I Became a Guide For My Childhood Friend

>Most busy people, some farmers, and merchants had already finished their work.

“Here, too!” A clear voice rang among the crowd.

They glanced around each other to find the source, but they couldn’t see the woman who had covered her face with a hood.

“Give me another drink!”

The only thing all these dark-skinned men could see was the pink hair sticking out of her hood.

“Hey! Over here!”

Bang!

A beer mug was slammed in front of the woman’s table, and the alcohol had spilled over the rim.

“Well, what are you in a hurry for?”

“I’m a little hungry today.”

“There are so many people like that here!” The owner scolded the woman, who had already drunk three beers the instant she got there.

However, she just threw her head back and laughed.

The owner’s eyes narrowed when he saw her face.

“I’ve never seen your face before.
 Did you come here alone?”

“Don’t ask me that.
It’s a secret.”

“Right.”

The tavern owner wasn’t that curious about the customer’s identity, so he decided to leave her alone.

Another voice called him, and he ran towards it immediately.

“Wow.
Sweet.
Sweet.”

Yernia gulped down the beer she was given.

After wiping the foam around her lips with the back of her hand, she ate some fruit.

“Did you come here alone, madam? I’m alone, too.
Why don’t you drink with me?” A bearded man sat in front of Yernia, and she thought about what to do with him.

“Why don’t you listen to my complaints instead?”

Yernia also needed someone to talk to.

Cassian was her only friend, but she couldn’t say all these things to him.

Even her family was on Cassian’s side, and she was left alone.

“Oh, sure.
As much as you like.”

The man seemed to be open-minded.

Still, Yernia tried to test him just in case.

“Do you have any friends?”

“Friends? Yes.
But I’m older than you.”

“Then, old man.”

“Older brother.”

Yena interrupted the man’s bullshit.

The man looked ten years older than her, but he didn’t have any self-awareness.

“Can you marry your friend?”

The man quickly understood Yernia’s point.

He didn’t even need her to elaborate.

“I guess this friend is of the opposite sex.”

“Yes.”

“There’s no such thing as ‘being friends’ between a man and a woman.
All the boys who were called ‘a ladies’ friend’ are insidious.
I’m sure your friend has a wicked heart.”

Ah.

Here we go again.

The ‘men-and-women-can’t-be-friends’ speech

Yernia always got in trouble whenever someone misunderstood her and Cassian’s friendship.

Whenever she explained that they were just friends, most of them would respond like that.

“No, he’s not like any other man.
We’ve known each other since we were kids.
I don’t think I’ll be able to see this either.”