Chapter 130 (1/2)

Volume 2

Chapter 109

「Phew, what a nice day. The kids’ clothes will dry off quickly in this weather.」

After feeling the strong sunlight illuminate me and its heat, I took the dried clothes of the children off the clothesline.

After I took the last piece off the line, I looked down on the empty line.

「…」

It’s been two months since my husband died.

I could have never imagined living daily without my husband there beside me until now.

「Oh! Working hard again today I see, Ms. Myun!」

「Oh, Yufon.」

The female head of the firm appeared as she gave us thing things like before at the orphanage.

She was a childhood friend and when my husband and I founded this orphanage, she would aid us now and then.

「I found myself wanting to eat your food now and then. Say, I brought you some things like I usually do, so here.」

She smiled brightly and shook open the bag of things for me.

「May I? Listen no need to dawdle, I mean, I don’t know what’s happened, but you’re really having a hard time lately, right?」

Many of the businesses had lost money, at least I’ve heard so.

And with this disaster, Yufon’s business had been going downward.

I know that she’s been working like crazy to make ends meet.

「Oh, all that? I don’t know why, but it’s seemed to have been taken care of.」

However, Yufon knew that even though she tried to blow off my worries, she still had a rumpled brow that she scratched at troublesomely.

「I know you already heard, Myun, but lately businesses have had all their money disappear, right?」

「…yeah.」

She seemed to be at a loss when she said “businesses.”

During the time of adventurers, businesses were looking to buy the 『Stone-leaf sword』my husband found in a dungeon.

My husband never wanted the sword to be sold. However, he died, and that sword, the only thing that returned with him, had to be sold after almost being threatened to part with it.

The only thing that I got in exchange for that keepsake was several piles of money.

In order to protect the orphanage he left behind, that was all I could do, but, just hearing the name of the fellow who bought it made the hole in my heart open wide.

Even after Grond’s business collapsed, Indifference was all I felt from it.

「I can’t say this too loud, but…somehow the money all came back.」

「?」

「Well, it’s a bit embarrassing, but it was the same as when it disappeared. There was actually more money in the bags then when it disappeared. It seems the other businesses had the same thing happen.」

「That’s a pretty mysterious story.」

「…no,no, this just doesn’t end by being『a mysterious story』. I mean, someone getting in and out of my vault?! I’m going to be totally ruined!」

Yufon shrugged and sighed with a look of total abandonment.

「Anyway, that’s it. At least now I can show my face again. I decided to take a trip since a feel a little better. Do you think you can make something that will bring me back to life? I’ll be waiting inside.」

Yufon said that and walked in the building alone.

「Geez, Yufon…I told you it would be okay.」

I sighed and looked at the empty clothes line again.

She felt better so she decided to show her face, I know it’s hard to be the head of the businesses, but still…

Still, she is a close childhood friend.

「…the kids should be back soon, so I have to make something good for everyone!」

「TEACHER!」

Speak of the devil. I could hear the young kids’ voices from far away.

As I turned to them, I could see them running towards me, hands waving.

They must be coming back from play now that noon is near.

「Misses Myun! Look! I made a present! A mud pie for you!」

「No, Kelly! A woman’s not happy with something like that…」

「Whaa? Hey, Shen Fa, we made this so shiny too.」

Kelly opened his mouth, unhappy about Shen Fa’s comment.

The sun caught the boy’s hand, and the mud pie shone in the sun like a golden coin.

「Yeah! Misses Myun is a lady, so she’s not going to like it like Shen Fa said! That’s why boys are stupid!」

Behind the two, Toria came running with her comment following.

Since Toria had just gotten taller, there was no way she was going to play along with a little boy.

Even if she’s young, she’s still a woman.

「Misses Myun, lean down, lean down!」

「W…why?」

「Just do it!」

「Okay, okay.」

Toria was hiding something behind her back and she, unable to wait, was pulling at me.

I leaned down as she asked, and Toria quickly laughed and stuck something on my head.

「Heh heh, a present for teacher Myun!」

「Wah, Misses Myun looks like a princess!」

「Wow, teacher, you’re beautiful!」

「Huh? What is this?」

I took a flowery crown off of my head and gazed at it.

This crown of yellow and white flowers was like a beautiful tiara from a fairy tale

「It is very beautiful, just like a tiara.」

「Heh heh, I made it!」

「Me too! Toria and I made it together!」

「But, can I put it back on your head again!? Let me put it back on! Stoop down!」

「Heh heh, okay, then please.」

I stopped to one knee and after fixing the tiara a bit, Toria place it back on my head.

Toria and Shen Fa then danced around shouting about how beautiful it was.

「Hmph! Well, my mud pie’s pretty good too! Look, see how it shines! Women like jewels and stuff too right?」

「Gosh, you’re totally wrong, Kelly, women don’t like shiny things, but jewelry. That’s why that mud pie won’t work, but stuff you can wear is what they like!」

「Wha? That’s not right at all, right Shen Fa?!」