episode_0387

“You’re related to Fran, right?”

Negi, who had already eaten dinner, left first, and Erintina had a late dinner on the second floor of the general store.

“I guess you noticed.”

“How can you not know that? It’s a face that anyone can’t help but notice. What happened?”

“It was a sudden thing for me too. He was looking for a job. “He came into the general store and asked if they needed someone to work.”

I was so nervous that I almost lost her.

“Do you know Fran?”

“I do not know yet. “I didn’t talk about it.”

“why?? “If it were me, I would have come right away.”

“well. “I don’t know what the people involved think of each other, so I think it’s a good thing for me to intervene.”

“Don’t be frustrated. “Just scream!”

I calmed her down and told her to scream loudly.

“We’re not ready for each other yet. “Negi needs time.”

“Is the story complicated?”

“uh. “It’s been a long time since we saw each other since we parted ways when I was young.”

I know the details, but I couldn’t share them without his permission.

Erintina wasn’t the type of person who would be disappointed that she didn’t tell him.

“Then it would be difficult to step forward carelessly. “It might be better to take your time and wait as you said.”

“huh.”

“Looking at Negi’s appearance, it seems like he needs to be protected. good job. “If you hadn’t been protecting me, we would have been in big trouble a long time ago.”

“I just changed the clothes I wear, but don’t I look like a noble person?”

“There is a strange atmosphere. “The more I look at it, the more my conscience hurts, or the more pitiful I feel.”

“You felt it too?”

Erintina seemed to have sensed Mr. Negi’s strange aura.

“Do I keep making you worry? “I want to treat you well.”

“He is a strange person.”

“I need to become friends.”

“That much?”

“huh. “If I become friends with you, wouldn’t you like it too?”

If I had made friends with someone, I would want to stay here for a long time, so there was no reason to refuse.

“It’s good.”

“It’s a shame, because if I had come a year earlier, I would have been able to meet my daughter.”

I think he was probably in prison at that time.

“Are you planning on letting the two of you meet?”

“We have to let them meet.”

However, I have no intention of forcing the two of you to meet.

This means that you do not intentionally call Franc to the store.

Just as it was a coincidence that she came to my store, I hoped that my reunion with Fran would be just like that.

“Anyway, you must have been very embarrassed. Foot! “I asked why you couldn’t answer.”

“So stop playing around like that.”

Erintina kept bursting into laughter, probably because she found it funny that I was confused.

“I’ll admit it’s my fault this time. “You could have just been honest and asked for understanding, but you’re so foolish.”

“I don’t care because it’s in the past.”

“I’m sorry, Negi, I’ll take good care of you.”

“It would be nice if you did.”

Since I am a man, there are some things I cannot take care of.

I thought it would be perfect if Erintina took care of that part.

“I’m going to sleep in today? They said they had newly decorated the guest room. Now that I think about it, I guess I couldn’t have watched that?”

“It’s nothing special. “I just put a proper bed and a closet in it.”

“Oooh~! “Is it really good?”

Erintina really liked the new guest room.

So much so that he declared that he would come here to rest often from now on.

“You’re not coming here to rest, but more accurately, you’re coming to eat.”

“That’s it for me!”

“Next time, let’s eat with Negi too.”

“Should I bring some alcohol then? “Are you good at drinking alcohol?”

“well.”

There was no better way to build friendships than alcohol, but I couldn’t ask her to drink with me.

How long have you been wary of me before you want to create a situation like that?

However, I thought it was okay for Erintina to invite me to a drinking party, so I accepted.

I don’t know how much Negi would like it, but I really needed a place where I could have an open conversation.

“But do you know what kids are doing these days?”

“I understand you are resting well after the hatchery raid. Why?”

“They say you’re not going on vacation?”

vacation?

Since we successfully conquered the hatchery, there will be a non-gong prize.

At that time, taking vacation wasn’t completely out of the question.

“Didn’t you come to see me the last time I went on vacation?”

“It was like that.”

At that time, Shine even came to see me before going home.

“If you get vacation this time, are you going to come look for you?”

“… well?”

If someone comes, they will see Negi, and since they are not oblivious, they will be surprised to see a face that resembles Franc.

It meant that Fran and Negi could reunite sooner than I thought.

“What are you going to do?”

“… I know. “I can’t tell you not to come.”

Since the kids didn’t say they would visit, an awkward situation might arise.

I thought I would have to stop Negi from going out for a while and send Damon to contact Thalia to see if she had any vacation plans.

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“You look pretty. It suits you well.”

“thank you.”

Mr. Negi, showing a shy smile, looked like a nobleman to anyone.

The clothes Erintina sent were of a style that was not too flashy but showed a subtle sense of luxury, and it suited Negi very well.

So much so that I can’t help but say that they match well.

“I’m going to be a little busy today. “I said I would take a break for a while, and I’m sorry.”

Because I sent Damon to Thalia, I had to stop her from going outside.

I felt fortunate that I had work to do at the moment, but I also felt sorry for making him do it.

“I like it! I wanted to work. “I received so much, but I was in trouble because I had no work.”

“There’s a lot of stuff in here. First, you can move these items into the warehouse. “The weight is adjusted, so it probably won’t be difficult to lift.”

“yes.”

I thought this was enough to stop me from going out, so I brought other things with me.

“And when you’re done with that, please go to warehouse number 2. You’ll have a pile of items from your personal alchemist, and you’ll need to pack them up. In the box, you can make a set of each color of potion just like this one and stack them one by one. “We don’t have to do it all in one day, so please take it easy.”

“yes!”

It doesn’t look like it’s going to be easy at all.

Originally, it was something I would send to the top and they would take care of it, but now it was something I was forced to do because I had to create work.

This may happen often in the future.

There are no customers in our general store.

‘At this rate, you’ll be so tired after working all day that you’ll have no choice but to sleep right away, right?’

I planned to visit often and take a break so that I wouldn’t get too caught up in work.

“And we are planning to hold a welcoming party for Mr. Negi in a few days.”

“Welcome party?”

“yes. “It’s nothing special, but I’m just going to have a simple drinking party with Erintina, who came last time.”

“alcohol… .”

“It’s not a burdensome position, so don’t worry. “It’s just us eating and drinking together.”

Even though it wasn’t a full-fledged company dinner, I planned to prepare something that would have a similar feel.

“It’s been a long time since I drank alcohol, so I probably won’t be able to drink it well. “If you don’t mind, that’s fine.”

“Alcohol is a personal choice. If you don’t want to drink it, you don’t have to. “Me and Erintina like to drink, so we’ll probably drink a lot.”

“I wanted to say thank you again to Erintina. “You sent me so many pretty clothes.”

It seems that Negi liked the clothes that Erintina sent her with great care.

“Good for you. Erintina said she wants to be friends with Negi.”

“With me? “I’m not that great of a person.”

“I heard we communicate well? He was excited about making new friends. The child can be mischievous and can be annoying. “If you think it’s too much, let me know.”

I was glad to see that he didn’t seem to dislike drinking itself.

“Then shall we get to work?”

“yes!”

He may not like that he brought a lot of work, but Negi didn’t frown even once.

Rather, it seemed good to be able to work busy.

I also worked alongside her.

He said he would do it alone, but he couldn’t just sit around and do the hard work.

Isn’t it a good thing that we can become friends while working together?

“Things look familiar.”

“I often did simple labor like this.”

“When I hit one, Negi hits three.”

“If you do it often, it will inevitably increase.”

“I need to learn something from what you do, Negi.”

“I don’t think the boss needs to learn this. “These are things anyone can do.”

“This is what happened?”

“Yes, it requires human hands, but it doesn’t require professional skills.”

Something anyone can do.

And the life of a commoner who can only do that through work.

These were words that clearly revealed her low self-esteem personality.

I didn’t think I should just agree with this and say it’s so-so.

“Even if it’s simple labor, if your skills are this good, wouldn’t you be able to call yourself a craftsman?”

In my past life, I used to appear on TV and describe such people as masters.

The performances shown by the masters were too great to be ridiculed as nothing more than simple labor.

If it wasn’t worth it, there would be no such program, and there would be no way it would have been consistently loved and aired.

So Mr. Negi’s skills were worthy of respect.

“see. “I thought today wouldn’t be enough, but we’ve already done this much.”

“It’s because the boss helped me.”

“You are humble. “What did I do to help?”

In fact, it was no exaggeration to say that she did almost everything.

Even when I told him to rest, he kept saying it was okay and refused to work.

I thought that if I hadn’t invited him to rest next to me, I would have continued to work without even breathing.

I was at a loss as to how to tell this kind of workaholic the truth that our general store was actually a place with no customers.

“I think I’ve done everything for today, shall we stop?”

Before I knew it, time had passed and it was time to leave work, which I had planned on my own.

“Let’s go in already? “You haven’t done it yet?”

“Even if the sun hasn’t set, if you’ve worked like this, you should take a break now.”

The workaholic glanced at the remaining work, feeling dissatisfied as if this wasn’t enough.

“There is so much work left…”

Obviously, I am the boss, but I felt nervous about the situation where I had to ask my employees for permission to leave work.