The malicious rumors about Leverticia spread by the nobles continued to inflate.
“Is the rumor really true? In fact, it means that you have teamed up with a warlock.”
“Hey, I honestly can’t believe it. All of the newsletters didn’t give any solid evidence, they were just talking about floating clouds.”
“Still, there are some stories that fit together.”
Because she did not leave the mansion on the pretext of injury, there was no great action to cover up the rumor, so malicious rumors gradually spread.
Just as the rumors started to snowball like that, the day of the peace festival arrived.
“Are you going to keep pretending not to know? Get it straight, Patrick.”
“Oh, I’m doing it! Why have you been coming since dawn?”
Leverticia followed up to the stable where Patrick was working and meddled around.
Even if you say you don’t want to do it without knowing the subject, you say,
‘I want to pay off the debt, or I want to be punished.’
It has been her little pleasure recently to watch Patrick doing a job that contorted his face in front of the extreme option of doing something.
“If you get rid of all of that, you’ll also get rid of the trash can. I can’t stay here because of the smell.”
“What? I mean, it was cleaned up yesterday! Why again?”
“If you were cheap yesterday, aren’t you cheap today? Don’t talk too much, go and clean it up quickly.”
“Ugh.”
Leverticia was already a player who longed for a long knightly life.
Patrick, a weak person who played and ate and gambled with the money he received throughout his life, was not a match he could face.
After waking up early in the morning and excitedly looking for Patrick, Leverticia turned back with a satisfied smile.
“Oh. Today is Peace Day, so you can leave work until morning.”
“I, really!?”
“okay. It’s only one day a year, so it was generous.”
At Leverticia’s words, Patrick hurrahed inwardly. Even so, people are all excited with the spirit of the festival, but it was a moment of depression because only he had to clean up horse dung here.
Seeing Patrick happy, Leverticia shook her head as if pathetic. In fact, there was another reason for releasing Patrick.
It was because of a plan she had with Kaius not long ago.
‘Recently, I got a call from the surveillance posted around Patrick. It seems that some people who appear to be warlocks have been hovering around it for a while now. I think the time has come.’
‘Okay. Well, if you free Patrick today, he’ll go to the festival. Then, taking advantage of the crowd, the warlocks will catch him.’
‘But is that child so important to the warlocks?’
‘Patrick’s father, Baron Wilfred, was wiped out with annihilation bullets. Besides, I’ve realized that I know quite a bit of information about myself, so I’m going to try to keep it with me first. It’s useless after that, so I don’t
know if I kill him again.’
‘ah. So this is the role of that guy being kidnapped as a bait instead of us, right?’
Patrick, unaware of their real plans, was hesitant to finish work early and go to the festival.
Seeing his stupid expression on his face, Leverticia shook her head and returned to her room.
“Where have you been?”
When I returned to the room, Kaius had just woken up and was sitting crookedly on the sofa waiting for her. He grumbled as he stared at her with slender eyes.
“Are you going to meet another man from dawn? If you can’t see me, I’m worried.”
“Ah really. Stop worrying about that. I’m going to put a tick on my ear.”
“why? Are you still worried about it?”
Kaius teased her with a playful voice.
She had been being teased by him for several days for the one wrong teasing that day. Leverticia said, throwing the pillow next to him at him.
“I am not a childish child.”
“Because I’m still a kid. I am younger than you.”
“Then sleep more like a child, why are you waking up so early today? swearing.”
“Don’t you know that children usually fall asleep and wake up early on festival days?”
Having said that, he got up and took her hand.
“great. As soon as the words come out, I will return to my childish mind.”
“what. What are you doing?”
“Let’s go out. Forget about everything and enjoy the festival.”
“At this time? Do you know that you just came up, do you?”
“After all, on the evening when the festival starts properly, we can’t play because we are working. Let’s take a look for a moment now. There will be few people, so you won’t know if you go out without tying it up tight? Absolutely good.”
Kyus chuckled as if he had become a really young child, handed her a hooded cloak, and held out her hand.
Leverticia was suddenly led outside by him.
***
When I came out, the street was lined with stalls preparing to start business. From stores that are just cleaning up ingredients to stores that are cleaning. It was early in the morning, but it was lively.
But, of course, no place was ready to open the door and welcome guests.
“Look at this. I have nowhere to go anyway.”
“Isn’t it fun just to watch? It’s like going out for a morning walk.”
Leverticia grunted with a clenched tongue, but to be honest, as Kaius said, it was quite fun. From watching the lively faces of the people to the occasional lively laughter.
‘… Why did you have to hold a festival at such a time? It sure looks like it’s necessary.’
It was at the moment when Leverticia was about to feel better as the bright energy she felt after a while.
“There are two!”
At a store preparing to open, Kaius and Leverticia were called.
They were the only people passing by on the street, so there was no room for misunderstanding.
‘what?’
‘I don’t know.’
The two exchanged eye-to-eye conversations. And after putting on the hood, I approached the store that called them with a little nervousness.
Then the woman who seemed to be the owner held out two small wooden cups and said:
“Aww. It’s fine. Can you tell me which of these two drinks is better? One is a mixture of fruit and milk, and the other is pure fruit juice. I don’t know which one is better.”
“ah… Yes. I will drink.”
The two of them relaxed their tension to the fullest at a request that was less important than expected.
“I think it’s better to mix it with milk.”
“okay?”
The owner, who heard Leverticia’s answer, turned his head this time and looked at Kaius.
“It’s the same idea.”
“Oh, I haven’t even drank properly yet… Ah, I see.”
The owner closed his eyes involuntarily and smiled, looking at Leverticia and Kaius alternately.
“Are you saying everything your wife said is right? Well then. I have a true husband.”
“Puff.”
Rebertisha was not drinking fruit milk, but she was coughing and coughing. “Cool, no, how did you know we were a couple?”
“At the dawn of this morning, the rowing boats come from afar, just the two of us coming together. And the husband never took his eyes off his wife.
Her voice is just sweet….”
“Hmmm. Count, count, I’ll do it.”
Even Kaius blushed at the owner’s direct speech and stuttered. The owner smiled and waved his hand.
“Nope. I just gave you some for tasting, what? Is it a festival today? I’ll make more in the evening, so if you’re thirsty, you can come and buy it and eat it.”
“ah… Yes. I know.”
“No, sell a lot.”
After receiving many attacks (?) in a short time, the two ran away from the store.
However, it was not only the store that caught them.
“Those who pass by there! Would flowers or feathers look good on our signboard?”
“A flower decoration.”
“feather… Floral decorations.”
“Can we take a look too? I’m debating over two store names, which is better, ‘a bakery made with my great brachii muscle’ or ‘a bakery that serves my great commute’?”
“I want both.”
“Ugh.”
Perhaps because it was early in the morning, there were no people, and whenever the store owners had any questions about the intentions of the customers, they grabbed the two of them and asked them.
Thanks to this, I was able to enjoy it a little more than I expected, even though it was still early.
“Did you have a good time coming out?”
“Well… That’s right.”
After enjoying it so much, it was time to go back. From the afternoon onwards, each of them had a security mission related to the peace festival, so they couldn’t stay out for long.
It was when they turned away from an alley to return.
“This child! How dare you invade our territory?”
A loud noise was heard from inside the alley. Leverticia and Kaius both paused at the same time, and headed towards the source of the sound.
Then I saw a child being bullied while surrounded by people in the back alley.
“This is our district! I told you to go somewhere else!”
“….”
“But is this ignoring what we said earlier?”
One of the men in the group groaned and raised his hand as if to use violence.
That was then. just-
“Ouch! what! Who dared throw stones at me!” just-just-
“Ugh! Me, me too!”
“Ouch! me too! What, it’s not even a big rock, but it hurts! Who is it!”
“It’s not even a big rock, but it hurts if you hit it. But you are trying to hit a child with fists that are several dozen times bigger than that.”
Leverticia said to them, fiddling with the small stones in her hand.
“If it’s because you don’t know how painful it is, I can specially replace it with a stone the size of your fist and throw it away.”
“Ugh… uh, what….”
“No. The one you were trying to hit was a child smaller than you. So you should be hit with a stone bigger than your fist, right?”
Leverticia said, lifting a large boulder on one side of the alley lightly with one hand.
At the ignorant and frightening sight, the people gasped and breathed in, and they turned around and ran away.
After everyone was gone, Leverticia threw a rock in the distance and ran over to the boy, wiping her hands.
“Are you okay?”
The boy, who had been crouching with his face down, realized that the people had disappeared and slowly lifted his head.
The child I saw up close was a girl with light blonde hair and about ten years of age.
“Do, thank you for your help-”
It was time for the girl to get up, brushing her dirty skirt. The girl who saw the two men’s faces froze.
“Are there any injuries? Why were you in this alley?”
It was just that moment when Kaius was about to approach the child to take a closer look.
“I’m fine, I’m fine! Do not worry!”
The girl slowly retreated as if taking a step back. Then he nodded and started to run away into the alley.
“there-!”
“Kai, wait a minute.”
Leverticia grabbed his shoulder and pulled him up. She had a somewhat long expression on her face.
“Why, Letty?”
“no. somehow a little I feel bad.”
“What? From that girl?”
“No, not from that kid… It just feels right.”
It was a strange feeling that cannot be described in words.
The two watched the child moving away from the alley, then quietly turned around.
