episode_0091

There are females in the group who have lost a lot of their shyness towards males while mixing with me, and females in the group who have not, but Hoyo is still the one who feels shy.

So, she ran out of the room like the wind, and although she was originally wearing thin and short clothes, she appeared wearing prettier, airier, thin and short clothes and a cute hat with a wide brim.

“I’m ready!”

“Well, I guess I’ll just go like this.”

I had just washed up in the morning and was wearing long sleeves and shorts, so I didn’t really feel the need to change clothes, so I just got up and naturally linked arms with Hoyo.

“That sounds plausible.”

Since Hoyo and I are about 20 centimeters taller, I could link arms and hang on to her appropriately.

“Wow… clothes…”

At the academy, we didn’t really hold hands or link arms because we didn’t show it, but now that it’s vacation and it’s just the two of us, we don’t have to worry about what other people think.

Moreover, the male actively touching the female is a behavior that helps the female stand out, so I think it could be seen as killing two birds with one stone.

Hoyo, slightly stiff in my arms, walks like a machine, and I walk as if I’m hanging on to Hoyo.

“When Bandina comes tonight, tell them that Hoyo and I went out to the city.”

“Okay, little master.”

I told the maidservant that I was going out and went out to the estate with Hoyo in tow.

“So what do you do now?”

I thought for a moment at Hoyo’s stupid question and then took her with me to the north of the territory.

The Knight Sustained Estate was a territory centered around a small river that ran through it.

It is called ‘the brown river’ by the locals. It is said that the name comes from the fact that when it rains in the summer, the soil mixes and turns brown, but quickly turns blue again. The name of the night is also said to come from the brown river.

“In the summer, the prices are probably low, so it would be nice to go sightseeing and have fun, right?”

“River! It’s cool and nice!”

At my words, Hoyo walked north excitedly like a robot receiving orders, and I, half-cling to her, headed toward the brown river.

“Wow, there are a lot of people!”

There were quite a few people around the brown river who had come out to cool off.

There are commoners enjoying snacks on mats, and there are also noble couples and painters painting their portraits, taking advantage of the shade under trees and the beautiful dark-colored river as a backdrop.

Children were playing in the shallow waters of the river, and among them, merchants were seen running small stalls and doing small business.

“Good.”

Having encapsulated all of those feelings into two words, I take Hoyo to the ‘Acorn Bridge’, one of the two bridges that cross the dark brown river within the territory.

The bridge was built wider than necessary, so there is ample space for carriages to pass, and you can often find people chatting while looking out over the river from the bridge or even leisurely anglers.

“Nyahahaha.”

Hoyo sat on the edge of the acorn bridge, dangling his legs and letting out his characteristic laugh as if he was in a good mood. I also sat down carefully next to him.

“It’s good that you’re coming out.”

“Hmm~~ I would never have come out if I was alone, but I like it since I came out with Ain.”

Hoyo, who was afraid that people would think she was a nerd who reads books, adjusted her hat so that it wouldn’t fly away in the cool breeze.

“Hela?”

“I sent it to Bandi. He said it was effective if you put it up like a folding screen behind you when you meet with merchants.”

“Eww, why didn’t I know that?”

“Well… you were sleeping…”

While Bam and Bandi were getting up in the morning to finish their work for the day, washing up and getting ready to go out, Hoyo was lying half-naked on her bed in her room, so it was no wonder she didn’t notice.

“Excuse me.”

While Hoyo and Dorandoran were chatting, they heard someone calling them and turned around.

“Huh?”

“The two of you talking looks pretty good in the picture… If it’s okay, can I draw it for you?”

The female dog who spoke to us had a large spotted pattern over her right eye, and judging by the paint stains on her apron and around her hands, she appeared to be an artist.

“Huh?”

Hoyo made a stupid sound, but I remembered where I had seen her.

“Were you the person who was drawing under the shade of the tree earlier?”

“Ah, I see you’ve seen it. That’s right. I often recommend drawing for drawing practice.”

“Okay. What should I do?”

In response to my positive answer, the artist put down his easel, white cloth, and paints on his back and said:

“It’s okay. You can continue talking naturally like before.”

“Okay.”

Hoyo answered cutely and looked back at the brown river.

“What do you do when the chairman and Bandi come?”

“Well, I don’t know when they’ll come, but they said they’d be back in the afternoon… They’ve already gone out, so I guess they’ll just go to the mansion and look for the books?”

“Oh, you do that all the time.”

Hoyo shrugged and answered. Behind him, a horse-drawn carriage, not a vision carriage, could be heard passing by, making a noise.

“When the second semester starts, I plan to take the vision engineering classes more diligently.”

“Ah, that’s it. Is that the ‘arcade’ story?”

At my words, Hoyo shows interest, her large fox ears peeking out from above her hat.

“Yeah, I’m thinking about using the vision engineering machines used in casino machines.”

“I can’t really imagine what it is.”

Hoyo makes a ripple with his mouth and makes a sound like “Eum~”. It seems that it is not easy to recall a world where such a thing does not exist.

“Think about it. On a screen like this. In the middle is a person. He might be holding a sword and shield, or a greatsword. Or he might use his fists and feet.”

“Yeah yeah.”

I explain using gestures so Hoyo can understand.

“This… you put a moving stick and button in front of the machine. When you move the stick, the person in the middle moves. When you press this button, the person will swing their weapon, and when you press this button, the person will jump… If you press the button multiple times, you can do a cool combo attack, and if you jump and attack, the person will swing their weapon in the air?”

I explain to Hoyo, imagining the belt-scrolling games that were common in the past world. Hoyo understands better than I do, perhaps because he has read a lot of miscellaneous books.

“Oh?! Then I can use magic!”

“Yeah. But think about it. What if the guy in the middle is a handsome, pretty guy who would appear in your favorite ‘Engishiki Knight’s Fight’?”

“Wow-ah-ah!!”

Hoyo got so excited by my impulse that he turned his tail like a windmill.

“If you look at casino machines, there’s a male with a strange appearance that moves around to entice customers, and it’s like they use magic to float him up. If you use that well, it seems like it would be helpful in making an arcade game.”

“Is that true!! Is Ain a genius?!”

Besides that, I make fun of the contents of the miscellaneous books into an arcade game, and explain various games to Hoyo other than belt-scrolling games.

“Wow… It’s a game where you avoid enemies here and there and eat the ground, and a sexy male appears…”

“I got some inspiration when I went to the casino.”

“But Ain is a male, and he comes up with such ideas.”

I shrugged my shoulders at Hoyo’s question. I’m a male now that I’m here, but I was originally a male who played the female role here.

“Doesn’t it matter? What male doesn’t know that females like males and that they like dirty things? ”

“Hehehe, that’s right. Is there anything else? It’s fun just listening to the story.”

I explain some of these thoughts to Hoyo, and Hoyo reacts to them in his own way.

“Okay, that’s it. How is it?”

After a while, the sun had already tilted slightly further west, and the area around the dark river had become a bit more crowded, perhaps because people had finished work and come to the river.

“Oh my, you drew it really well?!”

Hoyo, who had seen the artist’s painting before me, became excited again and started turning his tail wildly.

The artist’s canvas skillfully depicts a lush, dark-brown river surrounded by trees and a river, and a scene of me sitting next to Hoyo on a bridge, smiling and explaining something, while Hoyo responds to my explanation with shining eyes.

“I like it. Could you please send it to the Knight Sustained Mansion?”

When I took a considerable amount of money out of my pocket and put it in the painter’s hand, the painter’s eyes grew wide in surprise.

“This… Is there a need to give this much… Rather than that, the Knight Sustained Mansion?”

“Yes, you can send it there.”

“Ah… I understand. I’m glad you’re satisfied.”

The painter greeted me several times at my request.

“If we meet again next time, I hope you draw me with other females from the group.”

“I think I will be in Yeongji during the summer. Since the Brown River is a popular destination in the summer, you will be able to see me without much difficulty.”

The painter who said that, carrying his easel, canvas, and folding chair on his back, left a greeting and headed inside the mansion. It seemed he was probably planning to send the painting to the mansion at my request.

“Wow~~ Today’s outing was really fun. What a fun story and a nice picture. Nyahahaha! If I had known this would happen, I would have worn prettier clothes?”

“Hoyo, it’s okay because you’re pretty enough.”

“What,,what is it,,,”

Hoyo, whose face turned red from my surprise worship, put her hand on her cheek and laughed, saying, “Nyahaha.”

“By now, they should both be back at the mansion. Should I buy some snacks and go back?”

“Let’s buy egg bread, egg bread!”

Hoyo must have remembered the bakery we passed on our way to the Brown River, because she turned her tail around and grabbed my hand as we walked briskly towards the bakery between the mansion and the Brown River. I followed her, walking briskly, keeping up with her pace.