Chapter 8: Recruiting employees (4)

Did this neighbor like growing plants?
It’s a hobby that’s often seen, so the hobby of growing plants itself isn’t surprising, but at this scale, it’s like an arboretum.

Should I say that sincerity is felt?
Plants that I have never seen in my life were growing lushly.
To be exact, it should be said that they are unfamiliar but somehow familiar-looking plants.

The sweet scent, like honey, from the unfamiliar flowers crossed the neighbor’s fence and filled my entire yard with that scent.
At the same time, the fresh smell of the forest mixed with the scent of the flowers, making this place feel like a forest, and I almost mistook the scenery in front of me for a forest.
The neighbor’s house is closer to a forest hut than a small garden.

I really liked that scenery.
Not a city of a bleak concrete forest, but a green forest full of living vitality.
That scenery where the insects chirp, and white butterflies flutter, and sit on the yellow stamens and suck honey.
That house, that anyone would have wanted to live in at least once.

But I think it’d be a little hard to manage, because I’m burdened by life.
Even so, what can I do?
Even though the game is a hit, it’s not in my hands yet.
It’s an unavoidable problem that I start to worry when I think something will cost money.

“The neighbor’s place looks nice. But when did it appear?”

“Hmm, it’s a well-made garden. There are many rare and difficult plants to grow… he seems to have a lot of money.”

But I agree with her words that he shouldn’t be here if he has a lot of money, but I can’t just say he doesn’t when he’s actually in front of me.

Anyway, while passing by with a good view, someone appeared by opening the neighbor’s door.
Her richly grown hair sparkled emerald green, and her appearance was a beauty that was hard to see anywhere else, and she was wearing a white one-piece dress and a wide-brimmed white hat, and the ears that stuck out to the side proved that she was an elf.

Her overall appearance, coming out along the path filled with sunflowers, was pure itself, but the problem was her arms and a bundle of plants held in her arms.
It wasn’t to the point of having bulging muscles like a bodybuilder, but her arms had small muscles, and the plants held in her arms were making threatening sounds with sharp teeth-like edges in the air.
Looking closely, it seems like a flower…?

And something felt staged…

“Hello!”

“Ah, hello.”

I greeted her when she greeted me, but was it my delusion that she was waiting for me?
The elf who greeted me with a somewhat clumsy smile was full of unnaturalness, but her appearance covered everything.

“Are you living next door? I moved here a while ago. It seems like a really nice town.”

“Um… a nice town…? It’s relatively better than the other places in this city.”

Although it’s relatively good in this city… I don’t think it’s a good town.
The elf, who was embarrassed by my words, blinked for a moment and then seemed to be thinking about something.

Every action of the girl who seemed to be able to use a lot of strength showed purity, and her face proved it.

It’s not a personal thing.

“Ah! Do you like flowers?”

“I don’t dislike them, but they die every time I grow them.”

As soon as she heard that, she rushed into the house and soon came out with a pot of plants and approached me.

“I’ll give you this as a housewarming gift, so would you like to try growing this?”

I was going to decline, but she was looking at me with such a nervous face that I was embarrassed and accepted it.
As soon as I accepted it, her face brightened, and she spoke as if she was spitting out words as if she was waiting.

“First of all, the environment inside the house is a little important for this flower! First, let’s go inside the house….”

“Ah, you don’t have to worry about that. It’s ‘Summer’s Dream’. I know that flower too.”

It might be my delusion, but Kaela took the pot from her and stepped back with a slightly cold look.
The elf was a little embarrassed by Kaela’s actions, but soon asked with a slight reprimand.

“Excuse me, but what is your relationship? I gave this to this person.”

Translation: Who are you? Don’t get involved if you have nothing to do with it.

“Hoho, what are you going to do with it? But if I’m not mistaken, you seem to be angry. What don’t you like?”

Translation: What are you going to do? But why are you so sensitive?

“It can’t be. I felt good today. It would have been even better if someone hadn’t been rude all of a sudden…?”

Translation: Get lost.

“Huhu, I’m sorry if you felt that way. Then I should go now to achieve my original purpose. I’ll accept the flower.”

Translation: Yeah. But you won’t achieve your desired purpose.

Ouch… a signal from somewhere…!
It felt like a terrible fight had ended.

After finishing the conversation, Kaela wrapped the pot with her tail and put it in the corner of the yard and put her arm around my arm and came close to me.
I was trying to shake her off because I wondered why this woman was doing this all of a sudden, but she wouldn’t let go, as if she had been glued.
Tremendous strength…

“Why are you doing that? You’re scaring me. Did you eat some medicine?”

“Why are you doing this between us? Don’t be embarrassed.”

“What kind of relationship do we have! I’ve only seen you when you broke into the house yesterday.”

“Time isn’t important in love.”

“You talk like you’ve been dating a lot.”

“I’ve never dated anyone, even if I look like this.”

Hearing our conversation, the green eyes of the elf neighbor were burning as if on fire, and she was trembling all over and glaring at Kaela, but Kaela didn’t care and led me out of the house.

“Thank you for the flower. I’ll take good care of it.”

As Kaela said, since there’s something to do today, I didn’t resist her and was dragged along.
Actually… hmm hmm.

Today was the day I was waiting for and waiting for, to meet him.
After being immersed in Doom, I saw Mr. Kuhn’s interview and left my hometown and immigrated here to meet him, didn’t I?

Of course, in the meantime, I picked my old friend, who had been sleeping in the Spirit Forest, and placed her in the yard of the house I moved into.
Ella, my only friend and a Dryad, was puzzled at first, but soon accepted my stubbornness as if she was used to it.

Well, even if she didn’t accept it, she has already come over.

“So, the reason you brought me is to help you make friends with a human man?”

“Yes.”

“This fcking btch, you were always dumping everything on me even in the Great War, and your romance is the same.”

“Beautiful words.”

“Do you think beautiful words will come out seeing you? I’ve been forced to immigrate because of your relationship counseling?”

“The paperwork has been perfectly processed. You don’t have to worry. Anyway, we were screwed over and had to leave there.”

This friend’s words are rough.
She’s usually so considerate and kind, but it’s a pity.
Was it because she got too much stress from her hometown?

“You haven’t had a relationship for so long?”

“Because I didn’t have time…”

It was a life where she was busy training with the sword and magic.
She trained as a soldier for 200 years, and she couldn’t even think of a relationship.

But she was fascinated by the game and interview content made by that person.

“Then do you think I’ve had one?”

“No?”

“Dryads have children without even knowing each other’s faces. And I don’t even know my children’s faces or names.”

“I didn’t know that!”

Seeing Ella, who was holding her head with a troubled face, I felt a little worried.
Was it because she was tired due to the time difference?
Maybe her long-term illness, chronic headaches, had returned.

“Does your head hurt?”

“Lumie! Lumie!”

“Why?”

Her angry points are strange sometimes.
Anyway, with advice from Ella, who’s a experienced old woman, I made preparations for the meeting with him.

I also bought a dress that I can’t even remember when I wore, and I got my hair done at a beauty salon… and I almost fainted.
How much did it cost to trim my hair a little…

I don’t think I was ever this desperate when I defended the Spirit Forest’s final battle in the Great War, but I was so nervous that my heart was pounding.

First of all, the scent of the flowers in the garden, which I carefully prepared to attract him.
And then, I greeted him naturally and talked about the surroundings, and then I presented the prepared flower.
A continued meeting under the pretext of letting him know about the difficult-to-grow Summer’s Dream.
The deepening relationship.

And….

Goal.

Yes.
Luminaire.

I’m a woman who doesn’t know how to give up.
I will definitely get what I want.

“Atchoo!”

“What! Did you catch a cold?!”

“I think I caught a cold because of the door you broke yesterday.”

“A man who’s so vindictive… is a shame.”

“…I think you’re more shameless than me sometimes.”