“Ah…!”
The girl, who had fallen while running, was sweating and crying under the blazing sun.
“Ugh… it hurts…”
Blood was dripping from her scruffy knees, and she tried her best to stand up, but her body didn’t seem to listen.
“Yura, what’s going on?!”
Her older brother, who finds his younger brother in pain on the street, runs to him as hard as he can.
“brother…”
His brother, who vaguely realized what had happened to her, took out a handkerchief and gently pressed the wounded area to his knee, calling out to him with a mournful voice.
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…”
The girl groaned in pain to the point of tears…. Encouraging her younger sister and continuing the first aid treatment.
“I’m sorry…but be patient…”
Because it was none other than my brother’s words, I somehow ended up clenching my teeth and enduring the pain…
“Okay! The blood seems to have stopped to some extent!”
A white handkerchief stained with her blood, but nonetheless rejoices that her brother’s condition has improved a bit.
“Thank you, brother…!”
As soon as the blood stopped and the pain went away, he barely regains his smile and tries to get up on his own.
“Ah?!”
But, maybe it’s just that I’ve gained weight… The younger sister who sits on the floor again…
“I think I sprained my ankle… Then…”
Judging that he can’t walk alone, he can’t help but bend his knees and show his back.
“Get up, I can go home.”
“Ugh… Thanks…”
Instead of rejecting his consideration, he puts his body on his back.
“So…”
Steps that start to get up easily and take a step slowly
“Are you okay…? Isn’t it heavy?”
He said it proudly, but in reality, it is a little heavy, so the moon begins to tremble little by little.
“Ugh… don’t worry.”
However, it perseveres firmly and continues to move heavy feet while it is tight.
“……”
A younger brother who had no choice but to depend on his older brother… He hugged his back deeply and just felt his body temperature without saying a word.
“Sorry… Mom and Dad aren’t here this weekend… I had an accident…”
“Don’t worry, I’m not in a lot of trouble… I have a wound medicine at home, so I’ll apply it.”
“……”
There was a slightly ambiguous atmosphere, and while feeling grateful for his brother’s kindness, on the other hand, he was also very sorry.
“thank you…”
Had I not heard her whispering thanks…
“……”
He was just an older brother who encouraged her with all his might by sweating under the hot sun.
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“By the way, that ruined library… Where exactly is it?”
I went on a business trip, but the destination is not clear when I leave
“Um… it’s true that we have to go to Howling Fields first… There is a map, but the area is so confusing…
The place where the library of ruins is located is a howling field, there is a thick fog 24 hours a day 365 days a year, a strong wind always blows… Terrain that becomes intense like a typhoon at regular intervals
It is said that only the top predators that survived even the living creatures living there by adapting to the extreme environment exist.
It is a map that exists in the second half of the game story. Terrain is terrain, monster is monster… It is a map that is very reluctant to go back to after one pass.
“Hmm… it’s my first time going too… but it’s probably going to be a very difficult journey…”
It was difficult to even call it a strategy in a rattling wagon… To be honest, it was difficult to even find out how to find this difficult road without getting lost.
It is said that even in the setting, it swallows up all the challengers in this forest because of the harsh wind and the fog that cannot be distinguished even at close range…
As I remember, it was really hard at first for me too… it was really difficult.
“Once on the map, people say that you can start with the entrance designated by people… If you follow the road that has been processed to make it easier to find your way, you can get to the middle… The monsters you encounter in the process may not be easy.”
But… to be honest, there was nothing to worry about in terms of combat.
“Ha-am… Oppa… When are you arriving?”
“Hmm… I want to take a closer look at this part.”
That is, the body and talents imbued with the divine magic have awakened, and the adventurer who is capable of transgressing the gods…
I was not afraid of any enemies unless the monster laid out on the map was the final boss.
To be honest, it’s difficult to find the way… Sometimes I think it’s just a matter of time. Well, there are talented people like this, but even if the battle is rough, they’re just excellent… The harsh environment and powerful monsters are the problem, the fog or strong wind itself is not so There was no problem.
“Wait… Are you pretending to look at the map and approaching you too close… isn’t it?”
On the contrary, it seemed that the two people who couldn’t eat each other for even a moment were going to get even more troubled…
“What?”
Erina seems to have no choice but to stick to it because she wants to see the road to the library in more detail…
“Are you using the excuse to look at the map to be closer to your brother?!”
“Shh…”
To see the map… right?
Why is there no objection to Yura’s point?
“It’s my brother… you’d better fall…”
Yura is threatening Erina with a dreamy fire in her hand.
“Aren’t you being too meddling with your brother?”
And Erina’s life that doesn’t lose to it…
“Hey… guests? I’m sorry, but calm down…”
The carriage owner’s protest, who doesn’t know how many times it is now… I’m starting to feel sorry for everything.
“Both of you quit.”
“Ugh… Brother…”
“Ugh…”
Inevitably, the fire that barely fades after I dry them… Maybe it could have been ignited right away if it had been a little later…
Tickle!
And at that moment, the carriage stopped, and a faint but sharp wind flows through the curtain.
“Yes… we have arrived, this is the entrance to the howling field. For safety reasons, we have come to a section that can be reached by horse-drawn carriage.”
Are you finally here? I pay the promised price and get off the carriage with them, as soon as we step outside, fog and strong winds greet us.
“Is this the howling field? It’s so strange…”
Erina’s comments mixed with admiration, the unusual aura from the entrance… It wasn’t the second half for nothing.
“Come on, brother! Let’s go see it!”
Yura suddenly grabs my arm and leads me with her own strength, without even having time to appreciate the quiet field where nothing can be heard except the sound of the wind…
“Yuriel? You…!!”
Her younger sister’s behavior that continues to stimulate Erina’s inner self… It was very difficult for me.
“Can’t you let go of that arm right now?!”
Eventually, unable to bear the continued dissatisfaction, he pulls out his sword and lifts it…
“Are you revealing your true colors in the end? If it’s a challenge, I’ll accept it!”
Is it really that magical powers are instilled in it, and is it even influenced by your personality?
A somewhat foreign attitude from the younger brother I knew… I confront Erina by holding up the blazing fire once again.
“Isn’t blood and blood so arrogant? Haven’t you thought about what kind of damage that action will do to your brother?!”
“yes?!”
Yura was silent for a moment with her eyes wide open as if she felt quite offended by Erina’s instructions… But it also puts a blood on her forehead for a moment and angers her.
“You’re only talking about the words I hate the most… I must have gotten off the wagon, how about just watching the match?”
In spite of the strong wind, it rather receives it and the flame becomes brighter and bigger
The feud between the two of them went away until they finally went… This time, it seemed that words could not calm them down.
“good…”
Erina also gets into a posture and enters a battle stance, a really bad situation… I have to stop it somehow-
“Kang! Kang!”
The moment I was about to stand up to stop the two of them, I heard a ferocious roar from behind…
“Erina, Yuriel? Why don’t you stop fighting for now?! A monster appears…?”
An enormous pack of wolves, many times the size of an adult male… Giant Wear wolves were drooling and staring at us.
It’s still the entrance, but I’m reunited with the most difficult monsters I can meet in this area… No luck. I met the strongest enemy in the worst situation.
“Yes?”
While exchanging harsh glances with Erina, Yura turns her head and looks at the wolves carefully.
“Kong! Kung!!”
The wolf pack also recognizes Yura and starts barking like a threat…
That moment…
aaah!
There is an overwhelming feeling that cannot be expressed in words.
“Uriel?!”
For a moment, the atmosphere is so different that I doubted whether it was really my brother…
“……”
He just started staring at the wolves in a great mood without saying a word.
“”Keep… Kwak?!!””
All the Giant Wear wolves start groaning, making a weak sound on the spot.
“Kneel down…”
A cold, frosty voice as if giving an absolute command… Even though I knew that the voice wasn’t directed at me, I almost lowered my posture without realizing it…
“Ki… Hmm…”
Come to think of it, wolves and foxes belong to the same family… And Yura is currently possessed with the magic of the fox god… Is there any connection?
“”Keeping…””
At Yura’s words, they lowered their tails all at once, sat down on the spot, and lowered their heads all the way down.
What a strange sight… Despite being a monster, a sense of fear is clearly conveyed from its face.
“Heh… I’m still busy…”
Yura’s unknown power that makes the monsters bow their heads to the ground as if they had obeyed…
“By the way, brother, where should I go? Because of the wind and fog, I have no idea…”
Perhaps the wolf’s intervention lost interest in the confrontation with Erina… At first he starts asking me for directions.
“Huh? Uh… That’s…”
It changed suddenly again and returned to the atmosphere of the younger brother I used to know, so I am a little shaky.
“First, you should look at the map and follow it as much as possible…”
To be honest, it’s actually the first place I’ve ever been to… Unlike the game where I’m looking down from the top, since I’m standing in person, it’s even harder to discern the road.
In the beginning, it was difficult to see the map properly due to the strong wind, and there is a tendency to tear it…
“Get out of the way, Harold.”
In the midst of not knowing what to do, Erina at the outset overtook us and went out…
“The wind and fog are harsh…”
Raising his sword upwards…
and
Kwaang ㅡㅡ!
It’s like a flash of light and the sudden roar of a typhoon…
“Ugh?!”
As Erina slashes her sword as hard as she can, supernatural phenomena that happen in an instant, fog and stronger winds embrace me.
“Kye-e-e-e-!”
The fierce storm now hears the cry of pitiful wolves.
“……..”
And after a while…
“uh…?!”
When I couldn’t feel the wind that should have been tapping my skin, I opened my eyes to a foreign feeling…
“Now it’s a little easier to see.”
The howling field… it just became a field…
Until recently, the strong wind that blew like a typhoon and the fog that completely obscured the view… All disappeared… The wolves that can’t be found anywhere are a bonus…
Erina showed only one blow, but it was powerful enough to twist the environment itself…
“Oh, you see over there, was that a library in ruins? Isn’t it that one?”
When the fog has completely cleared, a high spire that can be seen very clearly… At the end of a distant view where you can’t even guess how far away you can see… a tall tower still covered in fog.
There was still a thick fog beneath the tower, whether there was any special magic on it, or no matter how much Erina had not reached there.
“maybe…?”
The library was so easy to find than I thought… It was introduced as if it were a place in a legend and then searched for too vainly… On the one hand, along with the disappointment, I was shocked at their potential.
“Then I think it’s decided, let’s go oppa!”
Even the top predators in this ecosystem succumb to a cold word… the later part of the story… right…?
“Do I have to walk far?”
It’s a surprise that I can’t keep my mouth shut, but it seems like it’s not a big deal to them, so I hugged my arms from both sides and rushed back on the road.
“……..”
Their ability to feel smart again…
What is their limit? It’s a fact I’ve realized from a certain moment… But if they try to treat me sincerely, I feel like I’m going to have to face it…