The Villainess That Was Once A VRMMO player-Chapter 90.1
[Side Stories] Flare’s Incognito Excursion Part 2
“Hey, ladies. Are you new to this town…hey!”
As soon as he called out to the two girls, one a merchant lady and the other a girl who looked like she was in a bad mood, Skelly ducked as the lady threw a throwing knife at him.
“Oh, there’s a bug!”
“Oh no! Where the heck was the bug?”
“Oh, hello, Mr. Bug, how are you?”
“Oh, you’re talking about me?”
Skelly was about to be attacked by the young lady.
The young lady was traveling in disguise…or might be on a visit, so she didn’t burn down the place in an instant, holding her killing intent just like she did when she was a toddler who stabbed her brother’s butler in the gut as an excuse for not greeting her.
“So, what can I do for you, Mr. Bug?”
“I’m not a bug, my name is Suke…”
Skelly, who had forgotten his original purpose and was about to say his real name, shut his mouth just in time.
However, he actually stopped his voice, partly because he was drawn in by the beauty of the young lady he saw and the intensity of her eyes, which were far from those of an ordinary woman.
Just being by her side made him simultaneously break out in a cold sweat that sent chills all over his body and sweat from the heat that somehow made him feel like he was in a desert, and feeling the danger signals that his instincts were appealing to him all over his body, Skelly squeezed out his voice as he swallowed spit into his parched throat.
“…Sorry, I was wrong. See you later… ugh!”
Skelly turned on his heel and tried to leave, but the young lady grabbed him by the collar and held him back with force.
“As you say, we’ve never been to this town before. It’s a perfect opportunity for you to show us around.”
“…Yes.”
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Skelly gave up in an instant like a butterfly caught by a praying mantis, and behind the young lady, a girl with a light-hearted look on her face was giving the man [whom her beloved master was interested in] a glare, toying with the dagger in her pocket that had stabbed her master’s father.
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“This is not good.”
“…In case you’re wondering, it’s the best tea house in this town.”
In a fashionable looking coffee shop. The lady took a sip of the tea served on the terrace and said something that made not only Skelly’s face but also the face of the man at the counter who seemed to be the owner of the store twitch.
“Fre…Miss, it seems that good tea leaves are still not available around here.”
“Oh, I see.”
The young lady replied curtly to the accompanying girl’s words, not seeming to be particularly bothered by them.
Skelly and the girl’s companion shrugged their shoulders apologetically at the stares of the owner and the regular customers who were trying their best in the midst of a shortage of supplies, but only the young lady seemed to be naturally unconcerned about anything.
“Since this place is so close to the Solvet Kingdom, why don’t you just get some good tea leaves in from there as well?”
“Is that really needed…?”
–“I mean, we’re just commoners, you know?” Skelly thought as he let out a light sigh at the girl’s words, as if to say.
“No, that’s not easy to do, young lady.”
Due to a certain incident, the entire region of this country, except for the Royal Capital, suffered from a bad harvest.
After that, the confusion was settled by restoring the lost spiritual power and sharing the crops collected in the Royal Capital, but the scars left behind in the country were deeper than expected, and the entire nation was busy with reconstruction work in various areas, making it difficult for even the common people to get the goods they want.
“It is easy to tell people to be patient because of the hard times, but the lack of luxury goods is rough on the soul. Even workers would like to be able to drink a glass of good alcohol after a hard day’s work, so that they will have the energy to work hard again tomorrow. The power to live for tomorrow. And the one who gives it to you is the one who is the ruler…”
