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A Sketch After A Long Time
After several teleportations from Emilio Company, I arrived at Lefyria’s studio.
It’s a wooden building located in a quiet residential area. The site itself is fairly spacious with a lawn-covered garden. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
It has a calm atmosphere, unlike the gorgeous buildings in the northern district.
「This is my house. The studio is in the back, please follow me」
「Very well, please excuse me for intruding」
Once I enter the house, I can see a living room with hints of daily life. But I didn’t come here to play this time, so we skipped the living room and headed further in.
You wouldn’t notice it from outside, but this place is surprisingly quite deep.
Lefyria finally opened a door and I saw a spacious hall beyond.
Plenty of stuffs that seems to be painting are lined up and carefully covered with cloth.
There are plenty of art supplies, such as inks and brushes, on the table.
Although there are no hints of daily life like in the living room, I could imagine how Lefyria worked here just by seeing the tools lined up. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「I’m sorry, I just finished painting for the exhibition, so everything is a mess」
「No, I don’t mind it」
There are various tools left out, and although it couldn’t be called clean by any stretch, it definitely had the atmosphere of a painter’s studio.
「Please let me know if there is anything you need. I will use my magic to store them. It would be helpful if you could put small items in a box. It will be extremely easy to take them out that way」
「Then can you please store this easel?」
「Understood」
I store the easel pointed out by Lefyria into my subspace.
「……it disappeared」
「I can take it out properly, you know」
Since Lefyria looked dumbfounded, I opened my subspace once more and took out the easel.
「I see. So you can take items out like that. That isa very convenient ability, it makes me envious」
I can only smile wryly at Lefyria’s deeply envious gaze.
With these various art supplies, it’s probably hard not just to carry them along but to prepare them.
After storing the easel, Lefyria starts to put the tools on the table into a box.
Once she finished packing all the various tools, such as the coloring materials and brushes, I stored them in my subspace. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Is this okay?」
「Yes! I can paint as usual with this!」
「I was thinking we could move to the sketching place, but what kind of places would be good?」
When I asked her that, Lefyria put her hand on her chin and pondered.
「Right. I’m sorry for the vague request, but I would like to go to places where I can not go to normally go. Do you happen to know such places?」
「Then, how about the top of the bell tower near the central square? It has the best view of the capital from the second-tallest building after the royal castle and is absolutely breathtaking」
「That sounds good! Please go over there!」
「We are going to teleport now, have you prepared yourself? Incidentally, the place we are about to go is around 80 meters high, so it’s really high, you know」
If there was a mistake somehow and Lefyria falls, I can just use teleport to rescue her, but it is still a fairly dangerous location so I want her to still be careful. It’d be bad for my heart if something were to happen, such as when she dropped her trunk earlier.
「……u, umm, just in case, may I hold your hand?」
When I warned her like that, Lefyria held out her hand to me while looking embarrassed.
You know, I ended up being nervous when I saw such an innocent reaction.
「Understood. I will hold your hand」
The palm of an adult woman makes my heart skip a beat, unlike the palm of a young girl.
But I try my best to keep up my expression and not be conscious of it.
Lefyria is Emilio’s old friend and also my client. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
If I think of this as part of my work, then I won’t be conscious of it.
「Now, shall we go?」
「Yes, please」
A few seconds after I confirmed that Lefyria had firmly nodded, I use Space magic.
We teleported to the bell tower in the central square from her studio.
Lefyria stumbled a bit since she was not used to the floating sensation of teleport but she was able to land safely thanks to me holding her hand.
Letting go of her hand, she looks around.
「……what a beautiful scenery」
She let out a sigh of admiration as she looked down at the royal capital from the bell tower.
The sunlight streaming made her lustrous silver hair sparkle, and a breeze that felt like a caress fluttered her long hair gently. A trail of silver threads is drawn in the air.
The scenery of the royal capital seen from up here is beautiful, but Lefyria herself - as she looked down at the royal capital - was beautiful. It’s like a scene out of a painting.
「Kureto-san, when do you come here?」
Lefyria quietly asked as she looked at the scenery. She kept her gaze fixed straight ahead even while speaking to me.
「I guess when I want to be alone. Or when I felt like I hadn’t had enough to drink, I bought some liquor and enjoyed drinking while gazing at the moon and stars from here」
「That sounds really nice」
Lefyria let out a small chuckle after hearing the latter half.
「I think I want to paint now」
Lefyria quietly said after staring at the scenery in silence for about 10 minutes.
Seeing her opening her trunk, I take out the art supplies like her easel I stored in my subspace in her studio earlier.
Lefyria briskly takes out all her tools and places a pure-white canvas on the easel.
「I will not need a studio as long as I have Kureto with me」
I am certainly aware that it is very convenient. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
So she said with a wry smile, but as soon as she grabbed a pencil, her expression became serious.
She probably already has a clear composition she wants to capture. There is no hesitation in the movements of her hand.
It is such a delicate and light movement of the pencil that it looks like the pencil is part of her arm.
Her expression turned dignified and composed, in stark contrast to her previous gentle smile.
She looks so focused that it is clear just from watching her nearby.
I’m curious to see how the painting is completed, but it might bother her to watch too closely.
If she’s an adventurer, I can just leave and come to pick her up again later, but I’m a little scared to leave Lefyria out of my sight.
I might start walking aimlessly to watch the buildings and end up falling. Thinking like that, I feel like I can’t spend my time far from her.
「……maybe I’ll try making a sketch since I’m also here already」
It would be a waste to just be spacing out. A slow life is about spending your time meaningfully, even in such a time.
Having decided that, I immediately take out my own sketch book and pencil from the subspace.
Sitting down and setting my eye line, I carefully observe the scenery I can see from this spot.
I properly capture the outline of each of the buildings and start moving my pencil.
Just the kind of drawing I’d do in a notebook during class in my previous life.
I certainly liked drawing, but I didn’t think I could make a living from it.
And perhaps it is also due to my family situation that I decided to work as a regular employee in a company to earn a steady income.
Though I ended up working as a full-time employee in a black company, and wore myself down.
I wonder how many years it has been since I held a pencil to draw like this.
I continued moving my pencil while feeling excited, unbecoming of my age. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
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