A crestfallen, helpless, annoyed, frustrated, unwaning, angry, and at last, another helpless expression passes through that pretty face while the bright smile on my face stayed the same.
She never wanted to, and she had never even tried, but she had a room with a mountain full of things she had collected through her journeys around the world.
She was a unique one, and from how much she had traveled around the world, I know one can imagine just how many useless things might be in a room that almost covered one-sixth part of the first underground floor.
She liked collecting stuff, but she didn't do any sort of systematic sorting, arranging, and classification.
I have seen that place, not in person, though. But still, from what had seen with my third eye was enough to show just how great of a dump yard that place was.
And it was so messed up that one would definitely need weeks, if not months, just to arrange those things in a proper manner.
She was amazing to have every single thing she had collected throughout her life on her, not losing a single thing, and I already know that fact.
So, even if she might forget where she put her stuff for a while, her saying that she lost something was a useless attempt to lie.
Well... I can understand why this anger and frustration was coming from this still-calm friend of mine.
She might already be in tears if this was some other occasion and the one asking her this might already have passed out from her beating if it were to be someone aside from me.
And today was my birthday too, so she couldn't just reject this request of mine.
She knew from the moment she started talking about that hut that my rare interest would be piqued, and also that she would have no choice but to do the thing she had avoided for years.
She will have fun, though. I will be there with her. In a big room, alone with her, with no other person allowed to enter, just the two of us, cleaning a mountain of junk.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtIt will be fun~. For both of us.
I also wanted to see the treasures she had collected throughout her long journeys and maybe hear some stories of how she got those things if possible.
Many of them were even actually hundred-year-old stuff from other wars and war souvenirs.
No one was allowed to go in that room, no one could actually.
There was a powerful barrier of darkness attribute in that place that no one could even see, much less understand.
But, well, that place will definitely be amazing.
She was frustrated just from thinking about the great work it will need and even though she knew the fact that it will be far easier and more fun with me there, she couldn't help but punch this poor table in her cute bitterness.
But the table was fragile, and also some of her favorites, so she couldn't crush it even if the situation was like this.
Her anger was cute, and I couldn't help but smile at this one.
Well, she shook her head helplessly after a while and looked at me with a bitter look.
"You are a bad person... very, very, very bad one.
Haaa... ok. We will do that. But not now.
After we come back from that place, alright?"
"Alright~. Thanks, Rein~!"
It will be fun looking through her treasures, and I was looking forward to the untold stories like this diary and hut.
There was still a bitter smile on her face while looking at my cheerful smile.
She knew many things in there would be difficult to deal with.
And there were already so many things that even if we use magic to create shelves, and cupboards, and arrange things according to their type, kind, time, and memories, it will take a loooooong time.
It was a too boring, painful, and tough thing.
She never did it herself, even while adding new things once in a while precisely because those things were important to her.
And among many useless things in that place, I had seen quite some interesting things so... it will be fun~.
Just this much excited me a lot and there was still the gift left if there was any that is.
And this sudden hopeful look that came after my cheerful one didn't go unnoticed by her.
She didn't believe in saying happy birthday, but giving gifts was a cultural tradition and a personal activity.
The type, kind, and price of that gift didn't matter at all, and she knew that much.
And she also knew that I already had everything one would want, including her and this peaceful life, so there was nothing materialistic she can offer.
She understood this much, and this was even more of a reason she was thinking of some appropriate gift for a long time now.
I didn't know what it was but I am definitely looking forward to this and she could also read this eagerness.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmA smile took over the bitterness she felt from having to clean up her room and shook her head.
"I really thought too much about this, you know?"
I definitely know you did.
"You are someone who carries rare things as if they are just a bottle of normal water.
You have all resources, gems, money, and everything a human could greed for.
You also have power and a goal, as well as a family and me.
So, what can I give a person like you, someone closest to my heart?
What can I give to my darling, which would be more special than anyone else?
I thought deep and long about this, as you might have already known but, that long thinking was for naught.
The answer was really simple..."
She smiled and took out something from her special storage space.
There was an excited and hopeful smile on her face as she took out this... coin?
A strange pure black coin that seemed just like a normal coin but, there was definitely something special about this.
Something very special, actually.
This coin radiated pure Mana. Her Mana...
"A condensed-materialized coin?"