rate, I’m going to become a real pig.’
I shook my head gently.
“I heard that today’s dessert is quite delicious… How about going out for a bite?”
Someone is suggesting that we have a tea time like gambling.
“Joa!”
Of course I didn’t refuse.
* * *
Recently, a strange phenomenon has been happening at the duke’s residence.
Dolls or sculptures resembling ‘lizards’, which were not normally sought after, began to roam around.
It was not a common lizard, but an unusual lizard with silver scales.
“I almost got caught…”
And Sharnet was exactly at the center of it.
Sharnet smiled happily thinking of Eirin, who had told her that her grandfather had just given her permission.
“Oh, I have to take out the goods now.”
Charnett carefully opened the closet, and all sorts of junk spilled out of it.
In order to hide all sorts of things that were stuck in the room from Eirin who suddenly came to her, Charnet had beaten them all into the closet.
“Aagh! The picture is crumpled! It’s a picture I forgot to put in a frame…!”
The tip of the paper of the moving photo of Eirin smiling broadly was slightly crumpled.
Charnett hurriedly took out all the things, pressed down on the crumpled parts, and carefully put the photos in the photo album she had prepared in advance.
“HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”
Charne fell in love with Eirin at first sight when she met Eirin with Erno Etam
‘It was almost fate….’
The moment I saw the child, I thought my heart was pounding to the floor.
To think that a child with pink hair fluttering and smiling brightly could exist in the world!
Besides, even the color of her eyes was her favorite honey color, so I couldn’t dislike it.
“Ugh, if it’s Eirin, I’ll stick with her for the rest of my life and act as a sedative…”
Unfortunately, Eirin showed almost no signs of runaway.
‘Of course, health is the best, but…’
thought Sharnet and pursed her lips.
Looking at Eirin after seeing the people of this family who only visit them when needed, it seemed like she would melt away in her innocence.
“Maybe it wasn’t coming…”
Her grandfather, the Duke of Mirelle, came to the small cabin she lived with her mother and hugged her for a long time with an expression full of remorse.
‘But what am I supposed to do among these madmen…’
One person gets angry and laughs all the time, but doesn’t know when to change and pull out a sword. Don’t you ask if you can do it? Another person didn’t like it when he said honorifics with an unlucky face.
‘Even if I become useless, the only person who will find me is Eirin…’
All of them were no different from hyenas who saw their abilities and flocked to them.
As expected, the number of people looking for her has decreased considerably as the research-madman recently discovered a new inhibitor of berserk.
Although there were some people who still sought them out because of the side effects.
“I hate men….”
If she couldn’t control herself, she didn’t want to keep a man around.
Yes, Sharnet wanted a soft and cute girlfriend who would feel safe no matter what she did.
“Airiin…”
Sharnet muttered as she hugged the large silver lizard cushion.
This was the so-called ‘Eirin Goods’.
The first one, of course, was Charnett.
Eirin suddenly disappeared and I couldn’t stand it, so I inquired around and made a lizard-shaped cushion that Eirin had changed.
At that time, the family had a terrible hatred for beastmen and a much louder voice cursing Eirin.
But at some point, it was suddenly revealed that Mayla was the spy.
‘I think it’s probably the sinister uncle’s work, but…’
There was only a feeling and no confirmation.
Anyway, in less than a week, public opinion of hatred towards Eirin quickly turned to public opinion of sympathy.
Sympathy arose that Eirin had been gaslighted as she grew up, or that Mayla had deliberately abused Eirin while pretending to care for her.
Charnett also carried around a cute silver lizard, and deliberately presented a small lizard doll to Duke Mirelle.
Surprisingly, Duke Mirel even put the doll in a corner.
With public opinion turning like that, those who felt sorry for Eirin gained a little more strength.
Then, one day, Eirin returned.
And that, in human form, wagging its tail.
From then on, ‘Eirin Goods’ began to appear in the world little by little.
‘Airin goods’ began to be sold in secret places, including Charnett, and there were people who made a lot of extra income with this.
Of course, Charnett was one of them.
“Hey, this moving photo should be sold as a limited edition…”
Actually, I wanted to keep the lovely image of him tilting his body while holding the tiger candy and turning his body toward me.
‘But if it’s for special goods…’
I had no choice but to increase the sales score.
Special goods were goods that could be purchased with quarterly purchase and sales mileage points.
There were a lot of high-quality and precious things out there, and everyone was struggling to buy them.
There are mileage points that are accumulated when selling or purchasing good products, and there are things that can be collected and bought.
‘I’m going to go eat dinner.’
In the corner of the market in the capital, there is a vacant lot, and a small building appears every night in one of the vacant lots.
Called the ‘Market’ among the people, the building used to appear only three times a week, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday after 9pm.
In addition, anyone who registered as a seller in this market could put up the goods he made and write down the selling price.
When visiting the goods store, it was a rule that everyone wore a mask and wore clothes that could not be identified.
It wasn’t just Eirin goods. In fact, Eirin’s goods were still only part of it.
This is because there were goods of many figures who heated up the social world, such as Erno Etham, Michael Colin Byenne Darkis, and Charlotte Fasanne.
Charnett took out her wallet and lightly shone the golden point card inside.
This point card changes its appearance according to the amount of accumulated points, and it is said that the color and shape change to bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, and silvery pink – it is Eirin’s color to anyone’s eyes.
Sharnet worked hard in her own way, but she was still gold.
This point card accumulates points that can be used to purchase goods at a 1:1 ratio by paying cash.
And when you buy something with points, 1% of the corresponding amount is accumulated as mileage.
Likewise, if the item you posted was sold, 1% mileage was accumulated again.
‘I will definitely buy it… A silver crystal lizard…!’
Charnett clenched her fists and made a promise.
It was a 1:1 scale, and it was an item that looked exactly like the real Eirin’s handprint.
Among the special goods, it was difficult to buy thanks to the most expensive 500,000 points.
‘Ghm…’
And today is Saturday.
It was the day the market opened.
“It’s about time to have a meal with Eirin.”
The thought of having a meal together for the first time in a while made me feel better without knowing it.
‘I have to go quickly.’
After Charnett was ready, she quickly got up and headed to the garden where we were going to eat together.
It is called a garden, but since it is an indoor garden, it was close to a greenhouse.
“E-Irin!”
However, Charnett’s footsteps had to come to a sudden stop as she entered the restaurant humming in a refreshing mood.
“…”
“…Are you invited too?”
The place I was invited to was full of uninvited guests who had obviously suffered the same fate as me.
