214th
Silver Rose
214 ? Silver Rose #2
Delphina drank the tea poured into her tiny glass cup.
“Ouch, hot-.”
However, it must have been hot because it had been boiling until just a moment ago, so he was startled and put the glass down.
Although he is not a capable Silver Tier adventurer, he shows many flaws and seems to lack humanity.
Right now, I was worrying about more important things than that.
“You want me to touch your body? To me…?”
“Huh, okay.”
It was the first time in my life that I had heard such a request in a cafe. I thought I had graduated from attaching meaning to every little thing a woman said or did.
At this point, I can’t help but start to doubt myself again and let my imagination run wild.
Why do you want me to touch your body?
Did he like me by any chance?
Now that I think about it, when you called me earlier, you asked if I could spare some time for a handsome man.
I’ve made a lot of mistakes and gotten excited many times in my life, but isn’t this a situation that can reasonably be questioned?
Even though women in this world are relatively open-minded, they still wouldn’t ask someone they don’t like to touch their body.
My throat felt like it was burning because I was thinking so much, so I picked up the teacup and drank half of its contents.
As the hot water spreads over my entire body, my head feels a little dizzy.
“If you want me to touch you, where do you want me to touch you?”
“Corner-corner.”
I could be sure.
This girl likes me.
Did I do something with him? I can’t remember much. But is it possible that he likes me?
But if you think about it, it seems like popular kids’ love lives are like they start dating within a day of meeting. I’ve only heard about it, but I never thought it would be possible in reality.
Maybe, the man named Na Hassan, who is growing up these days, is unknowingly radiating charm to the outside world.
I never knew I had a talent for picking up girls.
Even Delphina wasn’t just any ordinary woman, she was quite pretty. Even now, just sitting in a tea house drinking tea, several men are glancing at me.
I felt a little better that such a woman liked me, but at the same time, I wondered if this was okay. I already had someone called Luna.
I have now decided to live a clean life free from extramarital affairs. I must reject this.
“I understand how you feel, but I have to decline. I already have someone in mind.”
“What? Someone you have in mind? What do you mean?”
Delphina raised her eyebrows as if she didn’t understand English.
Is it because you can’t stand having your proposal rejected? If it were me, I would have wanted to deny the fact at least once if my confession was rejected.
So, while she was thinking about what to say to gently reject him, Delphina put her teacup down on the table with a short exclamation of “Ah-.”
“Oh, what? Did you hear me say something else? I didn’t mean to touch you like that. I meant to massage my body.”
“massage?”
“Yeah, I heard that you’re quite good at giving massages.”
What, Subal? You were talking about massage.
Suddenly I started feeling very embarrassed.
I wished this wasn’t real and that I could crawl under the table. But I couldn’t, so I just kept sipping at my poor teacup.
“What, are you embarrassed? You’re more innocent than you look. But how did you understand that I wanted you to touch me? Huh-?”
Delphina continued to attack me tenaciously, as if she was an adventurer who had discovered a monster’s weakness and was determined not to let me go, biting at any opening I had shown her.
Indeed, Delphina of the Sword.
As expected from an adventurer using a thin, needle-like sword, it’s aggressive to poke at gaps.
“No, what-. That’s just-.”
“Were you thinking of something dirty? Heh, that’s gross-.”
“Ahem, well, okay.”
“… But, when I think about it, it’s annoying. I asked you to touch me in a lewd way, and you refused. This is making me a little angry.”
“I’m busy. Let’s stop talking about this. Let’s get to the point quickly. Do you want me to give you a massage?”
I grabbed the horse’s head and twisted it to get out of this embarrassing situation.
“I’m busy. I’ll probably have half a day to wait for Pink Hair.”
Delphina turned her horse’s head back to normal, like a skilled groom pulling the reins off a runaway horse.
At this moment I could feel it.
Delphina has a thing for harassing naive men like me.
Maybe she was the leader of the neighborhood gang and a woman who beat up boys’ heads.
If I got caught up in her pace like this, I would be mentally stripped naked and beaten to death.
I need to bring the initiative of the story to my side.
“If you keep talking about something else, I’ll get up. I don’t give massages to just anyone.”
“Really? I was going to give you a proper reward. I heard you’re about to be promoted to Silver Tier? Then this item would be very helpful.”
“What is that?”
* * *
There are a lot of rooms in the Alchemist’s Guild.
And among them, there was something like a night duty room that could be used by those on duty at night.
Even if you call it a duty room, it was just a plain room with a bed and a few drawers.
“Here, this room will suffice.”
There was no better place to massage Delphina’s body.
“Have you been to the Alchemist’s Guild often?”
“Yeah, I guess so.”
Delphina answers my question by sitting up on the bed.
“Doping is a necessity for adventurers. And there are many instances where drugs are needed.”
It was indeed a story worthy of a high-ranking adventurer. Adventurers like me, who are in the Iron Tier or Bronze Tier, don’t often buy potions because they are too expensive.
For adventurers in the Silver Tier who are starting to earn a lot of money, it is not strange to cover their bodies with everything from doping to expensive enchanted equipment to protect themselves and increase efficiency.
Now that I look at the leather armor and shoulder guards that Delphina is wearing, they are in pretty good condition. I don’t know if they have any enchantments to enhance protection.
How much does one of those cost?
When you are looking around like that.
Delphina hugged her body, covering her chest with both arms.
“Where are you looking? You’re so annoying. Women are quite sensitive to men’s gaze.”
What the fuck?
I can’t let my guard down even a little.
Every time something comes out of Delphina’s mouth, it feels like my lifespan is reduced by a minute. It also feels like a blast of armor that pierces through my defenses.
But this is a closed massage parlor.
The one with authority here should be me, the masseuse performing the massage, not the customer.
“Okay, anyway, lie down and take a look.”
“Lie down?”
“Yeah, you asked for a massage. I’ll give you a full-body massage in about 30 minutes.”
“30 minutes full body?”
Delphina raised her eyebrows slightly as if she had no idea what I was talking about.
“Okay, fine. Should I just lie down? Can I keep my clothes on?”
“If it’s easier to take it off, then take it off.”
“Ugh, I don’t like that.”
“Okay, then. But it would be better to take off your shoulder armor.”
“Yeah. I’m looking forward to it.”
Slung, thump-.
Delphina took off the gauntlets she was wearing on her hands, the shoulder guards, and the greaves she was wearing on her feet. She then took off the leather armor that was draped over her body.
What is revealed is a yellow sleeveless shirt. It looks a bit worn and somewhat worn-in, which is a bit unexpected.
The breasts revealed underneath are moderately large, similar to Luna’s.
No, that won’t do.
I was absentmindedly looking at her, and before Delphina could tease me with something like, “Pervert-,” I quickly looked away. But then Delphina laughed instead.
“Still, you surprisingly have a naive side to you. Do you not have much experience looking at women’s bodies?”
“Does that matter? Anyway, get down.”
I thumped the bed. Delphina smiled playfully and seemed to be about to say something more, but then she simply did as I said and lay down on the bed.
Looking at it this way, the balance of the body was quite good. Usually, people tend to lean to one side, either left or right.
“Are you ambidextrous?”
“How did you know that?”
“I kind of thought it would be like that.”
“But actually, I’m not ambidextrous. I started out left-handed, but I started using both hands.”
“I see. Did you force corrections or something?”
“Because most of the equipment is right-handed. Most of the formations of the legion are also designed for right-handed use. I’m from the Palakia Legion.”
I don’t know what the Palakian Legion is from.
Anyway, I think I could understand the feeling that a left-handed person, experiencing various inconveniences in life, got used to using his right hand and eventually became something similar to being ambidextrous.
Still, seeing that both joints and muscles are straight without any misalignment, it must have taken a lot of effort to achieve balance.
In fact, most high-ranking adventurers above Silver are hard workers.
These guys are talented and work hard.
Those guys are workaholics.
That’s why low-level adventurers like me can’t catch up to these guys even if we fly and crawl the normal way.
“Then touch. The 30 minutes start now.”
I turned over the giant 30-minute hourglass in the duty room.
Sagururuk-.
As the sand slowly flowed downwards, the first thing I did was gently grab Delphina’s right wrist.
“Why there?”
“Just stay quiet.”
Deering-.
Name: Delphina Gold Seeker lv. 32
Condition: Chronic back pain》
Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen someone in such clean condition. It seems like high-ranking adventurers often have curses and such attached to them.
Does that mean Delphina has the ability to manage her own body?
Level 32. Exactly 10 levels higher than me.
Come to think of it, the Gogrid I defeated was also around level 30. I wonder if this guy would be worth fighting if he used necromancy.
But all I can picture is a thin, needle-like blade piercing my heart.
“What are you doing?”
“No, is your back a bit sore?”
“That’s true. But can you tell by touching your wrist?”
“Well, that’s right. Anyway, it’s time for the real thing to begin.”
I held Delphina’s sides with both palms.
The sleeveless T-shirt was very thin, but I could feel the firm and well-balanced muscle density inside.
“Ahh…!”
“What, what is it?”
“I just tried it. They start the massage from the waist.”
“Because it looks like you have a bad back.”
I wasn’t really concerned about where to start. I just thought that her waist looked thin and firm, so I thought I should start by touching it there.
Kwuuuk-.
“Hmm, it feels pretty good. So-so-. In a circular motion, pushing up, with the thumb…”
Delphina described my massage as if she was giving a review. In a way, it felt like she was studying massage techniques.
In fact, when it comes to learning massage, there’s nothing more effective than receiving it yourself.
Are you trying to steal my secret?
Of course, I thought to myself, “If you want to do it, go ahead and do it,” and I pressed Delphina’s waist and tailbone tightly with my thumb.
Every time that happens, it’s quite nice to see the firm flesh on her buttocks tightening. The reaction is healthy.
“Ugh, ah, does it hurt?”
“This will hurt more. If you do it wrong, it might break, so relax.”
“strength?”
I pushed up with all my might the palm that was supporting the guy’s pelvis.
Knock knock knock-.
Then there was a loud noise, like a beam breaking.
“Ugh-!!”
At the same time, Delphina was holding onto the bedsheets in pain. Before her eyes, a task score appeared along with a message saying that her chronic back pain had been cured.
This brings my current task count to 255.
It doesn’t look like anything that will consume my tasks will happen for the time being, so when I get home today, I’ll ask Luna for a totem and level it up a bit.
If you level up by 2, you’ll reach at least 24. If you’re lucky, you’ll reach level 25 or 26 in no time.
Then, even if you don’t fully acquire the Aura, you will soon reach level 30, which corresponds to the Silver Tier level.
If the pursuit of the necromancer is a little looser, it might be a good idea to release the goblins into the forest where monsters appear and collect the task stats with an automatic hunting feel.
When you are working hard to turn the circuit of happiness like that.
“Ugh, it hurts… .”
Delphina, who had been trembling as I corrected her back, slowly got up. Judging from the way she was furrowing her brows, it seemed like she had been in a lot of pain.
I think the pain must have been tremendous because the sound was so loud.
“Will your back stop hurting now?”
“Now that I hear it, that seems to be the case… It’s really amazing. It’s frustrating, but I have to admit it. Samaritan, in that sense, can I spend the remaining 20 minutes on someone else?”
“Someone else?”
“If everything goes well, I’ll tell you the locations of the named monsters our party has discovered.”
Named monster.
One of the things I’m most interested in these days is named monsters.
Killing them would not only ensure Luna’s safety, but would also provide an opportunity to obtain the corpse of a formidable monster.
I was still feeling a little regretful that I hadn’t yet been able to revive the corpse of Gogrid, the King of the Goblins.
If we revived that guy, we might have gotten the Giant Max Bone Goblin.
So I asked back with a slightly suspicious mind.
“Not Elfriede?”
[Work Review]
This is supposed to be uploaded at midnight, but I’m uploading it early… And I have an announcement… I’ll be taking a break for just one day…
