- Should we close the store early today?The store was very busy today, with plenty of traders and travelers coming to the store. They wanted to visit the rumored bakery in the countryside that sells the peculiar cookies, Yuika was also visiting the store to meet Erwin again. And soon after the store started to become quite busy, so she helped Ilya and Erwin to pack up bread and cookies for customers.
"Pretty busy today, eh?"
The doorbell"s ringing and a middle-aged looking man showed up at the store, he brought a sack of flour and a wooden crate.
"Yeah, I can"t believe it Alto-san , people keep coming, Yuikchan and Erwin are helping out with the store though. " ( San is an honorific to address people who are older / to respect them)
The man walked to the kitchen and put down the flour and the crate that presumably carries some stuff like sugar and eggs and or other things to use to make bread.
"Oh boy, your helping out your big sister eh? As always, you sure are a good kid, aren"t you?" Said Alto-san, praising Erwin and patting his head, who looks like he"s enjoying it.
Alto-san is a trader and is also a supplier for Ilya"s store. He has been helping the store for a long time now, even back when Ilya"s mother was still around.
"How old are you again Erwin?"
Alto-san is so friendly with everyone in this little town , he always stops by when he goes to the other kingdom to do some business .
"Six!" Erwin answers excitedly, with a big smile on his face.
"Ah, Alto-san, Erwin says he wanted to learn magic some days ago. He"s really excited about it, so I think I will close the store early today, since there were so many customers today and everything in the store is sold out"
Ilya took off her ap.r.o.n and picked up a broom to start cleaning up the store a bit.
"Ohh... Erwin, boy, you want to learn magic eh, show me what you got boy. "
Alto-san seems to be excited when he hears Erwin wants to learn about magic, he knows not all people can use magic; they have to be accepted by the mana itself, it requires someone to have enough soul power to be able to use magic.
"I think I have some books Erwin can use to learn about it more, he already knows how to read right?"
"I taught him a bit before , he keeps bugging me to teach him everything, but he"s a fast learner"
Ilya just sighs and smiles, she puts the broom in the corner of the room and walks back to the storefront.
The first time Ilya taught Erwin how to read was when he was almost 4 years old, Ilya taught Erwin how to read and she was surprised by his ability to learn it in no time.
One day Erwin said that he wanted to try to learn how to write on his own, and when he showed it to Ilya, she couldn"t do anything but be amazed at first, she can"t believe 4 year old kid can really learn how to write on his first try.
"He really surprised me though... I couldn"t believe my eyes at first, I didn"t even blink because of it"
Ilya and Alto-san just laugh together inside the store because of her story and they looked at Erwin after that.
Erwin was drawing with Yuika all this time, when both Ilya and Alto-san were busy with Ilya"s story. Yuika seems to just keeping her eyes at Erwin. her face is a bit red; she seems to enjoy watching Erwin drawing something on the paper, she just smiles while watching everything he"s doing .
"Well that kid is quite something though, I have an acquaintance who gave me some books . I think there should be a book or two about magic; I"ll look for it in my carriage. "
While Alto-san went out of the store to find the book he mentioned, Ilya approach the kids to see what they"re doing. Erwin"s showing his drawing to Yuika when he notices his sister is coming towards them.
"Big sis, look...look... "
Erwin"s excited so he shows his sister the drawing.
"Woahh... what is this? This is too good; she"s so beautiful! "
The drawing he shows to his sister was of Yuika, he drew her.
A beautiful face with yellow hair, she feels like the drawing is alive even though the drawing isn"t even colored.
Yuika, in the back, just blushed a little. It seems that she"s embarra.s.sed because Ilya said that the drawing was beautiful.
Erwin, still able to make such happy faces, he didn"t even notice that Yuika feels so embarra.s.sed when he drew her.
- Why is my little brother so dense?
Ilya feels so annoyed thinking about her little brother.