To Deprive a Deprived Person

Episode 138: Consolation

Juuuuuuuuuuuu…, cook carefully over low heat, and finally the bouncing sound of fat coming out of the meat cooked at high temperatures at once reaches the living room to colour the baking. The smell emanating from the meat, along with the sound, tickled the nostrils, and those waiting for a meal swallowed and endured, now or now.

Marifa, this is for everyone.

"Yes, sir."

When Marifa splits the steak she received from Yu into plates, she carries it to the table and arranges it. It is too heavy in the morning if it is normal, such as meat, but those who are adventurers want energy uniformly from day to day.

Nina, Lena and Namari grin at the chunks of meat placed in front of them.

"Oops! Steak in the morning, and this is the meat of the Woodon Demon Beef that lives in the Devil's prison!

Yu's temples pick up on Joseph's voice speaking out loud in the morning, and he moves.

"Joseph, would you be a little quieter? Uh-huh, I wonder if Joseph can even get excited. Wouldn't Woodon's Devil's Cow steak, sunlight corn corn potage recently discovered in the demon tree garden, and vegetables used in salads also be all the things you wouldn't see in the general market? Whoa, bread is a good thing too. Grandpa, have some wine."

Nung, who had refrained on the side of Muss, pours wine into the glass in a flowing motion. Joseph, who was watching it, urges himself to come too.

Yu's temple picks up again at Muss, who is naturally in his seat, and moves. Marifa's ears move up and down so that she can wolf at that appearance.

"Joseph, didn't you refrain from drinking?

"You idiot! It's a good day."

"You guys... what can I do for you?

The voice was contained, but Yu's words contained an anger that could not be hidden.

"Wow, I don't know what it is to be here for dinner."

"Joseph is right. What does this look like other than a meal?

Russ, who moved to Yu without a sound, kneels still, and advances.

"As long as the Master's permission is given, we can slaughter some of them in a few minutes."

"Master O'Donough, can't we eat yet?

When Namari grows impatient screams, Yu exhales a small sigh and lowers his shoulders.

"Namari, you can eat."

"Yay! I'll have it!"

Behind Namari, Russ, interrupted by the story, says a novel, but Namari wasn't dealing with him if he was too busy eating meat.

"Yu, this meat is delicious!

"... gravy comes out every time you bite it"

"Look, eat vegetables without all the meat"

Lena turns away from the offered mountain salad. But when Namari cheeks the salad deliciously and gives Lena a meaningful long grin, how about losing Lena throws the salad into a small mouthful! I just gazed at Yu for not saying. On Yu's head he watched Lena and Namari interact as if he could see even a thing where a mo was interesting, whirling poly and vegetables.

"No, eat normally"

"Go ahead, master"

Marifa waters an empty cup of yu.

Nung stubbornly refused, no matter how many times Yu invited him, that he could not eat in the presence of the Lord. Nung still held back on Muss' side.

Nina and the others pound their tongues on a sumptuous meal in the morning. Lena, greedy against Namari, had eaten too much or her little stomach was lying on a pocky, swollen couch. Joseph and Muss drank Yu's garlic-fried stuff into a liquor dish, pouring wine into it.

"Drink so much in the morning, I don't care what happens later. And he eats garlic like an idiot, but that's not eating a lot."

"Yu's rice is not good. I can't stop eating this fried garlic."

"Phew... you may have drank too much indeed. I'll give you a break."

Joseph, who ignored Yu's advice, would go to the bathroom after this.

At the end of breakfast everyone was indulgent in the living room. Namari hung a little on Lena, and Nina touched part of Yu's body, always somewhere. Marifa kept silent and refrained from Yu's side, but that was all she was happy with, her ears moving in pimples and small pieces. Momo was playing tangled up in Yu's hair. It was an incredibly noisy sight not long ago when Yu was acting differently from Nina and the others.

"Yu, are you going somewhere today?

"Oh, I need help with the Adventurer Guild. After that, we'll have to talk business with Mago, and we'll have to go to Grandma's."

"I'm coming too ~"

"You and Lena can't."

"Why not? I'll definitely follow you!

Keep Nina hugging Yu like a child, Yu takes a book out of the item pouch on the table after cleaning it up.

"... what about this book?

Lena, who was lying on the couch, stares at the book intriguingly.

"This book contains information about each job that Russ and I have looked into. Read it before I get back. Of course, I'll have Marifa read it later."

"Yu ~, I'll read the book properly"

"It's not just the book."

When Yu says so, he takes one chest after another out of the item pouch. They ranged from regular looking chests to mystically impressed chests to chests that at first glance could be seen as disastrous.

"Yu, yu...... what's this?

"It's the chest I got. The chest here is set with a trap. Nina needs to leave one untapped by the time I get back.

By the way, it's a chest I got in a labyrinth above B-rank. If we fail to lift the trap, we're in big trouble. "

"Ha, big deal?

"If you don't want to die, you're willing to disarm it. Russ, you follow Nina. Don't forget the world."

"Master, so what about me?

"You can't take Russ to the city. I'm still glad we were adventurers and mercenaries yesterday, but if we go to the city, we'll make a fuss."

Russ drowned her head even as she roared "plucky," unable to contest Yu's best words.

"Russ left a message!

"What, Namari, are you coming?

"Go! I'll wait outside."

Is Namari happy to go out or jump straight out into the garden?

"I don't talk business with Mago..."

"What is it? Muss, are you complaining?

Muss, who was also on the couch, gets up and stares at Yu.

"Speaking of magos, even Cummer is a big dealer in the fingerfold. Recently, we've opened stores in Samantha, the fortress city of Molly Gould."

"So?"

"No, think I got permission a lot. Especially since Viscount Cipriano, ruling the city of Samantha, is known for his greed."

"Is that so? Cipriano (...) has been calling from over there. Apologize for letting me open Mago's shop."

"Huh, and it's an anomaly that the number of stores has more than doubled in the last few months, right? Where is that funding coming from?

"Mago has been running on a city camer for years. If it's money, it's hidden."

"I see. By the way, dragons have long had the habit of storing gold and silver, jewelry, but I wonder how much treasure the ancient dragon Magranals had been saving in the Kingdom of Oudon that had become half legendary?

Muss pours the wine down his throat at all at once as he tilts the glass with pleasure. Isn't Joseph interested in talking about gold or something? He drank fine wine like hot water with fried garlic in his dish.

"Are you trying to tell me I'm funding Mago? Assuming it is, what would you do?"

"I won't do anything about it. But are you interested in how much Yu's financial power is?

"Is there a fool who teaches his own financial strength to a guy who could be an enemy"

"Oh no, I won't be Yu's enemy."

"It's (...) now isn't it? Your feelings are of no avail in front of the nation's thoughts."

Muss never broke his grin all the time, and Yu never disturbed his emotions. Only Nung, who had refrained at Muss' side, was staring at them with sad eyes.

As Yu headed to the front door, Marifa stood and waited. Marifa had been pushed over and over again by Nina to say, "You can't take your eyes off Yu," but Nina didn't have to tell me.

Yu tries to open the front door, but when he releases his hand from the handle, he grabs Marifa's cheek with both hands and stretches it out.

"Oh, my God?

Marifa also panicked at the sudden eccentricity of Yu, but Yu's face was serious in itself.

"You, you're not doing well, are you? I don't know how I feel about people, so I don't know how I can make you feel better."

Yesterday, Marifa, who had lost confidence without any help to Russ, was overflowing with joy from the bottom of her heart more than that, even though she had to be ashamed of herself, a slave if she were meant to be, for the Lord Yu was worried about herself.

It was Marifa, whose ears as well as whole body trembled violently with too much happiness, but Yu mistakenly assumes Marifa is hurt.

"How can I get better? You don't say what you want, and I don't know what to do to please you."

Yu let go of his hand from his cheek, this time grabbing both ears of Marifa and gently pulling them aside. Every time I pull it, Marifa leaks a glossy voice that resembles her wheezing.

"Oh... oh, well... oh, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, I did."

Yu had a relief look on Marifa's words. A tired Namari was playing with Colo when Yu, who had never been upset to fight a high-ranking demon, opened the front door with a face like an adventurer who had made sure he was safe through a fierce battle.

"Ah! Dear Odono, it's too late."

"You kept me waiting. Let's go."

"Okay. Is that it? Sister Mari, your face is bright red, but is something wrong?

"Nothing... nothing... was it?

Namari and Koro looked strangely at Marifa's face dyed bright red to her ears.