115th
Deep night little moon and stranger
115 ? Deep Night Little Moon and the Stranger #1
The Baron is waiting.
Baron. Baron.
It was said that there were nobles who were interested in the rapid development of the nymph Echo. It seems that the Baron is one of them.
Unlike the Republic of Korea in the 21st century, where I enjoyed the honey of capitalism and liberal democracy, there is something called a caste system in this world.
Each person is born into a class and lives a life determined by that class.
From the lowest slave class.
This includes the free people, who can be said to be the majority of the social population, and the noble and royal families, who are a small number of noble bloodlines.
nobility.
To me, who had never encountered the word noble outside of the popular party job category in games, the existence of nobles was unfamiliar.
Even in this world where there is a legally mandated caste system, I have never once met anyone who could be called noble.
“-mountain.”
Is it really not like that? Of course, I guess there might have been a time or two when we passed each other. Since I have never had anything to do with them up until now, I don’t know much about the existence of nobles.
It’s like Hassan, a loach that rolls around in the mud as if it were his home ground, never meeting Elizabeth, a loach that lives in the clear, first-class water.
If I were to evaluate the nobles based on what I’ve vaguely heard, I’d say they have similar power and influence to members of the Earth’s National Assembly or city council. They’re also similar in that they’re difficult to meet.
Even in Korea, I was an ordinary citizen, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that I never got to see the faces of members of the National Assembly in my life, except on the news.
“Hassan, what are you thinking about?”
I was lost in my thoughts when I suddenly came to my senses when I heard Luna calling me. As time passed and the alcohol took effect, the after-party gradually became more intense.
Luna’s face, who had been drinking a few beers alone, was also slightly flushed. Paranoy next to her was-.
“Goddess of the Hearth… . Pray… . Answer… .”
He was so drunk that he was mumbling in his sleep with his face buried in the table. It must mean that it was time to get up. He had almost finished the fresh meat he had ordered as a side dish.
I answered nonchalantly, downing the rest of the alcohol in my glass.
“I didn’t think much about it.”
“Lies…! I now know that Hassan gets a wrinkle between his forehead when he thinks about it!”
“Oh, really?”
I never knew I had such a habit. It was the first time I noticed it in half a century of living. When did I develop such a habit?
I wondered if that was true, so I ran my palm over my forehead and asked.
“How did you know that?”
“If you look at Hassan’s face every day, you’ll know. Let’s see what he’s thinking right now.”
Zigsi-.
Luna, her cheeks flushed red, looked straight into my eyes. Her gaze was so straight, unlike that of a drunk person, that I felt terribly embarrassed and wanted to avoid eye contact.
It seems like people in this world have absolutely no aversion to looking into someone’s eyes.
Zigsi-.
If I keep looking into Luna’s clear eyes, it feels like everything about me will be revealed, so it’s a little scary.
“Hassan, you must not avert your eyes. The mind-reading spell requires that you maintain eye contact with each other for several seconds.”
“What kind of sorcery? This is the first time I’ve heard of such a sorcery.”
“Of course! I just made it!”
“Luna, are you drunk?”
“No! I’m fine!”
It was Luna who screamed. At that moment, the bar that had been bustling with drunk customers fell into silence for a moment.
A few seconds later, the noisy sounds of the parted seas rushing back toward each other again fill my ears.
“I guess I should get up now. I should go back before I get too drunk and have trouble walking.”
“This is an inn, after all. If you’re having a hard time, why don’t you just sleep here? More importantly, I found out what Hassan is thinking!”
Luna’s confident shout made me listen closely to see what the pink-haired girl had to say next.
“What am I thinking?”
“What was I thinking… Hassan was thinking that he should order Luna another delicious skewer of shrimp and another bowl of stewed peas!”
“Not at all.”
“No! That’s what I’m thinking!? Are you saying my spell is wrong right now? I’m Luna, the witch doctor of Ideophe. The probability of my spell failing is-.”
“Luna, are you hungry now?”
“Uh, uh… Hassan read my mind?”
Wouldn’t it be a bit small for three people to eat two servings of fresh meat as a side dish?
Luna’s appetite has improved to the point where it wouldn’t be strange to say that she’s in her growth phase these days. It seems like she wasn’t full just from eating side dishes.
So I ordered Luna’s favorite dish, the skewered chicken, and some peas. She must have asked for it, so I figured it out.
“See, I did exactly as I said. I guessed Hassan’s thoughts right…!”
“Yeah, good job.”
So Luna and I shared the additional meals we ordered and left the inn. It seems like we had a lot of fun chatting and talking while having a party.
I don’t remember exactly what we talked about, maybe because I was a little drunk.
But for my body, soaked in fatigue from exploring the labyrinth, the alcohol, snacks, and the chatter of a bright girl made me feel very good, like water seeping into dry land.
Oh, my fatigue is going away.
Of course, the work isn’t over yet.
“Mom, I can’t walk….”
Completely drunk from two beers, Paranoy stumbled out of the inn, eventually collapsing on the floor.
Having to support a drunk person. Is there anything more annoying than that?
“Luna, can’t you just give me a room at the inn and let me stay there?”
“No. There are a lot of guys who are after the nymphs, so you never know what might happen. Since you’re really drunk, I think it would be better if you stayed at my house for the night.”
“That’s right. But how do you take a kid who can’t even control his body home?”
“I… can walk… .”
Paranoy seemed to have answered reflexively. Contrary to what he had said, he ended up lying down on the dirt floor.
In this case, I have no choice but to carry it.
“Should I carry you?”
“… No! I’ll carry you!”
In response to my question, Luna lifted Paranoy onto her back. Luna looked a little uneasy, carrying a girl of similar size to herself.
Luna looked uneasy, as if her recent rapid growth wasn’t a lie, but she walked without falling or getting stuck.
“Pfft, I picked up a drunken nymph. Hehe. Nymph magic potion. Nymph skin beauty gel. Nymph…”
I don’t know what the mind-reading spell is, but I feel like I know what Luna is thinking right now.
But I decided to just pretend I didn’t know.
* * *
I thought it was just a cramped and shabby cabin, but after all the hardships I’ve been through, it feels like home when I come back here.
Of course, it’s not our house, it’s Luna’s house.
“Ugh… I’m sorry…”
“Okay, okay. That was hard.”
Luna laid Paranoy down in the corner of the first floor, covered him with a thin blanket, and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Until just a moment ago, I felt like I was drunk, my face was red, and I was talking nonsense.
Luna seemed relatively lucid, perhaps because she had woken up from the alcohol she had been drinking.
Actually, I felt this way from the first time we drank together, but Luna is a heavy drinker. I thought I had a higher tolerance than most people, but Luna was no match for me.
It’s strange how that led to them swearing on something or other about Styx, and how that led to them living together under the roof of this tiny hut.
What would have happened if I hadn’t been drunk then?
I might be living alone in a hotel, and Luna might have grown tired of living alone in the city and gone back to her hometown.
When I think about it that way, fate is a strange thing.
What would have happened if I hadn’t gone to the Mars Guild then, if I hadn’t been slapped by Daphne, and if I hadn’t been asked to clean the temple?
I don’t know.
“I have to shower tomorrow, Hassan. When I wake up tomorrow morning, let’s go to the bathhouse together!”
“Yeah, well, good.”
“It would be nice to have a plumbing system at home….”
Luna’s regretful words reminded me of the few days I spent staying at Hippolyte’s house.
Although the house was smaller than expected, Hippolyte’s house had a shower facility that resembled a small telephone booth.
“Is it expensive to install something like a shower room?”
“Since we’re using the water supply facilities, we need various qualifications. It’s okay to just put a bucket of water in it and use it, but that kind of thing is a bit uncomfortable.”
“Hmm, that’s true.”
Luna is quite a neat-minded child, considering she plays in the mud in the swamp. She’ll definitely be able to do things like wash herself with rainwater.
I don’t really care about anything as long as I can wash, but I wonder if there are subtle differences in sensibilities between me as a man and Luna as a woman.
“I wonder if the dog came back? He was away from home for a few days.”
Luna, who had given up on washing and sleeping today, went around the first floor and opened the jars. She probably thought there would be a wolf spider, Kkungkung, inside.
But I never thought that an animal that had run away from home would come back. Even cats raised at home have an extremely low chance of coming back if they run away from home.
“Wow, Hassan. Look at this!”
Just then Luna called me. I looked inside the jar, wondering what was going on.
Grumble. Grumble.
I saw a rainbow-colored, bizarrely terrifying spider curled up inside a small jar, making a strange noise.
“Wow, you’re really back.”
“Right? I told you I’d be back.”
Sval, a spider that ran away from home came back into the jar. That’s really amazing. A spider like this would be a real pet. Of course, it’s so scary that I wouldn’t keep one.
“But it doesn’t look like there’s just one. What’s that on its back? Is it a baby?”
I frowned as I looked at the tiny bumps on the colorful spider’s back. If the spider was the size of the palm of your hand, the tiny spider on its back was about the size of your little finger.
And its appearance was a bit different from that of the existing wolf spiders. It had no hair, was smooth, and had a transparent body, making it look like a spider made of blue jelly.
I’ve heard that the babies of crustaceans like scorpions are that soft. Do the babies of this wolf spider look like that when they’re young?
It was a bit creepy because it had so many legs, but it was a bit less scary because it was bare and hairless.
“Did you give birth outside?”
“Hassan, that little one is not a cub. It’s a male.”
“cock?”
“Yes! Male wolf spiders ride on the backs of females like that. When the females make a nest, they go in with them and live there. When the females find food, they eat it.”
“Are you saying that you just play at the females’ house and take what they bring you? You’re like a total pillar husband-.”
As we talked, it seemed like that male spiderling was no different from me. Come to think of it, I’m also living off Luna’s house. Damn, I spat in my own face.
But Luna, who had her hand inside the jar and was stroking the spider, didn’t seem to care what I said.
“I see you went outside and brought your boyfriend. They’ll be having babies soon. If you train wolf spiders well from the time they’re babies, they’ll be useful in battle.”
Woof woof.
There are a lot of baby spiders.
It’s nice not having to worry about getting bitten by mosquitoes in the summer, but honestly, from my perspective, it’s not something I’d really want to imagine.
But maybe it was because of my sense of kinship with him as a man living in a woman’s house, or maybe it was because of his jelly-like texture and appearance, but there was something about that male wolf spider that I liked.
Looking at it again, it seems pretty cute even though it has a lot of legs.
Anyway, we went back home and checked on Kkungkung. As the night grew deeper, Luna and I decided to go to sleep quickly.
I lay down on the deerskin blanket because I thought I would faint and fall asleep as soon as I hit my head on the floor.
Luna didn’t seem to be tired, as she was just looking around the skull and not thinking about falling asleep.
“I think I could just use it as an amulet. Huh, you can’t get something like this even at Ideophe. An obsidian dagger and a Dullahan skull. Shh… If I keep going like this, I’ll become a high-level medicine man…”
Luna was so delighted with the cow skull she had obtained as spoils of her dungeon exploration that she seemed at a loss as to what to do.
“Is that really that good?”
“Yeah yeah!! If you make an amulet with this, the power of your magic will become even stronger! Amulets have the effect of increasing accuracy and power!”
“It works better than I thought.”
When I first met Luna, I thought her magic was something like superstition or divination, such as knocking down a tree branch to determine direction.
Looking back now, it has had some subtle effects and has helped me a lot. If, like Luna said, its power and accuracy increase from what it is now, it would definitely be something to be happy about.
“How is it? Does it suit you well?”
Luna looked at me with a strange bone helmet on her head.
Looking at that appearance, I got an eerie feeling like the bizarre cult witch doctor Somnia, but it also reminded me of a Pokémon with bones for a head, so I felt funny.
“Deep in the night, voodoo of joy!”
Luna soon began to dance, shaking her shoulders and waist from side to side. Her appearance was mysterious, as if she were an ancient sorcerer performing human sacrifice.
however.
When on earth do you sleep?
I’m sleepy.
“It suits you well.”
“… .”
Didn’t you like my short answer? Luna didn’t show any particular reaction to my answer even though she had asked the question herself. I was thinking that I should add a little more flair to the answer.
“Hoooo… .”
A small sigh escaped Luna’s mouth while she was wearing her skull helmet, and a cold wind blew in from somewhere. Did Luna forget to close the first floor window?
Luna stopped dancing at that moment.
“Hatsan.”
The guy called my name. The strangely calm atmosphere made me feel a little sleepy.
“Why are you calling me?”
“What do you think about Luna…?”
“… What do you think…?”
I was quite taken aback to be suddenly asked such a question.
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