"Hey, Val! I know Her Royal Highness the First Princess of Chemetho Pride."
"Uh?... I don't know.
"Uh... I don't know.
Answering Sefek's words, I'll have dinner. Chemetho also carried Temehe's share of dinner into his mouth so that he could follow me. I can't tell you anything I know about royalty in a contract.... No, even if we could talk about it, I'm sorry about those guys all my life.
"She said she was a wonderful, wonderful princess! I heard rumors! Kind, smart, even as the next queen..."
"Chemetho, give me that water over there.
"Oh, yes!
If you ignore Sefek's words and give him orders, Chemetho offers me water. He stopped by without Sefek these days. As soon as I opened my mouth to drink water as it was, I was watered on my face before that. Bisha! My face to neck gets wet at the same time as the sound of
"Listen to people."
Sefek stuck his arms out at us. If you looked to the side, it was not only me, but Chemetho was also wetting his face and wiping his face with clothes.
"How many times have I told you to stop the water while you're eating Sefek?"
... It's been three years since I met Chemetho and Sefek.
Life itself hasn't changed much. Sefek's special abilities made the money float a little. I get up in the morning, I eat rice, I pick up debris and work downstairs, Cefek and Chemetho sell water for two, and when I'm done, I go to the market, and Cefek and Chemetho join me on their own to buy rice for the three of us, eat, sleep. That's all.
Fucking kids stay the same and stay away from me. Chemetho became more physically fit than he ever was, especially when he met him. He started to pull on me as well as Sefek. Grabbed my underwear and walked more. Out of the way. Sometimes I told you to stop, but still, the next day, you're gonna give up because you're gonna grab it again. Let's see. It's just a shame. I know you can beat him up and kick him, but... I don't think I've ever had a contract before.
"So? What's wrong with that?
"So, what's wrong with that?
Let Sefek make a noise if he wants to, and just ask for the requirements. Don't ask me. I'll always draw. Sefek squeezes his mouth at the words of me and Chemetho, still rewording the dissatisfaction as it drips out of his whole body.
"... so when Chemetho grows up and starts working at the castle, I thought I might see Lord Pride too.
"Huh?"
"Huh?"
I overhear Sefek's words without clapping.
"Because if Chemetho works at the castle, you'll see Lord Pride, won't you? So when you become friends or something -...
"Hyahahahahahahaha! I can see you because I worked in the castle for a good reason... heh heh heh heh heh heh"
"If you don't try, you'll never know."
He is watered again and again by the upside-down Sefek, and his upper body is brilliantly flooded. I stare at Temee... and reconsider that it's still inconvenient not to be able to hit her with a contract.
Are you okay, Val?
Go ahead, and wipe your face off your head with a cloth handed to Chemetho, take off your top containing water, and squeeze. You Sefek bastard, you hit me again and again with the maximum output.
"Hey Chemetho! That's not our blanket."
"Because Val will catch a cold...
Chemetho is always talking about Val.
Listening to Sefek's golden cuts, it was certainly the borough cloth they were always wrapped in that was handed to Chemetho. But once I wet it, it doesn't make any sense now, so I use it until the end.
The rest of the rice is over, ignoring the two fighting and rolling on the ground with Temehe's borough cloth in one hand. But I waited awhile and it didn't change. I couldn't sleep because I heard Sefek calling from behind me. I tongue and throw the cloth I was hanging at both of them.
"Use it. I don't need it.
Better than ever getting noisy behind my back. I meditate my eyes thinking so. The kids shut up and thought this would finally help them sleep...
Bassa, and.
The worn cloth that the kids should have thrown at me can be hung on me again. When I looked back, I just made sure Chemetho and Sefek lined up behind me and came inside the borough cloth. Chemetho behind me, and Sefek on the edge. I told you I didn't need it, but I roughed up my voice, but there's no sign of us both moving at all.... both fucking kids.
I give up complaining is useless and lie down again as it is. I learned a long time ago that it's just useless to deal with kid distractions.
... "Princess"?
Two, a royal figure that I saw three years ago appeared in my brain.
Princess Bakemon with her siblings. Great queens and queen mates, regents and prime ministers. There was always a lot of chest shit.
I don't mind Chemeth and Sefek dreaming about royalty and castles, but I didn't care about them.
Long before he was captured and offered a slave contract. All the time, this guy stomps back into the beautiful world and says things from above that look great.
... The country's greats are always the same.
I don't even care if you're a person below Temee and the others. No matter how sweet words or great entrustments you line up, you end up with other personnel.
There's no way you can put your body up to the people down there, or trust them, or understand us. We crawl on the ground, we squat, we drown, we laugh high.... those people.
I doubt the nerves of Sefek, who tells them they're working for them and they're becoming friends. Besides, my favorite princess is Bakemon.
... Well, I'm on my own for dreaming.
I used to smash the pointless dreams of these kids, but for some reason I wasn't motivated to do that to Cefek and Chemetho opponents who make their eyes shine and talk.... crap. When I tried to stay asleep.
"Val... Um... are you awake?
You haven't talked enough yet, Chemetho's been calling me over my back. If you ignore it, you will even speak for a while, so you have no choice but to reply, "What is it?"
"Me and Sefek... how old are you now?
"Ah?... three years after that -... six and ten, huh? What, did you even want to change your name?
It was originally the age of that time. Did you even feel uncomfortable, albeit not in the language of this country?
"No, I'm good with Chemetho. I love this name Val gave me.
Sefek hammered further behind Chemetho's words, "Me too". So I tongue-in-cheek the words and say, "So what's wrong?"
"... I want to thank Val one day...
I don't know what that means, what a thank you. It's called Sefek, it's called Chemetho... and "one day," and the kid dreams of anything without worrying about his current situation.
"So... one day when I find out about my special abilities... then I'll be the first to teach Val. I promise... I promise.
What would thank you for that? I tried to say that, but... I didn't feel like putting it in my mouth to see why. Instead, the only appropriate reply was "I see." Still, Chemetho said, "Yes!," he returned, "It's a promise," he muttered small again as he grabbed the hem of my back.
You're a pain in the ass.... Kid, I fell asleep this time, letting him go through my head with what I had thought so many times before.
... So finally, four years of months passed since we met with the kids.