Chapter 195: Poor Tea Hospitality

Faced with the issue of having to pay compensation for purifying someone else's familiar, Aqua chose to remain calm.

"Sigh, money is a goddess's courage; without money right now, I actually have to turn a blind eye to demons."

Aqua sighed deeply.

"You look like you're asking for a beating; if it weren't for you being addicted to top-tier fine wine and always spending money recklessly, just the potion dividends Broly gives you would already be wealth that an ordinary person, not eating or drinking, could barely earn in over twenty years."

Darkness clenched her fist, really wanting to give that guy Aqua, who had no sense of propriety in her heart, a punch to the head.

"Poverty makes one short on ambition; a god in poverty is also short on ambition. Aqua-sama, you should just accept reality."

Wiz persuaded from the side; she could quite understand Aqua's current feelings, just like before when her magic tool shop was in deficit, yet she saw a magic tool that moved her heart outside but didn't dare buy it — it was about the same.

"The guests are all poor people, yet these poor guests don't know what they've come to Komekko's house to find Komekko's Father for?"

Komekko listened from the side, already understanding that this group of people weren't thieves, yet she asked with childish bluntness.

Aqua, Darkness, Wiz: "..."

In this home that could almost be described as having bare walls, why could this little girl in front of them say such words so matter-of-factly when calling them poor people?

"Little girl, being poor is a thing of the past; right now, Big Sister isn't poor. Big Sister is here to find your dad to do business."

Wiz said.

"Oh oh, Big Sister, you're a sucker — no, a noble guest who brings donations to our house!"

Komekko had a sudden realization, and immediately ran to the kitchen to prepare tea, preparing to entertain the noble guests who had come into the house in place of her parents.

"Hey, little girl, did you just say something strange?"

Darkness asked.

"Eh, what words?"

"The words where you called this Big Sister a sucker."

Darkness reminded.

"What is this very punch-resistant Big Sister saying?"

Komekko blinked, with a look of 【I don't know what Big Sister you're talking about】, directly pretending to be clueless.

"She really is a sharp kid; just why would she take a demon as her contracted familiar?"

Aqua was somewhat confused about this, but looked at the demon who had proactively shrunk its size and followed them into this house.

"No, you guy, don't look at me like that; this Grandpa knows nothing."

Hoost also didn't understand why Komekko would want to make him a familiar; clearly in this world, the reputation of demons wasn't very good.

"Tea's here~"

Before long, Komekko, who was busy in the kitchen, came out carrying a tray.

"Noble guests, please have some tea~"

The girl respectfully placed a cup of water with a bit of tea foam in front of Wiz, then handed the other clay cups to the rest.

However...

"Hey, this is just plain water, right?"

Aqua looked closely at the liquid in the teacup in her hand, only to discover it was just ordinary clear water, without any tea leaves or such, and shouted out directly.

"It's like this, our house is relatively poor, so the limited tea leaves in the house are only supplied to the noble guests who bring donations to our house."

Komekko said with a straight face; and from the tea she poured for herself and Hoost, which also had no tea leaves, it could be seen that what she said was probably not false.

"Aqua-sama, if you want to drink tea, how about you take mine?"

Wiz interjected; she also hadn't expected that she, as the only lich who didn't need to drink anything, would instead receive the only tea hospitality here.

Aqua wasn't polite either, with a look of 'you're sensible,' and took the cup of tea in front of Wiz.

"Uh, what tea is this?"

But after taking a sip, Aqua's brows furrowed tightly. "It's the best tea in our house."

Komekko answered this question without hesitation; however, her house only had one kind of tea, and that was cheap tea made from tea dregs.

The tea brewed from this tea was not mellow in texture, and drinking it gave a scratchy feeling; for Aqua, who hadn't lived hard days since coming to this world, it was indeed something somewhat hard to swallow.

"What's wrong, Aqua, is there a problem with this tea?"

Darkness leaned over to ask.

"You try drinking it yourself."

Aqua handed the tea in her hand over; Darkness tasted a sip, but actually quite liked it.

"It's a bit sour; it's aged tea that wasn't stored well, drinking it has a bit of a swill taste."

Darkness had a savoring look, making Aqua's mouth corner twitch.

"Although I knew Piao Sanlang's house was poor, I didn't expect his house to actually be poor to this extent."

Wiz was also a bit embarrassed.

And Broly just leaned over to smell the tea's scent, then looked up with a frown.

"Then what are you preparing to eat for lunch?"

After reacting, he asked the little girl beside him.

"It's the roasted sweet potatoes left over from last night!"

Komekko answered.

"What about morning? What did you eat then?"

Broly asked again.

"It was thin porridge, thin porridge where you can see the bottom of the bowl; Komekko drank two whole large bowls."

Komekko had the look of a kid who can eat a lot.

"Uh, didn't expect you to have it this hard~"

Houster couldn't help but remark that this was practically no different from some starving refugees.

"It's almost Noon, we're planning to go eat. Do you want to come with us?"

Broly asked.

"Xiaomi has to watch Home, and Xiaomi doesn't have any money either."

The Small Girl looked like she really wanted to go along, but when she turned out the pockets of her Skirt, they were empty as could be.

Wallet Empty, wanting to fill her Stomach, normally she would go to the Forest to find food to eat. Before, she did it together with her older sister, but now that her sister goes to school, it's just her alone.

"Let the Familiar watch Home. And no money isn't a problem either, because I'm treating."

Broly pointed at the Demon and said just that.

"Eh?"

Xiaomi's eyes went wide, looking at the boy with some Disbelief.

"So that means Xiaomi doesn't need to Spend Money to eat delicious food?"

"Mhm, but the Premise is that this village has a good restaurant."

"Onii-san Kami-sama, you really are a super great benefactor."

Xiaomi rubbed her hands together, made a Prayer gesture toward Broly, and kept praising him.

"Xiaomi knows which restaurant in the village is the most delicious. Xiaomi can take you there. Houster, the Quest of watching Home is given to you. I'll lead this benefactor brother to the restaurant to eat. After eating, Xiaomi will be back very soon."

Xiaomi stood up and gave this order to her Familiar, then turned to look at Broly, stood at attention, Slurped her Saliva, and continued reporting.

"Xiaomi is already Prepared, ready to eat at any time — oh no, ready to take the benefactor brother to the most delicious restaurant in our village to eat!"

(Chapter End)