Chapter 72 : (Before) Date with Chris
T/N: I’m sorry guys. I can’t churn up a lot of chapters like I did last month. I feel drained. (ಥ﹏ಥ) I’m going to focus on having one chapter / week at least. If I managed to translate more, I will update more but at least I promise you I will update one chapter/week!
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“Excuse me for coming so late at night! Ren-san, are you here?”
“Huh? Tord-san? I’m coming!”
I got home safely by 21.00. After arriving at home, I took a bath and did some other things. By the time I was finished, it was already 23.00 but Malik-san still hadn’t come home yet.
I was about to go to sleep first, thinking Malik-san must be enjoying himself to the fullest, drinking with his colleagues when I heard Tord-san’s voice calling for me. I immediately hurried up to the door.
“Tord-san? What’s the matter… Ah… Malik-san…”
“Good evening!~ It is as you can see… Also… Guild Master is really heavy… I’m having a hard time here…”
When I opened the door, I saw both Tord-san and Malik-san standing there with Malik-san leaning most of his body weight on Tord-san. Malik-san looked like he was barely conscious…
“Did you drink too much? Tord-san, thank you for bringing Malik-san home. Would you like to have some tea first?”
“Of course!~To be honest, I want to refuse your generous offer but carrying Guild Master all the way from the guild to here was really tiring.. I’m so parched… I’d like to have one glass of drink if possible…”
Malik-san did say he was going to drink tonight but it seemed he had drunk too much? Tord-san was breathing heavily. Carrying Malik-san who was much bigger than him must’ve been hard.
I offered to prepare some tea as the bare minimum to thank him and Tord-san accepted my offer while bowing his head, apologetic for the trouble.
“Well then, please come in. Ah and, I’m sorry for troubling you more but… Can you please help me carry Malik-san to his room?”
“Of course!~”
Realistically speaking, if Tord-san had left Malik-san’s drunken body on the floor, I wouldn’t be able to carry Malik-san to his room. So I had to ask Tord-san for more help to bring Malik-san to his room and laid him on the bed.
“Malik-san, I’m going to loosen your clothes for a bit, okay?”
Malik-san was barely conscious but I still informed him beforehand what I was about to do to him. I popped the button from his collar off and loosened his waistband. Of course I had also taken both his socks and shoes off.
“Whoa~ Ren-san you’re like the Guild Master’s wife.”
Tord-san spoke in admiration as he stood near the door.
“Hehe~ As his only son, I’ve troubled him plenty of times so I don’t mind returning the favour once in a while like this. Now then, shall we go to the living room? Would you like something cold to drink? Or would you prefer something warm instead?”
Usually Malik-san was very reliable and strong so this was one of the rare occasions where I’d be able to help him instead. After covering Malik-san with a blanket, I prompted Tord-san to follow me to the living room and asked what kind of drink he wanted.
“Please give me something cold!”
“Okay, I will see what I have in hand.”
I gestured for Tord-san to take a seat on the sofa while I went to the kitchen to grab a jug of cold tea from the fridge. I poured the tea into a glass and handed it over to Tord-san.
“Here you go. But it’s rather rare for Malik-san to get that drunk, isn’t it? And I thought Malik-san could hold his liquor pretty well too…”
“Guild Master does have a very strong alcohol tolerance but there was another guy who was even stronger than him! Guild Master kept on drinking while saying 『I’m celebrating my son’s engagement!』and that was why he ended up in this state.”
“I see…”
In other words, it was a drinking party to celebrate my engagement? That was why Malik-san ended up drinking until he was drunk since he was my stepfather after all.
“Well, everyone just wanted to drink no matter what the reason was so Ren-san, you don’t have to worry about it too much, okay?”
“Haaah…”
“Fuah… Thank you for the drink! It’s already late so I will excuse myself first!”
Tord-san then left with a forced smile on his face.
The next day after, Malik-san woke up with a terrible hangover so I casted recovery magic to heal him. Malik-san was so impressed that he requested for me to keep on taking care of him whenever he had a hangover from thereon after. His face was so serious too so I knew he wasn’t trying to tease me.
Does that mean other people can’t cure hangovers like I do?
I guess healing physical wounds was common but that was not the case with fatigue or headache. I felt that my talent in support skill was really a cheat in that sense….
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“Fuuah… I will meet with Chris-san at 10.00 near the bell tower in the plaza… I slept a little bit too long… Okay, time to get ready…”
I yawned and got up from the bed to change my clothes. Glancing at the clock, I saw it was a little bit over 08.00. The distance between Malik-san’s house and my meeting place with Chris-san was only ten minutes away by foot so I still have plenty of time left.
Opening the window, I was instantly greeted with the sight of the bright blue sky. Today’s weather was really great! Looking at the sky made me want to do our laundry though I better be quick about it so I wouldn’t be late to meet with Chris-san.
In the end, yesterday I had spent the whole day meal prepping for our escort quest later. This time, I already knew I’d be needing food for four people so I made sure to prepare the meal in big batches.
The three of them were pretty big so of course they had a big appetite as well…With the way things were going, I’d be spending the free days I had between Chris-san’s date and Fer-san’s date meal prepping for our escort quest…
I went through my clothes, trying to choose which one I should wear today.
“No matter what kind of clothes I wear, I look so plan standing next to them…”
It wouldn’t matter much no matter which clothes I choose so I ended up choosing something that felt comfortable and safe. The three of them were so good looking that no matter what clothes they wore, they’d look so well put together in the end… I’m so jealous….
“Ah! I can’t dawdle here! I need to eat breakfast first!”
Leaving my room, I went to the kitchen to take the sandwich I had made the night before from the fridge. Sitting on the dining table, I began to eat my sandwich all by myself. Malik-san had a noon shift today so he was still sleeping. I should prepare a lunch box for Malik-san too…
“Now then, thank you for the food… 【Clean】”
Cleaning up the plate was over in no time with magic. I went to the changing room and took the laundry basket with me to the garden.
“Here we go…”
As soon as I stepped a foot into the garden, I could feel the heat of the sun rays shining onto my skin. Which reminded me, I’ve been walking out in the sun a lot but I didn’t have any sunburn yet. Maybe the sun in here, although it looked like the sun on earth, didn’t have the same UV rays?
Well I don’t really get it but I’m the type that can’t get sun-kissed skin. If I’m out in the sun for too long, my skin would turn red and ache all over instead. If I couldn’t get sunburned here, that would be great.
I took the wash bin that I had placed near the door with me. Putting all of the laundry from the basket into it, I began to wash all the dirty laundry earnestly using magic. From washing, to drying, everything could be done using support magic here. I hang the dried laundry on a clothesline one by one.
“Today’s weather is really good so the clothes are going to be all dry and nice in no time…”
I muttered to myself as I stared at the laundry fluttering against the wind. After making sure nothing was amiss, I brought the basket back to the house with me.
“Having onigiri for lunch seems like a good idea I guess?”
I put the laundry basket back into the changing room and went to the kitchen to quickly prepare several types of onigiri. After stuffing the onigiri into the lunch box, I used magic to chill it.
“【Cool】With this, we’re finished with the lunch box.”
I put the lunch box into the fridge and left a note for Malik-san on the table. I hoped with this note Malik-san would’ve realized I already had his lunch box ready in the fridge.
I went back to my room to get my magic bag and with this, I’m ready to go!
“I think I’m going to be a little early… Ah well, better be early than late.”
The clock in the living room said it was still 09.30. I would’ve been twenty minutes early to my appointment with Chris-san but there was not enough time for me to dawdle around drinking tea. In the end I decided to go straight to my meeting place with Chris-san.
“I’m going.”
Malik-san was still asleep so I knew there wouldn’t be anyone to reply to me but I still said it anyway everytime I’m leaving the house. The road to the plaza was only straight ahead so I didn’t get to stop by anywhere.
“Ah, Chris-san is already there…”
There was still plenty of time before our meeting time but Chris-san was already standing there, leaning his back against the bell tower. Around him, there were several young ladies trying their best to get his attention too…
Today Chris-san was wearing a white tank top layered with a half-length navy mesh top along with a white cropped pants that stopped at his ankle. He was wearing shoes that resembled a sneaker. The usual black leg pouch could be seen on his leg, the contrast between the pouch and the white pants gave a nice accent to Chris-san’s whole look. How do I say it… Chris-san looked refreshing but erotic at the same time. He could easily pass as a top model if we were on earth.
“Haah… This is bad… I want to call out to Chris-san but don’t think I can push those young ladies away…”
You could say those young ladies were trying their hardest to pick Chris-san up…
I stopped a little further from them, not knowing how I should approach Chris-san.
“Hey, hey~ I don’t mind even if you’re meeting someone else here so why don’t you come with us?~”
“Yes, yes! I know a place that serves good tea. Why don’t we all go there?”
“I will pay everything for you if you’d like!”
“Haah.. Listen here? Can you please stop touching me?~ I already told you I’m going to meet with my absolutely adorable fiancée, didn’t I?~ His beauty and cuteness cannot be compared with you lots so there’s no way I will go with you, won’t I?”
The young ladies tried to make Chris-san come with them by pulling on his arms but Chris-san shook them all off indifferently. More importantly… If Chris-san kept on describing me as someone so beautiful and cute like that, those young ladies must be expecting someone incredulously gorgeous! I wouldn’t be able to gather the guts to call out to him even more!
“Uugh.. What should I do…”
“Ah! Ren-chan!~”
“U- Yes! … Have I kept you waiting?”
I must’ve caught his attention because I was just standing still. While talking with the young ladies, Chris-san had a cold, expressionless face but as soon as he saw me, that expression was immediately replaced with a gentle and warm smile. Since Chris-san had already noticed and called out for me, I braved myself and walked toward him. The young ladies were openly staring at me but I tried my best to pay no heed to them.
“Nope~ There’s still a lot of time left. I just got so excited so I came here as soon as I was ready. Okay then, let’s go~”
“Wa-Wait a minute?!”
“What is it?~ I don’t like obstinate girls, you know?~ Well, bye then~”
With a smile, Chris-san brought our hands together, interlocking our fingers just like the typical lovers would do I guess? With our fingers intertwined, Chris-san led me away from the swarm of girls. All of the young ladies were staring at us, dumbfounded. But one of them quickly sobered out of her stupor and called out for Chris-san but of course, Chris-san mercilessly cut her off and walked away without glancing back.
“Arya, there’s no hope for you. He’s a little bit on the small side but he’s certainly very cute and beautiful.”
“You’re right. The moment he noticed that small boy, his expression suddenly shifted. Do you think that boy is the rumoured otherworlder? Since he has a black hair and all.”
“Haah… I really like his look so much! But.. I don’t think I can stand a chance against that boy…”
As we disappeared into the crowd, I couldn’t see any of the young ladies anymore, let alone hear what they were talking about. I’m sure they must be thinking something along the lines like “With a kid like him?!”
I feel a little depressed when I think about it…
Chapter 72 : (Before) Date with Chris
T/N: I’m sorry guys. I can’t churn up a lot of chapters like I did last month. I feel drained. (ಥ﹏ಥ) I’m going to focus on having one chapter / week at least. If I managed to translate more, I will update more but at least I promise you I will update one chapter/week!
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“Excuse me for coming so late at night! Ren-san, are you here?”
“Huh? Tord-san? I’m coming!”
I got home safely by 21.00. After arriving at home, I took a bath and did some other things. By the time I was finished, it was already 23.00 but Malik-san still hadn’t come home yet.
I was about to go to sleep first, thinking Malik-san must be enjoying himself to the fullest, drinking with his colleagues when I heard Tord-san’s voice calling for me. I immediately hurried up to the door.
“Tord-san? What’s the matter… Ah… Malik-san…”
“Good evening!~ It is as you can see… Also… Guild Master is really heavy… I’m having a hard time here…”
When I opened the door, I saw both Tord-san and Malik-san standing there with Malik-san leaning most of his body weight on Tord-san. Malik-san looked like he was barely conscious…
“Did you drink too much? Tord-san, thank you for bringing Malik-san home. Would you like to have some tea first?”
“Of course!~To be honest, I want to refuse your generous offer but carrying Guild Master all the way from the guild to here was really tiring.. I’m so parched… I’d like to have one glass of drink if possible…”
Malik-san did say he was going to drink tonight but it seemed he had drunk too much? Tord-san was breathing heavily. Carrying Malik-san who was much bigger than him must’ve been hard.
I offered to prepare some tea as the bare minimum to thank him and Tord-san accepted my offer while bowing his head, apologetic for the trouble.
“Well then, please come in. Ah and, I’m sorry for troubling you more but… Can you please help me carry Malik-san to his room?”
“Of course!~”
Realistically speaking, if Tord-san had left Malik-san’s drunken body on the floor, I wouldn’t be able to carry Malik-san to his room. So I had to ask Tord-san for more help to bring Malik-san to his room and laid him on the bed.
“Malik-san, I’m going to loosen your clothes for a bit, okay?”
Malik-san was barely conscious but I still informed him beforehand what I was about to do to him. I popped the button from his collar off and loosened his waistband. Of course I had also taken both his socks and shoes off.
“Whoa~ Ren-san you’re like the Guild Master’s wife.”
Tord-san spoke in admiration as he stood near the door.
“Hehe~ As his only son, I’ve troubled him plenty of times so I don’t mind returning the favour once in a while like this. Now then, shall we go to the living room? Would you like something cold to drink? Or would you prefer something warm instead?”
Usually Malik-san was very reliable and strong so this was one of the rare occasions where I’d be able to help him instead. After covering Malik-san with a blanket, I prompted Tord-san to follow me to the living room and asked what kind of drink he wanted.
“Please give me something cold!”
“Okay, I will see what I have in hand.”
I gestured for Tord-san to take a seat on the sofa while I went to the kitchen to grab a jug of cold tea from the fridge. I poured the tea into a glass and handed it over to Tord-san.
“Here you go. But it’s rather rare for Malik-san to get that drunk, isn’t it? And I thought Malik-san could hold his liquor pretty well too…”
“Guild Master does have a very strong alcohol tolerance but there was another guy who was even stronger than him! Guild Master kept on drinking while saying 『I’m celebrating my son’s engagement!』and that was why he ended up in this state.”
“I see…”
In other words, it was a drinking party to celebrate my engagement? That was why Malik-san ended up drinking until he was drunk since he was my stepfather after all.
“Well, everyone just wanted to drink no matter what the reason was so Ren-san, you don’t have to worry about it too much, okay?”
“Haaah…”
“Fuah… Thank you for the drink! It’s already late so I will excuse myself first!”
Tord-san then left with a forced smile on his face.
The next day after, Malik-san woke up with a terrible hangover so I casted recovery magic to heal him. Malik-san was so impressed that he requested for me to keep on taking care of him whenever he had a hangover from thereon after. His face was so serious too so I knew he wasn’t trying to tease me.
Does that mean other people can’t cure hangovers like I do?
I guess healing physical wounds was common but that was not the case with fatigue or headache. I felt that my talent in support skill was really a cheat in that sense….
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“Fuuah… I will meet with Chris-san at 10.00 near the bell tower in the plaza… I slept a little bit too long… Okay, time to get ready…”
I yawned and got up from the bed to change my clothes. Glancing at the clock, I saw it was a little bit over 08.00. The distance between Malik-san’s house and my meeting place with Chris-san was only ten minutes away by foot so I still have plenty of time left.
Opening the window, I was instantly greeted with the sight of the bright blue sky. Today’s weather was really great! Looking at the sky made me want to do our laundry though I better be quick about it so I wouldn’t be late to meet with Chris-san.
In the end, yesterday I had spent the whole day meal prepping for our escort quest later. This time, I already knew I’d be needing food for four people so I made sure to prepare the meal in big batches.
The three of them were pretty big so of course they had a big appetite as well…With the way things were going, I’d be spending the free days I had between Chris-san’s date and Fer-san’s date meal prepping for our escort quest…
I went through my clothes, trying to choose which one I should wear today.
“No matter what kind of clothes I wear, I look so plan standing next to them…”
It wouldn’t matter much no matter which clothes I choose so I ended up choosing something that felt comfortable and safe. The three of them were so good looking that no matter what clothes they wore, they’d look so well put together in the end… I’m so jealous….
“Ah! I can’t dawdle here! I need to eat breakfast first!”
Leaving my room, I went to the kitchen to take the sandwich I had made the night before from the fridge. Sitting on the dining table, I began to eat my sandwich all by myself. Malik-san had a noon shift today so he was still sleeping. I should prepare a lunch box for Malik-san too…
“Now then, thank you for the food… 【Clean】”
Cleaning up the plate was over in no time with magic. I went to the changing room and took the laundry basket with me to the garden.
“Here we go…”
As soon as I stepped a foot into the garden, I could feel the heat of the sun rays shining onto my skin. Which reminded me, I’ve been walking out in the sun a lot but I didn’t have any sunburn yet. Maybe the sun in here, although it looked like the sun on earth, didn’t have the same UV rays?
Well I don’t really get it but I’m the type that can’t get sun-kissed skin. If I’m out in the sun for too long, my skin would turn red and ache all over instead. If I couldn’t get sunburned here, that would be great.
I took the wash bin that I had placed near the door with me. Putting all of the laundry from the basket into it, I began to wash all the dirty laundry earnestly using magic. From washing, to drying, everything could be done using support magic here. I hang the dried laundry on a clothesline one by one.
“Today’s weather is really good so the clothes are going to be all dry and nice in no time…”
I muttered to myself as I stared at the laundry fluttering against the wind. After making sure nothing was amiss, I brought the basket back to the house with me.
“Having onigiri for lunch seems like a good idea I guess?”
I put the laundry basket back into the changing room and went to the kitchen to quickly prepare several types of onigiri. After stuffing the onigiri into the lunch box, I used magic to chill it.
“【Cool】With this, we’re finished with the lunch box.”
I put the lunch box into the fridge and left a note for Malik-san on the table. I hoped with this note Malik-san would’ve realized I already had his lunch box ready in the fridge.
I went back to my room to get my magic bag and with this, I’m ready to go!
“I think I’m going to be a little early… Ah well, better be early than late.”
The clock in the living room said it was still 09.30. I would’ve been twenty minutes early to my appointment with Chris-san but there was not enough time for me to dawdle around drinking tea. In the end I decided to go straight to my meeting place with Chris-san.
“I’m going.”
Malik-san was still asleep so I knew there wouldn’t be anyone to reply to me but I still said it anyway everytime I’m leaving the house. The road to the plaza was only straight ahead so I didn’t get to stop by anywhere.
“Ah, Chris-san is already there…”
There was still plenty of time before our meeting time but Chris-san was already standing there, leaning his back against the bell tower. Around him, there were several young ladies trying their best to get his attention too…
Today Chris-san was wearing a white tank top layered with a half-length navy mesh top along with a white cropped pants that stopped at his ankle. He was wearing shoes that resembled a sneaker. The usual black leg pouch could be seen on his leg, the contrast between the pouch and the white pants gave a nice accent to Chris-san’s whole look. How do I say it… Chris-san looked refreshing but erotic at the same time. He could easily pass as a top model if we were on earth.
“Haah… This is bad… I want to call out to Chris-san but don’t think I can push those young ladies away…”
You could say those young ladies were trying their hardest to pick Chris-san up…
I stopped a little further from them, not knowing how I should approach Chris-san.
“Hey, hey~ I don’t mind even if you’re meeting someone else here so why don’t you come with us?~”
“Yes, yes! I know a place that serves good tea. Why don’t we all go there?”
“I will pay everything for you if you’d like!”
“Haah.. Listen here? Can you please stop touching me?~ I already told you I’m going to meet with my absolutely adorable fiancée, didn’t I?~ His beauty and cuteness cannot be compared with you lots so there’s no way I will go with you, won’t I?”
The young ladies tried to make Chris-san come with them by pulling on his arms but Chris-san shook them all off indifferently. More importantly… If Chris-san kept on describing me as someone so beautiful and cute like that, those young ladies must be expecting someone incredulously gorgeous! I wouldn’t be able to gather the guts to call out to him even more!
“Uugh.. What should I do…”
“Ah! Ren-chan!~”
“U- Yes! … Have I kept you waiting?”
I must’ve caught his attention because I was just standing still. While talking with the young ladies, Chris-san had a cold, expressionless face but as soon as he saw me, that expression was immediately replaced with a gentle and warm smile. Since Chris-san had already noticed and called out for me, I braved myself and walked toward him. The young ladies were openly staring at me but I tried my best to pay no heed to them.
“Nope~ There’s still a lot of time left. I just got so excited so I came here as soon as I was ready. Okay then, let’s go~”
“Wa-Wait a minute?!”
“What is it?~ I don’t like obstinate girls, you know?~ Well, bye then~”
With a smile, Chris-san brought our hands together, interlocking our fingers just like the typical lovers would do I guess? With our fingers intertwined, Chris-san led me away from the swarm of girls. All of the young ladies were staring at us, dumbfounded. But one of them quickly sobered out of her stupor and called out for Chris-san but of course, Chris-san mercilessly cut her off and walked away without glancing back.
“Arya, there’s no hope for you. He’s a little bit on the small side but he’s certainly very cute and beautiful.”
“You’re right. The moment he noticed that small boy, his expression suddenly shifted. Do you think that boy is the rumoured otherworlder? Since he has a black hair and all.”
“Haah… I really like his look so much! But.. I don’t think I can stand a chance against that boy…”
As we disappeared into the crowd, I couldn’t see any of the young ladies anymore, let alone hear what they were talking about. I’m sure they must be thinking something along the lines like “With a kid like him?!”
I feel a little depressed when I think about it…
