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Chapter 206 - To the Little One

After giving the Guild Master about twenty of my homemade potions, I left the Adventurer's Guild. Was it really okay for them to pay so much money for something made by a semi-amateur through trial and error? Sure, I use fresh ingredients, but still. I only took it because the Guild Master insisted, but it feels wrong to get money for such imperfect potions. But, well, it's too late now. The transaction is over. I'll stop thinking so deeply about it and go get some lunch from a food stall.



"Hmm, it's pretty lively after all. But maybe not as much as Asakusa from my past life?"

I scanned the row of food stalls near the plaza, wondering what to get. The food at Adon-san's mansion is delicious, but the fast food from these stalls has a different kind of deliciousness. I'm still a growing boy, so maybe I'll go for some skewered meat. If I add some cut fruit or juice after that, my nutrition should be balanced.

As I was thinking about this and strolling along, an old man who happened to make eye contact with me let out a choked sound like "Hih!" and ran away. I instinctively looked behind me, but there were no monsters or anything. Feeling baffled, I looked back at the old man, only to see him running off, shoving a small child aside. Sheesh.

"Are you okay?"

Not understanding the situation, I offered my hand to the child.

"Yeah. Oh, it's Destroyer-niichan."

It seems the reason the old man ran away was none other than me.



"Wow, so Destroyer-niichan, you know Eto-niichan."

"My name is Yuri. Are you Eto's younger brother?"

"Not really his brother, but we grew up in the same church. We're orphans."

"Oh, I see."

I had heard that churches in this world also served as orphanages. So Eto and this boy are both orphans. He seems like a good, honest kid, and his clothes are old but clean. The children I knew in my past life were all patients in a pediatric ward. Yeah, it's really nice to see a child being a child, full of energy.

"Is something wrong, Destroyer... Yuri-niichan?"

"It's nothing. Hey, as an apology for the trouble, let me treat you to lunch."

I made the offer lightly, but...

"Eh? Hmm, thanks, but I don't feel right eating by myself."

It seemed he was worried about getting ahead of the other kids and eating alone. I told him he could just get takeout for the others, but...

"Hmm, I've been told not to accept charity from people I don't know well for no reason."

He's been taught well. In that case...

"Then, I'll be staying in town during the Grand Market, so look after me if anything comes up. This isn't charity, it's a trade. So there's no problem, right?"

It's not about charity. It would be convenient to get to know a local kid. And since he knows Eto, there shouldn't be any problems.

"You're going to see the Grand Market? I can show you around, if you want."

"Yeah. I might take you up on that."