chapter 21
21 . Rihanna struggles!
After Helga left, Elia came out of the bar and puffed her cheeks out loud.
“Ah! Annoying!”
Stella didn’t express her feelings by screaming like her Elia, but she could see that she was channeling her anger inside her.
Every time she exhaled, she felt the candle of life that Rihanna held within her flicker.
‘What should I do with this?’
The highest priority was not to point the tip of her sword at herself, which was accompanied by the anxiety that this spark might shoot at her, and the intense anger like an active volcano. Rihanna began to shop around her in a cold sweat to soothe the spirits of these elves.
Rihanna’s eyes twinkled when she saw a street vendor, a store selling various foods and drinks.
She hadn’t spent much time with the elves, but in her memory these crazy elves had a calm, sincere smile, at least when they ate.
I don’t know if it was because she was in front of Ain or because she really liked food, but she had to use everything around her with the feeling of grabbing straw.
“Hey, would you like to eat that?”
Elia and Stella stared at the street vendor Rihanna pointed to, then nodded at her.
Elia, who was screaming with her face flushed, said with her face that had calmed down before she knew it.
“Yes, I want to eat.”
Rihanna stroked her chest, barely able to sink in her relief. It must have been the latter.
The elves, seated at the round table in front of the street vendor, naturally spoke to Rihanna.
“You buy it. We’ll be waiting here.”
“Ugh, ugh.”
She couldn’t refuse. Right now, these elves were mad to the core, and they couldn’t have predicted what the f*ck they would be doing if they disobeyed.
My stomach boils even as I go to the store right in front of me.
I don’t hate it when people say things like that while giving them money.
Rihanna opened her own wallet and placed her 5,000 gold in her hand, which her brother had given her.
She tried to appeal as much as she could, her trembling hands, the money she was holding, and the fact that she didn’t want to say goodbye, but she couldn’t help it in the face of the overwhelming fear that threatened her life.
Rihanna ordered her food, pointing at it with her still shaking hand.
“Uh, a chicken skewer and… Please give me a fruit candy and a large drink.”
A middle-aged man with a thick beard and a bold look spoke in a loud voice.
“Yes! That’s 3,000 gold in all!”
Who cares if it’s not during the festival period, it’s filthy expensive. There’s a degree to being ripped off.
During one of her grievances, the boss took her money robbing Rihanna’s little palm and started reheating her cold food.
Before the food is served, a red drink is filled in a huge oak glass.
Taking the glass with both of her hands, Rihanna looked at her slick surface and lost her thoughts.
Shall I spit?
Unless you’re spitting, you won’t know if you mix it well.
After thinking about her for a long time, Rihanna finally shook her head from side to side to erase her negative thoughts.
No, let’s not do that.
With the skills of those crazy elves, they’ll figure out even a small amount of spit like a ghost. Yeah, obviously….
It would be better to refrain from scratching and making boils.
Rihanna headed to the table with her elves, her skewer and candy precariously in her hand following her.
However, when Rihanna left, the scenery around her round table was quite different.
The most notable change, three strong men stood tall.
‘What is it?’
An uneasy premonition overwhelms me.
Did you have an accident during that moment of distraction?
Next to Elia and Stella, three smirking men were hunting with their hands in their pockets, with unfamiliar lines.
“Are you two here? There are three of us, but if it’s okay with you, would you like to play together?”
“More than that, how old are you guys? It looks like it’s very young, but it looks like it’s in its late teens.”
Elia frowned and spoke in an annoyed tone.
“Are we 4 years old?”
I told the truth, but the men laughed out loud as if they had heard a funny joke.
His exaggerated reaction in order to somehow play with a woman just seemed funny.
They grabbed Elia’s wrist and tried to forcefully take her away.
“Ah, don’t do it too much. All elves like things like this, don’t they?”
Stella’s eyebrows twitched slightly upward at the attitude of the humans who did not give up no matter how many times they refused, and even tried to sneak a hand on Elia’s chest or buttocks.
As a result of watching from the sidelines so far, that was Stella’s unique gesture when she was in a bad mood.
Rihanna immediately threw herself into action before anything big happened.
“Hey, you crazy f*ckin’ perverts without mothers and fathers! What are you doing!”
Doing such nasty things to the elves you’ve barely appeased, are you determined to blow up a village?
I didn’t want to see an act of blood staining the long-awaited festival.
Rihanna uttered her unspeakable swear words, and she ran up to them screaming viciously, throwing candy or skewers from her hand, stretching her head with an oak goblet, then grinding her to death. He shook off the man who grabbed Elia’s wrist.
Suddenly attacked, the man cursed and reflexively kicked Rihanna in the stomach.
Rihanna rolled on her floor for a moment with her moaning in agony, but she immediately got up from her seat. She didn’t give up, she ran at them screaming.
Guys see Rihanna running as if she’s out of her mind, wince at her bewildered expression, and start hitting her in the back.
“What the f*ck is this bitch!”
People gathered around the sudden uproar, and some of her voices criticized the man who tried to drag Elia by force.
The men left her seat one by one, blaming Rihanna for her screaming, halfway to her knees, her face red from her shame.
“I ruined everything because of a strange woman. She’s almost over.”
Rihanna thought, breathing heavily.
It’s probably your life that’s almost passed over. Who saved the trash who were on the verge of paying the boatman of the underworld right now?
They should have just handed Rihanna her thanks.
Rather than rewarding the life saver, he responded with curses and violence.
Hoping to step on dog poop later, Rihanna got up from her seat and brushed the dust off her clothes.
Stella gave a small smile as if she were surprised by Rihanna’s attitude.
Under her soft lighting, Stella’s smile was brighter than usual. Seeing this, she seemed to know why men were attracted to each other. She
She’s the same girl, but she even got the illusion of her heart beating fast at the moment of that smile.
If you don’t open your mouth….
Before Rihanna’s thoughts could finish, Stella opened her mouth slowly.
“Did you come to protect us? He’s our dog, too.”
“Ugh….”
I tried to come up with good thoughts, but I couldn’t. Are you openly treating people like dogs?
Rarely did Elia smile and gently caress Rihanna’s wildly tousled hair as she fell.
“Good job. Kind.”
Receiving Elia’s warm touch, Rihanna gradually questioned her improving mood.
‘What is it?’
Obvious puppy treats, but don’t feel bad. On the contrary, I would like more compliments….
‘No, what am I thinking right now?’
Rihanna hurriedly escaped Elia’s grasp. This is dangerous. If she had heard Elia’s praise more, she felt like she would have crossed an irreversible river….
She handed the apple in a devastated voice as she looked at the food that fell to the floor and pathetically covered her dust.
“Oh, sorry about the food. I’m in too much of a hurry….”
Stella neatly cut her off before Rihanna could finish her sentence.
“Okay. I wasn’t particularly hungry anyway. And what will Dad say if you eat too many snacks in a place like this?”
“What? Then why did you ask to buy it?”
“Um, it was because it was admirable to see you trying to lighten our mood. Right?”
Elia nodded her head at Stella’s question.
“Yes. My sister is trying desperately, but we don’t have to refuse, right? It’s pretty cute too.”
She was completely played on the palm of my hand.
Still, the fact that the elves were looking at him as cute made him feel relieved.
At least there won’t be a terrible end.
Rihanna looked at her clock tower as she tossed food on the floor into her bin.
“Are you feeling better now? Let’s go to Ain. If it’s too late, they’ll get suspicious.”
Stella gave her yawn as she stretched, then recalled her child and spoke of her own plan with her blushing face.
“Yes, I am getting tired from wandering around so much. I need to get some rest in my father’s arms.”
Elia is ah! She made a noise, made a bolmen sound.
“Damn it! I’ll be the first to give Dad a hug.”
Stella gave a laughable smile and opened her mouth again in a tone that seemed to make fun of Elia.
“The person that Dad hugs first is the owner.”
On the way back to her inn, Rihanna didn’t stop for a second, she just looked at them in amazement as they bickered lightly over the subject of who would be the first to embrace her child.
She feels a little closer to them.
Rihanna’s heart was filled with a strange feeling of satisfaction that bloomed from being praised by the elves, just as a torch blooming in the center of a village lit up the dark sky.