Chapter 517 – You Who Remember the Sea.

“”…””

The two people met each other’s eyes and looked at each other awkwardly. That’s because Eraine wasn’t gossiping about Minos in this corner of a bar that doubled as an inn for no reason.

In any case, he is a very popular person in Pasiphenia and is even predicted to be the next Fuhrer. He would have to take a considerable risk just by publicly criticizing such a person.

“You happened to be together!”

The bar employee who saw this came over with a bright smile on his face.

“Lisa?”

She was the daughter of the owner of this bar and a woman who worked as a waitress.

“I told you before, right? Sometimes there’s a nice guy like Elain who comes for a drink.”
“You probably didn’t tell that person about me, right?”
“…Dehehe!”

As she looked at her with her bewildered eyes, Ereine stared with her cold gaze at Liza’s actions of tapping her own head as if she was being vague.

Lisa was a few years older than her, but seeing her like this made her sometimes wonder if she was really her older sister.

“… If she’s bothering others, it seems her love business is going well, right?”

Looking at his immature appearance, she wondered if there would be anyone to take her, so she asked in the sense that she should do better herself.

Whisper to see if there is someone who shouldn’t be listening! Erein tilted her head as she saw Riza turning her head to check her surroundings.

Anyway, the only people besides her would be herself and the man sitting at the other table than her.

“That’s right… I’m dating someone!”
“What?!”

Erein opened her mouth in shock. She seemed to know her tomboyish temperament well, as even the man at the other table looked the same as me.

Liza’s story is that this bar, which is questionable as to whether it is in business, was entrusted to her by her parents as a hobby and in the hope that she would remain quiet.

“She was approaching for a fortune…”
“He’s not a strange man, is he?”

Even her two people’s concerns for her had the same meaning. In any case, even though Liza is not from a very prestigious family, she is the daughter of a family with considerable wealth.

“Buu! I knew you two would say that, and you already said hello to your parents first and confirmed it! We’ve been dating for three months already!”
“”Really…?””

As they looked on in bewilderment, Lisa covered her cheek with her hands and gently rocked her body. She couldn’t deny it because her appearance was that of a woman who was absolutely in love.

“After dating like that, you’re incredibly happy, right? And then you think about the two of you who go out drinking alone every time, right?”

As Liza’s story continued, Erein felt somewhat uneasy and tried to leave quietly. Tup! And her hand was grabbed.

“There is a saying that happiness doubles when shared, right? So I want to make you two feel this happiness too!”
“Hmm, that’s a pity. I ended up here today…”
“No! Do you know how long I waited for you two to come to the bar on the same day!?”

Erein wanted to take her hand away, but with her small body, she had no choice but to be dragged by Liza, who was taller than her.

“”…””

Erein was dragged away and ended up sitting at the table where the man was sitting. As our already awkward gazes became closer, I wondered if it would happen now.

“You two are so embarrassed, but drink and do something!”

I couldn’t get up easily because Lisa was sticking her head out from the door connecting the kitchen and the hall, watching with sharp eyes.

“You’ve been through a lot.”
“…That one too.”

They understood each other’s situation and comforted each other lightly. In a situation where we couldn’t go to any bars without one another, it wasn’t a very good option to show off to Lisa.

‘You look tall.’

However, it wasn’t that I didn’t like the man. At first glance, the man sitting at the table with me was a handsome man with a sharp appearance and a sturdy physique.

At the same time, the light brown eyes that we occasionally met had a softness to them, giving off a gentle rather than sharp aura.

‘Is this the kind of man who swore like that?’

Minotiur was not a very popular nickname at the moment. There are only a few people who know the other side of Minos, who only appears to be a stylish gentleman on the outside.

‘It doesn’t seem like they are from the Korean-American family…’

Just as a lowly person becomes noticeable no matter how valuable he or she wears, the opposite is also true. Even though he was dressed in shabby clothes, his behavior was the kind of behavior Erein was used to, so he was just about to open his mouth.

“As Liza said, staying still is also important, so would you like to try a simple game?”

The first thing he spoke to was.

“If it’s gambling, I’d like to decline.”

There are so many anecdotes about a family that was so addicted to gambling that even their pillars were torn down. Therefore, there were only a few games that might suit her taste.

“Don’t worry, the game I’m suggesting is chess.”
“Chess? Here?”

Chess was one of the few games Elain liked, but it was a fairly sophisticated hobby. The process of carving and processing chessboards and their pieces is left to artisans, and some are incredibly expensive.

“Where are you planning on getting the chessboard and pieces? You probably aren’t planning on making them yourself.”

Normally, I would have been polite right away, but there was no need to do that to the person I met outside, and I was in a bad mood, so I ended up talking sarcastically.

“There’s no need to save it. I’m holding it.”
“You’re holding it?”

Eraine looked puzzled and checked his clothes and objects, but there was nothing as big as a chessboard anywhere…

“Is that really a chessboard?!”

However, she soon discovered something about her and was so startled that she had no choice but to jump out of her seat and get up. That’s because there was a chessboard on his wrist that looked like a bracelet.

Upon closer inspection, it looked like a somewhat unique-shaped bracelet, but it was clearly a chessboard. Instead of being bold, the man opened the bracelet’s chessboard, took out small chess pieces from inside, and placed them one by one on the chessboard.

“I see, it’s true.”

Although it was only small in size, it had the perfect structure for playing chess. In particular, the chess pieces were firmly erected on the small chessboard and did not move, as if they had magnets attached to them.

“Huh, where did you get it?! Can’t you teach me?!”

Elain immediately looked at the bracelet on his wrist and shouted. She loved chess very much. Therefore, she wanted to have fun wherever she was, but the chess board and pieces were too heavy to carry around.

“I couldn’t find a chessboard like this anywhere!”

In that sense, the chessboard he was holding was something Elain wanted more desperately than anything else. With something like that, you would be able to enjoy chess anytime, anywhere without having to carry around that heavy chessboard and pieces.

“Then why don’t you make a simple bet?”
“Bet?”

As Eraine was looking at it with sparkling eyes, she was puzzled by his story, so he pointed to the bracelet on his wrist.

“I will play chess with this and grant the request of the person who wins. If I lose, I will tell you where this chessboard was made.”
“…What are you going to do if I lose?”

Elain was confident that she would not lose if it was chess, but she asked just in case. Because he couldn’t ignore the possibility of receiving unreasonable demands.

“Hmm, won’t you tell me your name?”
“Your name? …If that’s okay with you.”

She thought it would be okay if he simply asked her, but she figured she had nothing to lose and she accepted his offer.

“Let’s get started quickly!”

The biggest reason was that I wanted to play a game with a chessboard and pieces that I had never seen before, even if they were not my own.

“Who should go first?”
“I will not yield to the white horse.”

No matter what, she was confident she would win. She confidently chose her black horse.

“I won.”
“Uh, why?!”

It was clear that she had an overwhelming advantage until the early to mid-game, but when she came to her senses, she had already lost. Because she forgot that the chessboard was sitting on his wrist, she was holding the chessboard and looking at it, and she heard the voice again.

“If you’re really upset, would you like to try one more round?”
“Of course! The conditions will be the same, right?!”

Even though Erein thought it might be a trap, she ended up responding to his provocation. She can’t give in to unreasonable demands anyway.

“You lost again…”

However, despite her multiple challenges, Erain was not able to win even once.

“Isn’t it time you told me your name?”

As she sat in vain, having repeatedly lost despite her many challenges, Erein smiled and spoke to her, and Erein folded her arms and bowed her head calmly as her grumpiness rose up in tears. Turned.

“Wow, Eraine. This is Eraine of Sesipia.”

The reason she even revealed her last name was because when she played chess, she was always smiling as if she was teasing herself, and she was trying to tease him a little. But even her grumpiness failed.

“What a coincidence. My name is Lancelot of Bayets.”

He smiled and answered like that, as if he thought Elain was cute.