46th
*Little night
046 ? Little Night #1
In fact, I had a lot of thoughts while carrying the crocodile leather sandals that I was going to give to Luna.
For example, when, how, or with what words should I give it to her? And whether Luna, who received it, would like it or not.
It’s been a while since I’ve given something as a gift to someone else, so it felt awkward and like I was doing something pointless.
I wonder if Luna will like it.
I feel like in the world I lived in, there weren’t many women who disliked products made from crocodile skin.
You never know what this world might be like. You might even get angry if they make sandals like this out of precious crocodile leather.
Anyway, I expected such a variety of reactions.
Gulp-.
I never thought Luna would shed tears like this.
What is it? Why are you crying?
My heart aches as if I have done something terrible.
“Hey, why are you crying all of a sudden?”
“No, it’s weird. It’s so good that tears are flowing. Hassan, do you know what it means to give shoes as a gift…?”
“Was there a meaning to it? I just prepared it….”
“I see. Well, then you don’t have to know that. It’s really pretty.”
Luna kept wiping the tears off her cheeks with the back of her hand. Anyway, she felt relieved to know that they weren’t tears shed out of sadness or anger.
“Hassan, this is the first time I’ve ever received a gift like this…! But a gift…. I, I don’t have anything to give you…”
“Why don’t you have anything to give me? Just give me lots of children later.”
“Ah, kid…!?”
“Surprise, why are you so surprised? Moai. You know that totem.”
Luna’s strangely shaped lump of stone statue had the ability to increase the stats of abilities such as strength and agility by 1 by consuming 100 task stats.
If you want to increase your ability level through normal methods, you need to invest at least several months or years in training and putting in effort, so the method Luna provides can be seen as quite a shortcut.
“S, totems. Yeah, moai… . Okay, I’ll make a lot of them! I’ve accumulated quite a bit of karma from this expedition. Anyway, thank you so much, Hassan! I really can’t wear these because they’re so precious.”
And then he rubbed the sandal on his face and sniffed it, which made me feel proud.
“How can you wear something like this? It’s a shame.”
“Just spend it comfortably. When you earn a lot of money later, buy something better with your money.”
“I’ll write really well!”
The thing about gifts is that if the recipient reacts well, the giver feels even better.
I think I can now understand a little bit the feelings of lovers who spend money on all kinds of anniversaries and events that are prevalent on Earth.
“Crocodile skin. The smell of the swamp. The smell of ideope.”
Luna continued to smell the leather until the food and drinks arrived, and she even had a wistful expression on her face as if she was missing something.
If you think about it, this guy also left his hometown, which was far away, and lived alone in a foreign land. The smell of the swamp that permeated his leather might have made him miss his hometown.
I wondered if I had unintentionally provoked a painful emotion, but since he didn’t seem particularly sad, I just let it be.
“Mr. Samaritan. Here is the grilled squid I ordered. It was delicious. I am confident in this dish. All you have to do is grill it.”
“No, it’s not roast pheasant, is it pheasant?”
“Then did you know what it was when you ordered it?”
No, I thought it was a typo on the order form, but it really was a 뀨. What the hell, what the hell is that little brat doing?
“Wow, your form has gotten a lot better in the time since I last saw you.”
The innkeeper speaks to me slyly while placing plates of food on the table where Luna and I are sitting. This person often approaches me first like this.
I don’t know if I should say that he’s witty or that he’s broad-minded. But now that I’m making a lot of money and feeling good, I don’t really feel like it’s annoying.
“I’m asking because your clothes have changed. Is that crocodile skin? It seems like adventurers make good money. Of course, since you’re risking your life, it wouldn’t be profitable if it weren’t for that. Oh, this is a service.”
Dalgrak-.
The innkeeper puts down a plate containing something solid as a service. When I looked inside to see what was inside, I saw pieces of ice frozen irregularly.
“They keep the fact that they gave us service a secret from the other customers. They make a fuss about why they weren’t served.”
Oh my god, they give you ice as a service?
In this world without refrigerators, ice is a food that you have to pay for.
In this world where we have to continue eating just to fill our stomachs, ice, which does little more than chill our drinks, is no different from a luxury.
That amount of ice was about a bucketful, which must have been at least 10 coppers.
“Sir, service, Hassan! Oh, it’s ice…!”
Luna’s body also began to tremble as if her hands and feet were already tingling at the thought of putting ice in her lukewarm glass. The innkeeper smiled with satisfaction at this.
“A while ago, a very clever wizard came to the shop. He was amazing at using ice magic without even reciting a single spell. Anyway, I have a personal favor to ask of you, Samaritan…”
Aha, I was wondering why you were offering this service. It seems it was some kind of bribe.
“What’s going on? If it’s a request, you should apply through the Adventurer’s Guild.”
There is a clear difference between personal requests and requests received through the Adventurer’s Guild.
Since there is no middleman involved in a personal request, there is no need to worry about being deducted from brokerage fees or commissions, and there is a lot of freedom in the contract, just like with a contract for personal use.
However, the risk is high because there is a high chance of accidents such as stealing money or showing off one’s guts. So-called high risk, high return.
On the other hand, if you do a request through a guild, you will receive money after deducting fees and brokerage costs, but there will be no cases of the request money being stolen or the content being changed midway.
If you do that, the guild won’t stay still.
Anyway, each method has its own pros and cons, but I liked the guild-based request method a little better.
Because the adventurer’s tier is evaluated based on the total of accumulated fees and brokerage fees, the more official work I have on my side, the more helpful it is for me to move up to the Silver Tier adventurer.
“Well, if you were going to ask for it through the guild, I don’t think you would have said anything like this.”
“ah-.”
Of course, the innkeeper is a native of this world and has probably met countless adventurers, including me. He would know these circumstances better than I do.
But does the fact that he has spoken so personally mean that there is a reason for it?
“What’s going on? I’ll listen and decide.”
“Well, my wife… . She’s getting older, so her back isn’t in good shape these days. She’s been to a clinic and even had a potion made by an alchemist. But it didn’t seem to work…”
“Ah-. Back.”
“Maybe three days from now, in the evening, would you be free? I’ll pay you generously. Of course, I’ll keep it a secret from everyone. I swear it on the River Styx.”
Perhaps the innkeeper is asking me to provide an illegal massage service. Of course, I don’t mean a massage service in the lewd sense, but a massage service for physical therapy purposes.
Wouldn’t this be a good opportunity to build up your task score?
As someone who has come to know that task values are included in various places, I can’t help but feel regretful about each and every value.
“great.”
“Ha-! That’s fortunate. I’m really fortunate. Then enjoy your meal. If you need anything else, just tell me.”
With those words, the innkeeper turned around and went to take our order. Luna and I eagerly ate the bird’s meat named Bbaeng.
Shit, grilled whole on an open fire is the best, rather than the shitty dishes with all sorts of spices unique to this world.
As I drink cold barley wine with ice and nibble on grilled poultry, I find myself getting full and getting tipsy.
“Then you suddenly started screaming, ‘Hueeeeek!’ and I thought you were crazy. The crocodiles just ran away.”
“Was it? Hassan, you looked quite formidable! When you screamed, I almost ran away. You looked like a terrifying murderer!”
“Damn, was it really that bad?”
Of course, even if there is no place to eat, talking about the bad things that happened in the past makes me feel good. Is this why everyone works and makes money?
Hot meat.
A cold drink with ice floating in it.
Deep pockets.
Even light conversations that are never serious, mixed with laughter.
They are all things that have a tendency to seep into a body that is too tired. I feel so good that my cheekbones hurt.
“I’m going to be in Bronze Tier from now on, right? I, I’m in Bronze Tier. I can’t believe it.”
Luna blinked as if she couldn’t believe it. Of course, I too was a little surprised that Luna would go up to Bronze Tier. But I changed my mind after seeing the Bronze Tier adventurers I met on the expedition.
In fact, whether it’s Iron or Bronze, or Subal, the skills are all the same, with only slight differences in experience and equipment. You could say it’s just a simple acorn key measurement.
“If I become Bronze, there will be more difficult things. I don’t know if I can do well.”
“What are you worried about? You’ll be fine even if you make it to Bronze.”
I pictured Luna swinging her silence totem and taking down skeletons and goblins.
Instead of calling him a voodoo wizard or something, I think it would be better for him to just live as a physical attack type warrior like me.
“Thank you for your support. Hassan is actually a nice person, despite his looks.”
“I’m a good person?”
In this world, telling an adventurer he’s kind isn’t really a compliment.
Because only fools who are used here and there and can’t even say what’s in their own interest are called kind.
“In Hassan’s soul, it feels like he was raised with love from many people. It’s clear that he had a childhood far from struggle or fighting. Right?”
“hmm-.”
After hearing Luna’s words, I thought for a moment. As a modern person living in the 21st century, could I really say that my childhood was overprotected, as Luna said?
Anyway, Luna had a strangely good feeling. Was her talent for voodoo blossoming? Luna added one more thing at that moment.
“But now he is a villain who cuts down people and goblins without hesitation.”
“If you don’t want to die, you have to kill yourself first.”
“That’s true. But it’s still fortunate that you returned safely. It wouldn’t have been strange if you had suffered serious injuries, like an arm or a leg. That, a giant skeleton dragon, a crocodile… Hassan survived even after facing the necromancers. He’s really amazing!”
Luna’s eyes sparkle as she looks at the black star necklace hanging around my neck. Thinking back now, I have no idea how I managed to subdue those fearsome necromancers, Shiva.
I felt like I was caught up in the excitement of battle and somehow managed to deal with it.
I can only say that I was lucky. It was a miracle that neither the crocodiles nor the skeletons were seriously injured.
Shit, how did I actually live?
As I was thinking back on my past expedition with a slightly drunken head, one thing flashed through my mind.
“But is your ankle okay?”
“Why my ankle?”
“You sprained your ankle when you tripped on a rock last time.”
“Ah-. That’s right.”
Luna nodded as if she was hearing it for the first time. No matter how blind the child was, she couldn’t even remember the times she got hurt.
“I see you forgot, so I guess you don’t hurt much anymore.”
“Actually, I feel a little queasy right now… but I can just bear with it. It’s okay.”
“If you leave it like that, you’ll be in big trouble. Go to a clinic and get treatment, or apply some medicine.”
Even in a modern society full of medical devices, illness and injury cannot be neglected.
It goes without saying that in this world, where people sincerely expect healing effects from things like applying saliva to a wound.
“What, you’re going to a treatment center for something like this. Treatment centers are expensive. They treat things you don’t want and charge you extra fees for this and that…”
“That’s true. The treatment fee isn’t that expensive. Then should I press it?”
“Uh, yeah?”
It was just a joke he made while drunk. It was just a joke that Luna, who was reluctant to show her ankles to others, would not readily accept.
“Then, shall I ask you a favor?”
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