Chapter 64
Chapter 64
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After the short holiday, it was the day I had to go back to work on the farm.
I woke up early in the morning to organize things to take to the farm, and woke up the sleepy children from sleep to prepare to go to the Demon Farm.
My mother also got up together and took care of each child with care.
“Speranza, you have to listen to Si when you go to the farm and don’t do anything too dangerous. Okay?”
“Un…Yes grandma.”
“Gyuri, get along with your friends, and take care of Si.”
“Okay, popi. Don’t worry, I’ll take care of Sihyeon popi.”
“Akum, you should eat well and be healthy.”
Pow wo wooo
My mother’s eyes were full of sorrow as she said goodbye to the children.
The time she spent together was short, but I felt like she had already given a lot of affection to the children.
“Mom, I’ll bring the children back if I can. Don’t be too disappointed.”
“Oh, my. I’m about to cry.”
All the children rushed in and hugged my mother, who was in tears.
”Don’t cry, Grandma!”
“I’ll definitely come over next time, Popi”
Pow woo wooo
“All right, Grandma won’t cry. My babies are so nice.”
Even I felt emotional when I saw them hug each other for the last time.
We all went down to the first floor together when we were ready to go to the Demon world.
At the entrance of the building, Ryan was waiting for us as we had informed in advance.
“Good morning, Sihyeon’s mom. Give me the luggage.”
“Oh…Mr. Ryan. Thank you.”
We quickly loaded the luggage into the trunk, while the children and I got into the back seat.
Lowering the window, the children said good-bye to my mother.
“Bye, Grandma!”
“Bye, Popi”
Poooooo
“Bye everyone, take care!”
The Ryan-driven vehicle began to move.
The children continued to wave to my mother until she was completely out of the view.
We were on our way to the Inferris office.
The children all fell asleep shortly after getting in the car, perhaps due to the lack of morning sleep.
Ryan, who was checking the back seat through the rear mirror, spoke in a low voice.
“How was your holiday?””
“Great. I had a memorable holiday after a long time thanks to the children.”
“That’s very good. ”
Ryan, who was talking about trivial things, suddenly changed his voice to a serious tone.
“Sihyeon, regarding the matter about children coming over here, there’s someone waiting for you in the Inferris office right now.”
“Don’t tell me…?”
“That’s right.”
I looked anxious as I looked at the sleeping children.
In front of the Inferris office stood the two Angels I had seen last time.
“Officer Ashmir is waiting inside.”
They stood at the door of the office like gatekeepers and gave us way to go inside.
Ryan and I headed into the office with the frightened children.
Ashmir waited for us in the office.
“Welcome. Lim Sihyeon, I was waiting for you.”
“Oh… Yes.”
Ashmir greeted me as if she was the owner of the office.
Ashmir’s gaze rested on me for a moment, and then turned towards the children hiding behind me.
The children trembled at the emotionless gaze.
I deliberately stepped forward and blocked her view.
“You don’t have to be too nervous, Lim Siheyon. Even now, I didn’t look at them as the criminals who broke the rules.”
“What brings you here?”
“I told the higher-ups about what happened a few days ago. Since this has never happened before, various claims have been made. In conclusion, it was decided to keep an eye on you. And I was assigned to take on the role of watching you.”
I couldn’t fully understand what she meant, but I was glad that it was nothing related to the children.
I asked her back with a nervous look on my face.
“What are you going to do now?”
Ashmir took something out of her uniform pocket and held it out towards me.
“…what is this?”
“It’s a smartphone, isn’t it? Isn’t Lim Sihyun using it.?”
“I’m using it. Suddenly, why the smartphone….?”
When I asked, Ashmir tilted her head and made an incomprehensible expression.
“Isn’t it human culture to give away smartphones like this when you want to exchange contacts?”
“Ah… That’s true.”
“Every time you bring those kids here, you can contact me.”
“Wha…, wait a minute. Then can I bring the children here anytime I want.?”
“That’s what I said now. I don’t know why, but those children has been judged that they didn’t break the rules of the Realms.”
I kept starring at Ashmir for a moment.
Then, I realized that she was still pushing her smartphone, and belatedly received it and exchanged contacts with her.
“Thank you for your cooperation.”
“Is this it? Is there anything else you want to talk about?”
“No, nothing else. I’m just here to get your contact information. I’ll be going now.”
After exchanging contacts, Ashmir left the Inferris office.
‘Did she really come here just to ask for my number?’
Ryan and I looked at the door with a vain expression.
“Ryan.”
“Yes, Sihyeon.”
“I really don’t understand Angels.”
“Thank you. Welcome to my world.”
The problem got solved more absurdly than I thought.
“It’s been a long time since I saw you, Sir. Sihyeon.”
“Hello, Elder Poco. I took a day off.”
“ That’s great. It’s important to take rest.”
Elder Poco, a goat Beast-man, welcomed me in the strawberry field.
After the brief greeting, he looked at Alfred standing behind me.
“You’re here with a new person today, not the Dragon maid.”
“Say your greetings Alfred. That’s Elder Poco, who helps me with the strawberry field.”
“Oh… Hello, it’s Alfred.”
“Hello Mr. Alfred. I’m Poco of the Elden village.”
Alfred greeted very awkwardly.
Elder Poco did not care at all and accepted his greeting naturally.
I asked Elder Poco, who was entrusted with the overall management of the strawberry field, about the harvest.
“How’s the strawberry field coming along, Elder?”
“Of course everything is great. Few days back, Mr. Andras came and installed a preservation magic in the storage, so we don’t have to worry about storing for longer duration.”
I talked to Elder Poco and looked around the strawberry field.
Red ripe strawberries were hanging everywhere.
“ Sir. Sihyeon, When did you come?”
“How are you Sir.Sihyeon!?”
“Yes I’m fine, Thank you for the great work everyone.”
“Hahaha! Not at all. We’re really excited about the harvest this time.”
“The yield will be much better than last time Sir, so you can look forward to it.”
All the men who worked greeted me while I was walking through the strawberry field.
I smiled and accepted their greetings one by one, while Alfred, who followed me as an escort, looked at me with a curious expression.
“It’s amazing.”
“What?”
“I heard that the Beast-people are usually very wary of the Demons and other beings. This place isn’t like that at all.”
“It was definitely like that in the past…”
I giggled, recalling the first time I went to Elden village with Lia.
Alfred and I went through the strawberry fields to the storehouse.
In front of the storage, the work of classifying harvested strawberries was in full swing.
“Oh! Candy Uncle.”
Miru, the cat girl who was working on classifying department, found me and ran towards my direction.
She jumped into my arms.
“Have you been working hard Miru?”
“Of course Uncle. The ladies I work with praised me for my good work.”
“ Hoho….I’m very proud of Miru.”
When I patted her head, Miru smiled and shook her tail.
“You didn’t come with the Big Uncle today.”
“Oh….you mean Andras. He is busy with other things today, so he won’t be here until tomorrow.”
“Huh? Is the Demon brother behind you also working with Candy Uncle?”
“Yes, it’s Alfred who started working with us while ago.”
“Hello, Brother Alfred. My name is Miru.”
Miru popped her face from behind my back and waved happily.
Alfred looked in surprise at the friendly greeting.
Alfred didn’t seem to have expected Miru to give him such a welcome greeting in their first meeting.
I chuckled at Alfred’s funny response.
Then, after a while, I realized something strange and turned serious.
“By the way, Miruu”
“What Uncle?”
“Why do you call Alfred ‘Brother’ when me and Andras are uncles?”
I asked questions with seriousness face.
Miru smiled brightly and replied.
“I think the vibe of Big Uncle and Candy uncle is similar, while this Brother is different.”
“Uh… I see…”
Of course, Alfred was young. But I’m still closer to Alfred rather than Andras.
Do I look like a middle-aged man.
I thought I still had days for that.
Miru tilted her head without knowing why I asked the question, while the ladies who were classifying the strawberries covered their mouths and held back their laughter.
While I unable to get over the middle-age man shock, Lagos appeared at the entrance of the strawberry storage.
“Mr.Sihyeon, how have you been?”
He greeted me warmly and approached me.
“Lagos, you came to the farm.”
“Yes. I’m here to find out the progress of the strawberry field harvest. I think the farming is really well done. The yield is higher than I thought, so the storage space may be insufficient.”
“Oh! Is it that big?”
The storage was quite large.
I thought it would be sufficient, so I was surprised when I heard that it may be insufficient.
Even now, I’m planning to continue to increase the size of strawberry field, so I thought I had to revise the existing plan.
“And I have something very important to say to Mr.Sihyeon…”
There was an atmosphere of wanting to be alone with me, so I sent Miru, who was in my arms, back to the ladies, while Alfred stepped back and made room for us.
Lagos snatched something out of his pockets.
He had several letters in his hand.
“Letters? From whom?”
“It’s from many merchants. I don’t know how they got to know about the harvest? It’s all letters about wanting to do business with Sihyeon.”
“This much?”
“These are from well-known merchants. In fact, there were more letters that had arrived. I had sorted out based on the prominent ones.”
A form of sickness approached me as I saw the numerous letters Lagos held in his hands.
I’m tired of dealing with one Ergin, so the thought of dealing with so many merchants made my head spin.
Lagos smiled bitterly at my reaction.
“Have you thought about how much strawberries you would sell?”
“I’ve thought about it.”
I was going to send the first batch of strawberries I harvested to Demon Lord castle.
And this time I also wanted to save some strawberries for Yakums.
“Maybe I will be selling twice as much as I sold last time.”
“I think you can sell more than that?”
“I want to make something with the leftover strawberries.”
“……..?”
I said with a smile looking at Lagos.
“You can look forward to it.”