I Left the Time-limited Villainous Duke Without Saving Him - Chapter 34.2

It was a busy street where he wouldn’t normally even step foot.

However, since his money started to accumulate, Yus had a habit of snooping around the downtown area without anything to buy. When he saw cute dolls, sweets, teacups, gloves, parasols, and other luxuries, He strangely remembered her.

On that day as well, Yus did not go home immediately after receiving the request, but moved toward the downtown area.

The doll on display in the toy store was wearing a dark green velvet dress and emerald-decorated red hair. As he was looking at it intently, he thought that green would suit her very well since she also has red hair.

Then he felt that people who had these things were infinitely great. Who knew that it would be pretty if they wrapped their body in silk, velvet, or jewelry?

For Yus, the luxuries of the downtown area were a sparkling new world. This is because the boy always wore only black clothes that were easy to hide in the shadows and good for movement.

So he needs more money.

He needed enough goods to fulfill whatever the child asked for.

He nervously lifted the pouch he received from Nick today. It’s heavy, but it’s still lacking.

“Then we have to go see the teacup. A new edition that Lady Veronica likes is out.”

“Oh…… is this it?”

“A snake is drawn on it. It’s disgusting.”

“But this isn’t for us to keep. It’s a gift for Lady Veronica.”

Yus, who had been staring blankly at the doll hearing the sound of children chattering, perked up his ears. It was a familiar voice.

When he turned his head, she was indeed among the crowd of people. She was discussing something in front of a crockery store with a group of well-dressed girls.

‘Meg!’

As if being led by something, Yus, who was about to approach her, hesitated. The boy looked around urgently and saw a broken mirror abandoned on the street. Yus went in front of it and examined his reflection in the mirror fragment.

An old black wool coat, pants and shoes that were tough but clearly worn.

The bonnets they wore on their heads, the delicate lace, the silky ribbons and the fluffy fur wrapped around the thick coats flickered before his eyes.

‘Meg would be embarrassed if I pretended to know her in front of her friends.’

Let’s wait until the right time comes.

From a distance, Yus saw the children entering the shop and went ahead and bought a comb from the general store. Then, he wets it with water at the tap to remove the dust from his dark hair, brushes it off, and wipes the nape of his neck, face, and hands lightly.

Finally, he pounded his coat to dust it off, but his worn-out shoes bothered him.

Yus ran to the store where the children were entering and snooped. Between the pretty bowls was the red curly hair.

Yus ran to a shoe store nearby.

“How much is this?”

“Two albons.”

It’s expensive.

However, in this busy street where luxury items are mainly sold, the shoes won’t be cheaper than this.

From the moment Yus entered the store, he opened his eyes and looked at the clerk watching him. It was a face that didn’t even think that the child would pay for the shoes properly.

The gold coins he had collected so far fell one by one in his head. After thinking about it, Yus trudged out of the store empty-handed.

Meg and her friends came out of the crockery shop, holding the gift boxes carefully, perhaps already buying what they wanted.

“Where to next?”

“Vivia’s store across the street. I heard that she especially liked gloves made of cowhide.”

“Oohh.”

After Yus sees the children enter Vivia’s shop, he enters a nearby flower shop.

“Please make me a bouquet.”

The clerk got a little annoyed when he said that right away as soon as he entered.

“Have you never given flowers as a gift? Pick a flower first.”

Yus glanced around at the flowers on display in the store.

That’s a rose, that’s a tulip, that’s a lilac, that’s a peony, that’s a hydrangea. Colorful flowers, which had nothing in common except that they were pretty, surrounded the boy.

Yus suppressed the feeling that his eyes were spinning, and pulled out one of the gold coins from his pocket.

“Pick one for me and make it. I have plenty of money.”

“Who are you giving the bouquet to?”

“…… a friend.”

“A friend?”

“Yes, my friend. Why?”

The clerk, who was roughly picking out a few flowers while tilting his head, asked again.

“Something like going to the hospital because they’re sick, or hoping that they’re better, or that a younger sibling is born…… Is it like that?”

“No, I just want to give it. Why?”

The clerk stared into Yus’s black eyes and let out a big smile.

“I see, you’re giving it to a f-r-i-e-n-d?”

After a while, Yus was able to obtain a rich bouquet for Meg for a single gold coin. The flower shop clerk, who had an expression that he would die of bother, suddenly made it with all his might.

The bouquet was so large and colorful that it was impossible to see while holding it, and it was cheaper than expected. For this amount of money, he could make up for it by saving a little butter.

“Thank you!”

“Yes, make sure to confess to your f-r-i-e-n-d.”

The flower shop clerk, who poured out his passion, laughed as he saw Yus off. Yus overheard those words as he was busy walking cautiously out of the corner of his eye.

He spent more time at the flower shop than expected.

‘Is she still there?’

Yus hastened his slow pace, but he was careful not to damage the bouquet.

No matter how sensitive Yus was, it was not easy to carry a bunch of flowers in such a crowded place.

‘I can’t do this, I’ll have to go into an alley with fewer people first.’

Belatedly, he stumbled to the alley lined with back doors of shops, but the well-dressed people passed by quickly, immersed in conversation with each other, perhaps not seeing the boy’s existence. In it, Yus experienced three moments when he almost bumped into people.

Even if he held it with both arms, he was distracted just by not missing the bouquet and maintaining his balance…….

“Ack!”

At that moment, a girl bumped into Yus and made a strange sound and fell back with a loud bang.

The bouquet which the flower shop clerk put all his energy into, escaped from the boy’s arms, soared into the sky, and was scattered in all directions by the wind.

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*Also more commonly known as Chunibyou! Where teens have grandiose delusions of themselves.

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