chapter 23
23 – Don’t refuse money from adults
“Ha, take a look! Rail master! That, yes! There’s money saved up to run the party in the safe over there! I’ll give it all to you, please… Just once…….”
Aron begged earnestly as he grabbed my pants with a frightened face.
“I have a lot of money.”
To the point of tipping a piece of bread with a gold coin.
I don’t even want to use the money I earned from selling medicine in the first place.
Still, I was a little curious about how much money Aron had saved.
With a curious mind, I stepped into the safe he mentioned.
I tried opening the safe, but it’s locked and won’t open.
“Hey, what is the password?”
“Oh yes! It is 0425!”
Is it even your birthday?
“What does 0425 mean?”
“This is the day I was born!”
I thought maybe it was a date I didn’t know about, but no. It was a day I really didn’t know, but it wasn’t information that benefited me.
As he said, I turned the dial and clicked. The safe opened with a sound.
“Oh.”
I was a little amazed at the huge amount of gold coins piled up in the safe.
Are there more than you think?
This amount is probably about my monthly allowance.
“Anything like that would be a small help to Master Rail’s family!”
Since I asked for the password, Aron must have thought that he would be able to escape from the current situation.
I think he thought that I would take this money and pretend I didn’t see his crimes.
“Rayman!”
“Yes. Young master. Did you call?”
Raman, the leader of the guards, who had dealt with all the drug lords, entered the room again.
“Trap him so he can’t escape.”
“Yes. Young master.”
“Wait a minute! Isn’t this different from a promise!”
“When did I promise you?”
I played drums and janggu by myself, and if anyone saw me, they would think I was playing the gong next to me.
“Rayman. It’s noisy, so shut your mouth.”
“Yes.”
“Eww! Aww!!”
It’s quiet now.
Now that I’ve captured the boss, I had to think about how to handle the clear reward.
To ask the victims to return the money, the victims bought the medicine because they wanted it.
Besides, most of them are now being taken away by my guards.
How do I do it?
Do I just gulp it all down?
Honestly, that wasn’t a bad idea, but I could be punished if I tampered with money.
I’m sorry, but what can I do?
“Rayman. Take all the gold coins in the safe and send them to the guild with them. If you get caught putting money in your pocket at the moment, I will put all the responsibility on you.”
“Okay. I will make sure that not even a single gold coin is stolen in my name.”
Reassuring.
I smiled and nodded.
I didn’t know about it because I was buried by Aline, but Rayman also has excellent skills and charisma as a general manager.
Anyway, I’ll have to get some good gear as a reward next time.
In that way, the guards subdued all the remaining drug lords and took them to the guild.
We also got on the prepared wagon.
Then he gave a short greeting to the two of them who worked hard.
“You both did a good job.”
“There was no opponent that was particularly difficult to deal with.”
“I haven’t done much.”
As Aline said, they are already drunk and their minds and bodies are not normal.
That’s why they couldn’t be our opponents.
“Then what will happen to Aron now?”
“Since he is a noble, he will not be sentenced to death, but at least he will be kicked out of the family.”
At my words, Zeria clicked her tongue briefly.
It seemed that Aron’s punishment for doing such a big business with drugs was too weak.
And I also had the same idea as her.
It is fortunate that Aron’s business was nipped in the bud before it grows.
If this had not been done, this dangerous drug would have spread across the country, not only among the common people and the upper class, but also among the aristocrats.
The title of nobility has many privileges and many irrational points in this world.
So the only people who could change this unfair situation were nobles like the imperial family.
I took out her sack from her arms and handed it to Zeria.
“What is this?”
“The value of sparring for several days. And I think of it as compensation for the days I did wrong before.”
“You don’t have to give me something like this… ….”
But even as she said so, Zeria slowly began to open her sack with her expectant look on her face.
Her eyes widened when she saw the gold coins in her sack.
“What, why are you giving me so much money?”
“Thanks to that, my magic proficiency has gone up a lot.”
“All right, all right! You don’t need that much money, do you? Just be my sparring partner the next time you come.”
Zeria passed her sack of gold coins towards me again.
Of course, if Zeria comes to her mansion and asks for sparring, she has no intention of refusing.
But she thought of giving Zeria money for her hard work from the beginning, so I didn’t give up.
Every day I touched her sword and held her calloused Zeria’s hand.
Flinch.
Then, as if surprised by my unexpected skinship, Zeria’s shoulders shook slightly.
“Go, why did her hand suddenly…… !”
Zeria’s voice trembled slightly.
And she shakes off my hand.
But maybe it’s because I didn’t give her much strength, my hand didn’t loosen.
Then I placed her sack directly on her hand.
“Don’t refuse money from adults.”
“I’m an adult too, right? I’m only one year older than you!”
“Still, you’re younger than me, right?”
“That, that is.”
“So. Just think of it as pocket money and get it.”
As an orphan, I never received pocket money from my parents or relatives.
There was a time when the boss of the part-time job who was kind enough gave me money other than my salary.
-‘Jinwoo. It’s Chobok today after part-time job is over, so eat at least samgyetang at home.’
-‘Yes? If I receive this, won’t it be deducted from my salary?’
-‘Hey, is there anything you can do to get arrested by the labor office? If an adult gives it to you, you can say thank you and receive it.’
-‘Thank you. President.’
Seeing such a warm boss, I also thought that I would like to give pocket money to my younger siblings at least once.
Of course, when I was living as Kim Woo-jin, my financial situation was not very good, so I was not at the level of giving pocket money to others, and since I started working randomly as soon as I graduated from high school, I didn’t even have common friends or juniors.
That’s why I wanted to get rid of the grudge I couldn’t have in my previous life when I became the rail of the wealthy Violand family.
“Thank you, I will write well…… Yo. This.”
“There is no need to use honorific names.”
“Yes! I’ll use this money to buy things for the dojo!”
So we moved to the mansion while having miscellaneous conversations.
*
When we arrived at the mansion, we got off the carriage.
It was something I felt at the last ball, but the wagon was soft, and I didn’t feel particularly tired after traveling for a long time.
“Then I’ll come back next time.”
“Yes. See you later.”
After briefly raising her hand to Aline and me, Zeria went back to her home with the sack I gave her in one hand.
When Zeria left the garden and was no longer visible, I turned my gaze to the sky.
A crescent moon appeared in the sky as if someone had taken a huge bite of it.
There were hardly any lights in the mansion, as if everyone was sleeping.
That was the moment when I was about to enter the mansion quietly so as not to wake the people of the mansion.
“You came later than expected?”
“It definitely took a while since they came by carriage.”
“So I told you to take me with you.”
A young girl who looked like a middle school student was waiting for us until late at night.
However, his true identity was the one and only archmage in the era, and he was my magic teacher.
“So did the work go well?”
“Yes. Rayman and the other guards caught them all and took them to the guild.”
“Good job. I didn’t like him because he smelled like weird medicine from the first time I saw him at the prom. Still, since he’s a noble, it won’t be the death penalty, and it will end with being expelled from the family.”
I was a little impressed by Fenia’s calm reply.
Unlike me, who knew the future of Aron, Fenia felt a bad feeling with the intuition of a great mage from the first time she met him.
Furthermore, he knew exactly what happened to Aron after his death.
Fenia didn’t only use magic well, but her intelligence also seemed to be superior to others.
She then moved her feet into her mansion with her heart to quickly relieve her tired body.
When we opened the door, Luna, the maid who was still awake, greeted us.
“Have you been there? Rail boy.”
“Did you wait all this time? You don’t have to wait until next time.”
A maid wakes up in the morning and until she goes to sleep, she serves as the master’s attendant in the mansion or does various chores.
The intensity of the work is not that high, but working all day without a break puts a lot of strain on the body.
So after midnight, the maids in the mansion go straight to sleep.
The owners also do not call a maid after midnight unless there is a special reason.
If you make maids work until dawn, they will quickly break down because they will be tired and unable to get a good night’s sleep.
“I am Master Rail’s exclusive maid. I can’t go to sleep until the Bocchan comes.”
But my exclusive maid, Luna, seemed unwilling to bend her will.
“Ugh. Yes i got it From now on, I have to come back to the mansion soon. What.”
“…… Thank you for your consideration.”
After returning home, I was tired of washing, so I asked Fenia to clean my body with the cleaning magic.
Tak-
When I flicked my fingers lightly, my sticky body became clear.
The clothes also became dry as if they had been washed.
“Come to think of it, Penia.”
“Huh?”
I cast a cleaning spell on me and called Fenia to go to bed.
“I don’t think I will be able to attend the magic lecture tomorrow because I have something else to do.”
“Really? Hmm…. Oh, are you going to pick out a present for the little girl?”
As expected, unlike her appearance, Fenia, who is quick-witted, immediately recognized my thoughts.
As Fenia said, the day to move to Elise’s mansion is almost here.
And this time, I received an artifact from Ellis, but she couldn’t go empty-handed, so tomorrow I planned to take a day off from training to get a present for Elise.
And the idea of giving it to Ellis was already decided from the beginning.
With a light nod, I went into my room and immediately went to sleep in order to get something to present to Alice tomorrow.