Chapter 5: The ...... of Everything
Early the next morning.
As soon as it was dawn, Wood was awake.
"I want to eat the dragon cake......"
Probably hearing the sound of Wood getting dressed, Buzz, who was half-asleep, didn't beat around the bush and said something very honest.
Buzz was heard as if he had rolled over, and the sound of snoring was heard.
Wood couldn't help but smile, washed his face hastily, and left the house, heading for his usual street.
The streets of the slums are extremely quiet, and the adults who live here are the type of people who eat and wait for death, and for them there is no difference between waking up early and late, and they live a life that does not change day after day.
"Maybe ......"
Looking at the silent street, Wood smiled wryly: "I'm unexpectedly suitable to live here." ”
Walking through the alley that I don't know how many times I have walked, it seems that I am in another world, different from the slums, the streets of the sub-people are already full of people, and those sub-people who have no way to distinguish the individual from their faces gather together to chat.
Around the corner, a werewolf man is talking to a werewolf.
"There's a new nice Asian tavern at the northwest corner of the front street, do you want to go with us at night?"
"Oh? Is it exclusively for subhumans? ”
"Of course!"
“……”
Wood walked past and pursed the corners of his lips.
Racism is probably inevitable in any world, and the world in which he lives now is no different.
The so-called sub-human exclusive supply is a store that prohibits all 'humans' from entering, which can be said to be quite discriminatory against human beings, and of course, there are not no shops opened by sub-humans and human customers.
There are also shops similar to 'human only' among humans.
This has become an unspoken rule that is not explicitly defined, and the reason for this is to talk about the jealous witch Satila who almost destroyed the world four hundred years ago and was finally sealed.
Because the jealous witch is a half-elf relationship, when the jealous witch is sealed, the whole world is discriminating against the half-elves, one of the subhuman races, among which the humans with the largest population base are the most extreme.
And with the passage of time and the stimulus of contradictions, eventually humanity changed from discrimination against half-elves to discrimination against all subhumans.
As a result, fifty years ago, a large-scale civil war broke out between humans and subhumans in the Kingdom of Lugnica - the subhuman war!!
The war lasted for ten years and then ended with a truce, although the human race and various subhumans have gradually integrated together, but forty years is not enough time to erase the hatred in that war, so there are still many people among the humans and subhumans who do not like each other.
But the subhumans who live in harmony with humanity ...... But it doesn't include half-elves.
At the end of the war, because of the relationship between the half-elves, the subhumans not only hated humans, but also excluded the half-elves; Unknowingly, it became the ...... it is today. The situation in which humans and subhumans discriminate against half-elves.
This information is not deliberately known by Wood, but from various biographies, and the biographies written by subhumans and humans are completely two styles, in short...... It's all about blowing their own way, and anyway, for Wood, an outsider, it's quite interesting.
Thinking about these anecdotes, and when he came back to his senses, Wood had already arrived at the scone stall of the bold boss.
Business here was as hot as ever, and even though Wood had arrived early, it took nearly two minutes to wait for his turn.
"Hmm... Bring me ten Earth Dragon Cakes. Wood Road.
Because the vegetable patch should be watered once in the morning and once in the evening, Wood was going to buy the two little lunches together, so that he didn't have to worry that they wouldn't come back to eat at noon, after all, Wood's first goal now was to raise the two little ghosts chubby.
However, the boss smiled heartily: "Sorry, guest, there are no dragon cakes today, and the dragon meat will not arrive until tomorrow, why don't you buy something else?" ”
"That's right."
Wood nodded, "Then get me ten salamander cakes." ”
"Okay."
After buying the scones, Wood didn't linger outside, but went straight to the civilian area.
By this time the streets had become lively, with shouts and bargains echoing through the streets.
"Parker, when I go to study for the Kingdom Election, you can't just jump out."
Faintly, a female voice came into Wood's ears.
Wood paused, followed the direction from which the sound came, and his gaze passed through the pedestrians, finally locking on a back.
It was the back of a tall, silver-haired girl, and on her shoulder sat a cat-like, but palm-sized creature.
Wood frowned, then shook his head and walked away.
But he didn't notice that at the same time as it turned to leave, the kitten on the shoulders of the silver-haired girl suddenly turned around, and a touch of extremely human solemnity and jealousy flashed in those eyes, and he took a deep look at the back of Wood leaving in the distance.
"What's wrong, Parker?"
"Nothing, maybe it's just my delusion."
……
Walking through the alleys, the world fell silent again, and the people in the slums still hadn't gotten up, passing by the houses with only snoring and no conversation, giving people an atmosphere of dead silence.
When Wood returned home, the two children were very conscious of washing there.
Buzz glanced at the bag Wood was carrying and pouted, "It's scones again, you guys can really waste money." ”
"If you have to say it every morning, won't you feel annoyed?"
Buzz grimaced at Wood as usual, and then walked with Aina to the stone table.
Wood took out two of them and said with a smile, "There are eight more scones here, which are food for the two of you in the morning and at noon, and I will make dinner before you come back." ”
Buzz's eyes lit up, and Aina, who picked up the cake and pulled it aside, ran outside: "Then let's go play first...... No, I went straight to the vegetable garden. ”
"Let's go after eating."
Obviously, Wood's words were utterly in vain, and the two imps did not even look back, but ran towards the vegetable garden on the outskirts of the slum.
"Cut!"
Wood pursed his lips, combined the two salamander pies into his mouth, and went back to the room to continue.
Since Emilia has appeared, it shouldn't be far from the arrival of that tragedy, and he may even have already arrived in this world, so it's better not to go out and run around, so as not to get into any trouble.
With this in mind, Wood stayed in the house and read books all day.
Seeing that the time was almost up, he reluctantly put away the books and began to prepare dinner for the second child, which was actually just a vegetable cake.
Although the bread he baked was only average, it was far more delicious than Aina's...... Strictly speaking, it should be safer.
As for why it is safer, it will be mentioned half a month ago, when it was decided to live, Wood naturally wanted to improve the standard of living within his ability. So, on the second day of his stay, he bought oil, salt, and flour.
Aina's eyes lit up and she gestured to make Wood eat the best scones.
With just two simple condiments, salt and oil, Aina made a scone covered in pitch black and entwined with strange purple smoke, and handed it to Wood with a smug look on his face for him to taste......
After looking at Bazna's gloating expression, Wood vaguely understood...... Not buying condiments doesn't seem to be to save money, but a way to save your life.
So, Wood volunteered to take on the errand of cooking.
Straight to the point.
When Wood had finished cooking, the two children returned, but they were obviously a little tired from playing, and as soon as they returned, they began to drink water.
"Don't drink it, you'll be full after a while."
The two laughed dryly, came to the stone table and began to eat, probably because they drank too much water, and the two of them took a hasty bite and went back to the room to rest.
Wood cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and went back to his room to rest early.
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