Absolutely Do Not Touch Eldmia Egga - Chapter 13

I could tell just by looking at it from a distance. Very systematic.

Just looking at the kids moving as if they were already accustomed to it, I could tell that it wasn’t something they did for a day or two. However, it is different from conceiving such a proper division of labor.

To be honest, I couldn’t stand my rising curiosity, so after getting off the horse, I slowly approached to ask Alicia, and the kids who recognized me from all directions started greeting me.

“Hello brother!”

“Hello brother!”

“Yes, yes. I’ve been working hard since the morning. Don’t mind me and go make money.”

Excluding the vagabonds who don’t know me at all, the kids who say hello are well-blooded. The fact that they can afford to laugh and are full of energy must be proof that they eat well and sleep well. I meant to meet and ask Alicia as soon as possible, but because of the feast of greetings, even the priests who were diligently serving bread to the children recognized me. They were familiar faces, but fortunately, because of their busy schedule, they were only able to make eye contact.

“Sister Alicia! I’m here!”

“Why do you come when you’re busy!”

As expected, even if the priests were right in front of him, he was disgusted with his perseverance. The kids who worked inside heard the curse and burst out laughing. I must have gotten used to it by going through that consistent expression of affection.

It seemed like I was talking to Alicia, so the kids I ran into just bowed their heads and started focusing on my work, so I was able to ask comfortably.

“I’ve never seen this, sister. Since when have you been doing this?”

“Is that so? Actually, you haven’t been here lately because you’re busy. It’s been a while. About half a year?”

“It’s been a while. Who came up with it? Was it suggested by the Holy Cross?”

“No. Levy suggested it first.”

Levi? I was definitely the only orphan I had when I first helped the kids three years ago. Red hair with a few freckles.

Now, he was the only bold guy who even talked to me. But he suggested this?

“Really? I thought you were only good at work, but your brain is flying?”

“That’s right. At first, he just explained this and that, but I didn’t understand. But the priests understood right away and helped me like that.”

This is a bit… strong.

It is no exaggeration to say that the knowledge of ordinary people in another world is focused on their family business and their own lives. It is not easy to acquire new knowledge or skills, so learning someone else’s knowledge and skills is difficult and expensive just by getting the opportunity to learn.

Of course, it’s not just anyone who efficiently rolls people and calculates them. To have the idea and ability to command and move people of this size and bring them to outside organizations requires at least the experience of being in an important position in something above the upper ranks. If you’re an adult, you can see that you’ve done something with experience and junk food, but now you’re only 16 years old, and a child who has been doing village chores for three years is not worth it.

Levi was orphaned when he was 13 years old. Who puts a 13-year-old in a position like that? It’s even more impossible when you look at the time it takes to educate. It is clear that you will be doing such a thing from a really young age, so it is most likely that you have received early education.

Only a merchant or aristocrat who is well-known enough to run a guild can afford such education.

“It’s not the same as before, maybe it’s because he’s in a rebellious period, but he’s really strong because he’s always the same.”

“How are you?”

“Don’t tell me that I don’t dye my hair with something I don’t know where I got it from, or I cut my hair, which isn’t even long, as short as a boy’s.”

Suddenly, the conversation I had with Asillie this morning flashes through my mind.

A story about a noble being found in the village. And I hid until I became an adult. What is it?

Such a repertoire was common enough that even I would accept that imagination as ‘obvious’, and it was a case that actually happened to the extent that it was commonly used.

“Isn’t it just because you can afford to decorate it? How old is Levy?”

“They say they’re 16 this year. They say it’s their birthday in a little while?”

fuck.

It’s not serious. It’s really fucking embarrassing. That time when my head kept rolling in a bad direction in my head.

“Huh? Did you come to Eldmia?”

When I turned my head to the voice coming from the stairs, Levy was walking down. Short-cut hair dyed in messy auburn hair. All of them were different from the clothes Levi originally wore.

She was far from a girl or a noble lady. As if he intentionally created a rough image of the outcast of the village…

But the voice calling me, his actions, and his expression were the same, so in the end I decided to hold on to Levi’s arm and go upstairs.

“You follow me for a second.”

“Huh? Huh huh??”

“You, you bastard! If you go into heat with Levi, you’ll die!”

“What are you saying in front of the kids! What are you looking at me for?”

That’s a crime!

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“Were you a noble?”

When you ask kids about these things, the best thing to do is to hit them when you didn’t expect them to come up. Despite the rudeness, I entered Levi’s room and as soon as I locked the door, I looked down at Levy, who was 20 cm taller than me, grabbed both of his shoulders with both hands, and made eye contact with me

. The simple surprise that stayed in the room turned into astonishment for a moment, and then came back. And he managed to manage his expression and answered casually.

“Ba, bal, balzer…hah! Go, what nonsense are you talking about all of a sudden in the morning? I’m a nobleman?”

If I had been more skilled, I wouldn’t have known it at all, but fortunately I was still lacking. More than anything, I was surprised that he spoke faster than I thought.

“I’m not lying to you.”

“I, my age is older… and, if you have to, oh, oppa…”

“Don’t talk back. Tell me the truth about the situation. It’s your birthday soon.”

In this world, you become an adult after your 16th birthday. It’s a part that commoners just celebrate, but it’s an incredibly important event for merchants who come and go contracts and nobles beyond.

Being an adult means that you can inherit the property and rights of the family in case something goes wrong. For an heir who has not reached adulthood, a relative or a family servant acts as a guardian in the name of a guardian.

It’s obvious, but then there are many cases where the property is disintegrated before the young heir can even use his hands.

“Huh? I remember my birthday… no that’s not it! I don’t know what you’re talking about?”

“You may have put into practice based on what you have learned, but the charity work that is unfolding down there right now is not even conceived in the head of a commoner. What Aunt Alicia did not understand when she heard about you. Remember?”

Levi’s gaze fluctuated so much that there was no need to look deeply. okay. This is a common mistake. The mistake of believing that what I know is universal.

It is a mistake that aristocrats who live in their own relationship rather than merchants who trade with commoners and nobles.

It’s not that a child who was orphaned by the war lacked that knowledge, so when he turned 16, his behavior didn’t change as he became a late puberty. Did you even dye it? Even at the timing when rumors circulated that a noble had been suddenly discovered in the village?

“Rumors circulating in the village that an aristocrat has been discovered. Your clothes suddenly changed. You cut your hair more. Dyed it. Isn’t it unreasonable to say that this isn’t a disguise to run away from rumors?”

People who live in everyday life and live a normal day-to-day life may just pass it off as if it were so. In the end, if you look at each one separately, the things that are common around you will be just an extension. There is no reason or need to come up with the idea of connecting them.

But since the day I fell in this world, I am a person where everything is extraordinary, everything is suspicious, and everything seems to be an incident.

No matter how genius you are, you are not born with knowledge that you do not have. The conditions for understanding and accepting that knowledge must be met for genius to emerge. In that sense, the possibility that Levy is a genius in handling people and a genius in organizing business is infinitely low.

Accident? If I hadn’t known that the scene this morning was the work of Levi, I would have just dismissed Levi’s drastic change in appearance as a momentary deviation.

As long as the two overlapped, this was not a coincidence, but closer to the truth. If not, he should be a reincarnated person like me, but if he did, he would have already doubted or noticed my attitude.

“If it was something you could handle, you wouldn’t have tried to hide your face. But the fact that someone as clever as you simply changed his appearance and didn’t run away means there’s something else going on? Is it a waste of time? Just faking it until someone who can help you comes along. Because you can just do it? Until when… No, it’s only natural that it’s until your birthday.”

“What the hell…”

I felt the strength in Levy’s body getting weaker. I felt like I was going to sit down, so I hurriedly sat down on the bed behind me.

“How do you know…?”