Chapter 16

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“Haah……Haah… Ian, who’s here?”

“The Priests wants us to gather at the temple.”

“Whoo. Yeah. Let’s go.” vaguely searching the documents

I wiped off the sweat on my forehead.

“Masha, did you put Kkokko in the coop?”

“Yes, but what if Kkokko eats the chickens?”

“The chickens are stronger than they look. And Kkokko doesn’t eat raw meat.”

It was amazing, but Kkokko didn’t eat bugs like other birds, nor did she eat raw meat that she threw just in case, as well as bird feed.

The shock of Kkokko, who was starving, breaking into the children’s tables and eating well-cooked meat and fish is…

“What a strange fellow.”

Now Hannah is curious about Kkokko.

“Oh, it must be there.”

The priests were coming out of the conference room.

“Hello.”

When Hannah greeted the new priests, the children bowed along with Hannah.

“Has a new priest came?”

“Yes, you can go say hello now.”

“Thank you.”

There were quite a few new priests.

Maybe the temple is about to roll properly now.

Hannah knocked on the door of the conference room.

“Come on in.”

What?

It was a familiar voice.

Gagak, the door opened.

“……”

“Hey.”

Why are you here?

“That expression means welcome, doesn’t it?”

It was Cesar.

It was two weeks ago that I said goodbye to him warmly.

“You! Here! Why!”

Why the hell are you here? I was speechless and couldn’t get a proper sentence.

Hannah instinctively brought the children together by hand.

I didn’t want to get involved with a guy who’d be my babies’ enemy again.

“I understand it as asking for your kind cooperation.”

Cesar briefly clicked his tongue as Hannah struggled.

“Get out.”

Move, move.

I thought I’d never see that cheeky guy again.

Cheeky, look.

The door closed and Hannah leaned against the wall of the hallway.

‘xx. I’m screwed.’

Three would-be villains and one would-be killer in this temple.

“Hello.”

Curtis bowed and closed his eyes beautifully and passed by.

‘…Jaedo Cesar’s frontman…’

Two killers.

“Wow, Holy Knight!”

Three killers.

“Life.”

It was a beautiful sky because it was sunny and dazzling before, but I was about to cry as I looked up.

“God, are you there?”

Hannah put her hands together tightly.

Please tell me that the original is all wrong now.

I beg you.

* * *

Human adaptability is great.

Hannah quickly adapted to this crazy situation.

“Good morning.”

Now, people can say good morning with a smile while watching Cesar clapping his hands while sitting at the Daishin Pavilion.

“We’ll deliver the nursery budget by the end of the day.”

Take care of the knife.

Clean and transparent settlement without embezzlement.

“Thank you.”

“Come to think of it, there’s a snack sent by the congregation, and it would be nice to send it to the nursery school.”

“Thank you.”

It’s become a better job than before.

To be honest, I was suspicious that Cesar, who always seemed half-hearted, would not be able to run the temple well, but surprisingly, the temple was running so well.

This was because Cesar’s right-hand man Curtis was dealing with work that borders on perfectionism.

Why does such a capable man serve Cesar like a lord?

Curtis was also the frontman for Cesar in the original book.

“Oh, there’s a festival in town today, did you know that?”

Although it is within the same system, I brought it up because I thought they wouldn’t even know a small festival on the periphery.

“Festival?”

Cesar, who was searching the documents in a vague way, looked up.

Hannah made eye contact with Cesar, but turned her eyes very lightly and asked Curtis again.

“Did you know?”

“I didn’t know. I’d better go to the festival in town.”

“Sure, it’s going to be a lot of fun, with people in the neighborhood. I’m going to take my children to see the fireworks today.”

“Fireworks?”

Once again, Cesar’s voice was heard.

“It must be expensive because it’s a magical thing, but it’s a pretty expensive festival.”

A very long word came out of Cesar’s mouth.

That is.

“I have to go.”

It means he was curious about something.

“…yes, have fun.”

Hannah begged inside her head.

Please don’t ask me to come with you.

Don’t say you’ll join our nursery school group. Please, don’t even look.

“Let me in on that.”

Cesar said with a mean smile as if he had read my thoughts.

My head was pounding.

“Mr. Curtis.”

“I’m busy today.”

It was Curtis who cut Hannah’s request to get rid of that burn beforehand.

“…ha.”

I just dug a grave.

* * *

“Well, what did the teacher say?”

“Don’t follow strangers.”

Ian passed.

“Masha.”

“Kkokko in the coop. Even when I see a pretty skeleton or a doll, I should never run alone.”

I’m a little nervous, but he’s through.

“All right, Jeremy.”

“I won’t chase you for something delicious. Even when I see a nice sword, I should not bother to touch it.”

“Again.”

“I won’t swear.”

“All right.”

At the crowded festival, losing children was the most worrisome thing.

When the children were distracted by something, they often disappeared without knowing whether Hannah was around.

It would be easy to find a village as usual, but not today.

“Come on, abide by the code of conduct! Let’s watch the fun fireworks!”

But Hannah was a little excited because the festival was a festival.

After a long time, I wore new clothes and tied my hair high.

I felt good about the hair that was dangling every time I moved.

“Come on, let’s go to the temple entrance.”

“By the way, sir, what is that?”

“Huh?”

There was a carriage parked at the entrance of the temple.

“No way.”

Hannah didn’t think so.

You wouldn’t have thought stupidly about going down the road in just 10 minutes and riding a carriage to watch the festival.

“You must be a guest.”

The idea of – was just wrong.

“Get in.”

“……”

” ……”

“……”

Hannah and the children glanced their eyes wide open.

“You’re riding it now?”

“My legs hurt.”

Cesar, who reclined almost as if lying down in the carriage, was showing the end of indolence.

“Get off. You’re walking to see the festival.”

Hannah resolutely demanded him to get off.

Hasn’t he ever played before?

In the cold stares of Hannah and the children, Cesar flinched and got off the carriage and eventually, they were slowly walking down.

It was Hannah who broke the silence and opened her mouth first.

“I understand why there’s such a thing as ‘urban hillbilly’.”

“Me, too.”

Ian agreed, and Hannah and Ian giggled as if they had clicked.

“Don’t laugh without me, let’s laugh together!”

Masha pulled Hannah’s skirt.

“Oh, Masha, you’re gonna rip my skirt!

“Masha’s going to hang on to your skirt all day again. Yeah, let’s leave her alone.”

(tl/n; I’m not sure who said this, but it’s either Ian or Jeremy, and they probably still don’t know that Masha’s a boy that why they used ‘her’ to address him.)

Once again, it became noisy, and Cesar followed Hannah and the children and watched them.

There was no time to be bored just by looking at them.

“Wow!”

“I’ve never seen so many people in town!”

The children said it was their first time to see a festival.

Last year, when Hannah was still not here, there was no one to show up to show it to the children.

“There’s a lot of delicious street food. Let’s eat everything delicious!”

“Do you have enough salary?”

Cesar laughed low at the nine-year-old’s concern about Hannah’s salary.

“I have a lot of money now, sir. And we have a shopper today!”

Hannah’s eyes were on Cesar, and the children were now…

Cesar waved his hand as if he found the reason to accompany him.

“You’re a water lord.”

“It was water.”

“You almost got me wrong.”

(tl/n; It seems they were talking about liquor here and how he was able to afford it, like, they see him as a person with lots of money. I don’t have a better translation for this, but at least I can give you an idea of what they meant.)

Cesar was a little offended by the children’s reaction.

“Oh, there’s a medicine dealer!”

What Hannah and the children are into these days was the performance of drug dealers.

“Let’s go, let’s go!”

“Teacher, don’t buy anything weird like last time!”

“No, it worked fine.”

Hannah’s ambiguous eye contact was telling the truth.

Not long ago, Hannah fell for a medicine dealer’s words and bought a lacquer pill.

“But your height is the same!”

“……they said it’s gonna work slowly.

It was because she heard she would get taller.

Hannah’s body was healthy and strong, and her face was cute and her hair was pink, and her eyes are shining golden.

However, the only thing that was disappointing for me was that I was a little shorter than others.

Hannah, who thought she might be catching up with her height as the children grew up these days, bought medicine for herself when she heard that she would grow taller.

“Bad swindler.

Of course, it didn’t work.

It just left a painful memory.

“Let’s eat that.”

Masha said, pointing to a stall.

“Yes! What are you doing, come quickly.”

Hannah headed to a stall lined with food and beckoned Cesar to come quickly.

Cesar was suddenly tired.

He didn’t know that what he thought of riding a comfortable carriage as he goes and watches the fireworks would turn out as crazy and noisy as the current situation.

It was a moment when his mental strength seemed great as long as he struggled with the children every day.

“Well, let’s try one. This is Masha’s. Ian, take it. Jere······.”

Hannah, who was handing out sugar-coated bread one by one, suddenly stopped.

“…Jeremy?”

Jeremy wasn’t there.

No matter how much I looked around, I couldn’t see Jeremy.

“I knew this would happen!”

If anyone was going to get in trouble at this festival, I would expect it to be Jeremy!

“I’m eating this.”

Hannah quickly turned the bread over to Cesar and ran along the way.

“……”

“Where do you think it is this time?”

“A weapons store.”

“Huh, I’ll bet the bar next door. There were a lot of gangsters there.”

Ian and Masha were munching on bread and even betting on their own as if they were used to the situation.

Cesar has never been adjusted to this atmosphere.

“Honey, would you pay?”

The stallkeeper called Cesar, and he took a purse out of his arms.