Today, I will take a day off with you and sort out the ideas for the follow-up main plot.

Put a free extra as compensation~~

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Kingdom of the Roses

The royal capital

Nika district

Today is Sunday, the holiday time of the Royal Capital Magic Academy.

"Wow, ahhhh

The girl's desolate cry echoed through the cramped room.

Simple and clean cot,

A mass of what appeared to be a humanoid creature wrapped in a quilt was rolling on the bed like a caterpillar.

She rolls into an O-shape and an L-shape, which makes people feel very soothing.

In the end, I couldn't hold my breath anymore, and a small head suddenly came out of the quilt.

Under the long silver-gray hair is a beautiful and gentle girl's face, and anyone who sees it must praise the girl next door!

It's a pity that as soon as she opened her mouth, that warm and watery temperament disappeared.

"Damn, why is Sister Lisa's bread delivery so slow!"

"Did they go to plant wheat?"

Irena looked at the closed wooden door of her home and shouted with a broken face.

Traditionally, Lisa's bread is picked up for 7 copper coins, and delivered to your home for a delivery fee of 3 copper coins (usually delivered by an idle whistle).

Maybe the business in the store is too busy today, or maybe the whistles are off work en masse.....

As a result, the bread that Irena had ordered in advance was not delivered, and this is the scene in front of her.

Don't wonder why she doesn't live in the Academy of Magic.

This heavyweight freshman has no one to play with her because the rental fee (which is actually the maintenance fee) of the college dormitory is too expensive, and Vivian and Hermione don't live on campus (I seriously suspect that this is the main reason).

That's why I chose to rent a house off-campus.

"Gollum~~~~"

A strange sound came from the quilt.

It was a day without eating in a stomach protesting.

"Damn, I remember having eaten yesterday, why are you still hungry!

"I remember I had a loaf of bread left over from last night, and where did I put that bread......"

Irena wrapped her body in the quilt and turned her perspective around, but unfortunately she didn't find last night's leftovers.

Hiding food is one of Irena's great skills.

Due to the special living environment when she was a child, Irena developed the habit of hiding leftover food, and it has not changed yet.

Her food stash skills are really high.

How high is it?

Even the food she hid herself, and she couldn't find it.

........

The neat room was empty.

The gray-haired girl looked at the fluttering grain storage bucket in the corner, her face full of despair:

"Woo woo, I'm so hungry...... Who's going to order food for Irena, if you don't eat again, the cutest beautiful girl in the royal capital will be starved to death! ”

The groans of pain continued for a few moments before they faded away.

Through the walls of the wooden house, which were completely unsoundproofed, the sound of clothes was heard.

After a while.

"Bang!"

The door of this small cabin, which is no more than ten square meters, was suddenly opened.

The winter sun was exceptionally bright, illuminating the cramped rotten cabin in an instant.

"Eyes! Eye! Ah.......h

The girl covered her eyes and shouted.

Suddenly, she noticed between her fingers that the color of the sunlight was not quite right.

It feels a little red......

"Huh? It's already afternoon? That's fine. ”

A cold wind poured into the girl's collar, making her shiver.

Irena rubbed her eyes, which were a little dark, and finally dispelled the residual sleepiness.

She was dressed today in a minimalist mage robe (the cheapest black robe) with fluffy bunny slippers underneath her feet.

However, the slippers seemed to be a little worn-out, with a small hole in the toe of the shoe, leaving a small white toe exposed.

Looking at the bluestone streets with people coming and going in the distance.

"Damn, it's going to be an unnecessary mile again."

She sighed and finally set out to get the bread.

This is 11 Mink Street, three streets from Lisa's Bakery.

Irena didn't even take the apprentice wand issued by the Academy.

She just clutched her stomach and walked straight in the direction of the bakery.

"I wish I could get there before I starved to death......"

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Sunset

The fuchsia sun, which is characteristic of winter, is slowly setting, and the crescent moon hidden behind the sun is rising.

The streets of the Nika district are still noisy and rioting.

The narrow streets are lined with stalls, and the walls are hung with shabby signs showing the prices of various goods.

The old bluestone brick pavement is bumpy, a few children kicking stones and playing, and the occasional vendor walks by, huddled through the crowd to sell their wares.

On a quiet corner of the street, three burly thugs were standing.

All three of them are dressed differently, but they all wear a green hat of different styles.

This is the notorious Cuckold Gang in Nika, which is a bunch of idle thugs who specialize in stealing and robbing for a living.

One of the three thugs was a thin man with a dagger in his hand, another was a little fat man with a wooden stick, and the last one was a muscular man with a scimitar in his hand.

They were walking towards a teenager in the alley in a surrounding position.

The young man, about eleven or twelve years old, was dressed in tattered clothes made of patches, and the gray armbands he held in his hand proved that this was a new whistle in the royal capital.

[The whistles also have non-governmental organizations similar to management associations, and wearing a scarf on the wrist is a way to express identity.] However, due to the lack of a proper management mechanism, in fact, the whistles are fighting on their own, so that the association is almost in a state of existence in name only. 】

"You, what are you going to do?"

The boy leaned his back against the bluestone wall and turned his head, with a frightened expression on his face, there was no way back.

"Boy, obediently hand over all the valuable things on you, they are now ours!"

One of the leading thugs held the dagger in the air, as if ready to stab the boy in the chest.

"Hand them over now, or I promise you'll regret it."

The young boy's palms were sweaty, and he trembled, and said:

"Please don't hurt me, I don't have anything on me to give you, really."

The boy's name is Killua,

In order to take care of his bedridden mother and gambling father, 11-year-old Killua had to run out to live.

Making a whistle is the easiest way he can think of to make money, today is the first time he came out to be a whistle, but he didn't expect to be blocked by three thugs on the way to the city gate.....

The gangster clearly didn't believe this guy's words.

He put the box-shaped dagger to his mouth, stretched out his slender tongue and licked it fiercely, and shouted arrogantly:

"Little bunny, don't try to deceive us! I know you guys must have something good hidden in them. ”

"Also, what's bulging in your belly!"

He stretched out his dagger and pointed at Killua's bulging abdomen.

It was his mother who was relieved that Killua would go out alone, so she deliberately handed him the only forty-five copper coins left in the house, and told him to eat something good at noon and not to tire himself.

"It's .... It's ......"

Killua was sweating profusely, his eyes wandering around, but he didn't know how to escape.

It's a dead end, the entrance is already blocked by three thugs, and unless he can fly, he can't escape at all!

But the forty-five copper plates are already the only belongings in the family, if they are handed over, what will the mother eat?

"This kid really has money in his pocket, bring it to me."

The three thugs laughed at the boy with big mouths and reached for his money bag.

Looking at the ugly faces of the gangsters and their strong muscles, Killua couldn't help but feel a sense of despair.

The black cloak was covered with dust and dirt, making it look particularly obscene.

It's not that the people on the road haven't seen this, but they seem to have become accustomed to it.

No one came to the boy's aid, and no one tried to stop the thugs.

Snakes have snake paths, rats have rat paths.

Nika is a place of violence and injustice, where the poor and helpless suffer from exploitation from all sides.

Just as Killua watched in despair as the three thugs surrounded him.

Suddenly, a crisp voice with a hint of excitement came from behind the three of them.

"Oh, who is this person who has the beauty of a sinking fish and a goose, with gray hair, and whose beauty and talent radiate so light that even the sun can't help but squint his eyes, and he is not inferior to colorful flowers, and is so beautiful that he blooms like a flower?"

"What?"

The three thugs were shocked, this familiar tone, this familiar opening statement.

Could it be....

The three of them slowly turned their heads to look at the black figure with a pointed hat and a back to the sun, their eyes widened, and their fingers trembled and pointed at her.

"You.... You... You're the ...... of the crumbs."

The corners of the girl's mouth twitched, and she hurriedly interrupted:

"That's right, it's me, Irena!"

The light of the setting sun shone on the girl's body, and it also fell on Killua's heart.

.......

【To be continued~】