Chapter 256 – The Road to the Present.

The lizards’ fight ended with lizard number 19 winning. As a reward, the raw meat hanging from the top fell to the floor, but the lizard continued to bite the opponent as if not realizing it. In the end, the lizard returned to the cage only after those who seemed to be zookeepers pressed it with a split-end stick and walked with a hooked rod to subdue it.

“Kyaa, it’s fierce no matter how you look at it.”
“The guy I see every day makes a fuss.”
“I thought I would too. I don’t have time to look at it because I’m managing it.”

After the game, as they looked around the arena where people’s voices had died down, they looked at the clock and realized it was evening.

“So I’m going to go home to Thaddaeo, what are you going to do?”
“Uh, uh? Wait! Why are you in my house?”

Thaddaeo, lost in his thoughts at Krikaliev’s words, came to his senses, but he clicked his tongue.

“You should have left the self-supporting power generator as it is, but you didn’t bother dividing it into several and wasting time.”
“You have a house too… Ha, that’s okay. Let me sleep for you.”

Then Lucas stroked my chin and seemed to be thinking about it.

“That’s good! I think Thaddeo decided to shoot. Let’s have a drink together for the first time in a while!”
“Hey, when will I!”
“Have you forgotten about the bet you just made? Or are you pretending not to know?”
“Turn it off.”

Thaddeus was forced to invite them to his home.

“But what about you? Don’t you still have some matches left?”
“I just need to wrap things up, so go ahead and buy some drinks and snacks. I’ll follow you later.”

Lucas went back to finish his work, and Krikaliev and Thaddeo approached Usher and Erica, who were still facing each other.

“Hey, kids. Let’s go somewhere else to date.”
“Oops, who is that?!”

Usher realized what they were like now when he heard Krikaliev’s voice touching him. Erica was sitting on his lap, facing him, covering his ears. Feeling her face heat up, I pushed her away and stood up.

“Ooh, did Usher play with me?”
“My, when will I!”
“Hee hee, just before?”
“You just covered your ears!”

As soon as the opportunity arose, Usher followed Krikaliev, shouting for no reason, as if he had been harmed by the girl making fun of him.

“What’s wrong with you again?! To me…!”
“Draw it, I understand, so let’s go rest today.”

Despite his protests, Krikaliev only grinned and scratched his head. After walking out of the arena like that, we arrived at a shabby house.

“What are you doing here?”

It’s a house that doesn’t look very comfortable to be a place to rest. The roof, which looked like a winding board, was full of stains that I couldn’t tell if it was mold or moss, and the walls were cracked here and there, and there were holes like windows in broken places, so it seemed like it would collapse at any moment.

“It’s a brewery. They sell alcohol here.”

I wanted to know how to make alcohol in a place like this, but I couldn’t see how it was made. When I ordered about 10 bottles of alcohol outside, the owner of the brewery inside brought out 10 bottles of alcohol in a glass bottle. But he gave me two more bottles that they didn’t even order. The glass jar was filled with what looked like blown grains. Krikaliev admired him as he looked at him suspiciously, wondering if he had given him something strange.

“Oh, sake lees. It’s been a while.”
“Sake lees?”
“It’s like the leftovers from making alcohol. It’s quite savory, so it’s worth eating.”

With 12 bottles of sake lees, they stopped at another house.

“Ugh, is it a lizard again?”

There was a place where small lizards were caught and dried in rows. Usher was fed up with the fact that they were willing to buy it even if he looked at it. I didn’t want to see the small lizards peeled and dried even more in a situation where I had just seen the big lizards fighting.

“Don’t worry, I bought beef jerky and some dried fruit for you guys to eat.”

Having bought all the drinks and snacks, they finally arrived at what appeared to be Thaddaeo’s house. It was the first time I had ever seen his house, which was entirely white and square, with glass windows occupying most of the walls.

“Huh, I’ve been wanting to live in a place like this for a long time, and in the end I succeeded.”
“I struggled to get here.”

It seems that his house was quite rare even here. As Usher was looking around the unfamiliar house, he suddenly felt his eyes on him, and when he turned around, he could see that Thaddaeo was looking this way. Rather, he realized he was looking at Erica, and when he saw her, her girl was also curiously checking her house. Usher frowned at the strange feeling. An unpleasant sensation that seems to have been felt somewhere before. Feeling anxious because of this, he squeezed Erica’s hand that was holding his own.

“Huh? Usher?”

Then Usher realized his actions and was taken aback by the gray light that looked at him curiously.

“Oh, uh, so.”
“What tongue doesn’t go in?”

Fortunately, before making any excuses, Thaddeo opened the gate and Krikaliev looked at them incredulously as they refused to enter even though the door was open. Then Erica looked at Thaddeo with a smile as if she didn’t know anything.

“Can I take a look at the house?”
“Huh? That, yes.”
“Hehe, let’s take a quick look!”

Regardless of his bewildered answer, the girl led Usher along. So Usher and Erica started walking around the house, while Krikaliev and Thaddaeo sat down at the table in the living room and laid out drinks and snacks.

“It’s a little bit different here, too.”
“Because nothing really doesn’t change.”

Krikaliev quietly watched Thaddaeo, who answered his words helplessly, and then poured a drink into his glass.

“That’s right. I told you before. The sunset is turning red.”
“Ha, please, Yakaf. It’s not like that!”

Thaddaeo was irritated by his careless remark.

“The sky has always been like that! We’re the only ones that have changed.”
“Do you really think so?”

Krikaliev looked at him calmly and asked, but that seemed to irritate Thaddeo more.

“What the hell is the problem?! What the hell is the problem? I’m only thinking about going up!”
“You already told me before.”
“Because of the guys who are only banished downstairs?”
“Not just that. How many more children do we have to drive underground just for the sake of a prosperous life here?”

Eventually Thaddeo closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair, tilting his head back.

“I really didn’t want to believe it. You, could it be that she still hasn’t forgotten her?”

No answer came back from Krikaliev, but he knew it was nothing short of affirmative. In the past, they shared a drink and had the same conversation.

“They say that the ground isn’t such a nice place to live!? What about the kids you took?! What happened to them?”

He wasn’t the only one who even went up to the ground. Because Krikaliev had disciples who taught him even going down to the barren underground.

“They seemed to be living their own way.”
“Has he made you like that?”

That’s why Thaddaeo couldn’t understand him all the more.

“The guys downstairs are all the same! Like that woman and those guys, they just used you in a nice way! What’s the point of saving the ungrateful guys?!”

But he couldn’t speak any more.

“Excuse me?”

Because it was the voice of a girl. When they looked away, they saw Erika, who had poked her head out from the stairs leading to the second floor, looking at them.

“Eh, Erica? Was it loud by any chance?”
“Ugh.”

At Ta Daeo’s perplexed question, she shook her head and asked.

“Is the room upstairs my room?”
“Yes, yes. You can use it as much as you like there.”

As he replied with a nod of her head, Erica came over to their table.

“Hehe, then I’m hanging out with Usher?”

Then, seeing the girl smiling brightly and taking a paper bag with dried fruit and a bottle of sake lees along with beef jerky, Thaddeo only looked at her back in dejection. Krikaliev looked at him and shrugged.

“Didn’t that little girl live downstairs as you said?”
“That…”

Thaddaeo tried to say something, but eventually kept his mouth shut.

“Because you agree with me to some extent. Didn’t you say you would support the kids downstairs?”
“…It was.”
“I have no intention of forcing people who have been living well here to live on the surface.”

That’s why he only gathered those who wanted to go up to the ground like himself and went up.

“But. How long do you think this place will last forever?”

The sunset reflected in the window was dyed redder than ever before.

“Hey! I came out! You weren’t drunk first, right? These guys!”

Their conversation ended when Lucas entered the house.

“…Strange.”

Usher frowned and looked around the room. He found this room while he was wandering around the house being led by Erica. She wondered if she could roam freely, but permission had already been granted, and Erica was busy scanning the place with her curious gray light, so she had no time to dissuade her. Then, when she found the second floor and went up, the room she opened was right there. Seeing this place, the girl didn’t think it was a big deal and went down to get something to eat and play here, but Usher felt something strange about the things here.

“Isn’t it all girl stuff?”

After all, everything in this room was something a woman could use. Aside from the slightly fancy bed, the dressing table with a mirror was something I had only seen in Mediah’s room. You could have thought it was for a different purpose, but how can you explain the cosmetics and hairbrushes that look expensive even if they are there? Usher couldn’t help but open the big chest of drawers, knowing that he would be rude to the owner. Then, sure enough, there were skirts, dresses, shorts and shirts. Even if you pretend, it wasn’t a man’s thing.

“Does he have a daughter?”

It was mainly because it was a dress with a body line that fit well for a woman of the same age as Erica. Above all, the pair of top and bottom underwear proved that. I thought maybe there could be a woman in the guest family, but I don’t know why I felt this strange. It was while Usher was looking intently into the chest of drawers.

“What are you doing?”
“Whoa?!”

The girl’s head was thrust into his side. He stomped her buttock in surprise and looked to her side. Erica, who had returned before she knew it, bent her knees and she was standing next to him. Seeing her, Usher realized what he was doing and hurriedly pushed back the drawer.

“Does Usher like underwear like that?”
“Oh no! I was just looking for something out of curiosity!”

As expected, Erica looked at him with a smile as if she had already looked inside the chest of drawers.

“Um, is that so?”

Fortunately, the girl seemed to trust me.

“Then let’s eat this first!”

She immediately put down the paper bag and bottle she had been carrying in her hands.

“Wait a minute, isn’t this sake lees?”
“Yeah! It looks delicious!”

Usher wondered if he could bring something like that for that reason, but Usher was equally curious about the taste, so she opened the bottle of sake lees.

“Ugh, the smell of alcohol!”

Usher took her nose at the pungent smell of alcohol, in case it was left over from making alcohol. It wasn’t that she disliked drinking, but she was still covering her nose, thinking it was an unpleasant smell to put in her mouth, so Erica looked at the bottle with her curious face and put it in her hand I tilted it slightly and ate it as it was, except for the contents.

“Yum!”
“Hey, that still looks like alcohol!”

Her girl mumbled as Usher watched her to see if anything was going to happen, and soon her bright face opened her mouth.

“Delicious!”
“Huh? Really?”

He looked into the bottle once more, but he saw nothing but blown-out grain. No matter how you look at it, it didn’t look very appetizing, so he thought Erica was trying to make fun of him again.

“Huh, how about this?”

Then the girl laughed and took out her sake lees lightly and put it on her own tongue. Usher sighed, recalling that she had used it when she was downstairs.

“Okay. I’ll eat something to eat. Stop playing around… Eup?!”

But he couldn’t speak any more at the small, soft texture that entered his mouth and swam. A gray light occupied right in front of him, so he realized what had happened belatedly.

“Chung, chuup!”
“Paha!”

The pink tongue that had been swimming around his mouth pulled away leaving threads with dew. When I stared blankly at Erica, she smiled.

“Peeking at a girl’s underwear. Usher is a pervert♪”

The girl doesn’t seem to want to let go of the fact that he looked at his underwear. Even worse, his stuff was already inflated. Erica fumbled it over her clothes as if it were amused, and she turned to face him.

“Aha ♪ Do you want to do something dirty?”