3. Chersha Kalua & Ashera Glade (28)
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ㅡFishuung~~
ㅡPungpung!
ㅡPung!!
ㅡPuppuppuppung!
“…Looks like some kind of festival is going on.”
Chersha raised her head at Plea’s voice. Inside the luxurious Kalua family’s carriage, Plea stared endlessly out of her window.
So, as Chersha looked out of the carriage window following Plea, various firecrackers continued to explode in the air, embellishing the sky with their own colors, as if some kind of festival was being held in the capital.
“…Pleaa said it was her first time in the capital.”
I also thought that on the day of the festival, I could see many things I couldn’t normally see, so I thought that Plea, who was new to the capital, must have high expectations.
Maybe I was looking forward to it.
“Che, Chersha-sama, you don’t have to worry!”
Plea looked at Chersha as if she had read Chersha’s intentions and said with a small smile. Chersha smiled a little at Pleaa’s appearance as if she didn’t care at all, saying that she was satisfied with just looking at her now.
‘…There’s no way I’m satisfied.’
It was Plea who exclaimed in admiration only at the luxurious buildings and the scenery of the city after entering the capital. Moreover, if it was a festival held in the capital, it would be on a huge scale, and it would be strange if you didn’t wonder what was going on inside.
Now the wagon headed northward, inside the wagon there were various items and luggage.
A city called the city of mercenaries.
You won’t be able to hear from other cities until you get to the city of Glia at the forefront of the north, and you’ll spend most of your food and lodging in the carriage.
It was the luggage and items to do so.
The inside of the wagon was also wide, so it was comfortable to sleep in, and because of the various magics granted to the wagon, even if food was served inside, the smell would not remain.
Just.
Let’s think that Plea’s first trip out of the East will be spent in such a dry way. I felt sorry for Plea again.
“Because I am thinking of going back slowly while looking at other cities.”
“… I’m fine, really.”
“I do it because I want to.”
“Well, then it can’t be helped!”
After hearing her own words, Chersha smiled a little at Plea’s bright smile and turned her head slightly and headed out the window.
ㅡShuyuuung~
ㅡPuuong!
ㅡPungpung!
ㅡPupperPuffPung!!
Even though there was obviously quite a distance since it was out of the capital, the sound of firecrackers continued to be faintly heard.
Then the colorful colors of the surrounding vegetation caught my eye.
Now, as if clearly announcing that the season of autumn has arrived, the colors of the leaves, which were all red and yellow, were shining brightly and showing off their colors.
And that meant winter was coming soon.
‘….’
Chersha, who was staring blankly at her, suddenly remembered an image.
I suddenly remembered the day when her first snow fell. The first day she visited Alkea Nursery School after Ed left.
As always… As usual. She was heading towards Alkea Nursery School, and she was heading there as if he hadn’t left.
She was anticipating the coming reality.
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Knowing full well that he wouldn’t be there.
She knew all of that… It seemed that she wanted to deny reality, perhaps stupidly.
And at the end, the feeling of futility and emptiness that I felt when I couldn’t find him in the end gripped me terribly. As if he was tied to something that entangled him in that moment forever, he recalled the memory of that day so vividly.
The sadness of parting came to me in my childhood and embraced me.
My heart aches from recalling such fragmentary memories of that day, which means that I still remember the sadness of that day…
The boy was calmly telling the truth about leaving the orphanage.
—- I’m sorry, Chersha, I didn’t have time to tell you properly because I was notified a few days ago.
ㅡI heard that you are from a family of knights in the north.
That calm voice as he said farewell, wanting to be the first to understand him more than anyone else.
—- I’m sorry too.
A dark gaze staring at herself with shining blue eyes beneath her radiant blond hair.
—-By the time I become a knight, you too will be a full-fledged wizard.
With that simple word of his… He wondered if he could have imagined how much effort he had put in.
A 5th tier wizard who signs a contract with a knight, thinking about the time he came to visit him, how will he react if he learns that he won the title of youngest 5th tier wizard in the history of the Mage Tower in order not to disappoint him?
I wanted to directly tell him how I had been learning magic.
I tried so hard for you.
Because I’ve been waiting for the moment to meet you ever since.
The simple news of losing consciousness.
I thought he must have come to his senses now that several days have already passed since then. Even if he didn’t come to his senses, he didn’t worry too much because he had an elixir that could wake him up.
Although it was lacking compared to the finished product of the elixir, it was still an elixir mixed with the liquid of the elixir. So it won’t be a problem.
‘I…’
At the news that he had lost his mind, he acted more than he thought, to the extent that he couldn’t make a proper judgment.
Thinking of it now, the Glead family was the largest knight family in the North, and they could certainly provide some treatment on their own.
Then, is it true that I’m really worried about him when I’m looking for him like this…
Let’s get to that point.
Suddenly, Chersha’s thoughts stopped.
Puong.
Puffer puffer.
There was no one inside the carriage who was keeping their eyes on the now dimly visible shower of firecrackers.
Plea was looking at Chersha, not out of her window.
“… ….”
What are you thinking?
As I watch Chersha staring out the window without saying anything, I end up thinking about it without even realizing it.
Is it her sadness or her joy? Chersha couldn’t properly read her feelings. The look of her looking out the window without any change in her expression seemed like a pensive girl.
While she couldn’t take her eyes off her invisible figure, she herself found it difficult to open her lips.
Then moment. Plea noticed a change in Chersha.
“Ha ha.”
The figure of her holding her own hand in a daze, letting out a deep sigh.
Flea, who was about to speak naturally at Chersha’s sudden appearance, hesitated for a moment.
What was in Chersha’s eyes… It was an emotion she herself could not understand.
As if facing an unusual phenomenon for the first time, Plea’s body instinctively stiffened and words could not be uttered.
‘… What.’
“…Ed can’t be like that.”
Chersha suddenly speaks to herself with a voice that seems to have lost her emotions.
It was only now that Chersha was able to realize the same thing as her true intentions.
Actually… She didn’t even know that maybe she was having a hard time waiting for him to come back to her.
Eight years have passed before I knew it.
The distance between the eastern and northern ends of the empire was so far away, and he feared that he might have given up on finding himself after eight years.
Or maybe he forgot himself.
As I went crazy with that thought, the words flowed without my knowledge.
“… Absolutely not.”
A word spoken without even realizing it. The content of her words gradually came to her own chest.
A fact I was ignoring.
The words you just said were like saying to yourself, not to anyone else, to deny the reality again.
‘I can’t forget.’
I still remember myself so clearly.
By the way.
If he could have forgotten his memories…
If you weren’t paying attention…
If he’s not even thinking about coming for you…
Then…
In her moment, Chersha, clutching her own robe, exhaled softly, clearing her breath.
Unbeknownst to me, I was suffocated by an unexpected family.
It was a strange feeling, as if I was suddenly being stabbed in my chest with thousands of needles.
Myself.
Okay then.
I…
What am I supposed to do?
“Chersha-sama…!?”
In a daze at Plea’s voice, Chersha turned her head.
“What the hell… Why, why are you like that?”
Only then did she wake up to the sight of Plea hurriedly wrapping her hand.
Before he knew it, his fingernails dug into his hand, and he felt a slight pain.