chapter 6
6. Doha Prius
Wagons of prestigious families are unexpectedly difficult to see.
Most of them are living in dormitories because they are far from home.
The emperor of the empire had no children yet, and the rest of the influential families hadn’t enrolled their children in the academy yet.
Thus, the only carriage seen in front of the store was the blue carriage of Sellus Company.
Today, as always, the morning business ended as I watched Sellus’s daughter, who narrowly escaped being late, go to school with her pigtails flying.
No matter how conscious they may be, it is nonsense to want the store to be clean when there are so many customers coming and going.
I spend my time cleaning up trash and traces of students that have fallen here and there. It is safe to say that there will be no customers from now until the academy closes at 6:00.
Not only is there no one to hang around in front of the academy teeming with the most expensive students in the empire.
Few people could comfortably enjoy the commercial district formed around the academy.
For example, a meal at the restaurant next door costs 200 gold. It’s about 2 million won based on the previous life, so it’s roughly the average cost of living for two people.
You might think some crazy people burn 200 gold per meal, but to my surprise, the academy students spend a lot of money.
The most expensive item in my stationery is Irmis student leather shoes, which cost 99 gold. Roughly 1 million won.
For reference, Choco Sora Bread costs 5 gold. Perhaps, if there was no purchase limit per person, the invisible giant hands would have bought the entire store.
Of course, there are children of commoners among the students, and such children would tremble and eat even five dirhams.
“Because chocolate is so expensive.”
Food that takes a lot of work is expensive. In particular, chocolate, which is considered a snack for nobles, is something that commoners cannot easily see.
It’s something I’m abnormally exfoliating, but it’s not a snack that can be eaten with 5 gold.
Considering that a month’s worth of living expenses disappear for 10 pieces of Choco Sora Bread, it was clear that the price was insane.
Doha, who buys 2 pieces of chocolate conch bread every day, must be the dragon lord’s self-restraint.
I couldn’t tell why the son of a proud family was so sad about buying and eating choco conch bread.
I cleaned up while doing nonsensical arithmetic, and the store was quickly cleaned up.
I’m free until after school. Even if you manage the store, it’s obvious that it will be finished before lunch.
“What are you doing?”
The most boring time.
I made drafts of useful ideas a long time ago, and all of them were proposed to Sellus.
I didn’t have any hobbies in my life, so I ended up lying around like a corpse.
I stretch my hand toward the top of the counter while lying down. Last night, while researching the Prius family, I fumbled and found the notebook I had scribbled on, and I picked it up and brought it into my arms.
“Jonna is really pretty.”
In the open notebook, the Doha Prius I drew is glaring at me with cold eyes.
At first glance, I thought he might look like a handsome man.
“Have you ever properly observed it?”
Coming to think of it, I’ve never seen her straight face because she’s like the wind that appears and disappears in an instant.
“You don’t make eye contact even when you’re checking out.”
All I see are thin, white fingers roughened by a fight in a Doha Prius giving out cash.
The top of the head is visible because the head is lowered. It was the head that turned the palanquin to the right.
Suddenly. I thought it would be pretty cool for her to brush her hair coolly.
I couldn’t really ask for it, so I decided to tinker with her painting a bit instead.
Lying down on her stomach, I erased her hair with an eraser and started drawing on it what I thought was a decent haircut.
I erased and repainted again and again, and I was immersed in it to the point where I had no idea how much time had passed.
***
It seemed that he had fallen asleep after putting all his energy and energy into changing the hairstyle of the Doha Prius.
Because when I opened my eyes, it was not a cot placed in the corner of the stationery store, but a strange place I had never seen before.
First, the most noticeable structure was a huge sword that reached the end of the sky.
Its appearance was rugged, but it looked like a novice blacksmith struck it at will, so it was a huge sword that he ate.
Under the sword, a bleak landscape unfolded, and bubbling lava was visible through the cracked floor.
The funny thing is, from my point of view, there was a flower field that didn’t match at all on the right side, and the lava field I just explained was spreading on the left side.
I walked forward a little and saw a sign and a pile of armor behind it.
When I approached and inspected the armor tomb, the sea dragon pattern of the Leviathan Knights that I saw while investigating yesterday was engraved.
I wanted something on earth, so I checked the sign, and the words written on it were also spectacle.
[I won.]
Simple and clear text. The writing is also very bad, so it took me a while to read.
I passed the Armor Tomb and moved toward the giant sword again. The next thing that appeared was a punching bag caught on an iron bar and countless smashed punching bags piled up behind it.
Surprisingly, punching bags existed in this world. It’s because the production cost is expensive, but it’s a popular product that samurai with a bit of money prepare one by one at the gymnasium.
Anyway, there was a picture of a very ugly demon attached to a punching bag standing empty in an unexpected place.
I felt it was a top plate I had seen somewhere, but when I looked closely, it was assumed to be the face of the former demon king who died in the war. In the corner of the paper, it was written in small letters that he was a 10-year-old.
Similarly, I was beaten so badly by my fists that even though it was a painting, the ink smudged and it was difficult to recognize the shape.
I ran into a very, very familiar object.
The armor tomb and the punching bag were different, but compared to what was placed in front of me, they were nothing more than child’s play.
“Choco… Conch bread… House?”
Isn’t there such a story among the old fairy tales I read in my previous life?
A house made of sweets, or something that lured children with sweets and harmed them.
The giant choco conch bread had an atmosphere in that context.
If there is a difference from the bread sold in the store, it is as big as my stationery and has a side door that is incongruously small.
And that it was smeared with dust and dirt and slightly dented, as if it had been rolled on the ground several times.
Like the children who followed the candy bait, I also approached the Choco Sora Bread house in a daze.
The side door without a lock is literally used to separate the outside from the inside. It had no more meaning than that.
The entrance was a bit small, perhaps because it was made to fit the height of the resident, and I crouched down and entered the house.
As soon as I entered the house, the sweet scent of chocolate and savory flour made my head dizzy.
The interior was plain. There were traces of eating here and there, but it was still worth looking at.
I thought there would be no one, but changed my mind after seeing the huge king-size bed in the middle of the house.
There was no blanket, but a woman in the same white dress was lying on the bed with white sheets.
In both hands was a piece of chocolate sora bread that had been eaten in half, and the dress was covered in chocolate in some places.
“Doha Prius…”
The identity of the woman lying on the bed is a Doha Prius.
It was close to impossible not to recognize his familiar bobbed hair and unusual appearance.
It was the first time I had ever seen her so close and so vividly, and I was taken aback by her looks.
The glossy black hair was spread out over the pillow.
Her white, translucent skin looked as if it would turn red just by touching it, and upon closer inspection, there was a small ruby crystal earring hanging from her left ear.
Unexpectedly, the feminine side was that her eyelashes were long and beautiful, and her high nose bridge and cute little lips drew attention.
Like me who fell asleep while drawing, she had bread crumbs stuck to her mouth as if she fell asleep while eating bread.
Unknowingly, I reached out to her.
She never meant anything bad, she just wanted to get rid of the crumbs that were getting in the way of her appearance.
It moved in slow motion as if the time of less than one second had strangely increased to dozens of seconds.
It’s almost impossible to reach. Or can I touch it?
The mind and body hesitated with one mind, but eventually came to the same conclusion.
The index finger touches her lips, followed by her middle finger.
My skin was colder than I thought, so I unknowingly flinched.
I carefully touched the bread crumbs and dropped them, and the moment I removed my hand in satisfaction.
Doha The Prius opened its eyes.
“Heo Eok!”
I was startled and tried to withdraw my hand, but my arm didn’t budge until I realized my wrist was in hers.
Creepy goose bumps ran down his spine as he turned his head toward me, giggling like a living wooden doll.
I had to face the blue eyes staring at me, unable to do anything while being held by the Doha Prius.
I thought it was black, but it turned out to be a very deep, dark blue.
Among that time, I was still commenting, and someone grabbed my back and pulled me back.
“Aagh!!”
The appearance of the Doha Prius getting farther and farther away. She slowly raised her upper body and watched me go away at a very high speed.
The terrifying sensation of falling forever without a place to step.
Soon. All the colors were condensed into one point, and she was banished from her world by being swallowed up in darkness.