247th
The Elves of Alfheim
247 ? The Fairies of Alfheim #7
I asked.
“Hey, Elfriede. Do you like me?”
Even I think that was a very courageous statement.
No matter what answer I get, it will probably be something I won’t forget until the moment I close my eyes.
I know this myself, and I have often been torn to pieces by these questions. But I still end up asking the same questions as before.
History and mistakes repeat themselves in human life.
Now, what kind of reaction will come back?
I was so nervous that I thought my heart would burst. I could almost hear my heartbeat pounding in my ears.
Just by saying one word that had been lingering in my mouth, it seemed as if the world around me was changing.
“…what?”
Elfriede, who had been trembling while holding onto the railing, seemed to have lost some of her strength.
Since I could only see the back of his head, I had no way of knowing what his face looked like.
“Huh, what?”
A rather angry voice followed.
Only then did I realize what question I had been asking. Why on earth would I be saying such a thing to Elfriede, of all people?
But in fact, there were some suspicious circumstances.
Elfriede cooked for me, gave me money, and even let me rub her shoulders.
From what I can tell from my limited knowledge, women are quite picky about dating even if they are just friends of the opposite sex, not boyfriends. You could say that they are weighing whether or not this guy is good enough to be friends with.
I don’t know if that’s actually true, but it seemed like the right opinion, considering I didn’t have any friends of the opposite sex.
Even if it’s just a simple friend of the opposite sex, if it’s to the point of rubbing your shoulders or feet, isn’t it more than just ordinary feelings?
I began to think that whipping, occasionally hitting someone on the head with a hammer, or raising my voice and yelling might have been expressions of misguided love.
It’s like when elementary school kids can’t show it right away but instead go around teasing and teasing the boy or girl they like to get attention.
Maybe Elfriede was like that too.
This guy is only about 21 or 22 years old, even among elves who live to be 200 years old. In human terms, he would be around 10 years old.
It is possible.
“Hey, do you like me?”
“Why do I like you, you idiot!”
“what?”
“What did I eat wrong? Do I like you? I’m seriously going to throw up! This is so, so disgusting!! This is so ridiculous. Ha-. Seriously, do I even have to listen to this?”
However, Elfriede’s reaction was as expected. To show such dislike. Sval, is there just one more reason for me to wake up every night kicking the blanket?
Sval.
What question am I asking now?
I can vividly feel the line “I asked Elfriede if she liked me” being engraved in Hassan’s mysterious dark history dictionary.
I wanted to get out of here right away and just run around the streets screaming. But I couldn’t do that, so I started shaking from my ankles to my knees.
Because the aftereffects of sudden actions always come this late.
I, I, I asked that question to none other than Elfriede.
I thought I had mastered that during my college days, just because a girl was a little kind to me or treated me specially, it didn’t mean she liked me.
I think I developed a kind of axe-head disease because of what happened to Luna and Hippolyte.
I knew that cute girls like Luna and successful adventurers like Hippolyte were attracted to me. I wondered if other girls were attracted to me for no reason. Maybe I was secretly thinking that the time would come when I would also experience this kind of explosive popularity.
As my confidence, which had been rising, gradually falls to the floor and returns to its original place, I increasingly realize how embarrassing the story I just asked is.
What the fuck.
I feel like banging my head against the wall.
Should I just run away?
All sorts of worries crash into my head like waves in the ocean, completely draining my mind. What is the best way to lighten the mood at times like this?
Maybe I should just say it was a joke.
As I was unraveling my complicated thoughts one by one with those thoughts, Elfriede spoke in a voice that still had not cooled down.
“Do I like you? Ha, this is ridiculous. What on earth made you think that? It’s a bit hurtful. Do I have to live while hearing things like this? I really just want to die.”
Elfriede’s long ears, visible on the back of her head, were dyed a bright red. She seemed to be quite angry.
But is this really such a question to be so angry about?
You can just say no or no.
I’m angry too.
“No, well, no, that’s not it. Why are you so angry? I didn’t ask anything I shouldn’t have asked.”
“Do I look angry right now? Do you think we’re on the same level?”
“Urgent? Well, that’s what it is. I was a slave, and you were a master, and that’s it? In a few hours, you’ll be a slave, getting whipped, and all that is now accumulating as karma for you.”
“What? Karma?”
Ssuk-.
Only then did Elfriede turn her head towards me.
Her face was so red that it looked like it would burst with anger, and her eyes were frowning, so wet that it was unusual for Elfriede to look like she was about to burst into tears.
Is it really that upsetting to think that Elfriede likes me?
But, if you think about it, I’ve heard that women’s self-esteem can either rise or fall depending on the man who approaches them.
When a man who doesn’t meet your standards dashes towards you, you think, “Wow, do I look so easy that a man like me can try to stab me?”
Moreover, in this case, it went further than that, and a man who was below the standard asked her, “Do you like me?” So she must have felt inferior.
I thought about it, but I also take a lot of damage.
As I do this, I start to get more and more angry.
“Hey, I didn’t say anything without context. You just did that to me. Isn’t that because you like me?”
“What did I do!”
“You just made me rub your body.”
There was a brief silence as I spoke. A second? Two seconds? It was brief, but the silence created by the noisy situation was enough to make me feel suspicious.
Of course, the silence is soon broken when Elfriede raises her voice and shouts.
“That’s a massage, idiot!”
“Yeah, it’s a massage. But I think they usually massage your feet too.”
“…what?”
Elfriede, who had been growling like a lioness with a thorn in her paw until just now, suddenly felt her momentum diminish.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, I thought I could strike this arrogant, proud guy down, and started talking busily.
“You thought I was a stupid Samaritan, ignorant of the emotions of this world? I know everything. Women’s feet aren’t shown to just anyone. Why did you show them to me? Aren’t you trying to seduce me?”
“… No?”
“Then what is it?”
“Feet are just body parts. It wouldn’t be weird to show something like that to anyone, right?”
“Oh, really? Then can you show it to other guys besides me?”
“That, that’s only natural. That idiot is talking like an idiot. Just because you have a mouth that’s open doesn’t mean it’ll make sense, right?”
“You seem very flustered for something like that.”
“No? You weren’t flustered at all? Aren’t you the one who was flustered? Why are you suddenly asking such nonsense?”
“Either you hide the fact that your ears are twitching up and down when you say that.”
“ear?”
Elfriede touched her ear.
I speak to that guy as if I’m driving a wedge into him.
“When you’re nervous or embarrassed, your ears move. You little punk.”
“What? You just called me a nerd? An illiterate savage? A nerd at that? Do you really want to lose?”
“Yeah, you damn sweetie.”
“You, I told you not to say the word ‘Kanpra’! You need to get some education!”
Elfriede lunged at me, perhaps unable to contain her anger any longer.
It feels like he’s rushing at me with both fists clenched and without thinking about anything, he’s really angry and is rushing at me.
Swish, swoosh-!
His right hand, clenched into a fist, drew a large arc from right to left toward my face. What was strange was that the guy’s movements were so vivid in my eyes that it seemed a little slow.
So I just tilted my head back slightly.
Phew!
Then the tip of his fist narrowly missed the tip of my nose.
“Huh-?!”
Didn’t she have any idea that her attack would miss? Elfriede’s body, which she had swung with all her might, spun to the left like a top. The guy lost his balance and fell towards me.
Without missing that gap, I hugged Elfriede’s waist tightly like a carnivorous plant.
The so-called Hassan’s bear hug.
As I applied all my strength, the joints in my waist screamed loudly.
“You’re not even a Kampf right now. You’re a weaker slacker than Bronze Tier. If you keep doing this, you’ll really get caught and your life will be ruined.”
“Ugh, ugh, let go of this! Idiot! Let go of this! You idiot!”
Perhaps because it was humiliating to be caught by me, Elfriede’s fists began to pound my chest and shoulders like a hammer.
It was painful, but it wasn’t unbearable compared to when I had been crushed by this guy before and was shaking.
I became stronger, and Elfriede became weaker.
Push, push, push.
But Elfriede, unable to accept such a fact, flailed her hands and feet around like a hen bitten by a weasel.
I hug the guy’s waist, carry him on my shoulder, and carry him down the stairs, through the treatment room.
“… What is it? What is it?”
“Look at that. What are you doing? That savage is trying to drag the woman away by force.”
“Kidnapping? What? Shouldn’t I report it to the police?
The sight of Elfriede screaming and resisting, and the guy being lifted up by the waist and dragged away, seemed to have given off a rather criminal smell to other people.
I leisurely reached into my trouser pocket with one hand and pulled out a jade badge, my traveler’s identification card.
“I am Hassan from Samaria. I will pass by for a moment, gentlemen. I have an urgent matter to attend to.”
At those words, the people around them looked at each other’s faces or glanced at each other and muttered something.
“request?”
“I’ve seen that guy before. He’s a pretty famous adventurer these days.”
“What, I thought something had happened.”
“Hey, let go of this! Let go of this! Whoever it is, hit this guy! Hey, this guy is trying to kidnap me!”
“This is not kidnapping, we are carrying out a request.”
Buzz, buzz-.
What should I do?
I don’t know, if we just call the coast guard, we’ll have to go through an investigation and it’ll be annoying.
He’s a famous adventurer who’s on the rise these days, but would he commit a crime in broad daylight in the middle of nowhere?
People’s opinions seemed to be on my side.
If this was Calcata, where Elfriede was active, this would have been an impossible story.
It was helpful that I raised my reputation among the people by carrying out various incidents and tasks in Sodomora.
“Hey, you idiots! Drop this guy, drop this guy! Quickly-! Eww!”
After I covered the guy’s mouth with my hand, I asked the people who were looking at us with interest.
“Do you have any spare rooms? I need some for a request. No harm will come to you. I swear on my honor.”
Honor.
I wondered if I had something that warm. I decided to believe in the power of the song called Good Samaritan that Malco had spread here and there.
A situation where a large, dark-skinned man is kidnapping a woman and dragging her away. It’s a very dangerous and unstable situation. What if that man is Ma Dong-seok?
If actor Ma Dong-seok were to carry a woman on his shoulders and say, “I’m filming a movie,” I would immediately agree and say, “Oh, that’s right.”
Of course, I can’t compare to movie stars, but I think it had its own effect.
“If there’s an empty treatment room, go to the right corner and it’s there!”
Someone called out to me kindly. I turned my head and saw a female therapist with short hair like a young girl looking at me. There was a hint of anticipation in her expression.
“Hassan of Samaria, right? I’ve heard a lot about you. I have a favor to ask of you at our clinic. Do you have time?”
“Ah-. If that’s the case, I’ll come back later and listen to it.”
I carried Elfriede on my shoulder like a spray bottle and went into the empty treatment room.
I closed the door and looked inside, and saw a room with two beds. Since it was an empty room, the curtains were dark and I really liked the dark atmosphere.
“Let go of this! I’ll set it on fire! I warned you!”
“Just give it a try.”
I threw the groaning Elfriede roughly onto the bed. Then she fell off the bed and rolled around on the floor.
“Ahh!”
thud.
I tried to put him on the bed, but I was a little flustered because I didn’t know he would roll on the floor. Judging from the fact that he hit his head on the floor, he looked quite sore.
Of course, that wasn’t important now.
“Extend your foot.”
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