Durin's Diary

Chapter 1 Two favorite things coincide with each other

Walking around a pool of ice, Dulin exhaled a breath of white air. Lublin in late autumn and early winter was as cold as the twelve years he had seen before.

Twelve years have passed since he regained his youthful body. He has long been accustomed to living as an alien. Now Durin is a grassland elf, a cute little guy with silver curly hair, blue pupils, small arms and legs - the average height of grassland elves is 1.4 meters or less.

Although such a cute appearance and small stature are not ideal in daily life, for example, they cannot reach things and need to use a chair to support their feet.

But Du Lin had nothing to complain about - after all, being able to live another life was something that many powerful and wealthy people in their previous life could not do.

They begged fate, but fate gave humans the ultimate equality - death.

Walking into the town along the cobblestone streets, Dulin arrived at the agreed location, with white mist coming out of his breath. The Lublin area in late autumn and early winter has never been a pleasant place.

Standing at the edge of the street, looking at the town in front of me which is made up of old buildings, ivy climbs on the outer layers of many buildings, and the season makes them colorful. The second day of the harvest festival makes the whole town very busy, and the stalls on the street are run by store managers of various races.

There was a Cretan with various horns. When he saw Durin, he smiled and took off his hat: "Master Ai Ersh, good afternoon."

"Good afternoon." Du Lin had no hat to take off, but that didn't stop him from responding with a smile.

The Cretans were humans with various horns, and because of these horns they were once persecuted in the human world.

In fact, their physical fitness is superior to that of orthodox humans in all aspects, but they rarely have the talent of a mage, and they cannot accept the way. They are considered a mortal race with brute force. Most of them now live in the southern region of the human world and the eastern elven territory, because these places do not have the prejudices that exist in other places. They have the strength to work and the wisdom to do business, and they will not be exploited like in other places.

There were also cats of various sizes—these cat people had a broad category called the Shat beastmen. Seeing Dulin coming, a black and white leopard lady greeted him: "Master, good afternoon. I just saw the young lady from the Aye family. She's under the big tree."

"I understand. Madam, how is your business?" Du Lin asked.

"Thanks to the Duke." The lady replied with a carefree smile.

Of course, such good times are also inseparable from the merchants of humans, dwarves and grassland elves.

This is a bizarre world, a bizarre era, and a bizarre life.

Du Lin has had a deep understanding of this since he came here.

You see, this world has humans, elves, dwarves, and orcs. Even the races that only appeared in storybooks in Durin’s previous world now appear vividly in front of Durin.

Thinking of this, Durin, who was on his way to an appointment, took out the pocket watch from his chest pocket. This was a birthday gift from his grandfather. It was said to be a sophisticated pocket watch made by a great craftsman of the grassland elves. It used arcane energy as bait and could be kept running by charging it once a week until one day it succumbed to mechanical failure.

To be honest, this thing is quite punctual, just like a girl walking towards herself.

This is a girl with long silver hair that falls to her waist and is tied up in a cloth bag.

She was wearing a gray dress trimmed with thick fur. The owner of the golden eyes held a small basket in both hands and walked over to Du Lin. "I saw you from afar. You must be hungry."

This is Antaniya Iyer. Dulin can call her by the nickname Anta. She just smiled and waited for a standard answer.

Du Lin nodded: "I'm hungry. I didn't eat this morning because of the meat pie you made."

It was noon, and Du Lin's stomach was grumbling, twitching, and rolling, but for the sake of this bite of delicious food, it, like its owner, faced the suffering without saying a word.

The girl was obviously very pleased with this. She happily opened the basket and said, "You are still the same as before. What's so good about the meat pie I made?"

Du Lin smiled and said, "Because you made the meat pie."

The ordinary words "you made" and "meat pie" made the girl blush. She was a little embarrassed, but at the same time she interrupted Du Lin's outstretched hand and intention: "Don't worry, let's go buy some honey water first."

Anta quickly found a stall owned by a halfling with a four-foot-tall waist. He made delicious pancakes and was a celebrity in the town.

Since they were just buying water, they only had to pay and could pick up a cup themselves. Anta handed a cup of honey water to Dulin and then took a cup for herself.

Coming to the shade of the huge oak tree in the center of the square, Durin and Anta found a stone bench and sat down together.

She opened the lid of the basket, Du Lin reached out, took one out, and took a happy bite.

Meat patties are primarily made from shalo beast meat, enhanced with meat floss and honey, the grassland elves' favorites. In Durin's previous life, these items were scientifically known as meat patties. A more popular name, though, was "thermal effect amplifier," while the more common name was "fully automatic fattening device." However, grassland elves have highly efficient brains, small stomachs, and rapid hunger. They need four or even five meals a day to keep their brains and organs fully functioning. Their bodies convert fat with an efficiency that's incomprehensible to humans, so gaining or losing a few pounds a day is commonplace.

Therefore, high-calorie foods are the favorites of grassland elves, such as sugar and honey - they are converted into fat and can then be used by the body even when hungry, just like fuel.

And the prairie elves don't seem to have problems with diabetes - at least in all these years, Du Lin has never seen a prairie elf with this kind of disease.

Casting a good tire is really a technical job, right?

"Dulin is amazing, he has a good appetite."

Anta chewed the patty slowly. After watching Du Lin swallow two meat patties raw, she looked at the patty with a corner still in her hand and sighed.

"You are amazing too. You are a six-ring mage, but you are a great cook." Du Lin praised the girl in front of him while drinking honey water.

Anta smiled happily and seemed very satisfied with Du Lin's speech.

"Where are we going to play now?" Du Lin took out his pocket watch and looked at the time. There were still four hours and forty-one minutes left until 5:17 in the evening. It was a long time. There were no short videos, no mobile games, and no messy virtual entertainment. In this world where the greatest entertainment for children is to run around in the mountains, it is really difficult to find entertainment that appeals to both the elite and the masses.

"You forgot, I told you yesterday that a group from the human world was coming to show movies. I heard the movie they showed yesterday was very interesting. Three silver coins from the Eastern Territory can buy two tickets." Anta said this excitedly and took out two tickets from his pocket. "Look, I'm ready."

Du Lin exclaimed - to be honest, he hadn't heard the word "movie" for a long time. In his previous life, Du Lin's biggest regret was that he was not able to be a movie director. After coming to this world, due to cultural differences and the background of the times, Du Lin had long given up the idea of ​​making movies.

But now, his best ally and the girl who is likely to accompany him for life suddenly invites him to see a movie. How does one say that?

Ah, right.

I have a lovely girl by my side, and I will go to the movies with her later. Two happy things have brought double happiness and endless joy.

"How is it, Dulin?" Anta was still waiting for Dulin's answer.

Du Lin stood up, extended his hand to her, and made a gentleman's invitation.

No words are needed, because action itself is an answer.

The girl smiled happily, stretched out her hand, and then they stood up with the efforts of each other.

"Let's go." She smiled and took his arm.

"By the way, have you read the book I recommended to you last time?" The girl's eyes were filled with curiosity and questioning.

"Of course, I know it by heart," said Du Lin.

"I don't believe it." Her eyes flashed with disbelief.

In response, Du Lin sighed: "Watson, you found the blind spot."

I wrote all the books and sent the manuscripts to the Royal Bookstore in the Northern Kingdom. I used the royalties to buy you a silver hairpin with an oriental style, and now it's pinned on your head.

I told you I could recite it by heart, why don't you believe me?

The girl holding Du Lin's arm exclaimed, "You really have seen it."

"I told you what I saw, but you didn't believe me." Du Lin reached out and scratched the little girl's nose.

While laughing and joking, Du Lin saw a mobile movie theater consisting of huge tents.

"We're here." The girl next to him introduced with a smile.

Well, here we are.

　I'm back, guh!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)