Volume 2 - CH 4

Allmark was meditating in his room and his stomach rumbled.

Of course, he could not eat dinner today.

But in the past, it was not unusual for me to miss a meal, let alone dinner.

There was a time when Almark's unit was separated from the main group and marched for two whole days, drinking nothing but muddy water.

But the human body is made for sloth, Almark thought. The body never gets used to hard times, but it adapts to comfortable times. Even today,

he ate a good breakfast and lunch. But just by skipping dinner, he was already feeling hungry and losing his concentration.

This is not good for training, he thought to himself. It is true that a magician cannot use magic because he is hungry, but for now, he want to train with the best condition

( I should ask Mogen to give me some sweets.) Mogen goes to town every holiday and buys a lot of sweets with his allowance. It would be presumptuous of him to ask for free sweets, but if he said he would pay for them, he might be able to sell them to him.

If he decided to do so, he would be wasting my time. The best thing to do is to hurry. Just as Almark stood up with his allowance, there was a knock at the door.

He opened the door to find Wendy standing in front of the door.

"Oh, Wendy?"

Almark was surprised at the unexpected visitor. Unlike her usual outfit o, Wendy was wearing loose-fitting clothes made of soft fabric, perhaps because it was just time for bed, and for some reason, Almark was a little confused.

Almost as if she didn't know how Almark felt, Wendy said to him

"I heard that you and Lilty came back late today,...... so I thought maybe you hadn't eaten dinner. I only have this , but ......."

She said and offers a fabric wrapped in something.

Almark took it, thanked her, and gently opened it to find a number of small baked sweets.

«I'm sorry,”

"I bought too many when I was in town the other day. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to eat them all by myself. I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you.”

Wendy said and took some distance from Almark with a smile on her face. , indicating that she will no longer accept the food back even if he tries to give it back to her.

And Almark accept it. Almark knew that she was probably lying about having overbought it , but he couldn't refuse her after she had said that much.

"Thank you, you always helping me out."

“That's my line. Oh, these star-shaped ones are delicious."

Wendy looked into Almark's hand and pointed to one of the baked sweets .

"I don't want to interrupt your meditation. see you tomorrow.”

She left. As she turned the corner, Wendy turned around again, gave Almark a small wave, and whispered, "Good luck! “

After Wendy left, Almark closed the door and put one of the baked sweets in his mouth, thinking that these sweets are surprisingly filled up, so he had better limit himself to three or so or he would get drowsy... and then there was another knock at the door.

He answered the door to find a slender figure, the complete opposite of Mogen's. This time it was Lilti.

Liltie looked at the surprised Almark and said,

"Thank you for today. I made you skip dinner."

In a voice barely quiet enough to be heard, Lilty puts a baked sweet wrapped in a cloth bag into Almark's hands.

Before Almark could say anything , she added

«The star-shaped ones are delicious. See you later."

and left as if she was running away.

Almark returned to his room, compared the two star-shaped baked sweets, and thought that he would not have to ask Mogen to sell him sweets for a while.