Mikaela gently lifted El’s face to look at her, repeating the same words.
With a soft gaze, El felt as if she had to come up with a splendid answer.
But she really didn’t want anything.
Her lips hesitated as if in deep thought, and finally opened to say only this,
“…There’s nothing like that.”
With a flicker of laughter in her eyes that showed no greed, Mikaela chuckled.
“At times like this, you should be very greedy.”
Mikaela squinted one eye as she stroked El’s messy, chopped hair.
El fiddled with her hands, her round eyes widening as something seemed to come to mind.
“Bread.”
“Bread?”
“It will do. Bread to eat.”
El stated firmly with a bright smile.
What could be more important than food and living?
Always unable to meet her quota and having to listen to the boss saying, “Shameless wench! A wench who can’t even beg!” food was as vital as life itself to El.
Though she had been hurt in the face and body, she was willing to get hurt again and again if she could get bread to fill her stomach.
“Bread will do?”
“Yes. Bread will do.”
Her nod was so vigorous that her oversized shirt slipped to one side.
El quickly pulled the shirt and clutched it, feeling embarrassed.
“Bread will do… Irina, do we have any bakeries we can contract with right away? I want to give it to El.”
“I will find out. I will look for something near the central square.”
El, who had been listening quietly, realized something was going wrong and gasped in disbelief.
El was alarmed and tried to stop them with her tangled pronunciation.
“No, no, not a bakery. That’s impossible.”
El insisted that she hadn’t meant that at all.
Mikaela gently stroked El’s blanched face, crossed her arms, and furrowed her brow.
“So a bakery won’t do?”
El vigorously shook her head up and down.
“That’s right, one bakery is not enough.”
Mikaela admitted she had been too careless.
El only then realized that her refusal had been greatly misunderstood.
“Eh?!”
“Should we buy the whole street?”
El’s mouth, which had been cutely closed, dropped open again.
“Sister, it would be nice to buy the whole street and erect something like a statue.”
With her hands clapping, Briel added to the words, leaving El blinking her eyes, speechless.
Riel, who had been slightly downcast, also vigorously agreed, saying it was very good.
“No, I really didn’t mean that. It’s really not like that…”
El’s face turned woeful at the absurdity of the wealthy class’s reasoning.
El looked at Lapellian, wondering how she could convince them, feeling that he, a member of the same Mosteros family, might help.
Feeling her gaze, Lapellian slowly opened his mouth.
“At this point, increase the operation hours and quantity of the distribution centers. As winter approaches, ensure that children not receiving protective benefits can spend a stable winter.”
“That’s a good idea.”
“Buying the street is too burdensome for El for now, so let’s postpone that. Same with the bakery.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
El, suddenly wondering what they were talking about, smiled brightly when Lapellian said to postpone the bakery and street.
She felt relieved that their senses seemed to be on the same wavelength.
“I really just need one piece of bread. That’s enough to fill my stomach.”
El wanted to ask for bread for her family as well, but held her hands tightly and only stuck out one finger. She didn’t dare say anything wrong, fearing that something tremendous would happen.
“Hey. Is that really all you need?”
“Yes. That’s all.”
El felt that this tremendous event seemed to be coming to a close now that she had put it this way.
Not knowing what he would say next.
Lapellian picked up the tea cup he had put down, speaking in a calm tone.
“You will need time to adapt. Let her live here gradually getting used to it. After that, whether it’s a bakery or a street, do as you please, Sister.”
“Eh?”
It wasn’t the help I thought it would be.
El’s eyes widened, her face expressionless.
“That’s a good idea. We need to check if the wounds heal without scars……. Great! El, do you want to live with us?”
“Yes? Yes?!”
At Mikaela’s sweet proposal, El was so overwhelmed that she couldn’t even open her mouth.
Rational thought paralyzed, the greed that had been hiding deep within showed its face.
El looked around with a vacant expression.
Many things that she would have the moment she accepted the offer came to mind one by one.
‘I won’t have to starve. It won’t be cold either.’
The mere thought was ecstatic.
But it was only a momentary thought.
‘Who would take in something useless like you or me! Stop talking nonsense and go beg!’
A vicious voice that struck her ears.
“Ah!”
El trembled and quickly got off Mikaela’s leg.
How could I, who lives in a pickpocket’s den, possibly enter the Duke’s house?
If her true status were discovered, she might be misunderstood as having approached them deliberately.
El remembered a nickel she had received from helping an old lady once.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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