It was a little after early morning.
Andal, who was asleep in his personal space under the pub’s change room, was forced awake and made to stand in front of the pub by Riley. Riley had only one request to Andal.
“… You crazy rascal.”
Andal, who didn’t even manage to get rid of eyeboggers, first started to pour out curses and swears after seeing the carriage that was stopped in front of the pub.
“… You dumbass rascal.”
Andal was annoyed all the way to the tip of his head. His curses and swears were sincerely coming from the bottom of his heart.
[TL: The author was being sarcastic here about the whole ‘sincerely’ and ‘bottom of his heart.’] “Hey. Andal… What’s so difficult about using Teleport for us? What’s all this complaint about? It’s a piece of cake for you, isn’t it?”
Riley asked as he laughed mischievously.
With his face completely crumpled, Andal created a red hot flame on top of his palm and said,
“Hey you, god damn it. If you were sleeping comfortably but someone came and woke you up and told you, ‘Hey, chew on this cake!’ Would you feel great about that?”
“That would be the worst.”
Andal promptly threw the Fireball at Riley and shouted,
“You rascal!”
“…What?!”
“Then don’t pester a red dragon to buy you a cake!”
Riley pressed down Nainiae’s head and also lowered his body to barely dodge the Fireball that was coming right at them.
BOOM!
The lump of flame that Riley dodged collided with a tree in front of the pub and started a fire.
“Ugh! You piss me off! You are fucking good at dodging!”
“Just where did you learn that kind of language?”
“From a granny who is a regular to the pub. Why?”
“I don’t know who is the dumbass here…”
Although there was a loud ruckus happening right at that instant, the people of Iffa town didn’t even come out of their homes to check it out. Instead, it appeared they were still enjoying sleep through the morning.
It was probably Andal’s doing.
“Ugh…”
“I got it. I got it. I’ll pay you back later for this favor, all right?”
Watching Andal complaining and grinding his teeth, Riley started to laugh again mischievously.
Riley, who took a glance at Nainiae as he had a small quarrel with his friend, moved his eyes to direct toward the tree that was on fire.
“Yes. I understand.”
Although Riley didn’t say it in words, Nainiae, who figured out what he meant, carefully walked toward it and used water magic on the tree.
“Tsk.”
Nainiae was calmly suppressing the fire.
Andal, who was watching Nainiae’s ‘black colored’ water magic, narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms. [TL: In some chapters, the author says Nainiae’s magic has gray color, not black.]
“Hey, Riley.”
“Yeah?”
“I’ll shoot a Teleport magic. So, as a debt…”
Andal continued as he pointed at the back of Nainiae who was suppressing the fire,
“Give her to me.”
“Andal. I have been telling you for a long time now. If you want to enjoy your amusement trip, you need to ease up on your tendency to treat people like objects. Also…”
Riley’s tone toward Andal said he found the proposition to be ridiculous. Riley soon shook his head and refused.
“I can’t give her to you. I’m going to use her as air conditioner during summer and a space heater during the winter.”
Riley responded while putting up a high and mighty pose.
Andal looked at Riley as if he was looking at a weirdo. Andal asked,
“What the hell is an air conditioner? What’s a space heater?”
“There are things like that. Anyway, I’m telling you that I won’t give her to you.”
Having heard the response, Andal proposed something even more appealing.
“In that case, how about this? I have a guardian who’s quite useful. She has higher number of Circles than that lass, and she is very diligent at work too. She is a spirit type who lacks emotion, so she would be substantially more efficient at other tasks as well.”
Andal was talking about a guardian that he had in his cave connected to the basement of his pub. This guardian was among the best. Andal was making a proposition to exchange the guardian with Nainiae.
“Did you say she has higher number of Circles than Nainiae?”
Riley, with an intrigued face, looked at Andal.