Estel Hadassah El Ras (2)
The touch of bare skin against bare skin is not that familiar.
The innately soft texture is managed over a lifetime, and it feels pleasantly smooth, and the more you touch it, the more you want to stick to it.
If you start stroking the soft pelvis and go up, you want to hug the lumbar spine and pull it towards you.
“Woke up?”
Come to think of it, that woman liked to watch my sleeping face.
“Ummm…”
When I open my eyes, I see a woman who is asleep.
Lovely pink hair and bare shoulders. Below that…
“······ Wow.”
The bare skin that touched it all night was hot and warm. His last memory was falling into the sewer, but it must have been an emergency measure to prevent hypothermia.
The soft and warm warmth made me feel good, so I wanted to stay like this for a while.
‘Still, it’s warmer than I thought.’
It is a severe winter outside. The Iron Islands bordering the North Kingdom are winter all year round, regardless of the season.
Even if you find a place to escape the cold wind, this is warmer than you think.
“·······.”
The magic is running out. Even in a lump…
A full night must have passed, but rather got out than recovered? Is this the curse of Finbenaha that Master said?
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Light is pouring from the horns of unicorns that have been left unattended. Yes, the unicorn’s horn has the ability to purify curses and deadly poisons. It is safe to say that at least the curse on my body has been healed…
Then why on earth is my magical power… Ah.
“Ughhh…”
Estelle opens her eyes with a smirk. I met emerald eyes.
“Good morning.”
“·······.”
As I awkwardly greeted her, Estelle’s cheeks burned as if they were on fire.
“You will have to pay a high price for this.”
“······Amyo.”
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
No matter how you think about it, I benefit. cancer. by the way
“wake up.”
“yep.”
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While Estelle was putting on the robe she was covering, I turned my gaze toward the campfire and saw that my shirt was being rolled up.
“I owe you yesterday.”
“What… He’s the one who came to save me, of course. More than that, are you feeling better, junior?”
At those words, he groped for the wound that had been pierced by Skys. Some of the clothes were torn, and traces of bleeding were visible like bandages. It didn’t matter much because of the regenerative power, but I was grateful for the sincerity.
“There is no problem at all with the activity.”
“Okay? Then let’s get out of this island.”
“It must be difficult right now.”
“Yes?”
At my words, Estelle’s voice instantly weakened.
“Vigilance must have been heightened because of our intrusion. The harbor must have been blocked, and the nature of the Iron Isles limited the number of beasts that could fly.”
This is the reason why the kingdom army cannot mobilize Wyverns in groups. Quite a few wyverns freeze in the cold, so you have to be at least ‘passenger’ to properly transport them in the air.
“So there’s no way to escape?”
At Estelle’s words, I shook my head.
“There are about two.”
It’s not the right way, but in this situation, it might be the best.
“The first is to be stuck here. About 20 days? We will hold out until the kingdom army lands in earnest and destroys the mage tower.”
“I don’t think the Magic Tower is so stupid that it can’t find us for 20 days.”
yes. It’s a very lucky choice. There is a way to get food, but I don’t want to expose the location just yet.
“The second is to go north from here.”
“Um… isn’t this the northern part of the island?”
“·······.”
“no way.”
Estelle frowned and bit her lower lip. Even though I guessed it, I send my gaze to confirm it again.
“Cross the strait. To be precise, beyond the Iron Islands, to the North Kingdom’s Dingle Peninsula.”
“Mi, did you hit it? You said it with your own mouth.”
“It’s frozen all year round. If you cross the point well, you can cross it unexpectedly.”
The problem is that you will inevitably run into the ‘Giant Excavation Team’ along the way.
If you’re lucky, since the mage tower subjugation started earlier than the original history, you might be able to find it before the wizards.
Above all, it is difficult to hope for additional structure. It’s a problem even if you come in the first place. How to find and escape from this iron island.
Rather, it is more likely to shake off the chase with a small number.
“Ha~”
Estelle sighed lightly and shook her head slowly.
“Should we find some rice and eat it before that?”
“I am quick to adapt to the situation.”
“Because stamping your feet won’t give you an answer. I can’t live here with my juniors.”
I felt it from the previous episode, but the personalities of the princesses are wild.
It must be because Mirya went after the wolves herself, and Estelle must have been because of demon protection or heresy questioning.
Both sisters have no choice but to get used to rough things.
“I agree to look for food first. After filling the stomach, we leave at night.”
“why?”
“I’m going north after looking at the constellations.”
“Can you see the stars?”
“Since I don’t have any talent, I learned a lot.”
In the previous episode, I learned everything to survive.
“Well, the saintess should rest here. Go out and get something to eat.”
“Uh, junior? With that body?”
“I’m fine.”
“No, but… are you really better? Oh, really?”
When she takes off the clothes that acted as bandages, Estelle lets out a mysterious voice over her exposed body. Then, after holding a red spear, they rushed after me.
“Why? It’s inside. It’s cold.”
“It’s okay because it’s a castle with a spell to visit Korea.”
Seeing him giggle, he looks really good.
Even though it’s summer soon, Estelle is wearing only a thin suit on this harsh land and the steel archipelago that is as strong as winter.
It’s a combination that doesn’t suit you, but it’s not the time to worry about others.
“Ah, why are my palms cold? I’ll have to try again later.”
Seeing this person who melts his cold palms into his armpits, who would think he was a saint?
* * * *
“omg···!”
pure white snow. As if it were a protective color, a rabbit that had been pulled out of the snow field was cutely sniffing grass in the snow.
“It’s eerie! It’s so cute! It’s so cute!”
Estelle tried to capture the cute creature in her emerald eyes.
The rabbit in her eyes, born with good eyesight, is as innocent as a child playing in heaven. How about the big, erect ears?
I want to invite that angel to my garden–
-puck!
Queek! The inhabitants of the snowfield shed tears of blood and heartbreak.
A red spear that was carelessly picked out. The rabbit’s eyes, lifted up into the air with its raised ears caught, met Estelle’s.
– I will curse you. I will curse you, humans…!
It was bloody tears, like pouring out a grievous curse.
“I’m lucky. I wonder if there are other rabbits around here.”
“devil······.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Do you really have to eat a rabbit? It’s cute, isn’t it?”
“Everything gets digested the same once it goes into the stomach.”
After that, Corinne caught another rabbit.
“Heeing… Rabbit, I’m sorry. I’m sorry, too, my squirrel friend…”
“Saintess, hold onto your legs.”
“Huh? Now, wait!”
Although Estelle was taken aback, Corin calmly gave the following instructions.
“Spread the rabbit’s legs wide and secure it. That way it will come off easily.”
“Huh? Take it off? What?”
Corinne puts her fingers in the previously cut leg bones and pulls them out. Estelle almost fell forward at the moment’s power, but she was able to endure because she was prepared in advance.
– Boowook!
“uh?”
The skin peeled off in an instant. The exposed raw flesh could not find even a hint of the innocent cuteness from before.
“I-I’m not going to eat this.”
“Uh huh, I’m not picky. This squirrel is frozen and can’t be cleaned well.”
Unlike rabbits, squirrels that are frozen right away cut their fur with a spear like cutting fruit.
As I scraped the frozen intestines and trimmed them, I managed to arrange the lean meat to be put on a wooden skewer.
“It’s bland because there’s no salt, but it’s good enough to eat because the fat has risen well.”
“Ah, you say you don’t eat? Do you want to eat the raspberries you picked up…!”
While Corinne hunted, Estelle triumphantly brought out the berries and berries she had picked up.
But how can fruit compare with meat?
Estelle’s boat horn signaled in succession at the smell of cooking rabbit and squirrel skewers.
-Growl!
“Do you just eat it?”
“Should I take just one bite?”
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“Heh heh heh! I’m sorry rabbit…
* * * *
Estelle realized that not having her holy power manifested was more uncomfortable than she could have imagined.
He who cannot use the power of prayer is close to a burden. Knowing this well, Estelle found her job on her own.
Surprisingly, Estelle was used to somewhat rough work because she was often active in the front lines, such as interrogation for heresy and rescuing persecuted demons.
‘Wait a minute, my strength has returned.’
Estelle’s power is to make her wish come true by praying.
That doesn’t mean you have to pray to activate it. If she needs something, such as the environment, battle situation, instinct, reflexes, etc., the holy power is applied to herself according to the environment.
When the wind and rain were rough, the water kept my skin dry, and when I was rescuing survivors from a burning house, the fire couldn’t harm my hair.
However, after the holy power was sealed, this divine protection did not work. Except last night.
To prevent Corinne from dying of hypothermia, I undressed her and warmed her skin to skin with my own body heat.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
Naturally, his body temperature should go down, but strangely, his body temperature went up.
Like a warm glow that surrounds you when you pray.
As if the Lord, who had not even confirmed his existence, was right in front of his nose.
‘that’s interesting. Is it because the junior has the holy relic of the sun?’
I know he has one of the four treasures held sacred by the Church.
From the time I investigated that the undead city of Nazrea, a longtime bane of mankind, was purified in an instant.
Maybe that’s why my sister is obsessed with Corinne Locke.
symbolism.
Estelle, her younger sister, and Corinne are seeing that kind of symbolism. The warrior of the Order, the owner of the holy things bestowed by the Lord.
Both Estelle and Miriam realized that at some point they would have to take this political symbolism to their side.
“Sleep. There’s squirrel meat and fruit, so chew a bite at a time. That way you don’t get hungry.”
seasoned Unlike Estelle, who was supported even by homelessness, he was performing the necessary actions accurately.
“But it’s kind of funny when other people see it.”
Corinne’s appearance was quite comical.
I am protecting myself from the cold by wrapping rabbit and squirrel skins. Estelle, on the other hand, was wearing a suit that exposed her armpits and thighs.
Wouldn’t anyone see what kind of crazy bastards they are?
“It’s Lady First, but I’m about to freeze to death like this. Instead, take this spear.”
Of the two spears, Corin handed the red spear to Estelle. Red spear Gederg. It is the javelin of beast hunting.
“If you see a beast, throw it as hard as you can. To a certain extent, the spear will fly itself to hunt the beast.”
“Wow~ Is it a magic spear?”
“It’s similar.”
It’s a pity that I don’t have the mace I used to use, but there’s at least one spear somewhere. Estelle gladly accepted Corinne’s red spear…
“Oops!”
I was startled by the colder red window than I thought and missed it.
– Boo-wook!
The missed red spear slashed Estelle’s shoulder. A touch light enough to tear clothes. but······.
-Paang!
“uh?”
A sudden rush of chills. Barefoot, thigh, armpit poof! A raging cold wind hit Estelle.
“Hugh…! It’s cold, it’s cold!”
“·······.”
Watching Estelle tremble like an aspen tree as she jumped up and down, Corinne was silent for a while.
The difficulty of this journey has just jumped up with this one.
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They themselves are funny.
Estelle deeply regretted having said this.
How could she have known that the red spear that Corin hunted had the power of perm?
Because her clothes were cut by a red spear, Estelle, whose cold spell had been blown away, had to be exposed to the harshness of Mother Nature without any protection.
“Wait. Don’t go out near the campfire.”
The rabbit and squirrel I was wearing, Toshi, also gave way to Estelle, and Corinne didn’t come back even after several hours.
“Junior? I’m a junior… I’m scared…”
Estelle was left alone in the cave and gradually began to get scared.
With the strong wind blowing from outside blowing into the cave and the bonfire shaking wildly, all she can do is warm herself up in front of the bonfire as much as she can.
“Ugh… Lord. My junior… No, please let Corinne Locke come back safely.”
“And if you do something about this cold, I’ll go back and start the real one-thousandth festival!”
“You’re really not going to listen? I heard you usually listen even if you do it roughly!”
Even if God heard it, it was a prayer to be scolded because it was dumbfounded, but as if the universe answered with a desperate heart, a chuckle was heard from the entrance.
“Corin… Junior?”
Estelle cautiously spoke to her, wondering if she might be the pursuer of the Mage Tower. But I almost screamed at something big he dropped.
“Is this… a sheep?
What Corinne caught was a sheep that died instantly with its tongue sticking out.
“I’m going to cut this guy’s skin and use it as a coat and sleeping bag, so please bear with me.”
“Ugh, I’ll help you clean up.”
I thought I had caught the sheep from outside, but I felt sorry for myself when I thought that I had been wandering around for hours in this cold weather and catching animals worthy of obtaining skins.
The two of them got the sheepskin that was so bloody.
“·······.”
“······It’s small.”
“······I know.”
The sheepskin that was carefully torn from the neck to the tip of the legs is large enough for one person to use, but ambiguous for two people to use.
“It can’t be helped. I’ll cover it with rabbit and squirrel skins, so the saintess…”
“I can’t!”
“Saint?”
“Let’s come up with something! There must be a way for the two of us to write it!”
It was too late to go hunting again. Thinking of the mage tower’s pursuit, I had to start immediately.
Estelle didn’t want to waste any more of the time she had already lost because of me, and soon an idea flashed in her mind.
“Yeah! I just remembered! A way for the two of us!”