Chapter 15
Chapter 15: Intoxicated
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“Hic!”
I let out a short drunken hiccup, smacking my lips, and started giggling stupidly.
Suddenly feeling so happy.
“Barry!” I shouted, startling everyone around, Barry looked at me with a dumbfounded expression, “Come, hic! Let’s, drink!”
Then raised both hands high and slammed the table with a “bang.”
“Sister Sylvia, you can’t drink anymore.” Barry looked at me with a bitter smile, then turned to glare fiercely at Leyn, “Who let you give her alcohol! Look how drunk she’s become!”
“I’m not drunk!”
I shouted loudly in dissatisfaction. They dare say I’m drunk? I can hold a thousand cups, everyone here, each and every one of you, are trash compared to me.
“I just wanted to apologize to her… Who knew Sister Sylvia’s alcohol tolerance was so low, just one cup and she’s like this.”
Leyn spread his hands with an innocent face, but his eyes carried a hint of amusement.
“How about… Barry, you take a rest, and I’ll take her home?”
“Get lost! If anyone’s taking her home it’s me, what’s it to you!” Barry’s face turned red with anger, pointing at Leyn’s nose and cursing, “Look at yourself in the mirror! The whole village knows you’re too lazy to even do farm work, all you do is play around all day! Not a bit of sense, and here you are, a toad trying to eat swan meat, shameless!”
“Barry, you dare insult me!”
“Yes, I’m insulting you!”
“What’s wrong with me taking your sister home!”
“You want to take advantage of her!”
“Yes, I like her, so what? Sister Sylvia hasn’t said anything, what are you barking about?”
“Who are you calling a dog!!”
“Whoever responds is the dog!”
“…Alcohol!!!”
In my foggy state, I could barely hear what they were saying anymore, just wanted to drink a couple more cups.
“Hahaha! Little Syl, uncle will drink with you.”
Uncle Dor, watching the two young men fighting over love, found it quite interesting. As the alcohol kicked in, with a mindset of watching the fun, he wanted to encourage me to drink more.
He also wanted to see what this unbelievably beautiful girl would be like when drunk.
“Uncle Dor! How could you do this!”
Barry immediately became anxious.
“Hahaha! It’s rare for everyone to be so happy today, if Little Syl wants to drink, we should let her drink happily!”
Uncle Dor took a new empty cup, scooped up a full cup of beer from a nearby barrel and placed it in front of me.
“Come, Little Syl, let’s cheers!”
“Cheers!”
Seeing alcohol in front of me again, I immediately became happy, picked up the cup and “gulp gulp” drank down more than half.
“Ha! Delicious.”
I wiped my mouth, “whoosh” jumped up wanting to stand on the table, but stumbled and fell into a squatting position.
Huh? Something feels strange, this isn’t right. Why is my body so hard to control? Am I trapped in the abyssal mire again… Yes, I’m in the abyss.
So I just sat there on the ground, hugging my knees curled up in a ball and started blowing bubbles.
“Pop, pop, pop… Why is it, so noisy. Am I, about to, be born?”
Seeing me drink myself into such a foolish state, even Leyn became a bit panicked. He really hadn’t expected my alcohol tolerance to be so poor, if Grandma Claire found out about this, wouldn’t that be terrible? She would definitely scold him to death.
“Sister Sylvia, are you alright? You can’t drink anymore.”
Leyn reached out to help me up, but was pushed away by Barry and stumbled.
“Don’t touch her!”
“Barry! You want to fight?”
“Don’t touch her!”
“She fell down! I can’t even help her up? Why are you so protective of her, don’t tell me you like your sister?!”
“Leyn, dare say that again!”
“You like Sister Sylvia! I said it, so what!”
“You bastard!”
After some pushing and shoving, the two started throwing punches and kicks at each other.
This time Uncle Dor couldn’t sit still either, quickly standing up to break up the fight.
“Hey, you two that’s enough!”
I stared bewilderedly at the three people tangled together in front of me, my brain now like a bowl of paste, completely unaware of what was happening.
“Sylvia~ Little Syl~ Where are you—”
Who! Is calling me!
Struggling to get up from the ground, I saw an Elia-like creature walking towards me with unsteady steps.
“Elia, is drunk, hehe.” I laughed at her mercilessly.
“Little Syl~” Elia hugged me tightly, buried her face in my neck, and sniffed hard, “Little Syl, you smell so good, kind of like cloves.”
“Elia, don’t, hehe, it tickles.” I laughed and pushed her away, “Let’s, drink.”
Elia and I sat at the table, both downing our drinks in one go.
“Why did they start fighting, hehe.”
Elia pointed at the three people tangled together nearby and giggled.
“I also, don’t know, hehe.”
“They look so ugly fighting.”
“Yeah, heehee…”
Don’t know what was so funny about that sentence, but I just couldn’t stop laughing.
“Little Syl, let me tell you a secret, I’m… getting married!”
“To who, to, Barry?”
“You’re mean Little Syl, to Allen, Allen. How could I marry Barry? You must be drunk, hahaha!”
“Oh. Marriage, is it fun?”
“Hmm… doesn’t feel fun at all. I’m not happy, Little Syl~”
“Why, not happy?”
“Hmm… don’t know why, why am I not happy?” Elia lay on the table pouting, “I just feel like, everything’s too fast. Haven’t prepared myself, suddenly have to get married, and right after marriage have to have children… thinking about all this makes me so troubled, I’m still a child myself…”
“Elia, this is, pre-wedding, anxiety.”
“Pre-wedding anxiety? What’s that? Are you saying I’m sick?”
“Not, sick. Just, worried. Like you are.”
“I don’t get it… feels like Little Syl knows so many things, I’ve had this feeling before. Tell me where you’re really from~” Elia grabbed one of my arms and acted coquettishly.
“Hehe, I’m a, monster.”
“Monster? Little Syl is a monster?”
“Yes, the kind that, eats people. Awoo!”
Already in a state where I had no idea what I was saying, I raised my paws and made a face at Elia.
“Hahaha, Little Syl, so cute.” Elia patted my hair.
“Elia, I want to, pee pee.”
“Pee? Oh, then hurry and go. I’ll wait for you to come back, you still haven’t told me where you’re from.”
“Mm!”
I responded, stumbling to a secluded spot, looking around to make sure no one was there.
Trying hard to stand steady with legs apart, I lifted my linen dress high, pulled down the safety shorts-like undergarment, and reached down to grab little brother.
…Huh, why can’t I feel it?
With bleary eyes, I frowned and thought for a long time before remembering.
Oh, right, little brother has been gone for many days.
Miss him.
So I had to squat down like usual, and the sound of trickling water came.
…I’m done.
After finishing, I pulled up my undergarment and was about to head back, but suddenly turned and everything started spinning, seeing stars. When I came to, I was already kneeling on the ground in confusion.
“Urgh——” I dry heaved with nausea.
My head is so dizzy, want to throw up.
“Really… what should I say.”
A familiar voice came.
“Who… is it?” I immediately became alert, seems like a blurry figure appeared, who could it be… I rubbed my eyes hard, but couldn’t see clearly no matter what.
“Little one, why don’t you run?”
“Run… what, where to? I… don’t know.”
What is he saying, why should I run? I don’t want to leave grandma… Why is this person saying such things, so annoying.
My mind was in chaos, unable to think normally.
“Do you know how easy it would be for me to kill you right now?”
Something cold rested on my shoulder, what is it? I put my hand on it.
“…Beef jerky!”
Opened my mouth wanting to bite.
“Idiot!”
The hard object was quickly pulled away, I pouted in dissatisfaction.
This person is so annoying, are you going to let me eat or not, is teasing me fun!
I grabbed his pants leg to stand up, raised both hands and “pah” slapped his face, then started pulling randomly.
“Give it to me!”
“…Whether it’s acceptable for the Abyssal’s Lord to be like this, aren’t you embarrassed.” He grabbed my forearm, removing my hand from his face, seemingly talking to himself, “How should I deal with you… ah ah, such trouble.”
“Finding you wasn’t easy at all, I’ve practically run through all the villages around Woodward Forest, my legs are about to break, while you’re here comfortably playing house… These past few days I’ve been observing you, asking the villagers about you, what I heard… really makes this difficult for me, why don’t you have any awareness of being a monster? My mission is to make sure to kill you, what am I supposed to do now, White Night of the Abyss.”
This person… what is he saying, can’t hear clearly at all.
I watched his mouth opening and closing, my vision getting more and more blurry.
So sleepy… can barely keep my eyes open, hehe.
“Before this I thought of many possibilities, which route you would choose to escape. If you had gone to a slightly bigger town, you would have immediately fallen into the Holy Church’s net they set for you. We predicted all possibilities, yet no one could have imagined that a monster from the Abyss would actually hide in this nameless little village, quietly living as a country girl… If those old fellows knew about this, they’d probably be so shocked their eyeballs would pop out… Why are you so special… Why are you so much like a human?”
Carlos looked at the girl in front of him who had already gone soft, eyes closed with steady breathing.
Already asleep, really… what should I say.
“…Really want to just give you one sword and be done with it, my mission would be considered complete too.”
Though saying such chilling words, Carlos squatted down and carried the girl on his back.
“Looks like I’ll need to have a good talk with the Archbishop… mm, this matter, the fewer people who know about it the better.”