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Chapter 27 : The First Morning of The Subjugation Day

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Finally, today was the first day of our subjugation quest!

We'd been practicing for the last two days and now!

Finally!

The time had come!

I got up early and made my bed.

I couldn't sleep properly last night because I was too excited.

"Ah.. My heart is thumping so fast.."

I couldn't help myself though.

After all, this was my first subjugation quest!

I stretched my sore body and changed my clothes.

I wore short sleeved shirt last night because I didn't plan on going anywhere but since we were going to walk across the prairie, I chose to wear long sleeved shirt today.

I looked at the ear cuffs on my bedside.

Yesterday, after we finished practicing we decided to check the market a little before we headed back to the inn.

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-Yesterday-

"Hmm.. This might be useful.. I already saw it before but back then I wasn't so sure I would need them but since there's four of us, I think having this stuff might be good." Sig-san said as he examined a rather large ear cuff from the stall.

"Hm? What's that?"

"It's a magical communication device, Ren-kun.. With this device, you can communicate and even determine the location of your party member." Fer-san explained while Sig-san bought the device for us.

"Hoo, seems pretty handy."

What a useful device, it worked both as GPS and telecommunication device.

"Ren-chan, this device is also popular for married couple. They usually wear the cuff on their left ear and decorate it in jewels with the same color as their partner's eyes. But people commonly wear the cuff on their right ear if they're going to use it only for the sake of communicating with their party member~"

"Oh, like a wedding ring."

Now that I thought about it, the people in Pedrell also used earcuffs with jewels on them too.

I thought it was a fashion item but it turned out the jewels had special meaning to it.

If I wasn't wrong, Hugo-san also wore one.

"What's wedding ring?" Fer-san asked.

"Back in the world I came from, the married couple will wear a ring on their left hand ring fingers to indicate that they're already married."

"Ah, I see. Wearing a ring also sounds nice but for us.. It will be inconvenient since we use our sword on almost daily basis and especially me.. I'm left-handed so I can't wear a ring on my left fingers." Fer-san said dejectedly as he stroke the sword attached on his right hip.

Wearing a ring will hinder you when holding a sword after all.

"Ren, come here...Yup, I'm going put this on your right ear so hold still. One day, I will put a green gemstone on your cuff. "

Sig-san had finished paying and he gently put the cuff on my right ear.

"Nngh!"

As Sig-san fingers brushed against my ear, I let out a little yelp in surprise.