episode_0169
by admin‘Blindfold!!! The girl is so pitiful!!!’
After reading The Little Match Girl, Ada cried and clung to Rupert, biting the back of his neck.
However, Rupert felt genuinely threatened by Ada’s whining, which he had previously laughed off.
‘This isn’t a massage anymore?!’
It was a whole other level of intensity than when I read The Little Mermaid a while ago and patted Rupert on the back with my small hand, feeling sorry for the little mermaid.
He had to quickly appease Ada, thinking that if things continued this way, she might die before she could even become an honorary duke in ten years.
‘Ada, don’t cry.’
‘why?’
‘Santa Claus doesn’t give presents to crying children.’
‘Santa Claus?’
Rupert told Ada the story of Christmas and Santa on Earth, slightly modified to fit the other world.
‘Grandpa gives out presents while riding a sleigh pulled by a red-nosed reindeer.’
‘wow!!!’
‘But they only give presents to children who have been good for a year.’
‘Ada is good!’
‘Yeah, Ada is a good girl, so she shouldn’t bite or hit her brother! And she shouldn’t cry, right?’
‘huh!’
Rupert comes back to life thanks to Santa Claus.
Of course, I’d have to dress up Marquis Bradley as Santa Claus later to give Ada a present, but it was a good thing if I thought of it as an event for my cute little sister.
However, I did not know that Ada had been deeply troubled since hearing Rupert’s story.
“Ratshya, all my subordinates are crybabies. What if I don’t get a gift?”
“Boom!”
Ada thought that since she was good and didn’t cry anymore, Santa Claus would definitely give her a present.
But Ada was concerned about the children in the neighborhood who followed her as their leader and the orphaned children who stayed at the church.
Those kids, unlike Ada, were timid and weak, so they were always bullied by the neighboring village kids and would come crying to her.
Ada is saddened by the thought that if things continue this way, Santa Claus, as Rupert said, might not give presents to the neighborhood children.
So, he decided to become Santa himself for the children who could not receive presents.
“What do you want?”
“Captain! I want the Thousand Puzzle Necklace from The King of Cards!”
“I envied the swords of the main characters in Van Helsing… .”
Ada immediately rode her Ratchet down to the village, visited each child one by one, and investigated what gifts they would like to receive. After that, she went to see Krun in the workshop.
“Huh? Are you asking me to make this?”
“Yeah!”
The note Ada handed over contained the names of the village children and a list of gifts they would like to receive.
‘Most of them are toys.’
Krun thought that for things like this, it would be enough to just make them out of scrap materials or give them what was left in the workshop warehouse.
“Okay, I understand. Our young lady is asking for it, so I have to do it for free.”
“It’s not free! Ada will pay for it.”
“What? It’s probably Rupert’s money anyway… .”
“Sira, Ada will give you a present with the money she earned herself.”
Then Ada shows Krun the picture she drew with her clumsy skills.
“Is this a sled?”
“I don’t think he inherited his talent for drawing,” said Krun, who had a keen eye for the crooked lines characteristic of children’s drawings.
I wondered how Ada, who had never been on a sled before, knew about the sleds used as a means of transportation in the North, but what concerned me more was the strange animal that pulled the sled.
Although the other parts of the face were only recognizable in shape, a large red dot on the nose stood out.
“Make this too!”
“When I see this, I think it’s just like my brother.”
Kroon thought that the way he asked for things to be made, as if he had entrusted them to him, was exactly like Rupert.
When I said that I would make it for her because I had made sleds a few times before and it wasn’t as difficult as I thought, Ada was jumping around the workshop and was very happy.
And then, when Ada insisted on paying, Krun asked for only 5 silver.
I thought that there wouldn’t be a problem since Ada could cover the expenses with the money the Marquis gave her when she went to the local bar.
But contrary to Krun’s expectations, Ada was busy running around collecting the money herself.
“Buy me some matches!”
“Ada, are you running low on pocket money? Why are you suddenly bringing matches… ”
“Blindfold! It’s a secret.”
After buying a bunch of matches from the town store, Ada followed everyone she met, from the servants working in the mansion to the workers in the workshop, asking them to buy matches.
Ada liked to imitate the characters in fairy tales, but normally she would be giving out matches for free instead of selling them.
Rather, when Rupert asked about it, Ada kept her mouth shut and said it was a secret.
Everyone else just thought it was cute to see a little girl running around selling matches, so they all bought matches thinking they were getting pocket money, and before they knew it, Ada had earned more than the 5 silver she had set out to save.
“Boom!”
She had already put a red ornament on her nose like a reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh, and she was imagining herself riding the soon-to-be-finished sleigh around the village, showering children with presents.
***
“Krun, have you trained the golem?”
“Learning? I only know how to make things. I don’t even know how to do that.”
Zenia, who had no time during the week because she was busy with research and teaching at the academy, took the time every weekend to create a new golem.
Now that Krun has created the frame, all that remains is for her to use her magical knowledge to complete it.
However, Xenia had a serious expression on her face after checking the condition of the new golem.
“You probably won’t be able to learn on your own… .”
The only remaining task for the new Golem, which was now nearly complete, was learning.
The important task of training Rupert to understand human speech and then to learn behaviors that will help him with his work.
however,
“Please give me a name.”
Since you haven’t learned anything yet, you shouldn’t be able to speak or act.
The new golem was naturally talking to Xenia.
Zenia briefly turns off the power to the new golem and investigates the situation to figure out what’s going on.
“There is definitely no problem with my design or Krun’s work… .”
I checked again and there were no problems, only confirming that it was manufactured as designed.
“Do other people come here besides Krun?”
“That can’t be! I’ll lock it up with a dwarven lock so no one can come in while I’m away.”
As Krun shouted that it could never happen, Xenia remembered how he had previously bragged about the lock that had been used to lock the door to the workshop.
It was clearly a very complex structure at first glance, and it seemed impossible to enter without damaging it.
‘What on earth is going on…?’
Krun, who didn’t know the severity of the situation, had an expression on his face that said it was a good thing since the learning process happened naturally.
Xenia had to consider the possibility that the new golem she had created might escape her control.
Of course, she had prepared several safety measures, but in this situation, if there were variables whose causes were unknown, they might not have been of much use.
“I guess I’ll have to wait and see for a while.”
“Okay, I understand. I will make sure no one comes in.”
After confirming the condition of the new golem, Zenia left Krun’s workshop to return to the academy.
But then an urgent voice was heard grabbing her.
“Xenia!!!”
“Mr. Rupert?”
“Is this a good time for you? I have something urgent to discuss with you… .”
The voice calling her as she tried to leave the mansion was none other than Rupert.
Since the creation of the new golem was a secret even from Rupert, Xenia had planned to return quietly, but Rupert looked so anxious that she had no choice but to say yes.
“What the hell is going on?”
“Snow… Is there a magic that makes it snow?”
“Yes?”
And what Rupert said to her in such an earnest voice was a request for her to lower her eyes.
***
“Why is our Santa Ada spread out on the floor?”
Rupert, who stopped by the top of Uren on the weekend to have a brief meeting with Esteban and then returned home.
Ada, who would normally run to Rupert and hug him at the sound of his footsteps, was nowhere to be seen, so he went out to look for her.
And Ada, who was found in the room, was lying on the floor instead of on a bed, wearing a Santa costume that the workshop staff had made for her.
“Ada… Not Santa.”
Ada’s voice was dead and Rupert wondered what had happened.
Rupert was taken aback to see Ada, who was always so lively and boisterous, so sullen for the first time.
“What’s going on? Tell me, oppa.”
When Rupert stood Ada up and asked her why, Ada answered tearfully.
“Brother… The sled can’t run!”
“Sled?”
Rupert, who barely managed to calm Ada down while she was mumbling about sledding while hugging him, although he couldn’t understand what he was saying at all, went straight to find Kroon.
“Krun, Ada, what’s going on?”
“That’s… .”
As soon as Rupert heard the word sled from Ada’s mouth, he thought it would be related to Krun, and as expected, Krun explained why Ada was in that state.
-You asked me to make you a sled, so I made one! But sleds are only good for use in the north where it snows, right? I just said you can’t ride them here in the south because it doesn’t snow… .
“Ugh… Is it my fault?”
Only then did Rupert realize why Ada had been sullen.
Ada, who had wanted to ride a sleigh like in the Santa story she had told, couldn’t help but sigh when she learned that she was frustrated because she couldn’t ride because it wasn’t snowing.
‘If it costs money, I’ll do whatever it takes…’
Even for Rupert, it would have been difficult to bring snow to Somerset Estate, located in the relatively warm southern region even in the middle of winter.
Rupert, who was wondering if there was a way, walked around the garden of the mansion and thought for a long time.
“Huh, Xenia?”
And then, Rupert caught sight of Xenia trying to leave the mansion.
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