Living as an Unemployed in Another World

87 – 4. Silence in the Helmet (3)

3.

Iron is a symbol of status. Even the bastard sword equipped by an ordinary adventurer cannot be bought with fairy tales. Good swords often cost more than five shillings, and those made by artisans add up. Even weapons that require relatively little iron can be priced at such a price, and full plate armor refined only for individuals is something that ordinary people can never acquire. Proper knight’s armor, even mass-produced type, exceeds 10 goals.

So it’s not too much of a stretch to scream the first time a full body armor appears at the entrance of an inn through the snow. First of all, full plate armor is not something that can be seen often, and there is no way that a person with such a status would deliberately come to an inn where adventurers stay. Naturally, the remaining possibility is that the armor itself is a monster with a curse as a curse…… To be honest, even I, who had seen countless undead, felt that the rumors about Living Mail were fiction. Wouldn’t it be much more likely to see that there are people inside? Of course, my point of view was still different from that of the adventurers, and as long as there were actually people who believed in such stories, it wasn’t a problem I couldn’t argue with.

However, it is necessary to clear up the misunderstanding before the inn becomes noisy. I sighed. Fortunately, unlike last time, it was still daytime, and there were not many people in the hall, so it didn’t spread too much. Guy Punta was so startled that he hadn’t been there last time, so he kept trying to get his butt off the chair, but his short legs couldn’t reach the floor, so he was having trouble. It’s pathetic.

Before leaving her counter, she looked over to mummy and she crossed her legs and narrowed her brows a bit, then she shrugged her shoulders as if it wasn’t a big deal as her eyes met mine. It was At first glance, she seems wary, but that’s probably because, like me, the status of a visitor is her status, and the reason why she came here is the same, and she didn’t seem to dislike it at all. She hates knights for a number of reasons, but she has experience crossing the line with them anyway. There is no reason to feel ill.

After looking around for a while, he slowly moved into the room. When the armored knight walked in, the room was filled with tension, but when I readily approached and spoke to him, that atmosphere was relieved.

“It’s been a while.”

A knight nodding and shaking his head down. Anyway, for some reason, more than two months have already passed since then. I was somewhat pleased with this suspicious guest, but on the other hand, I was also worried. If a paladin residing in the capital comes to a remote village like this, it doesn’t seem like a normal thing to do. Anyway, it’s not a story to talk about standing up for people. There were a lot of stares watching us, so I deliberately took him inside with a show of friendliness.

──What is it? Jin is taking the knight with him?

──It must be someone you know. Are the rumors true?

──Rumors?

──Why, you said a lot in the past that you were a runaway boy. The adventurer’s nickname, he said.

Until there. Just one more word and I’ll give you a great slaughter. I’ll show you that even small magic can disintegrate people. When my complexion deteriorated somewhat, he clicked in embarrassment. There’s no need to make a mess with this stuff. I struggled to smile and went into the kitchen, soaked a towel in hot water, and came out. On the way, Mr. Angela poked her head out to ask what was going on, so she gave it a little fluff before making a fuss like before.

I brought out a towel and a cup of warm water and handed it over. He didn’t ask me anything, but he kept shaking his head as if he was very happy with my kindness toward him. It’s a bit burdensome to see a person with the status of only twenty people in the kingdom appearing like this. In the first place, I owed my life in the mansion, but I can do this much. I am also a person who knows what grace is.

I still don’t know how he got here without a word, but originally, he would have taken off his helmet and sat down to rest for a bit before sending him up to his room, but he had a lot of eyes, so it seemed difficult. He didn’t even seem to want to take off his helmet. Eventually, I paid attention to Mira and took one of her keys and climbed her stairs.

──Kyaaak! Coming up!

──What is it!?

The female adventurers gathered in the hallway in groups of threes and threes were making a fuss in comfortable clothes without weapons, but I waved my hand and bit them. Seeing the man in armor full of scars, the only one who wasn’t taken aback was Janice, and she maintained her usual expressionless expression. I’ll have to sneak in to help later when I go to the water.

I took him to the farthest corner of the vacant room, put the key and cup on the table, closed the door, and asked.

“What are you doing here? It’s not a distance that can be reached in a day or two from the capital.”

“… ….”

He remained silent. Oh, come to think of it, before, we used to talk in writing with a chair in the middle. He said he had a curse that made him unable to speak more than a few words a day. I was about to drop by my room to get some writing utensils and paper, but he saw me as I was about to leave the door and hurriedly said,

“Suddenly, I came to visit you, sorry.”

“… ….”

Somehow the cracked voice seemed to tell me not to go, so I removed my hand from the doorknob and sat down. A really annoying guest.

“You don’t have to force yourself to talk. What between us.”

“… ….”

Hmm, when I say it like this, the tone is a bit strange. I wanted to say that we crossed the line together, but I don’t think it’s a conversation that two men can have in a small room. Perhaps he felt the same way, there was an awkward silence in the room for a while. I can’t.

“Hey, rest in peace for now. I won’t charge you for accommodation, so feel free to call me when you’re ready to talk.”

I was about to leave the room as if I had left those words behind, but he forced himself into a voice again and asked me.

“I don’t have to ask anything, can I?”

“…… Sure.”

I don’t believe in gods or demons, but I do believe in people a little.

And he’s one of the most trustworthy people I’ve ever met in this world. Either physically or mentally. In response to my reply, he remained silent. He just did an iron grunt and dropped his helm.

“Ah.”

Come to think of it, he’s lucky. Isn’t today the day to heat the bath water? After I explained that it was time for the women to wash, and when I said that the men were supposed to wash together in groups of three or four after the sun went down, he listened for a while and shook his head hastily. What is the problem?

Ah. Well, I don’t want to show my face under the helmet, so I’m a person who eats separately, but there’s no way we can take a bath together. I was indifferent. Personally, I think that the eight-pronged abs of a real knight will quickly become popular among adventurers, but that probably won’t happen. When I bowed my head in the apology, he just kept his mouth shut. Are you angry?

“Well then, take a break.”

In the end, when I was about to leave the room, he belatedly lowered his head. Well, is it okay to keep bowing down to commoners like that? By the way, do paladins also have titles? I’m curious, so I’ll ask Celine later.

I glanced at him sitting in the chair before closing the door. Although it was not pure white armor, a symbol of worshiping the gods, the winter knight was relatively white, perhaps thanks to the light reflected in the snow.

When I came out of the door, women gathered in the hallway and looked at me, chatting among themselves and exclaiming, so I frowned and stared at them. I didn’t even have the heart to correct it any more. I gave a thumbs up only to Janice, who kept her composure, and went down the stairs.

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The women’s bathing was over when Mr. And Mrs. Cooper left the bathroom together. I thought I was going to die because I was having a hard time filling the basin full of water again in the empty bathtub. The sorcerer’s Mage Hand [Wizard’s Hand] Had weak output, so at best it was at the level of carrying a bucket. Spells aren’t very useful in this case. If she had been a witch, she would have filled a bathtub with rose-scented water with one finger.

By the way…… Shouldn’t I also pay the price for my labor before the men start digging up the hot water with their bodies flowing with the soup? I deliberately went back alone, notified them of the time, and then went back to the bathroom to get my toiletries by myself. In anything, the first start is excellent. I sat naked on a chair and scooped up a full cup of hot water and splashed it on my body. Oh hot

After pouring enough warm water on it a few times and laying down in the bathtub, my mind became more and more hazy as the steam rose up. My body is tired, so my head is also blank. I wiped the water on my forehead and took a deep breath.

I will turn twenty-two in a few days. It’s a complicated feeling. Who would have imagined that someone who happened to pass by would rescue me when I was dying in the rain with all my bones broken. And I couldn’t have dared to imagine that he would eventually try to kill me.

It is a world in which the existence of God, something with a divinity exists, but the details of how I came to this world are still unknown. Like a story in a novel, the reason why I fell from the sky without any warning. Even so, the grumpiness that made it impossible to learn magic without giving a special psychic ability, let alone a status window, is truly absurd. Although I don’t know who did it, if I find out who the culprit is, I’ll take revenge at all costs.

I pulled my knees together and loosened my overcooked legs. Come to think of it, Celine will turn 18 soon, but is Mira still 20? I suddenly remembered that I didn’t know about her birthday.

In this world, her birthday is not celebrated. In the world I lived in, it was normal to have a small party with my family, but in this world, I didn’t deliberately celebrate just getting old. Even the sons of nobles exchanged small gifts, held banquets and children’s coming-of-age ceremonies. Of course, for Mira, who has had a difficult life, her birthday would have been just one of many days.

I felt like I wanted to do something. I myself was surprised that none other than myself would do this for someone else…… Got used to it now Mira is someone who has a special meaning to me. While she hasn’t revealed anything about her witchy affair to anyone yet, we already share a past.

By the way, even if you suddenly asked her birthday and gave her a gift, it would feel awkward in the culture here. What should I say while handing it over? I wonder if it will be natural. As I frothed out of my mouth while having some silly delusion, I suddenly felt someone’s presence. I threatened her not to come yet, but who the hell could not stand it and interrupted her alone time? I had no choice but to get up from the bathtub…….

“Can I come in?”

Plop! In an instant, the whole body was submerged in water.

The identity of the visitor was none other than Mira. Without expecting my permission, she opened the door and showed herself.

Is that why you laughed like that earlier? I looked at her face with a bewitching smile on her lips and narrowed her brows. Maybe it was because of the heat, or because my vision was blurry, so I couldn’t tell.

The mind is hazy.