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◈ Even in a Dark Fantasy, You Still Have to Eat ◈
Chapter 69: Date # 2
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“Felix, who am I supposed to meet tomorrow, anyway?”
The day before the weekend.
I poured out my complicated feelings to Felix.
Felix glanced at me, then absentmindedly swept the floor of our quarters.
“Why are you asking me?”
“I’m serious!”
“More importantly, have you seen my honey biscuits?”
Honey biscuits?
My greatest concern in life was being pushed aside for some biscuits.
I shot back at him.
“Why are you asking me about your biscuits?”
“Wipe the crumbs off your mouth before you say that!”
Fuck!?
I thought I had gotten rid of all the evidence!
I quickly rubbed my lips.
Felix raised his broom like he was about to hit me.
“You can eat my snacks, but at least tell me first!”
“Ahem! Eat them? Don’t accuse an innocent man without proof!”
“Why are you making such a racket this late at night?”
Creak.
The door to our quarters opened, and Mr. Hammer appeared.
“I could hear you all the way down the hall at the next unit.”
I had never been so glad to see this hunk of metal!
I quickly hid behind Mr. Hammer and reported Felix.
“Mr. Hammer, Felix is bullying me!”
“Felix, why are you bullying Yore?”
“Seriously? You too, Mr. Hammer?”
“Kahaha! I’m joking! You two seem close, staying up and making all this noise.”
Mr. Hammer was on night watch.
Apparently, he went around checking noisy rooms to see what was going on.
“Mr. Hammer, this is perfect! Please hear me out!”
Mr. Hammer was a true adult.
He was nearly thirty, after all.
Was there anyone better to ask for advice?
“Brigadier General Ezakiel asked you on a date?”
Mr. Hammer tilted his head.
“I think there may be a misunderstanding. Yore, this isn’t about our opinions. You need to listen to your heart.”
Listen to my heart.
Those words struck deeply.
Yeah, that was probably the answer.
I should listen to what my heart was saying.
Get Ether.
Grind for two hours every day.
Exterminate the Erdari.
Gasp, was this my heart’s voice...!?
Just then.
Ding ding ding.
A bell rang.
Mr. Hammer startled.
“Fuck, it’s the alarm bell! Grab your weapons!”
An alarm bell on the night before the weekend?
I had a bad feeling, but Felix and I grabbed our weapons and rushed into the hall.
“Grrraaargh.”
“Uuurgh...”
Some idiots were wandering through the corridor with pus pouring from their faces.
I had seen those symptoms during officer training.
Ding ding ding ding.
The alarm bell continued ringing loudly.
Soon, Hunter D.S. from the next unit pulled out a sword and crossbow and shouted.
“An invasion!!!! Akam is invading!!!! Everyone, get up!!!!”
“Uuurgh.”
“Grrr.”
Fuck.
Corpses from who knew where were charging at us.
“Give me your Ether, you bastards!”
I threw shuriken through their heads.
Crackle!
The attacks were wrapped in powerful lightning, so they fell over easily.
“I’m stronger than I was during officer training!”
Clink.
Ether poured out everywhere.
As I picked it up, my mind, which had been full of worries, felt clearer.
‘Collecting Ether really is the best!’
# # #
“Hic, it looks like contaminated ingredients came in and infected some lousy explorers.”
Priest Ishtar shook her head.
“Hic, how did the inspection process fail...?”
Then Mr. Hammer gave me shocking news.
“So, Yore. We’re being quarantined too.”
“Whaaaat!? Quarantined?”
What was that supposed to mean?
Quarantine?
“An unknown disease and curse were found in the corpses we dealt with. We don’t know what effect they may have on ordinary people.”
Everyone who had faced Akam was being quarantined.
“We’re disinfecting all the quarters too. Until then, you can stay in the prison facilities beneath the Wall. Hic.”
We even had to live in prison?
What kind of disaster was this?
As I stood there in shock, Ishtar shook her liquor bottle and spoke as if comforting me.
“It won’t be for long. Just endure one day, hic.”
No!
A day of quarantine meant my entire weekend was gone!
Nimble, Hermit, and the Brigadier General.
Just a few minutes ago, I had been worrying over plans with all three of them.
This was hell.
‘Those fucking Akam bastards.’
They had clearly invaded the Wall to interfere with my happy date.
From this moment on, Akam was on the same level as the Erdari.
That was how I ended up in prison.
Felix was locked up with me too, which made it even worse.
“Why do I have to spend my precious weekend with you, Felix? In this prison, too!”
“Like I want to spend it with you.”
Anyway, that was how I spent the weekend behind bars.
“Felix, did you eat well?”
“This is bread I bought at the market.”
A few girls came to visit Felix.
They carried plenty of food, including bread and snacks.
Why did everyone only like Felix?
The world was so unfair.
‘Why did my weekend, which should have been fun, turn out like this?’
I was angry.
As I mulled over my anger toward Akam and the Erdari, someone approached the bars.
It was Nimble, with her tail.
“You two get caught and locked up every time I see you.”
Nimble laughed as she looked at Felix and me behind the bars.
I apologized to her.
“Sorry. I said we would go to the village together.”
“Oh? I went with that girl named Hermit.”
Hermit and Nimble went to the village?
Soon, Hermit came into the prison too, breathing heavily.
“Haa, why do you walk so fast... haa...”
Though she was breathing hard, Hermit looked to be in pretty good shape.
She had even taken off her bandages.
“Ta-da, I made lots of medicine with herbs I picked today! These are for you two!”
Clink.
Hermit held out bright red potions to Felix and me.
I narrowed my eyes, wondering what they were, and Hermit explained.
“I made a vitality tonic. It’s good for internal injuries and improves your condition too!”
Hermit and Nimble quickly left the prison after saying that.
Pfft.
Felix laughed.
“Hey, I don’t think those two care about you at all.”
What the?
Now that he mentioned it, that was true.
Did they just need someone to show around the village and someone to make potions with, and I just happened to be nearby?
My deep worries suddenly felt embarrassing.
“Maybe it was the same with Brigadier General Ezakiel. It seemed like she had something for you to do, not that she wanted to go on a date.”
Felix’s words woke me up.
‘Could that really be it?’
Felix might have been right.
Maybe I had been overreacting by myself.
“Ugh, my stomach hurts.”
I drank the potion Hermit had given me.
To heal the wounds in my heart.
It was incredibly bitter.
“Blech.”
Creak.
Just then, a woman wearing a white dress entered the prison.
She was so beautiful that my eyes were naturally drawn to her. The woman stopped in front of our cell.
“Yore, I heard you were quarantined because of Akam’s attack? I didn’t know, so I waited for two hours.”
The woman laughed softly.
‘She waited for me?’
I looked closer and saw that it was Brigadier General Ezakiel.
The Brigadier General, who always wore a uniform, was wearing a dress!?
“Yore, you really are full of surprises. That’s why you’re interesting.”
I knew the Brigadier General was beautiful, but I had not realized she was this beautiful.
As I stared in admiration, she waved her hand.
“Then, Yore, we’ll have to go on our date another time.”
Creak.
With those words, Brigadier General Ezakiel left the prison.
At that moment, Felix asked in confusion.
“...Huh? A date?”
“Ooooooh! A date!”
So it really was a date!
It was the best thing that had happened to me in a while.
It also felt great to prove Felix wrong.
That evening, Felix and I finished our quarantine and were released.
“Whew, I slept well.”
Even though I had been locked in prison, my body felt refreshed.
I was in perfect condition.
‘Hermit’s potion really worked.’
My body felt full of energy.
I thought I should work up a sweat at the Training Ground.
But Nimble was already there, looking around.
“Nimble, are you catching rats again today?”
“...No, I’m looking for clovers.”
Clovers?
“I don’t think there are any four-leaf clovers here. Damn it!”
Nimble stood up and laughed.
As I stood there blankly, Nimble’s tail rose stiffly.
“Hey, next time, let’s pick clovers together. I saw a place today.”
Her tail swayed anxiously from side to side.
“If I go with you instead of Hermit, we can probably find four-leaf clovers, right?”
Thump thump thump.
With that, Nimble disappeared into the distance.
Then I spotted a four-leaf clover.
It seemed Nimble had not found it.
“Am I lucky?”
Anyway, I went to the library to find out what Nimble meant when she asked me to pick clovers with her.
Hermit was reading something seriously among the piles of books.
“Hermit, what are you doing?”
“What does it look like? I’m studying... Ah, that’s a four-leaf clover!”
Hermit ran over to me.
She was delighted when she saw the clover in my hand.
“Nimble said that a four-leaf clover symbolizes luck in druid sorcery! Where did you get that?”
“Oh? I just found it on the way here.”
“You came to give it to me!”
Hermit laughed.
She proudly showed me the coin pouch hanging around her neck.
“Newbie, I heard you made this amulet for me too!”
...She wasn’t going to complain that it only had one coin inside, was she?
I was quietly worried about that, but Hermit started badmouthing Felix.
“Felix didn’t give me anything like this even when his companion was sick. Mr. Hammer didn’t either. The only ones who look after each other are us.”
“...Is that so!?”
“Ever since I started wearing this amulet, I think my magic has been succeeding more often too!”
“Come on, that’s probably just in your head.”
“It’s true! And if I add the clover too...”
Whoosh.
Hermit took the four-leaf clover from my hand.
She put it in her mouth and chewed it together with several herbs.
“Ugh, it looks bitter just watching.”
“Ptooey.”
Hermit spat out the herbs.
Then she used them like paint to draw a magic circle on the floor.
“Done. This should increase the chance of the magic succeeding!”
“What kind of magic is it?”
“Dimension Gate!”
“Dimension Gate?”
“When we performed the teleportation magic in Kerning Town, several sets of coordinates flashed through my mind! One of them was the Goblin Kingdom!”
What was the Goblin Kingdom?
I was not very interested, but Hermit dramatically raised her hands.
“This is a huge deal! Goblins are monstrosities famous for being greedy, so their kingdom must be full of treasure.”
“Ooooooh!”
“The problem is that the chance of the teleportation magic working properly is low. But I have this lucky amulet, and I added the clover, so it’ll work somehow.”
“Aser Potier!”
Hermit chanted a strange spell.
At that moment, an eerie light burst out, and a door shaped like a full-length mirror appeared in midair.
Hummm, hummm.
The magical door buzzed like an angry bee.
Sir Saxon, who had been nodding off, jumped in shock.
“Miss Hermit! Isn’t creating a Dimension Gate to uncertain coordinates forbidden? You must be careful, since it could connect to a dangerous place!”
“What’s the problem with forbidden magic once or twice!”
“Good grief, this is why mages from the Mage Tower...!”
Hermit did not hesitate to use forbidden magic.
She committed crimes freely and acted proud of it?
Hermit would have made a great Thief.
Anyway, we decided to head to the place called the Goblin Kingdom through this portal as soon as morning came.
‘There might be lots of things Asibarr likes there.’
‘Like female goblins?’
The problem was that a party could only have four people.
There were five people in our party now.
‘...They’re not going to tell me to sit this out, are they?’
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