There Was a Porter Who Would One Day Be Called a Prophet

125 – Involuntary Inquisition

“Then see you in the evening.”

“I’ll be back around then too.”

After leaving the imperial palace, the hero and the saintess took their own steps, saying that they had to visit the orphanage and the church this time as well.

Now, only Talia and Reina, and me and Chloe are left.

It was too early to go home, so we stopped by a nearby restaurant to order dessert and decided to enjoy the time we had in a while.

– Ungnyangnyang.

At the sound that filled the restaurant, I could feel the eyes from all over the place.

“Sseungni. Next, Merba Jingja Meyer!”

“Eat everything in your mouth and talk.”

Talia stared at Chloe, who was constantly putting food in her mouth.

I ignored that tight cheek as much as possible and focused on the cake in front of me.

“Porter. What are you doing today?”

Thalia turned her gaze to me and she asked, curling the corners of her eyes in the characteristic half-moon shape.

She had just put the cake in her mouth, so she hurriedly glazed her with milk and replied.

“Today? Today is…”

“If there is no specific plan, shall we do what we couldn’t do then?”

As if her answer had already been decided, Talia intercepted my words and went on with her own words.

– Churup.

Licking her lips with her tongue and looking at me with her bewitching eyes is definitely something.

‘What was it that I couldn’t do then… Ah.’

She collapsed drunk and woke up sharing the same bed.

She had barely forgotten about it, but she remembered it again.

This Mesgaki is real.

“Wait, to finish. What does that mean now?”

“Well, like you, I didn’t hug for the sake of survival, but rather regretfully turned away with only one step left?”

As Rayna shot, Talia dipped her fingers in a cup of water and rubbed the tip of her cup in a circular motion.

-Huunghuung.

The sound she heard whenever her fingertips brushed against the cup was quite nasty.

“It couldn’t be helped!”

Eventually, Talia and Reina clash again.

We’re not the only ones here, so why is that?

– Ungnyangnyang.

Chloe indulge in desserts.

That figure makes me look like a fairy.

“Stop it. I’ll be back in the evening anyway.”

Then they both stopped fighting and looked back at me.

“I have somewhere to go with Chloe today.”

“What?”

“What?”

Two people who are equally astonished as if they had come together.

Looking at them like that, they seem to fit well together.

“Where are we going?”

Chloe stops eating and asks as if this is the first time she hears it.

“I told you before that we should go buy clothes as soon as we arrive in the Empire.”

Then, with a face of ‘Oh right’, I focused on eating again.

Apart from Talia and Reina, what should I do with you?

What she is wearing now is a modern outfit that is no longer available in this world.

I’ve tried on clothes here a few times, but I haven’t tried anything more comfortable than that yet.

How do you hand it over?

Swoop.

I checked Chloe’s plate, which had been emptied before I knew it, and stood up.

“Then I’ll see you later at the dorm. I’ll do the billing.”

Let’s move to the counter while feeling our pockets full of gold coins.

“Wait! Just drink this!”

She started to drink up the milk I had left.

– Hurl.

“Then see you later!”

When the porter and Chloe leave, Talia and Reina are left behind.

“…”

“…”

The two just kept silent, feeling a sense of defeat for the unknown.

***

Chloe and the porter face each other shortly after leaving the store.

“Wait a minute! I’m doing it!”

“Stay still.”

Tup.

When the porter kept trying to pull it back, the porter fixed his chin with his hand.

“Aww~!”

Then something covered her lips and rubbed them mercilessly.

-Sukseuk.

“Why are you buried like this?”

She looked at Chloe casually and saw her with a white beard hanging over her mouth.

He looks like a grown up adult, but if you look at what he does, he doesn’t look like an immature kid. I’d rather be more mature.

-Kyum.

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Kyadol nodded her head, saying that he also thought the same.

Could it be that we stood out too much?

“Tsk tsk. The weather is chilly, but they took it off.”

“Oh my god, that’s bare legs. What month is it now?”

People passing by were busy cursing at me when they saw Chloe’s outfit.

Can’t everyone see my forearms?

I rubbed her forearm, which had grown chicken skin in the autumn wind, with a lonely hand.

Damn it.

As soon as he felt the gaze directed at him, he pulled down the hood he was wearing and looked at his surroundings.

“Then you get more suspicious.”

Of course, the clothes themselves stand out, so there won’t be much difference.

“First of all, clothes first… What, where did you go?”

Chloe disappeared after a brief glance.

It didn’t take long to find Chloe.

“It must be delicious…”

When she turned her head towards the place where the smell of food came from, she found Chloe preoccupied with grilled skewers from a street stall.

Aren’t we on our way to eat just now?

“Teacher, look at this! It looks so delicious!”

A man waving his hand vigorously and pointing at a skewer.

Chloe’s eyes are starting to sparkle like that.

I approached and asked the old man who was grilling the meat.

“How much is it?”

“Three coopers in one. Huh? Your hair color is unusual.”

“I hear that a lot.”

I thought the words would be too long, so I quickly opened my wallet and took out a fairy tale.

In Talia’s purse, which somehow she still has.

“Then just one…”

Choo-wook.

Chloe’s tail wags when she asked for just one.

“…Three, please.”

At the word three, it began to regain its vitality.

“Looks like your wife is eating well.”

“It’s true that she eats well, but she doesn’t.”

“Not really. I can tell by pretending.”

It seems that the elderly come and go a lot.

I gave you another silver coin to pay for the medicine.

“All of these things. I’m going to have to bake these again.”

The old man seems to be in a good mood after seeing the silver coins, instead of heating the meat on display, he takes out a new piece of meat from underneath and starts grilling it.

A sizzling sound and the smell of burning seasoning came from behind, followed by a gulp and swallowing sound.

Taking her eyes off the meat that was cooking, she said as if asking Chloe.

“Wait here for a while until they come out.”

“Yes!”

Chloe responds bravely to the word to wait.

He could stay all day as long as he had enough meat.

After leaving the stall, I walked for a while and looked around.

“By the way, where is this clothing store?”

When I try to find a shop that is implemented only as a background, not a shop, I don’t know where it is.

As I was thinking about the map in the game, I saw a female patrolling opposite her.

Even in the game, when a knight asks for a location, it plays the role of putting it on the map. You probably know where the clothes shop is.

She approached the buyers on that road and talked to them.

“Over there.”

“Wow…!”

The female knights who frowned at me as soon as they saw me.

No matter how I am, this is a wound.

“…What’s going on?”

With her hair tied back and tucked in front of her collarbone, the heresa answered with her eyes looking at her trash.

What did I do wrong?

“…May I know where the clothing store is?”

“Are you looking for menswear?”

“No. I’m trying to buy women’s clothes…”

I don’t know why, but when I hear that I’m buying women’s clothes, my face brightens.

“Go in the direction we came from and when you come to the intersection, go to the right and you will see the most expensive store.”

“Ah, yes…But why bother with the most expensive place…”

“If you want to give a gift to someone special, you have to spend that much. Especially you.”

“…Do you know me?”

“You. You’re famous among female knights.”

Me? Looking at the reaction, it seems to be famous for the bad side.

There was only one thing I could guess.

‘I can’t believe Sonia….’

Dare to a prospective imperial citizen.

I have to file a complaint.

“Wherever you go, you can see Sonia…”

When I tried to ask about the whereabouts of the knight in bad behavior.

“Master!”

Chloe runs towards me with a skewer in each hand.

I must have eaten one.

Seeing that the area around her mouth was a mess with the sauce, she took out the leftover tissue and held it up.

“Come here.”

It’s okay.

Chloe is holding the skewer so she can’t take any drastic action. This time, Chloe calmly accepts my touch.

That’s it.

“How far have we been talking?”

“…Sonia is currently being dispatched.”

The female knight’s voice, which had brightened, became chilly again. She might be colder than before, seeing as she speaks softly.

“Dispatch?”

When I asked back at the first sound, the female knight looked at me with eyes as if I couldn’t even know that.

“Yes. You rather than him.”

“Yes?”

“Go and pray for Sonia as soon as she gets back. Okay?”

Then the knights turn their backs and leave.

“That man is that…”

“Did you see what he did to a girl?”

“What should I do… She must be waiting for that man to come back.”

“No, meeting is like that. Does it make sense that you don’t even know what you’re doing?”

It seems that he is talking about me.

Why? I didn’t do anything.

Sonia. What the hell were you talking about me?

“Master, are you okay?”

“…It’s okay.”

Actually, it’s not okay.

After many twists and turns while being treated so coldly, I arrived at a store specializing in women’s clothing.

But.

“I’m sorry, but you cannot use our store.”

That effort has returned to the doorstep.

A situation where an employee who glanced at my head stood in front of the door and blocked it from entering.

Here, too, there is a place where guests are screened.

I took out a gold coin from my pocket and showed it to him.

“Guest. I’ll tell you again, our store…”

– Clink.

After dropping the gold coin in his hand, he took another one out and picked it up.

“…A guest.”

– Clink

One more at the same time as the drop.

After a while, five identical gold coins were rolling around under my feet.

As I took it out, I saw that it was not just a gold coin, but a platinum coin.

Platinum is a common ingredient in top-level recipes.

Because of this, there may be slight differences from region to region, but in general, each platinum coin is worth a hundred gold coins.

In other words, 500 gold coins are on the floor.

Flutter.

The employee who rejected me was shaking, wanting to pick up the platinum coin that had fallen under his feet.

In order to alleviate his worries, he showed mercy.

“Can I go in now?”

“Come in quickly.”

As I passed an employee who now learned how to bend, I heard the sound of picking up something from behind.

“Did you get it?”

“Yes.”

In Chloe’s hand were five platinum coins that the clerk had just put into her pocket.

Pickpocketing is an art at this level.

Your taxes. It was replaced by my spare money. Always be thankful, people.

“Guest, how did you get in here…”

As I entered, another employee appeared and stopped me.

Swoop.

“May I see what kind you want?”

When I took out the platinum coin, I was impressed with the neatly gathered hands. You won’t have to drop it this time.

“I’m looking for something to cover my head with. Trousers to go with it.”

“Of course there is. I will bring it to you. Please wait here.”

After a while, an employee came with several hooded clothes. Among them, he picked up a blue hooded suit and began to explain.

Normally, when I was picking out clothes, I would leave right away if the staff next to me snickered, but right now I’m not here to buy clothes for myself.

“This is a design that wizards often look for. They are usually distinguished by color, but these are made from Lamia’s scales to help them breathe underwater.”

You put enchantment on some clothes.

“Then it must be very expensive.”

“That’s about 30 gold for a suit.”

“Four, thirty gold…!”

I heard a gasping sound next to me.

Kuuk kuk kook.

“Master, let’s get out of here…! I don’t have to buy clothes…”

Chloe is restless and keeps pulling on my clothes.

“Then what about this?”

I ignored Chloe and picked up a white and black outfit.

“It’s a garment made by mixing Arantula’s thread with the Invader’s venom. It has the ability to become transparent…”

As soon as she heard the sound of Arantula, she removed her hand.

This is clothes made of spider thread….

I didn’t want to know.

“…All in the same size, please.”

Still, if you’re a thief, it’s black. Is there any difference?

“Me, everything? If you add them all together, it’s close to 100 gold…”

An employee who even cares about the customer’s wallet whether the amount is too large.

-Ting.

“You take care of the change.”

When I flicked a platinum coin at an employee, he accepted it in surprise.

Money that does not decrease no matter how much you spend it.

It’s rewarding because it’s money earned with blood and sweat.

Then, I felt another pull on my clothes from the side.

“Master… You’re not spending too much money because of me…?”

Your teacher is now one of the richest people in the empire. All you have to do now is buy your freedom.

“Don’t worry, wear whatever you like.”

Then Chloe hesitated a little, carefully hugged her clothes and walked towards the dressing room with rigid steps.

After a while.

“Why did you change your clothes again? You can just wear them and come out.”

“Yeah. Just.”

Chloe still wearing my hoodie.

Yeah, there are people who don’t wear new clothes right away.

I must have bought some clothes too. I was about to leave the store, wanting to go and rest, but at some point I couldn’t hear footsteps behind me, so I turned around.

Meow.

I saw Chloe, who was stopped in place as if nailed to it.

“What are you doing there?”

As she got closer, her eyes were fixed on one piece of clothing.

A light blue top with frills and a skirt with brown accents on a red base.

He was so focused that he didn’t even know I was approaching him.

“Do you want to try it on?”

“Huh? No, it’s okay. I don’t think it’ll suit me.”

Even so, he glanced at him and couldn’t let go of his lingering feelings.

If it comes out like that, it’s the human heart to want to buy it.

“It’s fine, so don’t worry and try it on.”

“Yeah. It’s okay because I have this.”

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She said, looking at the hoodie, which was clunky compared to the clothes she was looking at, as if it were a valuable item.

“Chloe…”

“So let’s go now!”

She takes my hand and pulls me while smiling as if nothing is wrong.

But.

“Those are my clothes. I have to give them back.”

It’s chilly back in the Empire, so why don’t you give it to me soon?

“Didn’t you give it to me?!”

Chloe looks as if she has been betrayed.

“You said you’d lend it to me. Since when did it become yours? Stop talking nonsense and quickly change and come out.”

It’s perfect for a thief’s mindset, but you have to watch the opponent.

With her tail hanging down like that, Chloe went back to the dressing room to change.

Looking at his back, I was lost in thought.

‘Come to think of it, that guy. I’ve eaten or bought food with stolen money, but I’ve never thought of decorating or anything like that in my life.’

She had a bit of a sad past, so before she left, she thought about doing a little better.

A snap.

Someone grabbed my shoulder from behind.

‘Is it another employee?’

It seems that there was someone who hadn’t seen the money gamble from earlier.

‘The staff here seem to be very slow in sharing information.’

Poof.

Let’s look back to give the money properly.

“When did you come back…?”

A brown ponytail and an appearance that doesn’t show any danger from the outside.

Sonia, the rogue knight of the Empire, was looking at me with her eyes wide open.