Chapter 38
Chapter 38: Take Lei with or Not
“Mm, what shall we do with her tomorrow?” Bart looked indecisive, and Alistair fidgeted .
“Lei ish good . Shiththing . Niwe and shithiww . ”
“You were certainly well behaved while we were travelling . ”
Bart thought .
“I, I’ll take her since I can bring her to work with me . ”
“But, you know . I’m at Brendel’s too, so I’ll feel better if she was with me . ”
Doesn’t this world have something like a nursery school?
“Widsh gathher?”
“Gathher? Oh, gather? The kids get together in the afternoon, so infants stay at home until then . Most kids help out at home and some even work as apprentices like Alistair . So they don’t really go out before then . ”
Bart looked a little troubled, but then he said as if moving on, “Hey, let’s eat first . We didn’t have much choice in what we ate during our journey, after all . ” Then he opened the parcel with Mill .
The soft looking bread was cut by Mill with a knife . The meat was still steaming and looked like it had been scraped from a bigger piece of meat . Vegetables that looked like eggplant, and were larger than Alistair’s palm, was covered in sauce . There was also mashed potatoes .
I’ve eaten the mashed potato thing at home . But I haven’t been allowed to eat a lot of meat yet . My vegetables always get smashed into something soft so I couldn’t tell what it used to be . I’m so happy that I get to eat all this .
Mill chopped the eggplants and meat into smaller pieces . He put a slice of thin bread onto a plate and along with the eggplants, meat and mashed potatoes before putting it in front of me . By the way, I’m sitting on top of Clyde’s legs .
“We’ll need to make her a chair before we make the bed . ”
“Can’t we just borrow a chair?”
“We can probably find one somewhere . Let’s go look for one tomorrow . ”
I was given the smallest fork as they talked, and I stabbed the meat first . The meat stuck well onto the fork . Uh oh . I only have my front teeth for now, but I bit hard onto the small piece of meat . I don’t know what kind of meat this is, but the umami is brought out really well, and it’s tasty .
“Thashthy . ”
Everyone relaxed . The potato was soft and easy to pick up with a fork . The eggplant also went with the sauce and was tasty . The bread quickly disappeared .
“What about seconds?”
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“Don’th newd . Thhanwsh . ”
My tummy was full .
“Hmm, when I think about it, I think it’s better if we cook for Lei . ”
“We’ve been eating at a lot at restaurants until now . ”
“Shyt! We have to clean . ”
Isn’t it normal for a chef to be clean? Did it become this dirty because you guys don’t cook?
“Lei hewp cwean . ”
“Oh yeah . Alright, let’s get cleaning . ”
After that, Alistair bathed me in a bucket; apparently people don’t normally take baths in this world . Alistair watched me until I fell asleep after that, but since I haven’t slept in a bed in so long, I fell asleep straight away .
(Bart’s POV)
“Hey, what are we really going to do with Lei tomorrow?” Kyaro asked me a little sternly .
“I said I’ll- . ”
“Alistair, shut up . ”
“Well, I think it’s best if Alistair and I take her with us to Brendel’s . ”
“Then what’re you worried about?”
I, who was sitting with my arms crossed, unfolded them and put them onto the table .
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“I don’t know if we should hide her or not . And Brendel keeps a lot of small things at his shop, so I was worried that babies might want to play with them . ”
“So that’s what you’re worried about,” Kyaro said as if he were shocked .
“You can’t hide her even if you try . It was the same for Alistair . It’s better if you just tell him about her from the start . ”
Everyone else nodded too .
“And carpentry is much more dangerous . At least you work inside with magic stones . ”
“Being a chef is also dangerous even though it’s an inside job . And lots of different people come to the restaurant . ”
“We can’t leave her at home alone . ”
It’s already been decided . The four looked at me .
“Alright, fine . But, you know- . ”
“What now?”
“I went to report to Brendel today, and I also sold the magic stones we got . ”
‘And?’ Everyone’s faces seemed to say . Hunters hunt Hollows and sell magic stones . This was common practice .
“We had so many magic stones, and they were all of good quality . We earned a few years’ worth of pay . ”
“Wow . ”
“Brendel knows about Alistair’s barrier box . But he knew that wasn’t how we got the magic stones and he questioned me for a long time . I thought it was better if he knew, so I also told him about Lei . ”
“Isn’t that fine?”
“I got really depressed when I thought about the people who would appear because they would want Alistair and Lei . ”
“The arseholes from the fief capital?”
“Yeah . ”
Alistair hung his head down . The mayor was stopping them right now, but they think it’s a waste for such a strong magic user to stay in Lentforce since it’s already protected by the barrier and had the nerve to tell us to send Alistair to the fief capital .
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“They’ll probably tell us to send Alistair or Lei to the fief capital since they’re both strong magic users . ”
“Or they’ll try to make us send both of them, huh . ”
“I’m- . ” Alistair lifted his face .
“If mum and I had headed to the fief capital and they’d helped us out, then I would have repaid their kindness . But, we came to Lentforce instead, and the people here took care of us . I don’t want to go to the fief capital just to fill magic stones day in and out . I don’t even know anyone there!”
Mill patted Alistair’s shoulders .
“We won’t make you go there . You said it didn’t you? Even in Kingdom, it’s better if people don’t do jobs relating to filling magic stones until they’re 18 . They’re barely allowed to fill magic stones even when they turn 10 . It’s no good to push yourself . ” Surprisingly, Mill remembered such an important thing .
“But it’s scary for them to say that they want you . I’m- . What’s the fief capital trying to do?” Mill was right . That’s why the mayor also couldn’t agree with them .
“That’s why I’m worried . A lot of people come into the magic stone stop, and I don’t want them to find out that Lei can fill magic stones . ”
“You’re right . ”
“We have to get Lei to act like a normal baby . ”
“Pfft . ” Kyaro started laughing at my words .
“What?”
“Cause- . ”
Kyaro laughed for a while before speaking again, “Cause we all know that Lei’s not a normal baby . ”
“Yeah . ”
What did I say? It just came out . Kyaro was still acting strange .
“It’s not enough to get Lei to act like a normal baby . ”
“What?”
“If we ask Lei to act like a baby, and she does it . What kinda baby is that? Even Mill probably can’t do that . ”
“I can,” Mill grinned and joked back . Kyaro looked serious .
“She wasn’t selfish at all while we were travelling . She says what she needs to . She didn’t cry at all except for when we’d first met her . And yet, she cries for her father and brother in her sleep . That’s like an adult doing their best to keep it in isn’t it?”
“I guess so . ”
Mill put both his hands behind his head and bent back . Oi, you’re gonna fall . *BANG* Oh boy .
“Ouch . ”
See .
“But she’s cute,” Alistair grumbled .
“She tried very hard to be on her best behaviour, but she always surprises me . She pouted when we first met her and told me to hug her . She does act selfish sometimes like when she wants to walk . ”
“She won’t push herself and she doesn’t let us push ourselves either,” Kyaro continued Alistair’s words .
“She knows that we’ll make more trouble for ourselves if we don’t take it easy . ”
Lei’s a weird baby .
“I want us to be together even if she’s a weird baby . I want to treasure her . ”
“Yeah,” Mill replied in a carefree way as he laid on the ground . I put his chair back .
“I know . I know . I’ll be honest . Even I think Lei’s cute . ”
“Me too . ”
“Same . ”
“M-e-t-o-o . ”
The last one was Mill . Gees .
“I won’t hide Lei . But I also won’t tell people that she can fill magic stones . And I’ll protect her as best as I can . That’s fine, right?”
Everyone firmly agreed . Lei is going to be Lentforce’s citizen tomorrow .