Chapter 133 – The Empire’s Non-Gong Peddle

Alice gets up from her seat with Lily’s help and regains her sanity a bit.

She gets water from a bucket borrowed from a tavern attendant and pours it over Roman, who is lying on the floor in an ugly position.

Chow!

“Puha-!! Uhh…”

Alice kicked the butt of the party member who raised her head with vomit on her face, unable to grasp the situation.

Baek!

“Cheuk!”

Even if it wasn’t her strength, Alice’s strength far exceeded that of ordinary people. She couldn’t hold back her anger, and even with a rough kick, she awakened Roman’s spirit with the power of a club full of energy.

“Lo… You idiot! You idiot!”

Of course, she tried to call her name. In her unconscious mind, she stopped and swallowed the name Roman just in case, expressing her anger.

“Ugh…”

She did what she ordered, but if she had looked around and climbed up, there wouldn’t have been such a dangerous accident!

Roman, who is very different from the one we just met. My legs still trembled just thinking about the fear I felt at the man of the same name.

If the judgement of another adventurer named ‘Roman’ was twisted, both of them would have been killed or killed here.

Grabbing his battered ass and whimpering, Dunroman finally confirmed with his own eyes what had become of his beloved sword.

“Huh?! My sword!!”

“He boasted that it was the most expensive sword in Edelman… I think he was just scammed.”

“No! This is my father… For sure!”

Looking at Roman, who despaired at the sight of her own weapon lying on the floor with only the length of her dagger remaining, Alice cast her reasonable doubts.

I don’t know what it was, but a sword that was smashed absurdly like that wouldn’t be a famous sword.

Grabbing a piece of iron and throwing a bucket and a mop to the frozen Roman, Alice put a rational reason for cleaning her tavern in her head and moved on.

…

‘Even if it’s the end of raising him up, I don’t know.’

Alice went over to the two of them who were still sitting at the table.

Because he saw an adventurer named Roman, who was not here, stand up and approach him.

She didn’t know what to do with him and these people, but she thought she should thank them as her instincts told her.

“…Go away, thank you.”

“No. Somehow I thought of my younger brother… I thought it was meddling.”

It had been a long time since Alice used honorifics to adventurers she had never seen before. It’s been a while since I’ve had a person who treats me with respect.

Especially in the case of herself, who is a female adventurer and is young and short in stature.

In order not to be seen easily by other adventurers, Bae has suffered more than others. After several years of fierce fighting with various adventurers, she consciously discarded honorifics, gave strength to the ship, and pretended to be bold.

Still, as now, there are rules and circumstances.

When she thanked the pink-haired beauty and the bear-like man who helped her again, they smiled kindly and invited her to sit in the empty seat.

Before the party members finished cleaning the tavern, he did not refuse and took his seat because time had suddenly run out.

I was also very curious about the person who was not here.

“Looks like you’ve calmed down a bit now.”

The man who introduced himself as Lark, a gold-grade adventurer, smiled broadly and handed over a plate for food.

After expressing thanks with a nod at the seat and accepting the plate, the conversation continued naturally.

“Should I say it’s bad luck that there’s someone with the same name as Roman in the party, or it’s lucky that we passed like this… But it’s fortunate that the party members weren’t seriously injured.”

“If you’re from a foreign country, you wouldn’t know. There are only a handful of eldest children in the capital who would fight that idiot.”

Alice herself was aware that the name Roman was common.

So, in order to ask a really curious and important point, she quietly raised a question.

“Hey… I shouldn’t be asking about the personal life so simply… Ho, by any chance, the person called Roman who was here just now is the platinum one…?”

Lily’s positive nod with an embarrassing smile made Alice feel as if a huge landslide had occurred in her future.

‘Oh, it’s ruined!!’

Wasn’t it a situation where he hated Baek-geum because of a momentary slip of the tongue? In terms of knights, it was no different from the situation in which the 5 knights of the empire had hatred.

I was going to try my best in the capital, but I might have to hurry back to Edelman to live.

Lilyne patted and comforted Alice, whose soul seemed to escape from her gaping mouth.

“But I don’t think there’s anything to worry about. It’s not the style that has an afterthought… Roman-san doesn’t look like that, but he’s weak against beautiful women, so this might be an opportunity to get closer.”

“To··?”

Alice made a sound that was neither an answer nor anything. Lark also smiled and nodded his head as if he greatly sympathized with him.

“Beauty is that fool’s obvious weakness. It’s a fact that all adventurers who have accumulated experience in the capital have nothing to hide. The next time we meet, if a lady approaches and greets me casually, I won’t kick her out. Men are dangerous.”

“…”

“I don’t know what the lady is like about Edelman, but adventurers in the capital have to be shameless.”

‘Shameless…’

As the silence continued for a moment as Alice struggled to answer, Lilyne brought up the next topic in a calm voice.

“But, unlike usual, I think I’m more stable… I don’t think I’ve changed somewhere in my actions and voice, where I feel relaxed without exaggeration.”

Bang!

As if he had waited, he hit the table with his palm and expressed strong sympathy.

“Hey~! I was about to say it, but wasn’t it just me? I wondered if I’d found a woman I really liked, Roman.

Alice, who had been silent in their conversation, was frightened once again.

‘That condition has changed for the better?’

How would you describe the platinum adventurer Alice encounters unexpectedly and out of the blue with a simple feeling?

Aside from humans, even thinking about the monsters he had seen in real life, he couldn’t come up with a comparable creature.

The wild and wild feeling that transcended the human species held pressure that seemed to crush his unique senses.

‘Even if you find a woman you care about… Wouldn’t you treat women very harshly in that kind of atmosphere…?’

Even if he is a lover, he has a presence and brutality that is not at all reminiscent of the picture of treating a woman gently.

Men in the Empire are often like that, and a person with power called Platinum is usually weird.

She leaves a story that has nothing to do with herself.

If you want to dream of a future as a successful adventurer in the capital, now.

The information that comes out of this table has the same value as a thousand gold directly related to survival, so Alice listened to the story of the two as much as possible.

*****

Isn’t it a common saying that good is good?

I’m the type who doesn’t believe in stupid superstitions that come down by word of mouth no matter how fantasy world they are.

If the person to be entangled with is not me but my woman, I definitely avoid anything unpleasant.

Crazy mercy that forgives those who wield a knife while drunk!

Even the goddess was moved and did a good deed that couldn’t be seen without tears, and meeting Eclair, I definitely think that I was patient enough.

As soon as we met, he approached her showing off her facial muscles that were relaxed.

“Kitty~!”

“Roman… I’m at work now.”

He placed a box with patterns symbolizing the imperial family on the table in the reception room and hugged Eclair, who was waiting alone.

She kept her businesslike tone even as she raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.

She kissed her lightly and sat down on the soft sofa in her living room, with an eclair on her thigh.

Leaning comfortably into her arms without refusing, she continued her work, touching my bangs with her hands and tidying them up.

“There are many types of holy water and potions, and the quantity is quite large, so I left it in Roman’s name at the Adventurer’s Guild.”

“How did you get the large amount?”

“The members who always followed me moved the items in the wagon. As the leader, it is taboo for me to do chores in front of the Empire’s people.”

“It’s nice. I didn’t want to make my woman do troublesome things like carrying luggage.”

“Your words are always liquidated. What a mean mouth.”

As if she liked my lip service, she poked and tugged at my cheeks with her slender fingers and gave a small smile.

The thick and sticky skinship is good, but the small acts close to pranks like this were also special.

“I’ll take the potion as I go. Are there any potions Kitty needs? You can take them all.”

“It’s okay. I always have a certain amount.”

As soon as he finished speaking, his gaze turned to the antique wooden box on the table.

The feeling of being bestowed was full, and I had an intuition that the box itself was a special magic tool.

I was expecting her contents, but I asked to confirm while touching her waist.

“Then what about this box?”

“This is the most important thing, you could say.”

“Ohhh!! That’s it too?”

At my words, she rose from her arms with a smile on her face, gathered her mana in her fingers and poured it out into her box.

The tightly closed wooden box reacted to mana and opened automatically.

Click-!

“It’s an elixir.”