Friede opened her mouth as she looked at the sullen corpses and the man with a gloomy expression standing between them and holding a sword.
“Are you like this?”
A voice with a faint sound.
At the end of his chink as he said that, there was a corpse with his neck half ripped off.
The other corpses are also looking like they are in a mess, but what I said is that it is better to get an explanation about that corpse first.
“then?”
Vera answered so.
The eyes filled with vigilance were similar to those of wild beasts that threatened their prey somewhere.
Friede crossed her arms and stroked her chin with one hand, looking at the corpse and Vera alternately before uttering those words.
“Hmm, are you s*xually attracted to corpses? You are a very interesting friend.”
“Well, I know you are under no obligation to answer.”
Vera continued his thoughts in response to Friede’s words in a provocative tone.
‘The hostility… invisible.’
Naturally, it was a misunderstood situation, but when I counted the things that popped up on the expression that looked at me while saying things like farmland, I was only able to capture a single strand of curiosity.
how to act
Vera, who had been thinking about it, quickly put the sword he had drawn back in and spoke to Friede.
“I am from Elia.”
“Well?”
“It is the support of the Apostle of Abundance.”
“ah.”
short reaction. As Vera was waiting for an answer to follow, he suddenly felt an annoyance welling up on Friede’s face as he continued to ponder.
It was because of the memories of a past life that came to mind.
tell me what to do The biggest reason Vera was cursed by the heroes was Friede.
The race that bothered him the most when he was pursued by the heroes. A race that chased and blasted the wind day and night.
The accumulated fatigue caused by the wind blown by Friede clouded his judgment and he fell into a trap, so no matter how badly it happened, Vera, who remembers that moment, cannot like Friede at all.
So, while Vera somehow suppressed the enmity that was boiling inside.
“I think I heard something like that.”
Friede’s voice resounded.
Friede smiled brightly and then added those words.
“I heard that a saint is coming… .”
Friede’s gaze swept Vera up and down.
“… No matter how you look at it, you don’t look like a ‘woman’. Are all human women like you rude these days?”
what are you talking about
After contemplating for a while, Vera soon realized that he was talking about mistakenly thinking that he was a saint, and answered with a frown on his face.
“It is the escort of the saint.”
“Oh, is that so? Well, yes. that would be correct Wouldn’t it be a little difficult if a person as tall as a saint is here and there and enjoys time?”
fast-.
Vera’s teeth were broken. The whites of his eyes were bulging with blood.
“First of all, I don’t enjoy my time. Second, refrain from such vulgar words and deeds in front of the saint.”
“It’s superficial, it’s very sad to hear such a thing. And you don’t have to hide your taste so much. I am not an intolerance person who interferes with personal taste.”
widely-!
Friede, who had been riding on the tree, came down to the ground.
“Then will you guide me to the saint? I will guide you to the Great Forest.”
Saying so, Vera looked at Friede approaching him, and gestured his chin to the corpses.
“these are?”
“Oh, runaway brothers? what to do It has already died and returned to nature.”
brother It was quite an indifferent attitude for saying such a thing. There was clearly sadness on his face as he looked at the corpses, but even that had something to do with those words, so he felt something abominable.
‘… Was it this kind of personality?’
It was something I didn’t know about in my last life when I was just fighting without talking.
‘It is difficult to understand the true intention.’
I tried to dig deep into Friede to somehow understand the truth inside, but the only answer I got back was the kind that scratched Vera’s nerves.
“It’s embarrassing to look at you so hotly. I’m sorry, but I don’t have genitalia, so I can’t satisfy your lust. Hmm, or even backwards?”
“… Shut up.”
Words I didn’t know. However, I didn’t regret it.
Vera remembered that it was not in the slightest disrespectful to swear like this.
*
In front of the campfire.
Rene, sitting on the tree stump, carefully savoring the soup, worried about Vera not returning after quite a while, so she spat out a question to Norn.
“Where did Vera go?”
“Oh, I heard you went to search around. He said that since it is the beginning of the great forest, we should be prepared for any danger.”
“ah… .”
Renee nodded her head to express her understanding, and ate the soup blankly and continued her thoughts.
‘It’s very late… .’
He must have been struggling for himself. The only person vulnerable to the threat here was himself.
Not to mention Norn, Hella isn’t an apprentice paladin who was trained as a paladin for the first time.
Suddenly, Renee felt uncomfortable at the thought of being a burden to Vera.
I would love to be of any help, but in this situation, what a blind man could do was really limited.
a sudden heartbeat. As a result, Renee’s expression began to fade.
Bark-.
There was the sound of grass being crushed in the space.
Renee realized that the footsteps he heard were Vera’s, lifted his head, then raised a question to his face.
‘… Two people?’
There were two footsteps.
Behind the heavy and powerful footsteps of Vera, there followed a small sound that might be the sound of footsteps if you didn’t listen closely.
“Lady, you are back.”
Vera’s voice. Renee, who had stopped thinking about it until just before, was trying to answer with a bright face.
“Ah hurry… .”
“Oh, yes. This is a saint You are truly a kind person.”
A faint echoing voice followed from the direction Vera’s voice had come from.
Suddenly, Renee’s body stiffened. His expression was more shaky than ever.
‘Woman… !’
It was because of her beauty that only felt that way.
Whoops-! The hand that was holding the spoon tightened. Renee, feeling nervous inside for some reason, uttered those words with a trembling voice that made it difficult to listen.
“Who, who… ?”
who are you It was difficult to say those words, so only the key words were uttered.
To that, Friede answered with a bright smile.
“Nice to meet you, lady. I am Friedera Hao, the Forest Keeper of the Great Forest.”
“ah… !”
An inside that is released in an instant.
‘luxuriance!’
It happened when I realized that the voice I heard was the voice of a fairy without gender.
“I met him while scouting the area. He says he will lead us all the way to the Great Forest.”
“Well? What kind of respect is it all of a sudden? Until before, he was so kind to me.”
“No such thing.”
“Um, are you really a shy friend?”
“Doc… .”
Vera glared at Friede, struggling to swallow the profanity that was about to pop out. In front of Renee, he thought that he should always be careful with his words.
However, René, who did not know him, felt his heart drop with a ‘thump’ at the conversation between the two.
Do you treat yourself warmly in places where you are not confident and keep your distance from where you are? Isn’t there something suspicious about it?
I don’t think so! I think it’s nonsense though! Although Vera himself explained it!
They say fairies are beautiful, so maybe Vera just woke up to a love that transcends gender right now.
So maybe Vera, who was usually reticent, is talking comfortably like that.
Rene felt a cold sweat flowing at the thought that came to her mind, and she hurriedly opened her mouth, recalling the thought of stopping the conversation.
“Bar, nice to meet you! Shall we eat our rice first? Vera hasn’t eaten before, so come and eat soon!”
It was an unspoken word.
It was because he was confused by the emotional changes that went back and forth between the sky and the earth.
Friede blinked at Renee’s shouting words, then recalled a bright smile and sat down next to Renee and continued the conversation.
“You are a very considerate woman. It’s really not easy to feed someone you’re seeing for the first time.”
It was a little different from the truth, but Renee, unable to say it, raised an awkward smile and nodded.
“No, eat a lot.”
“Thank you for your consideration.”
tension all over. It was after Vera sat down next to him, opposite to Friede, that Renee, who was confused because he did not know the English language, cleared the tension that had been on his body.
Renee realized that the first crisis that came to her love was not over yet.
… I thought.
*
The next morning, as the group, who had cleaned up the campsite that had been messed up the night before, was heading towards the large forest, Renee wiggled his fingers in a restless manner.
It was because Friede was in the carriage.
It was a carriage covered in silence, but Rene remembered that she didn’t like the fact that Friede and Vera were in the same room for some reason.
Maybe Vera’s gaze was on Friede. Maybe he and Friede are quietly having a secret conversation.
A continuous delusion.
René’s imagination, once praised by Vera as an important talent for elemental arts, was generating such a delusion.
As the delusion continued, a cold sweat crept down Renee’s forehead.
His fingers, which had been wiggling over and over, suddenly became stronger and became the shape of a fist.
René, who could no longer be alone, closed her eyes tightly and remembered a big decision.
If there is a possibility of having secret conversations, it is necessary to block the possibility at the source.
Renee raised her head and opened her mouth to vomit.
“Hey, Freeden!”
It was the idea that he would lead the conversation and make it impossible for the two of them to do anything else.
Friede smiled a little at the sight of Renee, who suddenly uttered words as if shouting, and spat out an answer.
“Why?”
The ‘why’ question. It was a question that always evoked trouble when Renee acted so impulsively.
However, today was different.
Rene was strong, with a relationship in front of her.
“What is the Apostle of Abundance doing in the Great Forest?”
Rarely indeed, a plausible excuse came out of Renee’s mouth. Renee cheered inwardly and praised herself.
‘Well done!’
It was one of the most common questions I’ve ever asked.
“Did you hear anything else before you came?”
“Ah yes! In Seongguk, people only hear about how to come over here and help.”
“Hmm… .”
Friede seemed to think briefly about Renee’s question, then nodded her head broadly and continued.
“You are putting off your mother’s death.”
The answer popped out.
Renee’s head tilted at him, and Vera’s expression, who had only listened to the conversation until then, hardened.
Renee couldn’t understand what Friede meant, so she stopped thinking about something else until just before, and asked the question again in a cautious tone.
“If you say mother… .”
“You say the world tree. I mean ‘the deepest root aidrin’.”
fresh. A smile crept across Friede’s lips.
However, what followed was a story that could not be laughed at even as a joke.
“Your mother is dying. Marie is in the great forest to delay her death somehow.”