82nd time
Descendants of Pluto
082 ? Descendants of Pluto #9
I remembered that last night Luna was on my stomach looking down at me.
Now that I think about it, it may have been a dream, or it may have been something I had mistaken in my hazy mind. But at the time, it was so scary that it gave me goosebumps.
“What did I do?”
But Luna just asks back as if she’s hearing it for the first time. It’s not like she’s pretending not to know, it’s like she really doesn’t know.
Could it be that I don’t remember? Or maybe I just moved in my sleep. Or maybe it was really just my imagination.
“It’s okay if you don’t remember.”
“Actually, I had a really funny dream while I was sleeping. It was like I was swimming in a huge pile of gold coins! Could this be a precognitive dream? They say that when you reach the level of voodoo, you can have precognitive dreams!”
Luna, who had been chattering away on her own since morning, asks me a question.
“What are you going to do today, Hassan? I’m planning to make some potions here. I bought the ingredients in advance, so all I have to do is make them.”
“Me? I don’t really have anything to do.”
When the words of the nymph cultist Paranoy were not a lie, today was the day the cultist’s attack was scheduled.
Guild official Daphne advised them to stay home quietly and not cause any trouble.
In fact, after the cultists’ attack on the temple, the number of people roaming the streets had noticeably decreased.
Although the Silver Tier adventurers, including Hippolyte, managed to block an attack once, the cultists’ skills are apparently formidable, as even Hippolyte was injured and the guild building was completely destroyed.
In such a situation, there is nothing for water tier bronze adventurers like Nana Luna to do other than quietly tremble around the house without getting hurt!
“You should just stay home and behave.”
“If you have nothing to do, then great! Let’s get some medicine together!”
Luna exclaimed, as if she was glad to have some extra help around the house.
I also had no qualms about helping Luna with her work, so I started by peeling the bark off some strange-looking plants.
Square, square, grind, grind.
He did all sorts of odd jobs, even grinding bones of unknown origin into small pieces.
It wasn’t that difficult, and I felt a sense of accomplishment from doing something creative and helping Luna.
“Hassan, you work harder than I thought. I heard that in Samaria, men do housework. Is that true?”
Luna was amazed at how well I was able to handle the ingredients. It seems like my experience handling various things since I was little was helpful.
“Well, I just learned a few things from my father.”
If I think about it, my father was a very talented man, even though he made a living by doing odd jobs. He did everything from housework to cooking. He was a man who lived on the run.
“I’d like to meet Hassanne’s father sometime. He seems like an interesting person!”
“Our father?”
Luna’s words made me think of Luna taking me and introducing me to my father and mother.
Introducing my girlfriend to my parents – it’s actually something I’ve always wanted to do at least once.
My father would be so proud, wouldn’t he? He even asked me when I would ever get a girlfriend.
Shit, I was so manly like my father that I never had any luck with women. Of course, I have Luna by my side now.
In fact, Luna is a pretty girl who would be proud to show off wherever she is. Her parents would be really happy to see Luna.
My sister might curse me out and ask how a loner like me could date a girl like this.
“What if Hassan’s parents hate me?”
“I don’t think that will happen. I’m worried that your parents will hate me even more.”
“It’s okay, I don’t have a mom or dad.”
“Yeah, yeah, right.”
No, a self-padlip!?
Of course, Luna said it without knowing, but from my perspective as the one hearing it, it was a little embarrassing.
Because it felt like the statue of Knox on the first floor was creaking and getting angry.
“I said something unnecessary. I’m sorry.”
“It’s okay. But Hassan, you’ll return home someday, right? Can you take me with you then? I’d like to go to Samaria too. I heard it’s a vast wilderness without a single tree!”
“My hometown?”
When I hear the word home, I think of the beautiful blue planet Earth, not Samaria, a wasteland full of barbarians.
A small planet with a population of 7 billion, Earth. Can I return there? And even if I can, can I go there with Luna? I don’t know.
Even if there is a way to go back, what should I do if I have to go back alone without Luna?
If it were like before, I would have gone back to my hometown without looking back.
“Father, if it’s burdensome, you don’t have to introduce me to your parents.”
“No, it’s not that it’s burdensome. It’s just that I don’t think I can go back to my hometown. This is my hometown now.”
Knock knock-.
As we chatted about this and that, all the grains that were being ground on the millstone became powder. After putting them in a jar, I covered them with leather and stored them well.
“It’s really quick because two people are doing it! If I had done it alone, it would have taken half a day.”
Luna was very satisfied as she watched the ingredients being ground and peeled and placed into several jars.
In reality, Luna’s dexterity is as sloppy as when she carved the totem, so if Luna were to do this all by herself, it might take her until tomorrow instead of half a day.
“If only there was a stove, I could make medicine here. What a pity.”
Come to think of it, Luna used to sing and chatter about how she wished there was a fireplace or a brazier. Can’t she just make a fire?
“Can’t you make a stove?”
“If it exceeds a certain size, it needs to be approved by the city. There is a risk of fire.”
Well, this is a world where firefighting facilities are not well-established. If a fire breaks out, it will spread in an uncontrollable manner. Most of the materials used to build houses are also wood.
It may seem haphazard, but there are actually laws and systems in place. That must be how the world works.
“Then, I guess I’ll have to borrow an oven from the bakery next door!”
As she said that, Luna quickly lifted up the heavy jar filled with water and all sorts of ingredients. However, her staggering appearance made her look quite uneasy.
“Should I do it for you?”
“Really!? If you do that, I’ll be grateful! You have to put in a lot of firewood and boil it over high heat all at once! That way, the ingredients inside will melt well!”
Are you saying I should just boil it over high heat? That’s easy. Even though I’m wearing the mask of a savage now, I’m actually the eldest son of a health center.
I am confident in boiling, juicing, and other things.
“I’ll go and come back.”
“Then I have to make a special elixir ingredient. You can’t come in for a while, Hassan.”
Special elixir ingredients?
I don’t know what it is. I wonder if Luna has some kind of special sauce that she can’t even tell me.
Is this some kind of top secret in sales?
It seemed like Luna was trying to hide it from me too, and since I wasn’t really interested in that kind of thing anyway, I just nodded and picked up the jar and headed out into the street.
* * *
I didn’t know where the bakery Luna told me about, so I wandered around for a while and finally finally found it when I was almost out of energy.
It was hard to tell because it felt more like a dark general store than a bakery.
“What’s going on?”
The owner of the bakery was a woman in her forties with a fairly good physique.
She had brown hair cut short enough to look like a man, and was wearing an apron. Her thick arms were full of lean muscle with no body fat, giving her the impression that she would lose if they fought.
She feels more like a blacksmith than a bakery lady.
The fact that he’s running a food business in a place full of beggars and vagrants proves that he can easily subdue any number of thugs.
“Excuse me, I’d like to borrow your stove.”
“Are you going to boil the contents of that jar?”
“Yes, yes.”
“Is that the pink-haired girl’s friend? We used to hang out together around here.”
I don’t know anything about this lady, but she seemed to know something about me.
Well, if a Samaritan with a pointy pole and a pink-haired woman were walking down the street, I would probably glance over a few times.
“You only pay for the shipping cost. Be careful because the price changes depending on the weight.”
“yes.”
The amount of firewood I bought was 20 coppers worth. I thought I bought too much, but the lady said it was just the right amount.
I placed the jar on something like an iron stand and warmed it with fire. I was worried that the jar would break under the heat, but fortunately that didn’t happen.
Knock, knock-.
After watching the campfire burning down for a while, the bakery lady, perhaps bored by the lonely atmosphere, approached me and spoke to me.
“What’s your relationship with that girl? The girl with the pink hair.”
“We’re just colleagues.”
I was wondering what to say about our relationship, but I just confessed that we were colleagues.
Luna is a woman who has taken a vow of chastity, and according to the norms of this world, it is highly condemned for a woman who has taken a vow of chastity to have a lover.
Of course, it is a fact that she is not a girlfriend or a lover yet, but rather a somewhat ambiguous colleague.
“That’s right. That girl is really kind. She has some shortcomings, but she’s not the type of person to betray or anything. I’ve seen her a lot since she first came to this city.”
“Oh, is that so?”
The awkward atmosphere made the back of my head tingle. But the bakery lady continued talking as if she didn’t care.
“Your face is pretty, and your limbs are delicate. You look just like the goddess of spring. It’s nice to look at you.”
“That’s true.”
I felt good for no reason when people complimented me for being pretty.
In fact, Luna is a pretty girl who makes some people passing by turn their heads and look at her.
As I was picturing Luna’s face, the bakery owner continued speaking.
“In these times when the gods are silent, I have never seen a girl who keeps her vow of chastity so well. Of course, there are virgins or something like that who punish women and men who break their vows, but they can’t catch them all.”
“okay.”
“You could live comfortably if you asked for a decent man. It would be great if you didn’t do that. I think it would have been better if you had just lived like that. Now, turn off the lights and let it cool down a bit before you take it.”
At the bakery owner’s words, I put out the fire by chopping up the firewood with something like a long skewer.
I looked inside the jar to see how well the ingredients had dissolved, and sure enough, the boiling water was bubbling here and there, creating bubbles.
The color is a very cloudy and thick brown rather than clear water.
It had a strong bitter smell like herbal medicine, but I could bear it somehow. I can’t even imagine what it tastes like, but it didn’t look very tasty.
“A bachelor shouldn’t have bad thoughts about a pretty girl. He should protect such a girl.”
“Okay… Okay, I understand.”
That was the end of the conversation. The bakery owner seemed anxious that I might attack Luna and hurt her. It was already a little late, though… .
When the contents of the jar had cooled down to a comfortable temperature, I hugged them again and went out into the street. It was a fairly dark street.
The streets are empty of people these days, as it is widely known that cult members are out and about.
Even if there were, they were all just quickly disappearing. I was worried about Luna, who would be alone, so I hurried my pace. It wasn’t like anything would happen, but I still wanted to know just in case.
A squeak, a clank.
“Ah-, the Dark Star of Kallan. You were there, comrade.”
At that moment, I turned my head when I heard someone calling me from behind, and there was a man standing behind me with a large body that I had to look up at.
A full plate armor that looks so hard and sturdy that its identity is unknown. Its matte black appearance makes it look like a shadow floating above the ground.
Whatever it was, it looked out of place in this quiet, trash-strewn western slum.
As I explained earlier, wearing armor with a lot of iron plate parts is proof of superior skill.
The full plate armor is not just armor made of iron plates, but is also a magnificent piece with a pointed appearance, and the helmet on the head is carved in the shape of a dragon, like the head of a turtle ship.
Crunch.
Also, the huge thing tied to his back was a lump of iron plate so vicious that it was questionable whether it could even be called a sword.
The man spoke to me again.
“It’s almost time. You’d better hurry, or you might be late for the meeting.”
In that moment, goosebumps rose all over my body as if the hairs on my body were standing on end. I had heard this voice somewhere before. It was a thick voice that seemed to echo through the cold cave.
This man was probably the one who had come to Luna’s cabin that day and knocked on the door. His name was Schizzo, I think.
I could easily imagine what my fate would have been if I had opened the door then. Luna and I might have been torn apart mercilessly.
No matter how much I thought about it, I never thought I could defeat this giant lump of iron.
“Well… let’s go. Everyone gather and wait. Today, Sodomora will be the first territory that Pluto-sama will have on this land.”
“Everyone gather…?”
In response to my question, the man mutters an unbelievable story.
“Three silver tiers, one gold tier. That’s enough.”
Indeed, I don’t know what they were trying to do, but they seemed like sufficient classes.
[Work Review]
Today, my first work, ‘Dungeon Random Box’, is having a half-and-half sale.
Since it was the first thing I wrote, it was disorganized and a bit uneven, but now that I look at it, I feel like I’ve grown a lot and it brings back new memories ㅠㅠ…
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