Cardboard Houses Do Not Tear

77 – Uninvited Guest

It wasn’t until the steam that rose from the cup had almost disappeared that she opened her mouth.

“You didn’t want to forget?”

“Yes.”

I nodded, and the prianian squad leader’s face darkened slightly. That feeling was understandable.

Even if I were the squad leader, I would be shocked to find out that the squad member I thought was an A-class was actually a regular soldier.

So I did my best to prove my normalcy.

“Squad leader, there is nothing to worry about. I am fine.”

“You say you’re fine even though you forgot so many faces?”

At that question, I nodded.

“Obviously I forgot a lot of people on the battlefield last time. But…”

I said, holding up my teacup high like a trophy.

“I have not forgotten the person who rode this car.”

“The tea is cold.”

“The tea is almost cold, but the person who drove it is not.”

I could see the prianian squad leader’s eyes tremble slightly.

“Squad leader. I learned one thing while fighting this Death Knight. If I struggle, I can at least save the people I can reach.”

And that person, now sitting in front of me with a very clear look.

“That’s why I didn’t forget the squad leader’s face.”

So clear, to the point of lowering your head and trembling.

I decided to tell her in a bit more detail to calm her down.

“And I will never let go of this precious realization. I promise you this one thing.”

The meaning of these words was simple. That I have nothing to do with suicide.

At least I won’t have to practice one of the many suicide methods I learned while clearing out corpses in front of my squad leader.

I looked straight at the prianian squad leader and said.

“So I will always live tomorrow, squad leader. I’m going to keep struggling, getting my hands dirty in the dirt, for a piece of gold. Because that’s what I can do.”

At that, she raised her head.

“Do you live while forgetting because you don’t want to forget?”

It was like warm iced americano, but I smiled and nodded.

“That’s how I live. Is there any other way?”

It must be difficult, but what can I do? That’s the only thing I’ve learned in 5 years of stealing.

“And you’ve been praising me a little while ago, but I didn’t fight alone. We fought together with the squad leader and Priest Rien.”

“But, if it wasn’t for G-House, it would have been difficult.”

“That’s right, but I just want to say two things.”

She waited for me to say something.

“It’s nice to see you alive again. Squad leader. And just forget how to forget. I tried it, but it’s pretty useless.”

“…Why are you doing both? Usually, don’t you just pick one thing and say it?”

“One is too short, three is too long. So I’m just doing two things. If everyone else is doing that, isn’t it too impersonal for me to say just one thing?”

Now is the time for self-PR. Isn’t this place?

“……”

The prianian squad leader, who had been staring blankly at me like that, handed me another snack.

I shook my head.

“I won’t take any more questions.”

“This is just giving. Mr. Ghouse.”

She told me admirably.

Drreuk.

After emptying his glass, the prianian squad leader pulled back his chair. I’ll probably put the tray away as I go.

Now I just have to let her go, put her gag on her pillow and put her in bed next to her, and put her to sleep.

But the prianian squad leader didn’t think so.

“Mr. G-House. You said earlier that there is no other way, but if there is one, would you use it?”

I nodded her head at the unexpected words she said.

“If there is, write it. But why?”

The prianian squad leader pointed to my glass.

In my cup, there was about half of the cooled tea left.

“I would like to inform Mr. G-House, who just drinks cold tea, that there is a method like this.”

“Yes?”

What made me understand the meaning of those accidental words was her hands wrapped around my teacup before I knew it.

“Come on. This will make it a little warmer than without it. It’s something you can’t do alone.”

“Squad leader?”

“If the tea is cold, ask for it to be warmed up, and if it is difficult, say that it is difficult. Because there is a squad for that.”

A scent of oranges emanated from the prianian squad leader who leaned his upper body toward me to hold the glass.

“I don’t know if you’re traveling alone, but you can ask someone else to help you if you’re traveling together, right? Between us.”

“Can’t we just talk about this? I don’t think there’s a need for a single glass between us.”

I need to withdraw my hand, but it won’t.

There was a strange light in the eyes of the leader of the Priyanian squad, which couldn’t be so, but it felt like it was bewitching me.

I’m drunk too.

“I will help as much as I can.”

“Why?”

“It’s simple.”

As my red lips parted once more, a sharp orange scent blew into my face.

“I’m your squad leader, and you’ve already done that to me.”

Hearing that, I noticed the state of the prianian squad leader.

She is drunk tonight. By day she would kick her bed in proportion to the number of letters she had listed.

Even now, at this very moment, she was enjoying her youth and increasing the number of times she would move her legs the next morning.

“It was good that I came here today. I didn’t know you would suffer this much.”

“Commander Priyanian. Could you please calm down and take your hand off me?”

“I don’t know the hand. Let’s start with the title of the squad leader and call it G-House.”

Oh my God.

After saying that, the prianian squad leader smiled faintly.

I was both delighted and uneasy at the appearance that I had rarely seen recently.

I don’t know if he’s doing that because he’s drunk, or if he has other intentions. Because when I saw that smile, my heart suddenly started beating.

So, while trying to keep her usual expression as much as possible, she talked to her.

“Why are you laughing?”

“I thought it suits me to smile, so I tried it. Doesn’t it suit you?”

I couldn’t bear to answer. Because I can’t say that it doesn’t suit me even with empty words.

But then, suddenly, she felt the characteristic smell of her alcohol piercing her nostrils.

“Hey, Squad Leader.”

“Prianian.”

Her eyebrows raised in displeasure.

I don’t know how you’re doing that to see me tomorrow, but I decided to set the tone for now.

“Yes, that, Prianian. Have you been drinking?”

She shook her head a couple of times.

“I told the maid in the kitchen that I couldn’t sleep, so she gave me a drink, so I ate a little. Did she say Plehan?”

It was a solo that I remember. I remember drinking it when Guilford gave me a drink saying it was from my hometown.

And I remember that it was f*cking poisonous. Somehow, it came to me this night.

“Where are you looking?”

“Looking at the squad leader.”

“……”

When I took a closer look while answering it roughly, her eyes were already blurry as if she were drunk.

“First of all, Squad Leader, let go of this hand.”

“I don’t like it.”

She gripped the teacup tighter.

“Squad leader, your hand is injured. Let go of this.”

“Prianian. Prianian. I don’t know how many times to say You are G-House.”

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Even while he was saying that, the prianian squad leader’s face gradually turned into a gradation.

“Are you going to take off that title if I have to give you an order?”

I couldn’t have a normal conversation with someone who was drunk. So I decided to coax her out of her room.

If you get into an accident like that, it’ll be a big deal.

“Prianian, how about we talk later?”

“Later? When later?”

‘f*cked.’

The end of the words started to stretch. This meant that the end of service workers was not far off.

I appeased her as quickly as possible.

“When you can remember what you meant by what you said earlier. I hope to see you then, Priian.”

Only then did she meekly let go of her hand.

Before I could feel the teacup getting heavy again, the prianian squad leader passed me by.

“I will not take the gag. Because that would be very rude.”

Before she opened the door, she said to me.

“But if it is difficult, tell me. I will help you, just like you did.”

Kung.

Having piled up her drunken karma in my room, she closed the door with a slight stagger and disappeared.

I probably won’t see her for the rest of her day tomorrow.

“Oh my God.”

And I thought about what the prianian squad leader had said as I slowly touched the teacup where her warmth remained.

I stood there blankly and thought about it for a long time, but no answer came out.

It was because a normal person could not understand the mind of a drunken person, just as a dragon does not understand the human mind.

***

Dubok, thump.

In the hallway late at night, the only sound I could hear was my footsteps as I went to take care of my boss.

The villa in the suburbs provided by the count was quite large.

This meant not only the magnitude of the favor he had shown us, but also the fact that I had to go through a longer and longer experience as an aristocratic butler in another world.

“Oh, that’s filthy heavy.”

Since the tray was heavy, I couldn’t even bring a candle, which is a necessity for people walking down the hallway at night.

The darkness of the countryside was different from that of the city.

As a light source, the pale moonlight leaking through the window and the shiny reflected light created when it met the wooden floor made it impossible to look beyond.

‘How the hell did the prianian squad leader walk down this path?’

In an atmosphere where anything could really come out, I complimented her on her courage.

Along with her accusations against her maid who fed her her drink as a bonus.

How long did it take?

I saw a space that looked like a kitchen in the distance.

Perhaps if you put the tray down there, the servants will clean it the next day.

Sasasasak.

Seeing the end of this bizarre training for courage, my feet moved a little faster.

And then quickly tossed the tray on the countertop. I tried to make my way to my alcove, which was comfortable, bright, and had a soft straw bed.

It must have been.

Click.

If I hadn’t heard a voice coming from far away that shouldn’t be heard in this deep night.

Sabak, Sabak.

If you hadn’t heard the sound of sweeping the floor with a shoe wrapped in a rag to dampen the noise.

I certainly would have done that.

Someone entered the Count’s villa.