Volume 2 - CH 6

aw: kakuyomu

“Yumm! This’s yummy, Mirabelle!”

“You’re right! These skewers are so yummy!”

“Shall I make one……”

“What? Can you cook, Julis-kun?”

“No, not at all. I’m a sloth.”

“Then why did you say that……”

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“……Hmmm, even I, can’t handle a dozen balls with such skill. It’s wonderful……, really wonderful.”

“I haven’t seen a street performance in a long time……. Is that ball moving magically or something?”

“No, it’s simply technique, isn’t it? I don’t know, I don’t have mana, but it doesn’t look like he’s using magic.”

“It’s certainly…… amazing that he can make the balls fly through the air with such skill and technique…….”

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Julis and Mirabelle wandered around capital.

Although there was something lonely in each other’s hands, there were smiles on their faces all the time as they ate and shopped and watched the street performances.

Julis thought that wandering around like this might be a fun way to enjoy sightseeing in the capital. But Mirabelle was different.

Cecilia akhirnya sampai di depan makhluk buas itu.

Perbedaan ukurannya begitu besar sehingga ia harus mendongak untuk melihat wajah binatang itu, dan Cecilia yang ramping akan terinjak-injak dalam sekejap.

"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!"

"Aku ngerti...... aku ngerti kok, Julis ......"

Cecilia memeluk kaki depan yang besar dan kokoh itu.

"Itu pedih, kan? Itu menyiksa, kan? Aku yakin Julis berusaha ngelindungin seseorang terus menjadi kaya gini....... Beneran deh, Julis itu baik banget. Biarpun dia sangat menderita sendiri."

Makhluk buas itu mengarahkan kaki depannya yang lain ke Cecilia, mencoba menarik Cecilia yang memeluknya menjauh.

────lalu.

"Eh!?"

"I, ini......"

Kaki depan itu berhenti tepat pada waktunya.

Cecilia tidak terluka, dan kaki depan itu berhenti tanpa tanda perlawanan.

Namun penderitaan itu muncul dalam bentuk teriakan.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!"

Tetapi.

"Aku belum bisa balas budi sama Julis buat segalanya...... Julis selalu ngelindungi aku, tapi aku terus banyak ngerepotin Julis.────Cuma ini yang bisa aku lakuin buat Julis sekarang."

Cecilia menguatkan lengannya yang memeluk kaki depan itu.

Ia ingin kehangatannya dirasakan, ia ingin perasaannya tersampaikan.

Cecilia tersenyum lembut pada makhluk buas itu, mengatakan kepadanya bahwa tidak apa-apa sekarang, bahwa dia tidak perlu berusaha terlalu keras.

"Aku bakal ada di sisi Julis...... sepanjang waktu, sepanjang masa. Julis ngga cocok sama penampilan kaya gitu, tahu? Kalo kamu balik lagi ke Julis yang biasanya, yang konyol, yang bisa diandalin, sama yang lembut.────Aku bakal seneng banget."

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(Is, isn’t this…… a date? Because it’s just the two of us alone……. What fun… it was worth all the effort I put in to ask Julis-kun out!)

It was a completely different thing inwardly than when they were just wandering around and sightseeing in the city.

Mirabelle’s ears are red since a while ago. Even the tips of her pointed ears are bright red.

(I wonder if I can hold his hand……? Am I allowed to do? Will Cecilia-chan get mad at me?)

……Good luck, O Mirabelle.

“Hmm?”

In the midst of all this, Julis, walking aimlessly, suddenly noticed one of the stalls.

Then, slowly, he grabbed Mirabelle’s hand────

“Fuaa!?”

“Come here for a minute, Mirabelle.”

He headed toward that stall.

Mirabelle, whose wish had unexpectedly come true, turned even redder than before.

“I thought Mirabelle might like this……. How? It looks good, isn’t it?”

Julis took her to a store that sold small accessories.

The store was a little different from others in that most of the accessories on display were probably made of plants.

“Wow……..”

Mirabelle gazed at the accessories with sparkling eyes.

Elves lived in harmony with nature. This was not because it was a law, or because it was an elf’s restriction, but simply because they loved nature and they were best suited to it.

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Mirabelle was no exception.

She loved nature. However, since leaving the Elven territory and coming to the Magic Academy, Mirabelle has had very few opportunities to be in contact with nature.

That was why she would visit gardens alone on her days off.

(Wow…… this is made of mimosa trees! And I wonder if the pendant part is made of dried hash berries to make it shiny!)

Mirabelle was excited to see one of the accessories on display.

The part of the pendant that hung around the neck was made of a branch without thorns, while the chest part was made of red berries. That somehow caught Mirabelle’s gaze────

“Auntie, give me this.”

“There you go!”

“Eh!?”

Julis bought the pendant.

Di depan kami, ada sederetan piring kayu yang kosong.

“Anjiiir, akuh udah makan banyak... akuh gak bisa nambah lagi ....”

Firia mengatakan itu sambil menepuk-nepuk perutnya. Jumlah yang dia makan sangat sedikit, hanya sekitar sepersepuluh dari porsiku.

“Gua pikir elu tipe yang ngabis-ngabisin, tapi enggak nyangka elu cuma makan dikit, ya.”

Karena dia bilang 'enak, enak' jadi kupikir makanannya sesuai dengan seleranya, tapi sepertinya perutnya tidak sebesar itu.

“Akuh pingin nambah lagi, tapi tangki bensinku udah penuh nih. Akuh iri bat ama elu bisa makan banyak gitu, Yuri-san.”

“Penampilanlu keliat ringan banget. Gimana kalo menambah berat badan dikit lebih banyak?”

Aku mengamati tubuh Firia sekali lagi.

Meskipun dia mengatakan bahwa perutnya kenyang karena makan, tidak ada perubahan sama sekali pada tubuhnya yang ramping.

Ketika aku menatap Firia seperti itu, dia menyilangkan tangannya seolah-olah menyembunyikan dadanya yang sederhana.

“Ah, Yuri-san mikirin kalo akuh menyedihkan....”

“Jangan sembarang nuduh lah cuk!”

“Apa, salah ya tod?. Alhamdulillah.”

Sambil tertawa ringan seolah bercelu, Firia berdiri sambil mengatakan 'Oi sho'.

“Makasih badhogannya. Rasanya mantul, manjiw tenan.… Kalo gitu, akuh pikir akum mesti cepet-cepet cabut deh.”

“Sek sek, mengko disek cuk.”

Gua manggil Firia yang berdiri dan berniat meninggalkan rumah gua.

Dia mencondongkan lehernya seolah bertanya, ‘Ada apa?’.

Sama Firia yang kaya gitu, gua ceritain perasaan jujur gua sama dia.

“Gua juga pengin cabut dari hutan ini. Apa gapapa kalo gua cabut bareng lu sampai luar hutan?”

Gua gak pernah ngerasa kesepian sejak gua tinggal sendirian di dalam hutan ini.

Gua juga gak merasa ngga puas sama mata pencaharian gua di sini, karena ada fakta kalo gua bisa dapet beberapa magical beast buat makanan gua ndiri.

Tapi, aku ketemu ama dia.

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He took the pendant after seeing Mirabelle looking at it with sparkling eyes without any hesitation.

Then, he handed the money to the store lady────

“Oh! It looks good on you, after all, Mirabelle!”

────and put the pendant around Mirabelle’s neck.

Mirabelle, who was still frozen, looked down at the pendant.

“It is my gratitude for today. You invited me and you seemed to like Mirabelle…… so I’ll give it to you as a gift.”

“Th, thank you……, Julis-kun.”

“You’re welcome. I’m so glad you liked it.”

Julis said to Mirabelle, who was stunned, and started to look at the jewelry again.

On the other hand, Mirabelle held the pendant to her chest as if she cherished it.

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(Oh no…… Th, this is no good……)

She was so happy, she couldn’t stand it.

Her heart had been beating loud and fast since a while ago.

Julis, who gave gifts to women without saying a word, seemed somehow accustomed to women. ──── Even so, this kind of action still moved Mirabelle.

“I will cherish this……”

At the training ground where the members of the knight order practiced hard.

As an instructor, I was teaching swords to all the Knights.

"Then, the next step is to swing the sword a thousand times. You won't improve just by swinging blindly. You need to imagine the opponent's movement."

""A, thousand times?""

"Kaizer-san. Are you sure you not making a mistake one digit?"

"Oh, right."

"Hoo~..."

"When I and Elsa were in the village, we used to swing 10,000 times a day, but, you guys won't be done until the day changes, will you?

""You misinterpret the word mistake on one digit, are you?""

The standard of my and Elsa's training was probably too high, and most of them couldn't follow even the light menu.

"Come on, you'd better hurry up or it's going to get dark."

I clapped my hands and urged them.

The knights began to swing their swords while screaming.

As the warming up, they were running ten times around the training ground with their armor on, few of them could swing their swords properly.

"Is Knight Commander Elsa doing this training from an early age..."

"I thought she was a genuine genius swordsman.....that's why she's so strong.. we didn't even reach half effort she did."

"Either Kaizer-dono or Knight Commander Elsa is outrageous..."

I saw the helpless knights and mumbled.

"Umm. Looks like our normal isn't everyone's normal.''

"I was surprised when I came to the royal capital, because the training of the Knights, which was known to be tough, was felt only in lukewarm water. The training I had done with chichiue was, to most people, out of the norm."

Elsa murmured next to me.

"I didn't mean to be particularly strict...."

"I think so, too"

The knights couldn't endure the training and exhausted. Then one by one, they fell like a broken doll.

But, one person among them――.

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The pendant was a very nice gift for the woman.

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(Come to think of it, I should buy something for Cecilia too……. Oh, this looks like something that would look good on Cecilia!)

Julis was looking for accessories that would look good on Cecilia as a souvenir.

He was sure Cecilia will be pleased. If this would raise her affinity up, he would have no complaints. With this in mind, he grabbed one of the accessories.

Then, Julis suddenly thought.

(Come to think of it, I never gave anything to Master…….)

During their long relationship, Julis had never given anything to his benefactor, Musée.

He had given Cecilia a few things in the past.

Yet, he couldn’t afford a token of gratitude for the days he spent with Muse in special training and research.

“……I think these are good enough.”

Julis picked up one more accessory to give to Cecilia and another to give to her.