EP.89 Fairy King
“You said I had a talent, but it was all nonsense!”
Katarina shouted as she ran through the dark cavity. A wolf with dark gray fur chased after her. The wolf’s forehead was on fire, and his tail was made of fire.
Yes.
It is not an ordinary wolf that is chasing her, but an ancient fire spirit.
Katarina found a fire spirit in this deep cavity, and tried to make a contract, but before she could open her mouth, the spirit turned into a wolf and ran.
“Shedia! Can you help me?!”
She cried out urgently, but Shedia, who had entered Katarina’s shadow, did not come out.
The distance from the wolf gradually getting closer.
Shedia unresponsive.
This made Katarina more impatient. As she ran a few more steps, she bit her lip.
‘If you keep running like this, you will eventually get eaten and it will end. In that case…’
Katarina stopped running and turned back. She pulled out her curved sword with both her hands and stared at her wolf running towards her.
big.
Very big
That big mouth looks like it could cut her body in half really easily.
Katarina’s body stiffened in fear.
The wolf ran towards her through the gap. Catarina closed her eyes as she saw the wolf approaching her eyes.
The faces of her mother, father, and younger brothers and sister flashed through her mind.
Cloud was the final decoration.
The man who will be her first and last love.
‘I’ll come out with one more kiss.’
That was reluctantly sad.
After a while, Katarina’s body, pushed by the wolf, falls backwards. She thought the common stone floor would be hard, but it was surprisingly soft.
‘.. Fluffy?’
Why is the stone floor soft?
Katarina opened her eyes. A large wolf was supporting her body with its forelimbs. It was before she even got a sense of how this had happened.
– Lick.
“Ugh?!”
The wolf licked Katarina with its large tongue. It was usually an aegyo-like behavior that a dog shows to its owner, but it was difficult to accept it as aegyo because of its size.
“Come on, wait a minute. Stop it.”
– Lick.
“Stop it…”
– Lick.
“Stop it!!”
Katarina, who couldn’t stand it, shouted loudly.
The wolf was startled and tilted its head back. And it had a sullen face.
– Kicking…
Then, this time, Katarina panicked.
“Uh… sorry for yelling?”
The gloomy wolf’s expression widened a little.
Katarina said to such a wolf.
“Are you a fire spirit?”
The wolf looked at Katarina without a reaction.
“The… are you sure you don’t want to sign a contract with me? The terms of the contract are… well, there’s an old elf up there? He will take care of it.”
After that, Katarina continued to gibberish.
Wouldn’t you like to go outside instead of this kind of cavity, there are many beautiful things outside, etc.
The wolf just looked at it.
Anxiety rose in Katarina’s mind.
“You don’t want to sign a contract…? Ok then there’s nothing I can do? Are you sorry for holding on to you? So let me go…”
– Lick.
“Ugh!?”
The wolf creaked Katarina once more and changed her form. The great wolf turned into red fire, and the fire gathered in one place.
The wolf’s forelimbs suddenly disappeared and Katarina hit her butt. She looked at her fire spirit as she rubbed her ass.
“Will you give me a contract?”
A spark of fire flew out of the spirit of fire.
Catarina, seeing it as a sign of acceptance, reached out her hand slowly. Flames as thin as a skein of thread erupted from her spirit and touched Katarina’s hand.
“Aww!”
Katarina quickly removed her hand as she felt a stinging sensation. Maybe she got burns. She looked at her palms.
Instead of a picture, a strange, unreadable text was engraved on the palm of the hand.
As she tilted her head, a fire spirit came and rubbed her cheek. The fireball hit her face, but it wasn’t strangely hot.
“Is there a contract?”
That’s right.
The ideology of the spirit has been passed down.
When she was startled, the spirit said not to be so surprised, and laughed, saying that this is the spirit’s way of talking.
Then something rose from Katarina’s shadow.
“Shedia?”
“Yes.”
“…when I called you like that earlier, you didn’t come out.”
“I didn’t feel any intent to kill the wolf. If I had felt it, I would have come out.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes.”
Seeing Shedia nodding her head boldly, Katarina sighed a little. Actually, she is right. Because the fire spirit wasn’t meant to harm Katarina, it was just to play with her.
“Okay. Now, let’s go find other spirits…”
Katarina, who was about to say let’s go, stopped.
Because Shedia was looking at the fire spirit with bright eyes.
Katarina recalled how Shedia had reached out for the spirit before, and then shivered when the spirit ran away.
“Would you like to touch it?”
“…Is that okay?”
“then. Are you fine?”
Katarina said to the spirit. The spirit looked reluctant, but she did not refuse her request.
Thanks to this, Shedia was able to touch a spirit for the first time in her life.
Seeing Shedia smiling like a child, Katarina smiled warmly. When she saw her, she looked just like her own sister.
“Shedia, how old are you?”
Shedia was puzzled by Katarina’s somewhat absurd question. But she didn’t ask a particularly important question, so she just answered it.
“20 years old.”
“Really?”
‘You’re only two years older than me, aren’t you?’
She thought there would be at least a six-year difference.
Katarina was amazed, Shedia glanced up at her and said.
“There…thank you.”
“Yes? what?”
“Spirit… for letting me touch it…”
Shedia’s voice crawled in.
She is ashamed?
It was so cute that Katarina laughed.
“Sister.”
“Yes?”
“Don’t call me ‘over there’, call me sister.”
Shedia’s expression was momentary, but it hardened.
Katarina waved her hand in great embarrassment.
“Oh, no. I’m not saying you have to call me that way… I think we’ll be together for a long time in the future, so I think it’s better to call it friendly… if you don’t like it…”
“Sister.”
“Yes?”
“Thank you, Katarina.”
Shedia’s face, looking back, did not have the dark shade she had shown before. She was smiling brightly, and Katarina also smiled happily.
After that, they were able to contract with other spirits over a period of 4 hours.
* * *
“You are here.”
A word from the World Tree.
No further explanation was needed.
Moments later, Katarina gasped and climbed the stairs. Around her, four spirits with different shapes were floating around.
I got up and walked over to Katarina.
She looked at me and trudged over and leaned in my arms.
“Did you have a hard time?”
“Very. I don’t know how many times I ran inside…”
“Good work.”
“Yes.”
Katarina answered, rubbing her face in my arms.
I said to the world tree, who gently brushed the back of her hair and returned to the male elf body.
“The story is over and Katarina’s work is finished, so can we stop and go back?”
“Are you going to be so hasty? You can stay for a few days if you wish.”
“No. The road is fast. The reason I came here in the first place was that the ship going to the Principality of Polycia ran aground. I had no intention of going there.”
“Is that so? Then I can’t hold on to it any longer.”
The World Tree put on a face that was really disappointing.
What else is this old tree trying to dig up?
Without hesitation I turned my back on the World Tree.
“Then we will go. I would appreciate it if you could put a guide on the way.”
“Oh, wait a minute.”
After saying that, the World Tree stretched out his hand under the ground. Then a tree trunk rose from the ground. The fairy king cut it and threw it weakly at me.
The tree trunk floated in the air and gently settled in my hand.
“What is this?”
“It is a branch of the world tree.”
“Are you giving it to me?”
“That’s right.”
“You are surprisingly large.”
“You are my guests. I brought you here as a guest, but if I can’t even do this, I’m going to lose my face.”
“Then I will be grateful.”
I tucked the branches of the world tree into my backpack.
“I would like to talk a little more, but that might be possible later. I hope you visit me again someday.”
Having said that, the World Tree waved his hand once.
Branches rising from the ground intertwined and intertwined to create a space surrounding us.
“Huh? Huh??”
“It’s okay, calm down.”
He grabbed Katarina’s shoulder and calmed her down.
How long has it been since it was covered with branches?
The tangled branches were untied and went back down to the ground, and the landscape around us had changed.
We were out of the woods.
The fresh fields were all over the place, and the dirt-smelling dirt road and hard stones rolled around.
Katarina as well as Shedia opened their eyes wide in surprise.
“Weren’t we… just in the middle of the forest?”
“He is the fairy king. Don’t be so surprised.”
“No, it’s something that can be resolved with the word ‘Fairy King’, isn’t it?!”
I nodded my head without saying a word.
“…is that elf that great?”
“Perhaps even if all three kingdoms attack, they will not be able to win. Maybe even an empire.”
Katarina’s complexion turned pale blue.
“Hey, that’s a lie. Why is there such a thing?”
“I know.”
Why?
“Well then, the branch that the elf gave to you earlier…? Is that great too?”
“This? This is the branch of the world tree. Not only is it a substance with no mana resistance, it can even amplify it. I don’t know if it will sell, but if I sell it, I might be able to buy a Count.”
Katarina’s complexion was so pale that it turned white.
I smiled and wrapped my arms around her.
“Katarina, our journey has just begun.”
hiccup.
Katarina began to hiccup.
* * *
Northern part of the continent.
In the castle of the Principality of Polycia, a land of savages full of snow and blood, a woman was walking fast.
A pure white dress and long white hair fluttered.
With skin as white as snow and eyes as blue as jewels, she was apparently a pure beauty, but in reality, she was a rare villain and Leslie, known as a scoundrel.
But despite such a nickname, the woman ran down the hallway with a desperate and pathetic face.
Arriving at her destination, she slammed the door open.
“Father!”
In the room she had opened, a skinny old man was getting up from the bed with the help of a maid. Her old man heard her voice from her Leslie and turned her gaze to her.
“Why?”
Tears were dripping from Leslie’s eyes at the sound of the unclouded old man’s voice.
He muttered
“Thank you, Irisui…”
Zamn she’s 20? Aight imma head in.
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