敵と認定する
はじめて金を稼いでから一週間がたった。
三つの街にそれぞれ一回行って、水を浄化して、その後かき氷を売った。
どっちもほぼ元手がいらない商売で、一週間で10万セタ位稼いだ。
これがどれくらいの金額なのかって言うと。20万セタで四人家族が一ヶ月を節約なしで過ごせる位だ。
そこそこいい収入だけど、すげえ! って程じゃない。
でも楽に稼げるし、これでいいと思った。
その仕事に行かない時は、屋敷でのんびりマンガ魔導書を読んだ。
今読んでるのはレイジングミストという名前の魔法の魔導書だ。
かなりの広域攻撃魔法で、使える機会なんてなさそうだけど、内容がやっぱり結構シュールで面白いから読んでる。
おれが読んでる横で、シルビアがかき氷を持って、一口ずつ食べさせてくれてる。
特に意味はないけど、シルビアがどうしてもやりたいっていうから、やらせてる。
「ばっかもーん!」
屋敷に響き渡る程の大声が聞こえた。
おじいさんの怒鳴り声だ。いきなりどうしたんだ?
気になった俺はシルビアに目配せして、魔導書をおいて、二人で一緒に何事か見に行った。
中庭におじいさんと兄貴のイサークがいた。
イサークは小さく縮こまってて、おじいさんが説教をしてる。
「まえからあれほど言ってるじゃろ! 甘い話には裏があると。だというのにこりもせず大金を注いで失敗をして」
どうやら商売の失敗で説教してるみたいだ。
16歳になってるイサークは両親の仕事を手伝ってて、それで失敗したみたいだ。
「し、しかしお爺様。ブルノが絶対に儲かるといったのです。今投資すれば倍になって帰ってくるからって」
「いやそれはダメだろ」
思わず声に出てしまった。あまりの話に思わず突っ込んでしまった。
イサークに睨まれた。
......いやそこで睨まれても。ブルノってのが何者かは知らないけど、絶対に儲かるから、今投資すれば倍になって戻るなんて詐欺の中でも時代遅れの詐欺だぞ。
そんなのに引っかかったのかイサークよ。
「だから前から言ってるじゃろ! 甘い話など存在せん、と。絶対に儲かるのなら、なぜそのブルノという男が自分でやらない」
うん、まさにその通り。
「ブルノはおれに言いました、お前は友達だから、特別におしえてやるって」
それで信じたのかよ、おいおい。
その反論で、イサークはますますおじいさんにしかられた。
こっぴどくしかられて、反省しろと言われて、解放された。
おじいさんがさった後、イサークに思いっきり睨まれた。
「なんださっきのは! それになんだその目は!」
......正直哀れんでる目だが、いわないことにした。
あんな詐欺みたいなのに引っかかったあげく、反省をまったくしてないのがなあ......。
「その目をやめろ! 子供のくせに、働いた事もないくせに!」
「る、ルシオ様は――」
「お前は黙ってろ! 買われてきた女がしゃしゃり出るな」
怒鳴られて、シルビアは涙目になった。
ぎゅっと自分の服の裾を掴む。
涙がこぼれて......指輪に落ちた。
「......」
カチーン、となった。おれはイサークに聞いた。
「あれれれー、兄さんって稼いでるんだっけ」
「はあ? なんだそれは」
「ぼく、兄さんが稼いだって記憶がないんだ。いつも商売で損をして怒られてばかり。そういうのって、ちゃんと働いてるっていえるのかなあ」
「子供が生意気言うな、儲けるってのはそんなに簡単な事じゃないんだ!」
あるって言えばいいのに逆ギレって――まさか儲けたことないのかよ。
「ぼくは儲けたよー、一週間で、10万セタ」
「は?」
「これが証拠だよ」
この一週間で稼いだ金を見せた。
「な、何をやったんだお前は」
「魔法で水を綺麗にして、それを売ったんだ」
「――っ!」
兄貴は言葉を失った。
やがて元に戻って、虚勢を張った。
「ふ、ふん。その程度、子供のおままごとには丁度いい」
「うん、おままごとかもしれないね。兄さんはおままごと以下のことしかできないんだよね」
子供モードでわざとらしくいって、ぎろっと兄貴を睨んで、トドメをさすようにいった。
「結婚してない子供だし、おままごとでも大丈夫だよね」
「くっ」
兄貴はまたも言葉を失った。そして言い返す事もできず、そのまま逃げる様に立ち去った。
おれは追いかけようとした、もっともっと言ってやりたかった。
人の嫁をコケにして、この程度で済ますわけがない。
しかし追いかけられなかった。服をつかまれた。シルビアだ。
シルビアはおれの服を摘まんで、涙目のまま上目遣いで見てきた。
「ありがとうございます、ルシオ様」
涙目で感謝された。
シルビアの涙を拭いてやった。口調を普段のものに戻して言った。
「言っとくけど、シルビアは買われてきた女じゃないからな。生まれる前からおれのお嫁さんになる運命の人だから、買われたとかそういうのじゃないからな」
「はい......」
「......書庫にもどろっか」
もっと兄貴に言いたいことはあったけど、シルビアの顔を見てるとどうでも良くなった。
おれたちは書庫に戻って、魔導書の続きを読んで、かき氷を食べた。
夜はおててをつないで一緒に寝た。
Chapter 7: Sees as an Enemy
After one week of the first time I earned money.
I went to the three villages once, purified the water, and after that sold shaved ice.
Both of the trades needed almost no capital, and I earned 100k Cet in one week.
If you want to tell how much is that. 200k Cet is a month of living expenses for a four people family.
It was a reasonably good income, but not "Amazing!" like income.
But I could earn easily, so I was content with it.
Using the time when I am not going to work, I read Grimoires in the mansion leisurely.
The one that I'm reading right now is the Grimoire that has Raging Mist's magic on it.
It is a very wide-ranged attack magic, and there is probably not many instance that I will use it, but the contents was as I've thought, very surreal, and reading it is very interesting.
In my side, while reading, Sylvia had a shaved ice, and lets me eat one spoonful at a time.
It has no particular meanings, but Sylvia insisted that she wanted to do it, so I just let her do what she want.
[You stupid shit!!] 
I heard a loud voice that was echoing from the mansion.
It was Ojii-san's shouting voice. I wonder what it is suddenly?
I was curious, so I made eye contact with Sylvia, left the Grimoire behind, and went to see what's going on together.
In the courtyard, there was Ojii-san and Isaac Aniki.
Isaac was making his body small, and was being preached by Ojii-san.
[I've told you so many times before! There is no such thing as a free lunch. But even if I repeatedly said that, you don't learn and keep pouring a lot of money] 
It looks like he was being preached for failing a trade.
Isaac tried to behave while being scolded, but he dared to have a rebuttal.
[B-But Ojii-sama. Bruno said it would be absolutely profitable. He said that if I sponsor it now it would return to double] 
[That's too much of a joke] 
I instinctively let out a voice. It was so ridiculous I couldn't help to point that out.
I was glared at by Isaac.
......Can't you not glare at me too much. I don't know who is this Bruno, but saying that it would be absolutely profitable and it would return to double, even if it's fraud it's an outdated one.
Did you really fall for that Isaac.
[That's why I've told you so many times!! There is no such thing as a free lunch. If it would be absolutely profitable, then why didn't the man called Bruno do it himself] 
Un, just like he said.
[Bruno told me, "You are my friend, so I will tell you specially"] 
Did you really believe that, Oi oi.
In his rebuttal, Isaac was more and more scolded by Ojii-san.
He was scolded very much, told to look back on his actions, and released.
After Ojii-san went away, I was glared at by Isaac in the best way he could.
[What was that earlier!! And what's with the way you look at me!!] 
......Honestly, it was with pitying eyes, but I didn't say it.
Falling for such a fraud, and not looking back on his actions at all.........
[Stop that look!! You're just a kid, a kid that hadn't worked!!] 
[L-Lucio-sama is--] 
[You shut up!! A girl who has been bought shouldn't interrupt!] 
Being shouted at, Sylvia became teary-eyed.
*Gyutto* she held the hem of her clothes.
Her tears dropped......and fell to the ring.
[......] 
*Kachi-n* I was enraged. I asked Isaac.
[Arerere?, was Nii-san really earning money] 
[Haa? What did you say] 
[I, have no memory of Nii-san making money. Only fails at every trade and be scolded. That, is that really, "working"?] 
[A kid shouldn't say cheeky things, getting a profit isn't that easy!!] 
He just should have said he had, but he got angry back--You haven't really earned a profit ever since huh.
[I had a profit you know?, in one week, about 100k Cet] 
[Ha?] 
[Proof's here] 
I showed the money I earned the last week
[W-What did you do] 
[I made the water clean with magic, and I sold that] 
[-!!] 
Aniki lost his words.
But soon came back, and puts on airs.
[F-Fun. That much, is enough for a kid like you playing house] 
[Un, it might be playing house?. But Nii-san can only do less than that playing house right?] 
I told him unnaturally in child-mode, *Giro* glared at Aniki, and put an end to him.
[I'm a kid that's "not married", so playing house is okay right?] 
[Khu!] 
Aniki lost his words again. And couldn't say anything back, and went away as if to run away.
I tried to follow him, and say a lot more things to him.
Saying things to people's wife, he shouldn't be left with only this.
But, I couldn't go after him. My clothes were grabbed. It's Sylvia.
Sylvia held my clothes, and looked up to me with her teary-eyes.
[Thank you very much, Lucio-sama] 
She told me thanks with tears in her eyes.
I wiped Sylvia's tears. I returned to my usual way of talking and said.
[I'll tell you this, Sylvia is nothing like a girl who was bought. You are my wife even before we are born, you are the girl of my destiny, you are not something like a bought girl] 
[Yes......] 
[......Let's go back to the archives] 
I still had a lot to say to Aniki, but it didn't matter at all after seeing Sylvia's face.
We returned to the archives, continuously read Grimoires, and ate shaved ice.
At night, we slept while holding our hands.
Manga wo Yomeru Ore ga Sekai Saikyou ~Yometachi to Sugosu Ki mama na Seikatsu~
マンガを読めるおれが世界最強～嫁達と過ごす気ままな生活
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