Cardboard Houses Do Not Tear

76 – A Cup of Tea and Consultation

The blackout on the window has been removed.

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The full moon floating alone was showing off on a dark stage.

I put the handkerchief by the head of the bed and set the table by the window.

The moonlight was bright. There was no need to light a candle.

Squeeze.

The middle of the teacup was filled with a lunar eclipse, and a slender hand set the teacup down in front of me.

“Eat.”

Said the prianian squad leader who wore the moonlight like a veil.

Surely, moving the table to the window was a good choice.

“Thank you.”

Slowly, I raised my glass and took a sip, closing my eyes.

The inside of his chest was slowly dyed in late scarlet, slowly spreading downward.

Let’s open our eyes. She was waiting for my evaluation.

It’s a bit difficult to evaluate the favor, but if it’s something that needs to be done, it’s better to be concise.

“It is true that you enjoy tea. Squad leader.”

“Is it okay to open a teahouse?”

I nodded.

“If you retire and open a shop later, I will be your regular customer.”

Of course, if you say you’re going to open a real store, we plan to stop it.

It’s not a lie to say that you’re good at driving, but it’s not something you do carelessly in business.

Then she nodded her head. Fortunately, I think my evaluation was a passing grade.

“That was not a bad answer. Mr. Ghouse.”

The prianian squad leader put the teacup to his mouth.

The slow movement of that neck always fascinated people.

Through the white teacup, the blue eyes continued to stare at me.

Obviously, it must be an illusion.

After a while, the prianian squad leader who put the teacup down looked at me and said.

“I didn’t know Mr. G-House would like tea.”

“I don’t often talk about things like that to others.”

“Aren’t we left?”

As she said that, she saw something in her eyes, and her fingers trembled slightly.

“But it is a relationship that requires respect for superiors. Squad leader. Wouldn’t that be unfortunate?”

“Yes. The glass is empty. Mr. Ghouse.”

I restrained her hand.

“I will follow you this time. Because you are a guest.”

“Not a guest, but a squad leader. Isn’t it?”

The prianian squad leader said firmly.

“A squad leader who can have a cup of tea with his squadmates.”

At her protest, I laughed and corrected her words.

“Sure. Because you are the squad leader.”

Squeeze.

The glass was refilled, and a faint scent wafted up that she enjoyed whenever she smelled it.

“So, Captain Prianian, why are you here late at night?”

She set her glass down and placed her left index finger on her lips.

It was a very fitting look.

“Well? Can you guess?”

But the squad leader seems to have no intention of revealing his true feelings.

“Then would you like some tea?”

“Wouldn’t that be too boring, Mr. G-House?”

The prianian squad leader took a cookie off the plate. It was probably made by a maid.

“Rather than drinking only bitter tea, it’s better to eat something sweet from time to time.”

Then she stretched out her hand.

The hand, which stopped exactly in the middle of the table, gently shook the cookie around.

“And between people, conversations are like cookies.”

I stared blankly at the cookie.

A savory smell of grains and sweetness rose from the cookies cooked by dropping the dough on a heated iron plate.

How long has it been since you ate something sweet other than an apple or something like that? Saliva rose to the top.

“Isn’t this enough to draw a story, Mr. Ghouse?”

The prianian squad leader’s slender fingers came up to my eye level.

Perhaps because of her short stature, her upper body leaned forward a bit, giving off a bewitching look.

Anyway, ‘I’ll give you a cookie, she’ll give you the answer she wants’.

‘I’m not a toad giving you a new home.’

“Aren’t you going to take it?”

“I will take it.”

I picked up the cookie as close to my fingertips as possible.

“Good job.”

When I heard that, I felt like I was losing for some reason.

I wanted to give that nasty lady a shot.

“Come on. Now let’s talk, whatever-“

“The squad leader acts like a cookie, do we need anything else between us?”

“Yes?”

The prianian squad leader stopped talking.

Looking at the incontinence of that mask, it wasn’t too bad.

I raised my hands slightly.

“They give you tea and sweets like this. What is it if not something like a cookie?”

“……”

I was going to give it back, but the squad leader was at a loss for words.

Wrong reading.

I didn’t care, I chewed and ate the cookie.

I’m sure they didn’t add a lot of sugar, but looking at the sweetness, it was clear that they were baked with a little salt.

While threshing, the husks of the grains that were not completely peeled off were moderately chewed, adding to the texture.

The fire not only left the middle of the cookies slightly chewy like a wick, but also sublimated the fishy taste unique to the shell into savory taste.

‘Ah. This is it.’

When the sugar level drops, it seems that the unique feeling of futility in life disappears a little.

Even though eating a little snack didn’t solve all of that, it was so good.

“Thank you. Squad leader.”

Prianian Squad Leader looked at him and said.

“…I do it because I am the squad leader. No one else would have done this, you know?”

“Then it is my turn to return it to the squad leader.”

She said, twirling the cup with her fingertips.

“What are you talking about? Can you give me back a cookie?”

“As a member of the squad, there must be something I can do for you. Isn’t it?”

“Hmm.”

Then the squad leader slowly raised the teacup and said.

“I just came to have a cup of tea with Mr. G-House.”

Today, the prianian squad leader’s mask was a bit thin. So she was familiar with the intention.

“You didn’t want to talk about how to forget, did you?”

Dude.

My hand, which had been busy trying to hide its trembling, stopped, and my vision was captured by blue eyes that could not see anything.

Seeing that, I shook my head and said.

“I’m serious. Please don’t.”

“……”

“I don’t have enough knowledge to teach others, no circumstances to teach others, and no knowledge to teach. There is but one thing for sure.”

“What is it?”

“Experience.”

I looked at the prianian squad leader.

“Forgetting is a curse, I hate to say things like this.”

No matter how much I talk, I don’t want to say that.

“So don’t do it.”

I definitely realized this through the hill. That way, at least not for the squad leader.

“Why not?”

The prianian squad leader dubiously asked.

“Wasn’t it Mr. G-House who said to put on the gloves?”

“I remember you telling me to find another way. Squad leader.”

“Then let me ask you one question.”

I nodded.

“Hwaran must have heard about my coming up to the north. Isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

“Then…”

She seemed to have more to say. Maybe it’s an issue about the things I heard today.

So I stopped her. Because that wasn’t something I would carelessly touch.

“I decided to take only one question. Squad leader.”

Then the prianian squad leader looked at me.

“Think carefully and tell me.”

“……”

Dalgrak.

She handed me another cookie from the plate.

‘One cookie and one question.’

I decided to take one more question.

“What I want to ask is what happened on the hill three days ago.”

The prianian squad leader began to confess.

“……”

“At that time, Priest Rien was exhausted, and Mr. G-House could see his body tremble just by looking at it from a distance.”

Because her face was bathed in moonlight, she felt whiter.

“G-House, do you know why I couldn’t do anything that day?”

“Isn’t it because of dark magic?”

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“That’s not all. No, I saw the people I killed.”

“On that hill?”

Nodding his head, the prianian squad leader’s face was white.

“Everyone I shot was in that pile of bodies.”

“……”

I couldn’t remember them.

The squad leader who didn’t know what was inside me continued to tell him what was inside him.

“As my eyes turned bloody, someone I was sitting on started to speak.”

“Did you remember their faces, by any chance?”

She nodded her head without speaking.

I didn’t ask further. Because we weren’t the only ones killed.

She hasn’t come up with a question yet. That’s why she continued to listen to the squad leader’s confession.

“You killed it, you killed it” From all sides. It was pretty creepy.”

Prianian Squad Leader spoke as calmly as possible.

“I haven’t had one or two nightmares while doing this, but it’s the first time I’ve been so scared.”

“You have worked hard.”

It must be a difficult story to tell others.

However, it seemed that her hands were out of control, and they were under the table.

“But, while I was doing that, Mr. G-House didn’t care and rather subdued the Death Knight.”

I couldn’t bear to tell the prianian squad leader that I couldn’t hear it because my ears were full of tinnitus.

“Only one, while no one else can move.”

“It’s a bit embarrassing to say that. Squad leader.”

“I’m worried about you, Mr. G-House.”

The prianian squad leader, who succeeded in making people feel hot, finally got to the point.

“Yes?”

“As Mr. G-House said, I tried to find out how to forget it, but maybe you moved like that because you forgot everything. I came here as a squad leader.”

It was only then that I understood why she had come this late at night.

“That’s not it.”

The answer was simple.

“I didn’t want to forget.”

At this brief answer, she lost her words for a moment.