Chapter 15 - Drunkenness
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"Hiccup!"

I let out a short burp of wine, baring my little mouth and giggling.

Suddenly I felt oh so happy.

"Barry!" I shouted, startling everyone around me, and Barry looked over at me with a confused look on his face, "Come on, burp! Let's, drink!"

Then raised his hands high and slapped the table with a thud.

"Sylve, you can't drink." Barry looked at me with a bitter smile, then turned his head and glared at Ryan, "Who told you to give her a drink! Look how drunk she is!"

"I'm not drunk!"

I shouted in dissatisfaction. They actually said I was drunk?

"I can have a thousand cups, one of them here can not beat me.

"I just want to apologize to her ...... Who knew Sylve was such a bad drinker, just one glass and she's like this."

Ryan spread his hands with an innocent face, but there was a smile in his eyes.

"How about ...... Barry why don't you rest while I take her home?"

"Fuck off! If you want to send it, I'll send it, what's your business!" Barry went red in the face and yelled at Ryan's nose ‘’The whole village knows that you are so lazy that you don't even do farm work, and you only know how to play all day long! ‘’

"Barry, you dare to scold me!"

"I'll scold you!"

"What business is it of yours if I send your sister home!"

"You're trying to take advantage of her!"

"I just like her, what's wrong with that? Sylve hasn't even said anything yet, so what are you woofing about?"

"Who are you calling a puppy!!!"

"Whoever answers is a puppy!"

"...... Wine!!!"

Dazed and confused, I could no longer hear what they were saying somewhat clearly and just wanted to have two more drinks.

"Hahahaha! Sylve, uncle drink with you."

Uncle Doyle looked at the two young men fighting over jealousy in front of him and found it very interesting. The wine came up with the mentality of watching the fun, so he tried to encourage me to drink some more.

He also wanted to see what this incredibly beautiful girl looked like when she was drunk.

"Uncle Doyle! How can you do that!"

Barry was in a anxious.

"Hahahahaha! It's a rare day when everyone is so happy, so if Sylve wants to drink, she should let her drink happily!"

Uncle Doyle picked up a new empty cup and scooped up a full cup of beer from a side keg and placed it in front of me.

"Here, Sylve, let's drink!"

"Cheers! Cup!"

Seeing that I had a drink in front of me again, I was happy again and picked up the cup and drank a large portion of it.

"Ha! Tasty"

With a wipe of my mouth, I sprang to my feet and tried to get up on top of the table, but I fell on my butt.

Huh?

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at this. Did I fall into the mire of the abyss again ...... Yes, I was in the abyss.

So I just sat on the ground, hugged my knees and shrunk into a ball and started spitting bubbles.

"Boo, Boo, Boo ...... What, so noisy. Is it, I'm going to, be born?"

Seeing me drink like this fool, even Ryan panicked a little. He really didn't expect my drinking ability to be so bad, what if Grandma Clare knew about this?

"Sylve, are you okay? You can't drink any more."

Ryan reached out to help me up, but Barry pushed him back.

"Don't you touch her!"

"Barry! Do you want to fight!"

"Don't you touch her!"

"She's fallen! I can't even help her! Why are you so nervous about her, do you like your sister?!"

"Ryan, don't you dare say that again!"

"You like Sylve! I said what's wrong with that!"

"You bastard!"

After a bit of pushing and shoving, the two of them wrestled with each other with punching and kicking each other.

This time Uncle Doyle couldn't sit still and hurriedly stood up to pull the fight.

"Hey, you two Stop!!"

I looked at the three people choking in front of me with some bewilderment, my brain was like a mush at the moment and I had no idea what was going on.

"Hey~ Sylve~ Where is-"

Who is it! Calling to me!

Rising from the ground with great difficulty, I saw the creature shaped like Aria, walking towards me.

"Aria, drunk, giggle." I mocked her unmercifully.

"Sylve~" Aria hugged me and buried her face in my neck, sniffing hard, "Sylve, it smells so good, something like lilac."

"Aria, don't, giggle, it tickles." I laughed and pushed her away, "Let's, drink."

Aria and I sat down at the table and drank the wine in our respective hands.

"How did they fight, heh heh."

Alicia giggled as she pointed to the three men writhing together on the side.

"I don't know, giggle."

"They're fighting so ugly."

"Yeah oh, hehehehehe ......"

I don't know which punchline that hit, but I just couldn't stop being happy.

"Sylve, I'll tell you a secret, I ...... getting married!"

"With who, with, Barry?"

"Nasty Sylve, with Alan, Alan. How can I get married to Barry, you must be drunk, hahaha!"

"Oh. Marriage, fun."

"Well ...... It doesn't feel fun eh. I'm not having fun, Sylve~"

"Why, not having fun?"

"Well ...... I don't know eh, why am I not happy?" Aria leaned over the table and pouted, "I just feel as if everything is going too fast. I'm not ready to get married, and suddenly I'm going to get married and have a baby ...... The thought of this is so annoying, I'm still a child myself ......"

"Aria, this is, pre-marital, anxiety."

"Pre-marital anxiety? What's that? Are you saying I'm sick?"

"Not, sick. Just, worried. Like you do."

"I don't get it eh ...... It feels like you know a lot of things, Sylve, and I've had that thought before. Where the hell did you come from tell me~" Aria grabbed one of my arms and pouted.

"Giggle, I am, a monster."

"A monster? Sylve is a monster?"

"Well, the kind that eats people,. Ouch!"

Already in a state of not knowing what I was talking about at all, I raised my paw and made a face at Aria.

"Hahahaha, Sylve, so cute." Aria stroked my hair.

"Aria, I want to, ruffle."

"Pee? Oh, go on then. I'll wait for you to come back, ah, you haven't told me where you came from."

"Mmm!"

I answered and staggered to an out-of-the-way place, looking around and not finding anyone.

Struggling to stand firm with my legs crossed, I lifted the long linen skirt I was wearing high, removed the lining of what somewhat resembled a pair of safety pants, and reached for my little brother.

......

How come I can't touch it?

My eyes were misty and I frowned and thought for half a day before I remembered.

Oh, so the little brother has been away from me for many days.

Thought of him.

So just squatted down as usual and the sound of gurgling water came.

...... I'm done.

After I was done, I lifted the liner and was ready to head back, when I turned around but suddenly the sky was spinning and my eyes were glazed over. When I came back to my senses, I was already sitting on my knees with a face full of blindness.

"Vom--" I dry heave with some nausea.

My head was so dizzy and I wanted to vomit so badly.

"What a ...... What can I say."

A familiar voice came.

"It's ...... Who?" I was instantly alert, it seemed like a blurred figure had appeared, who was it ...... I rubbed my eyes hard, but I couldn't see it clearly anyway.

"Little thing, why don't you run?"

"Run ...... What, to where? I ...... don't know."

What is he talking about, why should I run? I'm not leaving my grandmother ...... Why is this person saying things like that, it's annoying.

Mind is in chaos, can't think properly at all.

"Do you know how easy it is for me to kill you now?"

What was that cold object resting on my shoulder? I put my hand on it.

"...... Beef jerky!"

Opened my mouth to bite it.

"Idiot!"

The hard object was jerked away quickly, and I pouted in dissatisfaction.

This guy is so annoying, will he give it to me or not, is it fun to fool me!

I grabbed his pant leg and stood up, raising my hands high and hitting him in the face with a "pia" sound, then started pulling randomly.

"Give me that!"

"......

"You came out of the deep abyss. Aren't you ashamed to be like this" He grabbed my forearm, took his hand away from his face, and said, as if to himself, ‘’What should I do with you ...... Ahhh, what a trouble."

"It was not easy to find you, I ran almost all the villages and towns around Woodward, my legs are tired, and you are here comfortably ...... These days I'm watching you, asking people in the village about you and hearing about it ...... It's really hard for me to figure out why you don't have any self-awareness as a monster. My mission is to make sure that you are killed ah, now what do you want me to do, the abyss of the white night."

This person ...... What are you talking about, it's completely inaudible.

I watched his mouth open and close, my vision getting blurred.

So sleepy ...... My eyelids can hardly open, hehehe.

"Earlier I thought about the many possibilities of which route you would actually choose to escape. If you make it to a slightly larger town, you will immediately get caught in the net of that the church has laid out for you. We predicted all the possibilities, but no one could have imagined that a monster of the abyss would be hiding in this small village that doesn't even have a name, peacefully working as a country girl ...... This matter if let those old guys know, afraid of the eyes will fall out of it ...... What makes you so special ...... Why are you, so much like a human being."

Carlos looked at the young girl whose body had softened in front of him and who was breathing steadily with her eyes closed.

Actually, she had fallen asleep, really ...... What to say.

"...... I really want to just give you a sword and forget about it, my mission is also considered to be over."

With chilling words on his lips, Carlos crouched down and put the young girl on his back.

"Looks like it's time to have a good chat with Lord Pope ...... Well, the fewer people who know about this matter, the better."