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[Ryuu Onii chan !]
When he went to the orphanage, the little guys were all over him.
The orphanage (church) was even more rundown than Ryu’s apartment, and Ryu wanted to fix the walls and floor a little more, but the sister stopped him from doing so.
The sister said it was enough to shelter them from the wind and rain.
But Ryu was not satisfied,
[If it looks pretty, people will think we have more money and robbers will come after us. If they do, the orphans in the church might get hurt.]
She convinced him of this, and Ryu agreed.
Yes, this place is close to a slum. (It is a borderline area between a slum and a regular town, commonly known as a border town.) It is always full of people who can’t afford money or food, and crime is commonplace.
If you really want to protect the church, you can ask people to move to a safe place that is not a slum and hire guards. Ryu, who had sold a large amount of dungeon materials, including dragons, had the financial resources to do so.
But then, he would not be able to protect the growing number of new orphans in the slum.
The slums are constantly receiving an influx of people who have failed in life and fallen into poverty. Many of them sell or abandon their children. Many children who have lost their parents in wars or demon attacks also come to the slums.
The sisters wanted to continue to protect the church in the slum as a refuge for such children.
Understanding this desire, Ryu went to the church whenever he could and brought food to the children.
Since Ryu can use storage magic, he can make it look as if he visits the church empty-handed, so there is no problem even if he brings in a large amount of food.
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There is no refrigerator in the church.
(Refrigerators are not common in this world, let alone in in the churches.)
Therefore, even if Ryu had donated a large amount of food, the food could not be stored for a long period of time and would have rotted.
Therefore, Ryu decided to use storage magic to create a subspace warehouse in a small pantry in the basement of the church. He used the entrance as the “door” to the storage unit.
Not the “inside” of the pantry, but the “door” of the pantry. The door itself is like a magic storage device, and even if you open the door, the inside is just a small storage room.
When the sister places her hand on the door and makes a wish, the object inside can be taken out. If the sister touches the door and the object she wants to store at the same time, the object will be stored.
Usually, magic storage devices are usually pouches, bags, bracelets, rings, etc., but the reason why the door is a stationary type is because the sister is concerned that if an evil person finds out about it and steals it, it could be stolen.
Magic bags and other magic tools with storage magic are very expensive and often stolen.
If the sister were known to be in possession of such magic items, there would surely be someone who would try to take them away from her.
It would be fine if it was just a simple theft, but in this world, people would kill the sister and her children and rob them without a care.
Sister [Wow, Ryu chan is a magician !]
In this world, only Sister Ann calls Ryu “chan”.
Ryu was embarrassed, but also a little happy.
To be safe, he set the “storage door” to be used only by Sister and Ryu, but he reminded her to keep the existence of the magic storage a secret and not to tell even the children about it.
No matter how much he told them it was a secret, they were only children. There is a high possibility that they will slip up at some point. If that is the case, it would be better not to let them know from the beginning.
Inside the storage, the flow of time has stopped, so the food in it will not spoil. In a sense, it is the ultimate storage, more powerful than a refrigerator.
In this “storage door,” Ryu stored a large amount of meat from the demonic beasts he had had dismantled and other ingredients he had bought.
The children, who had been poor and emaciated, now looked much better.
The children who had been poor and thin until recently, would have been suspected of suddenly gaining weight, but the sister has been preparing appropriate amounts of food for them, so they have become healthier but not fattened up.
The sister’s usual meals are kept simple, but only when Ryu comes to the house, she is allowed to give him sumptuous meals and snacks.
Even if information leaked out from somewhere, if ‘Ryu’ had brought in the food, he would be the only one who would be targeted.
In such cases, the sister would make sure that the children who were out of the church would also receive their food later. (Of course, she would tell them it was from Ryu.)
The older children often work outside during the day to earn as much money as possible, so the younger children are the only ones who stay at the church.
On this day, too, after putting all the food into the storage door and playing with the little children who remained in the church, Ryu left the church and headed home.
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Catherine and Leila came to visit Ryu.
They managed to get to Ryu’s apartment, but Ryu was not there.
The residents of the apartment told them that they had seen Ryu go out just a few minutes ago, so it seems that they had gotten separated by a small margin.
However, he could not just come all the way here and leave without a fight.
This was no child’s errand.
A resident of the same apartment told them that Ryu had probably gone to the church.
They had no choice but to go to the church.
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