༺ Hassan – Sodomora’s Rising Star (5) ༻
The scroll that Luna handed was quite antique looking. It was made of a very thin sheepskin that was flattened with a hamr.
The way it was wrapped with a seal made think that it just might be an exquisite docunt of sorts.
This kind of scroll docunt usually ca from the governnt offices of this world. For example, these docunts often circulated within the city hall or those shitty slave managent centers.
And the scroll issued from such a place was always deed to be a very important docunt.
“What’s this?”
“Open it up, and see for yourself.”
Luna spoke with an unusually calm tone, accompanying her voice. Perhaps because she usually speaks with so much enthusiasm in all of her words, her calmness was sohow scary.
What kind of scroll did Luna shove at now? Was it sothing like a marriage registration docunt?
With such outlandish thoughts in mind, I unwrapped the scroll’s seal with my trembling hands. Unrolling the scroll, I quickly skimd through the content inside.
『The rights to the land and the buildings in the 5th street area of Sodomora West Gate were transferred to the Bronze Tier adventurer of the Mars Guild – Luna Knox Dotty. Sodomora Market (인)1Signature.』
“Oh, what is this?”
“This is a certificate of ownership for the land! What do you think? Isn’t this great?! Now I have my own hideout!”
Luna jumped in utter delight. I also felt surprised and happy at the sa ti. I’m not sure what this ant, but no matter how you looked at this situation, didn’t it an that Luna was now the owner of a building now?
Of course, she was already a lady who owned a lot of land back in her hotown. However, those lands were, unfortunately, non-transferable, in other words, unsellable. Anyway, the fact that she could buy a building and land in the city’s center was already remarkable enough.
“Wow, that’s great. Look at you! How did this happen?”
“Let’s go! I’ll tell you once we’re there.”
Then, we walked out of the guild and went down the street toward Luna’s new ho.
Luna walked so fast that it seed like she was almost running. I even had difficulty following her pace. Well, Luna’s agility level was much higher than mine, after all.
Soon, after departing from the city’s central area, we arrived at the west gate of Sodomora. It was a kind of slum area with many hooligans hanging around its vicinities.
Since it had already been a while since I have beco active around the west gate area, sohow, I was able to beco familiar with this place already.
Swish— Swish—
As Luna and I walked and reached the corners of an alley, a group of bastards was eyeing us with interest. I wasn’t sure if they were muggers, thieves, or simple pickpockets but I knew that they didn’t have any good intentions. Sohow, the place we finally arrived at was…rather familiar…
“Isn’t this that place? The cabin.”
This place was the sa cabin where and Luna diligently indulged in carving those Moai totems.
You could also call it a dilapidated wooden warehouse as well. However, no matter how you nad the cabin, the last thing you could call it was luxurious.
“That’s right! This is the only place I can buy with all my money. But I had to buy it at a high price. I spent all my money on it.”
“How much did you have to spend to buy this place?”
“Three golds! Actually, two golds were loaned… Anyways, I bought it as soon as possible because they said if I don’t buy it now, it will be sold out soon.”
Luna spoke so more, but honestly, I wasn’t able to register any of her words anymore.
Oh, fucking damn it, three golds? I can’t even begin to imagine just how much that amount of money was. Three golds were the equivalent of three hundred silvers. I can’t even calculate just how many 3 coppers soup bowls you could get with that amount.
Anyway, Luna seed to have more money than I thought.
But, why did she buy this place for so much money? Was there any oil under here? I couldn’t help but ask Luna because I was very curious about her intentions behind this purchase.
“What are you going to do here?”
“I plan to establish a workshop. Here, I’m going to make a brewery, an elixir store, and many many more things that I have thought up to establish!”
“Ah…”
Indeed, it occurred to that we already had this conversation before. Luna planned to set up a workshop after promoting to the bronze tier and subsequently becoming eligible to get a loan. I just wanted to think of it as a little far into the future. But it seed that Luna’s ability to act on a plan was better than I thought.
Co to think of it, Luna was surprisingly really competent in the strangest of matters. Was this what a spiteful city like Sodomora did to a soft girl like her? Making her do such things, go to such extre lengths in order to survive living in this wretched place?
“But there’s still a lot to prepare. I have to fix the exterior. And several things need to be prepared for the interior too…”
“Did you only buy the land?”
“Yeah, well, just that, but isn’t it cool though? This is my land! All mine! Let’s go in! Co on!”
After unlocking the rusty chains and locks, Luna went inside to find a rather dusty warehouse.
“This is a nice place. That’s how it feels like. I’ve been paying attention to it for a long ti already.”
This place is… nice?
I didn’t realize it when I ca here to make the Moai statues because I didn’t pay much attention to my surroundings. Now that I got the chance to take a closer look, however, I could see so details that I previously failed to notice.
The overall size of the cabin was about the right size for a studio. If you put in a bed, a closet, and a desk, there would be little to no space left to fit anything else.
I wasn’t sure if this place was enough for a girl to run a workshop alone. However, what I imdiately understood with just a glance was that… this place was really too old.
Drooping spider webs, dirty straws, along with animal hair were scattered all over the dilapidated warehouse. I think it would still take a few days of cleaning even if we did our very best to barely clean this place up.
“Wow, i-it’s a wolf spider! Holy shh!! “
Suddenly, Luna, who was looking keenly at a corner of the warehouse jumped in excitent and quickly ran toward that direction, flipping sothing over with both hands when she reached that place.
A giant creature escaped in surprise and shock because of her sudden intrusion. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say I almost jumped about a ter high when I saw that creature sprinting toward .
“W-What the fuck?!”
It was a spider. A palm-sized spider, damn it. Was it a tarantula?
Man, I didn’t even want to touch such a dangerous, furry, and colorful-looking spider. As I stated previously, I was okay with bees but spiders were another matter altogether. In fact, I was fucking terrified of spiders, dammit.
“Hassan! C-Catch it! Don’t let it run away!”
“Hiaaaak!”
Luna seed to be running around trying to catch this furry creature, but I just wanted that spider to disappear from my sight as soon as possible. In the end, Luna used her full speed to catch the spider, capturing it in the confines of her palms.
Holding it by its legs, Luna smiled as she stuck it out toward as if trying to show off her spoil.
“Wow, it’s really big. I’ve never seen a wolf-spider this big before. So lucky!”
Kong— Kong Kong—!
“What’s wrong with this spider’s cry?”
“It’s a wolf spider. Is this the first ti you see a wolf spider, Hassan? Anyway, they’re pretty precious as far as dical ingredients go. They can also be sold as a pet for about 20 coppers. Isn’t this cute? It is not poisonous and has a gentle personality to boot. Actually, it is very cowardly.”
Grrrrr— Kong— Kong— Urrrrr— Kong— Kong— Kong—!
Damn it, no matter how I took a look at it, I couldn’t imagine it having a gentle personality. All I could see was a beast that was eager to bite my nape and tear it apart. It was like an assassin sent by nature.
It felt like a lie that such a rainbow color creature was deed not poisonous. However, Luna turned around the palm-sized spider she caught, rubbed its stomach with her finger, and then spoke again…
“Wow, it’s a female! I have to raise it well. Now, go in….”
Then, she opened the old jar in the corner, drove the spider into it, and closed the lid. It was only after the spider disappeared from my sight that I could breathe a sigh of utter relief.
“Damn it, this is so scary.”
“I don’t think you ever ntioned being scared of spiders, Hassan, or did you?”
“I’m as scared as one can be.”
“Spiders are cute. Anyways, if we put a chair and a desk here, then put a furnace in this corner and buy a large pot and several different things, it’ll look good, right?”
Luna explained her plan by pointing her finger at every dark corner of the cabin. It just looked like an old cabin to , but for Luna, it seed like a kind of stepping stone to use and leap forward to achieve her grand dreams.
But I couldn’t really understand what the picture of the future she held in her head was, so I just nodded along.
“So, you’re not going to be an adventurer anymore?”
“No, I will still remain an adventurer. This business won’t be profitable for a while. Also, I think it’s ti for to go around looking for ingredients. Speaking of that, Hassan…”
Luna hesitated a lot, as though what she was about to say was very important to her.
“What is it?” ”
“Well, for… for the ti being, can you pair up with ….”
“No.”
At that mont, Luna’s expression turned sad after hearing my response. She must have been full of expectations and hope that I would agree. Tears were forming in the corners of her wide-open eyes and it looked like she could cry at any mont so I chose to speak again…
“I’m just kidding. You want to form a party with for a while, right? Of course, I’d love to do that.”
Luna was a mysterious girl to in many ways. In other words, the longer my relationship with this girl pertained, the more advantageous it would be for .
Above all, Luna was growing rapidly. Maybe she could surpass in ability and soon beco the leader of our adventurer party.
Of course, it didn’t necessarily need to be like that for to form a party with Luna. I just felt good just by being near her.
“Hassan, you are not lying, right? Really? You will pair up with , right?”
“Yes, rather than that I’m more curious about another thing.”
“Huh? Is there anything you’re curious about ?”
“That’s… I was wondering just what are we? Just what is the relationship between us? I don’t think we’re rely party mbers at this point. Right?”
After hearing my question, Luna blushed heavily and shut her mouth as if she wasn’t willing to say anything about that matter. During this mont of silence, this cramped cabin suddenly felt bigger than it was in reality.
Luna finally spoke up first after a mont.
“Hassan, what do you want us to be…? What do you want to view as…?”
“I don’t know, maybe like a g-girlfriend?”
It was the most courageous mont of my life.
Wouldn’t it be better to call this “the first confession in my life”? After all, prior to this, all I experienced was getting dumped before I even had a chance to confess.
I stared at Luna, waiting for her reply, while my heart was pounding a mile a minute.
Luna looked down at her feet as if she was too shy to answer. It was cute to see her toes fidgeting inside the confines of her sandals.
“Ha-Hassan, actually, I have a confession to make….”
“Confession?”
My heart sank at the word of confession.
Yes or no. It was either these two answers or sothing unusual that often was just another form of rejection.
“What are you trying to confess?”
However, I still asked carefully just in case. Luna hung her head low and hesitated for a long ti without answering.
“Tell . I won’t be angry with you.”
“…Last ti, when I was on night duty. I prayed to Lady Knox, the mother of the night.”
“….”
This seed to be an extension of the story that Luna had been trying to relay to but could not continue due to the unexpected situation we got caught into. Nothing would disturb us now. There were only Luna and in this small space.
Because of this, I had no choice but to look at Luna’s lips with a tense expression.
“Knox answered my prayers for the first ti in my life. Of course, it was similar to a hallucination. It was like I was dreaming in my sleep….”
Luna stopped talking again after saying that.
“Why, what is it? Keep talking.”
“S-She said that unless my marriage partner was a God, he wouldn’t be able to handle being with , At the very least he should be a hero with great achievent. Only then is it possible for him to marry .”
I felt like I was hit straight in the back with a hamr.
Although Luna doesn’t seem to know that Knox, the goddess of the night, is her mother, I already knew who she was because I could say that I had t her once.
Plainly speaking. Knox was the mother of Luna, the girl who might beco my girlfriend. And that mother didn’t like .
The reason was that I was far from a great male God or the hero that she spoke of.
I was just Hassan, the unregulated worker, an illegal resident.
Is this what people terd as a parent’s opposition? It felt like it was sothing else. However, nothing other than one’s parents’ objections ca to my mind as I heard her speak so it should be similar to that.
But Knox had already given a blessing. Didn’t that an that she liked ?
I spoke to Luna.
“But, uh, we were together yesterday. Regardless of your vow of chastity….”
Just like an ant drifting in the water, desperately struggling to catch sothing, I was also racking my brain hard to find a way out of this situation.
Luna answered.
“I… was only allowed that one day only…”
“What?”
I, now, understood how people could crumple to their knees when facing great despair.
At that mont, I felt like a doll hanging on a single thread. Soon, the thread loosened, and I, the doll, had fallen on the floor, shattering into a million pieces.
“So you’re going to marry soone else soday?”
Luna shakes her head at my question.
“I don’t want to do it unless it’s you. I didn’t even think about doing it with anyone else.”
At Luna’s words, I could feel my body gain its strength back. This is not the ti to sit around like this.
“So what do I have to do to beco that kind of hero?”
Where can I even get that license? Damn it, of course, no one would be able to provide it to .
So ti passed.
On the next day.
What I heard from Hippolyte on the training ground shook to my very core.
“There’s a way to get that license.”
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