214. Year-end banquet (3)
“Excuse me for a moment.”
I thought the timing itself was just right. How many men wouldn’t want to talk to an elf walking around with a drunken blush?
Men naturally gathered around Eris, like beasts rushing towards their prey.
They were reaching out their hands in the name of preventing Eris from falling, who is now slowly losing focus, so they crept in neatly.
“what?”
“Hey, why don’t you interrupt me all of a sudden?”
“No matter what, what is this…”
A few young nobles raised their voices of criticism towards me, saying that they broke in without following the order.
“This shoramieo! It’s my kid. Clothes!”
Because Eris hugged me from right behind, the faces of the nobles who had just been annoyed darkened immediately.
Well, I’m not a lover, but it would be convenient to solve the situation right now.
I beckoned the nobles to go away, and they bit their lip or clenched their fists. In severe cases, he had no choice but to retreat with tears in his eyes.
“Where are you all going! This shroud is right there!”
“Okay, okay, let’s get some air.”
Forcibly dragged Eris away from her back.
I wanted to take her out of the banquet hall, but I didn’t think I would be taken that far, so I took her to the terrace right next to it.
Some people on the terrace saw Eris and immediately went outside. He expressed his gratitude with a glance at the sensible consideration.
“Where the hell did you drink like this?”
Obviously, it wasn’t like this until I went to bed earlier.
“Hashiim gave it to me.”
This damn dwarf.
Why are you giving alcohol to a drunk kid?
“Ha, wait. I’ll bring you some cold water.”
“Yes.”
After that, I was leaning against the railing, and to be honest, I was a bit anxious, but for now, I put ice in plain water and take it.
As if my worries weren’t for nothing, Eris, who had been standing there just now, was hanging limp like laundry on the railing.
“ha.”
“Han Su-woom! Do not rest!”
“Okay, drink this.”
I heard that elves were particularly vulnerable to alcohol, but I didn’t know they would be this weak.
how the hell did you drink
Eris, who had been giggling, suddenly asked with a droopy state.
“By the way… where are you from?”
“I’m behind you.”
Eris, still hanging on the railing, sticks her head back as she is. Of course, from that position, she could only see the outside scenery, so Eris turned her head here and there again.
Eventually I grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her back to her feet.
“Drink some.”
“ah.”
Eris with her mouth open like a baby bird seeking food.
In my previous life, even if I had alcohol, I didn’t drink much, and even when I did drink, I only sipped a sip, so I didn’t know there was an injection like this.
“It will be very cold.”
When the water was carefully drained, Eris drank it in one gulp and put on a refreshing expression.
“Huh! After drinking the water, my mind is… sober… it’s getting better.”
“Is it because you’re an elf? Does a good natural healing power work in a place like this?”
“Um, um…… I-I guess so.”
Eris, who had turned red even to her ears, was looking at me with her head bowed down, and I smiled.
“Gear woah! I’m not coming!”
“Come on, don’t follow me!”
“Then why did you drink so much? If you were wrong, you would have been dragged away by other nobles.”
“Ugh. I’m sorry for that. But I couldn’t survive without drinking.”
“……”
a moment of silence.
Eris was the first to speak in a situation where they were contemplating what to say to each other.
“Daniel, do you know that?”
“Well?”
I glanced at her, and there was a slight sadness on her face, so I took a deep breath without realizing it.
However, although Eris was cautious, she said that without any hesitation.
“Daniel’s eyes on me were very special?”
“……”
“Your eyes were shining so much that even I, who was looking at it, was pounding.”
There was no word after that.
Eris didn’t say anything, so this time it was as if she was waiting for me to say something.
“Now is?”
So, I decided to go head-to-head.
Anyway, I already had the experience of telling her once that I didn’t like her anymore.
‘Haa, why do I have to.’
Of course, saying it one more time wasn’t that easy or easy. Rather, it was more difficult because I felt like I was hurt twice.
“How do you feel?”
“……”
I didn’t know you were going to ask a question. She tried to open her pretty eyes as much as possible, but Eris only smiled and leaned against the railing without saying a word.
“You know, Daniel.”
“yes.”
“How does it feel to remember a world that no one else knows about?”
“……!”
For a moment, I felt my heart flutter.
However, she felt a faint scent of intoxication emanating from Eris right next to her, and she didn’t say that because she knew something.
“Why, you told me before. You have the ability to see the future, so you and I have a good future. That’s why he came to like me.”
“Yes, it was.”
I forgot that it was known in this way when I vaguely said that the goddess of time had informed me of the information that had come back.
It took longer than expected.
“How are you feeling?”
Eris asks again.
Her soft gaze made me feel as if she was imprisoning me not to run away.
I took a deep breath and answered honestly.
“It looks like a beggar.”
“……”
“It’s so pathetic that it makes me angry. Being alone in a world that no one remembers is a kind of responsibility, Eris.”
You gave me warmth until the last moment, and you broke the link of distrust you had with people.
After the regression, the reason I was able to talk and act so naturally with other people is thanks to you.
“I will never forget them, and I will never forget them, but they are nowhere to be found.”
I also think of Rin, who worried about me even to the point of dying. She didn’t let her feelings out until the very end.
Forcibly swallowing it, he wanted to free me from the curse of being himself.
“……”
Eris looked at me with her lips parted as if slightly shocked.
Perhaps it was because it was the first time I had been asked a direct question in this way, and without realizing it, an emotional response came out.
“Sorry, forget it.”
I took a deep breath and tried to turn my head to the other side of Eris, but she cautiously grabbed my hand and approached me.
“Sorry.”
“uh?”
He suddenly tried to ask me why he was apologizing to me, but he couldn’t.
Because Eris’ warm embrace was gently wrapping me around and hugging me.
“I’m sorry I can’t remember.”
“……!”
Eris’s troubled voice.
She was apologizing to me as if she was genuinely sorry. Not knowing what the hell I was going through, she wept and asked for forgiveness.
Actually, she’s just a victim.
“It would be nice if I could carry that burden together.”
At first, I was trying to answer something.
In the same way that you don’t have to apologize, or that it’s unavoidable.
However, none of the words came out of his mouth.
“One day, suddenly, when God permits.”
So it’s like listening to a whispered prayer.
I had no choice but to listen closely to her every word defenselessly.
“Or at the moment when miracles and miracles overlap.”
Even though I couldn’t feel any mana action, her words settled comfortably inside me as if some kind of magic had been cast.
“If the time comes when I can shoulder the forgotten world you remember with me.”
It felt like a rock was being cut into my chest. The rough crumbs that had been lodged inside were naturally falling out.
“I will go find you, not for the world, but for you who supported it.”
Eris lowered her head and made eye contact with me, smiling a little shyly but whispering.
“And I will love you again.”
The power slowly released from Eris’s hand. Looking at her blankly, I smiled sadly as I pondered her words.
“Can such a miracle happen?”
I was going to add, wondering if there was, but Eris shook her head. The night breeze naturally touches her hair.
“What is the probability that a guardian of the elves who have lived for centuries will fall in love with a young human?”
“……very.”
It seems it’s always been like this.
When we lived together in the forest of the demon realm in the past, and when we chatted in this life.
In the end, at the end, at the end, I get the answer through conversation with Eris.
“It must be very, very unlikely.”
“A miraculous situation is already unfolding in front of you, so why shouldn’t you hope for another miracle?”
Eris approached slowly with a faint laugh. The touch of her hand that had been entangled before I knew it was too soft to touch.
It’s very brief, but we spent this time together.