CH 19
[The Idiot Went and Back]
‘Netherworld Guard Palace’.
As the name suggested, it was a facility where people who keep the order of the Netherworld gathered, and Iris Niflheim also belonged and worked there every day.
Originally, she, who was the niece of Anubis – the lord of the Netherworld, shouldn’t be doing such a subordinate work, but sitting in a position closer to a manager as she had a proper bloodline.
However, she threw that position and thus acted as a guard for the Netherworld every day. She had no regrets about the choice she had made and she was proud to lead such a fulfilling life.
“Iris-san, you have a visitor.”
“A visitor? Who is it?”
“It’s the boy from before.”
Hearing that, Iris guessed that it was Sakurai.
When she went to the waiting space after the tidying up the documents she got in her hands, she saw Sakurai sitting on the sofa, looking small and quiet, working hard on his knitting.
From outsider’s perspective, he seemed to be doing that just to kill time, but Iris’s Magic Eyes visually caught the ‘heat’ emanating from him.
Although it was not as much as it was in the ‘Tower’, the flame reached the ceiling and made her felt like it was pricking her skin.
“Make a loop and +1, knot it together and +1, when a row is formed +14… I see, when the weaved loops formed a row, it will increase as bonus, huh. The Knitting skill sure is like a puzzle game, interesting…”
The wool mufflers that were mass produced from his fingertips that ceaselessly continue to speed up in movement in proportion to his growing ‘heat’, were piling up like a mountain beside him and were beginning to spill to the floor.
When the thread was used up, he took out a new wool ball from somewhere, and when she noticed it, he even began drawing vivid gradations with multiple types of wool balls, looking as though it was some sort of a performance.
“Uhi, uhihi… good, this is good…!”
The smile he made without minding others’ eyes because he couldn’t hold back the joy from deep inside his heart could be said to be looking insane rather than looking ‘happy’. Because of the creepy feeling he emitted, she even suspected that he had taken a strange medicine.
(That child is really… geez…)
Because more and more guards in the surroundings began to show the color of caution, Iris who was holding her head decided to speak to Sakurai.
“Err, Sakurai-san? Sakurai-saaan?”
“……………Eh? Ah? Ahh, hello, Iris-san.”
“It’s good to be absorbed in something, but please keep it in moderation. This place is the Guard Palace, you know?”
“No, it’s not that I’m absorbed in it… Uwa, what’s with all these mufflers!?”
Seeing Sakurai astonished by the mountain of muffler, which had a total height of 6m, Iris was a little surprised. This habit of being absorbed in something probably should be corrected somehow.
“So, do you need something today?”
“Ahh, um. First of all, I want to say thank you. Thanks to Iris-san, I reflected on various things I did the past… and I have reconciled with Higaki for the time being. Thank you very much.”
“That is good. I did believe that you two would be able to face your own mistakes and move forward.”
Iris was delighted, looking at Sakurai who was holding a muffler and bowing his head.
Because his head coincidentally lowered to the right position, Iris unknowingly stroked Sakurai’s head. The stiff hair peculiar to boys was not soft to the touch, but she did not dislike the feeling.
“I feel itchy for some reason.”
“Oops. Pardon me. I am being over-familiar, am I not? I apologize.”
“No, don’t worry about it. So, you see, I have something I need to do.”
“Yes, what is it? I will cooperate as long as it is something within my capabilities.”
Iris who smiled softly looking at Sakurai raising his head, seemed to be in a good mood no matter how one saw her, and in fact her mood was so good that she was willing to cooperate in most things.
For her who had a meddlesome part fundamentally, the growth of Sakurai who had tremendous ‘heat’ in his body was something to be proud and happy about as though it was her own.
That was why, looking forward to what he would say next and what kind of growth he was heading for, her smile grew wider.
As for Sakurai, after exhaling a little as though to calm himself, he stared at Iris’s eyes with a determined gaze and spoke with a voice that was audibly clear to the surroundings.
“Since I can’t challenge the ‘Tower’, I’m thinking of trying to work hard on picking up women, but how do you hit on someone, Iris-san!!!”
“Shall we go to the reflection room for a moment, Sakurai-kun?”
The guards around later said,
What a stunning iron claw.
‘Netherworld Guard Palace’.
As the name suggested, it was a facility where people who keep the order of the Netherworld gathered, and Iris Niflheim also belonged and worked there every day.
Originally, she, who was the niece of Anubis – the lord of the Netherworld, shouldn’t be doing such a subordinate work, but sitting in a position closer to a manager as she had a proper bloodline.
However, she threw that position and thus acted as a guard for the Netherworld every day. She had no regrets about the choice she had made and she was proud to lead such a fulfilling life.
“Iris-san, you have a visitor.”
“A visitor? Who is it?”
“It’s the boy from before.”
Hearing that, Iris guessed that it was Sakurai.
When she went to the waiting space after the tidying up the documents she got in her hands, she saw Sakurai sitting on the sofa, looking small and quiet, working hard on his knitting.
From outsider’s perspective, he seemed to be doing that just to kill time, but Iris’s Magic Eyes visually caught the ‘heat’ emanating from him.
Although it was not as much as it was in the ‘Tower’, the flame reached the ceiling and made her felt like it was pricking her skin.
“Make a loop and +1, knot it together and +1, when a row is formed +14… I see, when the weaved loops formed a row, it will increase as bonus, huh. The Knitting skill sure is like a puzzle game, interesting…”
The wool mufflers that were mass produced from his fingertips that ceaselessly continue to speed up in movement in proportion to his growing ‘heat’, were piling up like a mountain beside him and were beginning to spill to the floor.
When the thread was used up, he took out a new wool ball from somewhere, and when she noticed it, he even began drawing vivid gradations with multiple types of wool balls, looking as though it was some sort of a performance.
“Uhi, uhihi… good, this is good…!”
The smile he made without minding others’ eyes because he couldn’t hold back the joy from deep inside his heart could be said to be looking insane rather than looking ‘happy’. Because of the creepy feeling he emitted, she even suspected that he had taken a strange medicine.
(That child is really… geez…)
Because more and more guards in the surroundings began to show the color of caution, Iris who was holding her head decided to speak to Sakurai.
“Err, Sakurai-san? Sakurai-saaan?”
“……………Eh? Ah? Ahh, hello, Iris-san.”
“It’s good to be absorbed in something, but please keep it in moderation. This place is the Guard Palace, you know?”
“No, it’s not that I’m absorbed in it… Uwa, what’s with all these mufflers!?”
Seeing Sakurai astonished by the mountain of muffler, which had a total height of 6m, Iris was a little surprised. This habit of being absorbed in something probably should be corrected somehow.
“So, do you need something today?”
“Ahh, um. First of all, I want to say thank you. Thanks to Iris-san, I reflected on various things I did the past… and I have reconciled with Higaki for the time being. Thank you very much.”
“That is good. I did believe that you two would be able to face your own mistakes and move forward.”
Iris was delighted, looking at Sakurai who was holding a muffler and bowing his head.
Because his head coincidentally lowered to the right position, Iris unknowingly stroked Sakurai’s head. The stiff hair peculiar to boys was not soft to the touch, but she did not dislike the feeling.
“I feel itchy for some reason.”
“Oops. Pardon me. I am being over-familiar, am I not? I apologize.”
“No, don’t worry about it. So, you see, I have something I need to do.”
“Yes, what is it? I will cooperate as long as it is something within my capabilities.”
Iris who smiled softly looking at Sakurai raising his head, seemed to be in a good mood no matter how one saw her, and in fact her mood was so good that she was willing to cooperate in most things.
For her who had a meddlesome part fundamentally, the growth of Sakurai who had tremendous ‘heat’ in his body was something to be proud and happy about as though it was her own.
That was why, looking forward to what he would say next and what kind of growth he was heading for, her smile grew wider.
As for Sakurai, after exhaling a little as though to calm himself, he stared at Iris’s eyes with a determined gaze and spoke with a voice that was audibly clear to the surroundings.
“Since I can’t challenge the ‘Tower’, I’m thinking of trying to work hard on picking up women, but how do you hit on someone, Iris-san!!!”
“Shall we go to the reflection room for a moment, Sakurai-kun?”
The guards around later said,
What a stunning iron claw.
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