Side Story 32
I narrowed my forehead. Why is he suddenly cursing?
“No, Gae jashik……? Gae saekki? Michin gae?” (T/N: cursing word, can refer to son of bitch, motherfucker, etc)
“Hey.”
I was just listening, then step in. Hearing what this man was saying made me couldn’t stay still.
“What are you doing? As you walk through a narrow path, you could sometimes collide with each other, but curse so badly because of that…….”
I disciplined him with the sense and heart that I should take care of my people.
Dylan's appearance suddenly caught my eye and her behaviour was very strange.
“……?”
She covered her mouth desperately, shook her body, and soon broke her laugh, saying she couldn't stand it.
“Ahahaha! I'm going crazy, haha haha! Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's not because of Madam, it's because……wahaha!”
Dylan was about to roll on the ground like that.
I turned my head as I watched her unusual reaction.
Sir Davery had a very awkward face.
“Oh, that's….. that's my nickname.”
“Huh?”
“When I was in Hidden, ehm, that’s what people called me…….”
“Ah.”
I looked back at the passerby. The passerby scratched his head and apologized for the situation.
“I'm sorry. I'm just glad to see him after a long time, and without any explanation, I just…….”
“No, no.”
I waved at the apologetic passerby.
Then I remembered what I had just said again.
‘Curse so badly……'
‘Curse so badly….'
‘Curse…..'
“Khhmm.”
I looked up at Sir Davery with a faint cough. I don't know how I look right now, but I chuckled first.
“You have a unique nickname. Sir.”
“………thank you.”
“Friendly. Well, right. It's very friendly.”
“……Yes, thank you for that, too.”
I have nothing more to say.
Sir Davery's awkward face remained unchanged, and I just decided to stop talking.
“Ahahaha……Heuk.”
Dylan laughed and ended up crying.
***
A few days later, before I got back from Hidden, I simply went out to the plaza with Ash to watch the play.
It was the same play that I got the ticket from a merchant who used to cheat with a fabricated crossbow.
There was only one ticket, but there was no reason that Ash couldn't get the other one.
In any case, the plaza was close to the mansion, so I took a leisurely way to watch the play and after watching the play leisurely I thought of this.
‘It's not fun.’
The play was not very good.
It’s even beyond the ‘not fun’ level. No, why is it so lame?
The production is bad, the content is bad, the stage is bad, and even the actor's costume is bad.
Everything was surprisingly lame. But one.
‘Except for the face.’
The main actor's face was the only one that didn't get wrinkled.
As soon as I finished watching, I could see where the fame of this theatre came from.
‘It was a famous play because the actor was handsome.….’
If I had known before, I wouldn't have seen it.
It's a waste of time and mental strength. The actor, who is famous for his good looks, looked like a squid in front of Ash.
“…….”
“Why?”
“Nothing.”
I stared at Ash's face and turned my head. I was a little proud.
After watching such a boring play.
“Business card? To me?”
“Yes.”
I wonderfully accepted a small card from Bessie.
Business card? Did this happen in my name?
And as soon as I flipped the business card, I opened my mouth.
[Cleaner's best cleaner.
Please find the cleaner at the cleansing bar. We clean trash anywhere in the country.
The amount will be determined after consultation, and a discount will be provided to those who bring this business card.
We are always waiting for requests from all of you who are tired of trash.
*However, if the client is trash, the client will be cleaned.]
“…… Aha.”
I put down the business card and smirked. Bessie asked.
“Lady, did you have anything to clean up?”
“Well, I don't know.”
“Don't bother using people and make me do it. If it's hard work, let’s Alex do it.”
“I will.”
Instead of explaining what kind of cleaning this business card says, I quietly removed it.
A week later, however, it was reported that a wanted criminal was caught killing Viscount Jugodosan and Baron Genium.
“The criminal is caught?”
I looked at the butler with embarrassed eyes.
“Yes, the criminal was a man in his 20s, and according to testimony, he had a lot of dissatisfaction with society…….”
“What about portraits?”
The butler soon brought me a portrait of the criminal and other personal details.
I sighed as soon as I saw it.
‘It's someone else.’
I was surprised.
The face in the portrait was completely different from the masked man I remember.
The mask covered only half the man's face. There’s no way such a square jaw could be gone in weeks. The eyes here are different, too.
‘The height and body size are different as well, and then this is.….’
While I was wondering if the innocent person was falsely accused, a line of the criminal's personal details caught my eye.
[26 previous convictions]
“…….”
“It is said that he had a lot of dissatisfaction with society.”
“No, let's say that he’s the true one, but 26 previous convictions? He has committed 26 crimes, and he has been released and walking around?”
He’s even still in his 20s.
“There appears to have been an aristocrat behind the criminal. He must have been village maintenance.”
“Huh.”
“Even that doesn't seem to have worked this time because of the murder of the aristocrat……”
The butler wondered why such a man had committed the crime, murdering the aristocrat, and I kept my mouth shut.
‘Surely cleaners.'
In many ways, one cleaning was amazing.
***
The weather has gotten quite cold.
Winter is just around the corner, and I've significantly reduced my chances of going out far since then.
I only took a light walk and devoted my time to prenatal care in the mansion.
‘Well, even if it's not prenatal care the……….'
Read a book, then read a book again.
I would read a book if I had nothing to do, I would read a book if I had time, and I would read a book when I need to think about something, even before going to bed.….
‘I wish a smart child will be born.'
Is this too much of a way of life by trying to eat it raw? (T/N: 날로 먹으려 meaning ‘the act to of trying to make something easier.)
Anyway, I was sitting in Ash's office today, as usual, turning the pages of a thick book.
Then, I suddenly stopped.
“Ah.”
“……what's wrong?”
Ash, who responded to the small voice, immediately let go of the pen between his fingers.
“No, it's not…..”
I looked at the approaching Ash who left his desk and paper and said dumbfoundedly.
“It moved.”
“What?”
“It moved, the baby. So, you know, from here to here……”
It's the fetal movement. The first fetal movement.
I've heard in advance that I'll be able to feel the baby's movements by about this time. However, listening and going through it in person is also very different.
I stammered out of embarrassment.
Ash, who seemed as embarrassed as I was when he heard me, soon asked the question carefully.
“……Doesn't it hurt?”
“Why does this hurt?”
No, does it hurt? I shook my head after thinking for a while. It didn't hurt.
I just felt…… surprised. Yeah, I'm just a little surprised.
Ash stood silently, saving his words. I grabbed Ash's arm as I saw the slightly hardened figure.
Ash sat next to me gently.
“Look.”
I took Ash's hand and dragged it on my stomach.
It's been a while since the lower belly has come out conspicuously. Thanks to this, I was now noticeably pregnant.
“…….”
“………It's quiet again now.”
The baby was quiet.
It just really, definitely moved.
‘In and out.'
The baby needs to get closer to dad as well. While I was already in such hasty trouble, Ash kept his hands on my stomach.
In the meantime, his eyes staring at my lower abdomen were quite serious.
I held my tongue in because I thought I was going to burst into laughter at the moment.
After my belly bloated, Ash became very easy.
In what sense, it was not as difficult to see his embarrassed or surprised face as before.
Maybe that's it, but he often showed his face seriously absent-mindedly. Just like now.
I opened my mouth as I stared at the delicate eyelashes and the sleek nose of a man who was distracted by my lower abdomen.
“Ash.”
“Yes.”
I thought he was distracted, but the answer came right back.
“Our baby, what should I name it?”
“…… Name?”
“Yes, name.”
Ash's rebuttal, which seemed unexpected, was interesting.
Come to think of it, there are many cases where babies are named after they are born.
‘Cause we couldn't know the gender.’
It is only after birth that one can know whether it is a son or a daughter, and usually, the name depends on the gender.
‘Or I can have two names on both sides prepared.'
But I wish I could only prepare one name.
Whether a son or a daughter, the only name my child will have at birth.
Ash quivered with a cautious look as if he had met the most important challenge in the world.
Then suddenly I saw the title of the book I had read a while ago.
[The Story of the Gods]
It is a story of a mixture of fiction and mythology that takes place in the background of God's place.
The place where God lives. The world of gods
“……Ollie.”