(EP.219)# 2
219 – Great Escape #2
Dreams are volatile.
Even if it is a nightmare that is intense enough to wake you up in the middle of the night, after a while, those emotions and scenes disappear like alcohol blown in the wind.
The same was true of the time I spent inside Aira.
A week spent in the witch forest. And even the times when I arrived at the wedding venue and was acting as a clown.
At the time, I thought it was a very long time, but in fact, I said that the time I spent inside Aira didn’t even last one night.
And those memories were already disappearing one by one like a faint nightmare. It hasn’t even been an hour since I woke up.
Even more surprising is this.
“Queen Aira and her servant Lily have all woken up this morning.”
“Is that so?”
“okay!”
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Narmi, who screamed, grabbed my eyelids with her hands and opened them wide. Then, check the condition by waving the light from the fingertips to and fro.
“Fortunately, my mind seems to be back. I didn’t wake up for a long time, so I was worried that maybe the mind was not finding its place in the body.”
Aira and Lily said that they had already been living their lives normally. But I seldom showed any sign of waking up.
Thanks to this, I had to undergo a thorough examination in Sister Draco’s room.
Whoops.
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Narmi lit a pink candle. A candle, which soon begins to burn with a strange soot, is held under my nose.
“Smell it. It will help you recover.”
Is it like aromatherapy?
Whoops.
took a small breath. The sweet scent of peaches comes in from the nose and spreads all over the body including the head.
“It’s good.”
As I nodded, Narmi brought the amulet in her hand to the candle. Of course, the thin amulet caught fire. Narmi dipped it in a wine glass and handed it to me.
“Why is this?”
“drink.”
Drinking the amulet burnt wine.
I almost frowned in an instant, but I somehow managed to hold it in.
“Are you going to drink this?”
“This time, I felt that Tae-oh’s connection between your mind and body was a little loose. Drinking this will strengthen your connection a little bit.”
“The body and mind are loose… ?”
“Literally.”
match.
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Narmi clapped her hands.
“The spirit, soul, and body of a person are so closely intertwined with each other. They are so tightly coupled to each other that they can hardly be seen as one.”
Shrek.
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Narmi gently lifted her hand that had been clapped.
“But Tae-oh, there’s a little gap between your body and your spirit.”
“Really? Why are you like that?”
“Well. There are many reasons, but usually this is a side effect of unreasonable spirit and program behavior. This is the case with religious believers who use other people’s bodies as vessels… .”
“Nectarism?”
I asked as if I didn’t know anything. The fact that the soul and the body were not closely united and were creating a gap was something I could have guessed.
Because I wasn’t originally this little half-elf.
If you look closely, you can say that my soul is in someone else’s body, so there was nothing strange about the loose and loose links between them.
Is this strange possession some kind of necromancy?
However, Narmi put her fingertips to her lips and corrected her opinion with a long nose.
“But, I think your case, Tae-oh, is a little different. The best thing to do is to dissect and separate the soul from the body—”
“Don’t say anything scary.”
“Anyway, if you continue to drink the amulet elixir that I decoction, you will soon be able to fill the gap between the spirit and the body! No one can make something like this, Tae-oh, you are lucky!”
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Cover your mouth with a fan and smile. It is true that I felt a little sentimental because I thought that she was the same as Mirna, her older sister, who covered her mouth and smiled.
The thought of having to continue drinking this amulet-burned water over the next few days made me feel sick to my stomach.
“Do I have to drink it?”
“I like to drink. Rather, I wonder how they have been able to live in such an unstable union until now. Have you ever felt heavy or your mana recovery was slow?”
“Does that have anything to do with my condition?”
“Of course!”
At Narmi’s question, I remembered the days I had lived until now.
My body was always heavy and my stamina was poor. I thought it was simply because of the weak body of the half-elf. I’m a little baffled to say that it was because my condition itself was broken.
“Anyway, keep drinking! Don’t taste it!”
“Can’t you just drink water instead of wine?”
“no!”
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Narmi’s attitude was so strong that it seemed impossible to persuade him. I thought the road would be angry if I didn’t drink it as it is, so I closed my eyes and drank the amulet-burned wine.
aaah-
Whether it was because the alcohol content was higher than expected or because the amulet was burned, the way through the mouth and throat to the stomach was burning as if it were on fire.
“Ugh.”
My head is dizzy and my eyes are spinning.
I don’t know if it’s because of the alcohol or the medicinal effects, but it wasn’t a very good feeling, so I had no choice but to collapse on the bed.
“And I think my sister said she had something to say. Tae-oh, are you sleeping?”
It seems that Narmi is saying something, but the eyelids that are getting heavier suddenly darken.
* * *
When I opened my eyes again, I was able to get up more neatly than I thought. I thought I would have a hangover, but my head didn’t hurt and my body wasn’t as heavy as wet cotton.
On the contrary, the body was light. The arms and legs move well, and they feel refreshed as if they had just washed themselves with cool water.
“Good.”
The talisman elixir tastes really terrible, but it seems to have a good effect. When I meet Narmi, I have to say thank you.
“Uh-.”
Thanks to this, I was able to return to my daily routine immediately after stretching lightly. The middle sky, where the sun has already risen to the sky. It is a time when people have to live a busy life.
After putting on my clothes, I finally checked all my belongings and went outside.
The sun shining on my face was so dazzling that I felt a shimmer in my head for a moment, but there were more surprising things in the world than that.
-Bingsu is delicious. This year is good because there is more to eat than last year.
-Let’s go to the store over there.
The streets of Ark were lined with vendors and tents that I had never seen before. The crowd is bustling, and the faces of people who are laughing and chatting are full of sweat and laughter.
It’s a festival.
Looking back, it was now the time of the summer festival. While I was sleeping, I felt a little regret for the festival that started after I had already finished the preparations.
I heard that the opening ceremony was very fancy.
I forgot to sleep.
So where is everyone?
I was looking for Elgar and Aira, but I couldn’t figure out where they were or what they were doing. In particular, I want to check how well Ira woke up from her dream.
However, it was not easy to find familiar faces in this wide arc, even in the crowded festival grounds.
Then I found Marmar.
“Ah-! comrade-! nice to meet you-!”
Even though he was able to find me first and then wave his hand to meet me. Marmar was selling something in a small cart full of balloons.
“shaved ice?”
“I just got a lot of ice! If you make this after grinding ice, adding raspberries and wild raspberry syrup that you have grown by yourself, it is salty.”
Shh.
Marmar offered me a cup of shaved ice. Now that I see it, it feels more like a slushie than a shaved ice. It will be convenient to eat while holding it in one hand.
“The strawberry syrup has run out, Tartar, let’s make it soon-!”
“Ah-! Purpurya, before that, Gargar has been gnawing on the ice again-! If it stays like this, there will be no ice left to sell-!”
“Hi-Hi-! Garr, Garr-!”
It really felt like a festival because I was watching all the noisy Imps.
There were a lot of things I wanted to ask about how it was with the nymphs not long ago, but I decided to wave my hand in moderation because it seemed very busy with customers.
“See you later, Marmar.”
“okay! Are you going to the ghastly queen now?”
“I think so. Do you know where I am and what I am doing?”
“Um, it looks like they were having an autograph session in the park over there earlier.”
“Signing party?”
One of my eyebrows twitched and raised at the strange name that matched Aira but did not suit her.
Aira is famous enough to deserve someone else’s autograph, but it’s because Aira herself wasn’t that kind.
“And give this to the shop customer, a ballot! Here, you can write the name of the person you want your comrade to write.”
Marmar hands me a small note.
I wanted to ask what this was, but I didn’t have a chance.
“See you later! I’m too busy, I don’t have time! I have something important to say to my comrade, so I have to make time for it!”
“okay.”
I wondered what important words Marmar had to say, but Marmar’s figure was soon buried by the crowds around him.
-Take my money-! And give me shaved ice and Marumaru dolls-!
You seem to be doing well.
I think I’m going to make a lot of money.
Anyway, I headed towards the vacant lot that Marmar had pointed out.
There were a lot of people talking and talking. Now I see a line of long-tailed queues waiting for something.
“If you, too, want to get your signature, go back and stand in line.”
Then someone tapped my shoulder. It looks like he thought I was going to cut it. I asked the man with a thick beard.
“Who is signing in front of you now?”
“I don’t know. I waited in line just to see if he was a famous person because of the long line. It looks like someone wrote some kind of novel.”
-Come on, the next person is coming… !
It doesn’t look like Ira.
When I asked the person in charge, Ira was told that they had already signed about a thousand people and moved to another place.
“Look at this, I got it too.”
An official showing a wide piece of paper. You can see the indistinguishable writings fluttering on the white paper.
“It must have a profound magical meaning, right? It’s clearly a signature with a magic spell. It should be left as a heirloom.”
The official showed expectations with his eyes shining, but this is just unwritten writing.
Because I can’t really write letters. It was one of Aira’s few shortcomings, and a genius was a person who was perfectly suited to the term bad handwriting.
Still, when I was about me, I could recognize that this letter was written as ‘Ira’. But I didn’t say anything like that and decided to just walk around in moderation.
“It must be a lucky spell. So where did the Queen go?”
“Hey, you went to the venue over there. There was a choir contest of the month. I heard that you are a judge there.”
At his explanation, I headed to a small outdoor hall where a choir contest was being held. In a place that looks like an opera play, the event has already ended and the clean-up is continuing.
“If you’re the Queen of Tarantera, go over there-.”
“If that’s the queen, over there—.”
“Over there, over there… .”
I feel like I’m one step behind every time I go. So, the time is the evening when the sun is setting slowly. I finally knew where Ira was and what she was doing.
Pang, Papa Pang-!
murmur murmur.
It was because the footsteps of the people who gathered and chatted were all heading to the same place.
When I lifted my head, I saw something like a stadium emitting bright light. The cheers of many people tickle my ears.
-Who will be chosen?
– Could it be the Empress Serazade?
-Ah, it must be Queen Aira.
Everyone’s heading over there.
Looking around, I saw placards such as 「July Queen Contest」 and 「Queen Selection」 hanging from trees and fluttering in the wind.
is it.
Is Election Day Today? Only then did I begin to understand the meaning of the ballot that Marmar handed me.
voting day.
I’m sure Ira will be there.
As the accident went crazy with that thought, I felt as if my heavy footsteps were gaining strength.