253. The Passing Road
“Whoa.”
With a cigarette in her mouth, Finden Ai gets out of her carriage. She had been at Gray Pond for about three months, but she felt like she shouldn’t be there anymore, so she had returned to North Whedon.
It was three months when I particularly missed the cold air unique to this place.
The revealing maid uniform she usually wore was neatly placed in her luggage bag, and she was wearing a shirt, leather pants, and a yellow coat.
Since the day the dead and Deius left Gray Pond, Finden Ai has not worn her maid’s uniform.
A maid should have a master, but there is no master.
Now she was just an unemployed findeneye.
“Whoa.”
She stands in front of North Whedon’s entrance, slinging her own luggage bag over her shoulder and heading inside.
People from the Clark Republic are visible nearby. Lord Darius accepted many people from the Clark Republic.
If it were any other territory, they would have expressed their displeasure and taken a conservative stance in accepting them.
Thanks to the members of Gocheolsang who had already moved here a year ago and were active, I was able to blend in without difficulty.
Tobacco smoke spits out bitterly.
Even though she had been visiting this town for the first time in a long time, her tongue was strangely sore, and it seemed like she was making herself feel sorry for herself.
At that time.
“Finden Eye?”
A familiar voice.
Before Finden Ai could turn her head, her woman hugged her.
“Iluania?”
She was Iluania, who worked as a maid for Deius. Behind her, Deia was seated at a street vendor table, and in her arms was a small baby who could only babble.
She said, “I heard she was left alone in Gray Pond, but she’s finally back!”
“Hmm, well. Yes.”
It’s still early in the morning.
The Finden child looks very disappointed and quietly puts out her cigarette and puts the butt in her cigarette box.
She can’t smoke in front of her baby.
‘He probably scolded me.’
Finden Ai smiled bitterly and hugged Illuaniah.
Finden Eye joined the two people who were sitting at an outdoor table in a somewhat quiet city.
She was eating foods that warmed her body, such as fish cake stew, and was on a sort of patrol that Deia often does when he comes into town.
Eat food from street vendors in the city, watch people’s lives, and organize your thoughts in your own way.
It could be said to be Deia’s own meditation method.
“What did you do there?”
Daya asks, resting her chin and crossing her legs. Deia was also still in Gray Pond when the incident occurred, but she could not do anything.
In the first place, it was a battlefield that she could not intervene in with her fighting skills and ability to pull the trigger.
“I was just wasting time, well.”
As she said that, the way she picked up the fish cake and put it in her mouth indirectly told me that she didn’t want to answer.
Deia was not unaware of her feelings, so she turned her gaze away without saying anything.
A heavy, sinking atmosphere.
In fact, the only person here who didn’t know why Findeneye remained in Gray Pond was Seville, who couldn’t even speak yet.
When she sees Sevilla cackling in the arms of her mother, Iluania, wondering what is so exciting, her heart feels a little lighter.
When I think of the man who named that child, my heart becomes heavy for no reason.
There was a time when he suddenly disappeared for a month. At the time, I was embarrassed because it was so sudden.
This time was a little different.
Directly.
Finden Ai opened the door of the general store and entered, taking all of her souls before her eyes.
And the one who chased after him was a monster that could easily be called a daily wager.
Raiser, the god of lightning and clouds.
As someone who had personally dealt with him for a short time, I couldn’t help but feel worried about Finden.
Because it was not at a level that a single human could deal with.
‘But again… ….’
I don’t know how many times I’ve made this assumption. If it was Deius Verdi, how could she have overcome it?
Isn’t it possible that there is a brief problem after defeating Raizer and that he can’t come now?
For a month when he disappeared without saying a word, everyone went here and there to find him.
After seeing everything with my own eyes, there was nothing I could do other than simply wait.
It was more painful than I thought.
The silence showed no signs of being broken.
Findenai and Deia.
They are sitting across from each other, but they look away and keep their mouths shut.
If you bring up something, eventually both of you will naturally move on to the topic about it.
That was more painful than I thought.
At that time.
“Let’s have a drink.”
Iluania speaks with a bright smile.
The two looked at her, wondering what her mother was talking about, as she could only babble.
Iluania stood up and spoke without hesitation.
“Not me. “I think you two need to drink some.”
aaah!
As if she was agreeing, Sebia, who was in her arms, exclaimed that it was fun.
* * *
Boom.
Suddenly.
Boom.
Suddenly.
Boom.
Suddenly.
Regular noise fills the alleys of the city, where not even moonlight enters, in the late morning.
As if sending a rescue signal, it does not rest even for a moment, putting its utmost effort into each action.
Boom.
Suddenly.
Boom.
Suddenly.
Boom.
Suddenly.
It pours out noise.
It was ringing in a strangely deserted place, but it was also strangely nerve-wracking.
“That’s right. “The instructor’s teaching methods are too extreme.”
“Ugh, death penalty. All right. “You were too drunk.”
Boom.
Suddenly.
Boom.
Suddenly.
My face turned red. Two people wearing uniforms who look quite drunk.
“How about training tomorrow morning? “You ate this much.”
“You don’t have to go! If I go anyway, they’ll teach me something weird again! Balance? Training to fix your center? Damn it! “A spear is meant to be wielded, not held for style!”
Boom.
Suddenly.
“But you were directly under Hanso’s clan. “Thanks to you, I can learn martial arts spear techniques.”
Boom.
Suddenly.
“Musin’s spear skills are a mess… ….”
The man called death spits. The place I turned my head to was an alley so dark that I couldn’t see inside.
Boom.
Suddenly.
Boom.
Suddenly.
“Hmm?”
“What are you talking about?”
Now that the two people have recognized the sound, they snoop around and enter the alley.
Is it because I’m drunk that I can’t make rational decisions, or is it simply because I’m confident in my skills?
Or is it the sound that resonates that stimulates people’s hearts?
I don’t know for what reason.
The two people entered the alley.
Please help.
I slowly come to my senses hearing the pitiful yet sorrowful voice.
Please, help me.
Even as they felt the alcohol fading away by the second, they realized that they shouldn’t be here like this.
Please, please help me.
The two people who responded to the pitiful rescue signal nodded with the spirit of martial arts.
“Please leave it to me.”
“You don’t have to worry.”
But after that.
No!
No!
No!
The voice echoing in the alley belonged to someone who was hoping for help.
Soon after.
Boom.
Suddenly.
Boom.
Suddenly.
Again.
It started sending out distress signals again towards this city.
* * *
Sohwa (小華).
A city named by the emperor of an empire to mean that it is precious and beautiful, like a small flower.
However, the simple yet intimate beauty it had in the past has disappeared and the place is now so prosperous that it cannot be called small.
There, a small girl is running hard while carrying delivery food on her shoulder.
The appearance with the dumpling hair was quite cute, but judging from the strides made while running for delivery and the steady breathing, it was clear that he was doing more than just the role of the store’s mascot.
Her name is Soho.
Even though she was young, she was a girl who worked hard and lived alone without her parents.
But she didn’t dwell on the absence of her parents.
Because she had a place where she could stay, and a place called Ranran Branch, which gave up its old name of guesthouse and called it a restaurant.
The owner and chef was like a mother to Soho. She
Although she may be a bit on the rough side, she has heard that people who enter the kitchen are inherently similar.
I don’t know if that’s true.
Well, anyway.
Soho continued to work hard on her delivery today. She runs the familiar distance and hurries her steps to keep the food from getting cold.
But in the meantime.
“Oh what?”
He complained when he saw that the road was clogged with people. The people gathered in front of the alley were chatting quite loudly.
“How many people?”
“There are 6 people.”
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“In just one day?”
“What are the security forces doing?”
“Wow, that’s how they rip off taxes.”
My ears hurt slightly from the voices coming from all over the place, but Soho was able to roughly understand the situation.
‘Six people died in that alley last night?’
For some reason, my dream was disturbed.
Soho sighed at the unfortunate incident and tried to quickly pass through the crowd.
“Kid.”
He suddenly turned his head when he heard a man calling him out.
He was truly an amazing man.
They looked similar to the people around here, but their behavior and standing posture strangely made them feel like foreigners.
“Yes?”
Soho looks up at him with a slant. Not breaking a sweat and having a somewhat expressionless face.
However, Soho, a city native, was the most handsome man I had ever seen.
The man who had developed a crush without realizing it asked one thing.
“Are you coming from a restaurant?”
“Aha? “It smells bad, doesn’t it?”
Soho laughed and immediately told us the location of Ranran Spot. He still asked another question without any change in his expression.
“How many years have you been a human?”
“Oh, about that… ….”
Soho scratched the back of his head and had a business smile on his face. The expression gradually changes.
The corners of his mouth that had been raised slowly lowered, and Soho’s eyes calmed down.
However, despite her eerie and sharp hostility, the man is indifferent and looks down at her.
Like.
It seems like this is all too familiar.
“Don’t be too scared.”
The man calmly gave advice.
He shows his teeth and spits out meaningful words to Soho, who is glaring at him with murderous intent, telling him not to worry.
“Because it’s just a passing road.”
For the first time, a faint smile appeared on the lips of the man who said that.