You Have a New Job (Continued)
A critical hit, and it hit the target completely.
Kevin was at a loss for words.
"...uncertain."
"!!!"
As if only then realizing the risk, Ninti tightened her small face, took a small step back, and pulled out a device that looked like a wolves alarm—actually, it was Welt summoner, which was very convenient and practical.
Kevin opened his mouth, feeling a long-forgotten sense of powerlessness. After a long silence, he said:
"Not now."
"Oh."
Ninti obediently put away the anti-wolf alarm.
Then Kevin started to worry about Ninti's naiveté.
"You are too trusting of others, which is dangerous."
"But Kevin won't do anything bad."
"I..."
Kevin tried to preach.
Unfortunately, I'm bad at expressing myself.
After a long pause, under the bewildered gaze of Ninti, Kevin let out a long sigh and said:
"So why are you looking for me?"
"I'm worried about Kevin. Also, these are some snacks that Seele made for you."
Ninti handed over the box of snacks she had been holding for a long time.
Kevin shook his head, about to say that he didn't need it.
"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
Suddenly, a sound like an alarm clock came from Ninti's body.
Then she hurriedly stuffed the snack box into her hand, turned around, and flew away.
"I need to go back for dinner, otherwise Joachim and Seele will worry. Goodbye, Kevin ~~"
Kevin looked at the snack box in his hand, and could feel the little girl's lingering body heat on it. After a while, confusion appeared in his eyes.
Why do they address him and the Herrscher by their first names, but call the girl "sister"? They're clearly older, aren't they?
A strange child, with an incomprehensible way of thinking.
Kevin held the snack box and watched Ninti's departing figure until she successfully entered the temporary residence. Only then did he exit this World Bubble.
The next day, when Ninti got up, there was a box of pastries that she had sent out the day before on her bedside table.
Upon opening it, I found a whole box of cookies, except for one, and a note inside.
[It's delicious, thank you.]
This was Kevin's final reply after staring blankly at the snack box all night.
Ninti held the note, blinked, and a cryptic light flickered in her eyes.
That afternoon, she went to the rooftop where they had met the day before.
"Kevin! Kevin..."
I called out several times, but Kevin didn't show up.
Ninti then placed the new snack box on the ground, put up a very conspicuous sign, and then turned and left.
After a while, the snack box was picked up by a hand.
"Ninti made this cake today, so you have to eat it all!"
Kevin read the words on the sign, followed by a long silence.
He was increasingly unable to understand what the little girl was thinking.
That night, after all three were fast asleep, Kevin once again quietly entered World Bubble and placed an empty snack box with a note that read, "Thank you, it was delicious." on Ninti's bedside table.
As she turned to leave, Ninti turned over in her sleep, and the blanket fell to the side.
"..."
As if possessed, Kevin pulled the blanket back over himself.
Afterwards, Kevin frowned, realizing what he had done, and left World Bubble again.
On the third day, Ninti placed the snack box and the notice board again.
Kevin's reply note read:
Thank you, but no need to send any more.
On the fourth day, Ninti placed the snack box and the notice board again.
Ninti: [Kevin doesn't like sweets? What does Kevin like to eat then?]
Kevin: [I don't need to eat.]
Ninti: [But eating delicious food makes me happy, that's what my sister Frederica told me.]
Kevin didn't recognize Frederica, so he could only awkwardly continue to refuse the little girl's kindness, "I really don't need it, you don't need to go to all that trouble."
[Ninti doesn't find it troublesome at all. Ninti made this today too, so please enjoy it.]
"... It's delicious, thank you."
Outside the World Bubble, Kevin, holding what looked like the umpteenth snack box, watched through the World Bubble's barrier as Ninti explained the textbook to Seele, a gentleness in his eyes that he himself was unaware of.