The Elf Is a Freeloader

"Sorry! Yasushi!"

Ryu bows his head with his hands together and apologizes to Yasushi.

"No, never mind, Ryu. I'm the one who asked you to redeem Elle's silver and copper coins. Besides, I forgot how sharp your father is."

"Right. If you're Ryu's youngest father, it's no surprise that you think about Elle from trivial things, and bad deception won't work."

Both Yasushi and Aoi have been Ryu's father since childhood and are well aware of Koichi Hatano, the current mayor of Nikken-shi.

Easy and gentle with you, he used to take me to insect removal, fishing, camping, etc. He is also knowledgeable in a variety of ways, and there are many things that Yasushi taught him.

"That would help me, too. So... my dad wants to see Elle."

"Your father's in El?

"I wonder why?

Yasushi and Aoi look strange.

The two of us don't know why Koichi wants to see Elle. No way, it wouldn't be a simple reason to want to see someone from another world.

"I don't even know that far. But my father also says that it's never something that would annoy Yasushi or Elle. What do you think? Would you ask Elle once?

"Okay. In the meantime, I'll ask Elle. But when Elle and Dad meet, let me be present."

"I'll be there, too. I don't doubt Ryu's little father, but I'm still worried about Elle."

"Okay. I'll tell Dad from you. So don't ask for El, okay?

Yasushi nodded at Ryu's words.

I trust him about his father, but when I say I don't feel anxious at all, I lie. I'm sure that's not just me, but also Aye and Ryu, Yasushi thinks.

Whatever it is, let's talk to Elle first.

So determined was Yasushi.

Dozens of cards with one pseudonym were randomly placed on the table, the size of a tramp.

And in front of Elle, who sits in a chair, a dozen cards stacked behind him and as mountain bills.

Elle takes the top card of that mountain bill and flips it over. What was written there was the plain pseudonym "one".

"'Tsu'...? Uh... the 'one' with one pseudonym..."

Elle's eyes glide up a card with a pseudonym placed on the table.

Eventually her gaze stopped on one card and picked up that card.

"It must have been this..."

With that grumbling, Elle checks the back of the card she picked up. But there was a plain pseudonym "si" written there.

"Aww... this isn't" tsu, "it's" shi. "I made a mistake because it's very similar..."

What she was doing now was learning one pseudonym.

It's a bit of a game-like way to learn, looking for a plain pseudonym and a corresponding card with one pseudonym.

The inventor of this is Aye. Yasushi and Ryu, who heard Aye's opinions, worked together to make it using painting paper.

Elle then remembers one pseudonym over and over again for the same thing. Now I will remember one pseudonym 80% of the time, and later one pseudonym would be perfectly read if I could only remember well-resembled letters such as "tsu" and "si", "so" and "n" as earlier.

However, if you write both plain and one pseudonym, you are still not good at it, and you will need to practice it in the future.

By the way, if you're having a conversation, I can manage to say a quick hello.

Then, as he continued to learn one pseudonym, Elle's long, pointy ear suddenly shook tingly.

At the same time, she looks up from the top of the table with a happy look on her face.

After a while, the doorway continues to be unlocked and the door opens. Someone unlocked it and came inside the house, apparently.

Of course, it was Yasushi who came in.

With a delightful look on his face, Elle went to the front door to welcome you to Yasushi.

Once again, with an unexpected grin on Elle running from the back of the house, Yasushi receives translation earrings from Elle who welcomed him and wears them on his ears.

"Welcome home, Mr. Yastaka"

"I'm home, El"

It's still a pleasure for someone to say "Welcome Back" like this when you get home. Yasushi had recently realized it again.

"Hey, El. I need to talk to you for a second, okay?

"Is that a story?

Elle gave me a decent look, tilting her neck.

"Yeah. I want to talk to you calmly, so I'll get dressed first. Wait for me in the living room."

"Yes, then, I'll make you some tea"

These days, Elle also learned how to use the gas stove in the kitchen and other things, so that she could make tea or an easy dish.

Even though all the vegetables that make up the ingredients of the dish are strangers, they also have some very similar flavored vegetables in the world of El.

In addition, meat, fish, etc. seem to be basically something to bake and eat, and it seems possible to reproduce the cuisine of the other world to some extent, because even if there are differences in utensils, they are not so different to how they are baked.

However, what is decidedly different is the seasoning.

This world has much richer seasonings than El's. For that reason, Elle still couldn't cook this world's food.

Elle also seems to like tea, albeit instantly, and often sees herself happily drinking tea.

Seeing Elle like that, Yasushi was thinking of taking her to a coffee shop where she was working part-time one day and giving her a cup of tea that wasn't instant. His part-time coffee shop manager's brewed tea has a reputation in the neighborhood for being quite delicious.

But now we have to talk about Ryu's father.

When Yasushi, who finished dressing, put him in the living room, Elle was accompanied by sliced lemons in his brewed tea.

"Eh heh. This' raymond 'fruit is so refreshing when eaten directly, but it tastes so good when added to tea like this."

Apparently there were no lemons or similar fruits in the world of El. When I had previously brewed tea for Elle, she ate the sliced lemon she had served with her, and it was new to Yasushi's memory that she was so refreshed and fluffy with tears.

Yasushi, who had a recollection and a laugh in his memory some time ago, drew closer to Elle, who seemed to enjoy herself with tea in front of her when she tightened her mind.

"The mayor of this town wants to see me...?

"Oh. Even if I say Mr. Mayor, he's Ryu's father."

"Heh, Mr. Takashi was the mayor's son, wasn't he? Does that mean Takashi is the mayor of this town in the future?"

"Hmm, what do you think? He's a politician like your father, and he says he wants to be a politician... but it's not something he can say because he wants to be all this."

Of course, there was also a person in El's world in the position of mayor.

However, El's positions as mayor and village mayor in the world are almost hereditary. Naturally, there is not even a concept of elections or anything like that.

Around there, there's a difference between our perceptions, but neither Yasushi nor Elle noticed it at this point.

"But what can that mayor do for me?

"Ryu doesn't even know that."

"Ah! Could it be a job request from me as an adventurer? Somewhere in this town, in a goblin, you can get rid of it.

"Goblin...... is that a monster that's definitely hostile to people in El's world? No, no, because there's no goblin in this world."

"Ahhh... it was..."

In the world where Elle was, it was common for adventurers to request work from people in positions of mayor and village mayor.

Because if demons and monsters such as goblins come out around a settlement, it's quicker to ask the adventurer to get rid of them than to ask soldiers and others in the country to get rid of them.

Elle is now also asked by the village chief of a settlement to have the experience of crossing blades with goblins who vandalize fields and livestock.

"What do you think? You want me to meet Ryu's father?

"Yes, if Takashi's father asks you, you can't say no."

"Right. I'll call Ryu."

Yasushi quickly takes his smartphone out of his pocket and sends an email to Ryu. Between you, unless it is too urgent, it is implicitly understood that regular contact will be accommodated by email.

Elle glimpses with glittering intrigue into your hand to manipulate your smartphone in a perfectly familiar way.

"Mr. Yastaka! It was also a magic device (magic item) … Is it a type of Denkaseihin?

"Oh, this is a cell phone. It's a tool to keep in touch with someone far away. This is how you can send a sentence or talk directly to them."

"Wow, it's like 'Talisman of Dialogue'"

"Talisman of Dialogue" is the magic apparatus of El's world, which is paired in two pieces, capable of communicating voices.

However, communication is only possible while in pairs, and convenience is far inferior compared to a mobile phone that connects with anyone.

The price was also very expensive, mainly the magic equipment used by officers such as the National Army in their operations. Some adventurers possessed this, but the number is extremely small, and it is not a substitute for one or more of them, like a cell phone.

"There are other magic appliances called" Scrolls of Books, "which are two pairs of scrolls, and letters written on one side come up on the other as well." The Scroll of Books is an expensive piece of magic, but it's not as good as the Talisman of Dialogue, so there were quite a few adventurers who carried this one. "

"I see. If that 'Talisman of Dialogue' is a cell phone, does he have an e-mail function called 'Scroll of Books'? You do have a very similar tool."

Listening to Elle, it does seem that the appliance is not very different from what she calls a magic fixture.

If it wasn't science that developed in today's world with Yasushi, it was magic like El's world.

I'm sure by now, I might have used magic equipment with similar effects instead of a cell phone.

With no such stop in mind, Yasushi and I laughed at each other without hesitation while greatly amazing Elle with the photography he was downloading to his smartphone and the apps for playing music, shooting videos and playing videos.

Incidentally, I don't tell her that I set one of my particular favorites of Elle's photos taken at that time to sneak up on her smartphone waiting list.