140 – EP.29 Battle -2
Night.
It was a dark time, but the cave I am currently in was dark since the original daytime, so there was not much difference.
Still, the night I’ve been through so far and tonight were different.
The past days when I couldn’t rest properly because I had to deal with infected people who didn’t know when, where, or how they would attack.
But now, I was sitting comfortably at the entrance of the cave and enjoying the scenery and sound of the water in the lake, enjoying a relaxing time.
When I think about it, I feel like I have been constantly running.
But it’s not over yet.
I have to keep this pace until I annihilate Lesshef, my original goal.
“Wow… !”
I gently lifted Tia’s body, which was sleeping soundly on my lap, and moved it onto the sleeping bag.
Since Tia reunited with me, she has been talking nonstop and happily, and as a result, she has fallen asleep like she is now.
Seriously, it’s a baby dragon that couldn’t be more cute.
After carefully pressing the baby dragon’s cheek, I realized that Tia was by my side. I robbed my seat and stood up.
A long fight is scheduled again from tomorrow.
I went out of the lake for a while and tried to heal myself by treating even wild animals infected with the plague.
Because wild animals are much easier to end their lives for one reason that they cannot understand language.
Just as I was determined to move my body like that, I suddenly felt a human being approaching from behind me.
“Did you solve enough rounds?”
“Thanks.”
“Then I’m glad. So, I’m going to talk about our goals from now on, is the time okay?”
“Yeah, it’s okay. Just because Tia might wake up. Let’s talk a little further away.”
“Even if not, I will. Follow me.”
Freesia turned her back while beckoning me to follow her.
I’m a bit uneasy about leaving Tia alone, but this is a safe zone anyway, so there shouldn’t be any problems.
So, leaving Tia alone for a while, he tried to chase after Freesia.
To my surprise, the Tia that I had put on my sleeping bag was stuck to my back.
Even more surprising was that Tia was still asleep, which meant that even though she was unconscious, she didn’t want to be separated from me.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you coming?”
“Oh, I’ll be there soon… !”
A month is a short but long time.
But it seems like a long time for my pets.
I also thought about missing my companion animals hundreds of times in the past month.
On the other hand, I couldn’t afford to think of my pets because I was busy with work and caring about them.
Mystic beasts must have been thinking of me and missing me steadily in peace.
That’s why my longing for me grew bigger than I thought.
‘Mmm….’
Tia also unconsciously clings to me, but what about Miho… ?
I am so worried about the future that it is scary to even imagine.
***
Me and Frisia sat face to face with a simple table in between.
Before starting a full-scale conversation, Freesia prepared a light herbal tea.
I put a film of air around Tia so that she wouldn’t be awakened by the sound of conversation.
“So, do you have any special favors you would like me to do?”
“I think you would be familiar with it?”
“As expected, he must be the god of plague….”
“Right. I want you to lend me your strength to get rid of him.”
“I was going to do that from the beginning even if you didn’t ask for it.”
“Really? Then, I have a question. Why do you hate that Shinsoo? What did he do to you outside?”
“Not really. It’s just that he did something he shouldn’t have done as a living being.”
To add one more thing, there must be a future where Lesshef will attack my place one day.
I have no intention of talking about that.
After all, the goal of defeating Lesshef remains unchanged.
“Surely he did something terrible to my kingdom… ….”
“I want to ask you one question this time. What were you doing while Leshef spread the plague in the kingdom?”
“Of course, when my mother passed away, I reconstructed the space that disappeared….”
“What I’m asking is asking about the situation immediately after Leshef’s infiltration. Did you know that your space was formed as soon as Leshef entered Rasvir Kingdom?”
I have already gathered enough information from the materials I have seen countless times when I go around town.
Perhaps I know the situation here better than Freesia.
“I can’t believe it, but you didn’t run away to this shelter irresponsibly, did you?”
“Definitely not that!! There’s no way I would do something like that as I love this kingdom!”
“Then what exactly were you doing?”
“…… Ask for help.”
“To whom?”
“I asked the local shinjus outside that my mother introduced me to before. If it were my mother, she wouldn’t know, but she couldn’t handle him alone.”
Surely, Agera is an ancient dragon known to have the strongest power among dragons.
It is an existence that cannot be approached by the god of plague.
I know that because I have actually fought an ancient dragon once.
That they are not something to be taken lightly.
The memory of fighting the ancient dragon was so painful that even now it is painful to the bone.
“So what is the result of asking for help?”
“I have failed, and on the contrary they have been threatening me. If I release space and humans with the plague enter their territory, then I will annihilate the kingdom as well as all humans…….”
Freesia bites her lip tightly and frowns as if in resentment.
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Like bubbling magma, her anger was seething.
“When my mother was alive, the gods who were friendly to me to look good, but when her mother passed away and I was in danger, she completely turned away?”
‘The divine beast society is no different from the human society.’
A society that usually wags its tail at the powerful person, but when the powerful person disappears, it wants to take care of its own interests first.
Of course, this does not mean that the society is wrong. They would have had to do that in order to survive.
I just can’t come to like those bats.
“To think that the people who told me to rely on them in case of trouble in childhood not only turn away from them but are hostile to them… ! Dirty bastards!!”
-Quaang!
The magma named Fury that finally reached its breaking point erupted like a volcano erupting. In the aftermath, Freesia has been shown taking down the table in front of her and smashing it.
There is one thing I learned from this. Why was she extremely rejecting the Shinsoo from outside of her?
There may be a reason why Leshef came from outside and destroyed the kingdom, but more than that, the betrayal of divine beasts from outside created her distrust.
A pitiful guardian dragon who failed to adapt to society and was beaten.
However, I did not attend this forum to understand her situation and comfort her.
“Hey, didn’t Tia almost wake up because of your actions just now? Why are you acting so suddenly in front of me?”
“Ah… ! Mi-sorry!”
“I understand why you are angry, but if you are going to have a normal conversation, moderate your anger. Our target now is the Lesshef guys inside, not the Shinsoo guys outside.”
“I was emotional without knowing it, I’m so sorry….”
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Like an overcast cloudy day, Freesia’s face was shaded and her shoulders drooped.
Then, Freesia tried to hide her private parts from just before by wrapping her other hand around the hand that had struck her down on the table.
“I hope you realize. By the way, if she returned after being rejected by the gods outside, what did she do next?”
“I didn’t do anything special, because everyone was already infected when I came back after wandering around the outside looking for help….”
“Really? Then, to put it mildly, in my opinion about your story, you made the worst choice.”
“My, did I make the worst choice?”
“Yes. You shouldn’t have asked for help when the situation broke out.”
“Then I had to deal with this situation on my own. You mean this?”
“No, I mean the difference in order. There was something you had to do before asking for help.”
“What is that… ?”
“Quarantine.”
Before the plague spread, there must have been numerous uninfected people on the continent.
The situation might have been different if Frisia had created a separate space by gathering such people in one place.
Plague cannot be avoided, because it is not visible.
However, if non-infected people had been quarantined in a different space before full-scale infection, it would have flowed into the lesser evil, not the worst, of at least some being infected.
In other words, Freesia had to ask for help after trying as much as she could on her own.
In the end, she made her worst choice of going to ask for her help, leaving the people who were seeking her help unattended.
When I pointed this out to her, the young guardian dragon bowed her head and agreed silently.
Because it was the result of her own immaturity, there was no room for her to refute it.
‘This stick will suffice, will carrots be next? .’
Even if she made the wrong choices, her choices are all for the people of Rasvir.
There could have been a better way, but that doesn’t mean her intentions were wrong.
She just needs to realize her own stupidity and immaturity and correct it, and not repeat her mistakes again.
Because any living thing needs development.
“Freesia.”
“Yes.”
“The next problem. You have already spilled the water, so what do you do now?”
“That… ….”
“Should I pour the spilled water back into the cracked cup?”
“No, I think we should throw away the cracked cup and clean up the spilled water….”
“Excellent. Then, put the current situation in there. The spilled water is the infected people, and the cracked cup is the capital occupied by Leshef.”
“Ah… !”
“Yes, from now on you can think of it that way.”
Gently put her hand on top of the downy Freesia’s head and caressed her lightly, just like she did with Tia.
Unlike the first time we met, Freesia’s voice seemed to have entered her mouse hole.
It’s a war with Lesshef tomorrow, and it’s not good to demoralize her the night before.
Because of her
, I had to encourage her as she is now and keep working on her future.
“Heh, heh…” !!”
“What? Are you the type who hates touching her hair?”
“Oh no! Not like that! All just… ! Feeling similar to when her mother praised her, I stopped involuntarily… !!”
“Sorry then. It’s a pity that it wasn’t your mother’s hand that passed away.”
“Gwa, it’s okay! As I said before, maybe it’s because her feelings are similar to her mother’s…. Oh, rather Joe, it was good….”
“Really? Good luck then.”
I should refrain from touching her hair, though.
If you think about the person who left because of this, it could have a bad effect.
“Anyway, let’s wrap up today’s story here and go rest. Let’s put off talking about the operation until tomorrow morning.”
“Yes, yes!”
“Then good night.”
“You, you too! Good night!”
Carefully holding Tia in her arms, she turned her steps toward the tent she had set up beforehand.
Maintaining physical condition is important for fighting Lesshef.
Before it’s too late, I intend to completely wash away my body’s fatigue through a good night’s sleep.
‘Hmm….’
Freesia’s blushing face suddenly pops up in my head.
I think it was because I was taken aback by my unexpected behavior…….
‘No, let’s throw away useless thoughts.’
For now, we only have to burn the hatred to get rid of Leshef.
‘For the sake of the people I took their lives.’