episode_0096

“Gun… … !”

“Does it hurt a lot?”

“… … It was your first time, and you did it so roughly.”

I was at a loss for words when I saw Jiena frowning as if she was complaining of pain. I wouldn’t have noticed if he just frowned, but I couldn’t say anything as he wrapped his arms around my lower abdomen and patted my back. In fact, I felt sorry that I woke up after a long time after groaning in bed.

Even though Jiena was an elf who could use mana to strengthen her body, using muscles that had not been used for over a hundred years was no light task.

Perhaps because it was my first time since I was reborn in this world, the problem was that I burned too much. I should have adjusted it appropriately, but I couldn’t. So for no reason, I felt even more sorry.

Memories of last night came to mind as I saw Jiena groaning and putting her negligee back on the floor that had fallen on the floor. Because they did it so much, I also felt pain, but I remember that they made the paralyzing curse very weak so that I couldn’t feel the pain.

“Should I at least cast a paralyzing curse on you? It won’t hurt.”

“Won’t there be a problem later? Basically, if you just endure being sick, you will get sick… … .”

“What I’m feeling right now is actually closer to muscle pain. That’s no problem.”

Pain is a very important signal for living things. However, in the case of pain similar to muscle pain like now, there was no reason for a major problem to occur. It wasn’t something that would keep you from feeling pain forever.

“Then let me ask you… … .”

Jiena, who took a hunched posture with her legs slightly spread and her back slightly bent, asked for a curse as if she couldn’t help it.

He said he would rather be cursed than continue to feel pain. Of course, it was a reaction that could be seen because his faith in me was not weak. Therefore, in order to repay his trust, he fired a curse at Jiena, who was standing still as if she was complaining of pain.

A very small amount of dark magic turned into a curse and spewed out like black smoke from his fingers. The curse flew towards Jiena like dust fluttering in the wind and immediately hit her lower abdomen.

“Huh… … !”

Jiena flinched as she saw the curse flying towards her. I wondered if there was something wrong, but there really wasn’t.

“Uh, it really doesn’t hurt?”

“That’s because the paralyzing curse was applied so weakly that I couldn’t feel any pain. Instead, your senses may have become a little dull. Even if I pinch it now, it won’t hurt, right? But don’t bother checking. It doesn’t hurt, but it hurts.”

He quickly stopped Jiena from pinching his lower abdomen. Because it literally reduced the sensation itself through slight paralysis. It wasn’t the type that increased the body’s durability and made it impossible to feel pain. Just like using poison as medicine, curses were used.

Anyway, I chuckled at the sight of Jiena immediately correcting her awkward posture and standing up straight, and asked why she had reacted as if she was surprised just a moment ago.

“Ah… … . It reminds me of the past. When the boss bought me at the slave market and came to this town.”

“At that time? Why then… … . Ah!”

From Jienna’s words, I could understand why she flinched. When I returned to the village after purchasing Jiena at the slave market, I remembered placing a tickling curse on Jiena, who had disparaged me as a eunuch. I was rolling around laughing out loud because of the tickling.

There was nothing I could do other than understand that I was shrinking because that memory came to mind. Because it was a natural reaction.

“Well, let’s go to work first. It’s late.”

“Yes.”

We fell asleep very late at night, exhausted, so it was well after morning when we woke up. Of course, it was past time to open the store.

There was no problem in opening a little late, but I quickly started preparing with the thought that I couldn’t make the customers walk twice.

“I’ll come wearing those clothes.”

When Giena came to my room, she brought only a negligee and a pillow, so she went to my room to get ready for work. No, I tried to hide it.

bang!

Jienna opened the door gently, but was unable to leave my room and closed the door roughly. So loud that the banging sound echoed throughout the room.

“What is it?”

“I made eye contact with Brie… … !”

“Oh wow… … .”

I wondered why on earth he did that, but hearing that he made eye contact with his mother sent a chill down my spine. It felt cooler than walking through the cemetery in the middle of the night with my grandmother while practicing black magic.

But I couldn’t stay in my room forever. It wasn’t the problem of going to work, it was impossible to stay in the room even to solve basic physiological problems.

In the end, Jiena used her mana to run at incredible speed. He said he would go to his room before his mother saw Jiena and said anything or reacted.

Jump up! bang!

“… … Everything will break.”

He opened the door and ran out, and the sound of opening and slamming his door loudly echoed throughout the house. As I was shaking my head at that, Jienna made eye contact with her mother through the gap in the door that she had not yet been able to close before leaving.

“Oh my.”

My mother, who made eye contact with me, was just smiling while covering her mouth with one hand. Keep making noises like, “Oh my, oh my.” For some reason, it felt like the mother’s gaze was saying, ‘My son has already grown up so much.’

Seeing that, I felt even more strongly and crazily the need to live separately from my parents. It seemed like it wouldn’t be a bad idea to advance the development plan for the territory and develop the residential area first. If we put everything into construction except for the skeletons that will handle the quantity that is currently on order, we will be able to somehow solve this problem as quickly as possible.

“I’m going!”

While I was thinking about that, I noticed Jienna, who had finished getting ready, opening the door ever so slightly and sticking out her eyes. I ran out of the house with Jiena, shouting that I was going to work right away.

I heard my mom yelling from behind me, ‘Eat something and go!’, but I had no desire to eat anything right now. Rather, the steps toward the store only became faster.

“Phew… … . I didn’t expect to make eye contact with Bree… … .”

Jiena seemed to have a very strange feeling, and repeated the process of blushing and drying her face. Well, I don’t know if it was because Jiena was the same woman, but I was quite close to her mother, so I thought she might feel even more strange.

When I came out to the store with Jienna, who was showing various reactions, there were a few people who seemed to be waiting at the store entrance. Most of them were merchants or mercenaries who purchased necessary items in the morning and set out on their way.

The store quickly opened and began operations for those waiting. After selling the items they wanted to a few people waiting in line, I had some free time.

However, that leisure was making things a little awkward between me and Jiena. Before, we spent some time talking about various things, but there was a strangely awkward atmosphere surrounding us.

I didn’t have time to feel awkward because of the pain or because of my mother, but now that we were alone in a quiet space, I felt even more awkward. Because of what happened last night, it was impossible to spend time in the exact same way as usual. Me too, Giena too.

But that didn’t mean it was awkward forever. First, Jienna cautiously opened her mouth.

“The boss… … . What do you think about half elves?”

“Half elf?”

When Jiena asked about half-elves, I could understand why she had brought up that topic. It was clear that he was thinking that his actions last night might lead to a child.

“Ah, about that… … .”

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to tell you about the characteristics of a warlock. Although it is known to those with some knowledge of warlocks, there are still many people who do not know about its characteristics.

“Warlocks are basically infertile. No, should I say that the better your skills, the more infertile you are? … ?”

“… … Yes?!”

“It’s like trapping the energy of death in your body. Is there no vitality for new life to be born?”

Although the sperm is dying due to the energy of death, the story was vaguely explained because it was a world where there was no concept of sperm yet. Jiena nodded slowly, saying that it could be so.

“Then I’m glad.”

“Why?”

“Oh, no! It’s not that I don’t want to have my boss’s child! I was just worried because half-elves are usually on the outside of any group.”

“Half-elf is making money?”

“Yes. Because elves are a long-lived species, and humans are not. If you are a mixture of the two, you will have an ambiguous lifespan. It’s definitely longer than a human, but it’s definitely shorter than an elf… … . So, I tend to not be able to blend in anywhere. Considering my age, there are other problems as well.”

He said that he could not easily fit into any group because his friends or acquaintances were aging faster than he was or he was aging faster. I thought it was quite possible.

Moreover, Jienna was a long-lived elf with an average lifespan of about 700 years. If Jienna, who was now a little over 100 years old, saw a half-elf as her child, there was a higher chance that the child would die earlier than Jienna, even if the child lived to the end of her life.

Anyway, perhaps because she had such concerns, Jiena seemed very relieved to hear that she would not have children. He smiled softly and subtly came closer to me.

Thanks to this, the awkwardness around us quickly disappeared, and we returned to our usual selves. Of course, it wasn’t exactly the same. Because the distance has become closer. From time to time, Jienna would look at me and feel embarrassed, and I would also subtly touch her. Although we didn’t announce that we were lovers, it felt like we had a similar relationship.

At lunch early because I had had a rough night and skipped breakfast, Ziena took care of me differently than usual. He personally mixed the salad and spread jam on the bread. It was a completely different situation from when there was only a relationship between boss and employee, or master and slave.

Thanks to that, I couldn’t notice it. Amy was looking at us outside the store window and smiling mischievously.

“Hmm, we get along well. Enviously.”

“What, what!”

“Aaaah!”

We weren’t really close to each other, but we were still sitting pretty close and couldn’t pay attention to anything else. We were startled by the sudden voice and fluttered around. Jiena got up from her seat and took a defensive stance, and I also prepared to move the Skeleton Knights.

However, after confirming that the owner of the voice was Amy, I let out a small sigh and stopped trying to move the Skeleton Knights. The Skeleton Knights, who had tried to greatly inflame the naturalization of Anwa, calmly returned to their role as mannequins.

Amy came into the store still smiling, as if she didn’t know that she was almost attacked by the Skeleton Knights again.

“Human! Why did you come here!”

As if memories of last night came flooding back, Gienna began to be wary of Amy entering the store.

“Why did you come? Andrew asked you to come? We were supposed to talk about hiring our mercenaries today. Andrew, tell me something. You know… … . Did you forget?”

Amy looked at me in bewilderment at Giena’s guarded appearance. I slowly turned my head at that sight. To be honest, I completely forgot about it.

In terms of time, only about ten hours had passed, but a lot had happened in that time. So many things.

“Keu, keuhm! That can’t be possible. Just come and sit down. Did you eat lunch?”

Clearing his throat for no reason, he led the way to a table where they had set up for a simple meal. Since we had just started eating lunch, it wasn’t difficult to prepare another meal for one person.

But Amy sat down and started talking about something other than the answer to my question.

“You two, the atmosphere is so different from yesterday? You did it, right? You did it? I did it, I did it.”

Amy smiled slyly, pointing at me and Giena with the index fingers of both hands. At first glance, the view was that it was good because there was plenty of things to make fun of.

Thanks to this, Jiena exploded. I didn’t explode because I was angry, I exploded because I was embarrassed. His face turned bright red and his ears trembled. The arm that was pointing at Amy was also shaking very much.

“Sit, Sisi, noisy! Human!”

“… … What, did you really do it?”

Amy seemed very surprised by Jienna’s reaction. It seemed like he really just wanted to make fun of him, but he didn’t know it would be true.