11. A bird that flew over the nest – 06
“great. I apologize for indiscriminately talking about your ‘family’.”
After all, he’s just my one and only companion before he’s your trivial ‘family’ for playing house. No matter how hard you try, you will never know that I am the woman he promised me for the rest of my life. By my standards, you’re nothing more than a petty prostitute he’ll play with for one night.
Interfering with the ‘nightlife’ of a lifelong companion at all is nothing but a tasteless affair.
“But, scarring my face isn’t something to be taken lightly, is it?”
I didn’t know anything else, but the fact that Cain had scarred this face that he was supposed to cherish and cherish for the rest of his life was something he couldn’t condone.
Peeing-
Ariel heard a very faint sound in her ears. When she heard it, she just thought it sounded like a string being pulled.
And at the same time, she felt something tearing from her body. There was no pain. When Ariel turned her gaze to it, it was none other than her own left arm.
“…you.”
When Ariel looked at Kyrie with a slightly twisted face, Kyrie just shrugged her shoulders and replied.
“You think this is enough tolerance? There’s one thing you’re forgetting: this is the Great Forest, the home of the elves, and I’m the leader of all the elves, and I’m also the guardian of the world tree. It’s not enough that you dared to vent your murderous intentions on me in a place like that, even though you hurt my cheek, you forgave me with one of your useless arms, so I must have been too kind.”
Kirie giggled, wondering what was so funny, and glanced at Ariel’s left arm, which was scattered randomly on the floor.
“It’s okay, so pick up your left arm and quickly attach it. Even if limbs are cut off, it’s your specialty to grow new ones like crayfish. Well, crayfish can be used for food, but with the difference that you are just gross.”
“…Really, Kyrie seems to have a real knack for making you, Iris, or anyone else feel bad. No, maybe it’s because of your years of life, if it’s just your ability to play with your tongue, I think you’re a little more skillful.”
Anyway, that kind of scar is something you can always get rid of if you set your mind to it.
However, that doesn’t mean that Kyrie’s words were completely wrong. Of course, it didn’t mean that bullshit like Kyrie was tolerant or nice wasn’t wrong. Currently, Ariel is in the Great Forest. It was a blessed land where elves could exert their natural power to the fullest, and furthermore, behind Kyrie, there was even a divine tree of elves, a world tree.
Due to her nature as the ‘Guardian of the World Tree’, Kyrie El Denaris should be able to exert power comparable to the ‘Witch of Winter’ in her heyday, as long as it is near where the World Tree is located. Just as Kirie had said to Ariel earlier, that cheeky remark that she had given her ‘tolerance’ was not just a lie. Apparently, if she collided head-on with Kyrie here, there was a very high probability that she would experience defeat.
…And, I didn’t come here to play. There was a story from Kyrie that I absolutely needed to hear. I don’t really like bowing down to a stray cat woman like Kyrie, but at this moment, taking a step back was the smart choice.
ugh-
Ariel silently picked up her left arm and brought it to her body without saying anything, while Kirie ate and laughed as she watched her heal herself.
“Now we can start talking normally. Really, if you hadn’t come out so savage from the start, I would have treated you more gracefully and culturedly.”
“…Shut up and answer quickly. What did you mean by the flattery that you would see my child again?”
“As expected, even though you are talking about being a priest who has devoted everything to the goddess, you are only being faithful to your desires at a moment like this. well, good Because such a contradiction also feels quite fragrant and sweet.”
“…..”
“Okay, where do we start talking?”
Kirie began to open her mouth with a benevolent smile, like a grandmother telling old stories to her grandson.
“Do you know that four goddesses existed on earth a thousand years ago from now, that is, in what humans call the age of myth?”
“Arbel in spring, Clarisse in summer, Sepia in autumn, Aria in winter. Are you talking about these four goddesses?”
It was a fact, not a secret, that goddesses appeared on earth and took care of humans in the age of mythology. Even if you just open the temple right away, there was such a content on the first page. However, now that a thousand years have passed, it remains a story that spans the realm of simple mythology.
“Then, do you know why only Arbel, the goddess of spring, remains among the four goddesses? Also, why did the other three goddesses disappear without a trace?”
At Kyrie’s words, Ariel frowned as if she didn’t understand. Is this woman trying to have a discussion with herself about theology?
“According to the scriptures, except for the goddess Arbel, the other three goddesses chose to go down to heaven to leave only warm spring on earth. Also, the goddess Arbel is said to be looking down on us, hiding from the sky, leaving only the divine power, a token of her faith, for the mature growth of her children.”
At Ariel’s words, Kirie burst into laughter.
“You are naive, Ariel. Do you really believe in that word?”
“What?”
“If you think about it step by step, it is really nonsense. Of the four seasons, leaving only spring to make the ground warm? Reincarnation of the four seasons has meaning only through repetition. Why do you guys so easily overlook the fact that spring, when greenery sprouts, looks more radiant only when there is a winter with a cold and blizzard?”
In Kyrie’s words, there was only bitterness that I couldn’t understand why.
“And, if the three goddesses are truly lowly, why do summer, autumn, and winter remain on earth?”
In response to Kyrie’s serious question, Ariel sighed softly.
“All of that is just a myth. It was a story that no priest in the Empire would take seriously. In the first place, the temple is everything. They try to convey something to us by mixing analogies and metaphors. From my point of view, there is only one goddess in the world, Arbel. There is no evidence that other goddesses existed in the first place.”
“Well, I don’t think so.”
Kyrie faced Ariel with a solemn attitude, as if she were a prophet giving an oracle. In Kirie’s eyes, there was something unknown.
“We know. I have never experienced anything like the ‘eternal spring’ that the temple speaks of, but that something like it is about to come to the world.”
At Kyrie’s words, Ariel involuntarily swallowed her groan. Yes, isn’t that a fact she knows well? season that never ends. A blizzard that continues to blow. An eternal winter that never ends.
“As you probably already know, at the end of the return, the never-ending winter approaches us without exception. Then, why on earth does ‘eternal winter’ suddenly begin without any warning?”
Ariel knew the answer to that question all too well.
“…witch of winter.”
“right. In the next few years, the ‘Witch of Winter’ was going to hit the ground and give us endless despair. This time, the past has changed so much that I wonder if such a future will ever come.”
“…..”
“Then, one question here. Why did the ‘Witch of Winter’ appear in front of us? Why did she bring eternal winter to the continent?”
…It was a problem that Ariel had never thought about while repeating her regression until now.
“Without a single exception of the regressions that have occurred so far, the ‘Winter Witch’ has appeared before us. In other words, she is an inevitable existence, a phenomenon, and a kind of karma.”
At Kirie’s words, Ariel’s eyes began to grow annoyed. What on earth does that have to do with the story that Kirie was babbling about with excitement and the story she really wanted to hear?
“therefore? Couldn’t we just put the noise aside and get to the point?”
“Ariel, you have a really impatient personality. You have such a temper and I feel sorry for other people who believe you are caring and gentle. Especially Cain.”
Kyrie sighed openly at Ariel, then opened her mouth again.
“one question. Ariel, you will only have memories of the world where you returned as the main axis, right? For example, you don’t have any memories of the world where Iris was the main axis and returned, right?”
“…Memories like that, I don’t even want to have them in the first place.”
The sight of Cain, who was supposed to only look out for himself, care for himself, and love only himself, cling to and love another woman, it was a sight that made me feel sick just imagining it.
“By the way, I do have a memory. Not only when you were the main character, but also when other people were the main character, you have all the memories of that time.”
“…So, are you trying to brag? Or, do you want to show off your seniority just because you are older?”
At Ariel’s sharp words, Kirie kicks and laughs.
“No, this is what I want to say. Why do I have all the memories unlike you?”
Saying that, Kirie glanced at the gigantic tree behind her, the height of which jumped over the mountain range and seemed endless.
“…the world tree?”
“Yes, the World Tree is an entity that has already manifested itself in all time and space. And as its guardian, I am the one receiving the blessings of the World Tree. Even if time is rewinded, as long as I am the guardian of the World Tree, I can protect my continuity.”
“By the way?”
To sum up, after all, aren’t these just words of pride, a nuance that he, the guardian of the world tree, is good?
“Isn’t it surprising that your head isn’t spinning? To say that the World Tree is manifesting in all space-times means that, in other words, if certain conditions are met, the space-time record of the time recorded by the World Tree can be recalled to this world.”
“…certain conditions?”
“okay. For example, using the ‘inevitable phenomenon’ that our Winter Expedition experienced without a single exception as a key…”
A phenomenon that the expedition had to face without a single exception even after returning several times. its cause. that’s right-
“The Witch of Winter…”
At Ariel’s sigh-like realization, Kirie nodded.
“Yes, and now, there is no need to wait for the ‘winter witch’ to appear ten years from now. Because we know very well where she is and what she is doing right now.”
At Kyrie’s words, Ariel involuntarily bit her lip. That nightmarish existence that scattered winter in the world with snow-white hair is now-
“Ariel, you said you wanted to see your child again, right? Then what you do is very simple.”
Kyrie’s magical words disturbed Ariel’s ears. Her words were so sweet that they had a fatal charm that made it impossible to take my ears off them.
“With your own hands, capture the daughter of the Duke of Estelle, whom he named ‘Arya’, and then offer her to the World Tree as a sacrifice.”
Once again, words follow.
“Destroy that bitch’s future.”
Right i hate elf chan