Chapter 6 - 006 : self promotion

"Well now, I eat the meal you give to me and now we will discuss how I repay you"

"You don't need to pay me because I do it on my own"

"No, you didn't understand, I really really broke and not have money to buy another meal or stay in the inn so I need a shameless proposal here. I will become your knight or bodyguard but you need to provide me food and lodging as a basic payment of course if you can give me a salary I'm very thankful "

"This is a new technic for getting job employment? You're really creative you now"

"But I didn't need bodyguard or knight because I have puck by my side"

Puck can't help to throw comments from the side

And satela tries to reject him, but Arthur didn't back down and try again.

"I know you have puck but I think he can't by your side for 24/7 because as we talk I feel his mana density is decreasing over time, if you think I didn't have the ability to back up my proposal we can have a spar, of course, my price will go up if I come out victory."

"You're very confident in your self Arthur "

"Of course if you fight on your original form I will lose but with your current power I can still come out victory"

"Hmm, you're right, so other than fight what other ability you have?"

"If I want to flee I confident no one can stop me"

Arthur talk to Puck with pride but puck look at him like an idiot

"Are you sure that's the greatest ability you have?"

"Of course! Not every time you need to jump to the fight! Sometimes you need to retreat to achieve victory!"

"Well you have a point there"

"Come on puck can you stop asking so many questions and just say yes? It's not like I want a huge amount of money as a salary"

"Of course I need to do it because literally, I need to entrust you with the safety of my precious daughter "

"Puck...."

Satela who from the start didn't let out a single word try to tell something to puck who looks like will not stop asking questions to Arthur

"Puck, I think it's alright to hire him? He does not look like bad people and I think it's more appropriate if I have a knight that represents me other than rosswal, I don't know why but sometimes I feel he is not entirely good people "

"Well when you mention Rosswal I think Arthur more pleasing to the eyes"

"So how about my proposal?"

Arthur listens to the conversation between satela and puck so of course, this is just rhetoric questions

"Before that, I want to apologize to you, Arthur "

Satela bow to Arthur and make him feel awkward, why? Because he knows the truth from the start.

"I'm sorry I lied to you, my name is not satela but Emilia. And I also a half-elf"

"Well if it's about your name then you just need to tell me your real name but for the other, I don't know why you apologize about it to me "

"But I'm a half elf.. silver hair.."

"Yeah, I heard it you say you're a half-elf and what's wrong with your hair color? It looks beautiful to me"

"….ah."

Emilia made a strange sound in her throat, before suddenly turning away from Arthur, finding the nearest wall, kneeling beside it, and holding her silver-haired head in her hands.

In the face of such an inexplicable reaction, Arthur just didn't know what to

say.

"Take that!"

"what are you trying to achieve with your soft paw?"

The gray cat, which as always seemed to come and go as it pleased, had punched him in the face with its paw like it was reenacting a fancy fighting move.

Puck purred, flicking at his whiskers with the same paw he had punched Arthur. "I don't know, I just felt this overwhelming frustration and couldn't keep it bottled up inside of me."

"are you just try to find a random reason so you can punch my face?"

"I mean, I'm not really mad at you or anything. If I had to say one way or the other, I'd say it's the opposite."

"The opposite?"

"Yes, the opposite," Puck said with a nod.

But before Arthur could ask what Puck really meant by that, Emilia had returned from her strange state.

Twisting the ends of her silver hair in her fingers, Emilia glared at Arthur

"Arthur, you…nincompoop."

"Nobody uses the word 'nincompoop' anymore, and what have I done to be insulted by you? If I'm not wrong you're apologizing to me but now you're insulting me it's really confusing you know "

"Hmph. If you don't understand that not my problem. More importantly, I can hire you but we will talk about it in my place are you want to follow me?"

"Alright let's go"