Chapter 190 – Gifts (6)

The elves’ ecosystem is simple. They build their homes in the forest, hunt and make their living, and make clothes from grass and animal hides. They carve trees to make musical instruments, and enjoy the setting sun by singing their own dances and songs around a bonfire.

A festival was held every day, and the elves would revere the forest that brought them happiness.

Therefore, ordinary humans could not enter the forest where elves lived, and some elves were also reluctant to contact humans. The channels of contact between elves and humans were limited, and the older the elves, the more they were resistant to humans.

Petunia Titi was a very unusual woman among these elves. Although she occupied a high position in the elven forest, she had no sense of responsibility, and although she had the best bow skills and hunting skills among elves, she never participated in hunting competitions.

She did not hunt like the other elves, nor cared about growing trees or composing their own songs. She never liked humans or showed any kind feelings toward humans, but one day she disappeared from the elven forest like the wind, and returned leaving behind the word that she had captured her demon lord, and was locked in with her tears.

The elves wanted to know why she was crying, but Petunia Titti never told her why she was sad. The elves used to assume that she was sad because she had lost a loved one while subjugating her demon lord, or because her comrades had died.

The elves marveled that she would have loved her ‘human’, and were amazed that she, who always showed her cheerful side, had been locked in her sorrow for months.

It wasn’t long ago that Petunia Titi came out of her grief and started working again. She started doing simple things like young children learning elven traditions, and she said it was a change of pace, so she went to hunting competitions and won first place trophies. Petunia Titi’s cabinet, which had never been decorated, was filled with seasonal hunting trophies.

One thing she gave that she didn’t do well was crafts. Making her leather clothes, lined with plant stems and animal hides, was the most difficult task for her. She found it difficult to thread through the eye of a needle, and she often threw needles so that the craft room ceiling was punctured like a honeycomb.

“Petunia. You have the knack of shooting a bow at a needle tens of meters away, so why can’t you put one on?”

“Uncle, I don’t know. Is this more difficult? If it was threading and threading, I would have done it a long time ago, but what is this? I’m sluggish and have no strength. You also have to thread the thread and then tie it.”

Petunia Titti thought that the reason she couldn’t thread the needle was because the thread and needle were bad. She thought that there should be a thinner wire and a needle with a larger hole than this. She thought she had to make a suit of wire stitched together like the chain mail made by humans.

After her chatter in the craft room, where chatter and laughter alternate, Petunia Titi sighed and said to the man:

“Mister. Rather, send a messenger to the human village.”

“Messenger? Do you have anything to say to that hero?”

“…Doesn’t exist.”

Seeing the dark expression suggesting feelings between the hero Wolf and Petunia Titi, the man said nothing. He pretended not to know and asked again.

“What happened in the capital?”

Elves had limited interaction with the human kingdom. They studied magic by sharing advice and research materials related to magic with the Mage Tower, and the envoys named after the kingdom conveyed their requirements to the elven kingdom or proposed a deal to cut down trees.

Occasionally, there were elves who went out to go on adventures, and there were also elves who woke up and became merchants. However, they were very rare and were treated as an outlier even in the Elven Forest. Petunia Titi also did not try to understand, calling elves who interacted with humans a strange species at one time.

“That’s what…”

“Have you ever had an accident?”

“No, it’s not an accident…”

The man looked worried whether Petunia Titi’s business was big enough to send such a diplomatic mission. Petunia Titi blushed and averted her eyes at the man’s question. And he said in a creeping voice.

“That… He dropped his wallet while laying flowers, and I only found out about it after eating at a restaurant.”

“Right. So?”

The man was already looking at Petunia Titi with his mouth twitching. Titi said with an intuition about the uneasy future that was approaching in front of her eyes.

“…Don’t tell me where to go. You’re going to get really mad.”

“Ah, yes. I get it. So what happened?”

“That… Also, because I have no money. My hair just turned white. I just tried to name the elves, but among the elves settled in the capital, I didn’t know any names, and that’s why I’m trying to ask for money from the kids who captured the demon lord with me before, so I’m really embarrassed to meet them.”

“Can’t we just look at your face? I heard that the hero who caught the devil is living quite well.”

Petunia Titi groaned at the man’s words.

“How do you ask for a loan? Even at the funeral, I was very cold and exited in a cool way! But what the hell would you say if you were caught eating six servings of meat at a barbecue restaurant!”

The man suppressed a laugh and nodded his head. He pretended to sympathize with Petunia Titi’s remarks, but it was easy to notice that he was playing a skit in her head rather than understanding her pain.

“Ah, big… ! Yes… Hmm… !”

The man’s lips quivered. He twisted his expression to keep from laughing and nodded her head at Petunia Titti. However, the embarrassing situation playing in my head made me unable to hold back my laughter. How funny it is for the heroes who defeated the demon king to encounter a meat price problem in the middle of the capital.

What kind of expression will Petunia Titty make while the man called the saint takes out his wallet and the man called the great sage calculates?

I thought I could live laughing for days just by imagining this.

“Do not laugh! If you keep doing that, I won’t talk.”

Petunia Titi frowned at her, and the man apologized. He let the man’s ears quiver, letting him know he was still feeling good, but this was a level of pleasure even Petunia Titi could tolerate.

“Oh yeah. Sorry. Continue. Continue.”

“So, I was thinking about what to do, but a certain nobleman just gave me money.”

“A noble man?”

The smiling man’s face twisted. Among the humans, there were many who approached the elves with dark feelings. Did the aristocrat pay for Petunia Titi’s meal for pure purpose? The man asked with a serious face.

Petunia Titti nodded at the man’s question.

“Huh. Did you just give it away?”

“Didn’t you ask for something strange?”

“No. He was a married man in the first place.”

“A married man? It seems that he is just a person who has friendly feelings towards elves.”

Petunia Titti nodded and averted her gaze again.

“I guess so. I asked for a car rental, and he was willing to lend it to me.”

“You’ve been doing so many different things.”

The man couldn’t even laugh when he heard Petunia Titti’s series of mistakes. As she hurriedly uttered a word with an expression of exasperation, Petunia Titi’s face turned red again and her eyes wandered back and forth, unable to catch her gaze. She said, raising her voice.

“No, can’t that be? If you lose your wallet, you can borrow a car fee! I didn’t rob anything! Please lend me politely! Did you say that?”

It was a simple episode without any problems, except for the fact that she is in a high position in the elven forest and that she is a hidden party member of Hero’s party who defeated her demon lord. However, no one could deny that it was an embarrassing act that diminished the prestige of the title attached to it.

The man decided to stop touching Petunia Titi’s her sore.

It was because I felt like I would get angry if I really teased her more, and I couldn’t even laugh because I did so many embarrassing things one after another.

“Ah, yes. So what do you want me to ask you?”

“…The man wrote down the address, so send someone to pay me back.”

The man looked at Petunia Titti at her private address. The address, written in neat handwriting, pointed to an area quite remote from the elven forest. The man frowned. Just looking at the location, it was a rural area, and it was dangerous to send a messenger with an envelope of money to a place like this.

The man pushed the paper with the address on it and said.

“It would be better for you to go by yourself. It’s a bit risky to send messengers all this way. I know what the thieves will do to me.”

“Can’t we send more people?”

“If you want to send a bunch of elves to this country, I will have to explain the situation to the hero. Do you want that? It’s a diplomatic document, so you can’t lie? I can’t be fooled.”

Petunia Titti thought for a moment. A letter was sent to Wolf saying, ‘I am sending a messenger to settle the debt of the elf Petunia Titi.’

If it was Wolf, he would definitely try to find out what had happened, and at the end of it all was an embarrassing empty laugh.

“Oh, no! No! Definitely not!”

Petunia Titty shook her head and shouted. Rather than find out the full extent of Wolf’s embarrassing situation, he had better act out on his own. The man nodded his head knowingly and pushed back his chair.

Petunia Titti scratched her head annoyed when she saw the man getting back to sewing.

Because she had to go all the way to this country herself.