Chapter 8

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Chapter 8

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[Reached 100 points in Speaking. You have obtained the achievement 〈Street Hunter〉 with your excellent preaching skills. Gained +10 HP for obtaining this achievement.]

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A street hunter… Although she was proud, she somehow felt uncomfortable.

Still, getting 10 HP was really good. Perhaps stats were generously given out at an early stage to prevent beginners from leaving? She thought that she would have to master the speaking skill by doing the street part-time for a while, in addition to the temple part-time.

Before she knew it, the sun was setting. She was quickly exhausted because she had been walking around too much, so she thought she had to finish today’s street evangelism part-time here.

Sylvia’s shoulders were stiff because of exhaustion. When she returned home, rubbing her shoulders, Sevis greeted her at the door.

“Miss Sylvia, did the part-time job go well?”

“Yeah. I’m tired after working so hard on the first day.”

“I made dinner, so let’s eat together. Fortunately, tomorrow is a day off, so you can rest well.”

As she walked to the table to eat the meal that Sevis had prepared, Sylvia opened her inventory. Her money had increased to 250.

‘Only 250… At this rate, when will I make money to escape being a beggar and go to the secret shop?’

She sighed without realizing it.

“Ah, the money is increasing too slowly. When will I make a ton of money?”

As she talked to herself and rubbed her temples, Sevis also had a worried expression on his face. He, who was tapping the table with his finger while thinking, opened his mouth.

“I know. You said you work part-time at the temple for 4 days, right? I think you should make money even on your days off.”

“Can I make money… even on my days off?”

Was it the punishment that was given to her, who lived a YOLO life enough to go to Slothful Hell? Does she have to work even on her days off? Silvia’s face darkened slightly in the gloominess.

‘No, get it together. If I don’t do it, I’m going to go to hell.’

Fixing her darkened face, Sylvia tried to give light to her eyes again.

“Yes. There are several ways. You need money to eat and live and develop your strength. Like this, it won’t be enough for the living expenses.”

“Whether it’s here or there, it’s the same when you don’t have money…”

“Don’t worry. Tomorrow, we will go out together and make money.”

“Together? Can you go out too?”

“Miss Sylvia, what are you talking about? Did you think I’m locked up in a corner of the house every day?”

“Ah, y-yeah…”

She, who thought of Sevis as a built-in NPC because it was a game world, stuttered out of embarrassment.

That’s right, he’s a person too, so he can go out. But if it’s not a part-time job, how is he making money? Maybe she will find out tomorrow.

After dinner, Sylvia washed up and went to bed. Today again, Sevis laid the mattress on the floor.

‘He will freeze if he keeps sleeping on the cold floor.’

The worried Sylvia called out to Sevis softly.

“Sevis, isn’t the floor cold?”

“I’m fine. I’ve slept a lot on stone floors… Miss Sylvia, good night.”

“… Alright…”

Even today, Sevis’s red eyes, still looking at her, shone coldly in the darkness.

‘Is it because he is a dog-shifter? His eyes are really scary.’

Sevis clearly said that he ran away from the Wolf Kingdom; but since preconceptions are terrifying, Sylvia still recognized Sevis as a dog because of his cute face.

She decided not to have false expectations for a while in this damn game.

Sevis woke up early to the sound of the sparrow that announced it was morning and washed up. When he came out wearing a bathrobe, Sylvia was tossing and turning on the bed, still asleep.

‘She looks tired. Shall I let her sleep more?’

He went to the kitchen with a towel wrapped around his damp hair, made his morning coffee, and sat down at the table.

Trained to be a butler from an early age because of an oracle, he ran away from the kingdom and waited in this hut to serve his master.

As soon as Sevis saw Sylvia for the first time, he knew immediately that she was the master he was supposed to serve.

Brown hair and clear green eyes. Sylvia was a lovely-looking girl with pink cheeks.

He was worried about whether he would meet a master with an eccentric temper; but she was neither embarrassed nor surprised to see him, who is a wolf-shifter, and was very quick to adapt. Plus, she was worried about him, so she continuously told him to sleep on the bed with her and acted thoughtfully.

‘I’m wearing a mask because she’s so nice. I have to stay by her side and help her well.’

The contents of the oracle that Sevis received were simple.

Stay next to the person who will save the world and help them.

He was suspicious about the term ‘salvation’ in the peaceful days, but his questions were answered two years ago, as various areas of the continent began to be contaminated. The wizards and priests of the Wolf Kingdom tried to find the cause of the contamination, but to no avail.

‘They soon became contaminated too.’

Sevis looked down at his body.

Since he wasn’t an adult, he had the appearance of a rather tiny man by human standards. Still, there were also men who were similar in height and size to him among adult men.

‘Hm, I can’t believe she asked me if I’m a minor.’

Sevis unconsciously pouted and made a dissatisfied expression. Sylvia’s standards for an adult male were probably tall height and a face that showed strong manliness.

Although it was also because he wasn’t an adult, his distinctive younger-looking appearance made him look even younger. He was proud of his young-looking face when he was among the bad-looking wolves, but, somehow, he wanted to quickly become an adult because of Sylvia.

As soon as wolves became adults, their muscles swelled like they would burst, and they had a stronger physique than most human males.

The Black Wolf clan, which separated from the wolves, evolved in a way that maintained their original strength but restrained their growth.

The Black Wolf clan, which formed a kingdom in the basin of a plateau and wasn’t threatened by other enemies, did not fight much, and chose to save food while controlling the time for becoming adults in a peaceful environment. This is because muscles develop when they become adults, so the amount of food eaten per day increases to maintain their body.

This trait had been passed down to the descendants, and despite the abundance of food now, they did not become adults even when they reached adult age, unless there was a specific reason.

There were several specific reasons, such as being under extreme stress, or meeting the person who would become their companion and earnestly wanting to become an adult.

However, it was possible only with a violent change of emotions; so, the Wolf Kingdom, which had been peaceful for a long time, had an awakening ceremony when they came of age, and they became adults.

As he hastily left the tainted Wolf Kingdom, Sevis was, sadly, unable to receive the awakening ceremony.

‘So I need a strong reason… Well, for now, there is no need to become an adult.’

Sevis took a sip of his coffee, lost in thought. Then he heard a thump coming from the bedroom.

As he ran to the bedroom in surprise, he saw his master who had fallen from the bed.

“Miss Sylvia? Are you alright?”

Sylvia, who woke up from the shock of falling from the bed, frowned and grabbed her head.

As Sylvia suddenly reached out and grabbed Sevis, who was looking at her face with his hands on his knees, by the collar, he fell on top of her without giving him a chance to be embarrassed.

“Ugh… Miss Sylvia?”

“… Hm?”

‘What kind of luck is this early in the morning.’

As soon as Sylvia opened her eyes from a half-asleep state, she met Sevis’ face. When she saw the wet Sevis wearing only a bathrobe from up close, her heart raced like crazy from the visual shock.

Sevis’ figure, as she was looking up, was fatal. Through the bathrobe, she could see his pale, firm upper chest.

‘Oh…? Just judging from his face, he looks really cute, but his body is surprisingly strong.’

It was an added bonus that the hair that had not yet dried slightly covered his eyes, and that the face that used to only feel cute looked immoral. The bright red lips with a thicker upper lip, which she was seeing from up close, were slightly open, perhaps in surprise.

But why was Sevis lying face down on top of her?

“Sevis?”

When she called him, Sevis was startled and hurriedly backed up as if he had come to his senses. His red eyes were blinking rapidly, startled.

Seeing that, Sylvia felt the urge to knock him down to the floor as he was, but she managed to hold back her indecent behavior as she bit her tongue.

‘Please calm down. He’s not even a target character, you might die if you mess with him…’

As she stood up while inwardly singing the national anthem, she was shocked once more. Sevis’ disheveled appearance as she looked down was very sexy.

Through the open robe, his lean, muscular body came into her vision without a filter. Sevis didn’t even get up, as if he were surprised, and raised only his upper body with his elbows behind him. The pose did a fantastic fan service by revealing his lean, firm, and pale body through the gaping robe.

As she stood there, with a blank expression on her face, she slapped herself on the cheeks.

Slap-!

‘This damn game keeps showing me things I can’t even have. Calm down.’

Sylvia gained some cautiousness in the aftermath of the dead-end she got a while ago, in which she was poisoned while kissing.

She slapped her face with her palm a few times to calm her reddened face, and then reached out her hand towards Sevis. Seeing Sevis’ dumbfounded expression, she must have pulled him towards her while she was half-asleep.

“Sorry, I wasn’t fully awake… Get up.”

“… I’m fine. Miss Sylvia.”

Sevis looked at Sylvia’s hand for a moment and then got up on his own. She quietly clasped her hands, which had nowhere to go, behind her back. Sylvia held her hands for a moment in regret, and then opened them.

‘Well, as expected, naughty things don’t happen easily…’

His hands as he adjusted the opened bathrobe were firm. His behavior seemed so decisive that the handful of lewdness that remained in her mind vanished like cotton candy in water.

‘That’s right… What kind of delusion am I having towards a person… no, towards a dog-shifter who has lost his country and came to help…’

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