Manowa Chapter 145

◎ s.h.i.+rodieh City, Merurim Cafe

「Wha, what, what is with that woman ahhh!!」

With a crash, Emily struck the counter, and her brother Lyle apologized to the surrounding people and started talking to her.

「You know what kind of place this is, don't you? If you attract attention you'll have to leave the city immediately.」

s.h.i.+rodieh City was a special city with many n.o.ble villas. If someone acted suspiciously in the city, the guards would immediately show up to surround and expel them from the city.

「I know, but. Uuu.」

With a helplessly angry expression, Emily grabbed her fork and spoon and grumbled unhappily.

「Good grief. In the first place, it's not certain it was that guy, so don't be so unruly.」

「It is certain. There's no way I would confuse him for somebody else.」

Lyle made an exasperated expression.

The cause of this was about an hour ago. Lyle and Emily had arrived at the Barnes family villa and were cleaning the house. When Lyle was cleaning the first floor, his sister suddenly noisily descended from the second floor. When he was wondering why she was so noisy, she said she saw Naoki kissing an unknown woman at a villa in the royal district.

The brother thought (she's possessed by a wild delusion since she can't meet him), but since Emily was so agitated, Lyle reluctantly went upstairs to see for himself, but there was n.o.body on the villa's terrace. Then he soothed his noisy younger sister, they resumed cleaning for a while, and now they came to this cafe to take a break.

「But you didn't see his face, right? You only saw the Onee-san.」

Emily's eyes met with the woman who did the kissing, so she only saw the Naoki-like person from behind. Although the hairstyle was the same, he was wearing a white cloak, and the armor that could slightly be seen from the edges of the cloak seemed to be different from anything Naoki had previously worn.

「Uu, uum.」

Emily couldn't say anything in response, but after a while she started groaning again.

「Good grief. Sorry, young lady, for being such a noisy neighbor.」

Lyle apologized to the 10 year old girl sitting next to them, who was slowly sipping her coffee.

「Mm, don't worry about it, it's fine. Maidens in love are always groaning.」

The white cloaked little girl replied to Lyle.

「Groaning?」

Lyle spontaneously tilted his head at the natural reply, and the girl nodded.

「That's right. My best friend was constantly groaning. Choosing clothes, suspecting cheating, she was always going uu, uu.  Well, there was more groaning when her b.o.o.bs were rubbed and when she was pushed down, though.」

「O, oh」

Lyle thought (are children these days like that) while his face turned red, and Emily said「He wouldn't do something like that!」in opposition. Lyle said「Hey, in front of a child」to admonish her, but the girl didn't mind and replied.

「If he wouldn't do that, shouldn't you believe in him?」

「Ugh」

Emily was at a loss for words after the girl spoke.

「If you believe in your lover, then you must be mistaken about what you saw, right?」

Emily's shoulders fell after the girl's word, and

「We, we're not lovers.」

She said softly.

「I was wrong?」

The girl tilted her head, and Lyle replied.

「That's right. That guy doesn't have a lover. Well, n.o.body has grounds to complain if he becomes intimate with a woman.」

「Don't say things like become intimate with, perverted brother!」

「Don't say that so loudly, idiot.」

Emily vehemently protested, and Lyle admonished her again. Then the girl beside them

「Saying become intimate with is no good. It lacks sufficient delicacy for girls.」

Spoke with a criticizing gaze.

「Ah, is that so?」

Lyle felt despondent at making such a little girl angry at him.

「Well, it seems that guy is always thinking about somebody from his hometown. So he shouldn't be going out with anyone this quickly.」

Emily's face slightly stiffened after Lyle's words. The girl also seemed to roughly guess the circ.u.mstances from that reaction.

「Is that so? That's a little heavy.」

「Yeah, that's right.」

Emily feebly laughed after the girl's words.

Then while watching Emily, the girl thought a little, then took a small bottle out of her breast pocket. Emily stared in amazement when she saw it.

「That, is Simone's perfume, isn't it?」

That perfume was a digit higher than the Mildina's perfume that Emily came to buy. A luxury good sold with the catchphrase Fragrant Love. Among Hyvern's teens, the rumor was: your confession will have a 100% success rate!! In addition to being expensive, a certain social status was required to obtain it. It wasn't a product an ordinary child could get.

「I'll give you this.」

「But, such a terribly expensive thing...」

After Emily's words, the girl shook her head.

「It was a gift, but I think it's still too early for me. So I think giving it to someone who will use it is better.」

Even if she was told that, it was too expensive for Emily to accept. However, Lyle didn't know the know the value of perfume, so he casually replied「Then we'll accept it.」Emily said「Wait a minute」and was going to explain the value of Simone's perfume to her older brother, but the girl stood up.

「My companions came, so I'll be going. Well, if we meet again, tell me the result.」

Emily gave up as the girl left her seat while saying so, and with an apologetic and delighted smile

「Understood. Confession..... I don't know if I can do it, but I will do my best.」

So replied.

「Yeah. See you. Ah, Uncle, I'll leave the charge here.」

So saying, the girl rushed to the two older girls outside.

「Wow, that's a beautiful women. The one next to her is also quite good.」

「This no good older brother...」

Emily immediately looked at the girl's companions and made a surprised expression at the lively sight. However, the girl waved from outside with a smiling face, and she returned the wave.

「But was accepting this actually fine?」

After the girl left, Emily once again looked at the Simone's perfume in her hand.

「You already accepted it, didn't you? That kid gave it to you. So much...」

「This is more expensive than the cloak you're wearing.」

The sister said with a glare, and the older brother became speechless.

「……You're kidding.」

Lyle's cloak was a Frangball brand cloak. It was one of Lyle's favorite items and was st.u.r.dy, familiar, and light.

「That is more than this?」

Emily nodded to Lyle, who pointed at the perfume while grabbing his cloak.

「Not only that, it's sold at the Royal Shop, which is only for royalty and high ranking n.o.bles. Our father would have no problem, but we absolutely wouldn't be able to enter and buy it.」

Even buying Mildina's perfume was a stretch for Emily. Simone's perfume could only be obtained by girls for their confession day by stealthily taking it from their parent's cosmetic box.

「Who was that girl.」

「I didn't recognize the material, but the quality of the cloak she was wearing was high, so she was probably a royal daughter or something, right?」

「Fuhee, then maybe the girls who came to pick her up were also princesses.」

Lyle's eyes were wide from surprise.

「If so, maybe we'll be guarding them in the future.」

Lyle and Emily were aiming at becoming Hyvern knights in the future. They thought that if that girl just now was royalty, they might actually protect her some day.

「But, well, I expressly received this, so I have to decide what to do when we meet Naoki. I need to prepare a story for when we meet that girl again.」

So saying, Emily was looking at the Simone's perfume with sparkling eyes.

**********

「Mm, I'm tired.」

On the way home from shopping, Yumika said that while grandly stretching.

Kazane, Yumika, and Tiara were shopping today. Incidentally, their equipment like the Dragon Ogre Greaves were in the Item Box. That wasn't something that should originally be worn in a city. Tiara had come here before, so when they went to the Royal Shop, Tiara's ident.i.ty was naturally exposed.

The shop clerks guided them inside en ma.s.se, and as an acquaintance, Kazane received presents like perfumes and cosmetics. Well, there was too much hovering for her, but Tiara was used to it and was interested in the products like a normal girl, and Yumika also looked around the store, so after getting tired of it, Kazane left and waited outside.

「Which reminds me, Kazane, who were those people you were with at the cafe earlier?」

「Hmm? Since they entered this place I think they're from a good family, but there were love troubles, so I acted as Cupid.」

With a smug face.

「Those two, are they in love?」

「They're siblings?」

「???」

Yumika was confused.

In addition, Tiara was operating normally and said「Kazane is definitely an angel.」

Name: Yuihama Kazane

Occupation: Magic Swordswoman

t.i.tle: Ogre Killer, Dragon Slayer, High Beast Summoner

Equipment: Staff 『White Blaze』, Two Handed Sword『Black Fang』, Adhesion Sword『Gum』, Spell Dagger, Dragonscale Breastplate, Drake Gauntlets, Silver Sheep Clothes, Sylphyn Skirt, Plasma Pants, Dragon Ogre Greaves, Indestructible Cloak, Mysterious Pouch, Crimson Saint Coffin, Heroic Spirit Summoning Ring, Circlet of Wisdom, Aim Bracelet, Magic Acc.u.mulator, White Magic Acc.u.mulator

Level : 30

Health: 107

Magic Power: 181+420

Strength: 52+10

Agility: 43+4

Endurance: 29

Wisdom : 57

Dexterity : 38

Spell : 『Fly』 『Torch』 『Fire』 『Heal』『Firestorm』『Healer Ray』『High Heal』

Skill : 『Warrior's Memory』 『Night Vision』 『Crus.h.i.+ng Blow』 『Dog's Sense of Smell』 『Golem Maker: Lv3』 『Rush』 『Fire Principle: Third Chapter』 『Healing Principle: Fourth Chapter』 『Air Jump: Lv2』 『Killing Leg: Lv2』 『Fear Voice』 『Invisible』 『Tiger Eye』 『Wall Walking』 『Intuition』 『Cheat Death』 『Nimble』『Charge』『Material s.h.i.+eld』『Information Link』『Optical Camouflage』『Dash』『Bloodsucking Blade』『Dragonization』『Regenerate』『Soul Breaking Blade』『Stealthy Placement』『Thunder Chariot』『St.u.r.dy Teeth』『Crystallization』

Yumika:「You gave away that perfume.」

Kazane:「Adventurers use magic perfume as deodorant. Since it's only used after being in a dungeon for a while, that was too much.」

Yumika:「Well, it's something to worry about in places that don't have a bath.」