Chapter 225 – Episode 225 – Date!

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“Guys, it’s out!”

“Ah, sister Noah!”

“It’s Noah’s sister!”

Upon entering the building, several children approached Noah as soon as they saw him.

“Long time no see.”

“Long time no see!”

“Why are you here, sister?”

“That’s right, I came to see you guys!”

“Who is the man next to you?”

Mister…

“Mister, no. He’s the same age as me.”

“Really?”

“Lie!”

“It’s so big!”

“Seriously! That’s my boyfriend!”

“Boyfriend? Boyfriend?”

“Is what you said true?”

“Then it’s real!”

“Wow, he’s my sister’s boyfriend!

I waved at the children.

“Hi, my name is Rant.”

“Hello!”

“Hi!”

“It’s Noah.”

Then an elderly man approached us.

“Ah, Director!”

This is the director of the orphanage where Noah lived.

The director wore glasses and had a slim body.

“Let me introduce you! This is Rant! My boyfriend!”

“Ohh, that time has already come for Noah. It’s great.”

“And I’ll be a C-Rank deal!”

“Huh? Is that true?”

“Yeah! Hee hee, it’s all thanks to Rant!”

The director smiled benevolently.

“That’s… That’s really good, Noah. Did you come to tell me the news today?”

“There’s that, but… I want to give the orphanage a present too. Rant, take it out!”

“Yes.”

I took out food and toys from my inventory.

“Wow! It’s bread!”

“There’s plenty of fruit too!”

“It’s a toy!”

“It’s a pretty doll!”

The children were excited and their eyes sparkled when they saw the food and toys.

“This…”

And the director opened his eyes wide and looked at Noah.

“Thank you, Noah. But to bring so many… Is it okay?

Noah smiled and rubbed his index finger under his nose.

“Hee hee hee, I’m capable enough to go up to C rank now! Buying this much is a piece of cake! My wallet is still full!”

Certainly, as we reached the 9th floor, we caught a lot of monsters and earned that much money.

In terms of the money earned in this month, each person’s possession would easily exceed 30 gold, excluding me.

Even if you add up all the things Noah bought, it’s not even 80 silver, so compared to the money Noah has now, it’s really a new bloody expense.

“Thank you so much, Noah.”

“This much! I grew up here too. I should do this much.”

“This is mine!”

“No, it’s mine!”

Two boys were fighting over a toy Noah had bought.

Noah grinned at her two boys and approached with a toy lying on the floor.

“You bought a lot of the same toys. Now, here. Don’t fight, okay?”

“Oh, it’s true! Yes! I won’t fight!”

“Thank you, sister Noah!”

“Yeah, get along well.”

“Hey, you know! Noah’s sister! That man’s boyfriend! How did you meet?”

“Because I’m not an old man~ Call me Rant oppa.”

“How did you meet Rant?”

“That’s a fateful encounter, so to speak!”

“Kyaaaaagh! It’s a fateful meeting!”

“Tell me! Tell me!”

“Fufufu! If you want to know that, I’ll tell you! Rant’s fateful meeting!”

Noah was having a lot of fun talking to the kids at her orphanage.

Seeing that, I imagined a happy future in which Noah would play well with her children even after giving birth to her.

Noah’s mother playing happily with her children.

It will make you smile in no time.

The manager came up to me and asked.

“Did you say Rant?”

“Yes. Your name is…?”

“My name is Anthony.”

“Yes, Director Anthony. My name is Rant.”

“Could you be the famous Dungeon Crasher? You’ve been a great help in stopping the flood…”

“Yes. That would be me.”

“Heh heh, Noah seems to have dated a good man too. She had a very bright expression the last time she came, and the reason must be because of you.”

“Wasn’t Noah bright from the beginning?”

“Yeah, but… I’ve seen her since I was little, so I know. She came back looking really happy, like I’ve never seen before. Of course, she’s still like that now.”

Director Anthony once bowed his head to me and said.

“Thank you for making that child so happy.”

“No, I’m also… Happy to meet Noah.”

A boy came up to me.

“Hey, you know! Oh, my brother… He’s Noah’s older sister’s boyfriend! Right?”

I knelt down on her knees and made eye contact with the child.

“That’s right.”

“If it’s your boyfriend… Did you even kiss Noah’s sister?”

“Yeah, I did.”

It’s pretty cute to ask about kissing…

“Wow! Then! Did you see Noah-noona naked?”

Oh, he was a grown child.

How can I answer?

Considering Noah’s personality, I don’t think he would get angry or anything like that even if I told Ai that I saw him.

So I answered the boy like this.

“We even took a bath together.”

“Wow! Awesome!”

“What’s great, Garan?”

Noah leaned over with a smirk and looked down at the boy.

“Ugh! Sister Noah!”

“You’re already asking me that kind of thing~ You naughty kid~!”

Noah ruffled her boy’s hair with both of her hands.

“Ahh, sorry, Noa-sister! Stop it!”

“Take some more!”

“Aaaaah!”

Noah looked very happy.

By the way, looking at the two in front of me, a delusion about a so-called Oneshota relationship between a sweet older woman and a younger boy suddenly came to my mind.

Hmm… Let’s ask Noah to play noona tonight!

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I spent time in an orphanage with Noah.

The children of the orphanage in the old building were all dressed in shabby clothes, but all had smiles on their faces.

The girls hugged the doll Noah bought and talked about their fateful meeting with me from Noah’s point of view, and I gave the boys a ride on my shoulder, lifted them up high, and played with the warrior and the demon king, just like we did in the village.

After playing like that, time passed by quickly and it was almost lunch time, and Noah and I had lunch boxes that Miranda had packed for us.

The director and her children ate the food Noah had bought.

After lunch we decided to leave the orphanage.

“Let’s play some more.”

“Let’s stay for a while longer, Noah.”

“Lant hyung~ Do it higher and higher!”

The children were very sorry to part with us.

“Hee hee, I’m sorry, but now it’s time for a date~ I’ll play with you next time.”

“I chose a man over the family I grew up with!”

“You’ve become a bad girl!”

“In the end, it’s more about love than family!”

Where did you learn that sound?

The noisy children began to protest against Noah.

At that time, Director Anthony smiled kindly and told the children.

“Heh heh heh, guys. Should we let Noah go?”

“”Yes~.””

The children responded in unison and smiled.

“Come again, Noah-sister!”

“Please buy me something more delicious next time!”

“I’m a toy!”

“Tell me about it next time!”

“Hee hee, okay! I’m looking forward to it!

Noah handed her purse to her director.

“No, Noah, this is…”

Director Anthony’s eyes widened.

I’m not sure how much is in it, but at least it seems to have an amount that would surprise the director.

“Hee hee, buy the kids lots of delicious food with it. Or, almost all of them, exchange old handwriting books.”

“…Thank you so much.”

“Then we will go.”

“Yes, cover well.”

Noah clung to my arm and said.

“Let’s go, Rant!”

“Yes, Noah. Director Anthony. Guys. I’ll be back next time.”

“Hello~ Rant hyung.”

“Let’s play again next time!”

And we left the orphanage.

“… Unexpectedly, the kids quietly let us go.”

“Well, the director said something, but everyone understands what he’s saying. It’s hard to live otherwise. I realized that if you’re poor, you have to help each other somehow.”

“Okay?”

“Yeah. If you’re too poor… Well, there might be stealing, but luckily our orphanage isn’t that poor. There’s a monthly subsidy, too. It’s very small.”

Apparently, there is something like subsidies for orphanages.

Well, if not, the children’s clothes will not end to the extent that they are shabby.

If there wasn’t even a real subsidy, the kids would all be skinny with completely soiled clothes.

However, looking at the children, their diet did not seem too difficult.

Noah smiled and pulled my arm.

“More than that, follow Rant! There’s still a place I want to show you!”

After that, I wandered around the back alleys with Noah, mainly on the roads that Noah said she often walked when she was young.

As I passed by the street, I told an episode that I had been through as a child.

They were all stories of childhood, full of mischief, a bit like Noah.

A grown-up I know who is walking comes loudly from behind! And startle by shouting.

Running around the room, looking away, bumping into a wall and crying out loud.

Like sneaking out of the orphanage late at night to go for a walk, but getting scolded by the director.

I enjoyed listening to Noah’s childhood story.

On the way, she met people whom Noah seemed to know, but most of them saw Noah and pretended to know her briefly. When Noah introduced me as her boyfriend her, she was terrified and went elsewhere.

Am I that scary?

When I asked such a question near the end of the evening, Noah smiled and said,

“Hee hee, there was a time when I teased me to pretend to be a cat. That’s why I thought I told Lant to punish him.”

“Just because you said boyfriend?”

“Everybody here is quick to think about the worst they’re going through.”

“Why do you think that way?”

“For self-consolation, saying that you’re better off than the worst. Or to prepare even a little because it could happen.”

It was a slightly darker topic than I thought.

Then Noah said with a self-deprecating laugh.

“Well, I was thinking that too, but after becoming E rank, I was so excited that I went inside the first floor and almost got killed by the Hobgoblin.”

Then Noah smiled and said.

“But thanks to that, I was able to meet Rant~ It went rather well, hee hee. Ah, here it is. This is the last place I will guide you.”

The last place Noah led me was an ordinary road from a back alley to the street.

Noah sat down and wrapped his arms around his legs.

“When I was young, I always looked at the street from here after playing.”

As Noah reminisced about her past her, she continued her words her in a nostalgic tone.

“Outside the alley is shiny, but where I am is dark… I’ve always thought that one day I’d like to run out into that street on my own. If I run out… I thought I could at at least do something.”

I squatted down and looked at Noah.

“What is it?”

“Something like making more money and eating delicious food. Making a lot of money so that the director doesn’t have to suffer. And buying better things for the kids.

When I was young I was really young… Because I couldn’t do anything I always envied the adventurers I see on the streets. I’ve seen a lot of people get hurt… Most of them always had a good laugh and I saw a lot of them going back and forth with their colleagues.

I saw that and thought I was envious. That was the first reason I wanted to become an adventurer. I also wanted to become an adventurer someday and go on adventures with my colleagues to make a lot of money and make the orphanage better.”

And Noah turned her head toward me and smiled brightly and said,

“But that’s all since I met Lant! I’ve met like-minded colleagues, I’ve earned a lot of money, so I can help the orphanage like this…”

Noah’s cheeks blushed… Noah had a very happy face.

“I fell in love with something I could never have imagined. Her heart was so warmed by a feeling of happiness I had never felt in my life. Rant … Thank you. I love you ♡”

I reached out and stroked Noah’s cheek.

“Ha ha ♡”

“Thank you too. I really like meeting Noah. Being with Noah is always fun and playful, but always thinks of my colleagues…

I’m really happy that Noah, who thinks of me, is by her side of her. She will always… Always be by my side I love you, Noah.”

“Rant…”

Tears flowed from Noah’s eyes his and wet my fingers.

Noah grabbed mine with both of her hands and rubbed her face in her palms.

“Yes, I will always be by your side of her.”

And Noah said with a smirk through her tears.

“Hehe, did I propose just now?”

“Yeah. Because I’m going to marry Noah someday. Besides, I always say I love you in the sense that I always want to get married and have a happy family.”

“Ohh~ It’s romantic. But such a romantic Rant has five potential wives besides me.”

“I will take responsibility for making everyone happy.”

“Yes. I believe that Rant will be able to do that.”

Noah gently put my hand down and came closer to my side of her.

“Rant… ♡”

“Noah.”

And we kissed our lips at the boundary between the street and the back alley.