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Long-standing feud with Hassan
143 ? Hassan and the long-standing feud #1
I decided to part ways with Hippolyta right there in the barn.
For some reason, I felt like I had to stay with her until she calmed down because her emotions were running high. It took some time because I kept patting her back.
“Samaritan. I think it would be best if we kept what happened today a secret between us two.”
“… That would be good. Yes.”
“I, I think I was a little crazy. Like a disease. Yeah, that’s it. Don’t worry about what I said.”
Hippolyte is making excuses. After the Great Depression, did Hippolyte also experience a kind of wise time? Even her loose speech became stiff again, as if she was wearing armor.
“Well, huuuu, I have something to do. I’ll go first. But before that, Samaritan. That, that… .”
Hippolyta is hesitating.
“Do you have anything else to say…?”
“Before, I asked you if I liked you.”
Hippolyte’s words made me think back to what happened earlier. What question did I ask? I felt so embarrassed that my face turned red.
“Well, it was just a question I asked… .”
“Then what about you?”
“yes?”
“Do you like me?”
“That’s it, I…”
“No-. I’ll hear the answer this way.”
Swish.
Hippolyte placed her palm on my left breast.
Hippolyte’s palms were hot as hot as a hot stamp, but since the cabin itself was cool, it wasn’t a bad feeling.
“Hey, what is this…?”
I wondered what Hippolyte was going to do. Then, suddenly, Hippolyte let out a sigh.
“Huh… I see. Yes, that’s right. Life is truly amazing. There’s still so much to learn. I think my level can be raised even higher.”
“okay.”
“These days, everything is new. But there’s something I’ve learned for sure once again. I, I have a strong competitive spirit. If there’s even a little bit of a chance of winning, I can’t give up.”
I suddenly couldn’t understand what Hippolyte was trying to say. So I just thought it was because it was early in the morning and I was feeling sentimental, so I just let it go.
“… But this time, it seems like there’s a good chance. I heard the answer well. Ahem. I’ll see you tomorrow. Come to the guild tomorrow. Ahem, ahem. Hehe.”
With those words, Hippolyte quickly left the cabin.
What the heck? Are you still feeling uneasy?
Anyway, after Hippolyte left the place, the cabin was empty. I couldn’t believe that I had an affair with a woman that everyone looked up to in a place like this. Honestly, I couldn’t believe it, and it felt like I was dreaming.
Is this really a dream?
As I calmed my mind and went outside, the two moons that had been high in the sky were slowly setting. By now, the public bathhouse that opens early in the morning would have also started business.
Saaaa-.
I went to my regular bathhouse and splashed water excitedly. I also didn’t forget to scrub every nook and cranny of my body with a sponge.
After a quick and thorough shower and stepping outside, my refreshed skin feels the lukewarm, hazy air typical of a summer morning.
Maybe it’s because it’s really summer now, but the nights are falling quickly.
I was already worried because the summers in this other world were truly terrible, with no air conditioning or even fans.
“Look, look over there. It’s Samaritan. I think that guy is him.”
“… But, but why are you only wearing underwear…?”
As I was walking back to Luna’s cabin, someone noticed me and started gossiping.
As the saying goes, the early bird catches the worm. The residents of this slum cut down on their sleep and go out on the streets early in the morning to find money.
I growled at the thought of giving a helping hand to the hard-working pups.
“What are you looking at, kid? I’ll take off your skin and wear it. Give me everything you own.”
“Whew! Looks like the rumors were true! He’s a psycho savage…!”
“Run away! Your skin will be peeled off!”
People who ran away like rats with their tails on fire, wondering if my threats had worked. Thanks to that, I was able to reduce unnecessary attention.
Are you going to tolerate my threats now?
As the guys said, I’m only wearing underwear right now, so it’s bound to attract people’s attention.
If you ask me why I’m only wearing underwear, I can only say that I took off my clothes and gave them to Hippolyte. That was the reason. Hippolyte took the old blanket I used as a blanket.
So all I had was a pair of shorts that I wore like panties and some perfume made from the feather oil of the thunder duck.
after-.
I took a deep breath to calm my heart, which was pounding with excitement, nervousness, and fear. I could soon see the cabin where Luna was sleeping.
It’s probably time for Luna to wake up now.
Luna sleeps so soundly that she doesn’t even notice when someone picks her up once she falls asleep, but strangely enough, she sleeps very little in the morning, so she always wakes up earlier than me.
What should I do?
My heart is pounding even harder than when I used to sneak coins out of my mother’s purse as a child. In fact, what I did today was far more secretive than that.
“flaw-.”
I’m going crazy from the constant sighing and pounding heart.
Luna has a good sense of smell, so she might get caught.
What should I do?
Luna’s cabin came into view and I started to really panic. Am I the type that can’t stand doing bad things?
Mulberry.
I opened the bottle of oil containing the fragrance of the Thunder Ducks. I was so out of it the last time I visited the Temple of Venus that I didn’t get to use it.
I think I shouldn’t forget today and use it well on my body.
If you don’t use it in the first place, there is no future.
Clank, clank-.
The red liquid in the small perfume bottle was overflowing, and I put my little finger into the opening of the bottle and dabbed it lightly.
Just in case, I sniffed it, but contrary to my expectations, there was no smell. Didn’t you say it was a fragrance? Is there a fragrance that doesn’t have an odor?
But how do you use this?
If there was a device that could spray it like perfume, then that would be fine. In this case, you just have to apply it to your body.
Should I apply it to my body like oil?
Then I don’t know how much sheep there should be. So, I just smeared the entire contents all over my body, feeling like I didn’t know what to do.
It’s better to have too much than not enough. In the first place, there will be no other day to use this. So I applied oil from head to toe.
But it was more slippery than I thought, so I think a small amount would be enough to spread all over the body. It’s like falling into a sea of mucus.
Anyway, the perfume work is finished.
“after-.”
Now all that’s left to do is carefully open the door and go in.
I repeat the inhalation and exhalation several times to calm my pounding heart. After I feel somewhat mentally prepared, I decide to activate the grace.
“Lord Nox, I need to borrow some strength….”
Sigh-.
The letters that come to mind as I hold my breath.
『Graceful Night’s Cloak』 is activated.
『Consume task values to adjust the detection probability of covert actions.』
『Current task value: 92.』
91.
90-.
Okay, it worked fine.
One of my gifts, the Cloak of Night, literally helps me to act covertly without being detected. It doesn’t make my body transparent or anything.
It helps in the sense that the sound of footsteps is reduced more than expected.
According to what I tried out with Luna on my day off, it seems like it hides my unique mana or something.
Anyway, there’s nothing better than this for sneaking in.
I’m a fucking natural thief.
Hassan, an assassin who acts in the darkness.
So, you brainwash yourself and hold on to the doorknob.
And pull it…!
Odd.
But the sound of the wooden door opening was louder than I expected. Because of that, I had to use a lot of force on my jaw to keep my mouth shut.
Is Luna awake?
I wonder if he is waking up and wondering about me and Hippolyte disappearing in the middle of the night.
As I opened the door and started to look around, all sorts of thoughts came to mind.
Broadly.
A gap that is open enough for my body to fit through.
As I pushed myself inside, I could see that the first floor of the cabin was as still and quiet as any other morning.
Tiny specks of dust floating in the air.
A wooden statue of the Goddess Nox that makes you feel bad about looking at it.
Large and small jars placed here and there.
Woof, woof!
And the wolf spiders that come out of it!
The guy climbed up on the jar and made a sound, as if he was trying to welcome me back home. He resembles a dog in many ways. He’s like a dog.
Shit, a spider as big as a human palm and rainbow colored! It’s so terrifying, it’s scary.
Woof woof!
The barking was louder than I thought, and I was afraid that Luna might notice. So I held out my palm to the spider guy as if I was calming down an excited dog.
“Shh, Joe, be quiet.”
『The Cloak of Graceful Night』 is released.』
『Current remaining task count: 79.』
Hyoong-.
Then, with a strange growling sound, the thing climbed onto my palm. What the heck, a spider with front teeth as big as fingernails was climbing onto my palm!
Just that alone made me want to scream and faint. I can’t. Spiders, damn it, they’re scary.
Why do I have to suffer like this? I wondered if this was a punishment for me. I was being punished now.
Grumble, groan.
“flaw-.”
It was fortunate that the spider had become calm, but Hassan’s Sanity began to drop exponentially, to the point where it felt like foam was coming out of his mouth.
“Huh-huh-.”
Why am I so scared of spiders? I know why, but it’s a story I don’t really want to think about. It gives me goosebumps all over my body, and my stomach feels like it’s going to explode, so I don’t know what to do.
Swish, swish.
This wolf spider won’t let go of my palm. Damn it!
“Hey, you, get down now… .”
Krrrrrr.
“You don’t like it…?”
Krrrr… .
Talking to a spider is a really crazy thing to do, but I think I know what he wants.
Luna would often stroke the spider on her palm with her other hand. It seemed like this guy wanted something similar from me!
Petting a spider? I really don’t want to do it even if I die, but I can’t help it since it’s come to this.
So I slowly moved my fingers toward the spider on my palm.
Lift one index finger, and slowly move it towards the guy’s torso… slowly… What if Sval suddenly changes his mind and bites me?
“Hassan, you woke up first!”
“Oh my god, shit, this is surprising!”
Krrrr!
I was so surprised by Luna’s voice that I threw away the spider I was holding in my palm.
Picking at him, the flying wolf spider snarled and hit the wall, then growled like a ferocious beast and went into the jar.
Hey, sorry about that. I didn’t do it on purpose.
My heart is beating so fast it hurts.
“Ugh.”
“Hassan was touching all the dogs since morning! How unexpected! What day is it? Hassan, you’re afraid of spiders! How did you get such courage!”
“I, I don’t know… .”
Luna, who had just woken up, was so energetic that it was hard to believe it was morning. Then, Luna looked around.
“Hassan, have you not seen Hippolyte? She left her armor upstairs. I can’t see her. She used to sleep with me.”
“… Well, well, well. I guess he went out because he had something to do. He’s a gold tier adventurer.”
“Is that so? But in the end, I didn’t receive the 3 silver from Hippolyte. I couldn’t even come up with a plan to promote the elixir. I’ll have to tell her firmly when we meet next time.”
“I see. Phew-.”
“But Hassan, why are you looking so pale? Did you have a bad dream? Do you have a fever?”
Swish.
Luna held out her palm towards me. I almost dodged it for a moment.
But I was afraid that if I avoided it, I would be suspected more and get caught up in a useless situation, so I quietly accepted the hand.
Luna’s fingers touching my forehead were cooler than I expected. It felt good because it was cool. So, somewhere in my heart, my heart ached.
“Hassan, do you have a fever…?”
“Fever? I, I have a fever?”
“Yeah. I think you have a little bit of a cold. Your face is red too.”
I have a cold. I’ve never had a cold in my life. I have a fever? I couldn’t believe it.
“You have a fever because you’re taking off all your clothes. More importantly, why are you doing this to your body…?”
Luna brought her palm to my body. Soon, a viscous liquid spread across my body and Luna’s palm, forming a long, thin thread-like line.
“Hassan, what is this?”
“Huh? What, what?”
“What the heck is this?”
Luna didn’t seem to know what was on my body. So she came closer to me and sniffed around with her nose.
“It looks like oil. Hassan, is it a toad? Why is oil coming out of its body…?”
I felt like my head was turning black. It wasn’t turning completely white. When you really panic, your head and eyes turn black.
Would the Thunder Ducks balm from the Temple of Venus be effective?
I was shaking with such nervousness.
“Hassan, have you been to the bathhouse?”
“Uh, yeah, just now. I just got up. I’m back. This was there too, so I just tried it. They say it’s good for your skin.”
Luna asked me if I had been to the bathhouse, and I answered absentmindedly.
“There was something like this in the bathroom? But the body odor completely disappeared. It’s amazing. Is it possible for a person’s body odor to disappear like this?”
Luna continued to sniff me as if she found it very interesting. Anyway, it seems she didn’t get caught for having an affair with Hippolyte.
Indeed, it is genuine mandarin duck oil given by the Saint Venus.
It’s worth the price. Even Luna, has she never seen anything like this? Anyway, she survived.
As I felt like I was finally free from the brink of death, I felt a rush of blood rushing back into my body, as if I was relieved, and my legs momentarily lost their strength.
“after-.”
“Hasan, you look really tired. Do you want to lie down and rest today? I was planning on going to the underground market, but I guess I’ll have to skip it today.”
Luna’s words made me think about what I had to do today.
I got some gold from the black market while completing a quest at the Venus Temple. I was supposed to meet Malko at the tavern to use it. It seems that day was today.
“This is my first time using gold coins. What can I buy on the black market…!”
Jjalgrang.
Luna shouted brightly as she pulled a gold coin with an X on it out of a corner.
goldfinch.
Thinking about the eight little trinkets that were given to me, I suddenly felt very happy. They say they are black money that can only be used on the black market, but they are still gold coins.
goldfinch.
Gold.
In English it’s Gold.
In terms of the elemental cycle… I don’t know what the subaltern is, but anyway, gold is a precious metal both on Earth and here.
In modern society, wasn’t it said that precious metals go beyond the simple value of jewelry and are essential materials used in making home appliances?
But I didn’t know that because I was an ordinary person in the 21st century and had lived a life that had nothing to do with gold. It seems that I really like shiny gold nuggets.
“Hehehe.”
“Hassan seems to like spending money too! What have you thought of to buy, Hassan?”
“No, I haven’t thought about it! I’ll probably find it if I go and look! Let’s go!”
So Luna and I headed to the Nymph Wing Inn, which we often used as a meeting place as usual. Let’s spend one gold coin for Luna. No, let’s spend two.
Anyway, when I was trying to reserve a table at the inn to wait for Malko while having breakfast, I ended up meeting some really unexpected people.
“Are those people the Silver Rose or something that’s been making a fuss lately?”
“Strangely enough, they’re all women. They don’t look that strong.”
“But they’re all adventurers from the Silver Tier. My relative who lives in Calcutta told me. He said they were famous for their skills there too.”
“What’s going on in Sodomora?”
Among the people who are chatting -.
Among the female adventurers sitting around a round table-.
Shit, there’s a silver-haired elf in here that I want to meet the least in the world.
Because its presence was so strong anytime and anywhere, I could spot it as soon as I entered.
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