In a Different World with a Smartphone

When I wiped her dirty face, Rene looked pretty cute.

"Nah, brother. What are you feeding me?

Though I used words at all.

For now I bought seafood soup at a stall near the guild and had it put in a cup and handed to me that suddenly I would not accept a hungry and weak stomach for eating something heavy.

Nanny and Rene take it and start drinking it little by little. Apparently, it's a cat tongue. I wonder if it would suddenly fit in my stomach. That's just fine.

"Wait here for a minute"

Let Rene wait there and go straight into the guild. Put down some money by presenting the guild card you took back from your wallet. It was really only a little bit in there. Returning from the guild, he walked out with Rene. I tried to get into some store, but Rene might refuse to come in.

Eventually, I bought a few skewers from another stall and decided to eat them on the square bench.

"Don't panic, but it's okay, eat slowly"

"Mmm."

How hungry I was, chewing guts and skewers and swallowing them into my stomach. That's a good battle with Eight......

"Where does Rene live?

"I haven't decided. Sometimes I sleep in the park, sometimes in the alley. I used to stay at the inn with my dad..."

"What about that father?

"A year ago, I went on a warcraft crusade and didn't come back. Dad was an adventurer..."

Right...... You've been hit by a warcraft. Sometimes crusade requests are returned by adventurers. At that time, I heard that solo can often result in missing persons being treated as such.

"What about your mother? You don't have any relatives or anything?

"Mom said she died right after she gave birth to me. I don't know any relatives or anything. Dad, I didn't talk much."

That's what Rene talks about as she finishes eating skewers and wipes her dirty hands with her pants.

So you lost your father, and this kid's all alone. You've lived a long time since then.

"After my dad disappeared, my grandma from a trip I got along with in the city taught me how to do the sleigh. I knew it was a bad thing, but I couldn't help but be hungry..."

You told me something extra, that grandmother. But I can also say that Lene was able to survive because of that.

Um, this kid... what's going on? I have no parents, no relatives. Even if you're taking me to an orphanage or something, you're already a criminal... When I heard about it, he only stole it when he was in trouble, but he's a kid, so I was wondering if you could take a big look at him...

They have such children in these. If I don't steal it, I'm just gonna drool wild. Even these kids are desperate to survive. I can see that. That doesn't mean you can steal it...

You can't hire me somewhere... If we leave it like this, we'll be sleazy again. Then I might get caught one day......

... They're going to say it's sweet, but I can't help it. What did you find out where you were told? If I can help you, it's true that I want to help you.

"... Rene, are you willing to work for us?

"Huh?"

"Don't worry about where you live or the food. Just get it to work properly. Let's pay the wages that go with it. What do you say?"

"What? Huh? You're letting me work? Really?"

Lene stares at me with a surprised look. There is light in my eyes with anticipation, even as I am bewildered by the sudden mention of that.

"Provided that we never use Suri's technology again. I can't have you do your job if I break it. [M] Can you protect it?"

"Ugh, yeah! Never use it again! I promise!"

Gently stroke Rene's head as she moves in and nods. I'm going to have Yumina's demonic eye determine her nature for once, but I think she's a good girl, Lene is.

All right, if you decide so, do you want to go home?

You can use the "gate" to go home, but I decide to walk home to make sure you remember where it is.

"That, isn't it this way?

"My house is this way. West End."

"West End!?

Rene, who was pointing toward the East Side, turns around surprised. You're surprised that much?

Take Rene through the South Side and into the West Side. Through a growing residential neighborhood and up a loose slope towards the high ground. It would be easier if it wasn't for this slope.

"Hit me... winter night, brother, are you a nobleman?

"I'm not a nobleman. I was about to be."

Lene asks me that if I'm getting anxious about being in the wrong place. Nobles would live in the inner periphery, not the outer periphery, but not necessarily so. Low-status aristocrats and fallen aristocrats sometimes move here. A little rich merchant lives here, too.

As I went up the high ground, I could see my home on the red roof. When I look up at it, Rene stares at me with a flashing face.

"Holy shit, this is my brother's house for winter and night!?

"That's right. Oh, good job, Tom."

"Oh, it's unusual for your husband to come home from the gate."

Tom the gatekeeper says that with a laugh. Well, I'm always traveling at the "gate," so I can't help but think so.

Enter the premises through the common entrance next to the gate. Walking straight down the garden sidewalk and opening the front door, Mr. Lapis and Mr. Cecil were just cleaning the front hall.

"Oh, sir? Welcome home. It's unusual to come home from the front door, isn't it?

"Welcome home ~. Oh? What about her?"

Mr. Cecil stares seriously at Rene. You got embarrassed to be seen, Rene hides behind me.

"This kid is Rene. I'll be working here from today, so thank you. Here, Rene. Say hello."

"Ugh... Rene, it is. Nice to meet you..."

Oh, my God, you're like the cat I borrowed. Are you nervous? Well, would that happen if I suddenly brought you here?

"Where is Mr. Lime?

"I brought tea to Master Yumina in the living room."

Take Rene into the living room. I sat her down in a chair and explained the situation to Mr. Lime.

Yumina is silently listening to it and turning her gaze to Rene. I guess I'm looking at it with a demonic eye. Eventually Yumina smiled small. See, the roots aren't bad kids.

Confirming that sideways, Mr. Lime opened his mouth.

"I see. I see what's going on. But it's annoying when you work with halfway ideas. You said Rene, didn't you?

"Ugh, yeah."

"Do you really want to work here? I don't mind failing or bothering our servants, per se. Can you promise not to learn from it and escape?

With a shooting eye, Mr. Lyme asks Rene, I thought it might be a little too harsh on a kid under 10, but he kept his mouth shut because it wasn't an atmosphere to pinch him.

"... yeah. I want to work here. I want to be at my brother's in the winter and night."

I took Mr. Lime's eyes straight, and Rene firmly replied so. Our butler, who watched it closely, loosened his expression all the time and stood up smiling.

"Cecil, take Rene to the bathroom. Wash every inch of it."

"Ha ha. Rene, come on. Let's take a bath."

"What? Huh?

Mr. Cecil pulls me and Rene takes me to the bathroom.

"Lapis bought some clothes that fit that girl. Oh, just like ordering made-to-measure clothes."

"Yes, sir, I'll borrow your bike"

Mr. Lapis leaves with a grudge. By the way, she and Mr. Cecil got on the bike in a matter of hours. That's your garden number.

"When you get out of the bath, have my clothes on for a while. I don't think it's the right size, until Mr. Lapis gets back."

Yumina says so and takes a seat. I guess I'll take my clothes to the stripper. When Yumina leaves, I even think in a chair. Eventually Mr. Lyme came and put tea on the table in front of him.

"After all, should I have kept it in an orphanage or something? Was it an extra favor..."

"I think that's for Rene to decide. Now I wonder if I should just take the fact that my husband saved one girl from poverty."

Yeah, you're right. Let's not worry about it. I did that because I wanted to. That's all. That's right, former caretaker of His Majesty the King. Good mouth.

Still, what Rene did is a sin. We must make good atonement. Why don't we talk about it there? To the king.

...... hmm?

Dobby Dobby Dobby and running down the hallway. Bah! and the door opened, and Rene jumped in with the bath towel wrapped around her body. It is our white tiger child that is held up in that hand.

"And winter night, brother! It's a tiger! There's a tiger boy!

Amber faces this way with a raunchy face. Yeah, I know how you feel.

"Lord... who is this girl?

"!? Tiger talked--!?

Oh, boy. It's noisy. I mean, get dressed properly. I don't know. Don't get busier and busier, we... that?

Something is lowered from Rene's neck. Pendant, huh?

"Rene, what about that pendant?

"This? It's the look of my mother my father gave me. This is all I've ever had."

"Can I see it for a second?

Rene gave me a pendant in my hand. [M] As it is, she is taken back to the bathroom by Mr. Cecil, who has her sleeves rolled up. I'm sorry.

View the pendant in your hand. This is money... I think it's worth a lot of money. A large, inverse triangular gem is embedded in the center with a design like a spreading of wings. Emerald... No, Demon Stone, you're the Demon Stone of the Wind.

On the back... a crest?

"Mr. Lime... do you know where this crest is?

"Griffon and shield, and a laurel tree on both swords... I don't recognize you..."

"If this is a shadow, is it good to be born, Lene?

"What a thing. Not Rene, but his parents, or even his parents, might happen to have it."

Well, is it possible that what you picked up was passed down from generation to generation? But if I pick up something this expensive, I guess I'll either notify it or sell it off. I don't know more about authenticity than Rene's father is dead......

"At least you don't have anything like this on the noble crest of Belfast. It is the Empire that has many Griffon crests..."

Empire. The Leggles Empire to the east? Belfast and I are not very close... Maybe Rene's father was a fallen nobleman of the Empire or something.

Either way, you shouldn't pee too much. One day when you get to know an imperial human, let's just ask.