episode_0041

“Hmmnyaaaang…”

The two children were hanging from my shoulders and falling down. They were letting out small gasps, folding their ears and wagging their tails. It seemed as if they were in a sweet dream.

It’s not unreasonable. Most of the time, Lia took advantage of her excellent sense of smell to collect medicinal herbs, and Louis did the best in collecting medicinal bugs.

In fact, I ended up just supervising from the side.

I feel uncomfortable because I feel like I have become an evil boss who exploited the labor of young children.

I will definitely have to repay you with something later. I made that promise to myself.

Although it was my fault that the children learned the hexadecimal alphabet, the situation was resolved by promising them one thing.

If you don’t say those words in front of Asha, I will bring you out again like this.

The evening sun is already setting.

People on the street are slowly closing down their business, and as the setting sun turns away, my shadow grows longer. When I see that, something feels strange.

Is it because of the peace of today’s uneventful day, or perhaps because of the comfort of having changed my mind even a little? I felt like my previously agitated mind had calmed down a little.

I hope there will be days like this in the future.

These are just days where you can have a comfortable day without worrying about the future, with all kinds of ordinary little things happening.

If possible, like Elisias, no, including Illisha, Asha, and Raboil.

To do so, you must somehow defeat DH and complete the exploration of the dungeon.

That’s my current goal. Let’s not forget this goal.

Let’s cherish the preciousness of this present and look forward. I promised that.

“Ah, oppa!”

As I was walking down the street lost in deep thoughts, someone called me in front of the hotel I arrived at.

When I turned my head there, I saw Asha. She was wearing a robe, so I almost didn’t recognize her as Asha for a moment, but when I saw the tail sticking out through the gap in the robe, I was sure it was Asha.

Asha jumped towards me and gasped.

“I’m sorry, did Lia and Louis cause any inconvenience?”

Caused a nuisance. Actually, I think it was me who caused the nuisance.

Not only did they teach the children the hexadecimal alphabet, but they also exploited their labor, so I shook my head in shame.

“No, thanks to you, I had fun too. Are you back now?”

“Sister…”

“Sister…”

When the children squirmed at Asha’s popularity, I bent down to drop off Louis and Lia, and the children rubbed their sleepy eyes and approached Asha and held her hands.

“Yes, fortunately, I found out this and that information without any trouble.”

“ That’s good. Shall we let the kids rest at the dorm first? ”

Asha nodded quietly, held Lia and Louis’ hands, and entered the dormitory.

“I’m really sorry, I’ll make sure to repay this favor.”

Asha laid Louis and Lia down on her bed and spoke softly.

Louis scratched his stomach and wagged his tail, then quickly fell asleep again.

Lia nodded on the bed, trying not to fall asleep.

“President…Oppa, today was fun…”

Leah nodded and fell down on the bed with only those words. I smiled lightly and waved as if I would see her in my dreams.

“It’s really…amazing.”

“What?”

Asha looked at the children who had fallen on the bed and smiled. She quietly stroked their heads and covered them with blankets.

“Lia and Louis don’t tend to follow people very well.”

“Really? For that matter, you both seem to have good friendliness, right?”

Asha just smiled and looked at the children quietly.

“I’m being chased by a debt collector, so I guess I’m on guard…”

Asha’s voice as she said that was filled with loneliness.

Clearly, her older sister is being chased by a debt collector. And since he is a human being, I don’t think his perception will be that good.

So why did these kids treat me so kindly?

Asha sniffed as if my expression was visible on her face.

“It’s just my opinion, but I think it’s probably because my brother has a strange smell.”

“What a strange smell?”

Obviously, Lia was like that too. I had a strange smell, and I didn’t understand the abstract words, so I just passed it over, but Asha said the same thing, so I guess there must be something about me.

“Yes, um…if I had to explain it, would I say it smells like a comfortable home? So, I think I could trust my brother without much doubt.”

“Smell like home?”

Those words actually make my head more complicated.

It smells like home, which may be because I’ve never really felt comfortable at home.

Maybe it was because I was at school, school, school, school, and school every day, but I didn’t even have time to smell the smell of the house.

As Asha looked at me, she put her face towards me and smelled me.

“Well, to put it more easily, it is a sweet smell, like a smell that attracts you…um…as if this is…”

If that’s the case, then I’m like a walking catnip to them. I don’t know why, but I’m just grateful that they make me feel comfortable.

“First of all, I sweat a lot, so will you stop smelling like that?”

Now Asha sticks her nose in and smells. At first I thought she was going to do that, but now I feel embarrassed because it feels like she’s smelling my body odor.

“Oh, sorry…”

Asha, who was startled and then blushed and walked away, made me even more embarrassed, so I scratched my head and went to the door.

“First of all, you must have been sweating outside all day today, so go take a shower. After I take a shower, I’ll go buy something to eat.”

Normally, we would have talked at the restaurant, but Asha is being chased now.

It would be difficult if you went to a restaurant hastily and got into trouble.

Especially now that Elisias and Illisha are gone, we have to be even more careful as we have no combat troops.

Illisha’s forced event can only end if this operation is completed well. It is also about shaking off one of the evil grips targeting Elysias.

If that happens, we will now be able to give Asha some freedom.

Until then, let’s endure this uncomfortable life for a bit. With that in mind, I entered the bathroom.

After briefly cleaning myself up, I headed to Anzulus Labia to buy some food.

Uncle Gail asked me why I didn’t eat at the store these days and only got takeout. I couldn’t answer, but he gave me an understanding look and handed me more food than usual.

I guess I’ve become a complete regular now.

Uncle Gail told me that he knew I was busy, but that he should show me more often, so he turned to the kitchen and I headed back to my dorm.

“Asha, I’m going in.”

“Ah, yes.”

I knock and enter Asha’s room.

Asha, too, must have just finished washing up, so her hair was damp and her face looked refreshed and soft.

When I turned my head to the side, Louis and Lia seemed to be still sleeping.

“Feed this to the children when they wake up”

Place packaged food next to the table. I pulled out a chair and sat down, and Asha also walked over to me and sat down on the chair, looking at me.

“So, did you find out anything?”

Asha carefully took something out of the bag next to her. It was like a kind of journal in which I wrote down what I had researched in the slums.

“There is still no information on the person named DH, but at least we have found out a little about the Red Two-Headed Snake organization.”

“Ah… I have enough information about the person named DH, I’m starting to get a feel for it.”

Based on the information given by LaBoille and the words of the watchman, it was clear that the person named DH was Kai, the head of the Red Two-Headed Snake organization.

“Uh…is that so…?”

Asha nods her head as if wondering.

“So? What did you find out about the red two-headed snake?”

Asha pulled the chair a little closer to me.

“First of all, you know that it was just a small, insignificant group before, but it is said that the Red Two-Headed Snake organization grew bigger in less than a year.”

“What?”

Not even a year ago? It’s hard to believe that in less than a year, we have such facilities and such troops.

No matter how much money you make by dispensing and distributing medicines, is it possible to grow rapidly like that in a short period of time?

“The merchants in the slums said… One day, a man named Kai, the leader of the two-headed snakes of the red organization, came to visit and agreed to supply some medicine. Don’t you feel something strange here?”

Asha asks me a question, but I cannot find the answer to the question.

“How did the gangsters, who were originally abusive to merchants and extorted money from them, supply medicine?”

“That’s…”

Asha’s eyes are straight. It is not only straight, but full of confirmation.

“Of course, you can start small. Maybe you happened to know how to prepare aliquots and started making and distributing them. But.”

Asha took a deep breath and let it out.

“It is very unusual to transform into such a large-scale organization in just one year…”

Asha brings out in words what I was thinking inside. And the answer that followed.

“Unless someone cooperates or helps…and I think that person is the DH you mentioned.”

At that moment, my head started to feel dizzy. It was similar to the feeling of being dizzy and dizzy after consuming too much caffeine.

Why couldn’t I come close to this simple answer? No, it’s because I didn’t pay attention to the organization called the Red Two-Headed Snake in the first place.

Because my point of view was solely focused on the character DH.

The Red Two-Headed Snake organization has grown rapidly in less than a year, huge facilities, weapons being made… That’s right, all of this is impossible without someone’s help.

That also means that Kai is not a DH.