I was tasting one dish at a time and asked, pointing to a particularly delicious plate.
“Who baked this?”
“It is me.”
Eldman raised his hand in a flash.
“This was the best. If you get married, you will be loved by your wife.”
“Thank you!”
Eldman’s face, which is smiling, is soon distorted at Dillian’s word.
“How good.”
“It, it’s not good at all.”
“Are you saying that Miss Ria’s compliment is not that good?”
“It, it is not!”
Why are you being mean again? I shoved the dish into Dillian’s mouth.
“Stop torturing him and just eat this. It’s delicious.”
Someone, hoop, took a breath. When I raised my eyes, I saw a startled Kanae covering her mouth.
It was a natural response.
No one has ever done such a rude thing to Dillian Sinaize.
At first, I was conscious of everything, like them.
Is it because I’m used to it now? It wasn’t scary.
‘I’m an exception for Dillian.’
Is it because I’m his benefactor?
Dillian, who smiled at me, pointed to a plate.
“Please feed me that this time.”
“Sir Dillian, don’t you have hands? You don’t have feet?”
“All I have is the eyes to look at you and the heart.”
Correction. I’m not an exception, he just likes teasing me. I made up my mind.
“Are you crazy?”
Why is this person getting weird as time goes by? He really seemed like a crazy person.
“I’m perfectly normal.”
Right, because usually crazy people do not realize that they are crazy.
***
Pook, pook. My feet fell into the snow.
“Miss Ria, are you all right?”
“Don’t worry about me, just look forward. Unlike the road that we have come before, it’s very rough here.”
Having finished my meal, I was climbing the mountain in the black forest, leaving all the work to the knights and Harris, who claimed to be good at housework.
It was to fulfill the request from May to find the breath of snowflakes.
“Miss Ria, hand.”
Dillian grabbed my hand, then he pulled me up lightly.
“You are a pretty good porter, aren’t you?”
“Well, it’s not bad.”
Despite my dissuasion to rest at home, Dillian, who claimed to be a porter, was relaxed even though he carried the luggage and Nathan in his shoulder.
It looks like he is enjoying it.
“Isn’t it heavy?”
“I think the shoulder with Nathan hanging in it is going to break.”
“Humph, you are overwhelmed by this body’s weight.”
“Overwhelmed, what nonsense. Stop eating. I think you gain more weight than before.”
“This punk!”
Leaving the bickering two behind, I take a look around.
“Nathan, I think we can search for it here. What do you think?”
“This is a good place.”
I tied my hair tightly and took a tool out of my bag.
Gloves and hoe. These two were my items for today.
“Sir Dillian, just follow me around. You will be in trouble if you step on the wrong spot and kill the herbs.”
Dillian follows me around like a good dog.
Then at the time he seems bored, he disappears at some point, I can’t see him around. But I didn’t have time to care about it.
I had to find the breath of snowflakes.
It was an hour after Nathan and I searched for herbs in the snow.
“I found it!”
Screaming like a root digger, I carefully dug up the dirt, suppressing my excitement.
But I couldn’t like it. Since, from now on, this is the real game.
It was hard to find ‘the breath of snowflakes’, but it was also hard to dig it out.
If the root is damaged even a little, it will decrease the worth for half the price, so I had to be careful.
“Let’s take it slow.”
“Yup.”
I smiled broadly at the herb that finally showed its roots.
‘Is this why the root diggers are climbing the mountain?’
After wiping off my sweat and feeling proud, I hurried looking around to Dillian who called me.
“Miss Ria, Miss Ria.”
“What?”
“Look at this.”
I blinked to the snowman next to Dillian.
On top of that, it looked strangely reminiscent of someone.
“Is that Nathan?”
“That’s correct.”
The little owl snowman was lovely.
I threw the hoe, approached Dillian, and took a look at the snowman.
“So cute, Sir Dillian, you are good at making a snowman.”
“You’re good with your hands.”
Nathan also twirled around, it seemed to like the snowman, so the corner of its mouth raised up.
“Should I make us next?”
“That sounds good, too. If we are together like this, we might be like a family.
Then Dillian’s eyes sparkled.
“I will make it in a minute. Miss Ria can take your time.”
Dillian’s eyes focused hard as if he was excited by the compliment.
‘As I look at it, I think he is kind of cute.’
Dillian looked like a puppy who was excited to see the snow for the first time.
“He has an unexpected talent.”
“Yeah, I thought he’d just ruin everything, but he made it well.”
I finished the work by talking with Nathan.
I, who dug out herbs easier than the first time, looked around.
“Where’s Dillian going?”
It was too quiet, I did not know Dillian was out of my sight.
“Sir Dillian!”
“Miss Ria.”
“Where have you been? What are you looking for?”
I was surprised that you suddenly disappeared. As I turned around and complained at him, Dillian welcomed me.