episode_0051

XLVII.

When I think about it, I don’t remember us doing anything leisurely since Arcana the Clown and the Witch came to me.

As soon as the clown met me, he cut up three people, the next day he cut up the limbs of a noble cub, and a few days later he dealt with a demon. Needless to say, the witch summoned the demon right in front of her.

After thinking about that series of processes,

‘and. As a boss, you’re a bastard, and as a lover, you should break up immediately. I.’

I had no choice but to leave the private training center with the two women.

Even though I realized it late, it was the last day.

‘Because it is the Evergreen Festival that has been talked about occasionally in Rome.’

I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to enjoy the Evergreen Festival, which is so famous that it shakes the whole continent.

Evergreen Academy does not simply have departments related to force.

Although the Department of Knights and the Department of Magic are the most famous, there are also special departments that educate spiritists and magicians, an administration department that produces officials, and an economics department that targets merchants.

For students in the Department of Economics, the Evergreen Festival was nothing short of a bonanza, as if a war merchant had the opportunity to supply military supplies during special times of war.

In keeping with the atmosphere of the festival, people tend to open their pockets, so the strategy of selling off strange items or low-level artifacts made in the magic department, as well as simple snacks sold at street stalls through collaboration with restaurants within the academy, is all possible. It was the work of students in the Department of Economics.

And the stalls were lined up from the Evergreen main gate to where the candidate competency evaluation was conducted.

The Evergreen Festival was being held outside because those who were not qualified were not allowed to enter the real Evergreen Academy, but both those who knew it and those who did not were immersed in the excitement of the festival.

“Grey. me. That one.”

Before we knew it, not only the clown and the witch, but also Lina had joined our group, so it was a little noisy and a little crazy, but it wasn’t that bad.

Lina really begged me to buy food for the first time, seeing as how much food goes into such a small body.

“Lina? What do you have in your hand?”

When I asked Lina, who was already holding a skewer and something similar to bread in each hand, the guy looked at the food he was holding in both hands in turn.

“Can you hold it?”

He handed me a piece of bread that he barely ate. I’m not asking you to eat it, I’m asking you to hold it.

“… That’s right.”

The cloth bag I was holding in one hand was already filled with the food that Lina had handed over.

But does it matter if one more thing is added?

It’s not like I do this every day anyway.

Moreover, perhaps because she had been through financial difficulties before meeting me, Lina, who was small in stature, had a surprisingly strong appetite.

Normally, Lina said she wouldn’t be a burden when I was training, but she often skipped meals because of her magic research, so we had to take care of her meals.

“If you want to eat, tell me everything. Well, if you have any leftover, you can keep it and eat it tomorrow.”

“Yes! huh! really good! Ian!”

The skewers and bread in Lina’s hands, who hugged me tightly with her small body, suddenly turned into ice cream and cotton candy.

“Hmm~? ice cream? This is amazing~. It’s cold, but sweet and soft~. Baby~.”

“Okay. Eat more. Try it with different flavors. How about the light green ice cream over there?”

“Huh? that? Yes!”

When the clown chose it, the witch and Lina, who were watching from the side, also came forward and said they would try it too. The moment the clown, the witch, and Lina, in that order, bit into the ice cream,

“Huh?”

The clown tilted his head,

“Hoo?”

The witch was amazed,

“Uwe… .”

Lina frowned and stuck out her tongue.

“It tastes refreshing~?”

“It’s a taste that cleanses your mouth.”

“… Ian. Toothpaste is not meant to be eaten. I’m spitting it out.”

“Hahahaha!”

At Lina’s cute reaction, for the first time in a long time, I was able to laugh so hard that my stomach hurt.

“Lina is anti-people, right?”

“Anti-minchopa?”

“Opponents of Mint Choco. Phew.”

Among the snacks Lina bought today, this was the first one that went straight to the trash can. With that laughter as a starting point, I and we relaxed our shoulders and walked down the street, laughing and eating well.

‘huh?’

At some point, I felt strange eyes following me. It’s not a mixture of hostility, but it feels like a desire.

However, the number of gazes increased one by one and later increased exponentially.

“What, what is it?”

Among those gazes, the owner of the slightly more explicit gaze suddenly approached me,

“Are you really Gray?”

“Well, but?”

“It’s Gray!”

“Really?!”

“Wow, wow!!”

“Pae, I’m a fan!!”

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And the owners of the gaze rushed towards me, all bursting with admiration. Some of them seemed to be interested in the clown and the witch, not me.

Like that guy who says he’s a fan of me, but his eyes are so honestly focused on clowns.

However, they did not approach us beyond a certain distance. No, I couldn’t.

The witch quickly manifested a magic similar to a barrier around them, and the students who belatedly discovered the existence of the barrier recognized their mistake, apologized, and retreated.

However, as if it was for the best, the academy students surrounded us in a circle and moved along with our movements.

“What is this.”

“Give up. Then it’s comfortable.”

It was even more ironic that it was Lina, who seemed the youngest, who spoke as if she were an old man with a world of knowledge.

“What are you giving up?”

“Now at Evergreen Academy, no, the most famous person on the continent is Gray, right? You caught a demon? Intermediate demons.”

“grunt.”

“What’s more, I didn’t catch it secretly alone. You caught it in front of tens of thousands of people. So I can’t help it. Hang on. Gray brought it upon himself.”

The words he said while holding out vanilla ice cream were so obnoxious that I almost punched him in the forehead.

Anyway, I walked around the stalls in a half-hearted manner with the Arcanas, buying Lina the food she wanted and buying whatever she needed, regardless of the price.

In fact, the unique inventions I purchased were more appropriate to be considered as production materials rather than finished products.

Things like an alloy with dramatically increased elasticity, specially treated leather that absorbs 86% of the shock from reaction and dramatically increases the rate of transmission of physical force, or a magic bag the size of half a palm containing 33 daggers?

Not only me, but I also gave a necklace that can manifest cleansing magic at any time to the clown who fights while soaking his entire body in the blood of the enemy, and to the witch, I gave a ring with a built-in space to store the catalyst used in secret magic.

As you can probably guess just by looking at the name, the things I and we bought were quite expensive. Despite this, I couldn’t even spend 10% of the money I had.

There is a lot of money provided to candidates, but that is not the reason.

The amount of money the Caligo Church obtained by pressuring and threatening each country was 3 million gold.

300,000? Nono. 3 million.

Don’t confuse the units.

What pretext did you use to pressure me?

The demons I dealt with in my candidate competency assessment. It was a pressure and threat like what would have happened if those demons had caused trouble in your country.

Those who do not show sincerity are fearsome and will pretend not to notice even if the demons act.

Actually, the Caligo Church is the place where an individual carries around 2kg of Mithril (worth 200,000 gold) and gives it to them as a gift. This is a threat from the Church, so they should be able to collect(?) enough for about 3 million gold.

“Oh! Gray!”

Oh, I forgot. That they too can participate here.

Old priests dressed in white clothes. High-ranking priests of the Caligo Church, whose hair has turned white just like their priestly uniforms, run towards them with sparkling eyes, like high school girls who have discovered their favorite idol.

Where? To me.

Should I run away? Still, is running away a bit too much? An old man who likes me… … ?

“Hiik!”

What is too much?

Look at those eyes. It’s running so brightly that you can see the white part of it.

That should not be compared to a middle school girl, but to a person who had starved for several days and discovered meat. Hey, grandpa, why are you drooling!!

“Bounce, bounce!”

I ran away with the clown and the witch to the point where I wondered if I had ever run as fast as I could before.

“Fuck you~!”

“Fuck… … !”

“Fuck… … !”

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Fuck, damn that title! I will definitely have to change it.

“Kyahahaha!! I’m excited!!”

The clown was so excited that he laughed and laughed, wondering what was so good about it.

“Ugh. It’s complicated.”

The witch, who gave a line that sounded like she was an INFP, suddenly got on the broom with her butt up.

“Ian. faster. Faster.”

Lina was following behind in her arms.

“Oh my~. Our mother-in-law is so shy!”

A lamentation heard from behind: ‘Bullshit!’ I could barely restrain myself from wanting to shout. Because I didn’t want to run away and have my location discovered. Only after adding the witch’s magic were they able to completely defeat them.

“This festival… Something is strange. It feels ominous. That’s also very ominous!”

“Hohoho. After all, our baby is cute~.”

However, as soon as he laughed bitterly at the clown’s words, unable to refute them by saying, ‘Is that line correct in the current situation?’

“Me too!”

The witch sitting on the broomstick above my head jumps in right away, like a student running because he doesn’t want to miss the last train.

“Huh?”

“I thought that too. Ears, ears, you’re cute… .”

The blush that started from her cheeks spread to her entire face, and the witch’s ears turned red with water. She seemed like she could be called ‘cute’.