Chapter 26

I am Otto.

A beautiful and cute bride, the man who loves Corinna the world.

Creamy hair with gray eyes. The pale color on the whole is clean, and it looks good on Corinna with a soft atmosphere.

«Korina is cute because she has a nose streak but has a rounded cheek and is worried that she can be seen on a baby face.

I love Corinna who laughs and accepts me while saying I can’t help it.

«Corinna, who has big breasts that you can see and she smells good when she hugs her, is the best.

Screaming at the center of the world. My Corinna is the best in the world!

Today, I met Lutz Boy who wanted to be a travel merchant with an introduction of my assistant, Mine. I’ve been hitting the reality gently and breaking Lutz’s dream.

“Now Corinna. I’m back now. Benno is with me.”

“Come back … I’ll be able to come back with such a smile, often bullying the child before baptism”

“Cute face with sharp lips”

Speaking of the truth, Corinna exhaled as if amazed.

Realizing that I was really amazed, I gave up my shoulder lightly and excused me. I did n’t want to bully. I just taught the reality to a child who longed for a fairy tale.

“It can’t be helped because there’s nothing you can do to be a travel merchant. I’m sure I crushed hope, but that’s for him”

“That’s right …”

Corinna’s gray eyes were turned down, and his eyebrows were painfully touched. Even though it is a child, the sad face for other guys slightly shook my heart.

“Colinna is kind. It’s so painful for a child I’ve never met …”

“It’s in the way, Otto. Get inside.”

When I was holding my shoulder and trying to kiss Korinna’s cheek, Benno was kicked back from behind by Benno.

Corinna retreats aside as if panicked and welcomes Benno.

“Your brother, Benno ….. I feel a lot of bad mood. Are you guilty of refusing?”

皺 A deep crease is engraved between the eyebrows, and the usual goodness of affair is seen Benno where no fragment is found, Corinna said so, but Benno has not refused Lutz, of course, guilt feeling, of course It can’t be.

“Corinna, different, different. Benno was scared to drive away Lutz, who said he wanted to be a merchant apprentice, but he wasn’t able to get rid of it. It was the reason why I was displeased by Mine-chan. ”

“Otto”

Benno is terrible with a low voice, but I ignore it and go into the house with Corinna.

I feel like a child.

It looks nice. It’s good to taste a lot of my feelings that have always surprised me.

embracing Corinna’s waist, dropping her lips many times into cream-colored hair and heading to the drawing room, Benno struck herself as “Don’t have me.”

I don’t think it would interfere with the couple’s relaxing time, but if I say in front of Corinna, I will get angry and be patient.

The reception room is usually used by Corinna for business talks with customers. It is always cleaned up so that it is safe to visit whenever customers come.

Unlike the canteen, there is a round wooden table in the center of the room, and four chairs are prepared. Since it is a proof of wealth that cloth can be used in addition to clothes, this drawing room has the most cloth in our house.

For example, there is a shelf near the right wall, and a sample that shows the pattern of clothes made by Corinna is decorated, or a tapestry that stitches the remaining cut pieces is applied to the left wall. It’s colorful.

I don’t often go into this drawing room because there is no use, but there is a work of Corinna here, so just watching it makes me feel happy.

Sitting in one of the chairs, I grinned at Benno sitting in front.

“No, I was surprised at that development. No way, Benno would be concession …”

“Eh? Benno brother? Please tell me more, Otto”

«Korinna asks her story to shine with her gray eyes. cute.

And after sitting in a chair next to me, I bring a little chair towards me. Really cute.

Corinna rarely came to be like this, so I spoke applauding Mine in my heart and spoke lightly about today’s flow.

After listening to the story, Corinna turns his eyes and looks at Benno.

“You can dress up as much as you can to meet people and wait in the square much earlier than the bell rings … Benno, you’re not completely defeated from the beginning.”

“Noisy”

Benno’s mood is getting worse. Even if you poke into the liquor from Corinna, the eyebrows will not loosen.

It is natural for merchants to keep the minimum appearance and wait at the meeting place earlier than the requested partner. I wanted to see how I was prepared to see if it was possible, but both were clear.

Maybe Mine has guided.

Considering Mine’s reaction when two people are found in the square, it seems only that way.

Today’s winner will be Mine. Thanks to that, we were able to see the scene where Benno made a concession.

“No, it was a more interesting meeting than expected thanks to Mine.”

“Mine-chan, you’re the young lady of the team leader? You said you’re very smart”

“Oh, that’s right. But it’s been more than half a year since I became an assistant, but I still can’t grab it. It’s an unusual child who thinks how to grow such a child.” [19459002 ]

As a travel merchant, I’ve come into contact with people of various classes in various lands, and I can see the difference in Mine.

And that seems to have been the same for Benno who accompanied us today. Benno is also a merchant and knows people of various classes. If I know shallowly and widely, Benno knows narrowly and deeply.

“Nah, Otto. What is that?”

“Did you say? My assistant”

“No. I don’t know, but don’t become a demon. Is that really a soldier’s daughter?”

“That’s correct, but I think it’s strange”

“What do you mean?”

Corinna tilted his head strangely.

Talked about Mine’s smartness, weakness, and what happened that day, but I never said it was strange. It was because I thought that I could not understand the abnormality of Mine without actually seeing it.

“First of all, it looks strange. Mine is so beautiful that I can’t always think of her daughter’s daughter. The clothes she wears aren’t much different from the kids around them. But the gloss of the skin and hair is too beautiful.The team leader is the same as the soldiers there, but the two daughters are not lightly soiled and the hair is glossy. “

“Mother is being cared for?”

Corinna, who grew up as a daughter of a wealthy merchant, does not understand clearly even if she sees the poor people’s lives. Caring for your skin and hair takes time, money, and goods. There is no room for such a thing when it is poor.

“… I saw it in winter, but my mother didn’t seem to take the lead. It was a wasteful beauty for the team leader.”

Mine was deposited at the gate to pick up Paru during the winter. I saw the mother who came to pick up, but there is no impression that it was so small and beautiful.

However, I thought that it was a beautiful woman with a face similar to Mine.

“Huh, is that so?”

I rarely praise other women, so the gray eyes of Corinna shine like fun.

“Of course I have the best Corinna. It never changes”

“Yes, yes. Alright … so do you think Mine-chan is strange from Benno’s brother?”

Benno, who talked to Corinna, put a cup and slowly exhales while looking up at the ceiling beam.

“Oh. The shiny night hair so that the light floats up, it was pure white and clean skin, it was a hand that did not feel a sense of labor and life. The teeth were also white. It was an unnatural no matter how you think about it. ”

“The gloss is so bright that the light rises up …” What do you do? “

“Eh? Isn’t it enough for Corinna?”

“Otto is silent. I’m listening to Benno brother”

Hair gloss seems to be a significant concern for women. It is rare for Corinna to show interest beyond here.

“It looks like you’re taking care of it, but I didn’t tell you what you’re wearing”

“Benno was told to be a secret”

“Can you tell me Otto?”

“… Maybe I’ll be wary from now on and I can’t hear it”

For Corinna who wants to know the secret of Mine’s hair, it ’s no good.

“Any hair’s luster, but your hands are beautiful because your body is small and you don’t have enough strength, you can’t help too much. And Mine’s skin is so sick that she sleeps quickly. I think it’s because I don’t go out and I don’t get out of the sun, in fact, I have been outside since spring. “

“… Speaking of that, the meeting flowed because Miss-chan got hot last time”

I remembered that the team leader had a hard time because the fever didn’t go down for five days.

“That’s why Mine-chan’s appearance is sick, isn’t it enough to say she’s changed?”

Corinna heard that he had decided that it was not a big deal. Benno shook his head to Corinna, who shook his shoulders.

“No, it’s not just the appearance. What I’m interested in is the posture and tone … This is something I can’t learn without being jealous. Isn’t it hard to be right? ”

The family situation of the team leader is not so detailed, but if you look at the family other than Mine, you can see if there is a connection with the nobility.

“The group leader has one more daughter, but that’s pretty normal. The hair is shiny and has relatively clean skin. That’s it. Unlike Mine, it doesn’t float around.”

Benno who spoke lightly in my words said, looking at Corinna.

“Corinna, that girl’s anomaly isn’t just about the appearance. The baldness that doesn’t turn my eyes even if I’m scolded. , Even if there is no actual thing, it will be perfect, negotiations that will be conditioned … None of them are children before the baptism “

“There was a child who didn’t turn his eyes even if he was scolded by his brother !? That child is strange.

Corinna shouted with his eyes wide open.

Intimidating Benno has sharp eyes like a carnivorous beast.

Benno was also the replacement for Corinna’s father because Benno was the eldest son and Corinna was the youngest and Corinna died when he was young. Corinna, who has been beaten since childhood, knows that even adults don’t like the fear of Benno who wants to look away.

“Ah, the computing power is also amazing, so I was surprised when I gave a stone board. I was writing with a stone brush correctly without anyone being taught. As I know how to write it. ”

“Did you show me an example?”

Kolinna leaning on her head notices that my cup has been emptied, and pours a replacement.

Well, I showed you that, but I drank a sip of liquor from Corinna. As you moisten your mouth with sake, make a tour of what you should say.

“It’s not easy to write straight away at once. You know it because you are teaching the apprentice soldiers who come in every season. If you can’t draw a line as you thought, you can’t write. “

“That’s right …”

Corinna also knows well that he will not learn if he shows it because he often teaches apprentices.

“Mine has a funny computing ability. He said that he told his mother the numbers in the market, but couldn’t he be able to calculate just by telling them the numbers?”

“No, the apprentice who comes to my house can do a little calculation. If you are a parent, do you remember a little?”

Merchant apprentices are basically merchants who are parents, so there are not a few children who can read and write characters and do some calculations during the baptismal ceremony. I had been traveling with a travel merchant’s parent since I was little, so I was taught calculations and letters.

However, the calculations that can be performed in the main have different digits.

“It’s not a little. The accounting report is to calculate the number and price of equipment used in the South Gate?” Not just the small numbers used in the market, but the total. It can be calculated as a matter of course, and you can simply write numbers side by side on a stone board without using a calculator. ”

“… I’m sure I’m working as an assistant after all. Helping such a child to help with accounting reports”

Listening to Benno who is interesting, I told him that I had never told anyone to surprise them.

“This is just the story, but the paperwork is left up to 70%.”

“… Wow !?”

“… 70%, you …”

It seems that they were surprised more than expected. The face that hardens for a moment when you open your eyes is very similar and laughs unintentionally.

“There are still a few words to remember, and that’s scary. While I was away, I did a perfect response to the nobility’s letter of introduction.”

I was surprised.

There was a meeting on the day of the baptism of my beloved daughter, and when I finished the meeting whispering to the team leader who was annoying, I received a report from Mine. A merchant with a referral letter from a junior aristocrat is waiting.

Originally, customers who were introduced from nobility to nobility were to make it as easy as possible to go to the walls as soon as they were confirmed. Even if the customer is a commoner, it is treated like a lower class noble.

That day happened to be a meeting convened by a senior nobility. Of course, if you are told which to prioritize, you are a senior nobility.

However, if you make a mistake, the customer will get angry, saying, “I’m rude!”, Behave in a high-pressure manner with a referral letter from a lower-class aristocrat, or rush to a meeting to buy the anger of a senior noble It will be.

Meanwhile, Mine convinced merchants who were not aristocrats to tickle the merchant’s self-esteem by using a waiting room for inferior aristocrats and explained that it was a meeting convened by senior aristocrats. And, as soon as the meeting ended, I was able to process it promptly without going wrong with the chief.

By the way, I was able to inspire a new soldier who goes back and forth to be taught by a child. Perfect.

“Wow, what a great child?”

“It’s amazing … anomaly. It’s funny. But maybe the father, Gunter, is not aware of Mine’s peculiarity. If I didn’t say I wanted to be an assistant, I wouldn’t have noticed my excellence, too.

“Isn’t it nice to be a dull parent? It’s not strange to be thrown away and creepy”

Corinna sadly brows his eyes on Benno’s words.

“Don’t joke that, don’t want to imagine”

“It’s okay, Corinna. Even if your parents are creepy and thrown away, Benno will pick you up. Maine is good enough to turn Benno back.”

«When I laughed and said, Corinna laughed.

Yeah, Korinna is still cute when you laugh.

“Well, do you think she really made it?”

Benno looks at me as he taps the table with his fingertips. The reddish brown eyes were the eyes of a merchant trying to read ahead.

“Isn’t it a parchment? Is it sure?”

“I trust you a lot?”

“Nh … I wanted it right now, I wanted to make it, but I told you that I couldn’t do it myself, isn’t it?” If you can’t do it yourself, let others do it I’ve been whispering during this time, and if Lutz becomes a limb as requested by Mine, it will be completed. “

Although he was reluctant to say that he had no power or physical strength, that means that he knew how to make it.

I think that Mine said that he would make the actual product because there was a chance to win. Probably not.

“… If it happens, the market will turn over. How do you handle that girl?”

“Maybe you want to carry Mine-chan?”

From Benno’s words, when he inferred that he was going to be apprenticing not only to Lutz but also to Mine, Benno opened his eyes.

“That’s right! That kind of thing, can you do it too much? How many products can you make with that one girl alone? That Kanzashi, a thing that makes your hair gloss, paper that’s not parchment … I’m today That’s all I knew, but it’s definitely hidden, it’s a disaster that overturns the market. “

“Wait a minute! This is my assistant. Don’t take me without permission”

Benno’s assertion is correct, but there are arguments.

Mine is a valuable force that I have nurtured for the fiscal year over half a year. I can’t stop looking at you from the side.

However, Benno laughs with his nose and catches the edge of his lips.

“The merchant’s second choice is merchant. I’m not interested in the assistant. I just bought it for half a year? Hit the others”

“There’s no other guy that can only be used in half a year! If Mine-chan thinks and Rutz makes it, Mine-chan can be working at the gate!” 19459002]

Especially, it is not possible to yield only the closing date. I’m so excited, but Benno doesn’t give up at all.

Put a cup and embark on.

“No! Contracting with a commercial guild. I can’t take any other risks.”

“Mine-chan’s physical strength makes it impossible for a commercial guild!”

“Physical strength?”

losing momentum as Benno was deceived.

I saw it as an opportunity and I folded it all at once.

“You’re so weak and sick that you’re surprised? It’s impossible to work with the body!”

“… is it so weak?”

“Oh, when Mine-chan went to the village to process pigs and fell down there, when the team leader first brought it into the inn room, it was the first time. It was a room with a fireplace. I gave it a stone plate and let it go for a bell, and it broke out and fell. “

“What?”

Because I had to stand on the lookout, I left it in a room with a fireplace, but when I went to see it, it was overheated and fell down. The team leader who came to pick up said, “Do n’t worry. It ’s always the same thing.” The frailty seems to be natural for the family.

“It was terrible when it was just in the spring. I couldn’t walk from the house to the gate.”

“To the gate?”

“Where there are houses in the city, walking to the gate isn’t too far away?”

Because the outer wall surrounds the city, the city itself is not that big. Even a child’s foot should be able to walk from West Gate to East Gate if there is only one bell time.

“Yes, the team leader’s house is not too far from the south gate, but it was useless. After leaning on the way and being held by the team leader, I couldn’t move until noon after falling down in the hotel room. I was surely asleep for 2-3 days. “

“Hey, are you really okay? If you let it work, will you die?”

It cannot be said that there is no fear.

Especially, Benno’s workplace, where there is momentum, is busy because it is full of energy. I don’t think I can do it with Mine’s physical strength.

“Well, I finally got to walk to the gate in the middle of spring, and the number of days I went to sleep was reduced, so I could go to the forest around the end of spring, but I still don’t have the physical strength to do a normal job. That’s why I wanted to take care of the gate for document work only … “

“Muu ……”

Even though I was sick, I didn’t think it was so weak. Benno thinks while holding his eyebrows. It will change direction if the plans we have considered so far are not good.

Then, it may be better to give another information.

“Lutz has been taking care of Mine-chan for a long time. Along with Mine who is late from the children’s group, he goes to the forest. Even though he received some money from the team leader, he was devoted. It seems to be a strong sense of responsibility. “

An old boy who wants to run is accompanied by a weak mine. Not everyone can do it.

By the way, I don’t intend to devote myself to anything other than Corinna unless I have a good law.

“… hidden in the anomaly of that girl, it’s hard to understand, but the shaved is also quite strange”

“What?”

Benno, who was stroking his chin lightly to try to remember something, becomes a bitter face.

“It wasn’t just Miss that she endured my resentment and said my opinion. And normally, when she was taking care of that sick girl, It ’s supposed to go more fully and try to protect Miss-chan from me, but when she started to negotiate, she took a step down as a matter of course. ”

“Oh, speaking so …”

Certainly, as Benno said, after declaring it clear, he left the place to speak to Mine. It will not be seen in the relationship between ordinary guardians and asylum. What kind of relationship is it?

“There are few children who can think about when to leave and give up. And that girl who didn’t give me information makes her shaved make what she thought. It ’s useless if you ca n’t pull out the information.Even if you ’re just a shaved boy, it ’s useless if she lets other guys make it. 19459002]

Benno’s merchant has no choice but to laugh.

Looking at the usefulness of Lutz, which should be a bonus to Mine from the merchant’s eyes, because you are aware of it just by looking at your face once, it’s not that your eyes are sharp.

“As usual, the sense of smell is sharp …. It seems that the team leader also trusts Lutz. Lutz moves Mine the best. Mine wants to see the falling down and wants to do more than his own hands. I can help and shed it well so that it does n’t run away. ”

“Huh, I’m confident that I’ll make everything that Mine thinks,”

Mine was saying that it has always been the case. I’ve done a lot besides I know.

“So, something strange, it seems that you made it together. Did you say Nendovan?”

“… Strange thing? I can’t predict what will come out! Anyway, they are a pair of two. Neither of them will give up.

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So once the topic was settled, Corinna stood up to prepare the meal.

A lamp is placed on the table, leaving a small barrel for refilling and a plate with dried meat as a knob.

I saw Benno as a substitute for sake while biting a bit of salty dried meat.

“Nah, Benno. Do you remember the illness that heat fever in the body that Mine said?”

“……”

“I don’t know the illness that makes you feel like you’re going to be eaten because of the heat in your body”

□ I thought that I probably knew the reaction when I received a question from Mine. After all it seemed to know. I’m worried if I should say it.

後 After thinking for a while, spilled with a voice that is difficult to hear for Benno.

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“I thought I might eat, but I can’t confirm”

“… Eat it? What is it?”

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“I’m not sick. I can’t do anything if my power increases too much in my life, and I’m eaten by my power and die.”

“Haha !? Wasn’t magic only something nobles have?”

A word that I wouldn’t usually hear is coming out, and I’ve stared a lot.

魔 Magic power seems to be a mysterious and powerful force that ordinary people do not have. I don’t know much because it is rarely seen, but it is said that you can’t move the country without magic.

That’s why nobles with magical power stand on the people and rule the country.

“… There are not many, but there are other guys who have magical powers besides nobles. However, since magical tools for releasing magical power are expensive, they can use magical powers other than nobles. It’s correct that there is no “

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Benno, who has grown into a trading company that has a relationship with aristocrats, has deeper knowledge about me than this country.

“Huh, did Mine have magical powers? Isn’t that weird?”

“You’re saying there’s no confirmation? But if you eat, you can explain that she’s much smaller than her age and will fall soon”

“Is magic power dangerous?”

I thought vaguely that it was mysterious and useful, but if Mine’s weakness is due to magic, isn’t it quite dangerous?

“If you were eating, it’s a story … If you eat, if you don’t have magical tools, she will die soon …”

“N !?”

The figure of the team leader who loves Mine comes to mind and stares at Benno as if he was bathed in cold water.

Benno’s expression is serious, and he doesn’t seem to be joking or teasing.

“It seems that my heart will be eaten by the magical power that increases as I grow up. If you are a commoner who doesn’t have the magic to release, you will often have no baptism”

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“Is there any way?”

ベ ン If Benno, you know some good means. When asked with a chilling feeling, he shook his hair and exhaled.

“With the aristocracy’s support, you can borrow magical tools, so you can escape death …. But you’re killed for the rest of your life. I don’t know whether it’s better to die with my family or kill for the rest of my life. “

“……”

Benno’s words were neither salvation nor anything.

I certainly don’t know which is better. I don’t want to die, but I’m really sorry that I’m sorry for being killed by a nobleman.

“Since it seems that the power that can be suppressed is different depending on the strength of the will, I do not know how long it will last, but there is not so much in the child’s mental power …. How about that girl?

“……”

と Looking at Mine, I think that the child has strong mental power. However, I don’t know if it is something that can suppress my magical ability to eat.

て も Even if it is suppressed now, if the magic power increases as it grows, no one knows when the limit will come.

“Otto, don’t get too serious. I haven’t decided that I’ve eaten yet. I’m almost dying if I’m really eating. It’s a body that can walk around like that. It shouldn’t be. “

“Yeah …”

わ ず か A little relief and great anxiety have come to the chest at the same time.

Yes, Mine is dying many times.

I heard that it was a child who was able to walk outside because of the efforts from spring, and until then it was almost impossible to go outside.

Is it really okay?

Is it better to report to the team leader?

I swallowed the emotions that I couldn’t say about turning around in my chest.