(EP.472)The Queen of the Country #2
taken from noblemt l
Gaiden – Queen of Wonderland #2
It was like a scene from a fairy tale.
Flowers are in full bloom, birds are chirping, and butterflies are dancing in the sky.
The most beautiful of all was a hut built on a high hill. A wooden hut with puffs of smoke rising from the chimney under blue sky, white clouds.
When you knock on the door, a kind-hearted grandmother will open the door and serve you freshly baked sweets.
“Everyone be careful.”
“Shh.”
The faces of those approaching the hut are quite tense.
He said that the only thing that had to be done was that the person living in that hut was a fearsome witch. They say that they make people miserable by using suspicious magic.
I… .
silkygoat was the goat. cry
No, we said that we were mercenaries hired to defeat such witches. Among them, I am a free knight who wanders around the world freely, and it seems that I have a fairly high name.
“Still, it’s reassuring to have a fairy knight hyung.”
“I know. You said you tried to knock down a giant toad by yourself in the southern swamps over there?”
“That’s great.”
I feel people trust me. But for me, these were stories that were just beginning. Because I don’t even know what a giant toad is. But I knew it was such a setting.
Yes.
It’s a setting.
Although there is still not enough evidence to prove my hypothesis.
As we walked with that thought in mind, we were able to get closer to the hut where the witch was said to live.
—Nymph Biggie, Fairy Ears.
As I pricked my sensitive half-elf ear, I heard a small rattling sound from inside the hut. I’m sure there’s someone inside.
Is she a terrifying witch?
It’s pretty tense I thought I might have to use magic if I had to, so I focused on my inner mana… .
“… … .”
I can barely feel the mana in my body. Should I say that it feels like the water is exhausted like a dry well? I feel like a normal person who can’t use magic.
In this state, it would be difficult to create a magic luminous ball of the first rank if you meditate and concentrate all day.
I’m pissed off
Of course, it wasn’t all bad. I don’t know if it was because the mana that had been plentiful in my body was gone, but my steps were as light as not wearing shoes.
“I feel like 10 years younger.”
Your arms and legs take more power than you think.
It was a healthy body to pretend to be.
Sreung.
I pull out the long sword from the waist dance. He’s not good enough to say he’s really ignorant when it comes to handling swords, but he has confidence that he can do anything with such a light body.
Sreung, Sreung.
I thought it was a sign that I drew my sword, and everyone following me drew their swords one by one and held their hands.
Rather, why are you all behind me like this?
You’re worried because I’m the vanguard.
“Ugh.”
In order not to show anxiety, take a light cough and then try to walk again. Now it was time to leave about 10 meters to the hut.
Kachin!
“Ouch-!”
Someone who was walking behind me screamed. Turning his head, he saw a man caught in a strange bear trap or something, shouting.
“My feet!”
“It’s a trap! It’s a witch’s magic!”
People began to roar in a big way. Even if it’s the person who stepped on the bear trap, why do the people around him have to shout like that? There is no such thing as mischief.
Is it because of the fuss?
Inside the hut, the rattling movement stopped, and now I heard the sound of Ki-ik and Ki-ik stepping on the wooden planks, and I was very nervous.
silkygoat was the goat. cry
Nervous.
“… … .”
If you stay here like this, all will be in trouble!
“Let’s all run away!”
When I shouted out loud, I guess everyone agreed with me, so I headed out the way I came. It was first-class for everyone to run away.
“Wait, I’m going too! help me!”
The only one who could not join the escape was a fool caught in a bear trap.
“I have an elf-like wife and a nymph-like daughter! I can’t die in a place like this! These children, take me too!”
Watching the bearded man trembling like a caught rabbit, he was ferocious and at the same time very pitiful.
“I will curse you!”
“Hey!”
I stopped walking with a feeling that I didn’t know, and I went back to the man. The bear trap that is biting his ankle is quite sturdy. If there was magic, it would be something like this.
“I’ll do something for you, so be patient!”
After talking to the man, he pulled out his sword and put it between the teeth of the bear trap.
At the same time, when you give force with “Neah-!”, isn’t the tightly-closed bear trap releasing slowly? I did it, but it was great power.
Kirik, squeak, tung-!
Finally, the bear trap was destroyed with the sound of a screw or gear breaking.
The man with his loose ankle seemed to be nodding his head over and over again saying, “Thank you!”, then his face was stained with fear, and he ran away, limping his bloody ankle.
pod-.
At the same time, someone grabs my neck.
“Hey, thief! I got it!”
“Hey… !”
“yes? What, that scream, you’re coming.”
When I turned my head, a woman in a red robe was looking at me with blue eyes.
That face is quite familiar. It’s a face I’ve seen every day, whether in bed, in the court, or in the garden, but there’s no way I’m not familiar with it.
“It’s Elgar.”
“What are you doing in my dreams?”
“Are you dreaming, Elgar?”
“Yeah, this is my dream. I dream of becoming a witch.”
“Well… .”
“Come in at once.”
* * *
Elgar invited me to her hut. Inside the hut, various herbs were hung, and animal skins were hung like curtains. It’s more like a hunter’s room than a witch’s hut.
“wait. Because I was just making tea. It’s a magic car. They are made with strange herbs that grow in my garden. Thieves kept coming in to steal this, and they even set up traps!”
Elgar drops the strange ingredients placed on the chopping board into a boiling pot at once. Soon, blue smoke began to rise from inside the pot with a popping sound.
“Did you even know that Elgar could make tea with magic?”
“I don’t know either. how am i doing It’s a dream, isn’t it?”
“dream… .”
Is it really a dream? It’s too vivid for that. Elgar’s actions and attitudes are too wild to be a creature that I dreamed of.
A hypothesis comes to mind that I thought of earlier.
The free knight’s half-elf Tae-oh.
Elgar the witch of the hut.
“Five.”
I felt like an electric current was flowing through my head while holding on to those two keywords with similar ideas. I made a hypothesis that I made, and I told Elgar, who served the tea I made myself.
“Maybe us. Could it be that I just fell into the board game?”
moon moon.
Elgar, who put the car down and sat in front of me, frowned.
“What game?”
“It’s a board game. Remember it. You were hanging out with Aira-sama and Mirna-sama in the court lounge. There was also a punchnoy.”
“… I think I remember when I said that! What is this? What the hell is going on? How did I brew this strange tea!”
Elgar started running around, as if belatedly excited by my opinion. I felt like I was going to run wild if I left her alone, so I pressed her on the shoulder and sat her on a chair.
“No, what? Tae-oh, are you pressing me with force?”
Then, miraculously, Elgar could not withstand my strength and sat down on a chair. It was partly because I became stronger, but it was also because Elgar’s power was strangely weakened.
I said.
“Isn’t it because I’m a knight and Elgar-sama is a wizard?”
“There are some strange things in life. It’s because of that weird board game. Because it’s a blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.”
Shh.
Elgar wipes her face. It seems that he is tired of being caught up in troublesome work. I sympathized, but now is not the time to be discouraged.
“Are you sure you don’t know about the other girls? If it were me and Elgar-sama, then Ms. Mirna and the other people who were sitting at the table would surely have fallen for us here as well.”
“Ugh… .”
The real Elgar seemed to think for a moment after folding her arms.
“If I go to the tavern, wouldn’t I be able to find out about the news? The tavern is a place where various rumors come and go, so maybe you can hear rumors about the other guys… oh oh?”
While talking, Elgar made a strange noise.
“Why?”
“Is your intelligence point increased by 1 just because you acted rationally like a magician? Are these letters only visible to me now?”
Elgar pointed at the air, but I couldn’t see anything. Elgar then adds a few words of explanation.
“The higher the intelligence point, the higher the magic power and success rate. When solving puzzles, the probability of finding hints also increases.”
“How amazing. Would you like this too… Status window.”
Diling-.
『Name: Tae Oh Gospel
Occupation: Free Knight Lv. 8
Strength: 3
Durability: 2
Talent: 2
Intelligence: 1
You are a knight of free adventure. It is the vanguard of brave adventures anytime, anywhere.”
“that’s interesting.”
* * *
We decided to leave the hut.
“How do you feel like a sorceress when you dress like this? A mysterious witch.”
Elgar asked while wearing a long robe and a red cape.
Perhaps he wanted to make himself feel better because he had thrown it away, so he held a broom in his hand that was lying nearby. It suited me well because I was good at dressing up from the beginning.
“Looks like a real witch.”
“okay?”
swish.
Elgar glances at me lightly.
“But you are more like a thief than a knight. It would be like that with a shield or something.”
“… It’s because the equipment isn’t good enough. It’s because the gear I’m wearing is a beginner’s leather armor set. If you make some money and match it with better armor, it will be more plausible.”
“is it. let’s go anyway as a tavern.”
We left the hut and headed for the tavern. There was a city called ‘Marmar’ near Elgar’s hut. It felt a little strange because it was a very familiar name.
Is this the real Marmar?
I looked at the map I had in my arms. No matter how you look at it, the name of the city is ‘Marmar’.
that’s interesting.
With that in mind, we followed the map and headed for the city on a wide field road. It is wonderful to see the green grass sway gently in the wind in the field.
Then Elgar stopped walking and bowed her back.
“This is chicory grass.”
“What glue?”
“When you become addicted, you can be cured by eating this. I don’t know how I know this. Anyway, yes.”
Elgar continued to cut grass and wild flowers that were nearby. I was dragging time with that feeling, and when I arrived at the high gate of the city, it was already dark after the sun had set.
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It was a city where the road was not well paved, so it was muddy, and there were drunkards all over the place, and it was a city screaming loudly.
ㅡWhat man!?
-Did you finish talking!
In the alley, you can hardly see people making fist fights. Seeing the jumble of mud, Elgar’s blue eyes glowed under the cone-shaped hat.
“It’s amazing once in a while. A city pub like this would sell beer like a sewer where wastewater flows in. You can still hear a lot of rumors.”
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Clap clap, clap clap.
Step into the wet mud and step into the city. The place we stopped was in front of a building that was making a lot of noise that was too loud to pretend.
“place of meeting”
It’s pretty standard for a pub name.
Awkward, gleeful. When I opened the door and entered, there were a lot of noisy people. The tavern is full of shady bandits, unknown adventurers, and suspicious people.
He passed by a cloud of smoke he didn’t know what it was and sat down on an empty table. The trash placed on top of it is pushed aside by hand to make it look just a little bit easier.
That was then.
ㅡWell then, at 7 pm, there will be a performance by the top dancer that our store is proud of.
The pub had a stage where musicians could sit and sing. People’s eyes gathered one by one toward the stage.
Whip, whip.
The sound of whistling and cheers blowing from here and there, and the smell of alcohol from all directions, completely distracts me. Doo-boo-boo-boo-boo-drums resounding loudly.
Pang – Finally, with the sound of something popping, someone appeared on the stage. Dressed in silk fluttering over her body with her belly exposed… .
“Puhahaha-! Mirna, what are you doing over there? It’s so funny!”
Elgar burst into laughter as she saw Mirna wearing a dress similar to that of a Turki dancer. Of course, Mirna sings a song in front of people without noticing us.
“… Ditch, ditch, ditch… .”
It was an awkward rhyme. It strangely tickles people’s hearts… . Perhaps because of that, the people who had been making a lot of noise just shut their mouths one by one.
Perhaps there was courage that Mirna sang a little louder.
“Come on, little creek… !”
Thanks to that, people’s eyes are strangely dazzling. Soon they started tossing the apples and banana peels they were holding onto the stage!
“Bring another top dancer other than you!”
Thanks to this, Mirna screamed “Hey!” and ran away behind the stage.
Elgar burst into laughter as if it was really funny, but I felt pity for Mirna a little.
ㅡ Alright then, the next stage!
Mirna immediately sang something on the empty stage. It’s more than a person… , something resembling cotton candy. It trembles and makes a strange sound.
ㅡ Kyu-Iing. Kyu ing. Huh. ying yaing. Kreung… .
-Really… , it’s a really touching song.
ㅡ Ying-ying-nim, take my money… !
do you like me I think it was cute.
With this strange sight behind us, we headed to the back of the stage. Behind the stage, there was Mirna, who was screaming for tomatoes.
“Sobbing… . this is hell That I have to sing in such an ungodly way… . If it’s a dream, I want you to wake up sooner.”
I spoke to the woman with a very ugly appearance.
“Mr. Mirna.”
“Hey! Tae, Sir Tae Oh!”
Soon, Mirna was not sure what to do with her palms covering her red head and clothes that revealed her stomach from being hit by tomatoes.
“Hey, I didn’t wear this because I liked it!”
Narmi, you missed out on this, pepepoint