- Episode 11
"I'm happy to be able to follow Estio. I was relieved that I didn't have to be left alone. You can live your life loving someone rather than hating them."
To this young white fur monkey, Estio was a substitute for its lost mother. Like a young baby leaning on its mother, Neju was psychologically very dependent on Estio.
After reading that fact, Estio let out a breath he had been holding back.
"So, Neju is the best right now!"
"......"
This time, Estio was silent. Estio, who could not speak for a while and looked out of his window, slowly closed his eyes and muttered.
"......thank you."
Neju didn't reply anymore, apparently because he fell asleep right away.
Estio was lying on his back, deep in thought.
When I was locked up in an attic, it was a poor rural village, so there were no proper books and I had inherited an old dictionary from my brother. He learned and practiced the language by himself while reading the dictionary, but Estio did not understand all the words written there.
'I think I know one thing now.'
Estio rolled up a word with the tip of his tongue. Now this is-.
"'tie'......."
That night, I was able to sleep without shivering from the cold.
* * *
Estio got up and moved like dawn.
Unexpectedly, I woke up Neju, who had been sleeping a lot in the morning, and neatly arranged the dry clothes by the window.
When a phoenix-shaped badge proving that he belonged to the Ignis Guild was worn on his left chest, it became a plausible outfit. Overall, a neat black hooded robe, with a white pattern in the middle and a flaming fire bird on the chest, gave it a sophisticated feel.
In addition, the dark hair washed with soap and white skin contrasted together, and the dark blue eyes that were darkly sunken completed the overall cold impression.
It was a completely different image from the day before, when he wore rags.
As Estio came down to the office of the business support department on the second floor, Hawk approached him with surprised eyes.
"Hey, this is someone. Can't you recognize it? Haha, you look really good in guild clothes!"
"Oh my, the head of the talent branch, who are you? Newbie?"
As Hawke shivered from Busan, a female employee who had gone to work early and was organizing papers showed interest. Standing in her late twenties, she was a member of the budget team, with tall blonde hair, a shorter-than-average stature, and a slightly plump physique.
"Yeah, Rosalie. This is Estio, a guild member I've been working with since yesterday. I'm not a newcomer to the business support department because I'm a talented person. It's probably not from the magic experiment support department or the combat support department... You'll have to see it, but I think he's going to fall into the special support department."
"Huh? Didn't you just say you're a superpower? Why isn't it a battle or a magic experiment, it's special?"
Rosalie poked her head out of her desk drawer. Toward Estio, who was looking at the piles of papers scattered here and there, Hawk came with a glass jar full of candy canes.
"It's because this friend's Lee Neung is a bit unusual. Well, it's not decided yet, and I think we'll have to wait one more day to get an answer. Estio-kun, do you like candy?"
"......"
I've never tried it, so it's hard to say whether I like it or not. Hesitating, Estio put his hand into the glass bottle protruding in front of him and took out a candy.
It was a shiny blue candy.
"You know how to eat! Ordinary people don't know the taste, but in fact, the highest peak of candies is the 'wave taste'. I have eyes for people!"
Although he just picked up something, Hawk got excited and vomited about the 'wave-flavored' candy.
"That's why I purposely go around the store just to get 'wave flavor', but since no one is looking for it, they don't sell it separately. It's not bad either. But, after all, I think the 'wave flavor', which is tangy and refreshing, is the real candy! Aren't you?
"...It's a start again. Hey, Estio-kun? Don't worry about it. It's like that."
Rosalie shrugged and rummaged through the desk drawer again, as it was a scene often seen by Hawk, who prefers candy over any other favorite food.
Estio listened to Hawke silently while holding a blue candy cane, and then slowly put it in his mouth.
"Haha! I have a very good feeling. You must be our guild's fortune."
Estio's eyes, who tasted the candy, shook violently like the end of the earth.
The candy tasted very shocking. Estio, who remembered the definition of candy written in the dictionary and the praise that came in from Gwidongnyang, became as hard as a stone.
'...rather than taste, it hurts.'
What the candy delivered to his tongue was a kind of pain sensation. Even though he tried to hold back the hot, popping stuff in his mouth, a cough came out of his own accord.
He chuckled like a country boy learning to smoke for the first time, and Hawk gave a thumbs-up.
"Aren't you going to kill me?"
"...Collock."
"For now, I don't know which department to drop from the headquarters, so please help us with our work for a while."
After leaving those words, Hawk busily went to another desk and started doing his work. He used to ask for help, but the whole office was busy looking for work to do.
Estio stood stunned as if he had not been able to decide which area to go to and what to do to help.
It was Rosalie who called him, who was standing there like a flowerpot on one side of the office.
"Estio-kun."
"Yes?"
"Have you ever seen a black rubber band? I haven't been able to find it since before."
"I do not know."
"...I need this right now."
"okay."
Rosalie put her hand on her waist and sighed deeply in response to the answer that flowed from across the river.
"It means if you have nothing to do, go out and buy it."
"?"
"I'll give you a guild stamp, so let's go. You just have to stamp the receipt instead of money. It has to be a black rubber band, so check it carefully. Buying a set is enough. Oh! "
Estio came out of the building holding the guild seal on the ice.
"Black rubber bands and unicorn quills!"
Neju, who made eye contact, brightly arranged the list. Estio grabbed her seal in her robe pocket and moved on. Still unfamiliar with the city's geography, he didn't even know where the shops were.
Reluctantly, he went to the store one by one and started selling products.
"What, rubber bands and quills? Those things are in the general store. The general store is in the square."
"thank you."
The shop owner who steamed dumplings nearby answered his questions kindly. Since the Ignis Guild building was located in the square, it was not difficult to find a general store.
with daughter.
As I opened the door with the imperial flag and entered, the bell hanging on the door of the general store cried loudly. As if it were a general store, there were various kinds of miscellaneous goods on the shelves lined up in a row.
They ranged from cheap toys for children to all-purpose daggers, books for easy reading on the go, and insect repellent sprays.
Estio, who had been paying attention to the colorful lights emanating from the magic light bulbs, slowly approached him at the sound of rustling in the corner of the shelf.
A man who appeared to be a general store owner climbed up a ladder and was rummaging through boxes on top of high shelves.
"excuse me."
"No. Excuse me, I'm busy right now."
"......"
For a store owner, it was a blatant remark. Because he was busy, he couldn't keep asking for business, and he couldn't return after giving up on the errand the guild had ordered, so Estio stood quietly next to the ladder and waited for the owner to come down.
Whether he continues to wait or not, the general store owner groaned when he finally found what he was looking for as he searched the boxes on the shelves.
"Aww! There, there. I thought I'd be here! Yay!"
As she lifted her head buried in the box, long wavy pink hair was scattered everywhere. She was a general store owner and she was just a young woman about the age of Estio. Her thick horn-rimmed glasses that covered half of her face stood out.
The owner of the general store, who was doing a shoulder dance on the ladder in excitement while looking for the item he wanted, suddenly found Estio quietly looking up at him and stopped.
"Huh? Guest? Haven't you been there yet?"
"......"
She scratched her cheek as if embarrassed by her dark blue eyes staring blankly, found a white-haired monkey crouching next to Estio and swallowed her breath.
"Hey!"
"What?"
Neju blinked her red eyes and tilted her head. Then the general store owner screamed in anger.
"Hey, you're a monster!"
"......"
"Kyaah, ah?"
Surprised by herself, she struggled on the ladder, then lost her balance and stumbled. The wind slipped the object she could find slipped from her hand and fell to the floor of her.
The general store owner flapped his arms like a baby bird with a broken wing and fell backwards from the ladder.
"Mom!"
Kudang Tang.
The ladder made a loud noise and fell to the floor. Estio hurriedly supported the back of the general store owner, who had his eyes closed with a foreboding of a fall. His pink hair fell like waves on him.
Fortunately, Neju grabbed Estio, who was about to get hurt together, from behind, so it didn't become a major accident.
After spending ten years, she gave thanks while holding Estio in her arms.
"Go, thank you..."
"Not a monster."
"Eh?"
"It's 'Neju'."
As the cool, dark blue eyes turned towards him, the general store owner's face heated up. I could feel the coldness of ice in the snow as thick as the deep sea. She helped, but at Estio's expression, apparently displeased, she hesitated away from him and bowed her head.
"I'm sorry! I'm a little afraid of animals. It was a guest's pet. Ki, were you in a bad mood?"
"It's not a pet, it's 'Neju'. Please call me properly."
The general store owner still glanced at Neju with fearful eyes. It was reassuring to see a chain tied around her neck, but she was still scared. She was even more so after seeing the gleaming white fangs exposed when Neju smiled brightly.
"I'm sorry. Umm, that... I think your friend's name is Neju. I'm Sally."
"Give me a set of black rubber bands and a unicorn quill."
"Yes."
Sally scratched her head sullenly and walked over to the shelf next to her. As she searched for her rubber band and her quill, Estio turned her gaze to the round object rolling on her floor.
It was an item that Sally said she had found on the top of a shelf earlier, and dropped it because she liked it.
'Crystal Ball?'
- Episode 11
"I'm happy to be able to follow Estio. I was relieved that I didn't have to be left alone. You can live your life loving someone rather than hating them."
To this young white fur monkey, Estio was a substitute for its lost mother. Like a young baby leaning on its mother, Neju was psychologically very dependent on Estio.
After reading that fact, Estio let out a breath he had been holding back.
"So, Neju is the best right now!"
"......"
This time, Estio was silent. Estio, who could not speak for a while and looked out of his window, slowly closed his eyes and muttered.
"......thank you."
Neju didn't reply anymore, apparently because he fell asleep right away.
Estio was lying on his back, deep in thought.
When I was locked up in an attic, it was a poor rural village, so there were no proper books and I had inherited an old dictionary from my brother. He learned and practiced the language by himself while reading the dictionary, but Estio did not understand all the words written there.
'I think I know one thing now.'
Estio rolled up a word with the tip of his tongue. Now this is-.
"'tie'......."
That night, I was able to sleep without shivering from the cold.
* * *
Estio got up and moved like dawn.
Unexpectedly, I woke up Neju, who had been sleeping a lot in the morning, and neatly arranged the dry clothes by the window.
When a phoenix-shaped badge proving that he belonged to the Ignis Guild was worn on his left chest, it became a plausible outfit. Overall, a neat black hooded robe, with a white pattern in the middle and a flaming fire bird on the chest, gave it a sophisticated feel.
In addition, the dark hair washed with soap and white skin contrasted together, and the dark blue eyes that were darkly sunken completed the overall cold impression.
It was a completely different image from the day before, when he wore rags.
As Estio came down to the office of the business support department on the second floor, Hawk approached him with surprised eyes.
"Hey, this is someone. Can't you recognize it? Haha, you look really good in guild clothes!"
"Oh my, the head of the talent branch, who are you? Newbie?"
As Hawke shivered from Busan, a female employee who had gone to work early and was organizing papers showed interest. Standing in her late twenties, she was a member of the budget team, with tall blonde hair, a shorter-than-average stature, and a slightly plump physique.
"Yeah, Rosalie. This is Estio, a guild member I've been working with since yesterday. I'm not a newcomer to the business support department because I'm a talented person. It's probably not from the magic experiment support department or the combat support department... You'll have to see it, but I think he's going to fall into the special support department."
"Huh? Didn't you just say you're a superpower? Why isn't it a battle or a magic experiment, it's special?"
Rosalie poked her head out of her desk drawer. Toward Estio, who was looking at the piles of papers scattered here and there, Hawk came with a glass jar full of candy canes.
"It's because this friend's Lee Neung is a bit unusual. Well, it's not decided yet, and I think we'll have to wait one more day to get an answer. Estio-kun, do you like candy?"
"......"
I've never tried it, so it's hard to say whether I like it or not. Hesitating, Estio put his hand into the glass bottle protruding in front of him and took out a candy.
It was a shiny blue candy.
"You know how to eat! Ordinary people don't know the taste, but in fact, the highest peak of candies is the 'wave taste'. I have eyes for people!"
Although he just picked up something, Hawk got excited and vomited about the 'wave-flavored' candy.
"That's why I purposely go around the store just to get 'wave flavor', but since no one is looking for it, they don't sell it separately. It's not bad either. But, after all, I think the 'wave flavor', which is tangy and refreshing, is the real candy! Aren't you?
"...It's a start again. Hey, Estio-kun? Don't worry about it. It's like that."
Rosalie shrugged and rummaged through the desk drawer again, as it was a scene often seen by Hawk, who prefers candy over any other favorite food.
Estio listened to Hawke silently while holding a blue candy cane, and then slowly put it in his mouth.
"Haha! I have a very good feeling. You must be our guild's fortune."
Estio's eyes, who tasted the candy, shook violently like the end of the earth.
The candy tasted very shocking. Estio, who remembered the definition of candy written in the dictionary and the praise that came in from Gwidongnyang, became as hard as a stone.
'...rather than taste, it hurts.'
What the candy delivered to his tongue was a kind of pain sensation. Even though he tried to hold back the hot, popping stuff in his mouth, a cough came out of his own accord.
He chuckled like a country boy learning to smoke for the first time, and Hawk gave a thumbs-up.
"Aren't you going to kill me?"
"...Collock."
"For now, I don't know which department to drop from the headquarters, so please help us with our work for a while."
After leaving those words, Hawk busily went to another desk and started doing his work. He used to ask for help, but the whole office was busy looking for work to do.
Estio stood stunned as if he had not been able to decide which area to go to and what to do to help.
It was Rosalie who called him, who was standing there like a flowerpot on one side of the office.
"Estio-kun."
"Yes?"
"Have you ever seen a black rubber band? I haven't been able to find it since before."
"I do not know."
"...I need this right now."
"okay."
Rosalie put her hand on her waist and sighed deeply in response to the answer that flowed from across the river.
"It means if you have nothing to do, go out and buy it."
"?"
"I'll give you a guild stamp, so let's go. You just have to stamp the receipt instead of money. It has to be a black rubber band, so check it carefully. Buying a set is enough. Oh! "
Estio came out of the building holding the guild seal on the ice.
"Black rubber bands and unicorn quills!"
Neju, who made eye contact, brightly arranged the list. Estio grabbed her seal in her robe pocket and moved on. Still unfamiliar with the city's geography, he didn't even know where the shops were.
Reluctantly, he went to the store one by one and started selling products.
"What, rubber bands and quills? Those things are in the general store. The general store is in the square."
"thank you."
The shop owner who steamed dumplings nearby answered his questions kindly. Since the Ignis Guild building was located in the square, it was not difficult to find a general store.
with daughter.
As I opened the door with the imperial flag and entered, the bell hanging on the door of the general store cried loudly. As if it were a general store, there were various kinds of miscellaneous goods on the shelves lined up in a row.
They ranged from cheap toys for children to all-purpose daggers, books for easy reading on the go, and insect repellent sprays.
Estio, who had been paying attention to the colorful lights emanating from the magic light bulbs, slowly approached him at the sound of rustling in the corner of the shelf.
A man who appeared to be a general store owner climbed up a ladder and was rummaging through boxes on top of high shelves.
"excuse me."
"No. Excuse me, I'm busy right now."
"......"
For a store owner, it was a blatant remark. Because he was busy, he couldn't keep asking for business, and he couldn't return after giving up on the errand the guild had ordered, so Estio stood quietly next to the ladder and waited for the owner to come down.
Whether he continues to wait or not, the general store owner groaned when he finally found what he was looking for as he searched the boxes on the shelves.
"Aww! There, there. I thought I'd be here! Yay!"
As she lifted her head buried in the box, long wavy pink hair was scattered everywhere. She was a general store owner and she was just a young woman about the age of Estio. Her thick horn-rimmed glasses that covered half of her face stood out.
The owner of the general store, who was doing a shoulder dance on the ladder in excitement while looking for the item he wanted, suddenly found Estio quietly looking up at him and stopped.
"Huh? Guest? Haven't you been there yet?"
"......"
She scratched her cheek as if embarrassed by her dark blue eyes staring blankly, found a white-haired monkey crouching next to Estio and swallowed her breath.
"Hey!"
"What?"
Neju blinked her red eyes and tilted her head. Then the general store owner screamed in anger.
"Hey, you're a monster!"
"......"
"Kyaah, ah?"
Surprised by herself, she struggled on the ladder, then lost her balance and stumbled. The wind slipped the object she could find slipped from her hand and fell to the floor of her.
The general store owner flapped his arms like a baby bird with a broken wing and fell backwards from the ladder.
"Mom!"
Kudang Tang.
The ladder made a loud noise and fell to the floor. Estio hurriedly supported the back of the general store owner, who had his eyes closed with a foreboding of a fall. His pink hair fell like waves on him.
Fortunately, Neju grabbed Estio, who was about to get hurt together, from behind, so it didn't become a major accident.
After spending ten years, she gave thanks while holding Estio in her arms.
"Go, thank you..."
"Not a monster."
"Eh?"
"It's 'Neju'."
As the cool, dark blue eyes turned towards him, the general store owner's face heated up. I could feel the coldness of ice in the snow as thick as the deep sea. She helped, but at Estio's expression, apparently displeased, she hesitated away from him and bowed her head.
"I'm sorry! I'm a little afraid of animals. It was a guest's pet. Ki, were you in a bad mood?"
"It's not a pet, it's 'Neju'. Please call me properly."
The general store owner still glanced at Neju with fearful eyes. It was reassuring to see a chain tied around her neck, but she was still scared. She was even more so after seeing the gleaming white fangs exposed when Neju smiled brightly.
"I'm sorry. Umm, that... I think your friend's name is Neju. I'm Sally."
"Give me a set of black rubber bands and a unicorn quill."
"Yes."
Sally scratched her head sullenly and walked over to the shelf next to her. As she searched for her rubber band and her quill, Estio turned her gaze to the round object rolling on her floor.
It was an item that Sally said she had found on the top of a shelf earlier, and dropped it because she liked it.
'Crystal Ball?'
