4. Chersha Kalua – (5)
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“Sorry, that was so… Irresponsible…”
“To ask for an answer… It’s already too late.
Chersha’s appearance, as if she were letting out her emotions inside her, spoke in her sorrowful way, and in itself caught her attention so loudly, as if she was beating her own chest violently. .
As if she was the only one I could see in this world. Only the way she spoke sadly filled my eyes.
‘……’
Remembering her own words, waiting for her for 8 years was not enough, and she was apologizing to herself to be the one who came to her directly.
She seems now that she doesn’t want to show herself. She was trying to control herself with her miserable smile on her face.
‘……’
Even now, her own heart fills her own heart, her reins of her emotions, if she let go of herself… Even a little bit. If you can. She herself wanted to hold onto her Chersha, even if she was right now.
“Really… I didn’t meet you to show you this.”
She lifted the black cloth from her bosom, averting her gaze, as if not wanting to show her messed-up face.
And with her white hand, she slowly erases the marks of her own tears.
Her hand trembled so minutely in it.
She was just looking at herself.
“Ed. Then the answer is… I’ll do what I heard.”
Slowly.
Chersha got up from her seat and was about to leave.
She didn’t even open her mouth to herself.
She couldn’t think of anything to say.
It’s just too much for her to control her own emotions right now.
Nothing could be communicated to Chersha.
Quadang!
The moment Chersha stood up, she suddenly stumbled over her slender body, and the chair next to her fell.
“Really… I see only ugliness.”
Speaking in a bitter voice, Chersha, who had managed to brace herself, tried to leave the place with too dangerous steps to even look at.
She raised her body to see her off.
My body didn’t look like my own.
A light gesture. Even the slightest action made her body move so slowly.
My heart felt like it was burning hot like lava, and my gaze kept shaking as if I couldn’t focus, so I couldn’t see the world properly.
Chersha, who was about to pass by her own side, slowly moved her steps.
I caught it in the middle of a daze.
“…Ah.”
Only Chersha let out a surprised voice.
And it wasn’t until she caught her that she realized that she had acted that way.
Her
As she got up from her seat, she faced her as she was about to leave.
“Ed…?”
As if there was only one Chersha in the world. Only Chersha could be clearly seen in her gaze, which continued to shake and became blurred.
Like a ray of light shining in the darkness. There, it seemed that only she shone and filled my gaze.
“…Black.”
Chersha, who faced Ed’s gaze that was too dark, couldn’t stand it and burst into tears again.
Her emotions, which she had barely managed to overcome, grew stronger and seized Chersha as violently as if she were attacking herself.
Now she knows what these emotions are engulfing herself. Only Chersha. She couldn’t quite figure it out.
She couldn’t even try to stop the emotions that kept bursting out of her. She looked at Ed and spit out her words.
“If you look at me with that kind of eyes… what the hell… what are you going to do?”
Her tone was desperate, as if she had given up everything of herself.
Tears dripped from her eyes and only wet Chersha’s cheeks.
I saw Chersha approaching very slowly.
She said that at that moment she had no idea of herself, she had no idea to control herself.
My thoughts disappeared like a sheet of blank paper.
She just accepted the way she approached her.
“……”
“……”
Her lips overlapped, and I involuntarily embraced her. It’s like she won’t let her go like this.
She strongly pulled her slender body into her arms.
Through the blurry gaze, I could feel her scent from so close, and I could see her face full of tears.
As if something controlling her was bursting out. She felt it disappear without a trace.
Could it be this sweet? No, she didn’t even know that she felt happiness for the first time in her life.
Such a huge feeling in her own life. Because she’s never felt it before.
……
Then, after some time passed, the lips of the two separated.
Too irresponsible behavior.
The one who moved without even thinking ahead.
It’s already too late to blame it all.
“Don’t give up.”
He just spat out his true feelings.
Even though I know that she is so selfish and that her words continue to torment her.
I am only Chersha. She didn’t want to let her go.
“Never…Give up.”
Small but different tone than before.
Chersha, who spoke in a hopeful tone, seemed to be embraced by Ed. I leaned over.
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Northern Mountains Backwoods.
It seems that not a single light has entered between the huge vegetation and thick bushes because the road has not been opened. The mountain range at night, when the darkness fell deeply, had a dark atmosphere in itself.
A party of mercenaries was walking around one of them.
“Hey… why don’t we go back now?”
A brown-haired woman wearing light greaves. She opened her mouth as Rien looked at the leader of the group. What is so unsettling? Her elongation was looking around her, touching her own crossbow every time.
At the end of it, a middle-aged man who seemed to have suffered the traces of the years along with her upright impression was silently moving her steps as if he hadn’t heard Rien’s words.
The man who was leading the way was Carlos, who was the leader of the mercenary party and had an A-class mercenary plaque.
“Captain! Please answer my words. No matter how much I think about it… this place is uneasy.”
As if Kalos’ silence was frustrating, Rien continued her words. Even her hand was trembling lightly now, feeling as if her own intuition was ringing her alarm bell as she continued to enter her mountain range.
Without being able to pinpoint what was going on with her, she was only letting her senses, such as her own intuition, inform her of the threat. Rien trusted and trusted her own intuition more than anything else.
Every time she sensed her danger, she let her sloppy feelings be known to herself, as if her instincts had warned her ahead.
If the shooter develops her senses at any moment, she will be able to feel the threat like her instinct, even if there is no sign, but just like the main character of the story, Rien herself felt a clear danger.
That’s enough to make me keep talking to Carlos, who is known for his strict personality.
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And finally, at Rien’s words, Carlos, who had been silently moving from the front, stopped.
Good.
“What’s wrong with you today?”
“Yes, Lee is not like you.”
When Calus stopped walking, the mercenaries who were moving from the front and the middle first opened their mouths and started talking to Rien.
It was their little effort to alleviate some of Carlos’s harsh words ahead of time.
Kalos, who turned around from the lead and looked at them with a nonchalant look, waited for them for a while.
“Calm down, Rien, it seems that it is difficult to maintain one’s composure in the thick darkness…”
“Okay, catch her breath and try to pick yourself up.”
In spite of what his colleagues said, Lien looked at Carlos and said urgently.
“Captain! No matter how you look at it, the unexplored land quest doesn’t seem like it. To be honest, I’m not saying it for any reason, but the more I walk now, the more my instincts are warning me. My words may sound funny. But really… it’s because I’m so anxious.”
Carlos, who had been calmly listening to Lien’s long words, slowly opened her heavy mouth when she finished her words.
“Rien, we are just her minions, simply clearing the way. Again, I wouldn’t go that deep into the unexplored.”
“But Captain, you still haven’t reached halfway to your destination, have you? Am I wrong?”
“Even so, has there been any risk? All of the monsters I’ve met on my way to this point are hybrids. Rather, it’s not an exaggeration to say that our mercenary party’s power level is too high.”
As a pawn to a designated place in the unexplored land, you must first clear the way.
That was the request the Kalos mercenary party was carrying out.
Generally, if you think of it as a quest for unexplored lands, the difficulty has risen to the point where it’s ridiculous. He thought that Carlos, who had previously investigated and grasped the information of the terrain, was not very dangerous.
“But… I don’t know, my instincts have been telling me that something is here from just now.”
Rien said while trembling slightly while holding her own hand.
Other mercenaries also looked around and felt a little nervous, unlike the first time.
Rien, who had just joined the mercenary party, clearly lacked experience, but was clearly a ‘shooter’.
And it was a fact known to all the mercenaries here that the shooter’s senses are more sensitive than other people’s.
“…So anxious.”
Seeing Rien say that, Carlos let out a small sigh and spoke lightly. Based on my years of experience, this kind of talk was often seen in inexperienced newcomers.
Rien still lacked experience.
But…Even so, if the ‘shooter’ said this, it was beyond the level of simply dismissing the rookie as being scared.
For the leader of the mercenaries to overhear it as a mere rookie’s frightened voice, the position here and again was not light.
Unexplored lands of the North.
Considering how much demon beasts pour down into the city every year, it is a place where one should not be vigilant.
At Carlos’ answer, Rien said with a smile. It seemed that she was listening to her own words, so unlike the first time, she had a kind of hope.
“Yeah… To be honest, it’s the first time since the last Eslia expedition that I felt as dangerous as I am now.”
Eslia. Level 3 monster subjugation.
As for Eslia, it was a monster that belonged to the upper class among the 1st to 8th classes.
The last expedition we went on to subdue that monster with a bizarre appearance that looked like a combination of dozens of lions and eagles.
In that expedition, Carlos’s mercenary party lost two of his comrades. The fact that the mercenary party of Kalos, who was quite famous even in the city’s guild union, lost his comrades meant that they would subdue a dangerous beast.
Carlos still remembered that two more people would have lost their lives if Rien hadn’t told them the danger.
“For a while. Rest here and watch your surroundings.”
However, it was difficult to say that Carlos would return easily.
The vigilante group immediately began to be alert to the surroundings, and the rest of the mercenaries began preparing to take a rest by making a simple seat.
And in the darkness that was too thick, the beast with blood red eyes was staring at me while licking my lips.