“So, Ang-di doesn’t need to treat things that should be done as my repayment, like…”
Yelei didn’t finish her sentence in one breath, instead leaving a perfectly timed blank.
“Like what?”
Faang was startled and subconsciously asked.
“Like future lunches and such—Ang-di can rest assured and leave them to me.”
Yelei looked at Faang and smiled, her words carrying a hint of anticipation.
“This matter was just a small effort, Sister Yelei, you don’t need to take it to heart.”
Faang shook his head.
Although he was not good at dealing with Yelei’s vague way of speaking, in order to avoid misunderstandings he still stuck to his previous stance and added, “As for lunch, how about we take turns?”
Yelei did not answer Faang immediately.
Instead, she walked over to Yeye’s side and gently patted her head.
“The fact that Ang-di can make Yeye this happy is already reason enough for me to thank you. What’s more… making one extra portion of lunch is just a small effort for me anyway. Of course, Yeye will have a share in the future too.”
“S-sis… sister, I’m not a child anymore.”
Yeye shook off her sister’s touch and looked at Faang.
“If… if it weren’t for Mr. Faang, my sister and I wouldn’t have been able to go in openly either. So I… my sister and I will take turns making lunch, and… and I’ll also work hard to choose a gift to bring to Sister Lin!”
Seeing that it was hard to refuse, Faang smiled and spoke,
“Then I’ll be troubling you both in the future. Anyway, let’s go in first?”
Moreover, Faang felt that if his wife found out about this, she would probably become extremely motivated and force herself to complete this extra work.
Although such a thought wasn’t very good, at the moment it seemed to be the best method.
Ailin, who had been hiding in the shadows and observing, felt that something was off.
Although she wasn’t very close to the three of them, she could sense the anomaly through a wife’s intuition.
After being subjected to 【Disguise Magic】, the Yelei sisters had clearly become somewhat different.
She heard everything the three were talking about.
Although she didn’t think that her husband eating with other women would amount to anything… after all, work couldn’t be helped.
But under this feeling, it still felt strange.
The Yelei sisters even seemed to be taking turns being responsible for her husband’s work lunches.
It felt as if the two of them were… replacing her in exercising part of a wife’s rights.
Seeing the three start to move, Ailin had no time to think further.
She immediately followed after them.
Among the four of them, it seemed that only Yelei knew the location of the lingerie shop.
If she lost them, then the difficult commission definitely wouldn’t be able to be completed.
With the support of 【Disguise Magic】, the three smoothly entered the town known as Xingbo Town, without encountering the wary gazes that Yelei had previously suffered.
Right after entering the town gate was the marketplace.
Both sides were filled with various stalls, and among the pedestrians one could occasionally see people dressed like adventurers.
At the same time, the shouts of hawkers and wandering merchants echoed around the three, and within these cries one could faintly hear the singing of a bard.
Faang inferred that the Adventurers’ Guild should be located in the center of the town.
It was just that perhaps he had stayed at home for too long.
The pedestrians here were not crowded either, enough for them to stand here and decide where to go.
He really did not expect this kind of border town to be so prosperous; it looked even livelier than the hometown he shared with his wife.
But… thinking about it carefully, Faang felt that it was also normal.
After the war ended, towns like this, because they were on the border, had long been cleared and purified once over.
Nearby monsters had instead become much fewer.
Perhaps the Empire treated it as a kind of beginner adventurer town.
Other than during wartime, adventurers who liked to travel around were originally very few.
However, the more prosperous it was, the more it proved, in reverse, how much this continent rejected demi-humans.
Because the two towns were not far apart, and there were no mountain ranges or great forests separating them, yet the town not only had no human race residents, it did not even have a proper Adventurers’ Guild.
Standing in the marketplace, Yeye’s eyes sparkled.
Everything here was unfamiliar to her.
But because Mr. Faang was by her side, this fear of the unfamiliar turned into curiosity toward new things.
The lively market and the slightly surprised gazes of the people around made her a bit excited.
What made Yeye happiest among all this was… that when she, her sister, and Mr. Faang were among the crowd, in others’ eyes they were merely a handsome man and two beautiful women going out to have fun.
This feeling even made her briefly ignore the fact that Faang had a wife.
“Sister, let’s go look around first. A-after all, right now we can just walk around freely, right?”
Yeye put forward her suggestion.
“Hehe… it’s the first time out, so Yeye is very excited. But for now, that won’t do. We have to first accompany Ang-di to buy Miss Aifalin’s underwear.”
Seeing such an excited and expectant Yeye, Yelei could not help but smile as she spoke.
Yeye’s appearance also reminded Faang of his first adventure, and of the time he returned from his first adventure, when Sister Falin scolded him while lovingly wiping his wounds.
If only he could come out together with Sister Falin again.
But such a thought only flashed through Faang’s mind for an instant.
He smiled and said,
“It’s fine. If Miss Yeye wants to look around, then go ahead. Going on an adventure and disrupting plans is very common, especially since it’s the first time going out.”
“M-Mr. Faang, th-this really… really is okay?”
“Ang-di spoils people who are going out for the first time too much. That can make them addicted, you know? And the reason we came out is also to assist Ang-di and Miss Aifalin.”
Yelei shook her head.
When she returned home yesterday, she had already been thinking about it.
No matter what reason she found, no matter how she tried to forget the fact that he had a wife, no matter how pleased she felt because of being entrusted with this matter, no matter how much she herself felt that…
Ailin was not a qualified wife.
In the end, things would still return to how they were originally.
He would live happily together with his wife.
And as a neighbor, she could offer some assistance, say a few words, make a few jokes, and slowly repay Ang-di’s kindness like that, and it would be enough.
Really… would that be enough?
Yelei did not know.
The other party’s lax attitude and her sister Yeye’s reaction had already made her somewhat confused.
Could she really control her own feelings?
But she did not fall silent because of this.
Instead, she looked at Yeye and comforted her,
“However, Yeye can wait a little. After we finish the matter Miss Ailin entrusted to us, we can ask Mr. Faang to go look around or something.”
She did not say “Ang-di,” but deliberately used “Miss Aifalin” to remind herself.
“There’s no need to go as far as ‘asking.’”
Faang smiled and shook his head.
But seeing Yelei’s firm attitude, he found it hard to interfere.
“Then I’ll trouble Sister Yelei to help. Let’s finish buying quickly; that way there will be plenty of time left.”
After hearing the title “Miss Aifalin,” Yeye also calmed down a little.
“Th-then let’s help Sister Falin first.”
But she still could not hide the sense of anticipation in her words.
“It’s good that Yeye can understand… and Yeye looks very cute when she’s this excited. If someone ends up pestering you, then we’ll have to trouble Mr. Faang.”
Yelei said with a chuckle.
“W-what are you saying…”
Yeye said with a red face.
“Sister is the one who’s more dangerous like this, right? I’ll protect Sister too…”
Faang also reacted.
He spoke indifferently,
“With me here, that definitely won’t happen.”
Of course he could not fail to pay attention to the Yelei sisters.
After all, they had come out to help them.
And if Sister Falin found out that he did nothing, how could she not get angry?
“Then I’ll be counting on you, Ang-di. Follow me, and Yeye, don’t get lost.”
Yelei instructed.
After receiving responses from both of them, the three headed toward the underwear shop in the town.
And Ailin, who was hidden around them, also recovered from her excited state and began to follow while concentrating on eavesdropping on their conversation.
However, her expression had been somewhat dazed just now as well.
Because of physical issues, she had not gone out and enjoyed a full day with her husband for a long time.
Her husband, who was an adventurer, must have been holding it in badly, right?
If only, like today, they could move around for a whole day—it would be great.
But she could only do this while wearing the uniform.
And she still had to spend guild coins to rent it, and there was no way to engage in activities between husband and wife.
Moreover, with her sense of presence reduced, secretly listening to her husband talk with other women was also very embarrassing.
It was just that she seemed to… not dislike this kind of behavior.
After all, she previously had that kind of… strange fetish.
However, this also made Ailin confirm that…
Sister Yelei seemed to only hint at things through her tone and would not actively do anything that crossed the line.
Her husband seemed even less likely to do so.
And for some reason, she always felt that Yeye might be bolder.
Ailin did not dwell on it for long.
Instead, she looked at the three walking ahead on her right front and calculated the progress of the difficult commission.