Living as an Unemployed in Another World

150 – 5.5. Unfinished stories

5.5. Unfinished stories

Kikki, I regretted canceling the magic when I heard a loud noise when I opened the doorknob. Leaving Celine, who was still soundly asleep, I sneaked out of her room.

I may be able to hide yesterday’s love affair with the help of a spell, but if Ms. Cooper, Ms. Angela, or other adventurers find out that I’m leaving her room…… I’m afraid just imagining it. I shuddered at the thought of Mr. Cooper’s big forearms.

I tried not to make any footsteps as much as possible, and as I crept toward the counter with my heels raised, I suddenly met someone’s eyes. A woman with her pink hair hanging down on her desk was staring at me with her chin resting on her arm.

“Uh… ….”

“… ….”

Awkward silence. Faced with an unexpected person, I let out a stupid moan, and then, unable to overcome Mira’s pressure, I walked over to her table.

As I sat down, Mira turned her head away, sniffed, and sucked her nose without showing her face. The corners of her eyes were a bit red, too, as if it wasn’t just because the day was cold.

“You…… Did you cry?”

“Ulgin. Who cried…….”

Mira answered coldly. In her moment, her deep regret for her rushed into her heart. Not only because of Mira’s first love with Celine, knowing her heart, but also because it reminded me of how I had pushed them away and hurt them. I said holding my precious person’s hand.

“I’m sorry.”

“…… It’s okay.”

Mira said that as if she were going to pull out her hand right away, but her body didn’t move at all. The only thing disingenuous was her face. She asked, still not facing me.

“…… He said he would leave immediately.”

“That… ….”

Hearing her resentful words, I awkwardly scratched the back of my head. I was going to do that, and I got to the point where I was about to do that. But things have changed. The problem is not completely resolved yet…… At least, it means that you don’t have to tremble over an unconfirmed ordeal anymore.

I was sweeping the back of her hand when I suddenly noticed a ring on her ring finger. Blink’s ring that I put in the drawer of my room. Feeling my gaze, she hurriedly removed her hand.

“This, this. No.”

I smiled dejectedly at Mira, who blushed. I was going to give it anyway, so I didn’t feel like taking it back. Mira glared at me, cupping her own hand.

“…… Won’t give as punishment.”

“Well, of course.”

I readily answered. More than Celine took her first, and more than confirmed her sincerity, I am willing to take charge of her life as a woman. Because later I found out that I couldn’t fall for anyone else.

But…… Mira will never give up. Because, like she said, she’s very tenacious. There will surely come a day when we can solve this problem as well. As I gazed at her enchanting features and was lost in her thoughts, Mira looked at her and asked me.

“So…… What are you going to do next?”

Just as I was about to answer, the sound of two pairs of footsteps approaching from across the slope. Before long, Grace, reflecting the dawn dazzlingly through her silver armor, and Alphonse, who brought a shadow with his large body, pushed the swing door in turn. She smiled in relief as she saw the two of us sitting in the empty hall.

“Fortunately, it seems we are not too late.”

“…… Really.”

I bowed my head towards the two of them. And I told them my answer about the witch as it was. Mira was the first to speak.

“…… Are you really okay?”

Despite my words that I heard the witch’s response, she asked with a nervous expression. It’s not surprising, because the character of her that I’ve described so far is a transcendent existence that I can’t quite grasp her inner thoughts and can’t predict. It must mean that she can change her mind at any time.

“…… It will be fine.”

I thought of Celine’s face as she tried to accept me in fear and pain. She smiles faintly.

“Since you are not alone, it will be fine, I am sure.”

Suddenly, the expressions of the three people surrounding me became strange. I know that I may have changed very little. But the words are clearly sincere.

As long as there are people who believe in me, I will no longer live in a nightmare.

I believed and believed again that I would definitely be able to sleep comfortably tonight.

※

That evening, for some reason I didn’t want to fall asleep by myself, so I came down alone, holding back my sleep, and found myself face down on the counter. At the boundary between consciousness and sleep, I suddenly felt a commotion behind my back, and when I turned around, I saw that Gerald’s party was standing in front of the swing door and being welcomed by other adventurers.

Come to think of it, even those guys seemed a little embarrassed. In particular, he even caught Janice crying. I didn’t have the courage to go up to say hello, so I buried my face in my arm as if I was dying to avoid being noticed…… That can’t work Damn! Eventually, Gerald dragged a chair next to me and sat down with a burning pain in his back.

“Hey, brother is here. How are you…… Gagging.”

“I told you not to. Do you really want to go back?”

“Gerald is strangling again!”

A guy who lives on a knife’s bread blows his back with that thick arm? I’m not joking, it really hurts. Following Hilda’s voice of admiration, the inn was filled with laughter from the adventurers watching us.

Just before Gerald passed out, I let go of the bluish-looking guy. Looking at your disgusting, coughing face, it suddenly reminds me of the old days when the two of us were sitting side by side here.

‘Hello, I’m Gerald, an adventurer. Is it all right for a minute?’

‘What is it?’

‘Ah, well, what do noble people like you usually use? … ‘

If you think about it, nothing has changed between then and now. He said he misunderstood me as an aristocratic scumbag, but from the moment he asked me for the location of a high-class barn in the city, I noticed right away that his buds were very yellow. Even though that neck is still attached to the body, someday it will undoubtedly bleed for women’s problems. I bet

“… ….”

At that moment, with a gurgling sound, Janice sat next to me in silence. I don’t know what excuses to make since I was the only one at Gerald’s party who caught me crying. Although I have the belief that if it were Zenith, he wouldn’t bother bragging about it, wouldn’t he, anyway, ask for an explanation?

But, contrary to my expectations, Janice glanced at me and said,

“…… I’m gone.”

“Uh, uh uh, yes.”

Come to think of it, these guys are back after a long adventure, but I acted too cold. I reflected again and got up from my seat.

“Hilda, don’t you guys want something to eat? I’ll shoot it to commemorate your return.”

“Oh! Guys, Jin is going to treat you tonight!”

“Really!?”

“Hey, I believed you!”

“As expected, blue adventurers are different no matter what!”

“Let’s do what we can’t do! I will admire you!”

“Damn it.”

Who dares to speak so loudly? I fed honey chestnuts to Hilda’s dense orange crown. Away from the screaming Hilda and her other adventurers, I made my way to the counter as if running away. At that moment, Celine’s eyes met as she came out of the kitchen.

“…… Ruler.”

She held out to me a tray of wet cups or plates. It’s hard to believe that she was the woman who begged me so much yesterday, with a calm face…… The girl who was doing it eventually ran away like a lie when her eyes met mine. I’m a little embarrassed.

However, when I suddenly saw her changed back, I involuntarily opened her eyes wide. Celine always had a lot of worries and sighed deeply. She didn’t even relax when she tied her hair up. Her soft hair was pulled tight behind her to give her a round shape, and her piercing eyes would shoot straight at everyone.

But…… I smiled involuntarily at the little tail that was now gently tied down, wagging gently at the back of her head. It is not only me who has a change of heart. Seeing my face, Gerald asked, turning to the kitchen where Celine had disappeared.

“…… Is it my mistake again?”

I didn’t answer. Instead, he buried her face between her arms pretending to be drunk to hide his reddened face. Now I’m really sleepy…….

※

One cold winter day at the age of thirteen. The first time I met him was when I was out in the backyard emptying a bucket of dirty water.

‘Over there.’

The first voice I heard stopped me from struggling with the weight of the bucket. The moment I looked back, I involuntarily let out a moan. It was because there was a handsome man with dark hair, whiter skin than his mother, and a handsome prince from a fairy tale.

‘Are you working at the inn here?’

‘Yes, yes. Why, why are you like that?’

I stuttered in reply. To me at the time, the prince was never just a beautiful being. This is because my parents always told me to be careful about getting involved with people of noble status. He told stories of people who were taken away after being disliked by those in power, and he refrained from talking about the city at all so that his one and only precious daughter would not go through something bad.

‘The extra room I can stay with this…… Is there?’

He asked me, holding a few silver coins or copper coins open in the palm of his hand. Even though I was young, I could see that he was no ordinary person, and that he shouldn’t accept a suspicious person like him. But…… I remember him looking very tired. So I nodded. When I pointed my finger at him and said I could stay seven nights, he smiled and took the bucket from my hand. And…… Burton brought me water instead of my hand in return. I still remember the back view.

He stayed at our inn, but he was just renting a room and he never left the room. He often skipped even meals. As he walked around the hall with a haggard face, his mother asked her father.

‘Honey, what should I do?’

‘…… It’s two days ahead. Let’s wait until then.’

‘Still, kicking them out…… He seems like someone with a story.’

‘Angela, have you forgotten already? What could have happened to you in the past? It’s best not to get involved with high-ranking people in the first place.’

Rather than listening to my parents’ stories that I couldn’t understand, I only grew worried in my young mind, seeing him not eating well and not sleeping well. Sometimes I see him in the hallway when he tries to stroke my hair and then stops, his eyes look so sad.

When I passed his door in the middle of the night one day, he would moan and beg for forgiveness like someone who had been seriously injured. Because of that aspect, his parents would have been reluctant to let him stay. I mustered up the courage to enter the room where he was sleeping. My mom always put her hand on my forehead when I had a cold. When I put her little hand on that fiery forehead…… He then groaned and fell asleep.

A week later, he begged in front of his parents to let him stay at the inn. He pleaded that he had nowhere else to go, but Dad crossed his arms and shook his head pitifully. That’s when I swarmed for the first time. For the first time in my life, having lived as a kind and obedient daughter, I acted recklessly. Her father, who had been stubborn, had no choice but to pull her mother’s skirt off.

Thanks to me, he stayed at the inn, but he didn’t change much. I feel sorry for him who has no motivation in everything and lives day by day as if he had a fatal disease and is stared at…… I used to vomit in my young mind.

‘Brother, can’t you live a little harder?’

‘Hard work? …… Why should I?’

Seriously, a face asking what that means. I offered him the biggest deal I knew at the time.

‘You have to work hard and be sincere, my dad said that you can make a lot of money!’

‘Do I need money?’

‘I don’t need it!’

‘Where?’

‘Uh…… Buy a house or, um, get married?’

He chuckled.

‘Well, that sounds too soon for a little lady. And, I’m not getting married. There’s no one to do it.’

‘Not a little lady! Mmm, then let’s do this.’

‘What?’

‘When I become a real lady later, I will marry you. So try harder! I am popular with my peers. I’m going to live in a very, very nice house, so I’d better work hard from now on?’

He looked surprised for a moment and then…… Soon, he smiled for the first time and stroked my hair.

‘Yes, then. Okay.’

‘Really?’

Instead of…… My eyes are high After I become a real lady, I’ll think about it when I bring it up again.’

‘Yes!’

“…… While doing so.”

I looked at Jin’s face lying on the counter and muttered. Seeing that comfortable smile reminded me of yesterday. Just imagining it makes my lower stomach throb, my spine stiffens, and my face heats up for no reason.

A feeling of embarrassment that I feel for the first time in my life. It was definitely Jin’s mistake to dare to feel this way. I headed to the backyard to get some fresh air. A bare tree with not a single leaf left welcomed me. At that moment, I suddenly felt something catching my feet, and I lowered my head.

There, very faintly, unknown grass grew very green.

I crouched down and slowly savored the signs of life.

It’s already spring.