I Will Return My New Brother

I heard a voice calling for me from behind, but fortunately, we reached the carriage door first.

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As soon as we opened the door, we tossed our body inside and quickly gave an order to the coachman.

“To the Rocke Merchant Guild.”

“Marianne?!”

When the coachman flinched when he recognized Orion’s voice shouting my name from afar, Rany savagely whispered to him.

“Rocke Guild.
Rocke Guild, I say.
Hurry.”

“Marianne?!”

“Rocke Guild.
I said to the Rocke Merchant Guild.”

“.
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Fortunately, her savage voice won against Orion’s shout.

Although I felt bad for not responding to his desperate calls, there was no doubt I would meet him when I go back.

Nowadays, Orion cooped up in the home.

He did his work inside the office in the house, and he did his knight training in the drill hall in the house.

He could go for a drink with his friends, but instead of going out, he drank alone at home.

On top of that, since he faithfully ate three times a day, I had a lot of chances to meet him in a day.

How good would it be if I had a profligate older brother who went out everyday because he didn’t like to stay at home.

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“Does your brother have no friends? Is there no one to play with him?”

“He does.
But he’s in the knight order.”

He was Sir Rune, a vice captain who cooped up in the drill hall even more than my brother.

Rany looked absolutely fed up.

Nowadays, Orion wasn’t respected by Rany as before.

Day by day, his existence kept turning insignificant inside her head.

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When we entered the main building of the guild, the workers who were moving busily stopped at once and quickly bowed to Rany.

“Welcome, Young Lady!”

“Oh.”

Looking at Rany, who waved her hand to send them back, I got curious as to whether this place really a merchant guild.

I wondered if Rany had set up a company that collected debts in this place and disguised it as a merchant guild.

It was hard for me to get used to looking at men with broad shoulders, ripped chests, and bulky muscles, doing their greetings so passionately.

“Everyone looks like they do their training very diligently.”

Although I didn’t know what kind of training to do in a merchant guild.

Then, Rany replied simply.

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“I only picked them based on my taste.”

“.
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.”

Why do you have that kind of taste?

As I thought about it, that was kind of understandable.

Not only did she show disgust when she saw Bertin, who stole young ladies’ hearts with his look only, the first thing she said to Zen, who had beautiful eyes, was “look away.”

She brought me to the warehouse located in the middle of the guild.

Holding my hand as if I was a lost duckling, she pushed me inside the warehouse and said.

“Now, stay here.”

My breathing was halted for a moment when I entered through the door.

I saw familiar items being displayed in order, filling this warehouse.

Without missing even one of the small things I had collected up so far.

Behind me who walked around as if enchanted, Rany spoke triumphantly.

“It was hard to bring them here while preserving their original state.
You really piled them nicely in your house, huh.
I asked Dana to bring all of them, even the ones that you hid well.”

“.
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“If you miss them, then come here to see them.
That house would be sold, anyway.
And based on your personality, you won’t be able to bring this to the Duke’s mansion, will you?”

I slowly turned back at her.

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“Rany.”

“Yeah?”

“Have I ever said that I really like you?”

“You have, but it’s nice to hear it again.”

Rany smiled.

Then, she came to my side and leaned her head a bit.
She stared up at me with sparkling eyes and said.

“I’m saying this because you look happy now.”

“Alright?”

“You see, I sold some things in this guild to Orion’s knight order?”

I returned to my senses after I heard that.

No wonder she had been acting nicely to me today.

On top of that, she even meticulously prepared this room to catch me off guard before she made trouble.

When I slowly put down the thing I was holding, Rany added in a hurry.

“I swear it’s not defective products.
It’s just, the design is a bit crude.
Also, it was hardly sold because it is made of superior material.
The products are very good.”

“What did you sell?”

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“Shields for knights.
It is really made of very good material.
I put protection in the impurities free steel to block mana.”

I suddenly recounted the product that Rany showed me grumbingly before.

And then, I flinched.

“Is it that ignorantly big shield that you made based on the knight’s average height because you said shields should be used to protect people?”

Those steel shields which a fairly strong young man couldn’t even lift because it was heavy?

Rany laughed playfully.

“If they can use aura, they can lift it.”

“.
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“Your brother is an easy man, you know.
When I told him you said the shield looks good, he bought the entire stock.”

I stared at Rany who thoroughly utilized her skill as a merchant while sighing.

I didn’t know the relationship that shield had with me whether the shield was good or not, but, anyway, to be able to freely hold it in hand while using a sword would surely need a countless effort.

“He said if they trained more diligently, then all members of the knight order would be able to use it.”

“Then I bet he would stay at home more.”

Someone who rarely went out to begin with would surely stay at home even more.

I absentmindedly muttered.

As if she also had nothing to say about this, Rany quietly shut her mouth.

Why are you being like this to me?