The Seventh Prince Runs Away from Awkward Situations Chapter 85

Thud!!!

Thanks to greeting the floor while making an unusual sound, a brief silence circulated inside the shop.

A book with a torn cover that fell together with her who collapsed made her appearance look even more miserable.

What was heard soon after was the sound of tongue-clicking from the men who had flocked to persuade Idan.

“Since she is like that every time…….”

The man who coveted Jing and Ratel even muttered openly.

Seeing that the woman's ears were burning red, the reason she couldn't raise her body seemed to be due to shame rather than pain.

Jing, unable to just watch, turned the body he had raised and headed toward her, who couldn't get up while lying face down.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

At Jing's cautious concern, the woman finally lifted her face.

“I-I am fine. I am clumsy but I don't get hurt easily. Because I am uselessly sturdy…….”

She, who laughed awkwardly, looked to have no injured corners as she said, except for a scratch on her face.

Still, perhaps because the sound of falling being unusual weighed on his mind, Jing carefully raised her up after seeking understanding with a glance.

I saw Jing's eyes narrowing as he grabbed the woman's arm and raised her.

“Ria!”

Idan, who revealed himself from the kitchen after hearing the loud noise, ran over while putting down what he held in his hand as if throwing it.

The problem was that the things he put down as if throwing them were the food we ordered.

He struck away Jing's hand that was holding Ria's arm roughly to the point of being rude.

“B-Brother, I fell again so this person helped me.”

Idan's younger sister Ria explained quickly.

However, Idan still did not lower his guard toward Jing.

“S-Sorry for being late. I will help quickly too.”

Ria grabbed her brother's arm and pulled him inside.

Thud!

She probably intended to do so.

Though she failed while hitting her knee heavily against the table.

“Argh!!!”

At the clumsy appearance of his younger sister spitting out a scream of pain, Idan finally took his eyes off Jing and turned his body.

“Just go inside and stay there. Since there are many customers today.”

Ria opened and closed her mouth at the quite generous consideration to go inside and rest because there were many customers.

“Go inside and treat your face.”

Ria, who chased Idan entering while sighing with her eyes, bowed her head to Jing and brought the food Idan had put down as if throwing to us.

Then she soon hid her appearance inside following Idan.

Jing nodded his head once and returned to the table.

As he sat down, the sound of men whispering came from the next seat.

“Ria won't be cooking our dishes too, right?”

“No way. Idan must have already made ours too.”

“Only Idan is pitiful, since he is always hanging on because something like that is his only family…….”

The men's pitiful gazes did not know to fall from inside the kitchen where the siblings disappeared.

“It seems the man named Idan cherishes his younger sister a lot.”

Jing muttered while clenching and opening his hand a few times.

“They said she was his only blood relative.”

When I retorted, Jing nodded as if he understood a little and turned his interest to the food Ria had left behind.

“…….”

However, someone who should have focused on the food first had no movement.

I looked at Ratel who was still fixing his gaze inside the door where the two people had completely hidden their appearances.

Perhaps Jing also felt his strangeness, as he pushed the plate containing steamed salmon in front of Ratel.

“Is there something bothering you?”

Ratel opened his mouth without withdrawing his gaze looking at the door.

“Doesn't it feel bad.”

“What do you mean?”

“…….”

Ratel, who lightly ignored Jing's question, turned his head back, buried his head in the steamed salmon placed in front of him, and started the meal just like that.

I looked down at the guy's black crown of the head and slowly lifted my spoon.

Jing, who was waiting for Ratel's next words, realized there was nothing more to hear when he started focusing on the food, and turned his head to me.

He looked at me and Ratel who had already started the meal, then soon lifted his utensils following us.

“Ran, after finishing the meal, I will hurry and bring a person to help us.”

“There is no need for that. Because I already found them.”

“Yes?”

Jing crumpled his forehead at my answer.

“I mean the person who will go out to the match with us. I said I just found them.”

The problem is that both of them are too different from their appearances in the novel.

***

It is a convenient thing that the travel expenses are sufficient.

Thanks to Jing's unsparing support, the three of us could enjoy the luxury of resting in single rooms each.

Ratel, putting down his luggage on the bed that looked hard but neat, recalled the black-haired Prince who left the lodging saying he had business.

He didn't like his eyes that seemed to know everything, but right now there was no choice but to receive help from the guy.

Moreover, he was clearly hiding something.

A liar who slyly passes over crises without revealing important things.

He couldn't follow such a liar's guidance forever.

Ratel, having finished organizing his luggage, left the room.

To also keep an eye on the liar.

Click.

“Squeak!”

Squeak?

Ratel, who opened the door, stopped in place at the animal cry out of nowhere and met eyes with something standing stupidly with its front paws raised in front of his room.

“Squeak…… Squeak.”

It was a squirrel.

What was looking up at him with a stiffened face was unmistakably a squirrel.

The animal, small to the point of being insignificant, stared at Ratel without even running away.

The moment he felt that the small face seemed to distort a little, the squirrel ran away just like that.

Ratel looked at the place where the squirrel disappeared for a long time.

To be precise, the door of the next room where the squirrel ran away.

Thinking that the liar's lies had increased by one more.

***

As the sun completely revealed its appearance, the village streets started to become lively little by little.

Since it was a village where the population itself was not large, it wasn't as noisy as the capital, but passion no less than that was contained in people's eyes.

Wouldn't it be similar to the men who caused a commotion in the pub.

They are filled with excitement before the huge event called the Lucha Competition.

One could know just by looking at the appearance of them diligently examining leather gloves they wouldn't even use in front of a leather workshop they would visit maybe two or three times a year usually.

And among them, one heterogeneous figure entered my eyes.

Today's luck seemed not too bad.

Since I came to save the steps of trying to head to the bookstore passing the workshop.

Slightly stooped shoulders, a tall height, dark brown hair tied high, and above all, a book with the cover clumsily attached held in one hand.

Though it was only the back view, it was an appearance that stood out enough among the people diligently choosing gloves to participate in the fighting competition.

The owner of the workshop, who came out of the shop for a moment to stretch, also seemed to have discovered the guest of a different texture at once.

He moved his steps without hesitation and spoke welcomingly to the person standing awkwardly in front of the shop.

“Ria! Are you on the way to the bookstore?”

“Ah, hello.”

On the other hand, Ria, who had been flustered and not knowing what to do since the owner approached, awkwardly received the greeting.

“I heard Idan isn't going out to the competition this year either?”

“……Yes. It seems he has no intention to do so.”

When Ria answered quietly, he smiled broadly and glanced at her complexion.

“Why? Is there a reason he shouldn't leave the village?”

Ria's shoulder flinching noticeably at his question was visible even to my eyes.

“W-Well.”

“Ah, if the only younger sister doesn't know, who knows? Don't be like that, Ria, you talk to Idan nicely. Ask if he has any thought of going out together with my son.”

“T-That kind of thing, to my brother directly…….”

“It's because your brother glares as if to kill if I say anything!”

Ria protested having mustered courage in her own way, but the man raised his voice as if he had heard nonsense.

Whether he knew or not that the words he just spat out meant he held onto Ria because he saw her as easy prey, he continued to hold onto Ria and persist.

“I am saying this because I cherish you siblings, since I've watched you for a long time. Huh? He has the ability, so why does he try to live narrowly?”

“…….”

“Ah, don't be like that, Ria, do you want to go inside and look around too? Go and pick a gift to give Idan. While you're at it, it would be good to coax your brother well too…….”

The man, who babbled continuously and eventually spat out his main point, tried to awkwardly guide Ria inside, perhaps thinking he had made a slip.

“No, it is okay!”

Ria, who had been listening to the man's words quietly until now, was frightened, shook him off, and ran away.

That was probably her intention.

If only she hadn't bumped into the display stand while running out just like that.

Crash!!!

Along with a cheerful sound, the display stand where the man's gloves were displayed tilted forward.

Just that alone was a commotion sufficient to draw people's attention.

However, today's sky seemed to have made up its mind to turn its back completely on Ria.

The moment Ria, who tried to prevent the goods from spilling somehow, grabbed the display stand and pulled it with all her might, the display stand that had tilted precariously couldn't overcome the recoil and tilted toward Ria.

“Ugh……!”

The display stand ended up falling with a clattering sound beside Ria who collapsed landing on her butt.

The man's leather gloves rolled in the muddy water together with the fragments of the broken display stand.

“Oh my!!! What is this!!”

The man, who was watching that sight blankly, popped out forward like the wind and shouted.

Anger slowly bloomed in his eyes which looked alternately at his scattered shop goods and Ria who was wrapping her hands around her knees.

“You, you……! You did it on purpose, right? Just because you heard some bad words now……!”

“No, no! I bumped into it by mistake. It's true!”

Flustered Ria waved her two hands and appealed to her injustice, but the man was after he had already made a conclusion.

“This person with no shame! I talked to you because you were pitiful, and you take revenge in this way? You…….”

As his voice grew louder, Ria's shoulders shriveled more and more.

It wasn't a good sight to see.

There wasn't such a mood-fouling spectacle in the novel, you see.

That meant there was no need to be watching such a scene.

Just in time, my pockets were thick with money handed over by Jing, who still lacked a sense of money as he hadn't completely liquidated his noble days.

“How much for one glove.”

“What?”

The man, who was in the middle of pressing Ria, looked back at me who suddenly intervened in his venting of anger.

I, having come out through the gap in the people, picked up a glove that had fallen on the floor.

“I asked how much for one of these.”

When I asked annoyedly, his gaze quickly scanned my attire up and down.

I had no thought of waiting for the opponent's calculation one by one.

I lifted the pouch and threw it in front of him.

The man quickly picked up the thing that fell making a heavy sound.

He, who checked the contents, opened his eyes roundly and looked at me again.

“I will buy them all.”

“T-This, you mean?”

He asked while gesturing with his eyes at the products covered in dirt dust.

“Do you not want to? With that much money, it should be enough to even remake a display stand.”

When I reached out my hand as if I would take back the pouch again, he quickly shook his head.

“No, no! I will sell them all! I will sell! Wait a moment! Still, it is merchandise to sell, so I should at least dust them off a little…….”

“No need.”

What would I do taking all of this?

It would just be baggage.

I picked out the most intact and clean one among them.

“Throw away the rest, or wash them clean and resell them, do whatever you want.”

“Ah, yes, yes. Then thankfully…….”

Leaving him who answered bewilderedly, I gestured with my eyes toward Ria who was standing stupidly.

Ria, who might cause many accidents but did not lack wits, quickly attached herself behind me.