"It suits you very well."
Kyle looked at me with a happy face. The smile on his face was so wide that his entire face seemed to gleam. On the contrary, I looked at him with a face so utterly rotten, then at my own body.
Strawberry.
Strawberry! Gnome Strawberry!
It was a knitted garment. The fur garment that I thought I had given up on because I lacked the 'dirty skills' was now on my body. It even had a large strawberry sewn onto my back and chest. I clenched my fist and pounded my chest. I wanted to tear it off with all my heart, but seeing his smiling face, I couldn't bring myself to do it. He had even measured the size correctly, and the clothes fit me as if they were tailor-made suits.
Was it not a matter of dexterity? Was it just that I lacked a 'dirty sense'?
Whether or not Kyle knew how I felt, he wanted to show me off right away. "Please don't do that. Hamsters also have dignity."
[(￣u￣c)...]
I dismissed the system window, which seemed to be holding back its laughter, and somehow steered my thoughts in a more positive direction. It looked like something my five-year-old niece wouldn't even wear, but it was still in my inventory. However, I didn't have to be naked when I 'fetched' it, and it was even warm because it was a fur coat. Looking closely, it also had a [heat function] option, so it seemed better than just a plain fur suit. The only bad thing was that the strawberries were embroidered right on the front.
[Current Holdings | ❤ ×15] [Current Holdings | ❤ ×18] [Current Holdings | ❤ ×22]
...Is it that good? Huh? Is it that good? Is it really that good?
As Kyle shook his head, looking at me, his hearts piled up like snow. But it felt a little strange because they accumulated more than when I had given him chocolate.
A true, damn hamster otaku... Keep liking it like that. Take a lot of hearts.
"Originally, I was going to tell you first, but I couldn't see where you were wandering. So let me tell you first. You've been close to Sen, so you deserve to hear it."
— (What are you talking about?)
After saying that, Kyle pulled a letter out of his arms. I climbed on top of the letter he had put down and began to read the neatly written words one by one.
"It's an engagement invitation."
— (Yes, in the Imperial City in the season when all things are blessed...)
"Of Sen and Belial."
— (Yes, Sen and Belly...)
...What?
I rubbed my eyes with my small paws. Then I read the invitation again. Sen, and Belial. The heart drawn between the two names was black.
'...It's coming.'
Okay. It's coming. In fact, it wasn't surprising. Rather, the story was flowing as I knew it. In
Anyway, I felt it when I heard the news that Belial was attacked, but what has to happen somehow happens. In particular, Sen and Belial, the main characters of
'Still...'
She had lived her whole life with the intention of revenge, and I didn't want to give her the cliché and obvious answer that such a thing was useless and that revenge would only lead to another revenge. I wanted to protect Sen's life as much as Kyle's, and I wanted to respect her choice. As a result, it was none other than Sen who decided to go to the Imperial City with Belial.
"The ceremony will be a week later. It's a long distance to the Imperial City, so it will take a long time to get there. It hurts to leave you behind, but I'll buy you a lot of snacks that you can't taste in the North, so be patient."
Thinking about it, I shook my head at Kyle's last words.
'What are you talking about? Are you going to leave me?'
No, you can't. Absolutely not. Even if it means clinging to his back, I have to follow him somehow. Would I know what would happen at the engagement ceremony and send him alone? With the main characters Sen and Belial, as well as Lorenz, the Emperor, the Imperial City was like a minefield for Kyle. This meant he had to worry about an explosion every time he took a step.
— (Hey! Take me too!)
I slapped and rubbed my body against his hand. Kyle lovingly licked me to see if I was being charming, and then said, "Yes, yes. I know how you feel," and then put me back in the hamster's house.
Oh, boy. I think I'll die of a 'flower disease' before I go back to being human. I squeezed my chest and lay down on the sawdust.
Damn rats! Aren't there any people here who can understand the words of demons? Isn't there a human being who says that there are no bad demons in the world?
"I need to go to his room one more time. Quietly play."
—...
Correct! If I can't follow him as Cashew, I can follow him as Shu.
I jumped up again and hurriedly crawled into the hiding house. And the moment Kyle grabbed the doorknob, I used 'Load'. The white light enveloped my body, and when I opened my eyes, it was my room that he had prepared for me.
"Hah... Mr. ..."
Of course, he had also knitted a strawberry sweater for me.
As Kyle was about to leave the door, he felt a twinkling light behind him and paused for a moment. It was so fleeting that he thought he might have mistaken it, but he felt a strange sense of anticipation to investigate. Had this happened before? The light explodes and disappears like a flashbang.
"..."
Kyle looked around the room for a moment, then narrowed his brow and turned to walk out the door. Nothing had changed on the surface, but if a wizard had snuck in, he should find them now. He couldn't rest easy when he thought about the fact that the guys who had sneaked into the study before had tried to steal Cashew and run away.
"It must have been around this time."
Here. Near the hamster house.
Kyle began to search the hamster house in the study. He looked under the desk, behind the curtains, and even under the drawers and inside, but there was no sign of magic, let alone a wizard.
'Was it a misunderstanding?'
If so, he was glad. He let out a short sigh and looked at the hamster house. The hamster house with a transparent membrane was shining smoothly under the lights.
"Cashew."
When he came near the hamster house, he wanted to see it again. Kyle coughed and pushed his hand into the hamster's house. Since Cashew wasn't outside, he felt like he was in a hiding place. He likes narrow and dark places.
He passed through slides, swings, wheels, and other structures and reached out to the hiding place. Normally, Cashew's buttocks would stick out, but lately, whenever he had a chance, he turned the wheel and seemed to lose weight. Of course, it was good that the sleek Cashew didn't get stuck in the slide, but it wasn't that pleasant to see him getting thinner as the days went by. He should not only give him boiled chicken but also some fatty food. Northern voles are omnivores.
Thinking so, he was digging through the sawdust...
"Your Highness!"
Boom!
With a loud noise, the door to the study opened.
I burst through the door of the study, unable to hold my breath, and saw Kyle standing in front of the hamster house.
"...Shu?"
"Yes! Grand Duke!"
I felt like I was going to collapse, but I answered loudly somehow. Kyle pulled his hand away from his hiding space and approached me. I forgot about my fatigue and quickly grabbed his arm.
"What's going on?"
"Huh... Huh. No, wow. Somehow, Grand Duke, the charge bowed, hooh... I think you'll miss it."
Because I ran with all my might, my words were cut off. I even staggered, so Kyle grabbed me by the waist and supported me tightly.
Oh, I'm going to die.
I was talking to myself and catching my breath. Fortunately, after resting a little, my breathing began to calm down.
"You know, I was on my way to see you."
"Right? Oh, boy! I had just the right timing!"
[(¬_¬ )]
As I was nervous, I thought of the system window in front of me. There were obvious signs of dissatisfaction.
Okay, okay. This is all thanks to you. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have thought to run right away. Immediately after using 'Import' to become a human. So, just as I was about to take off my strawberry coat, a system window popped up in front of me. With a siren-shaped emoji in front of it and a typo, the message I received was [Kai Hamter's House Rummaged].
I doubted if the middle " was a mistake or intentional, but thanks to that, I was able to change my clothes and run straight to the study. Apparently, if it had been a little late, I would have turned the castle over again... I can't take my eyes off him for a moment, really.
"So, why did you find me?"
I already knew it, but I laughed as if I didn't know. Kyle let me go, took out the wedding invitation from his arms, and held it out in front of me.
"This is an invitation to the engagement ceremony between Sen and Belial. You and Sen were acquainted, so I thought it would be good to go with them, so I was going to ask for a doctor."
"Of course we have to go! Instead!"
I snatched the wedding invitation and grinned.
"Cashew should go with it. By all means!"