Chapter 535 – Everyday Life in a Tavern and Her Affairs

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It’s been an hour since Herti’s group came and started drinking.

After that, when other regular customers come and the store becomes noisy, Cleon’s job is to clean the cup after pouring the alcohol on the tray.

And Illenu put the trays in and brought them to the table.

The elderly customers were happy to see Cleon and Illenu working together, saying that it was as if a young couple had set up a shop, but Cleon and Illenu couldn’t help but laugh at those words, and their hearts were tight.

The reason for this was the silver dagger suspended in the air, like a magician’s performance.

If a regular customer sees this dagger, and explains the situation, ‘There is a vampire in it. There is no harm, so please be at ease.”

Besides, this is the Eastern country, a place where magic is not common.

Because of themselves as outsiders, they had to stop the locals from becoming anxious.

“Sister! Get some more beans here!”

“Yes!”

And, orders without mercy from guests who do not know the circumstances of the two people arrive.

As expected, to enjoy alcohol, there must be ‘solids’, that is, snacks.

I can’t cook, but if it’s about food that can be sent out on the spot, I can respond by serving what Lionel has prepared in advance.

Illenu stood as close to the dagger as possible and hid it without stepping out of the way, but she had no choice but to fall when the order came in and the item was carried.

At that time, Cleon, on the other hand, came out near the counter seats and wiped the chairs and tables at the counter, hiding the dagger from people’s eyes.

After going back and forth between the table and the counter for a long time, Illenu let out a sigh while leaning back against the counter seat as if exhausted.

“Haha…”

“…Illenu. Calm down.”

Cleon also had a hard expression on his face her, but he filled a water cup and placed it next to Illenu.

Listening to Cleon’s words, Illenu picked up a glass of water and looked at Cleon with an apologetic expression.

“Cleon… I’m sorry. It’s because of me.”

At Illenus apology, Cleon only shrugged his shoulders.

“Haha. Well, if you’re this busy, you won’t have any other thoughts or distractions, so it’s just perfect.”

“…A workaholic.”

Listening to Cleon’s words, Illenu secretly looked at the dagger Cleon had gently draped a towel over her.

“…Should I rather talk to Mr. Lionel and consult with him…?”

Illenu, who thought that she couldn’t make Cleon suffer any more with her own mistake, was about to say that. Just then, Lionel walked from the table and walked towards the two of them.

“Cleon!”

Then, with a glass in his hand, he looked at Cleon and called him.

“What’s going on? Is it a spell?”

Looking at him while saying that, his face is red as if he’s already been quite drunk, and the smell of alcohol stings his nose just by coming close.

Even if he is a mercenary who has been trained in a hundred battles, is he not able to win at his age?

Even considering the amount of alcohol carried to the table, Lionel’s intoxication was quite rapid.

It was only because of it, even if they came close, the dagger floating in the air was not visible due to the blurry vision.

“It’s not an order! Come over here!”

“…But right now I’m working…”

“It’s okay! Uh-hee! Stop ordering for a second! The manager will train the clerks!”

Lionel says so to the customers gathered in his store.

The guests laughed at Lionel’s words and focused on seeing the group surrounding each other’s table, but Cleon approached the table with Herti and Calia as if being dragged by Lionel.

When they arrived at the table, Calia, who was already sitting next to Herti, was drunk and stretched out on her table.

“Calia… Are you okay?”

“Ehhhhh”

When she unconsciously reacted to hearing her own name her, Calia tossed and turned her body her while uttering a cute voice that she couldn’t normally imagine.

And, Herti, the owner next to her, was emptying her glass in the same manner as usual.

Considering the alcohol, the fact that her face didn’t look red at all was because of her mood her.

“Calia’s fine. She always gets stretched out on three beers.”

“Three glasses of beer!?”

No matter how weak he is, Cleon looks at Calia who is lying face down while thinking the same thing.

“Herti doesn’t look drunk at all.”

“Huh, that’s right. I’m not drunk~”

She speaks proudly as she makes her V her with one hand.

At first, Cleon thought her story was a joke, but when he saw that Lionel didn’t tackle him, he showed a surprised expression at Hertie.

“I drank with my father when I was old enough to drink for the first time. You’ll be going out to a lot of drinking parties in the future, but before that, it’s better to know exactly how much alcohol you can drink. But that day, my father He got drunk first and fell asleep…”

Herti recalls her past her as she puts her hand on her cheek as if she misses that time.

“Somehow, this guy is small, but he drank alcohol well. Where does all that alcohol go?

Lionel looks at Hertie while snoring as if she does n’t care what her stepdaughter says about her dark history her.

Then she opened her mouth as if remembering something.

“Come to think of it, there are only three races in this land that are naturally strong against alcohol… Did you know?”

At Lionel’s sudden riddle, Cleon fell silent for a moment.

“…First of all, dwarfs. The fact that they were Zu-ho is so famous.”

“Yes, that’s right. It’s said that dwarfs drank whole alcohol that was so strong that a human would have a hole in their stomach. Besides, brewing is also excellent, so many drinkers.”

Lionel says so, and he pours a drink into his cup his and hands it to Cleon.

“…I’m at work, are you okay?”

“At my store, the owner is giving the clerk a drink. What’s wrong? Or, is this the man who gets drunk?”

Cleon shut his mouth for a moment at Lionel’s words, then he took it and swallowed it at once.

And, the hot sensation felt along with the bitter taste going down the throat of her.

He could tell that he was drinking a fairly strong drink.

If you’ve been drinking like this, it’s understandable enough to get drunk so quickly.

Of course-

“…”

Considering that the guy who was poured into Herti’s glass was the same drink, it was strange that Herti wasn’t drunk.

“Now. What about the second?”

And to Cleon who was thinking about such a thing, Lionel urged him to ask.

When drunk, Cleon replies, even though he thinks he’s quite a nuisance.

“…The giants. In the past, the legend that the king of the giants drank Western medicine alone near the lake is famous.”

“Oh, that’s the correct answer. Well, it’s because the giants are simply tall. Even so, if it’s a lake, it’s close to drinking all the alcohol in a wooden barrel by yourself.”

While Lionel says that, he pours another cup and passes it to Cleon, who answers while looking at the cup.

“I got it right, but isn’t it strange to drink? Isn’t it usually the opposite?”

Cleon tackles him like that, but Lionel just silently looks at him.

Then, while sighing at Lionel’s attitude his, Cleon accepts and drinks the alcohol he handed over.

After receiving two full glasses of strong liquor in such a short period of time, even Cleon could feel his stomach warming up.

“Cleon…? Aren’t you drinking too much?”

And when Ille, who was watching her, called her Cleon, as if worried, Cleon turned her head toward her and shook her head as if it was okay.

“It’s okay.”

“Now, then, this is the end. The race that drinks the best on the continent. Indeed, who are you!”

Lionel talked to Cleon as if he wanted him to continue answering the quiz, and he was already pouring himself a drink.

He acted as if he was confident that Cleon would be able to answer, but—

‘… No. Is it just that he has no self-control because he is drunk?’

Cleon stopped pointing it out and shook his head as if it was an idle thought.

“…The last one is-“

And, for a moment, Cleon was about to say that answer.

Udangtang Kungtang! When the sound of something collapsing loudly echoes from the clerk’s locker room, everyone’s eyes are drawn to it.

If Illenu hadn’t quickly got up and covered the dagger, there was a risk of being discovered.

“Did you see something fell over?”

Haha. Without the owner, accidents happen as expected.”

Sequel words of drunkards, but when Cleon and Illenu are also sweating, Cleon stands up on the spot.

“I’ll go and see. Maybe, I may have made a mistake earlier.”

Lionel sniffs and sniffs while drinking the brew himself.

And when Cleon takes a deep breath and walks slowly to the locker room and opens the door-

There, she saw Pamela lying on the ground with her black cloak draped underneath.

“…”

Seeing this, Cleon had a stiff expression, and she quickly went inside and closed the door.

After the door slammed shut, Cleon sighed and raised the fallen Pamela back up.

“…What are you doing?”

“S-I’m sorry…Ueeng…”

Looking at her again with her blood dripping from her nose as she vocalizes her whining, Cleon scratches her head.

“If you stand there, you will fall, so sit on a chair.”

“Oh, no. I was sitting on a chair, but I was hungry so I accidentally lay down on my side…”

How stupid he is, this vampire.

“That’s right. You said that you haven’t been able to drink blood since waking up. But, if you drink human blood, won’t you regain her power and attack humans?”

“That, it can’t be…! This, humans and we have a cooperative relationship… We are a family that lived by receiving animal blood instead of protecting the territory. Human blood is unbelievable…”

Ugh… Pamela shook her head in disapproval.

However, Cleon rather looked shocked as if he could n’t believe her words of her.

“Vampires who don’t drink human blood and cooperate with humans…? Are there really such vampires?”

“Yes, yes… At least in my family. It was quite rural, and I didn’t know what other vampires were like. So, I never drank human blood either.”

Pamela says so with her drooping shoulders, as if she’s weak from her hunger.

To her, Cleon holds out her own handkerchief as if to wipe her nosebleed.

“Ah, thank you… Awesome…”

“No, I didn’t mean to blow your nose…”

Well, maybe it’s okay… Cleon shook her head with a tired face.

But anyway, I could see why she had no hostility towards humans, and why she hadn’t vamped anyone when she came this far.

Apparently, the period of activity was different from the vampires Cleon knew.

Come to think of it, did she say that she was asleep and woke up?

“…How old are you?”

That is why she asks such a question in order to calculate a little bit of the time from when she fell asleep until now.

However, Cleon’s question was fundamentally wrong.

Because the vampires couldn’t have known the time it took for them to wake up after falling asleep for a long time.

In general, because they don’t age when they’re asleep.

“…15 years old.”

“─────”
And, at the words that came out of her mouth, Cleon shut her mouth.

No, she had no choice but to keep her mouth shut.

No matter how you look at it, she is a mature-looking woman in her mid-20s, maybe even into her late 20s.

She thought she was somewhere, she was stupid in her behavior, she was like a child.

“… She’s 15 with that look…?”

Cleon puts what he felt into her mouth her, and then the vampire turns into a crying face again and talks.

“Uh, I couldn’t help it. While I was asleep, there was a small gap in my coffin, and the seal of time was weak… That’s why I aged very, very slowly and became like this. When I opened my eyes, the It was difficult because the dress was stretched and torn…”

So, she puts on her mother’s clothes on her, but she’s shy, so she’s wearing black curtains…

“Curtain…”

Wasn’t that a cloak? Cleon sighs as she thinks the same.

“In that case. Wait a little bit until business closes. Animal blood… I’ll get it for you. If not, maybe something else? This is a teahouse, so there are at least tea snacks.”

“Tea snacks!”

At Cleon’s words her, Pamela shoved her face towards Cleon, her eyes twinkling.

She is a lady on the outside, but a girl on the inside. In her eyes her, Cleon’s hair seemed to be about to go bad.

“Yeah, then, just wait a little bit. I’ll bring it right away.”

Saying that, Cleon gets up from his seat her.

“Go, thanks! Mister!”

“…”

Cleon stumbled and almost fell at the word uncle.

“…It’s Cleon.”

“Ah, yes! Uncle Cleon!”

Vampires sting twice.

Thinking the same thing, Cleon, who came out of the locker room with internal injuries, saw Lionel lying face down on the table while he was inside.

“What, are you asleep?”

“Yes. As soon as Cleon enters.”

While saying that, Illenu looked at the watch with her hands on his hips.

There are still some business hours left, but it must be necessary to somehow send Herti, who is free, home.

However, since there were still customers, he naturally shook his head horizontally if he wondered if he could handle all these customers by himself.

Well then.

Customers who had been drinking also got up one by one and approached the checkout counter.

“Illenu, calculate~”

“Oh. Are you leaving already?”

“Yeah, it’s because Mr. Lionel has collapsed. If we are here, it will be difficult to pick up Mr. Lionel or Mr. Hertie. The old ladies should get out of here on their own.”

As they clucked and put the money on the counter seat and left the door, Illenu stared blankly at them, then bowed down to see them off.

“Go, thank you!”

And, while watching it, Cleon also moves closer to Hertie.

“Herti, Mr. Lionel also stretched out. Calia seems to have difficulty walking… I’ll see you off to the upper house.”

“Oh… Is that so? Thank you.”

Before that, Cleon thought that he needed to give him the refreshments he had promised with Pamela, so he glanced towards the locker room.

“Whoops. They say they’re escorting you, so I’d like to get one… But I’m sorry. I stopped a wagon cart near the store today. You just need to move it there. When you arrive, other employees of the shop will help you.”

“I see. That’s fortunate.”

Cleon nodded his head and, first of all, lifted the fallen Lionel up as if helping him.

It was a considerable weight for a large man and unconscious, but he was able to lift it so that his feet he could not touch the floor.

Seeing that, Illenu also approached her Calia and lifted her up.

And the three of them walked cautiously out of the store to head for the carriage.

“Actually, before I came here today, I talked about my father and Cleon.”

“…Me?”

“Yes. My father seems to think of many things about what kind of person Cleon is.”

“I’m under suspicion… Are you saying?”

Cleon doesn’t feel that way, so he talks while looking at Lionel.

“No. Rather than that… Whoops. Should I say, “Can you get along with me?”

“…Hertiwa?”

When Herti looked back at her questioning her words, she covered her mouth and smiled.

“Father knows very well that I have favor with you.”

“──…”

Cleon forgets what to say while listening to Hertty, but Illenu clears his throat beside him.

“Hey, hey. For now, I’m listening too.’

“Oh, I’m sorry. But it’s okay. Touhou is polygamous.”

“I’m not talking about that! … Who’s this guy’s wife!”

Illenu corrected the tackle girl part as if she had made a mistake.

“So. Today, in many ways, I think you wanted to see Cleon’s human side of her as well.”

“Is that why you made it work like this…”

“I’m sorry for acting like a test.”

Hertie bows her head, but Cleon replies briefly, “No.”

“…Because I owe it. If I can be trusted, I’ll just do my best.”

“Whoops. That’s reliable. Then, someday, please answer the ‘favor’ I said.”

“… Okay.”

After Cleon answers, he puts the three of them on the wagon.

“Whew.”

The doors of the wagon with everyone in it closed automatically, and Herti waved his hand her from the other side.

Then, an illusion in the form of a magical horse appears and starts moving the carriage.

Watching the back of the carriage going away, Cleon and Illenu stood there for a while before returning to the shop.

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“Drink…!”

There must be no more customers, Pamela proudly comes out of the locker room and puts a snack in her mouth.

She had explained things about her to Illenu as well, so Illenu nodded her head saying that she knew for now.

Oh, and the dagger that had been suspended in the air was also somehow managed to be retrieved.

While washing the dishes, Cleon opened his mouth.

“Eat slowly. When you’re done with this, I’ll go get some blood.”

“Swimming!”

… Did you just say ‘yes’?

“…That’s 15 in this form…”

Illenu drank bottled water in succession while talking with a somewhat complicated state of mind.

“Something feels strange.”

“Because he’s like that… Besides, it doesn’t sound like he’s lying.”

Cleon said that as if to protect Pamela, and Illenu narrowed his eyes when he heard it.

“Aren’t you too trusting?”

“But… That doesn’t mean there’s no way to see through the lies.”

As Cleon spoke, he turned the cup he was holding in his hand her.

“…I didn’t know. It’s the first time I’ve ever done something like this… I’ll have to think about it.”

And while saying that, Illenu stood up from the counter seat.

“Where?”

“Restroom.”

Could it be because I drank too much water?

Cleon watches her back as she truds away, but she turns her gaze to the watch.

‘In the next two hours… Will more customers come?’

Thinking so, Cleon was a little careless.

“Ah.”

Then, she sees Pamela drop her cookie and gets up from her seat her, uttering her voice-

Slamming her thigh against the counter seat, snagging her leg on her chair-

“Ugh. Again!?”

She fell forward again as if toppling over.

Courage! Pamela slams her face first into the floor, making a groan.

“… Uh, uh… Are you okay?”

Cleon comes out of her kitchen as if she’s worried about her, and when she gets close to her, she tries to get her up-

Even Cleon, her foot slipped on her long cloak her and knocked her buttock in place.

“I’m sorry…”

While thinking that it’s a relief that Elena is n’t here, she looked at Pamela, who had her face buried in the floor between her legs her, and tried to raise her body her for a moment.

“Excuse me.”

The door opened with a jingle, and a guest came to visit.

“Wow, no one is there.”

“…It would be nice if it was quiet.”

What came to visit were three guests.

However, they were dressed differently than usual.

Instead of black blankets and hats, they are dressed in clothes that look somewhat free.

They have a band tied around their head, but you can tell that the horns are hidden by the slightly protruding part of it…

“Ah, my child…?”

“…”

Everywhere you looked, it was a woman in her thirties and three sisters of anti-gwidae watching Cleon entangled on the floor.