Chapter 129

unedited

Cedric would probably want a ‘nothing’ answer, but I couldn’t afford to tell him a white lie.

I contemplated, and then frankly nodded my head.

“It’s not good.”

“……Damn it.”

But surprisingly, it was Cedric who put down the tie after listening to my opinion.

No, I thought he was going to put it down, but he glanced back at me again to see if I had any regrets.

“Choose the less bad of the two.”

“……”

Truly, it was Cedric who made me fall into a labyrinth.

I could hardly answer, but then I chose something that was really ‘at least’ better of the two.

“If I had to choose, the white one with the floral design would look better. But how about saving money and buying something else?”

As a close friend, I added a word of advice as a last resort.

But Cedric seemed to absorb only the first part of my words, and bounced off the second.

“Don’t you think the flower pattern is pretty?”

It seems that he even distorted it.

Shake, shake.

I shook my head.

“Then I’ll get mine with this, and my brother’s gift would be the one I’ve seen before.”

Of course regardless of me, Cedric headed to the counter with a blushing smile.

Looking at his back, I remembered that I had something to say to Sedric.

It was precisely the advice I had to give to other children.

“Excuse me, Cedric! Just listen to me for a second.”

“Why, what?”

“So, you’re talking to the cashier and other people in this form. You know you have to pretend to be an adult, right?”

“…of, of course I knew!”

At my words, Cedric was furious, asking what I saw him as.

However, seeing the reaction, if I hadn’t caught on, he might have unintentionally used a childish tone.

As long as we were in disguise, it’s basic to act so that others don’t feel uncomfortable!

“Then let’s do a test for a moment. If you were checking out this tie and the cashier asked, ‘Would you like to wrap it up for a gift?’, how would you respond?”

“…that, that!”

Cedric hesitated for a moment, then whispered in my ear.

“… ‘The wine color is my brother’s gift, so wrap it up, and the floral design is mine, so I don’t need to pack it,’ isn’t it?”

“Right, beeeep. You got it wrong.”

“What? So what do I have to say to look like an adult?”

“That’s.”

Swish, I looked around for a moment, then whispered quietly to Cedric.

“First of all, we need to get rid of words like ‘my brother’. And there is no need to tell the circumstances. You don’t have to.”

“…Is that so?”

Cedric made an enticed face.

“Yes. And imitating adult speech. The shorter and blunt it can be, the less obvious it is.”

“Short? It should be shorter?”

“Yes! For example, it would be better to answer something like ‘both with packaging’ or ‘no need for packaging’. The expression should be expressionless.”

I continued my explanation while imitating the tone of a solemn nobleman.

Actually, at first glance, it may seem a little rude, but I think that kind of tone would suit Cedric’s current appearance the best.

In fact, in the original novel, Cedric even used a tone that seemed to just spit words out.

At my words, Cedric made a face that he seemed to understand.

“Aha, I know what you mean. By the way, I was only going to pack the wine color. How do I answer that?”

“……Just ask them to pack both.”

“That’s a good idea. Well, now that I’ve learned it, I’m going to try it.”

Cedric pressed the robe down and turned around.

“Good luck.”

I clenched my small fist and waved at Cedric as he headed towards the counter.

And soon the cashier and Cedric’s conversation came.

“Two ties in total, and a boutonniere. Each will be 5 silver.”

Cedric pulled money out of his pocket.

But no? Obviously, the price the cashier was talking about was 10 silver, but what Cedric took out was a shiny gold coin.

“……”

Cedric looked at the gold coin for a moment, bewildered, and then handed it to the cashier.

Apparently, he didn’t know the market price, so he only brought gold coins.

The cashier was surprised to see the gold coins.

It is natural. One gold coin is equivalent to 100 silver coins, and it is rare to find gold coins in these ordinary general stores.

“Si, Sir. Please wait a moment.”

The cashier panicked and looked through the change under the counter.

The sound of money counting rang for quite some time in the store.

After a while, the cashier handed him a large pocket with a somewhat worn-out face.

“90 silver coins change, sir.”

“90.”

At Cedric’s repeated words, the cashier answered in a slightly frightened voice.

“Yes, yes! Exactly 90. If you can’t trust me, you can count…”

It must have been a mistake in my advice to use a blunt tone of voice.

Besides, Cedric, who is in the form of an adult, looks pretty bloody when expressionless…