Chapter 14 (1/2)

—- The Commercial City Berita

It was one of the country’s leading trade cities, various products are s.h.i.+pped all over the country through its huge harbor.

Its also the closest big city to Nanami.

Even if I say that it’s close, it still takes over an hour full of breaks and the use of the teleport spell.

Today, Milly and I woke up early to get here.

Milly is such a kid sometimes, she wouldn’t open the door to her room, even when I called out to her so I had to use a spell to unlock it.

It’s a unique spell taught to support the lives of magician thieves, and sure enough, it was used for something that only a thief would do.

A thief was supposed to use the scroll for himself, but I tore the scroll up after I learned it.

As I told Milly about what she sounds like when she’s asleep, she got angry while her face turned bright red.

It wasn’t so bad though.

Huge crowds of people walked through the roads of the city.

I’m having a hard time just walking.

Milly also lost sight of me pretty quickly and started to go in the wrong direction.

I always have to look after her.

Sighing, I grabbed Milly’s hand and pulled.

“L-let go! It’s too embarra.s.sing!”

“Don’t even. You might have the time to get lost, but I don’t.”

She got pushed again as I said so.

Slowly accepting the idea, she lightly gripped my hand.

We came to this city to sell the extra accessories that I received as thanks from the caravan, but also to prepare ourselves for the boss fight.

It’s a big city.

Selling the items is going to take quite a while.

It’s not very efficient.

“What’s this? Well if it isn’t Milly-chan and Zeph-kun.”

As we turned towards the voice, we saw that it was Claire-sensei holding a large shopping bag to her chest.

There was a big loaf of bread sticking out of it.

Apparently, she was food shopping.

Come to think of it, I vaguely remember somebody saying that sensei lives around here during the holidays.

“Could this be a date? How nice~”

“Y-you’re mistaken! We’re only shopping together because he can’t go by himself right now… You see! Look, Zeph’s arm is broken!”

“Are you sure~? Recently, haven’t the two of you gotten quite close? How suspicious~”

This is bad, they’ve been talking too long…

Claire-sensei has completely entered into her meddling mode.

“Sorry sensei, we need to hurry because we’re a little…”

“Did you come with just the two of you? That’s not good you know, you need an adult with you, no matter what you say…”

I knew Claire-sensei wouldn’t get lost, but soon after we started walking she grabbed my hand that wasn’t held by Milly, and trailed slightly behind us.

The strength of Milly’s grip got a bit stronger than it was a moment ago.

Only holding on when we’re near the end…

Hey stop it idiot, don’t think about these things.

“He~y, wouldn’t our purpose for coming here be harder to achieve if Claire-sensei is with us?”

We were talking with our voices hushed.

Honestly I agree, but can you stop gripping my hand like that.

“In the crowd, let’s quietly escape.”

“Alright, alright.”

So we agreed while shaking off Claire-sensei’s hand, disappearing into the crowd.

Since sensei had a big shopping bag, it would be hard for her to chase us.

“Sorry sensei~♪”