Crossed Secrets-4
When Ren first came to town, he was almost a beggar.
She was starving and she was lying around the forest, so Dean picked her up and brought her to the town hall on her back, which was the beginning of their relationship.
‘…Oh, I ate well!! Thank you!’
Instead of helping her with her powers, Ren asked to get one from her town hall. Since it was a village with few people in the first place, the villagers had no complaints.
If it was an openly dangerous person, it would have been enough for Anus to knock it down with spiritism.
It wasn’t long before rumors began to circulate that there was a monster in Doron that ate the blood of livestock.
‘…Really? I mean…’
Ren listened attentively to her story,
-‘…Hmm… Is it a joke? Did you catch it anyway?’
I killed a monster called Chupacabra in one blow.
That was the beginning.
The relationship between the mercenary Ren and the village Doron.
Time passed, and Ren’s visits to the village increased. Every time she came, it bothered her that she was always a beggar, but she said that mercenary work was her daily life, so it wasn’t a question of suspicion.
She
She sometimes catches the remaining monsters at the gate, so she said that it would be helpful if she was there.
“…Granny Anus…”
And on nights when it rains like a storm.
“Ah ah…! aaah…”
Ren said while holding the crying baby.
“Do you know how to babysit?”
She said that because she was a parent, but it was an understatement to say that she was a parent.
***
“…Then my biological mother is…”
“…I’m sorry. That… I don’t know.”
No one reacted to Anus’ story.
The story was too shocking and heavy to react to.
“…Why… Did you hide…?”
“I also noticed that Ren wanted to hide it…”
Anus sighed. She herself will surely be hated if she talks about this.
“…I thought you were from Changgwan.”
“…”
Leonardo fell silent when he was told that he was from Changgwan. He was angry with Arya for stressing it out before he returned.
Come to think of it, when Anus also went to see her Prophet, she said that Dean smelled her Ren, and she hurriedly changed the subject.
“…But when she hears that, she thinks it’s an illusion.”
“…Yes. There are things worse than Changgwan.”
Among the secrets of her birth, she did not know that there could be something worse than Chang-gwan’s illegitimate son.
“…I’m not actually… Human…”
“…Still, we are family.”
Anus said. Even if you don’t mind, I wanted to tell you.
“…I think so on my own. So think of yourself as well.”
They are family, even if Leo denies it now.
If only that could be comforting.
“…Do you remember when you ran away from home?”
At that time Leo, he said himself.
‘I can’t afford another boring town like this!’
I tried to leave my hometown with the excuse that the village was boring. When the villagers caught him, he spoke so harshly that Leonardo felt no guilt.
I didn’t have enough emotions to feel that kind of emotion.
So I could have used a ploy that would have put blood on Dean’s face, and a trap that would have landed him under a tree.
“…Actually, I was afraid to come back. Because of what I did.”
Before the regression, I was afraid to go back.
That’s how I was going to leave my hometown.
I thought it wouldn’t be strange if I wasn’t treated well or even if I was scolded.
“…Leo…”
Arya knows. That it wasn’t just a current thing, she would have been involved by 70 years of regression.
“… So when she kindly accepted me, I was really grateful.”
Sending a letter, the first time she went to town.
There was not a single villager who did not welcome him.
Rather, did you eat well?
I wonder if money is tight or not.
Is there any illness or injury?
I got tired of asking and confirming.
Before returning, she felt like an idiot when she belatedly saw the village in ruins.
“Take it.”
Leonardo held out a small rectangular plate. The black glass liquid crystal looked like a hand mirror.
“Emergency contact. Because of me, both of them could be targeted…”
“…It’s not because of you.”
This time, Dean said.
“…Those vampires are bad. What did you do wrong… Having a good girlfriend and her daughter…”
Then Aria looked at Leonardo while her face blushed subtly.
Clearly, it was because Leonardo always denied and pointed out in this situation.
‘…Even now…’
“Sure. I must have saved the country in my lifetime.”
Saying that, Leonardo smiled. She even made Arya’s face completely ripe.
However, their expressions were not very bright.
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Maybe it’s because the words that saved the country made me feel bitter.
Leonardo chewed over the words he had spoken to himself.
“…Then let’s go. Thank you. Thank you for talking.”
Leonardo stood up like that.
“…Well…Wait a minute.”
Dean stopped Leo by grabbing his arm. Like the rudeness from before, there were a lot of things to apologize for.
So.
I wanted to be of any help.
“…Can I… Help you find…? I knew it by smell…”
“…No. This is not a village boar hunt.”
Leo had no intention of belittling Dean. However, he was rather unpleasant and wanted to hear that he would not do it.
“Probably, if you ever meet that being again, you will be torn in two in less than 20 seconds.”
“That is…”
Leonardo held Dean’s hand lightly.
“Keah!!”
But he injected an aura. That alone brought Dean to the brink of collapse.
“…Have you seen it? If he can’t endure this, he’ll die right away in real combat.”
Now, Dean should be at the level of Reinhardt’s low-ranking servant. He won’t be able to rely on his older brother’s back like he used to.
“…I’ll go first.”
“…Well…Wait, Leo!”
Leonardo said that and left the inn first.
“…Sorry…Sorry. Leonard is having a hard time too…”
“It’s okay…It’s okay. In the first place, I had something…”
Dean stood up, brushing the dust from his fur. Even though it was a weak aura, the transmitted shock caused a great shock to Dean’s body like lightning.
Because I’ve already fallen for that evidence.
“…But… I’m sorry.”
Arya’s expression was that she couldn’t meet their eyes as she lowered her head.
“…If I hadn’t come to my family in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened… Because of us… No… Because of me…”
“No, that’s not it.”
Arya raised her head at Anus’ resolute denial. On the one hand, her resoluteness seemed like benevolence.
“…Yes…? But…”
“I made it clear. There is no need to protect Leo, I want you to protect yourself.”
Yes, surely Anus said so.
Please don’t die before Leo.
“…Then don’t be shy, but I’ll ask you one more time.”
Anus covered Arya’s hand with both of his hands. Unlike her beautiful off-white color, her hands were full of calluses, blisters, and scars.
Perhaps it is not an illusion that the mercenary Ren and her hand feel similar.
“…Please take care of Leo.”
“…Yes.”
Aria followed Leonardo, who had gone out holding on to that warmth.
***
“…Ah, sorry. I left first…”
Looking back at the aria following her, Leonardo apologized. Emotions were so high in the situation that I acted arbitrarily.
“…Don’t apologize…Because I’ll beg you.”
Aria said, holding Leonardo’s hand tightly. She couldn’t even jump out and run away.
Then Leonardo smiled and held his hand together.
“…Would you like to walk a bit?”
Leonardo walked down the street holding her aria by the hand. At some point, the shadows of the night lay on the streets, and the moonlight shone darkly.
“I walked like this before returning.”
“…Really?”
There was a day when she seduced Arya after her training and brought her outside. She was a childish idea, reflecting Chris’s opinion that sometimes she liked giving her breath back like this.
“The lady often pointed out that I was bad. She was actually sneaking out.”
“…It’s different now.”
“…I will.”
She might have been able to treat her the same way from the beginning.
She’s cocky and arrogant, like a child who only knows her bottom world.
Aria is also because she treats herself as special and comfortable.
But maybe she did it because she was like that.
[…Colleague. Friend.]
As she said, she wanted to be a good colleague and a good friend.
Even if I was more greedy, my rivals were enough.
“…You know? She was jealous of her ex.”
“…”
Arya knew that too.
I don’t know now, but before returning, Leonardo respected, admired, and was jealous of Aria more than anyone else.
“…Surrounded by good family, lived in a good house, admired by all for his outstanding talent…Because he was beautiful.”
So I was jealous. Because that seemed so unfair.
“…That’s why I called myself number two. In fact, I was several times weaker than the former lady at that time.”
Perhaps, if Leo and Arya were to face each other at that time, Arya would be able to subdue Leo with only one hand of hers without hurting her.
In the blink of an eye of 10 seconds, there was a time when I actually suffered something similar.
“…But that’s…”
“…But it’s okay. I’ve worked hard and now I’ve grown enough to compete with people in my family on an equal footing.”
He competed with Chris on equal footing, and even defeated the owner of the blue tower single-handedly. Probably, compared to before the return, it was a remarkably remarkable temperament that it would be rude to compare.
“…Lady, there is something I want to ask you.”
“…Yes. Say it.”
Leonardo felt his hands tremble. He must have had his hands shaking. But are Aria’s hands shaking?
I don’t know about that. Because each other was trembling at the same time, they couldn’t tell each other’s tremors apart.
“…If I can’t withstand the divine power of darkness again… And run out of control…”
It was a feeling as if we became one body.
“…Please stop even if you kill me.”
Aria could feel it. Leo’s trembling.
But more than that, her own body was shaking. So Arya answered.
“No. I can’t do that.”
“…Sorry. But I can’t back down on this either.”
Kills everyone with her own rampage. It almost happened. It was he who hurt everyone and put them in danger.
So…
“So, my…”
“Because I can stop it without killing it.”
Aria turned Leonardo’s request like that. She raised it from pessimism to resolution.
“…Yes?”
“I am a stronger woman than Leo thought. She will only get stronger in the future.”
That was an arrogant statement.
“Then I will never kill you. I won’t let you die no matter what happens.”
It wasn’t arrogance, it was lustful confidence.
“Because I am the strongest you acknowledged.”
That could be because she was number one at her peak.
“Then don’t say that again. Understand?”
Because she was like this, Arya became a hero.
“…That’s right. Why didn’t you know?”
Leonardo let go of her hand. There was no more trembling.
“Huh…!”
“You were such an unlucky woman.”
Leonardo stroked her aria’s head. It was her art to make her ruddy face quiver at each stroke.
“…Sorry. Saying bad things.”
Arya lowered her head, not even seeing Leo gently caressing her hair. But she wanted to be touched more, so she tried to get her head as close as possible.
“And thank you for the nice words, warrior.”
“…Yes… Yes…”
Rather, her honorific words came out from herself, who was overflowing with her ambitions.