Volume 1 Chapter 1.4 (1/2)

For the time being, i decided to check the extraction place of sulfur in the riverbank.

Going alone would be boring so i invited someone.

Lyle-sensei is the first candidate but because he refused the skins.h.i.+p between men the only remaining candidate is Louise.

I’ve been meeting with Louise after becoming an a.s.sistant Secretary.

It’s because Lyle-sensei borrowed part of the inn, where i’m now living as an official residence .

The Inn and the bar also functions as an Adventurer guild. It’s a small village that’s why the Inn is doing everything.

Returning to the inn after work settles in the afternoon, Louise was drinking a wine which is the specialty of s.h.i.+rejie kingdom. On the table there are wine and roasted snack on wooden plate

It looked slightly delicious.

「Oh, if it isn’t a.s.sistant Secretary Takeru-dono」

Louise lifts the gla.s.s of that was poured with wine and shows a brim laugh.

「Please, stop making fun of me.」

When i came to live here in the inn, while knowing that i became an a.s.sistant secretary, they treat me some meat (Dog meat) as a celebration. Though i was glad i about it , it became her habit to make fun of me everytime we meet.

Lyle-sensei is respected as an important teacher in the village, and Louise has been making fun of by calling me Takeru-dono because i am younger than her. (TN:Dono (どの) is an old honorific used today. It has two uses: one that is more respectful and one that is a little less respectful than -sama, only because it keeps the speaker on the same level as the one they are speaking to.)

Of course, i am very embarra.s.sed because i know that i’m not suited enough the called like that.

「 Just kidding, my bad. I’m happy that you’re now living a decent life. hey, do you want to drink together? or if you like i could fetch you crazy dog meat from now on.」

「No, Leaving that aside, Louise. Shall we go to the hot spring together.」

I thought that dog meat is also good, but because there is an unpleasant feeling to it, i have to decline. I decided to invite her to the hot spring.

「Hmm, the hot spring. I kinda wish to go.」

「so is it no good?」

She seems reluctant. Should i ask her after she get more drunk?

Louise has a preeminent style and she must have noticed my ulterior motive that i cleverly concealed to have a mix bath with a beautiful woman.

「I don’t understand the point going to the hot spring that you are talking about.」

「Eh……」

I would understand it if she doesn’t want to enter the bath together, but what does she mean that she doesn’t know the point of it.

「No, I don’t understand the point of digging a hole in the riverbank to have a hot water flooding. If, I’d like to clean myself i would just wipe myself with a hot water.」

「Hmm, I see.」

The act of taking a bath is not popular in this part of the country.

I guess the culture is different.